• After all, what is a scientific theory like the theory of evolution or Einstein's theory of relativity but a statement of the current scientific consensus regarding a major scientific topic? (scienceblogs.com)
  • If Casey had two neurons to rub together, he could answer the question in two sentences and echo how scientists would answer the question: When you have an actual scientifically valid reason, based on science, evidence, experimentation, and observational evidence, to think that the current scientific consensus about something is in error, then it is appropriate to challenge the scientific consensus. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Instead, we're treated to a potpourri of pseudoscientific and denialist claptrap that was apparently based on an article in The American by Jay Richards entitled When to Doubt a Scientific 'Consensus' . (scienceblogs.com)
  • In the article, Richards postulates twelve "signs" that should lead one to doubt a scientific consensus, any scientific consensus (although he seems most concerned with anthropogenic global warming in this particular article, while Luskin is, of course, concerned mostly with "intelligent design" creationism versus the hated (by Luskin) "Darwinism. (scienceblogs.com)
  • No matter how well founded a scientific consensus, there's someone somewhere--easily accessible online--that thinks it's all hokum. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Scientific consensus statement on Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • This discursive participation approach was broadly welcomed by the participants. (barfblog.com)
  • The Washington Consensus refers to a set of broadly free market economic ideas, supported by prominent economists and international organisations, such as the IMF, the World Bank, the EU and the US. (economicshelp.org)
  • The consensus panel included 18 representatives from scientific societies from Argentina who assessed the evidence and then made recommendations for the management of cancer patients in our country. (ecancer.org)
  • A set of consensus recommendations were produced based on existing evidence and experience. (bmj.com)
  • Four types of statements were used for the consensus-statements of facts, recommendations, best practice and definitions (for example, definition of shock). (springer.com)
  • In 1997, the 13 members of the Danish Consensus Conference on Teleworking met to provide insights and recommendations on teleworking. (participedia.net)
  • Determine approaches for implementing the group's priority recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • A briefing paper will be produced after the event summarising the discussions and highlighting best practice and recommendations for consensus building in international climate change. (cdkn.org)
  • The IPCG provides PET and MRI consensus recommendations built upon previous recommendations for standardized brain tumor imaging protocols (BTIP) in primary and metastatic disease. (nih.gov)
  • The committee's approach to developing its recommendations incorporated the elements necessary to ensure effective respiratory protection for a wide range of users. (cdc.gov)
  • Recommendations also include speeding up NIOSH's respirator conformity assessment process by using recognized consensus standards and third-party laboratory testing, establishing comprehensive workplace exposure standards to trigger respiratory protection program requirements, and establishing and standardizing a process to determine the public's need for respiratory protection. (cdc.gov)
  • The consensus statement reflects the wisdom of experts from around the world who came together in Berlin last October to pore over the evidence about sports-related concussions (SRCs) and hash out recommendations. (medscape.com)
  • METHODS: Workgroups reviewed literature and case studies to develop consensus statements and recommendations for a national approach to issues related to older workers. (cdc.gov)
  • The treatment of cervical cancer frequently requires a multidisciplinary approach. (medscape.com)
  • The methodology was based on application of the 'consensus conference' model on food safety issues. (barfblog.com)
  • What is peer review but quality control (making sure the scientific methodology is sound) coupled with testing new science against the current consensus to see where it fits in or where it exposes weaknesses? (scienceblogs.com)
  • This consensus statement aims to establish definitions and methodology, implementation, and reporting standards that should be adopted for studies of injuries in football and to provide the basis for studies of injuries in other team sports. (bmj.com)
  • CariesCare International (CCI™) is a recent practice guide that promotes a patient-centred, risk-based approach to caries management. (colgateprofessional.com)
  • It is based a consensus on evidence into practice, and comprises ''a health outcomes-focused system that aims to maintain oral health and preserve tooth structure in the long-term. (colgateprofessional.com)
  • Consensus decision-making, as a self-described practice, originates from several nonviolent, direct action groups that were active in the Civil rights, Peace and Women's movements, themselves part of the larger U.S. counterculture of the 1960s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Design Clinical practice guideline underpinned by systematic review and expert consensus. (bmj.com)
  • The clinical practice guidelines for the diagnostic cross-sectional imaging and severity scoring of chronic pancreatitis were released in October 2018 by the Working Group for the International Consensus Guidelines for Chronic Pancreatitis. (medscape.com)
  • For additional information regarding nonopioid therapy approaches for treating acute pain, please refer to Recommendation 1 in the 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline. (cdc.gov)
  • and that the established practice of consensus among the Officers in considering the proposals should be maintained. (who.int)
  • Characteristics of consensus decision-making include: Collaboration: Participants contribute to a shared proposal and shape it into a decision that meets the concerns of all group members as much as possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are there other forums in which to build consensus, and how best can these be used to support the UNFCCC process? (cdkn.org)
  • A nominal group consensus model approach 13 was adopted for producing a consensus statement on definitions and methodological issues related to studies of football injuries. (bmj.com)
  • This article presents, understands, analyzes and classifies the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the phenomenon of social consensus in the history of philosophical, social and political thought. (urvak.org)
  • On this page we have collected several consensus statements, and time will prove these either right or wrong. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • The issue is resolved by putting one of the several consensus models into action. (visa.com)
  • The results show that the agents use the collision avoidance algorithm to prevent obstacle and consensus algorithm to reach consensus point after passing the obstacle. (itu.edu.tr)
  • At the end of the material, a conclusion is made about the relative importance of public consensus, depending on the specific type of political culture and the ideological and theoretical direction of political, social and philosophical science. (urvak.org)
  • Occupy Wall Street (2011) made use of consensus, popularizing the people's microphone and hand signals. (wikipedia.org)
  • The facilitator makes sure in the beginning of the meeting that every person knows how consensus works, what hand signals are used, that everyone understands the spoken language(s), and, if wished, that everyone knows each other's names and pronouns. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • Cooperation: Participants in an effective consensus process should strive to reach the best possible decision for the group and all of its members, rather than competing for personal preferences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the people felt that one reason we fail to reach a consensus is that much of the discussion is based on opinions rather than facts. (stickyminds.com)
  • or doesn't work when trying to reach consensus. (stickyminds.com)
  • This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus , or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. (wikipedia.org)
  • We present sufficient conditions under which all solutions of these consensus protocols reach consensus. (rug.nl)
  • Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you re being had. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • To put it simply, there are resources at stake and reaching consensus in a blockchain network means being able to reach a common state while keeping the distributed nature of the network. (visa.com)
  • All open public blockchains are based on the idea that they should be able to reach consensus across a distributed network, even when there are conflicts, without putting control in one place. (visa.com)
  • RESULTS: We propose a road map to reach global consensus on these issues. (cdc.gov)
  • The standards are the first to reach international multi-stakeholder consensus on definitions of supportive and restraining holds. (lu.se)
  • The consensus problem is a fundamental problem in control of multi-agent systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The last problem is a consensus problem for multi-agent systems with a directed communication graph that contains a directed spanning tree. (rug.nl)
  • On the CPL, decentralized chattering-free controllers are proposed to guarantee the resilient output consensus for the heterogeneous MASs against Byzantine node attacks. (arxiv.org)
  • Some of the processes (agents) may fail or be unreliable in other ways, so consensus protocols must be fault tolerant or resilient. (wikipedia.org)
  • A protocol that can correctly guarantee consensus amongst n processes of which at most t fail is said to be t-resilient . (wikipedia.org)
  • We report on initial efforts to develop and apply Integrative Consensus procedures designed to synthesize comprehensive assessment data using developmentally informed guidelines. (researchconnections.org)
  • Therefore an Injury Consensus Group was established under the auspices of Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Assessment and Research Centre. (bmj.com)
  • After informal discussions during the 1st World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention in Oslo in June 2005, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) agreed to host an Injury Consensus Group comprising a range of experts involved in the study of football injuries. (bmj.com)
  • The book offers a comprehensive approach to the assessment and treatment of disturbances in facial expression, oral movement, swallowing, breathing, voice and speech production caused by developmental and acquired neurological conditions. (springer.com)
  • An Assessment Paper on Conflict was prepared for the 2004 Copenhagen Consensus by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler. (copenhagenconsensus.com)
  • Consensus was used in the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, which inspired the S11 (World Economic Forum protest) in 2000 to do so too. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1999). There is a lack of consensus regarding the role of tyrosine supplementation and micronutrients in treatment of PKU (Seashore et al. (nih.gov)
  • The false consensus effect (FCE) - the tendency to (erroneously) project our attitudes and opinions onto others - is an enduring bias in social reasoning with important societal implications. (uea.ac.uk)
  • Some implications of the Washington consensus. (economicshelp.org)
  • Discover the implications of Consensus Mechanisms for payments and the scalability trade-offs. (visa.com)
  • Is the climate consensus 97%, 99.9%, or is plate tectonics a hoax? (skepticalscience.com)
  • By assuming that those papers that don't explicitly reject the theory endorse it, Powell overestimated the climate consensus. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Consensus spread abroad through the anti-globalization and climate movements, and has become normalized in anti-authoritarian spheres in conjunction with affinity groups and ideas of participatory democracy and prefigurative politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus was used at the first Camp for Climate Action (2006) and subsequent camps. (wikipedia.org)
  • Naomi Oreskes - Fearless Slayer of Straw Persons, Fervent Defender of Water Melons, Sworn Enemy of Big Tobacco, Big Oil and Serial Doubt-Mongering, Huge Supporter of Carbon [Dioxide] Taxes and Queen of Climate Consensus - is back in Australia. (quadrant.org.au)
  • CDKN and PwC would like to invite you to attend a dialogue via webcast on whether consensus building in international climate change talks is the way to save the planet. (cdkn.org)
  • Simply visit our homepage on the day and click on ' Climate change consensus building 2012 ' to follow the live streaming. (cdkn.org)
  • CDKN and PwC will be hosting leading experts and stakeholders at an interactive event to stimulate ideas on building consensus in international climate change talks. (cdkn.org)
  • This paper reports the development of a consensus on a theoretical framework that could be used in implementation research. (bmj.com)
  • Filippov A.R., Novikov O.G. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Social Consensus. (urvak.org)
  • By using the information of delay-partition and delay-distribution and constructing an appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, the consensus criteria are derived to achieve leader-follower consensus for multiagent systems, which are in the form of linear inequalities that can be solved by employing the semidefinite programme method. (projecteuclid.org)
  • The coverage table will also be amended when consensus alleles fail to pass thresholds. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers and policymakers express widespread agreement that too many American high school students lack the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in college-yet a consensus on how to define college readiness remains elusive. (edweek.org)
  • Two clinicians trained in Integrative Consensus procedures independently applied the framework, with findings highlighting that children identified as disruptive by Integrative Consensus ratings plus mother or teacher ratings significantly predicted behavior problems and impaired social skills. (researchconnections.org)
  • The Consensus Study Report recommends a framework that can provide a unified and authoritative source of information for the effective oversight of the development, approval, and use of respiratory protection for the public and workers not protected by a respiratory protection program. (cdc.gov)
  • The approach aims to give the patient experience of physiological posture and movement using facial-oral functions in normal activities of daily living (ADL). (springer.com)
  • This text aims to give some ideas how consensus decision making can be structured in an effective way. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • The aim of this consensus is to provide support to the bedside clinician regarding the diagnosis, management and monitoring of shock. (springer.com)
  • Diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a consensus approach. (medscape.com)
  • The consensus conference served not only as a participatory strategy to share knowledge but also as a method for sharing in the development of risk communication content (guidelines) to be disseminated to the reference target. (barfblog.com)
  • Expert consensus has stated the importance of not only personalised clinical caries prevention methods for our patients, but also more collective approaches using other avenues to deliver prevention messages through the use of other team members and a public policy approach. (colgateprofessional.com)
  • Prepare fact sheets, and use the hospital Intranet to Roundtable participants identified a range of educate staff about the clinical aspects of approaches for improving hospitals' mass radiation, e.g., signs and symptoms of casualty capabilities. (cdc.gov)
  • Several candidates for a vaccine against Burkholderia pseudomallei , the causal bacterium of melioidosis, have been developed, and a rational approach is now needed to select and advance candidates for testing in relevant nonhuman primate models and in human clinical trials. (cdc.gov)
  • Protocols that solve consensus problems are designed to deal with limited numbers of faulty processes . (wikipedia.org)
  • In evaluating the performance of consensus protocols two factors of interest are running time and message complexity . (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus decision-making or consensus process (often abbreviated to consensus) are group decision-making processes in which participants develop and decide on proposals with the goal of acceptance by all. (wikipedia.org)
  • The focus on establishing agreement of at least the majority or the supermajority and avoiding unproductive opinion differentiates consensus from unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision. (wikipedia.org)
  • Importantly, however, recruitment of these regions predicted consensus bias only in the presence of social disconfirmation, in the form of feedback discrepant with participants' own attitudes. (uea.ac.uk)
  • However, one or more faulty processes may skew the resultant outcome such that consensus may not be reached or reached incorrectly. (wikipedia.org)
  • A modification of NIH consensus criteria to better distinguish the highly lethal subset of primary localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors: a subdivision of the original high-risk group on the basis of outcome. (medscape.com)
  • Real-world applications often requiring consensus include cloud computing , clock synchronization , PageRank , opinion formation, smart power grids , state estimation , control of UAVs (and multiple robots/agents in general), load balancing , blockchain , and others. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus algorithms are essential since blockchains are distributed systems, and no central authority checks the data before recording it on the blockchain. (visa.com)
  • Blockchain technology makes it possible for people to cooperate despite their mutual mistrust by using consensus models. (visa.com)
  • Women Strike for Peace (WSP) are also accounted as independently used consensus from their founding in 1961. (wikipedia.org)
  • An earlier account of consensus decision-making comes from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the main student organization of the civil rights movement, founded in 1960. (wikipedia.org)
  • Food Not Bombs, which started in 1980 in connection with an occupation of Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant organized by the Clamshell Alliance, adopted consensus for their organization. (wikipedia.org)
  • In relation to resource mobilization, it noted the need to ensure a more strategic and coordinated approach Organization- wide, while maintaining a successful decentralized implementation. (who.int)
  • A consensus protocol tolerating halting failures must satisfy the following properties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus building in distributed systems is challenging because consensus algorithms need to withstand node failures, network segmentation, message delays, out-of-order message arrivals, and corrupted message attacks. (visa.com)
  • Optionally, if an HMM profile is provided in your module, one can use it to globally align the plurality consensus to the profile and also create an amended alignment. (cdc.gov)
  • A road map toward a globally harmonized approach for occupational health surveillance and epidemiology in nanomaterial workers. (cdc.gov)
  • MNS members used consensus decision-making from the beginning as a non-religious adaptation of the Quaker decision-making they were used to. (wikipedia.org)
  • Egalitarianism: All members of a consensus decision-making body should be afforded, as much as possible, equal input into the process. (wikipedia.org)
  • Iterative draft statements were prepared and circulated to members of the group for comment before the final consensus statement was produced. (bmj.com)
  • These have been re-examined by consensus group members, who have introduced some modifications, more clearly defined the rules for classifying patients with primary or secondary SS, and provided more precise exclusion criteria. (bmj.com)
  • Consensus is a decision making process designed to bring together the views of all the members of the group. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • Consensus means that a proposed decision is only accepted when everyone who is affected by it agrees with it being made. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • Hongjie Li, Ming Chen, Shigen Shen, Lin Li "Delay-Distribution-Dependent Consensus for Second-Order Leader-Follower Nonlinear Multiagent Systems via Pinning Control," Abstract and Applied Analysis, Abstr. (projecteuclid.org)
  • Consensus decision-making is an alternative to commonly practiced group decision-making processes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The consensus problem requires agreement among a number of processes (or agents) for a single data value. (wikipedia.org)
  • The processes must somehow put forth their candidate values, communicate with one another, and agree on a single consensus value. (wikipedia.org)
  • One approach to generating consensus is for all processes (agents) to agree on a majority value. (wikipedia.org)
  • Consensus between different distributed parties is what corporate governance might look like in a centralized system since both processes involve coordinating the actions of different parties and coming to an agreement on tasks and decisions. (visa.com)
  • Publication of this content in the form of guidelines on microbiological risk management at home has enabled the results of the consensus conferences to be extended and the targeted communication material on risk reduction in daily food handling practices to be disseminated. (barfblog.com)
  • And, he argued, applying our approach to another settled scientific theory like plate tectonics wouldn't yield any results, because Powell assumed no scientist would bother to state something so obvious. (skepticalscience.com)
  • In fact science is all about coming to a consensus, but it's about coming to a consensus based on data, experimentation, and evidence, a consensus that has reproducible results that are, as Crichton put it, verifiable by reference to the real world. (scienceblogs.com)
  • RESULTS: Consensus statements and actions steps were identified for each of the Summit goals and call-to-action statements were developed. (cdc.gov)
  • The same five questions addressed in the earlier consensus were used as the outline for the literature search and review, with the aim of the Task Force to produce statements based on the available literature and evidence. (springer.com)
  • The talks are characterised by the search for consensus and a holistic approach to a deal (nothing is achieved until everything is achieved). (cdkn.org)
  • A set of behaviour change domains agreed by a consensus of experts is available for use in implementation research. (bmj.com)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
  • This consensus approach used a range of online and face to face methods across three phases to ensure ongoing engagement with multiple stakeholders. (lu.se)
  • Consensus aims to overcome some problems that come with a democracy based on majority voting. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • Numerous computer vision-based approaches have been applied to address the limitations of crack detection but they have their limitations that can be overcome by using various hybrid approaches based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques. (consensus.app)
  • Findings indicated that the proposal to delete five of the personality disorders lacks consensus support within the personality disorder community. (uky.edu)
  • This is all to support Ray's schedule for the 2014 Fake Teams Consensus Position Rankings, which starts this Monday. (faketeams.com)
  • In blockchains, reaching consensus is a crucial part of how transactions are processed and settled. (visa.com)
  • The approach adopted in this paper acknowledges the organisational constraints (resources, facilities, time) that mitigate against changes in evidence-based practices such as hand washing. (bmj.com)
  • However, there is a huge difference between questioning a current consensus and producing the data and experimental evidence to show that there is a real scientific question and JAQing off about science. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Consider taking an evidence-based approach to finding the optimal setting for your platform. (cdc.gov)
  • As expected, while there is no consensus around degrowth-oriented statements, 'the surprising thing was to find that there is also no consensus on green growth positions either, supposedly so far considered to be agreeable by most politicians, but as our study shows, the view mostly prevails among right-wing MEPs,' says Giorgos Kallis, ICTA-UAB researcher and author of the study. (azocleantech.com)
  • What is science but attempting to forge a consensus regarding theories and statements that most accurately describe the universe in a useful and predictable way? (scienceblogs.com)
  • This consensus provides 44 statements that can be used at the bedside to diagnose, treat and monitor patients with shock. (springer.com)
  • Statements of facts are used to summarize an important topic discussed in the consensus when facts, rather than actions, are discussed and agreed. (springer.com)
  • Whenever scientists resort to statements of consensus over concerns about this and that, they usually do not have sufficient scientific facts and understanding, while wishing to wield political influence. (seafriends.org.nz)
  • In fact, last year we teamed up with the authors of six other consensus papers, showing that with a variety of different approaches, we all found the expert consensus on human-caused global warming is 90-100% . (skepticalscience.com)
  • Within the APA guidelines for DSM-5 decisions, it is stated that there should be expert consensus agreement for the deletion of a diagnostic category. (uky.edu)
  • Mullins-Sweatt, SN, Bernstein, DP & Widiger, TA 2012, ' Retention or deletion of personality disorder diagnoses for DSM-5: An expert consensus approach ', Journal of Personality Disorders , vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 689-703. (uky.edu)
  • What are the advantages of agreement by consensus as opposed to other means? (cdkn.org)
  • Rather than using a trusted third party, agreement is made possible through a consensus mechanism that enables coordination of a distributed peer-to-peer network. (visa.com)
  • Data was sourced from OECD (2020), Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/339306da-en. (participedia.net)
  • Four years ago, my colleagues and I published a paper finding a 97% consensus in the peer-reviewed literature on human-caused global warming. (skepticalscience.com)
  • In short, of the papers taking a position, we found 100% consensus on plate tectonics in our sample of the peer-reviewed literature. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Incorporate radiological all mass casualty scenarios, i.e., an all- preparedness into existing mass casualty hazards approach. (cdc.gov)
  • Participation: The consensus process should actively solicit the input and participation of all decision-makers. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is the most important message of the new Berlin Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport. (medscape.com)
  • In this fMRI investigation, we examine the neural correlates of within-subject variation in consensus bias on a variety of social and political issues. (uea.ac.uk)
  • It is strictly proved that the control strategy is sufficient to achieve asymptotic consensus in finite time with the topology on the TL satisfying strongly $(2f+1)$-robustness. (arxiv.org)
  • Using a geometric approach, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of a fault detector. (rug.nl)
  • Application of the consensus conference model as a communication process proved to be an effective opportunity to engage young consumers and experts on the topic of food safety. (barfblog.com)
  • Inclusion: As many stakeholders as possible should be involved in a consensus decision-making process. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is, the output value of a consensus protocol must be the input value of some process. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Merge , arguably the biggest technical upgrade in Ethereum's history, was a part of the larger transformation formerly referred to as 'Ethereum 2.0,' a process that also included the transition of the Ethereum network's consensus mechanism from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) . (visa.com)
  • Single-cell RNA-seq experiments have made a more rigorous approach possible. (sanger.ac.uk)
  • When a formal decision should be made, the makes sure that everyone knows what the proposal is and then checks for consensus. (ecotopiabiketour.net)
  • Then obstacle avoidance problem which is based on collision cone approach is examined. (itu.edu.tr)
  • This paper investigates the consensus problem for second-order leader-follower nonlinear multiagent systems with general network topologies. (projecteuclid.org)