mechanism
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Their goal was to identify biological mechanisms that could explain why symptoms persist.
From Science Daily
The Major League Baseball Players Association has spent decades ferociously fighting against a salary cap, viewing it only as a mechanism designed to suppress salaries without addressing competition.
But analysis by BBC Verify suggested that dozens of sanctioned vessels sailed through the English Channel in the weeks after that legal mechanism was identified.
From BBC
Yet despite enormous advances in neuroscience, the mechanism by which the brain generates subjective experience remains unknown.
The trend of "agentic AI" means the advent of systems that can "act autonomously, make decisions, and even circumvent defensive mechanisms," according to Kreuzer.
From Barron's
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