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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Causal relations"”.
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The access to causal relations in semantic memory
… Dissertation wurde die Dissoziation zwischen der Causal Model Theorie und der Assoziationistischen Ansicht über die Repräsentation von Kausalrelationen im semantischen Gedächtnis untersucht. Die Assoziationistische Ansicht postuliert, dass kausale Relationen und andere Relationen als Assoziationen …
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An unsupervised approach to identifying causal relations from relevant scenarios
Semantic relations between various text units play an important role in natural language understanding, as key elements of text coherence. The automatic identification of these semantic relationships is very important for many language processing applications. One of the most pervasive yet very …
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Posttraumatic Substance Use Disorders (PTSUD): Perceived Causal Relations between Trauma-Related Symptoms and Substance Use Disorders
… research has investigated the cause and effect relationships between the two. This thesis examined the co-occurrence of trauma-related symptoms, PTSD, and SUD using Perceived Causal Relations scaling in an online community sample (n = 513) and in persons who were or had recently attended …
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Role of Causal Relationships in the Story Comprehension of Children
… purpose of this study was to examine the role of causal relationships in the comprehension of stories by children using a model for comprehending events as causal relationships (Trabasso, Secco, van den Broek, 1983). Although causal relations play a role in earlier story grammars, this causal …
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Causal Inference in Psychology and Neuroscience: From Association to Causation
<p>In psychology and neuroscience, inferring causality in non-experimental studies is almost taboo, because data in these studies, e.g., survey data and resting-state neuroimaging data, are often contaminated by unmeasured confounders. Psychologists and neuroscientists are often cautious about …
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Causation in metaphysics and moral theory
Chapter 1: The causal relata. Ordinary talk suggests that entities from different ontological categories can cause and be caused: Kathy's throw, the fact that Kathy threw, and Kathy herself can all cause the window to break. But according to the majority view, causation exclusively relates events. …
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Exploring entities in text with descriptive non-photorealistic rendering
… words in the text and the physical, real-world relationships between those words. Analytic exploration is supported through a collection of interactive widgets and direct multitouch interaction with the 3D models. We applied our method to analyze a collection of vehicle complaint reports from …
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Practical Methods in Multivariate Time Series Analysis (Causality, Arma, Box-Jenkins)
… in lag structures, forecasts, and interrelationships of variables over time. The Box-Jenkins approach to time series analysis has proved to be quite effective when dealing with single time series, or, in certain cases, with pairs of time series. They did not, however, discuss guidelines …
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Extraction of Causal-Association Networks from Unstructured Text Data
Causality is an expression of the interactions between variables in a system. Humans often explicitly express causal relations through natural language, so extracting these relations can provide insight into how a system functions. This thesis presents a system that uses a grammar parser to extract …
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Learning commonsense knowledge from the interpretation of individual experiences
… graphs to store readily available historical and causal relations for experiences. The resulting memory system can handle three types of commonsense reasoning tasks. It can generalize, going from two specific examples to the knowledge that all birds can fly. It can predict, hypothesizing that …
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On the finite sample complexity of causal discovery and the value of domain expertise
Causal discovery methods seek to identify causal relations between random variables from purely observational data, as opposed to actively collected experimental data where an experimenter intervenes on a subset of correlates. One of the seminal works in this area is the Inferred Causation (IC) …
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Mining novel sources of knowledge to identify causal information in text
… of text articles to understand events and the causal relations between events that build a particular social or political news story. In this thesis, we focus on the problem of automated extraction of causal information in text. This can be of great assistance to the people who strive to …
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The influence of prior knowledge on specific reading competencies in assessment: Their interrelations and influence on comprehension
… model approach was used to examine the possible causal relations among the reading variables (prior knowledge, inference ability, text importance) and their influence on reading comprehension. Results concerning specific research questions were reported and addressed in the context of …
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Three Essays on Executive Incentive Pay and Causal Inference in Corporate Finance
… rate finance and corporate governance. Second, relations among the factors that determine CEO compensation and firm outcome are complex and often the exact causal directions are ambiguous. Third, endogeneity is present and it’s likely many factors including CEO compensation and firm performance …
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Order effects of fear and pain induction
… highly correlated and appear to interact, the causal relations between these variables have yet to be fully defined. This study sought to further illuminate these relations by investigating how exposure to one of these states (i.e., pain or fear) affects responding to the other. The order in …
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Deconstructing domestic violence policy
… is not theorised as functioning through direct causal relations there is an opening for psychoanalytic subjectivities where the subject positioning occurs at the level of the unconscious. Consequently, I have chosen to draw upon Parker's critical transformative psychoanalytic discourse analysis …
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Learning and restructuring causal concepts
… this approach is that concepts are built on causal-explanatory knowledge, and hence, models of causal induction may help to clarify the mechanisms of the restructuring process. A new paradigm is presented to study the learning and revising of causal networks. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that …
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Application of a systems-theoretic approach to risk analysis of high-speed rail project management in the US
… System Dynamics to analyze further detailed causal relations of the identified risks and discusses its potential usage for risk analysis. Thus, this thesis research concludes with specific recommendations about safety management in the project in the NEC, making a point that the proposed …
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Engagement In Activities And Cognitive Functioning Among Older Adults In The Health And Retirement Study
… first aimed to identify longitudinal relations between activity frequency and cognitive functioning. Two hypotheses were tested, baseline activity frequency predicts change in cognitive functioning over time, and baseline cognitive performance predicts change in activity frequency over …
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COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS AS PREDICTORS OF CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION (REFLECTION-IMPULSIVITY, CAUSAL REASONING, PARENT STYLE)
<p>In the present study, children's level of causal reasoning and cognitive style were considered as possible predictors of their understanding of safety and accident prevention. Understanding of safety and accident prevention were operationalized as differentiation of safe and unsafe situations …
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