Security officer certification is legally required in the EU, confronting member states with the challenge to design certification tests and implement a certification process. Three steps for test design and a range of best practices ensure the adherence to high scientific and psychological standards. FROM VISION RESEARCH TO A WIDELY USED TOOL FOR SELECTION: IMAGE-BASED FACTORS AND THE X-RAY OB...

Certification is the process by which individual practitioners of a profession are deemed competent, by a peer review process, to practice that profession. Criminalistics is a rather young profession, and until the recent publicity occasioned by a myriad of television dramas and documentaries, a rather obscure one. There has been little oversight of the profession and little call for such overs...

The launch of Osteopathic Continuous Certification (OCC) signifes the next stage of the osteopathic board certification process. The OCC process replaces the old recertification system for all osteopathic physicians who earned time-limited certificates from American Osteopathic Association (AOA) certifying boards. All 18 AOA certifying boards are now engaged in the continuous certification proc...

This paper examines the relationship between quality certification and performance, and quality certification and size in hotel chains operating in Spain. In an initial phase, a quantitative study is made with secondary and objective data to analyse these relationships. In a second phase, a qualitative analysis is applied to reach a better understanding of the quantitative results. The findings...

Quality assurance is a major task with regard to the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Currently there are only a few approaches explicitly dealing with the quality of EHR services. The objective of this paper is to present the results of an expert survey that was conducted in 2008 including 29 experts from various European countries and different areas. The experts were quest...

This paper explores a number of important issues surrounding the certification of work-based learning (known as accreditation in the UK) for the award of university level qualifications. The paper is divided into two main sections. Section one of the paper defines, and explores the historical development of work-based certification and qualifications in the UK. This is followed in section two b...

This paper draws on existing literature and research on software development process improvement, and related fields, to explore the impact of quality assurance (QA) certification on the Australian software development industry. Recently, many developers have committed resources to achieve certification in response to government purchasing policies favouring standards-certified suppliers, but c...

Certification authority (CA) in mobile ad hoc networks is implemented in a distributed fashion using threshold cryptography. There are two kinds of distributed certification authority according to the variableness of CA nodes. In this paper, we analyze whether the distributed certification schemes operate solidly when the nodes in ad hoc networks are selfish. We model the schemes using various ...

The intent of a certification program is to evaluate the knowledge and skills of practitioners seeking a credential to ensure a desired level of competence. For certification examinations to serve their intended goal, the examination must assess the performance that the scores are intended to represent. Subsequently, each item on the examination must serve to assess the performance or knowledge...

Accredited Certification Service which was begun with enforcement of Digital Signature Act on July 1, 1999 for secure electronic transaction with allow the legal effect to digital signature, have supported a secure electronic transaction such as internet banking and on-line stocks. But, because ordinary people can obtain hacking tool easily by fast development of informationalization, security ...