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Who Should Pay for Certification? [PDF]
, 2010 Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer — the seller — follows from a non–trivial analysis revealing a clear intuition.
Stahl, Konrad, Strausz, Roland
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Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia. [PDF]
, 2017 Many major corporations and countries have made commitments to purchase or produce only "sustainable" palm oil, a commodity responsible for substantial tropical forest loss.
Burns, David N +8 more
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Certification as a Service [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract The development of industry 4.0 and smart energy IT-Components relies on highly standardized communication protocols to reach vendor-independent interoperability. In innovative and fast-changing environments, the support of standard protocols increases the time to market significantly.
Copei, Sebastian +2 more
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, 2020 : Live music venues have a tremendous impact on their community, both positive and negative. They provide a location for local and touring musicians to showcase their art in a controlled, professional setting, while bringing members of a community ...
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Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia [PDF]
, 2009 Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
Johansson, J. +3 more
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Scope of Practice for Rehabilitation Counseling [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] The Scope of Practice Statement identifies knowledge and skills required for the provision of effective rehabilitation counseling services to persons with physical, mental, developmental, cognitive, and emotional disabilities as embodied in the
Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification
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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji +9 more
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Certification of Librarians: An Unproven Demand [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines whether certification of librarians is necessary to ensure high quality service. The paper explains the purpose of professional certification and provides a synopsis of the history of national librarian certification initiatives in ...
Bell, Jonathan Pacheco
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Separating Equilibria with Imperfect Certification [PDF]
, 2010 Viscusi (1978) shows how, in markets with quality uncertainty, perfect certification results in separation from top down due to an unraveling process similar to Akerlof (1970). De and Nabar (1991) argue that imperfect certification prevents unraveling so
Strausz, Roland
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