Category: Psychology/Psychiatry Should Parents Worry: The Latest Scoop on Video Games and Their Impact on Children TASA ID: 1385 When I started my practice almost thirty years ago, Sesame Street and the benign Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood captured our children’s attention. Disney movies proliferated the video market and they followed a similar fairy tale pattern in which a hero or heroine is pursued by a villain but triumphs in the end. Children learned which personality traits ultimately prevail: goodness, honesty, kindness, and beauty. Read more
Category: Intellectual Property Creating a Culture of Invention TASA ID: 1865 Today's executives are expected to exploit all assets of their organizations to the maximum extent. Whether corporation, university or non-profit institute; whether private or public, their leaders must compete by first protecting company assets and then deriving maximum value from them. "All assets" include the organization's intellectual property that can represent a significant, sometimes crucial, bank of assets. Effective, aggressive management of intellectual property (IP) can result in licensing and implementation of important technologies that are a benefit to society, and in financial benefits for the owner organization.Click here to read the full article. Read more
Category: Medical & Healthcare Differentiating between Orthotics and Prosthetics TASA ID: 4488 Prosthetics (and the practice of Prosthetics) involves the treatment of the person suffering from limb loss. Prosthetic devices involve complicated designs, componentry and treatment criteria. Depending on the limb involved in amputation, the level of the limb loss (relative to the distance from the body) upper extremity; above the elbow, below the elbow or at the wrist. Lower limb; above the knee, at the knee, below the knee, at the ankle or part of the foot. Read more
Category: Financial/Economic Forensic Accountants: Why, When and How to Hire Them TASA ID: 3581 Nothing makes a person angrier than the thought of being cheated, robbed or otherwise financially hurt by the actions of another. Many civil lawsuits arise out of this basic desire to reclaim what one perceives he or she has unjustly lost, but it's not always easy to define or measure the financial loss. Read more
Category: Financial/Economic An Overview of the Current Status of the Recession TASA ID: 3224 Much has been both written and spoken about the current status of the nation's economy, whether it is still in a recession. With that in mind, we put together this brief summary of who defines a recession, the definition of a recession and how its timing is determined. Read more
