Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "mechanisms"
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Long-Lost Relative Claims Orphan Gene: oskar in a Wasp
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A Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age–Period–Cohort Models
(Sage Publications, 2008)This article offers a new approach to the identification of age-period-cohort (APC) models that builds on Pearl's work on nonparametric causal models, in particular his front-door criterion for the identification of causal ... -
Translating Causal Claims: Principles and Strategies for Policy-Relevant Criminology
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Research Summary This article reviews the causal turn in the social sciences and accompanying efforts by criminologists to make policy claims more credible. Although there has been much progress in techniques for the ... -
Two Classes of Silencing RNAs Move between Caenorhabditis elegans Tissues
(Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2011)Organism-wide RNA interference (RNAi) is due to the transport of mobile silencing RNA throughout the organism, but the identities of these mobile RNA species in animals are unknown. Here, we present genetic evidence that ...