Background: Maps are important tools for geographic visualization of the state environment with respect to resources as well hazards. One hazards is indoor radon (Rn), believed be most cause lung cancer after smoking. In particular, part Rn mitigation policy and in compliance European Basic Safety Standards, EU Member States have declare areas elevated concentration levels. However, this done b...

In 1999 the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) released a document entitled “Harmonization of Professional Standards” [1] which had been developed by a small working group within the Technical Committee for Education (IFIP TC3). The purpose of the document was to set out what could become an international standard for professional practice in Information Technology. The ...

The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe, and there is no need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonization would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of economic convergence. National welfare states will be threatened by the free migration of people in Europe. The race to the bottom is a serious risk. However...

In a reciprocal market model with imperfectly competitive firms, domestic policies will differ across countries that are economically and politically diverse. We explore the implications of this standard result with regard to harmonization of environmental policies between corrupt and non-corrupt countries. Imposing a more stringent policy on a non-corrupt government will be welfare reducing to...

Harmonization with four voices is a musical problem which is subject to hard constraints, which absolutely need to be fulfilled, as well as to soft constraints, which preferably hold, but are not mandatory. In this paper, we model this problem as a valued constraint satisfaction problem (VCSP): costs are assigned to possible solutions based on the constraints they violate. We design an algorith...

The International Harmonization of Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria for Lesions in Rats and Mice is a global project that is publishing criteria for both proliferative and nonproliferative changes in laboratory animals. This paper presents a set of general suggestions for terminology across systems. These suggestions include the use of diagnostic versus descriptive terms, modifiers, combina...

The paper reports the latest results of the authors’ work within the project “Development of new methods for the characterization, modelling and correction of A/D and D/A conversion nonideality, to contribute to the harmonization and the upgrade of the relative international standards”, cofunded by Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. In particular, an experimental investigat...

This paper describes the approach adopted by EU H2020 / 5G-PPP project “METIS-II” for a harmonized 5G air interface (AI) design, based on a suitability assessment framework for 5G AI candidates. The assessment focuses on “harmonization KPIs” and how to measure them (qualitatively / quantitatively). The paper proposes that evaluation of 5G AI candidates should, in addition to performance, includ...