Healthcare Fraud and Abuse As we head into the next four years under the Obama administration‚ many Americans are hearing more and more about healthcare reform and what needs to be done to fix the ailing healthcare system. Part of the dramatic increase in healthcare costs is due to Medicare fraud abuse. Healthcare fraud is defined as making false statements or representations of material facts in order to obtain benefits or payment. Healthcare abuse is defined as practices involving the overuse
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Facebook Most of Facebook’s revenue comes from advertising. These advertisements are displayed in the sidebar of most pages of the site and they’re typically targeted to certain users. Some of the ads displayed are sponsored by major brand advertisers and some come from Facebook’s capabilities to target its users. Facebook is able to customize the ads based on the user’s metropolitan area‚ age‚ gender‚ school network‚ job‚ and even relationship status. Facebook also makes money through Facebook
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom LDDS began operations in 1984 offering services to local retail and commercial customers in the southern states. It was initially a loss making enterprise‚ and thus hired Bernie J. (Bernie) Ebbers to run things. It took him less than a year to make the company profitable. By the end of 1993‚ LDDS was the fourth largest long distance carrier in the United States. After a shareholder vote in May 1995‚ the company officially came to be known as WorldCom. WorldCom culture
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Enhancement Segmentation Technique for Iris Recognition System Based on Daugman’s Integro-Differential Operator Asama Kuder Nsaef Institute of Visual Informatics (IVI) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia osama_ftsm@yahoo.com Azizah Jaafar Institute of Visual Informatics (IVI) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi‚ Selangor‚ Malaysia aj@ftsm.ukm.my Khider Nassif Jassim Faculty of Management and Economics Department of Statistics University of Wasit Al-Kut‚ Iraq khider_st@yahoo
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SUBJECT: Accounting fraud at WorldCom Problem Statement WorldCom penetrated the largest accounting fraud in U.S history by overstating its tax income between 1999 and 2002. The main players in WorldCom’s accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan‚ the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments‚ external auditor Arthur Andersen‚ and the board of directors. While individuals did have their own sins‚ employees cowardice and self-interested‚ the board passive and ineffective‚ external auditors
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Facial recognition technology is a very well-known technology because of the high security it provides to crucial businesses and government agencies. According to the FBI this technology was‚ "Developed in the 1960s‚ the first semi-automated system for facial recognition required the administrator to locate features (such as eyes‚ ears‚ nose‚ and mouth) on photographs before it calculated distances and ratios to a common reference point" (Facial Recognition). Government agencies and crucial companies
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newspapers are filled with stories of fraud and financial shenanigans. It has become daily occurrence that frauds of high profile cases break out and become headlines. Case after case has become routine. The shocking publicized financial scandals have shaken the underpinnings of our economic system. In the recent years there is enormous increase in occupational fraud. We have witnessed that our national enterprises have disclosed millions of rupees in financial fraud. Millions of rupees of public money
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general and its information technology sector in particular when he confessed fraud running into millions of dollars in a letter he wrote to the company’s board of directors (Ramachandran‚ 2009). This report is going to focus on‚ an overview of the events that happened in Satyam‚ its consequences on Satyam’s stakeholders‚ the auditors involved and their role in the scam and the current situation of those responsible for the fraud. OVERVIEW OF EVENTS IN SATYAM FROM 1987-2009 Raju formed Satyam in 1987
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example‚ patients CK who lost ability to recognize objects after a car accident performed perfectly on the tasks of face recognition. () Meanwhile‚ many cases of patients who suffered prosopagnosia‚ their ability of object identification remains intact. It suggests there is a double dissociation between face and object recognition. Although it helps us to know face and object recognition may not activate the same region of the brain areas‚ we do not know yet which areas are responsible to them respectively
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’There are various degrees of recognition in tragedy. In Othello‚ recognition is minimal: the protagonist learns what he has done and what he has lost‚ but learns little or nothing about himself.’’ How far do you agree? – This is a quote that I have adapted into my thesis‚ taken from ‘’A Book of literary terms’’. Anagnorisis‚ a Greek word meaning ‘’recognition’’‚ is described by Aristotle as ‘’a change from ignorance to knowledge’’. I agree with this statement as‚ in the play Othello‚ Othello’s
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