Consensus reached at the mesoscience conference

Distributed protocol for determining when averaging consensus is reached

Distributed averaging over a large network is a well studied problem that converges asymptotically; however, existing protocols does not provide a way for each node to distributively detect the occurrence of convergence. In this paper a method is developed to distributively determine when the consensus has reached within a given error margin. In absence of such a method all nodes in the network...

Consensus conference (CC)

ACE/AACE consensus conference on the implementation of outpatient management of diabetes mellitus: consensus conference recommendations.

Among the more than 20 million Americans who have diabetes, approximately 30% of the cases are undiagnosed (1). An additional 42 million people in the United States have pre-diabetes (impaired glucose tolerance [IGT], impaired fasting glucose, or both), a condition that often leads to diabetes if it is not treated (1). The dramatic 41% increase in prevalence of diabetes during the 1990s was cha...

Medicolegal implications of the consensus conference.

The Problem of Liability in Antithrombotic Therapy T he major change in the medicolegal landscape regarding antithrombotic therapy (ATT) is that the problem has grown, not only in the United States but apparently in European countries as well. Many have put forward formidable arguments, at least in the United States, that the problem is growing as a direct consequence of pure greed rather than ...

Prostate cancer: ESMO Consensus Conference

s was at the discretion of the groups, but greater reliance was placed on peer-reviewed publications. All relevant scientific literature, as identified by the experts, was considered. A systematic literature search was not carried out. The recommendations from each group were then presented to all the experts and discussed, and a consensus was reached. The ‘Infectious Diseases Society of Americ...