Causation summary

Next, the team can construct a causation summary for root cause analysis. The Triage Cards can guide participants in constructing statements about root causes if the following guidelines are observed ... 

Polymerization,- Violent. Violent monomer polymerization has caused a number of serious explns. Present in Table 1 below is a summary of data pertinent to the causation of these explns, extracted from the ref. The monomers listed may be found under appropriate entry titles thruout the Encycl Ref M. Harmon J. King, A Review of Violent Monomer Polymerization A Selected literature Survey , Report No USCG-D-159-75, Contract DOT-CG-51, 765-A, Operations Research, Inc, Silver Spring (1974)... 

Figure 49-11. Summary of the causation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (MIM 310200).

There is, I think, also a psychological preference for simplicity that is related to comprehensibihty, but which also may have an esthetic component. I will return to the psychology of explanation after finishing this brief review of the principal proposals for scientific explanation from the community of professional philosophers. In completing the summary of Boyd s position, though, I would say that the evidence for the important role of nonexperimental factors that Boyd cites as the reason to overthrow Humean causation is not clear-cut. I guess I remain a Humean at heart. 

J Goldberger. Pellagra Causation and a method of prevention. A summary of some of the recent studies of the United States Pubhc Health Service. JAMA 66 471-476, 1916. 

In summary, tiie studies in experimental animals, in vitro, and patients show that benzene and a wide range of organic solvents are assoeiated with changes in chromosomes and DNA adducts. While these changes may be helpful in epidemiological studies, the absence or presence of genetic changes or DNA adducts, cannot be used in a specific case to rule out or establish causation. The biomarkers described in this... 

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