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Analytical causation in Islamic philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesKom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2021
Analytical causation is a type of causation that is often overlooked in philosophical textbooks. This type of causation is contrasted with external causation.
Agha Shiraz Husain
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Mortality from Parkinson’s disease and other causes among a workforce manufacturing paraquat: an updated retrospective cohort study

open access: yesJournal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2021
Background Epidemiological studies of the association between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and paraquat (PQ) exposure have given inconsistent findings. The aim of the study was to update information on the risk of PD and mortality from major causes of death ...
John Andrew Tomenson, Clive Campbell
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A Role and Reference Grammar’s Account of Causation in Persian [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2021
Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) provides a workable mechanism, namely “interclausal relations hierarchy”, for the analysis of complex constructions. It is used as a general rule for interlinguistic studies. This hierarchy consists of "semantic continuum"
Parisa Najafi, Jalal Rahemeyan
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Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg

open access: yesJournal of Modern Philosophy, 2021
This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011).
Nabeel Hamid
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Problems of causation in Aquilian's casuistry [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2013
Roman lawyers interpreted causation in a very specific way, without any abstractions or generalisations, existence or non-existence of causation was established in each particular case ( ad hoc).
Bogunović Mirjana
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The anatomy of death

open access: yesJournal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine, 2023
Medical science does not treat death as an independent physiological phenomenon. It believes that disease is the cause of death and treats both as preventable phenomena. Doctors and relatives nurture a guilt complex when death occurs.
Lopa Mehta
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Local causation [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2021
AbstractThe counterfactual and regularity theories are universal accounts of causation. I argue that these should be generalized to produce local accounts of causation. A hallmark of universal accounts of causation is the assumption that apparent variation in causation between locations must be explained by differences in background causal conditions ...
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Computing the Integrated Information of a Quantum Mechanism

open access: yesEntropy, 2023
Originally conceived as a theory of consciousness, integrated information theory (IIT) provides a theoretical framework intended to characterize the compositional causal information that a system, in its current state, specifies about itself. However, it
Larissa Albantakis   +2 more
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4-Hydroxy-3-Methoxybenzoic Acid Methyl Ester: A Curcumin Derivative Targets Akt/NFκB Cell Survival Signaling Pathway: Potential for Prostate Cancer Management

open access: yesNeoplasia: An International Journal for Oncology Research, 2003
Transcription factor NFKB and the serine/threonine kinase Akt play critical roles in mammalian cell survival signaling and have been shown to be activated in various malignancies including prostate cancer (PCA).
Addanki P. Kumar   +5 more
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Mental Causation [PDF]

open access: yesAnalysis, 2014
How could mental entities causally affect, or be affected by, physical entities? Identifying a relationship between mental and physical entities that is both consistent with their causal interaction and independently plausible is one of the perennial problems in the philosophy of mind.
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