(n.) A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.
(n.) A written declaration legally authenticated.
(v. t.) To verify or vouch for by certificate.
(v. t.) To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Impediments to the necessary growth of this subspecialty for the needs of clinical practice and research are outlined and criteria for certification are reviewed.
(2) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(3) The film's rating certificate warned of "moderate violence".
(4) This report summarizes 1989 infant mortality data based on information from death certificates compiled through the Vital Statistics System of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (1) and compares findings with those for 1988.
(5) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(6) The death certificates were abstracted; all deaths under age 60 and a 20% sample of deaths 60 and older were examined.
(7) The aim of this paper is to evaluate the quality of the Death Certificates by means of the Death Statistics Bulletins, in their NEOPLASIC aspect in the year 1985 in the Province of Soria, determining the histopathologic confirmation of the deaths by means of the neoplasic patients' records in the two existing Pathology Services.
(8) Simultaneously, the Colorado project is developing an automated, interactive data system that will assist the programs for state licensure and federal certification of long-term health facilities and provide data on patients and facilities for the Cooperative Health Statistics System (CHSS) and state and local agencies.
(9) The outcome in 165 subjects with either an unknown (n = 93) or an alcohol-related (n = 72) seizure etiology, admitted to the emergency room of a general hospital in 1977-1978, was assessed after 10 years on the basis of subsequent hospital records and death-certificate-based mortality data.
(10) Pneumonia incidence in roentgenologists was studied on the basis of temporary disability certificates for the period of 5 years.
(11) The work was carried out to the expected standards and the businesses had managed to acquire the necessary anti-mafia certification, police said.
(12) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
(13) The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust education officer, Rachel Donnelly, thinks the certification is appropriate.
(14) As late as 1988, the term "certification" had no consistent meaning within nursing.
(15) Certificates from each country were coded by their own offices and then by a WHO reference centre.
(16) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(17) To assess the conduct and reporting on death certificates of perinatal autopsies in Australia.
(18) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
(19) During this period 768 coronary heart disease cases were included in the register and in the same population 772 death certificates were coded 410-414 (coronary heart disease), according to the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, by the National Health Statistics Centre.
(20) Occupational data from death certificates have been used extensively in health studies but their quality has been questioned.
Validation
Definition:
(n.) The act of giving validity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(4) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
(5) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(6) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(7) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(8) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
(9) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(10) Both demonstrated concurrent validity and feasibility.
(11) Specifically, we apply techniques of data preprocessing, orthogonality constraints, and validation of solutions in a complete TC analysis, for the first time using actual MEP data.
(12) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
(13) Validation studies, to show that the method is precise, accurate and rectilinear, have been carried out on four linctus formulations and two pastille formulations.
(14) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
(15) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
(16) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
(17) Furthermore, CV1% and DV6% have proved to be valid parameters in finding differences in the light reflex in non-age-matched study groups.
(18) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
(19) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(20) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.