Correspondence to Dr Ian Shrier, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; ian.shrier{at}mcgill.ca Consensus statements have the potential to be very influential.
A recent study concluded that the consensus on climate change is real. As stories like this usually do, it provoked a lot of outraged commentary. One of our Facebook commenters, however, responded ...
Epidemiological studies of injury in elite and recreational golfers have lacked consistency in methods and definitions employed and this limits comparison of results across studies. In their ...
Background and Goal: The participatory research approach is an important tool of family medicine and primary health care research. However, standard consensus methods like the Delphi and nominal group ...
Historically, the theoretical social choice literature on voting procedures in economics and political science routinely highlights worst case scenarios, emphasizing the inexistence of a universally ...
The logic embodied in all the nodes of a blockchain that ensures the chain's integrity. Because there is no central authority in a blockchain, the consensus mechanism ensures that at least 50% of the ...
The Nakamoto consensus has served as the backbone of the Bitcoin network and inspired the creation of a number of additional consensus techniques aimed at addressing energy consumption concerns. In ...
A consensus mechanism guarantees that every node agrees on a single, consistent, and honest ledger state. Have you ever imagined a world of digital transactions without a central bank? Blockchain ...
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