Sentences with phrase «consensus methods of»

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The Ethereum network wants to move toward a consensus method known as proof of stake, or PoS.

[6] Although many young Earth creationists (YECs) are active in the development of creation science, an endeavor that holds that the events as - sociated with supernatural creation can be evidenced and modeled through an interpretation of the scientific method, the consensus among scientists is that creation science is unscientific in both conception and methodology.

(Money quote: «The consensus on the age of the earth not a «consensus of opinion» but a «consensus of data» and a «consensus of methods.»)

In discussing Old Testament ethics, we are not faced with the usual problem of trying to pick out a consensus from a welter of diverging viewpoints and methods.

On their campuses a consensus obtains — a scheme of convictions about human beings, history, method; the Bible, morality, etc. — which, largely unformulated, is tacitly shared by all faculty members.

The consensus of the audience was that the child was conscious of her brother's charm, his painless method of getting his own way by eliciting attention and smiles and the impulse to love him.

this blog is not working with me... I'll have to catch you guys on another post... it will not accept long post... This is my main point against the scientific method argument; it is consensus in the scientific community that most of our Universe is unseen.

To what extent are these methods and results genuinely representative of informed scholarly consensus?

Where Rubio's statement went all to heck is the point where he questions the scientific consensus on the Earth's age, which calls into question everything we have learned in the past 500 years, and the validity of the scientific method itself.

They project salvific universalism with new passion, emphasize ethical preaching more than theological consensus, reach for hermeneutical methods that confer biblical legitimacy on culture - oriented options; they consider doctrinal pluralism an enrichment that might foster a revival of COCU and perchance some link with Roman Catholicism.

The goal of the consensus statement is to raise awareness of the need to implement the most rapid method of cooling, and to do so immediately in the field when resources are available, Holschen said.

Among the significant concerns underlined by the Venice Commission are: i) lack of broader consensus and no public consultations, ii) unclear criteria and discretionary methods for establishing constituencies, iii) no clear criteria for the representation of Transnistria and of Moldovan citizens living abroad, and, iv) constituency members of parliament would be vulnerable to being influenced by business interests.

It does not accord with the scientific consensus or the very large body of established scientific evidence; nor does it accurately and consistently employ the scientific method, and as such it should not be presented to pupils at the Academy as a scientific theory.

I agree that true skepticism is an integral part of the scientific method — but want to emphasize that it is practiced by those who do accept the consensus, not just by those in opposition.

High - stakes lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus about what CTE looks like in postmortem brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.

Alternative methods, such as James Powell's, that identify only explicit rejections of AGW and assume that all other instances are endorsements, miss many implicit rejections and overestimate the consensus.

There isn't a consensus about what this means, but there are a few different methods of calculating your risk in the medical literature.

Conclusions Base - called sequence data are provided to demonstrate the nature of data produced by the MinION ™ platform and to encourage the development of customised methods for alignment, consensus and variant calling, de novo assembly and scaffolding.

A general consensus is that combinations of imaging methods will ultimately be most fruitful in predicting disease.

In this project, I applied NASP for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) identification and characterization, and used FigTree and PHYLOBar for phylogenetic analysis and visualization.The NASP method differs from other published SNP pipelines in terms of supported short - read aligners and SNP callers, the ability to call both monomorphic and polymorphic sites, and the ability to integrate the results from multiple SNP callers and identify the consensus set of SNPs that define the population structure.

Scientists will soon attempt to develop such a consensus at the First International Congress on Antioxidant Methods, held June 16 - 18 at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, Fla., with the ultimate goal of developing better nutritional data for consumers.

There is emerging consensus that the 20th - century approach to education, which favors methods such as lectures and rote learning, is standing in the way of making school relevant to more students.

Discover how a powerful Agile method, Story Mapping, can help you design better learning experiences, deliver them faster, and create consensus of stakeholders on the roadmap.

Washington, DC — The National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) and our partners are disappointed by Secretary of the Department of Education (DOE) Betsy DeVos» decision to eliminate funding for the Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities (ODEO) grant program — denying parents and students an opportunity to reach a community consensus on the best methods of socioeconomic integration in isolated, struggling schools.

Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, we have had 30 years of a political consensus in this country that standardised tests, competition between schools, market methods like performance pay and academisation are the way to improve education.

Reach consensus on an initial document that represents the fields understanding of best practice in the integration of technology into English education methods courses.

Second, we applied two strategies — consensus scoring and a rank - ordering method — to estimate comparability in Year 1 of the NH PACE pilot based upon the expert judgment of 85 teachers using 505 student work samples.

Industry consensus, states the report, is that a successful tablet business model will focus on an «a la carte method for selecting the software capabilities (apps) for the device and content consumption,» unlike the typical trend PCs have followed, centered around Microsoft's Windows OS and suite of office applications.

Though we use a variety of methods, the consensus estimate is at about 5.6 % annually.

Together we have the power to create a consensus which rejects killing as a method of achieving results.

As FWS notes in its IPMP / EA, such methods are «not... socially acceptable» and «inconsistent with the points of consensus developed by the stakeholder group.»

As USFWS admits, such methods are «not... socially acceptable» and «inconsistent with the points of consensus developed by the stakeholder group.»

Evidence matched with a sound scientific method and the credibility of them there scientists then leads to agreement and a minority who disagree — that AGREEMENT ON THE EVIDENCE THEN BECAME A GLOBAL CONSENSUS OVER SEVERAL DECADES.

Moreover, since virtually every professional or honorific organization of scientists has taken a position in support of the science, and since the scientific consensus is arrived at via the scientific method, when you impugn the consensus, you are impugning the entire scientific community AND the scientific method.

that explores how the consensus view meets a wide range of scientific methods and standards at http://www.ametsoc.org/atmospolicy/Presentations/Oreskes%20Presentation%20for%20Web.pdf (the quote above is in slide 83).

She found that 75 percent of papers accepted the consensus view «either explicitly or implicitly,» while «25 percent dealt with methods or paleoclimate,» and took no position on AGW.

Then he explained how it works; that the process of peer - review is the best method of establishing and progressing the scientific consensus that we have.

It appears his concerns were with the methods of that particular study, and not the conclusion of an overwhelming consensus.

Scientific consensus is not by itself a scientific argument, and it is not part of the scientific method.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

The IPCC is straightforward in its introduction to attribution and doesn't claim anything other than that attribution needs some kind of modelling (because we can't put the climate in a bottle) and that this method relies on a number of different tactics, including the consensus of what these tactics mean of the experts.

Defining the scientific method in general terms is actually a really hard problem, which philosophers of science, and practicing scientists with an interest in philosophy, have struggled with for a century without coming to any sort of consensus.

The Straw Man is easily clarified - your position is that the paper is being presented as a measure of the consensus on AGW in the climate science community, hence consideration of papers not primarily on the topic shouldn't count, whereas the reality, clearly laid out in the methods is that it is at attempt to quantify the breadth and depth of acceptance and endorsement of the AGW concensus in the scientific literature as a whole, hence any scientific paper that states or implies such acceptance is fair game.

The case of the Golden Toad exemplifies the methods of Parmesan and Pounds and Mann who represent the illusory «97 % consensus» whose authority we are repeatedly told we must never question.

And if one applies the same scientific method to investigating if climate change as a sad exaggeration giving birth to false perception of consensus, it's easy to see that there is no comet hit of CO2 emergency heading our way.

They seem to have a method of reading one or two sources and concluding that they've learned everything there is to know about something, like the nature of consensus, or philosophy of science.

You're not addressing the substance here, the espistemological issues, the fallacy of demanding proof od a negative, the exlusion of no opinion papers in calculating a consensus, and the absurd invalidity of the method of the study.

CAGW assumes old (1) but is an invalid hypothesis based on a number of other violations of the scientific method and must be abandoned despite its strong support by the alleged alarmist «consensus.»

However, this method is highly sensitive to the researcher's ability to accurately represent the consensus, and to elicit from the respondent an accurate picture of his opinion.

They think that because they're following the «scientific consensus», their opinions partake of the reliability and assurance of the scientific method itself.