Even though the pre-shares can be checked for correctness, Byzantine consensus on the set of shares is still necessary for the case when a malicious peer submits a incorrect share to only some peers.
This month, President Obama should also build international consensus on the set of policies necessary to encourage Khartoum to change its behavior and commit to the process of peace and state building.
Can its main political actors (including the Army) reach a democratic consensus on the wrenching set of economic, security and political reforms required to set Egypt on a growth trajectory, or can they only agree that the latest president must go?
Mr Trichet has striven to build consensus on the rate-setting council, sometimes calling up members to iron out problems.
The reason is probably the lack of consensus on the image set to be used as ground-truth and the essentially subjective task of comparing images.
However, the sensitivity and specificity of PSG for identifying individuals with insomnia is unknown, and there is no consensus on the criteria sets which should be used for participant selection.
This frequency analysis consists of establishing whether there is consensus within the set of definitions on whether to include or exclude a concept.
This is acknowledged by the 'Accountability for Reasonableness' (A4R) framework [ 2, 3] which is based on the believe that any consensus on priority setting weights and subsequent results may be difficult to achieve because of these distinct perspectives of stakeholders.
However, there is currently no consensus on the optimal method to set PEEP with the goal of reducing VILI and blocking progressive ALI [62].
Given that we lack consensus on the meaning of successful priority setting, the evaluation process we have created is an initial attempt to evaluate priority setting decisions in a specific context.
To enrich the chemical diversity space covered by the reference library, 2,271 compounds with LD50 values from EPA [11] and Accelrys Toxicity database [12] were combined with the reference set I to compose the reference set II. Table 2 summarized the statistics of all individual and consensus models on the test set by applying the expanded reference set.
