Tom Ten Have made many contributions to causal inference and biostatistics before his untimely death. This paper reviews Tom's contributions and discusses potential related future research directions. We focus on Tom's contributions to longitudinal/repeated measures categorical data analysis and particularly his contributions to causal inference. Tom's work on causal inference was primarily in ...

The present research examined the relationship between self-determination and problem gambling among college students in two studies exploring associations between controlled and autonomy orientations and various indices of problem gambling. Consistent results for controlled orientation within and across studies revealed that students who feel less freedom of choice and base behaviors on contin...

Industrial Disputes cause loss of productivity and decrease of profit, tending towards huge losses. It is, therefore, necessary to establish a benchmark level of tact or skill that is required to ensure the prevention of Industrial Disputes. The benchmark level could be an empirical formula, or a set of regulatory data, that would be required to be satisfied. The procedure to be followed requir...

This paper focuses on the interaction patterns of learners studying in pairs who were provided with multimedia learning material. In a previous article, we reported that learning scores were higher for dyads of an ‘animations’ condition than for dyads of a ‘static pictures’ condition. Results also showed that offering a persistent display of one snapshot of each animated sequence hindered colla...

Despite guidelines and repeated calls from the literature, statistical mediation analysis in youth treatment outcome research is rare. Even more concerning is that many studies that have reported mediation analyses do not fulfill basic requirements for mediation analysis, providing inconclusive data and clinical implications. As a result, after more than five decades of research, it is still la...

This paper presents a legal and technological approach to online mediation. It shows the technologies that are usually employed in this field and presents the prototype of Consumedia, an online mediation platform, as well as its functionalities and technological architecture. Moreover, it uncovers the technology implemented as regards the recognition of emotions in the mediation room. Furthermo...

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...

In this paper we introduce the Mediation Core Ontology (MCO), and the steps taken in order to model the expert knowledge on the mediation domain. MCO is created from scratch by eliciting practical knowledge from mediation experts to identify the basic working concepts of the domain. MCO offers initial support towards knowledge acquisition and reasoning and, in later steps, will serve as a gener...

Mediation is a causal process that evolves over time. Thus, a study of mediation requires data collected throughout the process. However, most applications of mediation analysis use cross-sectional rather than longitudinal data. Another implicit assumption commonly made in longitudinal designs for mediation analysis is that the same mediation process universally applies to all members of the po...

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...