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Understanding biodiversity effects on trophic interactions with a robust approach to path analysis

Cell Reports Sustainability
Summary: With its facility to assess causal mechanisms among multiple variables, the application of path analysis in medical, natural, and social sciences has become widespread.
Yu-Quan Wang, Da-Peng Shi, Christoph Scherber, Ben A. Woodcock, Yue-Qing Hu, Nian-Feng Wan   +5 more
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THE LINK BETWEEN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND TAX COMPLIANCE: EVIDENCE FROM A MEDIATION ANALYSIS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2015
By performing mediation analysis with the state-of-the-art bootstrapping technique (95% bias-corrected and accelerated confidence interval; 5000 bootstrap resamples) on a worldwide sample pool of countries and territories, it is shown that human ...
BǍTRÂNCEA LARISSA
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Urinary N-acetylglucosaminidase in People Environmentally Exposed to Cadmium Is Minimally Related to Cadmium-Induced Nephron Destruction

Toxics
Exposure to even low levels of the environmental pollutant cadmium (Cd) increases the risk of kidney damage and malfunction. The body burden of Cd at which these outcomes occur is not, however, reliably defined.
Soisungwan Satarug
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Lipids, Apolipoproteins, Lipid‐Lowering Drugs, and the Risk of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Background Serum lipids are causally involved in the occurrence of atherosclerosis, but their roles in cerebral small vessel disease remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the causal roles of lipid or apolipoprotein traits in cerebral small ...
Yi Xie, Shuai Liu, Xinyue Wang, Hao Huang, Minghuan Wang, Wensheng Qu, Zhiyuan Yu, Wei Wang, Xiang Luo   +8 more
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Does Nationality Influence Neutrality? The Ethical Standards and Expectations of International Mediators [PDF]

, 2016
This Comment examines how a mediator’s nationality can influence the mediating parties’ and communities’ perceptions of his neutrality and how cultural differences play a role in the ethical expectations of a cross-cultural mediator. Part I discusses the
Katsoris, Melissa
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Singlet-Stabilized Minimal Gauge Mediation

, 2011
We propose Singlet Stabilized Minimal Gauge Mediation as a simple ISS-based model of Direct Gauge Mediation which avoids both light gauginos and Landau poles. The hidden sector is a massive s-confining SQCD that is distinguished by a minimal SU(5) flavor
Curtin, David, Tsai, Yuhsin
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EDITORIAL – MEDIATION ANALYSIS: ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS [PDF]

Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling, 2018
Mumtaz Ali Memon, Jun-Hwa Cheah, T. Ramayah, Hiram Ting, Francis Chuah   +4 more
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The causal nexus between diverse smoking statuses, potential therapeutic targets, and NSCLC: insights from Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis

Frontiers in Oncology
ObjectiveLung cancer, the most prevalent malignancy, is typically diagnosed at an advanced stage. Smoking is a pivotal risk factor for NSCLC, yet the impact of various smoking statuses on NSCLC remains unclear.
Zhenghua Cao, Shengkun Zhao, Tong Wu, Huan Ding, Zhiyu Tian, Feng Sun, Zhuo Feng, Shaodan Hu, Li Shi   +8 more
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The association of plasma asprosin with anthropometric and metabolic parameters in Korean children and adolescents

Frontiers in Endocrinology
BackgroundThis study aimed to determine the correlation of plasma asprosin with anthropometric and metabolic parameters in Korean children and adolescents.MethodsThis single-center study included 109 Korean children and adolescents: 62 (56.9%) obese ...
Shin-Hee Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Yoon Hong Chun   +2 more
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Sense of coherence as a mediator between perceived neighborhood characteristics and health [PDF]

We examine how sense of coherence (SOC) mediates the association between perceived neighborhood characteristics and health, using micro data collected from a nationwide Internet survey in Japan conducted in 2011 (N = 9,940).
Oshio, Takashi, Urakawa, Kunio
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