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A Machine Learning Evaluation of the Effects of South Africa’s COVID-19 Lockdown Measures on Population Mobility

Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 2021
Following the declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 11 March 2020, that the global COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic, South Africa implemented a full lockdown from 27 March 2020 for 21 days.
Albert Whata, Charles Chimedza
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Causal Foundationalism, Physical Causation, and Difference-Making [PDF]

, 2013
An influential tradition in the philosophy of causation has it that all token causal facts are, or are reducible to, facts about difference-making. Challenges to this tradition have typically focused on pre-emption cases, in which a cause apparently ...
Glynn, Luke, Glynn, L
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Increased Risk of Sarcomas in Children With Congenital Anomalies: Findings From the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Registry Linkage Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that contribute disproportionately to cancer mortality in children. Although congenital anomalies are among the strongest known risk factors for childhood cancer, the risk of specific sarcoma subtypes among affected individuals has not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Procedure We
Russ Wolters, Ji Yun Tark, Tiffany M. Chambers, Tania A. Desrosiers, Michael E. Scheurer, Charles Shumate, Wendy N. Nembhard, Mahsa M. Yazdy, Eirini Nestoridi, Amanda E. Janitz, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jason L. Salemi, Yao Yu, Chad D. Huff, Sharon E. Plon, Philip J. Lupo, Jeremy M. Schraw   +17 more
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Evidence of causal effect of major depression on alcohol dependence: findings from the psychiatric genomics consortium. [PDF]

, 2019
Despite established clinical associations among major depression (MD), alcohol dependence (AD), and alcohol consumption (AC), the nature of the causal relationship between them is not completely understood.
Gillespie, Nathan A, Lind, Penelope A, Maes, Hermine H, Lewis, Cathryn M, Medland, Sarah E, Wray, Naomi R, Derks, Eske M, Edenberg, Howard J, Agrawal, Arpana, Mbarek, Hamdi, Sullivan, Patrick F, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Streit, Fabian, Frank, Josef, Edwards, Alexis C, Peterson, Roseann E, Polimanti, Renato, MacGregor, Stuart, Gerring, Zachary, Gelernter, Joel, Ong, Jue-Sheng, Kendler, Kenneth S, Martin, Nicholas G   +22 more
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‘Not finding causal effect’ is not ‘finding no causal effect’ of school closure on COVID-19 [PDF]

F1000Research, 2021
Abstract In a paper recently published in Nature Medicine, Fukumoto et al. tried to assess the government-led school closure policy during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. They compared the reported incidence rates between municipalities that had and had not implemented school closure in selected periods from March–May 2020 ...
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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An investigation into the effect of causal beliefs about depression on attitudes and clinical judgements [PDF]

, 2013
Biological explanations of depression have been found to increase professional perceptions of the effectiveness of medical treatments and reduce the perceptions of the effectiveness of psychological therapy.
Tate, K.
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Testing for non-linear causal effects using a binary genotype in a Mendelian randomization study : application to alcohol and cardiovascular traits [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Mendelian randomization studies have so far restricted attention to linear associations relating the genetic instrument to the exposure, and the exposure to the outcome.
Casas, Juan P., Leon, David A., Dudbridge, Frank, Whittaker, John C., Zuccolo, Luisa, Keating, Brendan J, Silverwood, Richard J., Holmes, Michael V, Smith, George Davey, Casas, Juan P, Silverwood, Richard J, Lawlor, Debbie A., Lawlor, Debbie A, Alcohol-ADH1B Consortium, Holmes, Michael V., Whittaker, John C, Leon, David A, Dale, Caroline E., Dale, Caroline E, Palmer, Tom M., Palmer, Tom, Keating, Brendan J.   +21 more
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Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
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Unraveling drought propagation dynamics using causal inference from time series

Environmental Research Letters
Drought is a pervasive natural hazard that propagates through the hydrologic cycle, leading to water deficiencies across key hydroclimatic variables such as precipitation, streamflow, and soil moisture.
Min Pang, Shuai Yang
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