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Exploring the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to estimating the impact of long-term care: The 'expected' ASCOT method

open access: yesJournal of Long-Term Care, 2019
Context: Measuring the impact of long-term care (LTC) is essential if we are to allocate limited resources effectively.Objectives: We explored the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to evaluation, known as the counterfactual self-estimation
Juliette Malley   +4 more
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The relative conservation impact of strategies that prioritize biodiversity representation, threats, and protection costs

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2020
Despite exponential increases in the coverage of protected areas (PAs) over recent decades, global biodiversity continues to decline. One explanation for this lack of success is that the efficacy of conservation prioritization strategies is rarely ...
Edmond Sacre   +3 more
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Approximate and Situated Causality in Deep Learning

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2020
Causality is the most important topic in the history of western science, and since the beginning of the statistical paradigm, its meaning has been reconceptualized many times.
Jordi Vallverdú
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A call to leverage a health equity lens to accelerate human neuroscience research

open access: yesFrontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2023
Investigation of health inequities tend to be examined, in human neurosciences, as biological factors at the level of the individual. In actuality, health inequities arise, due largely in part, to deep-seated structural factors.
Vida Rebello   +4 more
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How am I doing compared to different standards? Comparative thinking and well-being following exposure to a vehicle-ramming attack

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2020
Background: Exposure to potentially adverse events might intensify thinking about different comparison standards in relation to one’s own well-being. Objective: To examine how frequently survivors of a recent potentially traumatic event use different ...
Nexhmedin Morina
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The relevance of causation in robotics: A review, categorization, and analysis

open access: yesPaladyn, 2021
In this article, we investigate the role of causal reasoning in robotics research. Inspired by a categorization of human causal cognition, we propose a categorization of robot causal cognition.
Hellström Thomas
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COVID-19-Related Changes in NO2 and O3 Concentrations and Associated Health Effects in Malta

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021
The start of 2020 has been characterized by emission reductions in various countries across the globe following the implementation of different lock-down measures to control the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
Sara Fenech   +2 more
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Developing thoughts about what might have been [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent research has changed how developmental psychologists understand counterfactual thinking or thoughts of what might have been. Evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking develops over an extended period into at least middle childhood, depends on
Beck, Sarah R.   +2 more
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Counterfactuality of ‘counterfactual’ communication [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2014
Critical analysis of arXiv:1206.2042 and Phys. Rev. A 89, 052334. Revised according to comments of several referees, accepted for publication in J.
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Counterfactual worlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We study a generalization of the treatment effect model in which an observed discrete classifier indicates in which one of a set of counterfactual processes a decision maker is observed. The other observed outcomes are delivered by the particular counterfactual process in which the decision maker is found.
Andrew Chesher, Adam Rosen
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