Intervening for exhaustion

Intervening in communities: challenges for public health.

involved, as the valuable role of historical analysis in the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic showed. Scally and Womack’s paper recalls the role of history teaching of public health professionals by Sidney Chave. They mention the history study unit we run at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Nevertheless history struggles to find a role in the increasingly crowded training curricu...

Evolving Intervening Variables for Response Surface Approximations

Genetic Programming (GP) is a powerful string processing technique based on the Darwinian paradigm of natural selection. Although initially conceived with the more general aim of automatically producing computer code for complex tasks, it can also be used to evolve symbolic expressions, provided that we have a fitness criterion that measures the quality of an expression. In this paper we presen...

Conditioning and Intervening

We consider the dispute between causal decision theorists and evidential decision theorists over Newcomb-like problems. We introduce a framework relating causation and directed graphs developed by Spirtes et al. (1993) and evaluate several arguments in this context. We argue that much of the debate between the two camps is misplaced; the disputes turn on the distinction between conditioning on ...

Vital exhaustion: ready for prime time?

Popular and widespread beliefs associate emotions and environmental factors with cardiovascular diseases. Over 2000 years ago, the Roman physician Celsus noted, ‘fear and anger, and any other state of mind may often be apt to excite the pulse’. William Harvey in 1628 wrote, ‘every affection of the mind that is attended by either pain or pleasure, hope or fear, is the cause of agitation whose in...

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