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Federal Law, State Policy, and Indian Gaming

, 2004
This Article will set forth the legal authorization and the economic success of Indian gaming by asking and answering two rhetorical questions: What makes Indian gaming lawful? and What makes Indian gaming successful?
Washburn, Kevin K.
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Law As Culture [PDF]

, 2001
This Essay is an attempt to theorize the relationship of law to culture and culture to law beyond the intuitive, commonplace sense that law partakes of culture - by reflecting it as well as by reacting against it - and that culture refracts law.
Mezey, Naomi
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Occupational Screening for Tuberculosis and the Use of a Borderline Zone for Interpretation of the IGRA in German Healthcare Workers

PLoS ONE, 2014
Introduction Healthcare workers (HCWs) in low incidence countries with contact to patients with tuberculosis (TB) are considered a high-risk group for latent TB infection (LTBI) and therefore are routinely screened for LTBI.
A. Schablon, Albert Nienhaus, F. Ringshausen, Alexandra M. Preisser, C. Peters   +4 more
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Interferon gamma release assay tests are associated with persistence and completion of latent tuberculosis infection treatment in the United States: Evidence from commercial insurance data.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BackgroundRisk-targeted testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a critical component of the United States' (US) tuberculosis (TB) elimination strategy, but relatively low treatment completion rates remain a challenge.
Erica L Stockbridge, Abiah D Loethen, Esther Annan, Thaddeus L Miller   +3 more
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Evaluation of the tuberculin skin test and the interferon-γ release assay for TB screening in French healthcare workers

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2009
Introduction Using French cut-offs for the Tuberculin Skin Test (TST), results of the TST were compared with the results of an Interferon-γ Release Assay (IGRA) in Healthcare Workers (HCW) after contact to AFB-positive TB patients.
Raffi Francois, Houdebine Marietherese, Guillaumin Guyonne, Gordeeff Claire, Durand-Perdriel Marie-Henriette, Bourrut-Lacouture Martine, Muller Jean-Yves, Naudin Frederique, Germaud Patrick, Chailleux Edmond, Audrain Marie, Nael Virginie, Brunet-Courtois Benedicte, Tripodi Dominique, Boutoille David, Biron Charlotte, Potel Gilles, Roedlich Claude, Geraut Christian, Schablon Anja, Nienhaus Albert   +20 more
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Tuberculosis screening at the Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris – results of first and second IGRA

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology, 2014
IntroductionHealthcare workers (HCWs) are exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and therefore are screened for tuberculosis (TB). Results of TB screenings with the Interferon-γ Release Assay (IGRA) in a French psychiatric hospital without a TB ward
A. Nienhaus, P. Gariépy, C. Trouvé, Christiane Lhaumet, J. Toureau, C. Peters   +5 more
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Screening for tuberculosis and the use of a borderline zone for the interpretation of the interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) in Portuguese healthcare workers

Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology, 2013
IntroductionThe effect of using a borderline zone for the interpretation of the interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) on the prediction of progression to active tuberculosis (TB) in healthcare workers (HCW) is analysed.MethodsData from a published study on ...
A. Nienhaus, J. T. Costa
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Expression of VPAC1 in a murine model of allergic asthma [PDF]

, 2013
Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) is a putative neurotransmitter of the inhibitory non-adrenergic non-cholinergic nervous system and influences the mammalian airway function in various ways.
Braun, Armin, Groneberg, Jan David Alexander, Lauenstein, Hans-Dieter, Quarcoo, David, Welte, Tobias   +4 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of the interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) for cases of feline mycobacteriosis.

Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 2021
Jordan L. Mitchell, P. Stanley, K. McDonald, P. Burr, S. Rhodes, D. Gunn-Moore, J. Hope   +6 more
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The Social and Economic Impact of Native American Casinos [PDF]

In the late 1980s, a series of legal rulings favorable to tribes and the subsequent passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 legalized gaming operations on reservations in many states.
Julie H. Topoleski, William N. Evans
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