Furthermore, the analysis demonstrates that a bilateral agreement between jurisdictions is the best approach to harmonization, so long as negotiation of the agreement includes opportunities for meaningful participation, and implementation includes activities designed to communicate the assessment responsibilities of each jurisdiction, activities and schedules to the public.
One approach relates to harmonization of data collection and analysis, and has been used for a long time in clinical studies testing anti-seizure drugs.
Canada has growing expertise with multijuristictional EIA that serves to illustrate the costs and opportunities associated with three different approaches to coordination: standardization, harmonization and substitution.
The BRIDG project demonstrates the feasibility of user-centered collaborative domain modeling as an approach to semantic harmonization, but also highlights a number of technology gaps in support of collaborative semantic harmonization that remain to be filled.
A much more modest approach to the harmonization of legal divergences is the unification of the conflicts rules relating to international sales.
A two-step approach to assay harmonization is being described by the C-IMT monitoring panel in this issue [ 2].
Improvements in study designs, especially statistical frameworks for adaptive designs; protocols for data sharing, standardization, and harmonization across multiple sites; and approaches to intellectual property, will be modeled for others to emulate, moving the field forward.
In particular, ADCWAN is a new approach to promote the harmonization of standards existing for ADCs, it establishes a collaborative work environment supporting the scientific research community to improve the harmonization level, allowing the scientific training of young researchers, the dissemination and the comparison of metrological information.
We utilized existing ontologies and standards for scientific data representation, measurement unit definition, and data manipulation to build a simple and flexible Semantic Web Service-based approach to measurement-unit harmonization.
Harmonization is context-specific and pertains to the compatibility of methodologies and approaches to facilitate synergistic work.
