Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence / by Lembke, Anna, Dr., author 655980, Penguin Publishing Group (Online service) 655981

“…Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. …”
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Bad Mexican : portrayal of corruption and the drug trade in Man on Fire, Traffic, and La Ley de Herodes. by Goh, Dianne.

“…By victimizing the United States and demonizing Mexico, Hollywood films such as Traffic and Man on Fire create stereotypes of Mexicans based on the drug trade and corruption in Mexico so the United States can define its identity and become Mexico’s saviour. …”
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Transdermal Drug Delivery by Ong, Yuhui

“…As each drugs have different molecular properties, operation parameters are varied accordingly. …”
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Towards Health Centered Drug Policy: An Analysis of Past and Developing Drug Policy by Lewis, Benjamin B.

“…The opening of medical marijuana dispensaries and the passage of recreational marijuana legalization laws also had no significant overall effect on overdose death rates, but the effect of these policies varied significantly across states such that there were significant increases in some states and significant decreases in others. Overall, these findings contradict the popular claim that marijuana decriminalization leads to increased use of more dangerous drugs (and thus overdose deaths) in most cases – and more generally questions the characterization of marijuana as a gateway drug.…”
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A bilayer swellable drug-eluting ureteric stent : localized drug delivery to treat urothelial diseases by Lim, Wei Shan, Chen, Kenneth, Chong, Tsung Wen, Xiong, Gordon Minru, Birch, William R., Pan, Jisheng, Lee, Bae Hoon, Er, Pei Shan, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Venkatraman, Subbu S., Huang, Yingying

“…On deployment, the device swells to co-apt with the ureteric wall and ensure drug availability to these tissues. …”
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Liposomal encapsulation of pro-NO donor drug by Koh, Cheryl Jie Yan

“…Liposomes are utilised as drug carrier due to its biocompatibility and inert nature in the physiological body, to protect the drug as well as prevent premature elimination by the body. …”
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Collection and analysis on data from Drugs.com by Aw, Teng Teng

“…Scrapy adapts to the different webpages with different structures using XPath.selectors. The findings will be presented in this report. The aim of this project is to utilize web scraping tools to collect data from Drugs.com and to be further analyzed. …”
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Targeting the cytochrome oxidases for drug development in mycobacteria by Lee, Bei Shi, Sviriaeva, Ekaterina, Pethe, Kevin

“…Although the aerobic cytochrome bd respiratory branch is not strictly essential for growth, the discovery of a strong synthetic lethal interaction with the cytochrome bcc-aa3 placed the cytochrome bd oxidase under the spotlight as an attractive drug target for its synergistic role in potentiating the efficacy of cytochrome bcc-aa3 inhibitors and other drugs targeting oxidative phosphorylation. …”
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Cellular response to synthetic drugs : a metabolomics approach by Chen, William Wei Ning.

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Re-understanding the mechanisms of action of the anti-mycobacterial drug bedaquiline by Sarathy, Jickky Palmae, Gruber, Gerhard, Dick, Thomas

“…However, this mechanism is controversial as the drug’s binding affinity for the isolated ε-subunit protein is moderate and spontaneous resistance mutants in the ε-subunit cannot be isolated. …”
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‘Token’ augmented reality visual effects film by Koh, Iris Xuan En

“…‘Token’ is a 4 minutes live-action with augmented reality visual effects film, exploring the techniques of green screen shooting and keying, 2D and 3D compositing, particle simulation, and 2D and 3D animation. …”
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Adverse health events associated with antipsychotic use: an umbrella review by Chow, RTS

Layer-by-layer assembled micro and nano carriers for drug delivery applications by Mutukumaraswamy Shaillender

“…In nano- or microparticulate drug delivery, both control of the drug release and interaction of the particles with the cellular environment are critical attributes. …”
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Optimising statistical methodologies for estimating antimalarial efficacy for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria by Dahal, P

“…</p> <p>This thesis highlighted that the choice of analytical approaches led to variability around the derived estimates of drug efficacy. The findings of this thesis are discussed with regards to current World Health Organization guidance to change treatment policy.…”

Review of audience gratification with Chinese online film festivals by Yang, Yening, Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati, Shari, Sharil Nizam

“…Against this backdrop, online film festivals have emerged as a new subject of film festival research. …”
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The influence of additives on the delivery of paclitaxel from bioresorbable PLGA films by Huang, Charlotte Liwen.

“…The study of the influences of additives on the drug delivery characteristics from PLGA thin films as a coating on angioplasty balloons was reported in this thesis. …”
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Formulation and in-vitro release study of drug loaded liposomes for treating dry eye disease by Chua, Yan Ni

“…Thin film hydration method technology is employed to fabricate the liposomes and to encapsulate the drug within its hydrophobic bilayer of the liposomes. …”
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Tantalum based amorphous thin films as copper diffusion barrier by Yan, Hua

“…Guidelines of developing reliable Cu diffusion barrier are drawn base on this study.…”
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Antibiotic resistance profile, potential drivers and genotype of Escherichia coli, Salmonella sp. and Vibrio sp. isolated from hybrid red tilapia and Asian seabass in the West Coas... by Dewi, Rita Rosmala

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Immunoprofiling of drug-resistant epilepsy with a focus on glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 antibodies by McGinty, R

“…<p>The urgent need to improve therapies for people with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) requires improved understanding of the aetiopathophysiology of epilepsy and the mechanisms responsible for pharmacoresistance. …”