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 ...

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.

Correspondence to Paul Blazey, Center for Hip Health and Mobility, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver V5Z 1M9, British Columbia, Canada; paul.blazey{at}ubc.ca The International Olympic ...

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 ...

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 ...