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Voice verification technology to prevent Medicaid fraud in Florida

The focus of this article is the prevention of Medicaid program abuse through the use of voice identification technology. There is no shortage of abuse throughout the federal and state medical assistance programs in the United States.

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Crisis leadership competence and organizational hiring decisions

It is often said that the only true test of leadership is the need to confront a crisis. No organization can assume that a crisis will not occur during a leader's watch.

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The cult of celebrity and its dangerous influence in America

United States, the so-called "cult of celebrity" means that people who become famous gain a popular following regardless of why they may have become famous.

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Corporate ethics codes and competitive lobbying practices

Would it be unethical for company "X" that has just constructed a new plant with pollution-emission restrictors to lobby the government for stricter anti-pollution laws that could affect company "X's" competition by forcing the competition to spend capital on upgrades?

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Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" and social Darwinism ideology

Just interest on huge scale enterprises is always a substantial return, if a man does not earn this much the business is bankrupt. Men who are extremely skilled in managing in large scale should be pain handsomely for their skill.

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Southern influence and racial segregation in African-American vernacular development

It has often been suggested that the so-called "African-American vernacular" is largely attributable to the influence of oral traditions based in sermons and prayer services of black churches.

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Differences and overlap between management and leadership

Management and leadership are both essential aspects of modern business organizations. In principle, there are fundamental differences between them, but there is also significant overlap or similarity.

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RFID technology implementation and customer adoption at Federal Express

Federal Express ("Fed-Ex") has always maintained a very specific focus on innovation as a fundamental part of the organization's corporate culture (Fed-Ex, 2011).

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Early childhood education initiatives in the E-9 countries

In Michael Levine's 2005 secondary research article on promoting early childhood education (ECE) in the E-9 countries, summaries of the reasoning behind ECE and current efforts underway are followed by recommendations for the future (Levine 2005).

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Music piracy and copyright protection in the digital age

Supporters of so-called music 'piracy' deny that downloading songs for free is any kind of piracy at all. Listening to music downloaded from the Internet is viewed as very similar to listening to music for free on the radio or copying music using a cassette tape many years ago. In the Sony Corp.

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