The Biophysics of Regenerative Repair Suggests New Perspectives on Biological Causation
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DOI: 10.1002/bies.201900146
Abstract: Evolution exploits the physics of non‐neural bioelectricity to implement anatomical homeostasis: a process in which embryonic patterning, remodeling, and regeneration achieve invariant anatomical outcomes despite external interventions. Linear “developmental pathways” are often inadequate explanations for… read more here.
Keywords: repair suggests; regenerative repair; causation; suggests new ... See more keywords
Causation and familial confounding as explanations for the associations of polygenic risk scores with breast cancer: Evidence from innovative ICE FALCON and ICE CRISTAL analyses
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DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22556
Abstract: A polygenic risk score (PRS) combines the associations of multiple genetic variants that could be due to direct causal effects, indirect genetic effects, or other sources of familial confounding. We have developed new approaches to… read more here.
Keywords: breast cancer; cancer; history; ice ... See more keywords
Semiparametric Efficient Inference for the Probability of Necessary and Sufficient Causation
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DOI: 10.1002/sim.70242
Abstract: Causal attribution, which seeks to explain the reasons behind events or behaviors, plays a critical role in causal inference and deepens our understanding of cause‐and‐effect relationships in scientific research. The probabilities of necessary causation (PN)… read more here.
Keywords: efficient inference; semiparametric efficient; inference; causation ... See more keywords
Evidence-Based Revised View of the Pathophysiology of Preeclampsia.
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DOI: 10.1007/5584_2016_168
Abstract: Preeclampsia is a life-threatening vascular disorder of pregnancy due to a failing stressed placenta. Millions of women risk death to give birth each year and globally each year, almost 300,000 lose their life in this… read more here.
Keywords: preeclampsia phenotype; causation; stress; preeclampsia ... See more keywords
Causation between Pathway Completion and Reduced Hospital Stay in Patients with Lung Cancer: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using Propensity Score Matching
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DOI: 10.1007/s10916-020-01570-1
Abstract: We have previously demonstrated that clinical pathway completion helps reduce hospital stays. However, our previous results showed only a correlation, not causation. Therefore, the current study’s aim was to analyze the causation between clinical pathway… read more here.
Keywords: completion; group; causation; clinical pathway ... See more keywords
Free will, causation, and absence
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1057-z
Abstract: This paper comments on Carolina Sartorio’s Causation and Free Will, challenging the non-modal conception of reasons-sensitivity that Sartorio advances. read more here.
Keywords: causation absence; free causation; causation;
Processes, pre-emption and further problems
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-018-02058-9
Abstract: In this paper I will argue that what makes our ordinary judgements about token causation (‘actual causation’) true can be explicated in terms of interferences into quasi-inertial processes. These interferences and quasi-inertial processes can in… read more here.
Keywords: processes pre; oxford; emption problems; causation ... See more keywords
Ultimate and proximate explanations of strong reciprocity
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DOI: 10.1007/s40656-017-0151-4
Abstract: Strong reciprocity (SR) has recently been subject to heated debate. In this debate, the “West camp” (West et al. in Evol Hum Behav 32(4):231–262, 2011), which is critical of the case for SR, and the… read more here.
Keywords: ultimate proximate; camp; proximate; causation ... See more keywords
Why urban setting matters in shaping tourist attitudes towards interaction with residents: Causation or selection in three urban settings
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2021.100657
Abstract: Abstract This paper addresses the question why tourist attitude towards the interactions with residents are more positive in some urban settings than others, by comparing three different urban settings within Hong Kong: the city centre… read more here.
Keywords: urban settings; tourist attitudes; causation; urban setting ... See more keywords
Commensal Koch's postulates: establishing causation in human microbiota research.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.10.001
Abstract: Advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies and the development of sophisticated bioinformatics analysis methods, algorithms, and pipelines to handle the large amounts of data generated have driven the field of human microbiome research forward. This specialist… read more here.
Keywords: research; microbiota; human gut; commensal ... See more keywords
Back to the future: What do accident causation models tell us about accident prediction?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.018
Abstract: Abstract The prediction of accidents, or systems failure, should be driven by an appropriate accident causation model. Whilst various models exist, none is yet universally accepted, but elements of different models are. The paper presents… read more here.
Keywords: causation models; causation; systems thinking; prediction ... See more keywords