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Karami, Hamidreza, and Oluwole Alfred Olatunji. "Critical overrun causations in marine projects." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 27, no. 7 (April 19, 2020): 1579–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-09-2019-0477.

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PurposeDelay causations in infrastructure projects are well reported in normative literature. However, very little is known regarding the environment-related causations which can assist in developing mitigation strategies. This study aims to examine critical causations of overruns in marine construction projects.Design/methodology/approachA total of 73 delay factors, grouped into 16 themes, were identified from literature. Data relating to the significance of each factor were collected through a questionnaire survey administered to 151 respondents. A total number of 126 valid responses were retrieved. Reductionist methodology was used to identify the statistical significance of each delay causation.FindingsAll 73 variables analysed in the study are significant, including communication issues amongst stakeholders, inadequate planning, safety issues, deficient technical instructions and inappropriate management approaches. Others include design and construction issues, issues with project organisational structures, political and cultural factors, environmental uncertainties and complexity in resource management. The study also found estimation errors, owner's attitude, financial issues, delay in approval processes, construction strategies and unavailability of appropriate technologies for the work as influencing factors. These findings are consistent with earlier studies on other forms of projects, but they further confirm that they are very relevant to marine projects.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the diversity of marine projects, overrun factors are likely to manifest in different ways in varying project circumstances. In addition, economics, technologies and local legislation often influence project situations differently.Practical implicationsThe implications of these findings will assist in growing the practicality of scheduling and contract administration theories in marine projects. Although delay causations that have been reported in normative literature are relevant to marine construction, however, some of the causations are more severe in marine projects. It is important that planners and project stakeholders are mindful of this such that they can develop their expectations to tolerate variability rather than trade impracticable blames.Originality/valueDetermining delay factors specific to marine construction projects assists stakeholders and project management community in developing dedicated strategies applicable in scheduling to prevent and correct obstructions caused by overruns. Since projects are different in types and sizes, delay observations cannot be generalised.
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Hitchcock, Christopher Read. "Farewell to Binary Causation." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 26, no. 2 (June 1996): 267–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1996.10717454.

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Causation is a topic of perennial philosophical concern. As well as being of intrinsic interest, almost all philosophical concepts — such as knowledge, beauty, and moral responsibility — involve a causal dimension. Nonetheless, attempts to provide a satisfactory account of the nature of causation have typically led to barrages of counterexamples. I hope to show that a number of the difficulties plaguing theories of causation have a common source.Most philosophical theories of causation describe a binary relation between cause and effect, or at any rate, a relation that reduces to such a binary relation when certain background information is held fixed. Indeed, most theories provide the same general account of when this relation holds: in order to evaluate whether C causes E, we must make a comparison between two cases, which we may neutrally label as C and ∼C. Where theories of causation differ, of course, is in precisely what is being so compared. Regularity theories of causation require a comparison between what actually happens whenever C occurs, and what actually happens, elsewhere and elsewhen, when C does not occur.
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CLARKE, RANDOLPH. "Absence Causation for Causal Dispositionalists." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4, no. 3 (2018): 323–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.16.

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AbstractSeveral theories of causation rule out causation of or by lacks, omissions, or absences of things. They thereby conflict with much of what we think and say about what causes what. This article proposes a modification of one kind of theory, causal dispositionalism, so that it accepts absence causation while retaining a fundamental commitment of dispositionalism.
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Grenda, Vytautas. "DEVYNIŲ KONTRAFAKTINIŲ PRIEŽASTINGUMO TEORIJŲ PALYGINIMAS PASITELKIANT SEPTYNIS PAVYZDŽIUS." Problemos 76 (January 1, 2009): 134–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/problemos.2009.0.1937.

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Straipsnyje lyginamos ir vertinamos devynios per pastarąjį dešimtmetį pasirodžiusios kontrafaktinės vienetinio priežastingumo teorijos, kurias visas sukūrė arba inspiravo D. Lewisas, J. Y. Halpernas ir J. Pearlas, o savo tekstuose išdėstė šeši kiti autoriai. Parodomi kai kurie literatūroje dar neaprašyti šių teorijų skirtumai. Įrodinėjama, kad dauguma šių teorijų intuityviai panašius pavyzdžius nagrinėja skirtingai, ir šiuo požiūriu primeta perskyras, kurių buitinės priežastingumo sampratos požiūriu ne tik nėra, bet ir neturėtų būti.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: vienetinis priežastingumas, kontrafaktiniai sąlyginiai teiginiai, „atsarginės“ priežastys, persąlygojimas.Comparison of Nine Counterfactual Theories of Causation by the Use of Seven ExamplesVytautas Grenda SummaryThe article compares and evaluates nine last-decade counterfactual theories of singular causation, which were either created or inspired by David Lewis, Joseph Y. Halpern and Judea Pearl and presented in the texts of six other authors. Some differences between those theories that have not yet been described in literature are shown in the article. It is argued that the majority of those theories analyze intuitively similar examples in different ways. In that respect, those theories impose distinctions which, according to the folk theory of causation, are (and should be) absent.Keywords: singular causation, counterfactuals, backup causes, overdetermination.
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Engler, S., J. Luterbacher, F. Mauelshagen, and J. Werner. "The Irish famine of 1740–1741: causes and effects." Climate of the Past Discussions 9, no. 1 (February 15, 2013): 1013–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-9-1013-2013.

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Abstract. This paper advances the current debate on causes and effects of famines. Since Sen's food entitlement decline theory emerged in the 1980's, climate and environmental factors are widely excluded in famine analysis. Studying the causation and the processes of famines as well as the adaptations to it before the 20th century will enhance modern famine theories and lead to a rethinking of the role of climate/environmental aspects in current research. In our case study, the "Famine Vulnerability Analysis Model" (FVAM) serves as an explanatory model and will open up new perspectives on famines. Special emphasis will be put on the Europe-wide crises of 1740–1741, with a focus on the famine of the "great frost" in Ireland. The interaction of demographic, political, economic and environmental aspects is characteristic in this famine.
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Pemunta, N. V. "The Social Epidemiology and Burden of Malaria in Bali Nyonga, Northwest Cameroon." Health, Culture and Society 4, no. 1 (May 17, 2013): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/hcs.2013.69.

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Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the anopheles mosquito that kills at least one million people in Sub-Saharan Africa every year, leading to human suffering and enormous economic loses. This paper examines the complex web of cultural, poor socio-economic conditions and environmental factors for the prevalence of malaria in Bali Nyonga. The study outlines and assesses the multiple notions of malaria causation with dirty environment (80.76%) and the mosquito (76.92%) as the leading causes. Other causes are poor hygiene (46.15%), impure sources of portable water (23.08%), malnutrition (15.38%), witchcraft (11.54%), human-vector contact (34.61%),and palm wine drinking (32.69%).It reveals that any effective management of malaria must be based on an understanding of traditional cultural views and insights concerning the cause, spread and treatment of the disease, as well as gender roles within a given community since women bear a greater burden of the disease than men. This study further underscores the need to incorporate folk theories of disease causation, gender and malaria issues into malaria control strategies in order to improve their coverage and effectiveness in different contexts.
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Shang, Shi Yu. "Aanalyse on the Causation and Classification of Usual Damages of Highway Tunnel." Applied Mechanics and Materials 204-208 (October 2012): 1297–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.204-208.1297.

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There are long spans and various types of lining of highway tunnels under different geological conditions. It is challenging to obtain accurate geological condition data of tunnel, the existing tunnel design theories and methods are not mature either. Meantime, the stresses of tunnel during the stage of design, construction, operation and maintenance are also changing with time. Therefore, it is difficult to discover the root causes of the highway tunnels defeats, also because of the joint influence of the above factors. Through the broadly investigations of defeats of highway tunnel, the reasons of these defeats was analyzed and classified from four aspects, external forces, design methods, construction phase and deterioration of materials. More important, the general rules and association between the defeats and causes was studied and suggested following the brief introduction of the highway tunnel defeats.
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Ruggiero, Vincenzo. "Hypotheses on the causes of financial crime." Journal of Financial Crime 27, no. 1 (December 19, 2019): 245–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-02-2019-0021.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the aftermath of the 2006-07 financial crisis and attempts to identify a range of causes that were responsible for it and are likely to trigger similar events in the future. The analytical tradition established by the study of white-collar crime provides the background for such an examination, which avails itself of some conceptualisations derived from classical economic thought. Design/methodology/approach Explanations of financial crime can resort to general theories based on allegedly universal values. They can posit the existence of criminaloids, namely, individuals who indulge in illegal practices, or ‘honest fraud’, while not deeming themselves culpable. Anomie and control theory in criminology have highlighted how the causes of financial crime are associated with general criminogenic contexts or with individual propensities or mindsets. This paper adds to the existing perspectives a number of variables that can provide a more nuanced picture of financial crimes. Findings This paper attempts to identify a range of discrete variables that can be termed interstitial in the sense that they can accompany a variety of theoretical hypotheses, locate themselves in the space left in between the different approaches while providing supplementary analytical foci. Ignorance, entitlement, reverse Keynesianism, recklessness, efficiency and the finance curse may offer additional angles from which the causation of financial crime can be observed. Sociological and criminological arguments, in this paper, are interspersed with notions derived from classical economics. Originality/value The originality of this contribution is to be found in its use of different theoretical traditions, establishing a dialogue between social theory, criminology and economic thought.
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Gad ELhak, Seham A., Abdel Aziz A. Ghanem, Hassan AbdelGhaffar, Sahar El Dakroury, and Mohamed M. Salama. "Parkinson's Disease: Is It a Toxic Syndrome?" Neurology Research International 2010 (2010): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/103094.

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the neurodegenerative diseases which we can by certainty identify its pathology, however, this confidence disappeares when talking about the cause. A long history of trials, suggestions, and theories tried linking PD to a specific causation. In this paper, a new suggestion is trying to find its way, could it be toxicology? Can we—in the future—look to PD as an occupational disease, in fact, many clues point to the possible toxic responsibility—either total or partial—in causing this disease. Searching for possible toxic causes for PD would help in designing perfect toxic models in animals.
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Portes, Alejandro. "International Migration and National Development." Sociology of Development 2, no. 2 (2016): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sod.2016.2.2.73.

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This article reviews theoretical perspectives on migration and development, starting with nineteenth-century political economy theories focused on “colonizing” migrations from England and other European powers and concluding with the emerging literature on immigrant transnationalism and its consequences for sending nations. The general concept of equilibrium has until currently dominated orthodox economic theories of both colonizing and labor migrations from peripheral regions to advanced nations. The counteroffensive, led by Gunnar Myrdal and theorists of the dependency school, centered on the notion of cumulative causation leading to increasing poverty and the depopulation of peripheral sending areas. Both perspectives registered numerous empirical anomalies, stemming from a common view of migration flows as occurring between separate politico-economic entities. An alternative conceptualization of such flows as internal to an overarching global system has improved our understanding of causes and consequences of labor migration and has framed the back-and-forth complexities of these movements captured in the novel notion of transnationalism.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Causes and theories of causations"

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Allen, Scott Brian. "Optimal scheduling of disease-screening examinations based on detection delay." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28621.

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Crott, Jimmy. "The effects of folic acid deficiency and defects in folate metabolism on chromosome damage in vitro." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc9515.pdf.

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Reprints of the author's previously published articles included as an appendix. Bibliography: leaves 165-188. "This thesis describes a series of experiments that aimed to investigate the effects of folic acid deficiency and defects in folate metabolism on chromosome damage rates in human lymphocytes. The accumulation of chromosome damage over time is an important issue because it is thought to contribute to the mechanism of ageing and the aetiology of diseases of age such as cancer and Alzheimer's disease."
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Shepherd, Gareth William Safety Science Faculty of Science UNSW. "Automating the aetiological classification of descriptive injury data." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Safety Science, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24934.

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Injury now surpasses disease as the leading global cause of premature death and disability, claiming over 5.8 millions lives each year. However, unlike disease, which has been subjected to a rigorous epidemiologic approach, the field of injury prevention and control has been a relative newcomer to scientific investigation. With the distribution of injury now well described (i.e. ???who???, ???what???, ???where??? and ???when???), the underlying hypothesis is that progress in understanding ???how??? and ???why??? lies in classifying injury occurrences aetiologically. The advancement of a means of classifying injury aetiology has so far been inhibited by two related limitations: 1. Structural limitation: The absence of a cohesive and validated aetiological taxonomy for injury, and; 2. Methodological limitation: The need to manually classify large numbers of injury cases to determine aetiological patterns. This work is directed at overcoming these impediments to injury research. An aetiological taxonomy for injury was developed consistent with epidemiologic principles, along with clear conventions and a defined three-tier hierarchical structure. Validation testing revealed that the taxonomy could be applied with a high degree of accuracy (coder/gold standard agreement was 92.5-95.0%), and with high inter- and intra- coder reliability (93.0-96.3% and 93.5-96.3%). Practical application demonstrated the emergence of strong aetiological patterns which provided insight into causative sequences leading to injury, and led to the identification of effective control measures to reduce injury frequency and severity. However, limitations related to the inefficient and error-prone manual classification process (i.e. average 4.75 minute/case processing time and 5.0-7.5% error rate), revealed the need for an automated approach. To overcome these limitations, a knowledge acquisition (KA) software tool was developed, tested and applied, based on an expertsystems technique known as ripple down rules (RDR). It was found that the KA system was able acquire tacit knowledge from a human expert and apply learned rules to efficiently and accurately classify large numbers of injury cases. Ultimately, coding error rates dropped to 3.1%, which, along with an average 2.50 minute processing time, compared favourably with results from manual classification. As such, the developed taxonomy and KA tool offer significant advantages to injury researchers who have a need to deduce useful patterns from injury data and test hypotheses regarding causation and prevention.
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Carman, Judith Anne. "The metabolic relationship between nutrition and cancer /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc287.pdf.

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Munthali, Alister Chaundumuka. "Change and continuity : perceptions about childhood diseases among the Tumbuka of Northern Malawi." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007718.

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The objectives of this study were to determine what the Tumbuka people of northern Malawi consider to be the most dangerous childhood diseases, to explore their perceptions about the aetiology, prevention and treatment of these diseases, and to determine how such perceptions have changed over the years. The study was done in Chisinde and surrounding villages in western Rumphi District, northern Malawi. Although a household questionnaire was used to collect some quantitative data, the major data collection methods comprised participant observation, in-depth interviews with mothers with children under five and old men and women, and key informant interviews with traditional healers, traditional birth attendants, village headmen, health surveillance assistants and clinical officers. Informants in this study mentioned chikhoso chamoto, diarrhoea, malaria, measles, and conjunctivitis as the most dangerous childhood diseases in the area. Old men and women added that in the past smallpox was also a dangerous disease that affected both children and adults. Apart from measles and smallpox, community-based health workers and those at the local health centre also mentioned the same list of diseases as the most dangerous diseases prevalent among under-five children. Though health workers and informants mentioned the same diseases, the informants' perspectives about the aetiology and prevention of these diseases and the way they sought treatment during childhood illness episodes, in some cases, differed significantly from those of biomedicine. For example, while health workers said that the signs and symptoms presented by a child suffering from "chikhoso chamoto" were those of either kwashiorkor or marasmus, both young and elderly informants said that a child could contract this illness through contact with a person who had been involved in sexual intercourse. Biomedically, diarrhoea is caused by the ingestion of pathogenic agents, which are transmitted through, among other factors, drinking contaminated water and eating contaminated foods. While young men and women subscribed to this biomedical view, at the same time, just like old men and women, they also believed that if a breastfeeding mother has sexual intercourse, sperms will contaminate her breast milk and, once a child feeds on this milk, he or she will develop diarrhoea. They, in addition, associated diarrhoea with the process of teething and other infections, such as malaria and measles. In malaria-endemic areas such as Malawi, the occurrence of convulsions, splenomegaly and anaemia in children under five may be biomedically attributed to malaria. However, most informants in this study perceived these conditions as separate disease entities caused by, among other factors, witchcraft and the infringement of Tumbuka taboos relating to food, sexual intercourse and funerals. Splenomegaly and convulsions were also perceived as hereditary diseases. Such Tumbuka perceptions about the aetiology of childhood diseases also influenced their ideas about prevention and the seeking of therapy during illness episodes. Apart from measles, other childhood vaccine-preventable diseases (i.e. tetanus, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis and poliomyelitis) were not mentioned, presumably because they are no longer occurring on a significant scale, which is an indication of the success of vaccination programmes. This study reveals that there is no outright rejection of vaccination services in the study area. Some mothers, though, felt pressured to go for vaccination services as they believed that non-vaccinated children were refused biomedical treatment at the local health centres when they fell ill. While young women with children under five mentioned vaccination as a preventative measure against diseases such as measles, they also mentioned other indigenous forms of 'vaccination', which included the adherence to societal taboos, the wearing of amulets, the rubbing of protective medicines into incisions, isolation of children under five (e.g. a newly born child is kept in the house, amongst other things, to protect him or her against people who are ritually considered hot because of sexual intercourse) who are susceptible to disease or those posing a threat to cause disease in children under five. For example, since diarrhoea is perceived to be caused by, among other things, a child feeding on breast milk contaminated with sperms, informants said that there is a strong need for couples to observe postpartum sexual intercourse. A couple with newly delivered twins is isolated from the village because of the belief that children will swell if they came into contact with them. Local methods of disease prevention seem therefore to depend on what is perceived to be the cause of the illness and the decision to adopt specific preventive measures depends on, among other factors, the diagnosis of the cause and of who is vulnerable. The therapy-seeking process is a hierarchical movement within and between aetiologies; at the same time, it is not a random process, but an ordered process of choices in response to negative feedback, and subject to a number of factors, such as the aetiology of the disease, distance, social costs, cost of the therapeutic intervention, availability of medicines, etc. The movement between systems (i.e. from traditional medicine to biomedicine and vice-versa) during illness episodes depends on a number of factors, including previous experiences of significant others (i.e. those close to the patient), perceptions about the chances of getting healed, the decisions of the therapy management group, etc. For example, febrile illness in children under five may be treated using herbs or antipyretics bought from the local grocery shops. When the situation worsens (e.g. accompanied by convulsions), a herbalist will be consulted or the child may be taken to the local health centre. The local health centre refers such cases to the district hospital for treatment. Because of the rapidity with which the condition worsens, informants said that sometimes such children are believed to be bewitched, hence while biomedical treatment is sought, at the same time diviners are also consulted. The therapeutic strategies people resort to during illness episodes are appropriate rational decisions, based on prevailing circumstances, knowledge, resources and outcomes. Boundaries between the different therapeutic options are not rigid, as people move from one form of therapy to another and from one mode of classification to another. Lastly, perceptions about childhood diseases have changed over the years. Old men and women mostly attribute childhood illnesses to the infringement of taboos (e.g. on . sexual intercourse), witchcraft and other supernatural forces. While young men and women also subscribe to these perceptions, they have at the same time also appropriated the biomedical disease explanatory models. These biomedical models were learnt at school, acquired during health education sessions conducted by health workers in the communities as well as during under-five clinics, and health education programmes conducted on the national radio station. Younger people, more frequently than older people, thus move within and between aetiological models in the manner described above.
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Lenkiewicz, Marie. "Contribución al estudio del léxico médico del español medieval : "Secretos de medicina" del licenciado don Juan Enriquez y "Pronóstica del pseudo-Galeno"." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63991.

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Medlow, Sharon Denise. "Mechanisms of mental causation: An examination of the theories of Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism with regard to their proposals concerning the causal role of human mentality in the natural world." University of Sydney. Psychology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/678.

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One of the most interesting developments in recent psychological theorising has been a growing appreciation of the need for a viable theory of mental causation. Hitherto, the prospects for reconciling what seems to be the uniquely rational character of human thought and action with the non-rational mechanistic workings of the natural world have appeared to be limited or even illusory, and the pursuit of reconciliation of this sort has therefore formerly been dismissed as being either impossible of completion or inappropriate for contemplation. Much of the scepticism concerning the role of causal processes in human thought and action was dispelled, however, by the philosopher Donald Davidson, who argues that not only is human action capable of being caused by the actor�s thoughts and desires, but that only when such action is so caused, can it be rational. Davidson�s proposal for the reconciliation of human rationality with causal necessitation is articulated in his theory of Anomalous Monism. According to this theory, there exists what may be termed an ontological-conceptual distinction between events themselves and the characters or properties that are attributed to events by human observers, and it is through recognition of this distinction that one discovers how mental events, that is, events that are amenable to description in the psychological vocabulary, are causally efficacious yet free from the constraints typically associated with the necessity and sufficiency of causal laws. Anomalous Monism, if it were workable, would therefore resolve the paradox according to which human mentality is at once integrated in, and yet unconstrained by, the mechanistic natural world, by demonstrating the compatibility of the facts of causation with the intuitions of folk psychology. However, close examination of Anomalous Monism reveals it to rely on logically flawed anti-realist principles concerning the characters of events, properties and causation. It follows from this that the theory itself must be rejected, but the task that it was devised to undertake, the formulation of a viable theory of mental causation, need not be similarly discarded. Rather, what remains is the challenge of delineating an alternative theory, one that withstands logical scrutiny whilst addressing what is characteristic of human mental processes, and thereby what is characteristic of mental causation. The theory of Direct Realism that is derived from the broader philosophical realism of John Anderson provides the materials for meeting this challenge. According to Direct Realism, mental phenomena are relational situations obtaining between certain organisms (including humans) and their environments. As such, mental phenomena are included in the range of phenomena occurring in the natural world and they are therefore subject to all of its ways of working, including its deterministic mechanisms. The particular challenge that a Direct Realist theory of mental causation faces, that of demonstrating that relational situations can be causal, is revealed upon examination of the character of causation to be unproblematic. Furthermore, the seeming incompatibility between human rationality and natural necessitation is resolved when it is acknowledged that, rather than be an inherent feature of thought and action, logical structure is a characteristic of the natural environment that organisms are at times sensitive to, as revealed by its effects on the characters of their thoughts and actions. Far from being remote or illusory, the prospects for reconciling human mentality with the causal mechanisms of the natural world are discovered in the present thesis to be favourable when a realist approach to the characters of both mental events and causation is adopted.
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Medlow, Sharon. "Mechanisms of mental causation an examination of the theories of Anomalous Monism and Direct Realism with regard to their proposals concerning the causal role of human mentality in the natural world /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/678.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.
Title from title screen (viewed 14 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology, Faculty of Science. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Hatherall, Bethan. "Causes of tuberculosis stigma in South Asia : developing explanatory theories through multi-country qualitative research." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8993/.

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Although tuberculosis (TB) stigma has been widely reported in South Asia and elsewhere, few interventions have been introduced to reduce it. Whilst it is recognised that stigma interventions need to address the fundamental causes of stigma and that their design needs to be theory-driven, causal theories to explain TB stigma are lacking. In this thesis I present the development of causal theories to explain manifestations of TB stigma and identify theory-driven approaches to addressing TB stigma in South Asia. Causal theories to explain TB stigma were developed using a multi-country comparative approach, involving qualitative methods and the principles of grounded theory, alongside a realist conceptualisation of causality. Qualitative data was collected through 73 interviews with people with TB, their family members and health care providers in three rural and two urban sites in Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan, and through eight focus group discussions conducted in three of the sites. Three manifestations of TB stigma, for which causal theories were developed, were identified from the data: reduced marriage prospects, the perception that people with TB are hated, and the attribution of blame for the course and reoccurrence of TB. All three manifestations are rooted in different psychological processes and it is between these manifestations and their roots that the realist causal theories lie. The mechanisms and contexts which explain how, for whom and in what circumstances TB stigma becomes manifest provide the theory that can be used to underpin approaches to addressing TB stigma. These approaches focus on influencing the legitimacy of rejection, hatred and blame, on reducing vulnerability to TB, on empowering people with TB, and on mainstreaming TB stigma and pre-empting the changing nature of its manifestations.
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Antonaccio, Olena. "Theoretical Investigation of the Causes of Juvenile Delinquency in Ukraine: Toward Integration of Classic Strain and Control Theories." NCSU, 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07072008-112920/.

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This research provides a new assessment of Mertonâs classic strain/anomie theory and addresses some of its empirical and theoretical problems. First of all, it compares alternative operationalizations of classic strain and reports the results of a test of the theoryâs generality using the survey data from Ukrainian adolescents. Second, the research evaluates the chances of improving classic strain theory by elaborating and possibly integrating it with other explanations of crime and delinquency, particularly those featuring such constraints on behavior as perceptions of punishment, social bonds, self-control, and morality. The findings from this study confirm that additional clarifications of the concept of classic strain may be promising. They also demonstrate the applicability of Mertonâs account to the Ukrainian context and indicate the importance of socio-cultural macro-level influences. Furthermore, the results concerning the possibility of theoretical elaboration of the classic strain/anomie theory provide limited support for mediating or moderating effects of the constraint variables on the strain-crime relationship. However, they show that some measures of classic strain as well as all crime-inhibiting factors exert significant independent effects on involvement in juvenile delinquency. Therefore, empirical evidence seems to suggest that more drastic transformations of Mertonâs theory may be required in order to turn it into a more satisfying account of misbehavior. In particular, it indicates the necessity of theoretical integration of the classic strain/anomie explanation of crime with those featuring constraints on behavior.
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Books on the topic "Causes and theories of causations"

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Zumaylī, Zuhayr Muḥammad. Li-mādhā jaʻala Allāh al-amrāḍ!?: Min ḥikam khalq Allāh lil-amrāḍ. ʻAmmān, al-Urdun: Dār al-Furqān, 1988.

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Subjektive Krankheitstheorie und Krankheitsverarbeitung bei Herzinfarktrehabilitanden. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990.

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Treichler, Markus. Neue Zeiten, neue Leiden: Zeittendenzen, Krankheitsbilder, Chancen. Stuttgart: Mayer, 1998.

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Kroeger, Hanna. The basic causes of modern diseases and how to remedy them. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 1998.

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Causation and disease: A chronological journey. New York: Plenum Medical Book Co., 1993.

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B, Purtilo Ruth, ed. A survey of human diseases. 2nd ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

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MacCallum, W. G. A textbook of pathology. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1996.

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1978, Laurence George d., Souter Keith M, and Upton Carl, eds. Psionic medicine: The study and treatment of the causative factors in illness. 3rd ed. Saffron Walden: C.W. Daniel, 2001.

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Cornelius, Margaret. Fiji non-communicable diseases (NCD) steps survey 2002. Suva, Fiji: Ministry of Health, 2002.

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Vinay, Kumar, and Robbins Stanley L. 1915-, eds. Robbins pathologic basis of disease. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Causes and theories of causations"

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Giannini, Giacomo, and Stephen Mumford. "Formal Causes for Powers Theorists." In Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation, 87–105. New York, NY : Routledge, [2021]: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429329821-7.

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Hagmayer, York, and Neele Engelmann. "Asking Questions to Provide a Causal Explanation – Do People Search for the Information Required by Cognitive Psychological Theories?" In Perspectives on Causation, 121–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34308-8_4.

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Borkakoti, J. "The Neofactor Proportions Theories." In International Trade: Causes and Consequences, 292–312. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27014-9_20.

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Szostak, Rick. "The Most Relevant Theories and Methods." In The Causes of Economic Growth, 53–98. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92282-7_3.

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Coccia, Mario. "Comparative Theories and Causes of War." In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 1–7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3842-1.

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Gyenis, Balazs, and Miklós Rédei. "Causal Completeness in General Probability Theories." In Probabilities, Causes and Propensities in Physics, 157–71. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9904-5_7.

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Downing-Orr, Kristina. "Biological Theories about the Causes of Depression." In Rethinking Depression, 33–46. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0101-9_4.

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Downing-Orr, Kristina. "Psychological Theories about the Causes of Depression." In Rethinking Depression, 47–59. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0101-9_5.

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Downing-Orr, Kristina. "Alternative Theories about the Causes of Depression." In Rethinking Depression, 61–78. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0101-9_6.

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Bruinsma, Gerben. "History of Criminological Theories: Causes of Crime." In Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2137–48. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_547.

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Conference papers on the topic "Causes and theories of causations"

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Gdanski, R. D., and M. A. Peavy. "Well Return Analysis Causes Re-Evaluation of HCl Theories." In SPE Formation Damage Control Symposium. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/14825-ms.

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Cui, Jinrong. "Analysis of Construction Quality Accident Causes of Public Buildings Based on Failure Study Theories." In 2011 International Conference on Computer and Management (CAMAN). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/caman.2011.5778848.

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Fırat, Emine. "Economic Fluctuations in Turkey in the Light of Business Cycle Theories." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c03.00525.

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Some economists have tried to demonstrate the cause of economic fluctuations and its solution with business cycle theories. The classical school emphasizes the efficiency of free market economy and the optimization of private economic factors. The Keynesian school believes that the causes of economic fluctuations arise from not only just the deviations from market equilibrium but also market failure on a grand scale. The debate over the source and propagation of economic fluctuations rages as fiercely today as it did in the Great Depression that began in 1929. Economic Fluctuation models investigate to answer the question of why economies go through boom and bust and why economies experience cycles of recession and recovery. In the economic literature, based on the Business Cycle Theories many different approaches have been proposed. While economists discuss the ultimate form of the right business cycle model, they must take into consideration the decisive factors of economic fluctuations in the past century. In this study, the local economic crisis occurred in Turkey in recent years are investigated in the light of Business Cycle Theory and also the effects of macroeconomic policies are evaluated on the basis of economic fluctuations models.
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Chodankar, Abhijeet D., and Abdennour Seibi. "A Comprehensive Fluid Coupled Lateral Drill String Vibration Model Based on Classical Vibration Theories." In ASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2018-8902.

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The drilling industry has been suffering from huge monetary losses and non-productive time due to wear and fatigue of the drill string components. Vibration mitigation plays a pivotal role in extending the life of drill string components. The development of a comprehensive drill string vibration model will help in classifying the causes of drill string vibrations and helps in planning pro-active measures to suppress it. In the past, researchers have developed models based on factors like drill string length, axial compression load, lateral loads, shear deformation, rotary inertia and fluid damping. The four classical engineering vibration theories will be discussed in detail with the addition of fluid stiffness and fluid damping. This paper develops a drill string vibration model considering the effects of bending, translational inertia, rotary inertia, shear deformation, fluid stiffness and fluid damping. The drill string is considered as a cantilever beam of a circular cross-section immersed in water with equal pressure on both sides. The water is considered to be a spring and dash-pot model in parallel. It adopts a classical solution methodology based on D’Almbert’s principle. The eigen values, normalized mode shape, natural frequencies, orthogonality conditions and dynamic response equations are derived for all the theories. Natural Frequency and Dynamic response of the drill string are used to make informed decisions. Numerical simulation results show the influence of all the factors on vibration damping of the drill string. A critical understanding of the effects of all the above factors individually and in tandem will help in adopting a novel drilling strategy. To conclude, a complete step-by-step methodology for the proposed comprehensive drill string vibration model is put forth to determine the natural frequency and dynamic response of the drill string.
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Xie, Botao, Fengting Han, Defu Liu, Shuang Liu, Shichang Huang, and Liang Pang. "Statistical Prediction of Long Term Characteristics for Typhoon Induced Rainstorm and Inundation in China." In ASME 2008 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2008-57017.

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Of all regular recurring natural hazards, tropical cyclones pose the most dangerous threat to the economical development and more than 250 million lives in most areas of China. It is necessary to develop effective responses to an increasingly complex set of cumulative causes and consequences from typhoon characteristics and their induced disasters. Typhoon induced rainfall and inundation disasters cause enormous damage in most coastal areas of China, such as river flood and land slide. After Comprising of several popular extreme value theories, one kind of Compound Extreme Value Distribution model (Poisson-Gumbel distribution) is applied to estimate different return level precipitation in the southeast coastal region of China in this paper. It is shown that the new model can give more reasonable and comprehensive predicted result than traditional methods.
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Green, Itzhak. "Poisson Ratio Effects on the Von Mises and Maximum Shear Stresses in Cylindrical Contacts." In World Tribology Congress III. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/wtc2005-64120.

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This work determines the location of the greatest elastic distress in cylindrical contacts based upon the distortion energy and the maximum shear stress theories. The ratios between the maximum pressure, the von Mises stress, and the maximum shear stress are determined and fitted by empirical formulations for a wide range of Poisson ratios, which represent material compressibility. Some similarities exist between cylindrical and spherical contacts, where for many metallic materials the maximum von Mises or shear stresses emerge beneath the surface. However, if any of the bodies in contact is excessively compressible the maximum von Mises stress appears at the surface. That transitional Poisson ratio is found. The critical force per unit length that causes yielding onset, along with its corresponding interference and half-width contact are derived.
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Li, Zhuoxuan, Maria Yang, and Warren Seering. "Community Growth Model in Different Profit-Seeking Contexts: A Comparative Case Study of RepRap and Ultimaker." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22759.

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Abstract The engagement of an online user community has been reported to be critical in the success of open design projects. However, most studies don’t consider the financial organizational contexts of their samples. Grounded in comparative case studies of the two biggest 3D printer communities — one supported by volunteers, another by a commercial firm, the paper contributes to the open design and open hardware literature with a typology of user community actions. We measured the types and intensity of different user community activities over time for the two cases. Results confirm that user community activities behave differently in profit-seeking or non-profit-seeking organizational contexts. We grounded potential causes through management team interviews as well as existing research theories. We conclude that the for-profit organizational context is associated with a difference in the design maturation process and the evolution of organizational openness.
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Younan, Hua. "Studies and Application of Auger Monitoring System for Quality Control and Assurance of Al Bondpads." In ISTFA 2016. ASM International, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2016p0287.

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Abstract In wafer fabrication (Fab), Fluorine (F) based gases are used for Al bondpad opening process. Thus, even on a regular Al bondpad, there exists a low level of F contamination. However, the F level has to be controlled at a lower level. If the F level is higher than the control/spec limits, it could cause F-induced corrosion and Al-F defects, resulting in pad discoloration and NSOP problems. In our previous studies [1-5], the theories, characteristics, chemical and physical failure mechanisms and the root causes of the F-induced corrosion and Al-F defects on Al bondpads have been studied. In this paper, we further study F-induced corrosion and propose to establish an Auger monitoring system so as to monitor the F contamination level on Al bondpads in wafer fabrication. Auger monitoring frequency, sample preparation, wafer life, Auger analysis points, control/spec limits and OOC/OOS quality control procedures are also discussed.
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Porcino, Thiago, Daniela Trevisan, and Esteban Clua. "Using Gameplay and Players Data to Recommend Strategies to Reduce Cybersickness." In XXI Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/svr_estendido.2019.8449.

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Virtual Reality (VR) is an upcoming trend in games and entertainment applications as the use of head-mounted displays becomes accessible for the mass market. These systems aim to provide immersive experiences, but they still do not provide a completely seamless experience, mostly due to sickness symptoms that can be experienced by the players. Cybersickness (CS) is one of the most critical problems that make the game industry fearful for higher investments. In this work, we made a critical study on the theories and causes of CS in virtual environments. We unified in a paper most of the leading hardware and software proposals to identify, quantify and minimize the main sickness problems. We also provide clarification about the most relevant measurement tools used to quantify the level of sickness for one or more players through specific questionnaires. We also developed a demo plugin for a commercial game engine to collect relevant data in a VR game to use as a database to future research approaches to enhance user experience in head-mounted displays.
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Avanessian, Tadeh, and Gisuk Hwang. "Adsorption and Capillary Condensation in Nanogap With Nanoposts." In ASME 2017 Heat Transfer Summer Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2017-4782.

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Adsorption isotherm and adsorption-capillary transition theories have been developed based on homogeneous micro-/nanoporous materials and structures. However, material and structures are often heterogeneous including local surface roughness and defects, where no predictive tool is available so far. In this study, the adsorption isotherm and the adsorption-capillary transition is examined for Ar-filled Pt nanogap (Lz = 5 nm) with nanoposts (one surface only) using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations. Results show that the presence of the nanoposts causes a bimodal capillary transition and reduces the capillary transition pressure compared to the nanogap with both bare surfaces. The pressure difference between the bimodal transitions is pronounced with decreasing the nanopost pitch size. The larger nanopost height also leads to the early capillary transition, but the bimodal transition is pronounced for moderate heights of the nanoposts. A stronger solid-fluid interaction reduces the adsorption-capillary transition pressure at given temperature and increases the transition pressure difference between the nanogaps with or without nanoposts. The obtained results provide new insights of the role of surface nanostructure (nanoposts) into adsorption isotherm and capillary transition.
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Zarnowitz, Victor. Cost and Price Movements in Business Cycle Theories and Experience: Causes and Effects of OBserved Changes (SEE ALSO WP3131-Send out together). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w3132.

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