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J A De Jong

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Paternal lineage of alcoholism, cohort effects, and alcoholism criteria.

Adoption studies have led to the suggestion that there may be two distinct subgroups of alcoholics with differing genetic contributions. Among 249 male alcoholics we used discriminant analysis to relate the features of type 1 and type 2 alcoholism to the presence or absence of a family history of alcoholism in male paternal relatives. We found that guilt and binging, features usually attributed to type 1 (milieu-limited) alcoholism, were in fact more prevalent in the family history positive group. An additional cohort analysis found cohort-related variations in type 1/type 2 characteristics. The possible implications of these findings are discussed.

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Relations between tablet properties.

With the aid of simple mathematical models the relations between specific crushing strength (i.e. crushing strength divided by the breaking surface), friability and disintegration time of a tablet can be given. The friability is related to the porosity of the tablets and the specific crushing strength, independent of the process conditions. For the disintegration time two models have been used, depending on the disintegration mechanism. In the first one the disintegration time is only dependent on the porosity, in the second on the specific surface by weight of the granules of which the tablets are made. The theoretical relationships were verified for two tablet formulations, made under varying process conditions.

Chemical Phenomena↗