We consider a supersymmetric model in which gaugino masses are generated by the anomaly-mediation mechanism while scalar masses are from tree-level supergravity interaction. In such a model, scalar fermions as well as Higgsinos become as heavy as O(10−100 TeV) and hence only the gauginos are superparticles kinematically accessible to the LHC. We study how and how well the properties of gauginos...

Mediation analysis is used to review the comparative change in the amount of strength of association of the primary predictor with the outcome after adjustment for the mediator. Mediation models are very widely used in social sciences and biomedical sciences. Before conducting mediation studies, researchers want to know the sample size (i.e. number of subjects) required for achieving the adequa...

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 ...

A mediator is a software module that provides sharing of services and and agglomeration of resources into complex services. Mediators will play a pivotal role in successful infrastructures for Semantic Web Services. Process mediation in Web Services involves issues of process compatibility and composability. Evolving standards of web services, such as the web service Execution Environment (WMSX...

We present a simple model of gauge mediation (GM) which does not have a messenger sector or gauge singlet fields. The standard model gauge groups couple directly to the sector which breaks supersymmetry dynamically. This is the first phenomenologically viable example of this type in the literature. Despite the direct coupling, the model can preserve perturbative gauge unification. This is achie...

Most theories of decision making suggest that, when options imply tradeoffs between their attributes, conflict increases as tradeoff size increases, because greater sacrifices are to be incurred in choosing one option instead of another. An alternative view is that conflict decreases as tradeoff size increases, because stronger arguments can be made for any decision. The authors propose a unifi...

This study aimed to test a multilevel mediation model which examined the relationship between the perceived motivational climate created by coaches at team level and motivational regulations towards sport at individual level, as mediated by individual goal orientations. 211 university athletes from 20 teams training in different types of sport completed a battery of instruments that measured th...

We define a high-level model to mathematically capture the behavioural interface of abstract Virtual Providers (VP), their refinements and their composition into rich mediator structures. We show for a Virtual Internet Service Provider example how to use such a model for rigorously formulating and proving properties of interest.