artificial viscosity is included. The abbreviation FTCS was first used by Patrick Roache. The FTCS method is based on the forward Euler method in time...
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thus we have Equation (11) gives the stability requirement for the FTCS scheme as applied to one-dimensional heat equation. It says that for a given...
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Pyramid Scheme Practices to Settle FTC Charges". FTC.gov. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 2016-12-22. "Vemma reaches $238 million settlement with FTC". TruthInAdvertising...
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finite differences. The method can be described as the FTCS (forward in time, centered in space) scheme with a numerical dissipation term of 1/2. One can view...
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Finite volume method FTCS scheme Gilbreath's conjecture Sheffer sequence Summation by parts Time scale calculus Upwind differencing scheme for convection Paul...
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rectangular grid Finite difference methods for heat equation and related PDEs: FTCS scheme (forward-time central-space) — first-order explicit Crank–Nicolson method...
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Multi-level marketing (redirect from Multilevel marketing scheme)
does not determine whether or not the FTC will consider the plan a pyramid scheme. The critical question for the FTC is whether the revenues that primarily...
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The Washington Post. Retrieved July 29, 2022. FTC Alleges Facebook Resorted to Illegal Buy-or-Bury Scheme to Crush Competition After String of Failed Attempts...
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Vemma (section Italian pyramid scheme accusations)
The company was shut down in 2015 by the FTC for engaging in deceptive practices and being a pyramid scheme. The company, based in Tempe, Arizona, was...
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Federal Trade Commission (redirect from Federal Trade Commission (FTC))
FTC secured a consent decree in the case. In September 2013, a federal court closed an elusive business opportunity scheme on the request of the FTC,...
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(MLM) company. The FTC ruled that Amway was not a pyramid scheme according strictly to the statutory definition of a pyramid scheme, but ordered Amway...
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enforcement agencies work to fight work-at-home schemes. In 2006, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established Project False Hopes, a federal...
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FLEX (satellite) FLUKA FOMP FP420 experiment FRS Fragment Separator FTCS scheme FUTBOLIN FU Orionis star Fabiola Gianotti Fabrication and testing of...
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Herbalife (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
pyramid scheme.[clarification needed] In July 2016, Herbalife agreed to change its business model and pay $200 million in a settlement with the FTC. Partial...
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2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and regulators for three states shut down FHTM for being a pyramid scheme. Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing used multi-level...
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This is a list of Ponzi schemes, fraudulent investment operations that pay out returns to investors from money paid in by subsequent investors rather...
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Finite difference method (redirect from Finite difference scheme)
difference for the space derivative at position x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} (FTCS) gives the recurrence equation: u j n + 1 − u j n k Δ t = u j + 1 n − 2 u...
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Little FTC Act). Amerco is the parent company of U-Haul, a trunk rental company. U-Haul engaged in what was in substance an attempted price-fixing scheme and...
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Equinox (MLM) (category Pyramid and Ponzi schemes)
starting in 1997, investors, the FTC, and several states brought suit charging Equinox was an illegal pyramid scheme rather than a legitimate business...
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Organics (shut down in November 2021) BurnLounge (shut down as pyramid scheme by FTC in 2012) Equinox International (dissolved in 2001) European Grouping...
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Amway (section Pyramid scheme allegations)
and by institutions such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for alleged pyramid scheme practices. The company has paid tens of millions of dollars...
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Kevin Trudeau (section 1998: FTC fine)
filed for bankruptcy protection. His claims of insolvency were challenged by FTC lawyers, who maintained that he was hiding money in shell companies, and...
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Direct Selling Association (section Pyramid schemes)
the ability of the FTC and other agencies to classify companies as pyramid schemes and to investigate whether MLMs are pyramid schemes. The amendment would...
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of the FTC and Exchange Acts' review schemes instructs the courts that the jurisdiction provided in those schemes is exclusive. Those schemes provide...
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Check kiting (redirect from Check-kiting scheme)
the need to kite, and usually going unnoticed. Complex versions of this scheme have occurred involving two separate people, each with an account at a different...
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BurnLounge (section FTC pyramid scheme lawsuit)
for being an illegal pyramid scheme. The company lost the suit in 2012, and lost appeal in June 2014. In June 2015, the FTC began returning $1.9 million...
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Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce (DOC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and...
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Mobile Cramming Scheme Will Pay More Than $1.2 Million in FTC Settlement,” ftc.gov, August 5, 2014. "Operator of Mobile Cramming Scheme Will Pay More Than...
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Age verification system (redirect from Age verification scheme)
released a report by eSafety that indicated that recommended against such a scheme, finding that "at present, each type of age verification or age assurance...
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Rohit Chopra (section Federal Trade Commission (FTC))
Protection Bureau (CFPB) and previous member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Prior to this, Chopra served as assistant director of the CFPB and as the...
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