THE EFFECTIVENESS OF “THEAD” AS THERMAL ALCOHOL DETECTOR: A

QUALITATIVE STUDY AS DETERMINED BY STEM-201

OF ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020

STI COLLEGE GLOBAL CITY

By

Abdullatip, Aiman Tamak

Almoite, Hendrix Martin Melencion

Aquino, Bryan Lyndon Salazar

Bawlite, Lynne Arrabella Cruz

Bien, Nicole Canino

Carlos, John Matthew Nicaraz

Linghon, Lyka Piosca

Lipardo, Eurico Lopez

Macasieb, Venice Pabalate

Pescador, Jonathan Palma

December 10, 2019

 Chapter 1

The Problem and its Background

Introduction

Whenever you see a person drinking alcoholic beverages, you tend to wonder

how much he/she takes like during parties, business meetings, and social gatherings;

you even wonder how is the alcohol detected in your body if you are drinking it. Well,

that’s where alcohol detectors come in, they use various kinds of methods in

determining if you have the substance or not, the first ones during the 90s used various

things like soccer balls, glasses, and other various stuff due to the lack of technology

back then. Right now, in the present, there are now multiple kinds of alcohol detectors

with some them being faster, simpler, and more efficient than the ones from the past.

In the past around the 1900s, police officers had to use devices called,

“breathalyzers”, to check suspects during vehicle accidents if they took alcohol before

the incidents happened, one of the first versions created was designed by Dr. Emil

Bogen whose first attempt in making a test for alcohol detection was with the use of

football bladder filled with sulphuric acid and potassium dichromate. A person would

need to breath into the bladder and the chemicals would change colors from yellow to

hues if green and blue and were later filled in tubes for study and comparison; although

this was effective, the portability of this was not suitable for traffic accidents. Ref:
http://www.ace-instruments.net/2016/09/04/the-history-of-breathalyzers/
 In the present, with the ongoing rise of technology; we, as inventors, would either

upgrade what we had before or invent something new. We now have the sufficient

resources for new ideas regarding the way alcohol is detected in our bodies and the

device used in detecting it; one such way is through the use of heat temperature

measurement and the use of easier, portable models. The reason as to why they have

evolved over the years is due to the increasing accidents with one of the main causes is

alcohol. Alcohol became more produced in a variety of products with low-contents to

high-contents found in them with alcoholic beverages being the main one. The alcoholic

beverages began to become more cheaper in time as more of them were produced in

various methods, this along with personal reasons of the users, caused them to create

accidents which to them, they did either unintentionally or the reverse of it.

Our product, the “THEAD”, is an innovated design of a regular alcohol detector.

This research is about the effectiveness of the “Thead” or “Thermal Alcohol Detector”,

this kind of alcohol detector finds and measures contents of alcohol with the use of

temperature measurement.
Background of the Study

Alcohol, defined as either Ethanol or Ethyl Alcohol in alcoholic terms, is the main

ingredient found in all alcoholic drinks such as Whiskey, Vodka, or any other kinds of

drinks that have alcohol content. This substance is the main ingredient of wines or

beers which can cause intoxication, it is also called a psychoactive and depressant drug

due to it being able to slow your body’s brain and central nervous system and affect

your mind or mental processes. However, alcohol is considered dangerous to the body

where it can cause high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, and even cause your brain

cells in your brain to shrink which can cause you to think less intelligently; however with

limitation in drinking alcohol, a few people were able to avoid this.

The substance is created when yeast ferments (breaks down without oxygen) the

sugars in different food. For example, wine is made from the sugar in grapes, beer from

the sugar in malted barley (a type of grain), cider from the sugar in apples, vodka from

the sugar in potatoes, beets or other plants. Ref: http://www.responsibledrinking.org/what-are-

you-drinking/what-is-an-alcohol-beverage/

It can be found in either large or small quantities in drinks which can affect how

much you can become drunk from drinking a specific amount of it. Alcohol drinking or

simply the term, “drinking”, is the process of in taking amounts of any amounts of

alcoholic beverages, this has been going on for hundreds to thousands of years ago,

where people from the olden times up until our present time have done for their histories
and culture. People who drink alcohol from time to time are called either as “alcoholics”

or “drinkers.”

Drinking can also cause Alcohol Abuse, this is the term used for people who

have been drinking for long periods of time where alcoholism is considered its most

severe form; alcoholism comes with the inability to control drinking habits of a person

where it became as one of the major reasons of reckless accidents such as fights, car

crashes, and many more dangerous acts due to the ones causing them to be

intoxicated or “too drunk to the point that they lost control of their ability to think

correctly”. People who have this problem tend to be depressed which is why they

continue to drink despite becoming addicted to it.

Ref: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157163.php#diagnosis

There is large number of laws stating the usage of alcohol where people cannot

just drink it without limitation, the construction of a alcohol detector was started in order

to detect the amount of the substance within the bodies of people; there are many types

such as through scanners, sensors and even with the use of other substances to find it.
Statement of the Problem

The researcher wanted to answer the following question:

1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 Age;

1.2 Sex;

1.3 Grade Level;

2. Are there any significance effect in students:

2.1 Academic Performance

2.2 Extra Curricular Activities

3. What are the drinking habits of the respondents in terms of:

3.1 Kind of liquor;

3.2 Times of drinking in a week;

3.3 Reason for drinking;

 3.4 Typically payment for alcoholic drink;

4. Are there any reason or significance relationship between the drinking habits and

academic performances?

5. Is Thead as Thermal Alcohol Detector will help the students in:

5.1 Maintaining their grades;

5.2 Avoiding in any unnecessary events or accidents inside the school premises;

5.3 Level of Academic performances as determined by General Average of their

semester;

6. Is there any difference between in profile variaties with the extent of drinking

alcohol?

7.Is there a reminiscent bond between drinking habits and their profile varieties?

8. Can Thead as thermal alcohol detector detects a person who brush his/her teeth

after drinking?
 9. Thermal as a part of thead, how can it help detect a person who recently drinks?

10. Can the Thead detect heat sources other than alcohol?

Hypothesis

With the rise of technology, one matter can be solved in more than one way

compared to the past.

Teenagers in this generation are enjoying some fun like drinking some liquor.

Scope and Limitation

The researchers of STEM 201 focusing only on significance of “THEAD” as

Thermal Alcohol Detector in the students of STI GLOBAL COLLEGE. This study

includes in its scope how alcohol affects the psychological thinking of the student thus

making them addicted. The aspects that are looking into are “why” and “how” factors

which affects the students performances and proposed solution to the probems.
Significance of the Study

This study will give a thorough understanding about alcohol avoidance and

opportunities for the students to expand their learnings and control their drinking habits.

For students to control and avoid their alcohol drinking habits when inside the

school premises.

To serve as guide to the researchers and to the students of STI GLOBAL COLLEGE.

Definition of Terms

Alcoholism a chronic disorder marked by excessive and usually compulsive drinking of

alcohol leading to pyschological and physical dependence or addiction.

Intoxication the condition of having physical or mental control markedly diminished by

the effects of alcohol or drugs.

Breathalyzers a portmanteau of breath and analyzer is a device for estimating blood

alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.

Alcohol abuse it is a pattern of drinking too much too often.

Thermal is relating to, or caused by heat.

 Chapter 2

Related Literature

Foreign

Present study showed that excessive drinking can cause alcoholic hepatitis, heavy

alcohol intake increases the risk of many forms of cancers, excessive alcohol intake can

result in sleep disturbances, alcohol abuse can increase the risk of injuries and

accidents, alcohol abuse can cause liver disease, an immune system weakened by

alcohol abuse has difficulty fighting off illness, and heavy drinking can cause damage to

your heart. Finally, our findings also showed that male and female had similar levels of

awareness of the following effects of alcohol on human health, as no significant

differences were found: excessive alcohol intake can affect coordination, interfering with

balance and the ability to walk, heavy alcohol use can result in alcohol dependence,

alcohol use can make people with depression feel worse, and erectile dysfunction is a

side effect of alcohol abuse in men. These outcomes support previous studies, which

show that alcohol increases the risk of numerous diseases and all injury outcomes.

According to the W.H.O., alcohol consumption is now the world's third largest risk factor

for disease and disability, with almost 4% of all global deaths attributed to alcohol.
Isang study copy paste mamaya( marty)

Local

Teresita Castillo is a recovery coach and co-founder of Seagulls Flight Foundation, Inc.,

which is a non-profit organization and residential facility that provides treatment and

rehabilitation for those addicted to drugs, gambling, gaming, and lastly, drinking. Her

husband and the organization’s co-founder, Eddie, has been healing for 40 years, which

means Teresita’s looks come from a great personal experience. It can be said that

alcoholism is a different impact when experienced during adolescence or adulthood,

what with the unique pressures that come with youth like peer preassure. This might be

a case limited to boys, but the reasons one might turn to alcohol vary from person to

person, and such experiences are singular in their specificity. Samantha, who admits to

have depended on alcohol heavily before, recounts her motivations. What’s to be done,

then? Perhaps the first and best place to start is to promote a change in mindset.

Teresita paints a picture of how can you recover. These experiences and insights barely

cover the full reality of alcoholism, though. Addiction is a call for help, not a thing to be

kept to yourself. We need to believe on overcoming it and face these things, as hard as

they can be to swallow.

Kay ai ai na isa.
 Related Studies

Foreign

Dee and Evans (2003) and finds that although binge drinking does not affect high

school completion rates, it does significantly increase the probability that a student

graduates with a GED rather than a high school diploma. Drinking could affect learning

through a variety of mechanisms. Recent neurological research suggests that underage

drinking can impair learning directly by causing alterations in the structure and function

of the developing brain with consequences reaching far beyond adolescence.

Chatterji (2006) used a bivariate probit model of alcohol use and educational attainment

to gauge the sensitivity of the estimates to various assumptions about the correlation of

unobservable determinants of these variables. She concluded that there is no evidence

of a causal relationship between alcohol use and educational attainment when the

correlation coefficient is fixed at plausible levels.

Cook and Moore (1993) and Yamada et al. (1996) found that heavy or frequent drinking

in high school adversely affects high school and college completion. Nevertheless, the
validity and reliability of the instruments in these studies are open to debate (Chatterji,

2006; Dee & Evans, 2003; French & Popovici, 2009).

Local

(Cruz, 2018) The term “reckless driving” is one of the most violated traffic laws in the

Philippines today. And while it’s considered part of the miscellaneous traffic rules in our

constitution, this law still warrants careful study–and vigilance–from drivers.

In short, “everytime a person operates a motor vehicle in violation of traffic rules, at the

risk of harming others and with less than the full attention, focus and skill required of

every driver, he is driving recklessly.”

Paki lagay gawa ni matt