Additionally, we are closely allied with Yale Vascular Surgery in a Yale Vascular Center, especially in the evaluation and treatment of arterial and venous blockages and aneurysms, including newer methods for angioplasty, the removal of material causing arterial blockage, and stent-grafts for aneurysms.
For example, clay (material cause) is molded into a vase shape (formal cause) by a potter (efficient or moving cause) so that it can contain liquid (final cause).
In an environment where building ties between workers is crucial, two-tier is a split down the middle, a material cause for resentment, mistrust and weakness between workers within a shop.
Note that, in spite of a certain similarity, the notion of a substrate cause is not the same as Aristotle's "material" cause, for (i) the parts of an object are not necessarily identical with the material from which it is composed, and (ii) even an immaterial substance can be a substrate cause, for example the soul, which is the substrate cause of epistemic events.
Whatever the detailed mechanism, it now seems clear that ZSCAN4 is a material cause for the correction of aneuploidy: the mechanism operates independent of the vehicle of ZSCAN4 delivery to yield a dramatic increase in cells with normal karyotype.
What is the material cause?
what is the material cause of man?
(material cause) What is its origin?
He gives the Presocratics credit for identifying the material causes of life, but then faults them for failing to grasp its formal cause.
And while the 16 judges did not go so far, the ICJ did award Costa Rica compensation for "material damages caused by Nicaragua's unlawful activities on Costa Rican territory".
