The new technologies revolution has driven an epistemological rupture between modern and postmodern cartographic research. It fertilized a engineering of construction knowledge based on fivefold foundation: naturalist (descriptive epistemology), normative (prescriptive operational (experimental critical (radical epistemology) activist (epistemology activist). In practice, research is implemente...

We analyze the causal-observational languages that were introduced in Barbero and Sandu (2018), which allow discussing interventionist counterfactuals functional dependencies a unified framework. In particular, we systematically investigate expressive power of these causal team semantics, provide complete natural deduction calculi for each language. Furthermore, introduce generalized semantics ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore and describe the characteristics of the nurse practitioner (NP) role in cancer care in a Canadian province, identify the ways in which NPs add value to cancer care, and suggest ways in which organizations can better support the NP role.
. RESEARCH APPROACH Exploratory, qualitative design.
. SETTING Three cancer care facilities in a western Canadian province.
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There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my view, this is no coincidence: grounding and causation resemble one another because grounding is a type of causation. I defend the identification of grounding with metaphysical causation from some initial objections, and I draw on the causation literature to explore connections between grounding and counterfactua...

Several authors have argued that causes differ in the degree to which they are ‘specific’ to their effects. Woodward has used this idea to enrich his influential interventionist theory of causal explanation. Here we propose a way to measure causal specificity using tools from information theory. We show that the specificity of a causal variable is not well-defined without a probability distribu...

Undilatable coronary lesions, due to coronary calcification, are encountered with increasing frequency. Percutaneous intervention of such lesions comes with the risk of stent underexpansion, which increases the risk of stent thrombosis and restenosis. A variety of techniques and devices are available to assist the interventionist in the treatment of calcified lesions. The OPN NC (SIS-Medical AG...

This paper argues that the greater the liberalization of imports in a Sub-Saharan African country, the more significant is the decline in its rate of growth due to the recession in high income economies during the late eighties and early nineties. This could be explained by the fact that when industrial countries are suffering from recession, the terms of trade may move in favor of developing c...

LLAN MELTZER HAS PRESENTED a paper that rescues Milton Friedman’s 1953 defense of flexible exchange rates from its critics and presents an impressive amount of empirical evidence against today’s received opinion favoring fixed exchanges. Nothing is more bracing than the refutation of conventional wisdom nor more satisfying than the vindication of the simple faith that the market is always right...

Using a variety of different results from the literature, I show how causal discovery with experiments is limited unless substantive assumptions about the underlying causal structure are made. These results undermine the view that experiments, such as randomized controlled trials, can independently provide a gold standard for causal discovery. Moreover, I present a concrete example in which cau...