I described the symptoms and probable causes of a urinary tract infection.
The finding led to the team's conclusion that it and malaria were the most probable causes of death.
He was told that the vehicle's age and high mileage were the probable causes of its problems.
Hundreds of field workers interviewed family members about symptoms their relatives showed before dying, and dozens of doctors reading those interviews ascribed probable causes of death.
The bureau is expected to publish a brief chronology of the events captured on the recorders on Friday, but a fuller analysis of the probable causes of the accident is not expected before the end of July.
Conditioning is not just a matter of associating two events because one happens to follow the other; it is more profitably seen as the process whereby animals discover the most probable causes of events of consequence to themselves.
Unlike the tobacco companies, which for years denied that their products were causing harm -- or Exxon Mobil, which ran ads trying to discredit global-warming science -- BP and the others have been willing to confront the unpleasant truth that not only their business practices but also their core products are probable causes of global warming.
Experts will doubtless debate long and hard as to whether this year's crop of films about people getting sucked from planes beats the last such bumper year, 1993, in which no less than three movies – Cliffhanger, Alive, and Fearless – preyed on the public's fears of a ruptured fuselage; but they likely find more likely agreement on the probable causes of this Dopplering in the Zeitgiest.
In the meetings on Monday between the exchanges and regulators and separately with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, market officials and regulators spent more time talking about steps to prevent another sudden decline than they did wrestling with the probable causes of last week's plunge, according to people who participated in the sessions.
The probable causes of incongruity of the results obtained from spectroscopy and calorimetry have been rationalized.
An analysis of the probable causes of failure is presented in this paper.
