Publications by authors named "J Whelan"
Effects of alcohol consumption on gambling warning message recall and recognition.
Psychol Addict Behav
January 2025
Objective: To understand the influence of acute alcohol consumption on the recall and recognition of warning messages.
Method: Participants ( = 82) were randomly assigned to a condition where they consumed alcoholic beverages (target blood alcohol concentrations of 0.06%-0.
Increasing seed oil content (SOC) is an important breeding goal for soybean breeding. While significant efforts have been made to improve SOC through metabolic pathway engineering, research to increase soybean SOC by reducing lipid degradation and fatty acid (FA) decomposition during seed maturation process is limited. Seed Fatty Acid Reducers (SFAR) are members of the GDSL enzyme family and play a crucial role in lipid metabolism.
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- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne, Australia, faced extended lockdowns, prompting a study on children's health in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic data from 2019.
- The study found that primary school children in 2022 had higher rates of overweight and obesity, lower physical activity levels, and poorer diet quality compared to 2019.
- Results indicate a decline in health-related quality of life among children post-lockdown, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring and interventions to address rising childhood obesity.
Previous work has explored the bi-directional relation between alcohol consumption and gambling behavior within gambling contexts, highlighting the role of salient factors such as mood. The present experiment sought to further explore how mood state and the urge to consume alcohol vary as a function of the experience of winning or losing while gambling. In this experiment, 76 individuals who reported past year gambling and past month alcohol use were randomly assigned to one of four conditions - neutral gambling, winning gambling, losing gambling, or movie watching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackgroundWastewater surveillance may support early and comprehensive detection of infectious diseases' community transmission, particularly in settings where other health surveillance systems provide biased or limited information. Amid the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, deploying passive samplers to monitor targeted populations gained importance. Evaluation of the added public health value of this approach in the field can support its broader adoption.
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