As more and more divorcing couples use mediation rather than the traditional litigation process to resolve their divorce issues, the effectiveness of mediation has captured the attention of researchers. However, the results vary across divorce mediation and litigation outcome studies. Because a quantitative review has never been performed and the overall efficacy of mediation as an alternative ...

A large fraction of human genes are regulated by genetic variation near the transcribed sequence (cis-eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus), and many cis-eQTLs have implications for human disease. Less is known regarding the effects of genetic variation on expression of distant genes (trans-eQTLs) and their biological mechanisms. In this work, we use genome-wide data on SNPs and array-base...

Mediation is concerned with handling heterogeneities that potentially occur between resources that shall interoperate. Heterogeneity being an inherent characteristic of open and distributed environments like the Internet, mediation becomes a core issue for next generation Web technologies. Recent developments around the Semantic Web and Semantic Web services address mediation on the data level ...

One of the main benefits of service-based systems is the loose coupling of components, which increases flexibility during the selection of internal and external business partners. However, currently this flexibility is severely limited by the fact that components have to provide not only the same functionality, but do so via virtually the same interface. Invocation-level mediation may be used t...

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 ...

Mediation is a process, in which both parties agree to resolve their dispute by negotiating over alternative solutions presented by a mediator. In order to construct such solutions, mediation brings more information and knowledge, and, if possible, resources to the negotiation table. The contribution of this paper is the automated mediation machinery which does that. It presents an argumentatio...

Psychologists increasingly recommend experimental analysis of mediation. This is a step in the right direction because mediation analyses based on nonexperimental data are likely to be biased and because experiments, in principle, provide a sound basis for causal inference. But even experiments cannot overcome certain threats to inference that arise chiefly or exclusively in the context of medi...

Scholars have studied the use of mediation – a third party to facilitate the settlement of a dispute – in a variety of settings. The theoretical literature asserts that mediated negotiation weakly dominates unmediated negotiation, increasing the flow of information between the principal and the agent. This study tests these predictions using a mandatory mediation policy for mortgage contracts i...