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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"consensus process"”.
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The effects of an expert on the small-group consensus process
… tested the effects of an expert on strength of consensus and decision quality when the expert is a member of a consensus group. The purpose of this research is to help managers effectively use experts to increase decision quality without reducing consensus. If the expert gives the group relevant …
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Between remembrance and rebuilding : developing a consensus process for memorialization at the World Trade Center
… the absence of an inclusive decision-making process for remembrance and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site produced conflicts between stakeholders, particularly victims' families, and New York decision-makers. To illustrate this tension between remembrance and rebuilding, this thesis …
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Using a Consensus Process to Develop an Evidence-Based Practice Guideline for School Exclusion For Head Lice (Pediculosis Capitis)
… paper presents the results of a modified Delphi consensus process used with school nurses to identify the best, most acceptable, criteria for school exclusion and readmission for school children with pediculosis.</p>
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Reputation-based Miner Node Selection in Blockchain-based Vehicular Networks
… identify and remove the malicious node from the consensus process. Such attacks can be countered if we can select the nodes allowed to take part in the consensus process, which can be done with the help of the miner node selection mechanism devised to select only specific miner nodes from all the …
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The development of consensus-based pre-hospital core competencies and outcomes as a component of specialist emergency physician training - a South African-based study
… African EM specialist training. AIM: To seek consensus on expected graduate level pre-hospital core competencies and generate broad learning outcomes for the SA EM specialist training curriculum. METHODS: A modified nominal group technique (NGT) was used to derive PHEM competencies and …
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Learning to Ground Multi-Agent Communication with Autoencoders
… between agents. This language could emerge via a consensus process between agents, but this may require many generations of trial and error. Alternatively, the lingua franca can be given by the environment, where agents ground their language in representations of the observed world. We demonstrate …
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<b>Reaching Consensus: Development of an Advocacy 2.0 Instructional Model for Schools and Programs of Public Health</b>
… to effectively engage in policy change processes. Both a preliminary environmental scan and a subsequent analysis of the current state of advocacy teaching in schools and programs of public health (SPPH) suggest that the current advocacy instructional model may contribute to this lack of …
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To ascertain if blockchain can facilitate the Internet of Things security and scalability requirements
Several consensus algorithms have been proposed as a way of resolving the Byzantine General problem, with respect to the blockchain consensus process. However, when these consensus algorithms are applied to a distributed, asynchronous network, some suffer with security and/or scalability issues, …
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Development of a Comprehensive Metric to Assess Productivity Across Pharmacy Departments within a Large Health System
… total of 15 KPIs were identified from the Delphi consensus process by pharmacy leaders. Pharmacy profile questions were analyzed via spearman rank correlation and identified potential areas that could impact pharmacy productivity. Conclusion: Modified Delphi methodology proves effective in …
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Drug utilization research databases appraisal of maturity (durdam): an international modified delphi consensus study /
… for their ability to assess maturity and to gain consensus on the key attributes needed to develop a national maturity appraisal tool. Five research objectives were created to fulfil the overall aim: to identify and recruit international experts in DUR, to collate information on DU data available …
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An exploration of the process of informed consent for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): the nurses' and doctors' role.
… them to make an informed decision in the consent process, as suggested by Rose et al (2005). The purpose of this study is to explore the nature, indication and processes of informed consent in patients receiving ECT. The study used quantitative and qualitative methods including a questionnaire …
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Effects of two procedural factors on group decision-making: Deliberation style and assigned decision rule
… of procedures that serve to facilitate the consensus process (e.g., quorum rules, voting procedures, fixed agenda). Despite abundant anecdotes concerning the procedural effects on group decisions and sophisticated formal developments by welfare economists, the number of relevant empirical …
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Emergency care assessment tool for health facilities
… provision. One major obstacle is the lack of consensus on a standardized evaluation framework, applicable across a variety of resource settings. The African Federation for Emergency Medicine has developed an assessment tool, specifically for low- and middle-income countries, via consensus …
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Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making
… power in social movement organizations that use consensus decision-making, a form of deliberation that espouses radically democratic and anarchist political ideals. Over the past several decades consensus decision-making has grown popular in anarchist-inspired North American social movements. …
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Overcoming Challenges in Randomised Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews in Periodontal Research
… outcome measures and indices; and (6) lack of consensus within the profession about what would constitute a ‘clinically meaningful’ or ‘patient significant’ improvements.<br/><br/>Challenges (1) to (4) are being addressed by a number of initiatives like CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting …
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A tale of two committees : evaluating collaborative management planning in Canada's Pacific groundfish fisheries
… crafting fair and effective collaborative processes which will achieve these benefits is often difficult. In an effort to identify keys and obstacles to success, this research evaluated the Commercial Groundfish Initiative, a collaborative planning process tasked with reforming the …
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Improved blockchain - Proof-of-work consensus protocol - performance using machine learning
… to optimise, enhance and streamline many processes outside the cryptocurrency and financial sector but the adoption of the technology is limited by the hindering performance issue. Unfortunately, the current blockchain suffers a performance degrade with the increasing size because of the …
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Political rush hour on the Tobin Bridge : receivership and the redevelopment of Chelsea, Massachusetts
… During this time, the receivers initiated a consensus process with the residents to engage them in rewriting their city charter. The receivers were offering a unique opportunity for a state intervention to facilitate a local bottom up process to consider new possibilities for a local …
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Incentive mechanism design in blockchain-based federated learning over edge clouds
… to both model training and the blockchain consensus process. This dissertation investigates and designs comprehensive, game-theoretic incentive mechanisms for blockchain-enabled federated edge learning systems, progressively addressing challenges from architectural latency to information …
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Overcoming Avoidable Research Waste in Carious Lesion Management Research
… in this stage were taken forward to the two-step consensus process. Two consensus methods were combined to fulfil the COMET initiative’s stages: 4(ii) Filling gaps in knowledge and 4(iii) Eliciting views about important outcomes in a consensus process and 4(iv) Holding a face to face meeting to …
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