"All Bush can do at this point is to maintain consensus on blocking the sale of war matériel to Iraq," Graham E. Fuller, a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the Central Intelligence Agency, said recently.
He tapped a team of 10 Democrats — five liberals and five centrists — to broker a deal, while he bartered, one-on-one, with specific holdouts, and also tried to maintain consensus among the full 60-member caucus.
It was apparently worried about maintaining consensus on an overhaul of international corporate tax.Fortunately, Canada, Australia and other countries that fared poorly in the international comparisons (see chart) failed in their efforts to have them all taken out.
show under which conditions HD-PoS would maintain consensus, consensus may be possible if the weight vectors are similar enough.
One of the crucial features of blockchain technology is how many nodes in a distributed blockchain network maintain consensus and the Bitcoin blockchain network adopts a hash-based Proof-of-Work (PoW) distributed consensus algorithm (Nakamoto 2008).
She has to carefully balance her hard line which appeals to her domestic constituency and the need to maintain consensus among her EU partners as the French, Italian and even the European Central Bank lean toward greater flexibility.
Principal investigators had monthly teleconferences throughout the project to maintain consensus; study coordinators had teleconferences every two months.
The criterion for scoring the conserved NRG elements was presence of a match to the 8 bp core sequence, allowing for substitutions that maintained the consensus structure of the element, which we assume necessary for its function (see also [ 31]).
We consider the grouping logics of DPC to be acceptable, because DPC was designed and has been maintained with consensus among specialist physician boards in Japan and it has in fact been applied to the payment system in acute care hospitals.
Conversely, for the non-consensus to consensus substitution f nc ∝ log(1/ λ)/(1 - λ) = f cn / λ, the greater flux from a non-consensus state to the consensus maintains a greater consensus frequency.
