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  2. Strike for cause - Wikipedia

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    Strike for cause (also referred to as challenge for cause or removal for cause) is a method of eliminating potential members from a jury panel in the United States.. During the jury selection process, after voir dire, opposing attorneys may request removal of any juror who does not appear capable of rendering a fair and impartial verdict, in either determining guilt or innocence and/or a ...

  3. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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    An example is a skillful way in which his terrier Tony opened the garden gate, easily misunderstood as an insightful act by someone seeing the final behavior. Lloyd Morgan, however, had watched and recorded the series of approximations by which the dog had gradually learned the response, and could demonstrate that no insight was required to ...

  4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Wikipedia

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."

  5. Theory of fundamental causes - Wikipedia

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    The cause involves access to resources that can assist in avoiding health risks or to minimize the sequelae of disease once it occurs. "The association between a fundamental cause and health is reproduced over time via the replacement of intervening mechanisms" [2] By these criteria, SES is a fundamental cause for healthcare disparities.

  6. Social issue - Wikipedia

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    For example, a high unemployment rate that affects millions of people is a social issue. Valence issues versus position issues A valence issue is a social problem that people uniformly interpret the same way. [ 3 ]

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  8. Component causes - Wikipedia

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    A component cause is a factor that, along with other component causes, forms a sufficient cause for a disease. A sufficient cause is a complete combination of component causes necessary for the disease to manifest. Diseases result from a chain of causally related events, starting from an initial event to the clinical appearance of the disease.

  9. Teletransportation paradox - Wikipedia

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    The Polish science-fiction writer Stanisław Lem described the same problem in the mid-twentieth century. He put it in writing in his philosophical text Dialogs in 1957. . Similarly, in Lem's Star Diaries ("Fourteenth Voyage") of 1957, the hero visits a planet and finds himself recreated from a backup record, after his death from a meteorite strike, which on this planet is a very commonplace proc