We consider the gravity-mediated SUSY breaking within the effective theory of six-dimensional brane-world supergravity. We construct the supersymmetric bulk-brane action by Noether method and find the nontrivial moduli coupling of the brane Fand D-terms. We find that the low energy Kähler potential is not of sequestered form, so gravity mediation may occur at tree level. In moduli stabilization...

This paper discusses how mediation strategies can be used to design a pedagogical agent integrated to a text mining tool to promote collaborative work in academic reading and writing activities. The agent uses the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) to communicate with students, while its text mining features enables it to keep track of what is being produced collaboratively. Mediati...

Mediation analysis is central to theory building and testing in organizational sciences. Scholars often use linear regression based on normal-theory maximum likelihood estimators test mediation. However, these are very sensitive deviations from normality assumptions, such as outliers, heavy tails, or skewness of the observed distribution. This sensitivity seriously threatens empirical about med...

Despite tremendous popularity of video games, there have been concerns about their detrimental effects on children. The game rating systems were developed to assist parents in monitoring their children’s gaming experiences. This paper explores how parents in Iran, as a society without established media rating systems, control their children’s gaming experiences. Mixed methods of semi-structured...

This project has three goals. First, we support interoperable query processing among multiple heterogeneous sources. Heterogeneity arises due to the existence of diierent data models, schema and query languages. For an initial query posed w.r.t. a schema and query language, we produce mediated (transformed) queries w.r.t. other schema/query languages. The second goal is to modify traditional qu...

Adapting the theory of reasoned action, the present study examined help-seeking beliefs, attitudes, and intent among Asian American college students (N = 110). A multiple mediation model was tested to see if the relation between Asian values and willingness to see a counselor was mediated by attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help and subjective norm. A bootstrapping procedure ...

The research questions addressed in this study are: (a) to what extent do quality practices impact upon the various dimensions of quality performance and in turn, business performance? (b) to what extent is the relationship between quality practices and quality performance contingent upon the nature of buyer-supplier relationships? We undertook comprehensive reviews of the literature in the dom...

Despite the fact that over the recent years, a rapidly growing body of research has focused on human capital development, we still know little about factors that arouse employees’ motivation to undertake development activities. The study investigates the role of positive orientation in relation to training motivation. Positive orientation is conceptualised as a basic disposition to view life, s...

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of burnout and supervisory social support on the relationship between work-family conflict, and intention to leave of cancer workers in an Australian health care setting. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Data collected from a public hospital of 114 cancer workers were used to test a model of the consequences of work-family conflict. The stren...

mediation is one of the most important methods for settlement of disputes. it may settle any disputes out of governmental courts and on private/confidential basis and quicker and cheaper than governmental courts. parties may hold different sessions for settlement of disputes and the most important factors in further success of mediation method and concluding any settlement agreement are the per...