...‘The vocabulary we have does more than communicate our knowledge; it shapes what we can know’. Evaluate this claim with reference to different areas of knowledge. As a unique language designed for every area of study, vocabulary is an important bridge linking us to the understanding of certain knowledge. Many people consider vocabulary as the foundation of knowledge. If we wish to master a certain area, the prerequisite is acquiring an extensive range of vocabulary in that specific area. This is because by enhancing the vocabulary, we are able to do more than identify the knowledge; we are capable of proceeding to a higher level of understanding. However, we usually see vocabulary as mere words and expressions. What we do not realise is the possibilities and underlying potentials that vocabulary can create. Mathematics is in the core of many fields of knowledge. Even now we are surrounded by the application of math. Once, I was asked: what is mathematics? Most people, in fact, even I myself answered numbers, equations and formulas. What a majority felt was mathematics is just a way of manipulating numbers by relating them to one another. Can mathematics, such a beautiful and wise knowledge, be defined in a few and simple words? When I was introduced to Einstein’s famous mass-energy equation, E=mc2, in one of my classes, then only I realised how wrong I was. My definition for mathematics was actually the vocabulary of math. In the context of physics, the mathematical vocabulary...
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...Compare Kant’s theory of transcendental idealist space with that if one of the philosophers (Newton/Clarke) that Kant claims have a transcendental realist conception of space. Which conception if space is more true and why? The ontological nature of space is one of the fundamental questions in Kant’s metaphysics and is the foundation around which he constructs his notion of transcendental idealism laid out in his Critique of Pure Reason. Written in response to the previous ‘realist’ conceptions of space Kant challenged strongly the view of its ultimate reality and served to shift the scope of the ontological argument from one of ‘absolutism’ versus ‘relationalism’ to a more developed debate of ‘realism’ against ‘idealism’ as he brought the relationship between space and time, and the mind strongly to the fore. In this essay I am going to contrast this Kantian notion of space as being ‘transcendentally ideal’ against the branded ‘transcendental realism’ of Newton and Clarke. Starting with the latter I’ll go on to bring in the former then proceed to analyse the developments Kant forges past his predecessors. I will then conclude by assessing how and why his view holds more metaphysical depth than that put forward in the Newtonian model by looking at how he accounts for the scope and perspective of human consciousness and the epistemological limits inherent within it. To begin however I will now go to the absolutist models put forward by Newton and Clarke. Prior to Kant,...
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...introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay...
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...information on how to submit claims. There are certain requirements when submitting electronic and paper claims. Electronic claims can be broken down into different categories. For example, one can submit a claim as an Xpress claim, eZ TRICARE Claim, Claims clearinghouse, and Electronic Data Interchange Gateway (Bryant & Stratton, 2012). According to Bryant & Stratton TRICARE provider handbook (2012), Xpress claims are claims that are submitted and the payments are received by the providers instantly. Providers are also able to print a summary receipt with this type of submission. There is no cost to use this service by providers. EZ TRICARE claims allow providers to upload groups of claims directly from their practice management system. There is no software to install, no data entry, and no cost to file TRICARE claims. EZ TRICARE claims can accept a variety of claims formats. This is a no cost service to providers as well. Paper claims are sent via mail. Although these are more seldom used, they do still circulate. There are more chances that a claim will be denied when using paper claims. The person that is filing the claim must ensure the CPT codes are correct as well as making sure the claim forms are signed by the provider. I think the information on ways to submit claims is extremely important because this is something that I may have to do in my future career. This can be frustrating to the providers as well as the person filing the claim if the information is incorrect...
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...Intelligence Agency (CIA) of USA, English is accepted as the official language in approximately 60 countries and regions. With the wide range of use in the world and its long history, English borrowed certain amount of vocabulary from other languages. As a result, an extremely common language feature can be detected in the large amount of English words which is synonyms. Synonyms are pairs of words sharing similar meaning or semantic features (Jackson & Amvela, 2007). Nevertheless, as recognized by many linguists, the meaning of synonyms differs for their connotations, dialects, collocations and syntactic features. In this research essay, a corpus-based study on the similarities and differences of synonyms will be conducted by examining claim and state. The essay will be divided into three parts, which are Literature Review, Methodology and Findings and Results. After that, a conclusion will be drawn as the summary and revision. Literature Review Synonym is considered to be an important part of the semantic study which focuses on the relational meanings of lexis. It is generally agreed that the meanings of words are closely related to the collocations and contexts in the sentences. Also, as mentioned in the introduction, synonyms are referring to the words which “have same meaning in some or all contexts” (Fromkin, Rodman & Hyams, 2011). This is according with the definition of synonyms made by Jackson and Amvela (2007). They believe that synonyms can be classified into...
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...information can be found in IRS c Publication 17, Your P Federal Income Tax, F Fed Part One, The Income Tax Return. objectives By the end of this chapter, you will be able to Identify the personal exemptions a taxpayer can claim on their tax return Determine who the taxpayer can claim as a dependent Calculate the total number of exemptions a taxpayer may claim Report the taxpayer’s total exemption amount on the tax return Basic Tax Preparation Exemptions and Dependents | 2-1 lesson I: Personal Exemptions Personal exemptions are exemptions a taxpayer can claim on their tax return for themselves and their spouse. Here’s a snapshot of the maximum number of personal exemptions the taxpayer may be able to claim, based on their filing status. Filing Status Single Married Filing Jointly (MFJ) Married Filing Separately (MFS) Number of Personal Exemptions One for the taxpayer Two: One for the taxpayer and one for their spouse One for the taxpayer; also, one for their spouse only if special circumstances apply (see “Special Considerations” below.) One for the taxpayer One for the taxpayer Head of Household (HOH) Qualifying Widow(er) with Dependent Child (QW) As the table shows, a taxpayer will never claim a total of more than two personal...
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...culture does not existband its existence is not a possibility in the near future.bThis report followed a publication by the Better Regulation Task Force (BRTF), which concluded that there is not a compensation culture, but that action was required to counter the popular perception that there is. Evidence from the Compensation Recovery Unit (CRU) supports this view as shown below. The CRU holds the most comprehensive and reliable data on the number of current personal injury claims as ‘all compensators must provide prompt notification to CRU of any claim for personal injury made against them.’ It is misleading to talk about general trends in our propensity to claim because different types of claim have followed different trends. Thus it is necessary to look at employers’ liability, clinical negligence, public liability and road traffic accident claims separately to examine the trends in our propensity to claim. From the CRU statistics it does appear that there was a significant...
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...I am writing this paper so that I can learn about the process for filing a small claims lawsuit in Santa Clara County. According to the Santa Clara County Superior Court of California website, small claim courts are courts in which plaintiffs can resolve their disputes in the quickest, easiest, and cheapest ways. Small claim courts also have procedures which are straight-forward as well as an informal hearing as part of their process. The form which the plaintiff obtains to file a small claims court against another person, also known as the defendant, is on the website for the California Judicial Branch. When you go to that website, you go to the “Forms and Rules” tab and click on the link for the “Browse All Forms” page. There, you go to the...
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...System: How Do We Fix the Claims Backlog? HCAD 660, 9041 Ceola Larry March 29, 2015 Turnitin Score 2% VETERANS DISABILTY SYSTEM 2 Abstract The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), once known as the Veterans Administration, was established in 1930. It is the second largest department of the federal government. Its main function is to provide benefits and support to veterans and their families. One of these benefits provided is disability compensation, which is administered by the Veterans Benefit Administration (VBA), one of three divisions of the VA. This compensations is given to U.S. military service members who are injured or develop illnesses while serving in the armed forces. Over the last 15 years or so, the disability claims, which allow these service members to receive compensation, have grown to such an amount, that the VA has fallen drastically behind in processing these claims. This has lead to an overwhelming issue, which has been labeled as the “claims backlog”. By the end of 2012, the claims backlog had reached over half a million claims. The VBA has implemented a Transformation Plan that hopes to solve this problem by the end of 2015. This report will discuss the veterans disability claims system and the role of human resources in the plan to eliminate the disability claims backlog. Keywords: VA, veteran...
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...Claims – Dec 2005 Exam Section A – Multiple-Choice Questions 1. (A)(1-3) To gain an understanding of a company’s commitment to it’s clients, the mission statement is a good place to start. It underpins the philosophy the claims department will embrace for handling claims. It often focuses on the company’s core strengths, values, or culture, and could specifically articulate an approach towards handling claims. The promises made in brochures and other advertising material to promote the sale of policies should also correspond. 2. (D)(1-9) Methods used to evaluate claims handlers performance include: • reviewing all files closed by new loss adjusters to assess procedural and process issues as well as technical claims handling • a claims audit, internal or external, could assess various aspects of identified claims handling issues • policyholders could be surveyed to assess customer service issues 3. (B)(1-11) Specialists deal with one type of claim or one line of business. Loss adjusters who specialize in the more complex areas of claims handling tend to have a broad base of experience in which their work is grounded, because at the beginning of their careers they would have handled a wide variety of claims. 4. (A)(1-26) Timing issues may be artificial. Urgency can easily be confused with emotionalism. 5. (D)(2-6) When assigning claims to independent or staff adjusters, most insurers will organize their claims departments to include...
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...An Analysis on the Speech Contestants’ Arguments in English Celebration Week Octaviyani Raharja 1213009001 Abstract Nowadays, many universities hold speech contest to facilitate their students in improving their communicative skills. Widya Mandala Catholic University, through English Department, holds a speech contest during the English Celebration Week event. As speech contest in common, students are required to conduct a good speech that deals with the topic given. Unfortunately, there are still some mistakes found that deal with the argument components and verbal fallacies. In figuring out a good speech, the contestants’ speeches are recorded and transcribed to be analyzed whether they have met the quality of a good speech which are: (1) includes all of the main components of argument and (2) fallacies free. Since the speech contestants are still in the first semester, they have limited knowledge on argument components and verbal fallacies. Therefore, the contestants sometimes miss the argument components and make no verbal fallacies in their speech. |Keywords: Argument, Fallacy, Verbal Fallacy, Speech, ECW Speech Contest | Introduction There are four language skills and two language components that are needed in learning foreign language, especially English. Among the four language skills, speaking has big roles in both language teaching and learning activity since it requires both communicative...
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...South claimed that slavery was not only benign but profitable. These claims have led to a large dived in historians with the majority opposing the South’s claims however the majority are not always right. Well known historians still stand on the side of the Southerners claims, historians including Ulrich Phillips and Fogel and Engerman, arguing that the conditions so often used to discredit slavery are the rare cases of extreme nature and should not be used to make the Southerners claims any less accurate. Countless times power has been abused throughout history, obviously not making it right, but in most cases during the antebellum period slaves lived in similar conditions to most Americans. The conditions of slavery stayed benign and the extreme cases remained rare. The fact that slaves were expensive is proof that masters would not waste them if they were to remain profitable. Plantation masters were entrepreneurial business men and not as Eugene Genovese described them ‘paternalistic’. Focused on making capital it is clear that the South was correct to describe slavery as profitable as it remains on the same level as those in the north invested in industry. The idea that the Southerners claims were inaccurate due to extreme cases seems ridiculous and remains why in the majority of cases the Southerners claims that in the antebellum period slavery was benign and profitable. The Southerners claim that slavery was benign and similar of an average American can be argued...
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...The False Claims Act The False Claims Act, enacted by Congress in 1863 to protect the Union troops from profiteers providing shoddy goods and rotten food during the Civil War, prompted Abraham Lincoln's drive to empower private citizens with the ability to file suit on behalf of the government against corrupt contractors. The act was revitalized in 1986 to combat fraud in the defense contracting industry. Today, the False Claims Act is the government's principal weapon in the prosecution of health care fraud. One may be held either civilly or criminally responsible for knowingly or recklessly submitting a fraudulent claim to the government. The statute permits private citizens, or relators, to file a civil action against any entity or individual violating its provisions. Violators are subject to treble damages plus civil fines of not less than $5,500 but not more than $11,000 per claim. Under the criminal statute, false claims are punishable by fine or imprisonment of up to five years, or both, for knowingly submitting a false statement for reimbursement. To prevail under the False Claims Act, the government or its relator must establish that: the defendant presented or caused to be presented a claim to the government for payment or approval; the claim was false or fraudulent; and the defendant knew that the claim was false or fraudulent. "Knowing" means actual knowledge of false information, or acts in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the...
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...catastrophe is coming into focus, and attention is turning to how things will play out in the court system. This article looks at some of the legal issues raised by the BP oil spill, including legal options for businesses and individuals looking to get back on their financial feet after the oil spill. (For in-depth information on filing a claim with BP's $20 billion compensation fund, see Nolo's article BP Oil Spill: Filing a Claim With BP's Compensation Fund.) The BP Oil Spill: Types of Lawsuits The BP oil spill has already prompted the filing of thousands of lawsuits. Businesses and workers have seen their livelihoods suffer or even disappear in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas. Families and individuals in the Gulf region worry about the health hazards posed by the chemicals used to disperse and clean up the oil. And, with its dubious distinction as the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history, the BP oil spill has inflicted immeasurable devastation on the Gulf's coastline, wetlands, wildlife, and ecosystems. Here's a look at the different kinds of lawsuits being filed over the BP oil spill (with links to more information from Nolo where relevant). * Lost business profits and individual income losses. Thousands of businesses and workers in the Gulf region have filed lawsuits against BP, seeking repayment for profits and income that were lost because of the oil spill. These plaintiffs include companies and employees in the commercial...
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...Insurance Adjusters is a medium-sized company with 135 employees and seven managers. They process the claims of insurance holders who have experienced various misfortunes (eg: Hurricanes, floods etc). Their primary job is to determine the amount to be paid out and process the paperwork for some of the smaller insurance agencies in the area so that the final payment can be issued. Although the company is just eight years old, it has done quite well and has seen a large increase in business. It has a reputation for quality work and quick turnaround for claims. Because customers are often eager to move on after the misfortune strikes, Rainyday has built a loyal following by the insurance agencies that depend on it. Delayed claims often cost these companies’ time and money when they have to interact with continuous customer complaints. To accommodate the increase in customers, six months ago, Rainyday expanded its office in the current building and upgraded all its equipment to make the company more efficient and to allow the workers to process the claims more quickly. In particular, the computers were upgraded to facilitate speedier turn-around and higher capacity from claims processors. The new computers represent a large investment the company cannot afford to underutilize. Since installation of the computers, Rainyday has experienced a number of problems with voluntary turnover among claims processors as well as decreased productivity and increased errors. Recently, the CEO of Rainyday...
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