developmental dysplasia of the hip (ddh) and flatfoot are common pediatric orthopedic disorders, being referred to and managed by both general and pediatric orthopedic surgeons, through various modalities. our study aimed to evaluate their consensus and perspective disagreements in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches of the mentioned deformities. forty participants in two groups of g...

We present a consensus model for group decision making with unbalanced fuzzy linguistic preference relations, i.e., assuming that the preferences are assessed on linguistic term sets whose terms are not symmetrically and uniformly distributed. This consensus model can manage incomplete information situations, that is, situations where the experts do not give all the preference values that they ...

The purpose of this article is to describe the theoretical and methodological reasons for the inconsistent findings on the value of strategic consensus. This analysis suggests the need for (a) definitions of consensus that align the locus and content of agreement with the study context and theoretical premises; (b) measures of consensus that take account of locus as well as differences in how t...

We show for the first time that standard model checking allows one to completely verify asynchronous algorithms for solving consensus, a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing. Model checking is a powerful verification methodology based on state exploration. However it has rarely been applied to consensus algorithms, because these algorithms induce huge, often infinite stat...

In recent years, the consensus-reaching process of large group decision making has attracted much attention in research society, especially emergency environment area. However, information is always limited and inaccurate. The trust relationship among makers been proven to exert important impacts on consensus. this study, we proposed a novel uncertain linguistic cloud similarity method based up...

conclusions the results illustrate that the iranian version of the aep (ir-aep) could be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the level of inappropriate acute hospital admissions and days of care in the iranian context. results inter-rater and intra-rater reliability testing revealed an excellent level of consensus between the two nurses employing the aep in all the studied departments...

Consensus protocols are the foundation for building many fault-tolerant distributed systems and services. This paper posits that there are significant performance benefits to be gained by offering consensus as a network service (CAANS). CAANS leverages recent advances in commodity networking hardware design and programmability to implement consensus protocol logic in network devices. CAANS prov...

merican College of Cardiology/American Heart Assoiation (1). Comment: A total of 124 pages and 1,066 references. Of he 324 recommendations, 1 (0.3%) and 242 (74.7%) are on he basis of the Level of Evidence A and C, respectively. evel of Evidence “C”: Consensus opinion of experts, case tudies, standard of care. uropean Society of Cardiology (2). Comment: A total of 32 pages and 232 references. O...

The notion of a consensus, although it means little in science, is often used in support of the claim of man-made warming. Even quite recently we've seen reports about more than 400 people, mainly highly qualified scientists who "reject the consensus". But what is the history of claims of a consensus and what exactly is the consensus to which these claims refer, and even more importantly, do th...