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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"presidential commission"”.
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Content Analysis of Consent Forms for Clinical Whole Exome Sequencing
… of consistency with the recommendations from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) regarding informed consent for clinical genome scale sequencing. Recommendations of the Presidential Commission for the Study …
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Access to Success: Truman, Obama, and the Evolution of Presidential Agendas for Community Colleges
… activities, President Harry Truman's 1947 Presidential Commission on Higher Education and President Barack Obama's 2009 American Graduation Initiative, to understand how the federal government's mission for community colleges has evolved from one of student access to student success over …
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The Zook Commission:Reassessing World War II Veterans' Influence on Higher Education
<p>The Zook Commission: Reassessing World War II</p> <p>Veterans Influence on Higher Education</p> <p>Jeffrey Scott Aranguena</p> <p> This thesis is an analysis of The Presidential Commission on Higher Education of 1947 and the influence World War II veterans held on the role of the Commission’s …
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Dirty Little Secrets: Prostitution and the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study in Guatemala
… Reverby triggered a report by the United States' Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. As the Commission acknowledged, the USPHS Study in Guatemala is of great contemporary relevance because current public health initiatives, especially in a globalized health economy, raise …
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The Influence of Spiritual Coping and Racial Identity on Psychological Well-Being in Black Americans
According to the 2003 report of the Presidential Commission on Mental Health, it is vital that all Americans obtain an equal share in the best available mental health services and outcomes, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, or geographic location. The report suggests that services must be …
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Synthetic biology, concerns and risks: looking for a (constitutionally oriented) regulatory framework and a system of governance for a new emerging technology
… about synthetic biology, drafted by the U.S. Presidential Commission on Bioethics, 2010), and it entails an ongoing and periodically revised process of assessment and management of all the risks and concerns, taking into account the interests of all the stakeholders in a dynamic, cooperative, …
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Securitizing Air Spaces: How the Pan Am 103 Bombing Led to a New Extraterritorial Aviation Regime
The introduction of security in airspace management presented an interesting problem as the United States inserted itself as the new arbiter of international aviation security. By its very nature, aviation security requires strict policing standards on both ends of travel, at both the departure and …