The notion of neutrality has long been criticised in the mediation literature. It is often said that mediator neutrality is a myth that hides the reality of the impact of the mediator on both the content and the process of mediation. Despite these criticisms neutrality continues to be seen as central to mediation theory and to the acceptance of mediation as a legitimate, fair and just process. ...

The combination of autonomous and supervisory con trol methods should permit the creation of a semi autonomous system capable of completing all feasible tasks We have developed the Multiple Agent Super visory Control MASC system based upon the medi ation hierarchy theory to create such a system We brie y describe this system and the mediation hierar chy The purpose of this paper is to review th...

Recent progress in string theory moduli stabilization has motivated a mixed modulus–anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking scenario, also dubbed ‘mirage mediation’. This scenario has a number of phenomenologically attractive features, in particular with respect to the cosmological gravitino/moduli problem. In this note, we investigate the issues of fine–tuning associated with obtaining the cor...

Mediation analysis, or more generally models with direct and indirect effects, are commonly used in the behavioral sciences. As we show in our illustrative example, traditional methods of mediation analysis that omit confounding variables can lead to systematically biased direct and indirect effects, even in the context of a randomized experiment. Therefore, several definitions of causal effect...