In the internet world, for example, it's done by groups of engineers with specialist expertise in a particular area who gather to hammer out, by a process of open discussion, successive versions of a protocol until they converge on something that is agreed to be workable.
For two decades Palestine has engaged in discussions with successive Israeli governments, which have talked the talk of a negotiated settlement while deliberately turning a military occupation into something far more sinister — an ugly system of racial segregation.
Despite months of discussions, seven successive position papers and some frantic last-minute transatlantic flights, an attempt to break a deadlock among the province's five main political parties had failed.
Wallace confirmed that after years of disputes with successive cabinet secretaries, and discussions with Washington, Chilcot had agreed to a settlement whereby summaries, and "the gist", of more than a hundred records of conversations between Blair and George Bush in the runup to the invasion, and of records of 200 cabinet discussions, would be published, but not the documents themselves.
Through successive data mapping and discussions, a preliminary coding frame of recurrent themes and concepts was constructed in consensus amongst the whole research team.
This flexibility might be relevant for the enzymatic function as it could facilitate repositioning of the RNA next to the SAM methyl donor during successive methylation events (see Discussion).
Recruitment was concurrent with data collection and analysis, and continued until saturation was achieved, meaning no further unique themes emerged from successive interviews as determined by discussion between two independent reviewers [ 25].
Our programme includes the following successive steps: (1) definition of the problem, (2) discussion of the individual risk, (3) discussion of treatment options, (4) deliberation, and (5) plan for future actions.
The posts radically differ in content from their predecessors in discussion, so the model of successive modifications of original entries, used to explain lognormal distribution of file sizes should not apply.
