Testing multilevel mediation using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. However, potential confounding in multilevel mediation effect estimates can arise in these models when within-group effects differ from between-group effects. This study summarizes three types of HLM-based multilevel mediation models, and then explains that in two types of the...

The upsurge in mediation activities during the last half-century has given rise to the systematic study offactors determining mediation success. Nevertheless, contemporary theories have only resulted in incomplete explanations of the conditions necessary for successful mediation activities. This essay proposes the creation of a new framework for the evaluation of mediation success, based on the...

Business applications composed of heterogeneous distributed components or Web services need mediation to resolve data and process mismatches at runtime. This paper describes mediation in IRS-III, a framework and platform for developing WSMO-based Semantic Web Services. We present our approach to mediation within Semantic Web Services and highlight the role of WSMO mediator types when solving mi...

hydrogen peroxide is an important mild oxidant which is widely used in various applications including remediation of waste waters and drinking water resources. the safe level of h2o2 residue has to be controlled through accurate and precise measurement methods. a facile spectrophotometric method for the determination of hydrogen peroxide is based on the reaction of iodine solution with toluidin...

Communities gather Web services that provide a common functionality, acting as an intermediate layer between end users and Web services. On the one hand, they provide a single endpoint that handles user requests and transparently selects and invokes Web services, thus abstracting the selection task and leveraging the provided quality of service level. On the other hand, they maximize the visibi...

Research has consistently shown that males play violent video games more frequently than females, but factors underlying this gender gap have not been examined to date. The present approach examines the assumption that males play violent video games more, because they anticipate more enjoyment and less guilt from engaging in virtual violence than females. This may be because males are less empa...

Introduction: Background Recent studies have indicated that grieving after suicide loss can be particularly complex and traumatic. However, recognized the opportunity for personal growth among suicide-loss survivors. Objectives This study signifies an effort to develop a comprehensive understanding of underlying interpersonal facilitators posttraumatic (PTG) survivors in longitudinal design. Me...

Spatial information mediation extends principles of information mediation to processing of spatial queries against multiple heterogeneous spatial databases and spatial processing nodes. This architecture is based on (1) a set of spatial wrappers which expose capabilities of spatial data sources and services in a homogeneous way, (2) spatial mediation software responsible for query planning and ...

This paper describes a formalism for context mediation based on Feature Logic. The formalism enables a distinction to be drawn between integrity and translational aspects of mediation. It is independent of the relational model, though easily used within it. The formalism makes precise the concept of 'context' and provides a framework for mediation between disparate data sources.

Abstract This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by normative ethics approaches that prevail in literature. Building on previous insights derived from mediation theory (in particular work of Verbeek and Dorrestijn), Foucault science technology studies Jasanoff’s socio-technical imaginaries), theory’s ap...