The main risk factor for stroke that could be controlled is high blood pressure. Other risk factors that could be controlled include diabetes caused when the body does not make or use insulin properly‚ heart diseases such as cardiomyopathy‚ coronary heart disease and heart failure‚ smoking which causes damage to blood vessels and raise blood pressure‚ alcohol and drug abuse‚ and obesity. Risk factors for stroke that cannot be controlled are age‚ gender‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ and heredity. The risk of having
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Cardiovascular risk factors There are many risk factors associated with coronary heart disease and stroke. Some risk factors such as family history‚ ethnicity and age‚ cannot be changed. Other risk factors that can be treated or changed include tobacco exposure‚ high blood pressure (hypertension)‚ high cholesterol‚ obesity‚ physical inactivity‚ diabetes‚ unhealthy diets‚ and harmful use of alcohol. Of particular significance in developing countries is the fact that while they are grappling with
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Pablo Picasso‚ the brilliant painter whose name is synonymous with masterpiece‚ once remarked that “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” As a survey of art galleries all around the world‚ galleries that display perhaps the best works of art‚ demonstrates‚ Picasso’s axiom is grounded in fact; painters stealing from each other is commonplace. To adduce one example‚ artist Elaine Sturtevant is said to have stolen her style and design from “the works of Warhol‚ Lichtenstein‚ Haring and more‚ all
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In the beginning of October‚ I received a new fourth grade student named Adrian. Adrian came from a rural school district in Iowa‚ where he had attended since he was six years old. Within the first week of Adrian’s arrival at Anson Elementary‚ he was performing grade levels below his peers. His school records did not arrive until two weeks after his start date in October. When looking at his records‚ it stated on his 2015-16 Iowa Assessments that he was on grade level for math and reading.
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2- Major risks in Starbucks at domestic region and its potential solution: Starbucks faces 3 major risks and challenges which leads to the declining profit rate. According to Starbucks researches there is a mismatch of their policies with customers’ expectations. They thought that they can increase their profit by increasing their stores day by day but they fail to provide customers satisfaction. Their prices are still high than of the competitors and they failed to satisfy the newer generation
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Self-Directed Online Learning can be extremely beneficial to many people or it can be completely unreliable to others. In our world not everyone’s different which means a lot of people have different ways of learning. Some people learn better when they’re in the classroom with a group of other students and some people learn better from reading lessons by themselves with no one around. One of the benefits of online learning is that it can teach people self-discipline to set a time and date when they
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Summary This Special Fraud Alert addresses compensation paid by laboratories to referring physicians and physician group practices (collectively‚ physicians) for blood specimen collection‚ processing‚ and packaging‚ and for submitting patient data to a registry or database. OIG has issued a number of guidance documents and advisory opinions addressing the general subject of remuneration offered and paid by laboratories to referring physicians‚ including the 1994 Special Fraud Alert on Arrangements
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4. Explain why the fraud remained undetected for 13 years. What procedures might the auditors have performed to detect this fraud in a timelier manner? The fraud was undetected because of a lack of internal controls. There was a lack of segregation of duties between who collected the receipts and who prepared the deposits. Sally collected all of the receipts‚ closed out the drawers‚ and prepared the deposits. Since she performed all of these duties‚ she could easily cover her tracks by making sure
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ESSAY Can Corporate Governance Mechanism Prevent Corporate Fraud? Executive Summary This paper will reviews the extent to which corporate governance acts as efficient tool to protect investors against corporate fraud‚ thus contributing to summarize the literatures on role of corporate governance on preventing occurrence of corporate fraud. In a more recent study‚ corporate fraud is part of earnings manipulation done outside the law and standards. Whereas‚ the activities
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B1 – Ethics‚ fraud and internal control at Bern Fly Company The main purpose that a good internal control must fulfil is to protect the firm’s assets from fraud and theft. As we can see from the description of Bern Fly Company’s case‚ the internal control within the company leaves much to be desired. As it can be read in the case the salespersons get commission promptly after each order taken by their customers without any control to check if that order is real or only a fictitious one. This
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