To obtain certification, a potential instructor pays the company $650 and enrolls in a three-day workshop.
A lawyer-specific Angie's List or other places on the internet could easily give consumers information about a practitioner's track record, level of experience, education, and certification, allowing potential customers to quickly and efficiently determine that individual's competence.
Certification assures potential employers that you are competent.
"It is difficult," Judge Sparks wrote, "to avoid the troubling conclusion that the Texas Legislature either wants to permanently brand women who choose to get abortions, or views these certifications as potential evidence to be used against physicians and women".
Many of these have taken the form of 'stewardship councils' and 'sustainability roundtables' and have been designed around a set of institutional features seeking to establish legitimacy, fend off possible criticism, and 'sell' certifications to potential users.
Certifications offer another potential control, but add potentially prohibitive costs (Shuman et al. 2004; Cohen et al. 2013; Rhyne et al. 2014).
The program, called Common Criteria certification, posed a potential hurdle to the use of Linux in government data centers because such certification programs are costly and time-consuming.
Further complicating things, many producers who choose to use some organic methods may have a variety of reasons, in addition to certification costs and potential price premiums, which drive their decision whether to become certified.
A set of market-based 'green' financial reforms is proposed, including tax-advantaged banking and bond programs, rural group lending, and a single certification entity for potential borrowers in these programs.
The major contribution to the research field of active noise and vibration control is the presentation of a detailed stability analysis of the MIMO adaptive algorithm in order to support potential certification of this method for a safety-critical application.
