For example, Senators have invented a new rule that bans the election-year confirmation of anyone not considered a "consensus nominee" -- with "consensus" defined as only the nominees they happen to choose.
Responses were obtained in binary and Likert-scale formats, with consensus defined as achieving 67% agreement on each question.
But what's really happening is that the authority of the press to assume consensus, define deviance and set the terms for legitimate debate is weaker when people can connect horizontally around and about the news.
We then extended the approach, using a group presentation, to explore the ability of health workers in routine practice to identify consensus defined clinical signs.
'Consensus' thresholds were determined in advance of data collection, with two levels of consensus defined.
In this series of 105 consecutive fractures, 65 fractures were by consensus defined as buckle fractures.
However, no clear consensus defines the overall level of microglial phagocytosis in the human AD brain.
Second, we analyzed how many mismatches in an "ideal" consensus (consensus defined by the experiments) are allowed.
The genome-wide MBP1 positions were scanned using FIRE [ 23] based on the consensus defined in the AlignACE database.
An international consensus defined PMV as at least six hours of ventilation per day for 21 consecutive days [ 2].
