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The Technology of Innovative Behavior: A Causal Explanation of Agricultural Innovativeness of Indian Farmers
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Causation and Explanation in Molecular Developmental Biology
… revolve around two central themes: causation and explanation. Chapter Two identifies a particular type of causal relation which is widespread across the sciences, but cannot be straightforwardly accommodated by extant accounts of causation and causal explanation. Chapter Three explores how the …
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Power Centrality as a relational measure of urban hierarchy : testing the splintering urbanism theory with social media data from Santiago de Chile
… bypassing their less valuable surroundings. The causal explanation provided by Graham and Marvin is centered on their concept of premium networks: Networks customized for valuable (users in terms of income or power). The reach of this theory is assessed by studying the case of a mass transit …
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Strategic decision-making of Chinese managers on corporate social responsibility issues: A policy-capturing study
… CSR, and (3) to explore stakeholder salience and causal explanation theory in CSR activities. The author utilised a policy-capturing method to develop a series of scenarios concerning CSR activities. 376 valid questionnaires at the individual level were received from Chinese managers. Concerning …
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The Underrepresentation of Marginalizied Parents in Family-School-Community Networks: A Matter of Social Justice in Urban Public School Systems
… settings. This work provides a clear analysis of causal explanation for institutional barriers and perceptions that exist in schools. This dissertation in practice contains a road map and suggestions for urban educational leaders who intend to improve the conditions of engagement between families, …
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Implicit models of mental disorder across the life-span : a comparison of older and younger adults
… problems and in terms of overall style of causal explanation, where older adults lay greater weight on the role of 'difficulties in personal relationships'. Older adults were also more likely to view inpatient psychiatric treatment as necessary for a number of problems and cited different …
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Nuclear Proliferation Theory and Practice: the Case of Iran
… In the academic realm, most studies offer mono-causal policy-oriented explanations for Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability. With some contrast, this paper offers a multi-causal explanation for Iran's pursuit, suggesting that drivers of Iran's nuclear ambitions exist at the …
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A Teleosemantic Theory Of The Deep-Unconscious: A Response To John R. Searle's Account Of The Unconscious
… a teleosemantic theory of the unconscious as a causal explanation for consciously unintended human behaviors.
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Grounding, Causation and the Unity of Ontological Structure
… supports another: the unification of reality’s causal structure and reality’s hierarchical structure.</p> <p>To propose a unification of causation and grounding, I employ a common conception of grounding on which grounding is understood as a dependence relation. On this conception, if the …
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Curricula change in response to the changing governance in higher education
This thesis seeks to provide a causal explanation of a new curriculum model (NCM) within a university college with a view to examining the changing nature of governance in higher education. Critical realist explanatory frameworks guide the structure of the thesis. Accordingly, the thesis first …
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Age and Sex Differences in the Use of Causal Attributions and Their Relationship to Persistence
Three studies were done on children's use of causal attributions. In Study 1, sex and age differences in the use of ability, effort, luck and task difficulty attributions were examined. Tasks specifically designed to elicit each of the four ascriptions were presented to four age groups: 4 1/2 to 6, …
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REPRESENTATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS: AN EXAMINATION OF MOVIES AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN NIGERIA
… mental illness) showed that alternative modes of causal explanation for the problem predominated over psychiatric modes, confirming existing studies. Central to this study is the identification and analysis of the causes, treatment and stigma attached to mental illness in movies, with a particular …
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Do psychiatric diagnoses explain? : A philosophical investigation
… In medicine, diagnoses normally serve as causal explanations of patients’ symptoms. Given that psychiatry is a discipline whose practice is shaped by medical traditions, it is often implied that its diagnoses also serve such explanatory functions. This is evident in clinical texts that …
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Interdisciplinary Learning in Engineering Practice: An Exploratory Multi-case Study of Engineering for the Life Sciences Projects
… in engineering practice by providing a detailed explanation of why engineers are more likely to engage in those learning practices and how they are more likely to achieve the learning outcomes. The main contribution of this thesis is in assembling the identified learning outcomes and the …
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Greening for Self-Conservation? Energy Security and Responses to Climate Change in the Small Gulf Monarchies
… the study pursues a multi-level and multi-causal explanation: At the domestic level it applies the concepts of rentierism and neotraditionalism for understanding the dynamics and elaborate strategies of regime survival that influence policy choices. At the foreign policy level (UNFCCC) it …
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An Indeterminacy-based Local Approach and Ontology for Quantum Theory
… and non-superdeterministic/non-retrocausal "interpretation" of quantum theory, or quantum theory (QT). EnDQT has the benefit of being conservative, not modifying the fundamental equations of QT, and, in principle, allowing arbitrary systems to be placed in a coherent superposition for …
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Mediation analysis for different types of Causal questions: Effect of Cause and Cause of Effect
Many statistical analyses aim at a causal explanation of the data. When discussing this topic it is important to specify the exact query we want to talk about. A typical causal question can be categorized in two main classes: questions on the causes of observed effects and questions on the effects …
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Mechanistic and psychological explanations of behaviour: the problem of mental causation
… that is, mental states like beliefs and desires. Explanations of behaviour which invoke mental causes are known as psychological explanations. Mechanistic explanations, on the other hand, make sole reference to the neurophysical going-on in our bodies causally to explain behaviour. This kind of …
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Rethinking Empathy: Value and Context in Motivation and Adaptation
… of this dissertation present a more detailed causal explanation of empathy that enables us to better predict when it will occur. It sketches a new evolutionary explanation of empathy. And it creates a theoretical space for the analysis of normative and environmental variables that will …
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Challenging Nonprofit Legal Services: Four Cases from New Orleans, 1970 - 2004
… it goes beyond description to provide causal explanation for the controversies by reference to social structure, and the social mechanisms and social processes at work. The dissertation presents access to law by the poor as being a form of "largesse" or charity or gift, which is granted …
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