As a collaborative and multidisciplinary platform, NORMAN fosters the exchange of information, validation, and harmonization work and helps the achievement of consensus within the wider international community on the implementation of the research results into policy.
Indeed the dual NRC (2009) recommendations to use low-dose linear extrapolation as a default for non-cancer toxicity, and as the preferred default approach for harmonization, work against US EPA's mixtures guidelines that recommend adding individual chemical dose response assessments together in the form of a HI.
IFOAM is working toward harmonization among different countries' standards for organic certification in the face of a growing global market.
The Renal Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists is working towards harmonization and optimization of nephrology training across Europe and its Mediterranean borders.
(5) Harmonization (2005) of SWD & ED The interdepartmental working group closely examined the harmonization of kindergartens and childcare centers.
Therefore, we need to set up a data harmonization process.
Besides serving all the obvious functions of a paper LN, eLNs facilitate scientists' workflow (quick creation and editing of experiments) and collaboration (sharing and reusing information, independent of location, harmonization of work practices).
The Declaration asserted partner countries' ownership over their own development policies, alignment, harmonization, results and mutual accountability as working principles for effective aid [ 1].
The interdepartmental working group closely examined the harmonization of kindergartens and childcare centres.
As the first step of harmonization of procedures between laboratories, EPITARGET established working groups for designing project-tailored common data elements (CDEs) and case report forms (CRFs) to be used in data collection and analysis.
For the MIABi for databases (MIABi-DB), we are working with the International Biocuration Society on harmonization of our schema with their BioDBcore checklists [14, personal communication with P Gaudet, S-A Sansone and Biocuration team members].
