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Adding Value: Certified Coffee Trade in North America [PDF]

, 2008
Coffee is the leading agricultural sector in terms of both the number and frequent use of social and environmental certification. This fast-growing category of certified sustainable coffees has emerged from almost negligible quantities in the late 1990s to approximately 4% of global green coffee exports in 2006 making it a multi-billion dollar segment ...
Giovannucci, Daniele, Byers, Alice, Liu, Pascal   +2 more
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Can Certified-Tea Value Chains Deliver Gender Equality in Tanzania?

Feminist Economics, 2015
A popular approach over the past twenty years has been to rely upon voluntary standards as a means to make claims, measure, and judge whether a number of social-equity concerns exist in private-sector practices. But can voluntary standards deliver gender equity?
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Self-testing positive operator-valued measures and certifying randomness

Quantum Information Processing
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Wang, Wenjie, Li, Mengyan, Guo, Fenzhuo, Wang, Yukun, Gao, Fei   +4 more
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Do Bidders Hire Top-Tier Investment Banks to Certify Value?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
We investigate why top-tier investment banks are hired to advise bidders in tender offers. Top-tier banks are not hired in complex transactions. They are hired by bidders with larger boards of directors, less concentrated equity ownership and less insider ownership.
P. Raghavendra Rau, Kimberly J. Rodgers
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Assessment of methods of assigning certified values to reference materials

Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie, 1983
Procedures used to assign values to reference materials may vary from one organization to another. Examples are: one laboratory using a definitive method, statistical consensus, coincidence of results of several accurate methods.
H. Marchandise, E. Colinet
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Uncertainty limits for certified values of standard reference materials

Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 1990
Uncertainty limits usually employ the 95% confidence limits and should include allowances for the uncertainty of known sources of systematic errors of the measurements. But in many cases, when an interlaboratory comparison study is used for certification purposes of standard reference materials, only the 95% confidence limits are considered and given ...
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Influence of the approach to calibration on the accuracy and the traceability of certified values in certified reference materials

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2012
Abstract The use of calibrants properly characterized with respect to identity and purity is an important requirement to achieve accurate, reliable results in chemical measurements. In particular, in generating data that contribute to assigning a property value to a certified reference material (CRM), compromises often made for routine measurements ...
Reinhard Zeleny, Heinz Schimmel
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Value Preferences, Political Orientation and Moral Reasoning of Certified Public Accountants

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Numerous studies have reported a significant negative relation between moral reasoning (as measured by the Defining Issues Test) and political conservatism. However, recent studies with accounting subjects (Bailey et al. 2004, Bernardi et al. 2004) and other subjects (Bailey 2007) have found little or no relation and have called for more research.
Donald Lamar Ariail, Nicholas Emler, Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi   +2 more
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Determination of certified values and uncertainties for SRM 2942a :

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2942a is a cuvette-shaped, Ce-ion-doped glass, recommended for use for relative spectral correction of emission from 320 to 430 nm and day-to-day performance verification of steady-state fluorescence spectrometers. It was certified for relative intensity of fluorescence as a function of emission wavelength.
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The Perceived Value of the Board Certified Specialist in Renal Nutrition

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2021
A. Groesbeck, R. Zelig, H. Samavat, R. Brody   +3 more
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