Causal Depth: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Causal Explanation contra Humean Empiricism [PDF]
The purpose of this note is to clarify how the idea of "causal depth" can play a role in finding the more "approximately true" explanation through causal comparisons.
Khan, Haider
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Integrative Drug-Target Causal Analysis, Single-Cell Sequencing and In-Vivo Validation for Dissecting Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Focal Epilepsy. [PDF]
CNS Neurosci TherSun H, Li X, Zhao W, Meng H, Zhang W.
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Transient oligomers formed by intrinsically disordered proteins may be ‘invisible’ to direct detection yet remain accessible to solution NMR through equilibrium‐exchange measurements and pressure‐jump experiments. Complementary methods report on mass, stoichiometry, selected distance distributions, morphology, and internal packing.
Martin D. Gelenter, Ad Bax
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Climbing the STAIRs: Assessing students’ social scientific reasoning skills
Journal of Social Science EducationHighlights: - Assessing complex skills in secondary school teaching practice is considered challenging - We developed items (STAIRs) to formatively assess students’ social scientific reasoning - STAIRs were validated by experts, teachers, think-aloud ...
Thomas Klijnstra +3 more
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Causal Bayesian network learning: application to the causal analysis of masticatory function and coronary heart disease in older adults. [PDF]
BMC Med Inform Decis MakWang C +7 more
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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
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MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference [PDF]
MatchIt implements the suggestions of Ho, Imai, King, and Stuart (2007) for improving parametric statistical models by preprocessing data with nonparametric matching methods.
Elizabeth A. Stuart +3 more
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Re: Causal analysis of the impact of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels on laryngeal cancer. [PDF]
Braz J OtorhinolaryngolDaungsupawong H, Wiwanitkit V.
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DNA ligase LigE increases bacterial transformation with damaged extracellular DNA
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The DNA ligase LigE from the naturally competent Gram‐negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoaea increases transformation with cut extracellular DNA. This process is ATP‐dependent and relies on the catalytic activity of LigE; it also requires that LigE contains an intact periplasmic localisation sequence, indicating that ligE functions in the periplasm ...
Jolyn Pan +4 more
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Interpretable Neural Causal Models with TRAM-DAGs
The ultimate goal of most scientific studies is to understand the underlying causal mechanism between the involved variables. Structural causal models (SCMs) are widely used to represent such causal mechanisms.
Sick, Beate, Dürr, Oliver
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