1Respectively, Senior Research Specialist and Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University. INTRODUCTION A certification mark is defined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as any word, name, symbol, or device owned by one party and used by another party or parties to certify some aspect of the mark owner’s good or service....

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Family Planning Perspectives Through the mid-1980s, Medicaid eligibility requirements included very low income thresholds established by the individual states. Between 1987 and 1991, eligibility standards for poor and near-poor pregnant women were expanded dramatically. The 1986 Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act (OBRA) permitted states to extend eligibility (and receive reimbursement for se...

Clinical trial eligibility criteria define the target patient population for research studies. We assessed the eligibility criteria from 40 different protocols for Type II Diabetes Mellitus and depression (20 protocols each), to determine the extent to which protocol eligibility criteria were similar at three levels (test, test-value, and test-value-time clause). This was done to determine crit...