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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chewing food, and how plants use sand to grind herbivores‘ gears.   Science’s International News Editor Rich Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his forensics story on how to track down the culprits after a nuclear detonation.   [Image: Miroslav Boskov]

This week, we chat about what talking monkeys would sound like, a surprising virus detected in ancient pottery, and six cloned horses that helped win a big polo match with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to news writer Lizzie Wade about what forensic anthropologists can do to help parent groups find missing family members in Mexico.   Listen to previous podcasts.   [Image: (c) Félix Márquez; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

First, we hear from science writer Joshua Sokol about his trip to the Cambrian—well not quite. He talks with host Megan Cantwell about his travels to a remote site in the mountains of British Columbia where some of Earth’s first animals—including a mysterious, alien-looking creature—are spilling out of Canadian rocks.   Also on this week’s show, host Sarah Crespi talks with James Hazel a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings at Vanderbilt University in Nashville about a proposal for creating a universal forensic DNA database. He and his co-authors argue that current, invasive practices such as law enforcement subpoenaing medical records, commercial genetic profiles, and other sets of extremely detailed genetic information during criminal investigations, would be curtailed if a forensics-use-only universal database were created.     This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.   Read a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts.   About the Science Podcast  

TOPICS:

03:08 The level of difficulty in determining code creators on the Internet

04:28 How to determine if code has been copied

10:00 What defines a trade secret

12:11 The pending Oracle v Google lawsuit

25:29 Nintendo v Atari

27:38 The pros and cons of a patent

29:59 Terrible patents

33:48 Fighting patent infringement and dealing with “patent trolls”

39:00 How a company tried to steal Bob Zeidman’s software

44:13 How to know if you can use open source codes

49:15 Using detective work to determine who copied whom

52:55 Extreme examples of unethical behavior

56:03 The state of patent laws

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Title: Forensic science and humanitarian action [electronic resource] : interacting with the dead and the living. Volume 1 / edited by Roberto C. Parra, Sara C. Zapico, Douglas H. Ubelaker.
Imprint: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020.
Shelfmark: Wiley
Subjects: Forensic sciences.
Forensic anthropology.
Dead -- Identification.
Humanitarian assistance.
Dead -- Identification. fast (OCoLC)fst00888389
Forensic anthropology. fast (OCoLC)fst00931952
Forensic sciences. fast (OCoLC)fst00932011
Humanitarian assistance. fast (OCoLC)fst00963553

CCH's Forensic and Investigative Accounting (4th Edition) is a complete and readily teachable text on today's most timely accounting topics. Forensic accounting is a growing area of practice in which the knowledge, skills and abilities of advanced accounting are combined with investigative expertise and applied to legal problems. Written by three top accounting and forensic teachers, Forensic and Investigative Accounting covers all the important underpinnings, as well as the substance of forensic accounting. It covers both litigation support and investigative accounting, examining the practical aspects of these two areas, as well as many of the newer technological areas.

Forensic and Investigative Accounting explains and demonstrates how an effective forensic accountant needs a solid understanding of accounting, investigative auditing techniques, criminology, and courtroom procedures, as well as excellent communications skills, both written and oral. In today's litigious and highly regulated climate, all accountants--external, internal, forensic consultants, and corporate accountants--must possess this knowledge base and develop these techniques. This intriguing text provides unparalleled guidance to help develop the mindset and the skill set to meet the evolving challenges facing accountants today. 

The 4th Edition includes new fraud schemes, numerous new eyewitness and spotlight stories, and new forensic techniques and tools, such as timeline analysis, link analysis, invigilation, genograms, proof of cash, entity charts, and full-and-false inclusion tests. This edition brings the reader up to date with the latest cybercrime activity and cases, and it documents the latest corruption schemes and explains how to find and prevent them.  

Learning Aids:

• Pedagogical aids built into the text include chapter objectives and numerous illustrative examples, figures, tables and special informational sidebars to engage students throughout and keep the presentation lively. Each chapter includes problems to test a student's understanding of the material presented. A special Instructor's Guide that includes chapter problems and solutions along with a testbank with solutions is available to adopting instructors.
• CCH® Study MATE is an online learning center for college students. The Study MATE Forensic Topics Library was created to supplement this textbook by providing an easy online tutor to help students with difficult concepts and test them on their knowledge. CCH textbook adopters and their students have free access to the Forensic Topics library for a full year! To view the courses available, visit www.cchstudymate.com. Enrollment instructions are provided with each textbook.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE FIELD AND PRACTICE OF FORENSIC

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Available: July 2011

Author: D. Larry Crumbley, CPA, CFD, Cr.FA

CCH's Forensic and Investigative Accounting (5th Edition) is a complete and readily teachable text on today's most timely accounting topics. Written by three top accounting and forensic teachers, this text covers all the important underpinnings, as well as the substance of forensic accounting. It covers both litigation support and investigative accounting, examining the practical aspects of these two areas, as well as many of the newer technological areas.

Forensic and Investigative Accounting explains and demonstrates how an effective forensic accountant needs a solid understanding of accounting, investigative auditing techniques, criminology, and courtroom procedures, as well as excellent communications skills, both written and oral. In today's litigious and highly regulated climate, all accountants-external, internal, forensic consultants, and corporate accountants-must possess this knowledge base and develop these techniques.

CONTENTS:
Forensic and Investigative Accounting is presented in 18 Chapters divided into five Parts, beginning with a discussion of fundamental concepts and culminating in a real-world case study that ties the elements together.