Results from clinical laboratory measurement procedures must be equivalent to enable effective use of clinical guidelines for disease diagnosis and patient management. Analytical results that are harmonized and independent of the measurement system, time, and location of testing is essential for providing adequate patient care. The key to generating harmonized results is establishing traceabili...

This paper addresses the question of the social policy harmonization in the European Union. In adopting a common monetary policy Europe is faced with structural and fiscal concerns, as national growth levels di¤er. Another possible factor in output shocks are the levels of various social expenditures in the member countries. OECD data on the level of social program expenditures in four EU count...

A formal top down model shall be presented to aid documentation and harmonization of information security requirements. The model formalizes layered development of information security, where top level abstract objectives, strategies and policies are step by step reened into concrete protection measure speciications. The model consists of static and dynamic parts, where static part refers to th...

Purpose: The aim of the research is to determine whether harmonization personal income taxation in European Union countries possible and desirable. Design/Methodology/Approach: paper objective requires a comparative analysis systems countries, taking into account specificity, common features differences tax constructions surveyed as well areas, possibilities potential directions for harmonizing...

A brain model is proposed which describes its structural organization and the related functions as compartments organized in time and space. On a molecular level the negative feedback loops of clock-controlled genes are interpreted as compartments. This spatio-temporal operational principle may also work on the cellular level as glial-neuronal interactions, wherein glia have a spatio-temporal b...