<p>&quot / Cause of death certification continues to be a useful tool in obtaining demographic, epidemiological and legal information. However errors in death certification are widespread and range from incomplete certificates to inaccurate causes and manners of death. The accuracy of the immediate and underlying causes of death listed on the death certificate depends to a large extent on the doctor and his or her understanding of the guidelines for reporting immediate and underlying causes of death. In 1998, South Africa adopted a new death certificate as per the format proposed by WHO. However, several studies have identified problems in the quality of cause of death certification. Furthermore, analysis of cause of death data suggested extensive underreporting of HIV as an underlying cause of death...&quot / </p>

This qualitative study examines the practical effect of CCIE certification in individual and organization levels, in response to the following questions: why should an well experienced network engineer be certified? What can a company benefit from certified network engineers? Data for this study were collected through semi-structured interviews. Participants included students, network engineers,career changers and managers. The results indicate that obtaining this certification help little regarding job seeking and promotion. Participants from organizational level suggest that certification plays a less important role, compared with experience, in criteria of recruitment. The discussion of this study also provides recommendations for organizations and certification candidates.

A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / In 2010, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act was passed which required the Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS) to establish a medical marijuana program. Since the institution of the program, AZDHS has monitored the “top 24” frequent certifiers for medicinal marijuana who in 2012 accounted for 75% of the total number of marijuana certifications in the state. ADHS contracted with the University Of Arizona College Of Public Health to create a CME module to educate physicians about the medical marijuana act and their responsibilities. Objective: To determine the composition of physicians completing the CME module, to assess the number of certifications written by these physicians, and to understand the trend that has occurred. Results: Among those individuals completing the training module, 25 physicians were identified by ADHS as having certified patients both before and after the module completion. Those 25 physicians account for 8782 certifications prior to the module and 28131 certifications after the institution of the module, a significant increase (p <0.0001). The results are surprising as we expected this number to decrease on the assumption that physicians are over certifying and not cross referencing the Board of Controlled Substances and taking the CME module would educate them on these topics. Hence this study demonstrates that further research is necessary in analyzing physician behavior with regards to medical marijuana certifications, with education of physicians playing a critical role.

<p>&quot / Cause of death certification continues to be a useful tool in obtaining demographic, epidemiological and legal information. However errors in death certification are widespread and range from incomplete certificates to inaccurate causes and manners of death. The accuracy of the immediate and underlying causes of death listed on the death certificate depends to a large extent on the doctor and his or her understanding of the guidelines for reporting immediate and underlying causes of death. In 1998, South Africa adopted a new death certificate as per the format proposed by WHO. However, several studies have identified problems in the quality of cause of death certification. Furthermore, analysis of cause of death data suggested extensive underreporting of HIV as an underlying cause of death...&quot / </p>

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg, 1914. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 5-8).

Magister Public Health - MPH / Cause of death certification continues to be a useful tool in obtaining demographic, epidemiological and legal information. However errors in death certification are widespread and range from incomplete certificates to inaccurate causes and manners of death. The accuracy of the immediate and underlying causes of death listed on the death certificate depends to a large extent on the doctor and his or her understanding of the guidelines for reporting immediate and underlying causes of death. In 1998, South Africa adopted a new death certificate as per the format proposed by WHO. However, several studies have identified problems in the quality of cause of death certification. Furthermore, analysis of cause of death data suggested extensive underreporting of HIV as an underlying cause of death. / South Africa

Literature indicates that science content knowledge has long presented difficulties for preservice elementary teachers. Analyses of 473 scores from participants' attempts on an elementary certification exam, the TExES EC-6 Core Subjects, Science (804), were analyzed for this study to determine the impact of a physical science intervention that included demonstration lessons, microteaching, and reflection as part of a science methods course on science content knowledge. Analyses of scores for participants making repeat attempts to pass indicated that scores were higher for attempts made after participation in the physical science intervention than attempts made before participation. Of 104 participants who made initial unsuccessful attempts and repeat attempts, the 89 attempts made after participation in the physical science intervention had a mean scaled score of 238.24 (SD = 14.93) while the mean score for the 15 attempts made before participation in the intervention was 219.73 (SD = 20.04). The difference between the mean scaled score for these two groups was statistically significant, t = -4.21, df = 102, p<.001. Score reports from Hispanic/Latino and from White/Non-Hispanic participants who passed on the first attempt (n = 85, MS = 259.82, SD = 12.04 and n = 226, MS = 264.12, SD = 11.92, respectively) were compared to score reports from Hispanic/Latino and White/Non-Hispanic participants who were not successful on the initial attempt and made repeat attempts (n = 32, MS = 235.31, SD = 14.86 and n = 51, MS = 240.06, SD = 15.13). Analysis indicated that there was statistically significant difference in mean scaled scores between the groups who passed the initial attempt (t = -2.83, df = 309, p = .005) while there was no statistically significant difference in the mean scaled scores when comparing Hispanic/Latino and White/Non-Hispanic participants completing multiple attempts (t = -1.40, df = 81, p = .165). A final analysis indicated that for White/Non-Hispanic participants who were not successful on their initial attempt and made multiple attempts, the mean scaled score was higher for attempts made after participation in the intervention (n = 51, MS = 240.06, SD = 15.13) when compared to the mean scaled score of attempts made before participation (n = 12, MS = 225.50, SD = 14.71). The difference in the means of these scaled scores was statistically significant (t = -3.01, df = 61, p =.004).

"Of all the problems that confront the forces of education today, none seems more pressing or of greater importance than that of securing and retaining an adequate number of properly trained teachers to carry forward the tremendous educational task that is ours- that of improving instruction in each and every classroom so as to better insure each child's securing the instruction necessary to enable him to live most abundantly in the society in which he finds himself. To secure this objective, the state uses "teacher certification" as one means of attempting to guarantee that each child's education is guided and directed by professionally trained and qualified teachers"--Introduction. / "August, 1953." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: W. Edwards, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-41).

The purpose of business is to pursue the growth of benefit. The organizations have to understand the perception of customer satisfaction concerning the products or services are meet to the customer¡¦s needs and wants, and / or to adjust or improve the operation process, even surpass customer¡¦s expectation. The development of Taiwan¡¦s industrial structure had stridden across agriculture and manufacturing sector to service sector in 20 century. The ISO series certification was the main stream of management in Taiwan in 1990s. In the free economic market that consumers ask for quality & satisfaction more and more. The certification body is a professional service firm. They have to compete with good audit quality and meet to the customer satisfaction. For continuous operation and enlarge the customer number that customer survey is the directly and usefully method to monitor and analysis. The objective of this study is to found out the development what one of the certification body in Taiwan who how to do the customer satisfaction oriented business. Through several variables such as perception quality¡Bexpectation¡Bimage¡Bvalue added to observe the change of customer satisfaction. The results of this study including that 1. The industry sector & size of customer did not significant influence the certification satisfaction. 2. The variables such as perception quality¡Bexpectation¡Bperception value¡Bimage¡Bvalue added were obvious influence the certification satisfaction. Among the variables, perception value¡Bimage¡Bexpectation were more important than others. As a customer oriented certification body shall focus on the audit quality and create audit value to the customer to increase value for money perception. Also the administrative process was one of the important issue when conduct audit such as advice notice and quick response of customer¡¦s request. Besides the management training & advisory not the main influence upon the certification satisfaction. Key words: certification¡Bcertification body¡Bcustomer satisfaction

Virginia and other states recognize the need for a technically trained workforce and have implemented directives that promote student credentialing. Certifications and other forms of credentialing are used to prove that the recipient has met a predetermined level of competence or mastery of a skill or subject. This study looks specifically at the automotive industry's Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certification. The primary research question is: Is there a perceived benefit of ASE certification? In addition, two subset questions are explored. The first subset question is (1) Does the ASE certification provide benefits to the employers? And second, (2) do the employers see a benefit of ASE certification to the technicians as compared to those without credentials? This study attempts to answer these questions by polling Virginia automobile service managers regarding their perceptions of the benefits of ASE certification. A sample of 130 dealership service managers was selected at random from the 2006 Virginia Automobile Dealer Association (VADA) Membership Directory. The VADA has 602 franchised dealerships within the Commonwealth of Virginia. A corresponding sample of 130 independent service managers was selected by matching the zip codes of chosen dealerships with an internet phone directory search. The dealership service manager group had four surveys returned as undeliverable or the dealership was out of business. This leaves them with 126 potential participants. The independent service manager group had seven surveys returned as undeliverable or the service center was no longer in business. This leaves them with 123 potential participants. One hundred seventy-eight surveys were returned giving a 71% overall return rate. Automotive technicians are employed at either dealerships or independent service centers. It is hypothesized that the perceptions of ASE certification benefits by the two groups are significantly different from each other. A t test was conducted regarding the difference between the unweighted composite mean scores of dealership service managers and independent service managers regarding both benefits to the employers and again regarding benefits to the technicians. The tests support the hypothesis that there was a significant difference between the perceptions of the two groups. The study concludes that these groups perceive there are moderate benefits to the employer and moderate benefits to the technician; however, the dealership and independent service managers differ in their level of agreement in both categories. Dealership service managers agreed more than independent service managers that there were benefits. / Ph. D.