517 research outputs found
Presentation: Minimum alcohol price policies in action: a report from Canada.
No full textThe introduction of minimum pricing in Ireland will lead to reduction in alcohol-fuelled crime in Ireland and save lives, according to a leading alcohol policy expert.
Professor Tim Stockwell told the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality that minimum pricing has led to a reduction in crime and deaths due to alcohol in Canada and would have similarly positive results if introduced in Ireland.
Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, and Professor Stockwell, Director at the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, addressed the Committee on alcohol-related crime and the potential of minimum pricing to reduce it
'Health benefits of drinking moderately: too good to be true?' Lecture by Professor Tim Stockwell.
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Home detoxification from alcohol : its safety and efficacy in comparison with inpatient care
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A history of information storage and retrieval
No full textThe acquisition and storage of knowledge always has been a key element in the development of human society. Stockwell, a publishing consultant for Chinese publishers and author of Encyclopedia of American Communes 1663-1963, gives us a concise overview of how the human race has collected, stored, and shared knowledge. At its core is the history of the encyclopedia, but on the edges it is much more. In the first chapter Stockwell discusses the limitations of human memory. He points out that the human brain is in a state of constant deterioration, which makes memory a poor instrument for the storage and retrieval of precise information. As Stockwell puts it, knowledge has to be transmitted by deteriorating old minds to deteriorating young ones. He devotes the rest of the text to tracing the history of the storage of knowledge from earliest oral traditions to today's computers. He also discusses the collecting of books, the organization of knowledge, the uses and misuses of knowledge, education, the Bible, encyclopedias, the development of libraries, and the Strange History of the Britannica. This is a very concise and readable book that hits upon the high points of the history of recorded knowledge how it is stored and how it is shared
Special Affine Stockwell Transform Theory, Uncertainty Principles and Applications
No full textIn this paper, we study the convolution structure in the special affine
Fourier transform domain to combine the advantages of the well known special
affine Fourier and Stockwell transforms into a novel integral transform coined
as special affine Stockwell transform and investigate the associated constant Q
property in the joint time frequency domain. The preliminary analysis
encompasses the derivation of the fundamental properties, Rayleighs energy
theorem, inversion formula and range theorem. Besides, we also derive a direct
relationship between the recently introduced special affine scaled Wigner
distribution and the proposed SAST. Further, we establish Heisenbergs
uncertainty principle, logarithmic uncertainty principle and Nazarovs
uncertainty principle associated with the proposed SAST. Towards the
culmination of this paper, some potential applications with simulation are
presented.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.01972 by other author
Inversion Formulas for Multi-Dimensional Modified Stockwell Transforms (Image analysis and multidmensional wavelet analysis)
No full textWe give a sample of results on the inversion formulas for multi-dimensional modified Stockwell transforms obtained by the author, his students and collaborators. All results can be found in the literature and complete references for them are given
Understanding standard drinks and drinking guidelines
No full textIntroduction and Aims: For consumers to follow drinking guidelines and limit their risk of negative consequences they need to track their ethanol consumption. This paper reviews published research on the ability of consumers to utilise information about the alcohol content of beverages when expressed in different forms, for example in standard drinks or units versus percentage alcohol content. Design and Methods: A review of the literature on standard drink definitions and consumer understanding of these, actual drink pouring, use of standard drinks in guidelines and consumer understanding and use of these. Results: Standard drink definitions vary across countries and typically contain less alcohol than actual drinks. Drinkers have difficulty defining and pouring standard drinks with over-pouring being the norm such that intake volume is typically underestimated. Drinkers have difficulty using percentage alcohol by volume and pour size information in calculating intake but can effectively utilise standard drink labelling to track intake. Discussion and Conclusions: Standard drink labelling is an effective but little used strategy for enabling drinkers to track their alcohol intake and potentially conform to safe or low-risk drinking guidelines.[Kerr WC, Stockwell T. Understanding standard drinks and drinking guidelines. Drug Alcohol Rev 2012; 31:200-205
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