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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"drug testing"”.
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Creation of a collegiate level drug testing policy
… in intercollegiate athletics, created a drug testing program. In 1987 and again in 1988, student-athletes at two separate universities challenged the NCAA’s drug testing program in a court of law. As a result, constitutional questions pertaining to a student-athlete’s individual rights …
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The Impact of Drug Testing on Secondary School Students
… study determined whether use of student random drug testing provided an effective means to reduce drug usage by secondary school students. The participants included 50,214 7th through 12th grade students in 12 selected public schools. All school districts participated in the Texas School Survey …
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Drug Testing in Schools: Attitudes of High School Students
… examined high school students' attitudes toward drug testing prevention programs, and examined the extent to which those attitudes vary according to gender, grade, ethnicity, exposure to experiences related to a drug testing program, illegal drug use, alcohol use, and involvement in …
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Medulloblastoma: New animal models, preclinical drug testing, and characterising immune infiltrates
… of MYC- or NMYC-amplified medulloblastoma, (2) testing a novel treatment that combines conventional chemotherapies with a cell cycle checkpoint kinase inhibitor, and (3) investigating the effects of clinically used chemotherapies on immune cell populations in the brains of …
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Engineering Complex Kidney Structures for Disease Modelling, Drug Testing, and Studying Kidney Development
… reliable platform for kidney disease modelling, drug discovery and developmental studies, and may lay the groundwork for creating anatomically correct kidney tissue <i>in vitro</i>.
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The use of performance enhancing supplements and the need for drug testing policies
… High School student-athletes and the need for drug testing policies. The subjects included 120 student-athletes who had participated at the varsity or sub-varsity level. The student-athletes completed a 21 item survey that consisted of 6 items that measured the students demographics such as …
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Examining the effect of random student drug-testing in a high school setting
… was to ascertain the effectiveness of decreasing drug use in a high school setting by implementing a random student drug-testing program. High school students who were involved in any athletic or extracurricular activities or who were applying for a parking permit in one local school were required …
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Toward effective and ethical drug abuse prevention policies: The case against indiscriminate drug testing
… of organizational domains, a negative illicit drug screen result has become the final and paramount criterion for admission and/or continuing participation. Such a policy is vigorously promoted to the private sector by government and vendors of testing services as an inexpensive and vital tool …
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A Microfluidic Approach For Investigating Thrombosis And Hemostasis: From Disease Models To Drug Testing
… preparation and increased the dynamic range for drug testing. Hemophilia assays phenocopying the bleeding disorder was developed using healthy adult blood treated with a low-activity factor variant or neutralizing antibodies. The assays could enable rapid screening of novel hemophilic agents in a …
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Comparison of Positive Screening and Confimatory Results From Federally Mandated Drug Testing of Urine
… FDA approved immunoassays for the detection of drug positive urine samples.</p> <p>Federal civilian employees are tested under the strict protocol of the Department of Health and Human Services mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug testing programs. The guidelines provide for a two …
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DEVELOPMENT OF IN VITRO NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS (NASH) MODEL FOR DRUG TESTING AND PATHOGENESIS STUDIES
… the application for scalable high-throughput drug screening has been demonstrated.
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3D Cell Culture in Microgels: A Novel Screening Platform for Disease Modelling and Drug Testing
… of cancer. However, only 7% of new anti-cancer drugs make it through clinical trials and are brought to the market. This low success rate has been attributed to a lack of relevant cancer models. New drug candidates are usually tested on 2D cancer cell lines adhered to a plastic surface, which …
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An Analysis of Random Student Drug Testing Policies and Patterns of Practice In Virginia Public Schools
… have articulated policies that govern random drug testing of students and if school districts' policies aligned with U.S. Supreme Court standards and Virginia statutes. The second purpose was to ascertain the patterns of practice in selected Virginia school districts that currently conduct …
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PATIENT-DERIVED ORGANOIDS AND EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES: UNLOCKING NEW FRONTIERS IN BREAST CANCER DRUG TESTING AND BIOMARKER DISCOVERY
… applications: (1) study of tumor evolution, (2) drugs screening, (3) nanodrugs development and (4) biomarkers discovery. Furthermore, I presented an emerging application of the PDO model in the biomarker discovery field, by setting up a protocol for isolating PDO-derived EVs (EVs-PDO) and …
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The new social discipline : a critical analysis of federal drug-free workplace legislation and employee drug testing
1 PDF file (vi, 105 leaves ; 28 cm)
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Validation of the Mandatory Guidelines for the American Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs within the context of the South African Constitution
… Guidelines for the American Federal Workplace Drug and Alcohol-free Workplace, as a proposed framework for drug and alcohol testing in the South African workplace. The use of mind-altering substances like cocaine and opium has been part of humankind for millennia. Alcohol is an excellent …
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Characterization of a new miniaturized hollow-fiber bioreactor for cultivation of cell lines and primary cells to improve cytostatic drug testing in vitro
… profiles (e.g. pharmacokinetic profiles of drugs) can be realized as illustrated using glucose as a model compound. Depending on the molecular size cut-off of the membranes used, added growth factors like GM-CSF and IL-3 as well as factors secreted from the cells are retained in the cell …
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