In 1995, Jo C. Phelan and Bruce G. Link developed the theory of fundamental causes. This theory seeks to outline why the association between socioeconomic...

Health. She is known for working with Bruce Link to develop the theory of fundamental causes of social inequalities in health. She was a Russell Sage Foundation...

concept of which was first theorized by Melvin J. Lerner in 1977. Attributing failures to dispositional causes rather than situational causes—which are...

not the individual work or performance but the fundamental materials from which it is built." Music theory is frequently concerned with describing how musicians...

particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model presently...

theory is a theory of quantum gravity. String theory is a broad and varied subject that attempts to address a number of deep questions of fundamental...

In mathematics, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, also called the unique factorization theorem and prime factorization theorem, states that every...

on the cause. The cause of something may also be described as the reason for the event or process. In general, a process can have multiple causes, which...

united in a common mathematical framework (a theory of everything) with the other three fundamental interactions of physics. Gravitation, also known as gravitational...

Constructor theory is a proposal for a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics in the language of ergodic theory, developed by physicists David...

theory (also known as Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory and dual-factor theory) states that there are certain factors in the workplace that cause job...

denizens of the objective world. Consciousness is fundamental." Together, MUI theory and Conscious Realism form the foundation for an overall theory that...

modifications, appear to be of particular importance to the aging process. Evidence for the theory that DNA damage is the fundamental cause of aging was first reviewed...

polarization. Its speed in vacuum, 299792458 m/s, is one of the fundamental constants of nature. Like all types of electromagnetic radiation, visible light propagates...

always a term that applied to the accuracy of human knowledge about causes and effects, and not to the causes and effects themselves. Newtonian mechanics...

Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modeling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric...

Unification of theories about observable fundamental phenomena of nature is one of the primary goals of physics. The two great unifications to date are...

The Fundamental Rights in India enshrined in part III (Article 12–35) of the Constitution of India guarantee civil liberties such that all Indians can...

the source of the gravitational force, as he was convinced "by many reasons" that there were "causes hitherto unknown" that were fundamental to all the...

within his theory and claim that his conclusions were arrived at via a fundamental misunderstanding of Fischer's studies. McKenna's theory was not based...

be expressed using the theory of matroids, according to which a spanning tree is a base of the graphic matroid, a fundamental cycle is the unique circuit...

scientific study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force...

Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek...

developing fundamental cause theory of social inequalities in health together with Jo Phelan. Born in Denver, Colorado, Link is the son of Eugene P. Link...

perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution theory. Psychological...

by the theory has a direct counterpart in the actual causes of the observed phenomena to which the theory is fitted. That means that the theory proposes...

fundamental objection or application of the theory, but more often theories are corrected to conform to new observations, by restricting the class of...

Black Death—were caused by a miasma (μίασμα, Ancient Greek for 'pollution'), a noxious form of "bad air", also known as night air. The theory held that epidemics...

a theory that "the mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe". It is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and...

steps required to assemble them from fundamental building blocks. Proposed by chemist Lee Cronin and his team, the theory assigns an assembly index to molecules...