The phrase "active causation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the relationship between actions and their effects, particularly in fields like philosophy, science, or law.
Example: "The theory of active causation suggests that certain actions directly lead to specific outcomes, emphasizing the role of agency in events."
Alternatives: "direct causation" or "causal agency".
These instances of (apparent) retro-active causation are only found occurring over brief intervals, but they are certainly as puzzling as they are intriguing.
The paper presents an ergonomics model for workplace STF analysis that highlights information processing in STF aetiology, the STF incident process and the interaction between latent and active failures in STF causation.
As Montagnes has pointed out, he came to place much greater emphasis on agent causation, the active transmission of properties from God to creatures, than on exemplar causality, the creature's passive reflection or imitation of God's properties.
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), a group representing 40 different denominations and over 45,000 congregations, has been an active proponent of human causation for planetary climate changes for many years.
Associations in our study between concurrent TV and increased hyperactivity/inattention may plausibly reflect reverse causation, with active selection of TV by the child.
Surgeon Davies Pryce put forward as early as 1887 the link between diabetes and foot ulceration by writing in The Lancet that "diabetes itself may play an active part in the causation of perforating ulcers" [ 5].
The overall aim of this systematic review was to capture all of the literature associating early environmental exposures and asthma development in children up to 9 years of age; this cut-off was chosen to avoid the effects of puberty and active smoking on asthma causation.
Accounts of active control often appeal to causation.
41 Having established an association, further data on whether this effect increases with higher levels of participation 27 and over the time an institution is research-active are needed to provide evidence of causation.
Only transcriptionally active HPV DNA is biologically and clinically relevant in the causation of HNSCC.
The aims of this paper are to provide an understanding of workplace STF causation that is cognisant of the potential role of both active and latent failures in STF causation.
