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GWAS for primary angle-closure glaucoma identifies loci related to ocular biometry and morphology

Nature Communications
GWAS of primary angle-closure glaucoma have identified eight loci conferring risk in Asian populations. However, it remains unclear whether the genetic risk factors for the disease are consistent across different populations. Here, we present a discovery
Robert N. Luben, Mahantesh I. Biradar, Kelsey V. Stuart, Ruiqi Hu, Zihan Sun, Zheng Li, Ningli Wang, Tan Do, Chi Pui Pang, Masakazu Nakano, Kei Tashiro, Yoko Ikeda, Yuichi Tokuda, Masami Tanaka, Natsue Omi, Morio Ueno, Chie Sotozono, Shigeru Kinoshita, Kazuhiko Mori, Naris Kitnarong, Antonio Fea, Mônica B. Melo, José Paulo C. Vasconcellos, Vital P. Costa, Monisha E. Nongpiur, Ching Lin Ho, Shamira A. Perera, Jamie E. Craig, Antonia Kolovos, Ahmad Tajudin Liza-Sharmini, Edgar U. Leuenberger, Ki Ho Park, Lingam Vijaya, Ronnie George, Tin Aung, C. C. Khor, Paul J. Foster, Pirro Hysi, Anthony P. Khawaja   +38 more
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PFO closure in ischemic stroke: insights from a single-center real-world cohort [PDF]

Frontiers in Neurology
BackgroundIndications for patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure after ischemic stroke are primarily guided by the Risk of Paradoxical Embolism (RoPE) score and the PFO-associated Stroke Causal Likelihood Classification (PASCAL). Their application in routine
Felix Müller, Arda Civelek, Luis Weitbrecht, Lukas Badura, Kai Helge Schmidt, Florian Schlotter, Philipp Lurz, Stavros V. Konstantinides, Stavros V. Konstantinides, Stavros V. Konstantinides, Karsten Keller, Karsten Keller, Karsten Keller, Klaus Gröschel, Marianne Hahn, Timo Uphaus   +15 more
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Creation, bugs, and emergence [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021
An argument is presented, based on a common-sense interpretation of an everyday experience, for emergent dualism as the best available account of the origin of the human mind/soul. Emergent dualism is superior to subjective idealism in that it honors the
William Hasker
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On a Loophole in Causal Closure: Reply to Berber & Đorđević

Qeios, 2023
In this Reply, I explain why the “loophole view” of causal closure is independent of the reasons why the Principle of the causal closure of the physical was introduced.
J. Gamper
semanticscholar   +1 more source

More Substance, Please: A Reply To Michael Esfeld’s Minimalist Ontology of Persons

Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2023
Michael Esfeld has recently put forth his ontology of persons, with which he hopes to secure freedom and irreducible personhood as well as scientific realism, all by working with minimal ontological assumptions.
Alin Christoph Cucu
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Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology

Entropy, 2023
This paper considers how a classification of causal effects as comprising efficient, formal, material, and final causation can provide a useful understanding of how emergence takes place in biology and technology, with formal, material, and final ...
George F. R. Ellis
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A causal inference approach for estimating effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions during Covid-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE, 2022
In response to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), governments worldwide have introduced multiple restriction policies, known as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).
Vesna Barros, Itay Manes, Victor Akinwande, Celia Cintas, Osnat Bar-Shira, Michal Ozery-Flato, Yishai Shimoni, Michal Rosen-Zvi   +7 more
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Intraocular pressure modifications in patients with acute central/hemicentral retinal vein occlusions [PDF]

International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021
Intraocular pressure (IOP) modifications in patients with acute central/hemicentral retinal vein occlusions (RVOs) consist in IOP reductions and increases.
Dan Calugaru, Mihai Calugaru
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Closing in on Causal Closure [PDF]

, 2014
I examine the meaning and merits of a premise in the Exclusion Argument, the causal closure principle that all physical effects have physical causes. I do so by addressing two questions.
Garcia, Robert K.
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Transitive closure of subsumption and causal relations in a large ontology of radiological diagnosis

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2016

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