Abstract A key objective of decomposition analysis is to identify a factor (the “mediator”) contributing disparities in an outcome between social groups. In analysis, scholarly interest often centers on estimating how much the disparity (e.g., health Black women and White men) would be reduced/remain if we set mediator education) distribution one group equal another. However, causally identifyi...

Mediator is an open architecture information and knowledge management system designed to provide a flexible technology to support the management of complex manufacturing activities throughout the product life cycle. A heterogeneous environment is assumed in which the sub-systems are geographically dispersed and involve different application packages, not necessarily designed to work together, m...

Query evaluation strategies in traditional databases do not consider possible data inaccuracy and vagueness of predicates. However, measurement considerations and data quality are inherent components of geographic information. The purpose of this work is to explore query evaluation in distributed spatial information mediation system that takes into account different accuracy characteristics of ...

Organic-based solar cells potentially offer a photovoltaic module with low production costs and low hazard risk of the components. We report organic dye-sensitized solar cells, fabricated with molecular designed indoline dyes in conjunction with highly reactive but robust nitroxide radical molecules as redox mediator in a quasi-solid gel form of the electrolyte. The cells achieve conversion eff...

Data and computations of a CAD system have been wrapped by a mediator system using CORBA’s IIOP Protocol. This allows ad hoc declarative mediator queries to be translated into optimised execution plans sending dynamic IIOP messages to a CAD server. Queries may call computational methods provided only by the CAD system. Dynamic query re-optimisation taking into account what data is currently mat...

OBJECTIVE To provide examples of post-hoc probing of significant moderator and mediator effects in research on children with pediatric conditions. METHODS To demonstrate post-hoc probing of moderational effects, significant two-way interaction effects (dichotomous variable x continuous variable; continuous variable x continuous variable) were probed with regressions that included conditional ...