Background: Research partnership approaches that engage community members within the research team (for example, integrated knowledge translation, community-based participatory research) are typically used to enhance relevance and usefulness of findings. However, outcomes generated through partnered do not de facto address priorities those most affected nor take inclusion or power dynamics into...

Abstract The safe-consensus task was introduced by Afek, Gafni and Lieber (DISC’ 09) as a weakening of the classic consensus. When there is concurrency, consensus output can be arbitrary, not even input any process. They showed that equivalent to consensus, in wait-free system. We study solvability three shared memory iterated models extended with power black boxes. In first model, for i -th it...

conclusions inter-rater accuracy could be improved at middle grades using renal ultrasonography (usg), which could promote communication between different specialists. results the intraclass correlation coefficient (icc) values ranging from 0.86 to 0.89 reflected good reliability. the lowest agreement was associated with middle grades (iii and iv). a marked difference in sensitivity was observe...

Delphi is a powerful technique used to seek answers to appropriate questions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Delphi technique as a research method. This paper discusses the scientific merit of the Delphi technique by investigating on 41 studies of Journal of Agricultural Education from 1981 to 2013, and 2 studies of Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. The...

The colorectal cancer (CRC) subtyping consortium has unified six independent molecular classification systems, based on gene expression data, into a single consensus system with four distinct groups, known as the consensus molecular subtypes (CMS); clinical implications are discussed in this review based on articles relevant to the CMS of CRC indexed in PubMed as well as the authors’ own ...

this paper is concerned with the consensus tracking problem of high order mimo nonlinear multi-agent systems. the agents must follow a leader node in presence of unknown dynamics and uncertain external disturbances. the communication network topology of agents is assumed to be a fixed undirected graph. a distributed adaptive control method is proposed to solve the consensus problem utilizing re...

Blockchain sharding splits a blockchain into several shards where consensus is reached at the shard level rather than over entire blockchain. It improves transaction throughput and reduces computational resources required of individual nodes. But derivation trustworthy within becomes an issue as longest chain based mechanisms used in conventional blockchains can no longer be used. Instead, vote...