The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is committed to offering cognitive examinations that are both pertinent to the specialty of family medicine and psychometrically sound. This article reviews the history of the development of the blueprint of the ABFM certification and recertification cognitive examinations and describes the creation of a new one. The design of the new blueprint repre...

As a direct result of the corporate scandals that started with Enron and led to general unrest in the financial markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission required chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial officers of large publicly traded companies to certify their financial statements. Using market signaling theory, we propose that attributes of the CEO send important signals t...

This paper studies voluntary disclosure when (a) there is uncertainty about managerial propensity to report truthfully, (b) some components of the firm’s value may be certified for a cost (“hard”), (c) other components may be disclosed but not certified free of misstatements (“soft”). We establish that untruthful managers are more likely to certify hard information and that, among truthful mana...

INTRODUCTION Online education resources (OERs), like blogs and podcasts, increasingly augment or replace traditional medical education resources such as textbooks and lectures. Trainees' ability to evaluate these resources is poor, and few quality assessment aids have been developed to assist them. This study aimed to derive a quality evaluation instrument for this purpose. METHODS We used a ...

In the new era of IoT (Internet of Things), numerous gadgets and services include innovative IoT technologies that provide customers with convenience and improve their quality of life. Smart TVs are typical IoT devices that offer broadcasting services. However, they are susceptible to security intrusions via e-mail, media players, cameras, and internet connectivity. The frequency of hacking thr...

Online intermediaries have recently started offering database services to donors and certification services to nonprofit organizations through the Internet. We conceptualize a Donor-to-Nonprofit (D2N) marketplace as an online intermediary that offers these two services and examine its effect on fundraising strategies of nonprofit organizations using an analytical model based on spatial competit...

Increasing complexity has driven aerospace companies to consider the use of Agile processes for development of safety-critical systems. For other domains, Agile processes have been shown to improve cost, schedule, and quality metrics. Airworthiness certification under the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) guidelines imposes unique challenges that require adaptation of Agile processes. The F...