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liquor laws
liquor laws legislation designed to restrict, regulate, or totally abolish the manufacture, sale, and use of alcoholic beverages. The passage of liquor laws has been prompted chiefly by the desire to prevent immoderate use of intoxicants, but sometimes also by the need to raise revenue. Direct... Read more |
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Energy research
ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF. The Department of Energy (DOE) became the twelfth U.S. cabinet-level agency on 1 October 1977 under the Department of Energy Organization Act. Its responsibilities fall into three broad categories: energy, research, and national security. The agency... Read more |
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barbiturate
barbiturate , any one of a group of drugs that act as depressants on the central nervous system . High doses depress both nerve and muscle activity and inhibit oxygen consumption in the tissues. In low doses barbiturates act as sedatives , i.e., they have a tranquilizing effect; increased doses... Read more |
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Maize
Maize as a Food The evolution, dispersal, and consumption of maize span the better part of the past eight thousand years of human cultural development. Until European exploration in the Americas began in 1492, maize was a New World domesticate with an exclusively American distribution and... Read more |
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Consumption (Economics)
Consumption FunctionKeynes’s “propensity to consume”The postwar reappraisalBIBLIOGRAPHYEconomists have long been interested in the factors determining how a society divides its income proportionally between consumption and saving. In the past thirty years theoretical and empirical investigation of... Read more |
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criminology
criminology the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see prison ) as compared with forms... Read more |
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consumption
consumption in economics, direct utilization of goods and services by consumers, not including the use of means of production, such as machinery and factories (see capital ). Consumption can be divided into public and private sectors. Consumption is also viewed as a basically subjective... Read more |
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Dipsomania
DIPSOMANIA The term "dipsomania" was used in clinical psychiatry. It is not a psychoanalytic term but was used on occasion by Sigmund Freud and other psychoanalysts. The classic definition of "dipsomania" is that of Valentin Magnan (1893): Preceded by a vague feeling of malaise and a burning... Read more |
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome Definition Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a severe memory disorder usually associated with chronic excessive alcohol consumption, although the direct cause is a deficiency in the B vitamin thiamin. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of... Read more |
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