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1Professional certification — Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task. Many certifications are used… …
2Quality improvement organizations — (QIOs) monitor the appropriateness, effectiveness, and quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries. They are private contractor extensions of the federal government that work under the auspices of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …
3Professional agrologist — (abbreviated P.Ag. or PAg) refers to members of the self regulated agrology profession in Canada. A professional agrologist is an individual dedicated to contributing to the prosperity of Canada’s agri food industry by providing unbiased and… …
4Professional Disc — (PFD) is a recordable optical disc format introduced by Sony in 2003 primarily for its new tapeless recording system, XDCAM. It was one of the first two formats (along with Ultra Density Optical) to utilize blue violet lasers for reading and… …
5Professional video over IP — systems use some existing standard video codec to reduce the program material to a bitstream (such as an MPEG 2 transport stream), and then to use an Internet Protocol (IP) network to carry that bitstream encapsulated in a stream of IP packets.… …
6Quality assurance — Quality assurance, or QA for short, refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product s suitability for its intended purpose. It is a set of activities intended to ensure that products (goods and/or… …
7Quality television — (also called quality TV ) is a term used by television scholars [Dr. David Lavery (the Chair in Film and Television at Brunel University in London); Dr Janet McCabe (Trinity College, Dublin);Kim Akass (London Metropolitan University); and Kristin …
8Quality investing — is an investment strategy based on clearly defined fundamental factors that seeks to identify companies with outstanding quality characteristics. The quality assessment is made based on soft (e.g. management credibility) and hard criteria (e.g.… …
9Professional development — refers to skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement. Professional development encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, ranging from college degrees to formal coursework, conferences and …
10Professional Engineer — (P.E.) is the term for registered or licensed engineers in some countries who are permitted to offer their professional services directly to the public. The term Professional Engineer and the actual practice of professional engineering is legally …
