The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, endorsed in 2005, is an international agreement with 130 signatories (including more than 100 countries and organizations), which calls for increased harmonization, alignment and management of aid and sets out indicators by which results can be monitored [ 5].
In 1857, Cayley introduced the matrix notation which allows for a harmonization and simplification of linear maps.
The Pittsburgh Summit does that sound strange to anyone else? London, Washington, Beijing, Berlin … Pittsburgh?–concluded with a ringing call for harmonization on bankers' pay, capital requirements, tax cheating and much more.
Brown did act with dispatch and focus, and he was a voice calling for harmonization of policies around the globe, culminating in the London G-20 meeting in 2009, perhaps his finest moment.
Recently, an insulin standardization workgroup of the ADA, in conjunction with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the CDC, and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, called for harmonization of insulin assay results through traceability to an isotope-dilution liquid chromatography tandom mass spectrometry reference (373).
As seen in the results, discrepancies between Member States are especially critical for EU-wide regulatory approaches, which call for harmonization of national regulatory requirements and practices.
The Insulin Standardization Workgroup called for harmonization of the insulin assay to encourage the development of measures of insulin sensitivity and secretion that will be practical for clinical care (374).
