Quality assurance of health education and health promotion in the United States has focused on verifying that individuals have obtained the requisite competencies to practice health education and ensuring that college and university profes-sional preparation programs have met established standards and requirements in preparing students to enter the health education workforce. From the U.S. perspective, as illus-trated in Figure 1, credentialing is an umbrella term that includes quality assurance efforts involving individuals or programs and/or institutions. The health education profession has a rich history of embracing responsibility for credential-ing through voluntary accreditation and approval systems as well as individual certification processes (Allegrante, Auld, Butterfoss, & Livingood, 2001; Livingood & Auld, 2001). A detailed account and description of the various licenses, certi-fications, approvals, and accreditations in health education were presented during the Galway Consensus Conference in

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. In this paper, we survey some of the recent progress on Ricci solitons.

Recent progress in Lattice QCD is highlighted. After a brief introduction to the methodology of lattice computations the presentation focuses on three main topics: Hadron Spectroscopy, Hadron Structure and Lattice Flavor Physics. In each case a summary of recent computations of selected quantities

such as spin glass models. The emphasis is on recent work concerning in particular the connection of these processes to continuum random trees and spatial models such as coalescing random walks.

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We provide an up to date account of progress in understanding the origin of the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. While our primary goal is to be current, we have attempted to give a pedagogical introduction to the primary areas of research in this field, giving a detailed description

Recent progress done in Pisa on the subject is presented. It is shown that dual superconductivity of the vacuum or absence of it is an intrinsic property of QCD vacuum, independent of the choice of the abelian projection. The order of the deconfining phase transition in Nf = 2 QCD is studied as a

A status report on SLC commissioning is given, with special emphasis on recent progress in the Arcs and Final Focus.