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Showing 1 to 20 of 288 for “"indirect effect"”.
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Assessing impact of the sulfate aerosol first indirect effect on tropical cyclone activity
… of TCs will increase due to the thermodynamic effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas input. In contrast, while aerosols are shown to have an overall cooling effect on global climate, their impact on TCs is not yet well-understood. This paper explores the influence of the sulfate aerosol first …
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Fundamental aerosol-cloud interactions and their influence on the aerosol indirect effect on climate
… from these interactions, known as the aerosol indirect effect on climate, constitutes a fundamental uncertainty in our understanding of 2 0 th century climate change. In this dissertation, we investigate the role of a keystone physical process, droplet activation, in contributing to this …
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The Indirect Effect of a Brief Couple Intervention on Child Mental Health via the Interparental Relationship
… Structural equation modelling was used to test indirect effects with interparental conflict and relationship quality, respectively, as mediators, and CMHC at 1- and 3-month follow-ups, respectively, as outcomes. The intervention did not significantly predict couple’s T2 conflict, nor did T2 …
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The Indirect Effect of BVDV on Immune Suppression: The Role of Infected Macrophages in Lymphocyte Apoptosis
… this in vitro study, we sought to determine the indirect effect of BVDV infection in macrophages as a key player in the pathogenesis of BVD especially, the apoptotic effect induced on lymphocytes. We infected bovine monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM) with either high or low virulent strains of …
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The framework of direct and indirect effect of project risk response-related measures on project performance in managing construction delay
… is to establish the framework of the direct and indirect effect of project risk response�related measures (RM) on project performance (PP) in managing project-related delay factors (DF) in Malaysian construction companies. A total of 332 questionnaire responses were collected from Grade 7 …
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Examining the influence of hyperactive-impulsive symptoms, self control and peer competence on peer victimization and engagement in bullying
… hyperactivity and impulsivity have detrimental effects on children's social functioning and increase their risk of being victimized by peers and engaging in bullying behaviors (Unnever & Cornell, 2003;Wiener & Mak, 2009). In particular, the specific social skills of peer competence and …
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The dependence of arctic mixed phase stratus ice cloud microphysics on aerosol concentration using observations acquired during ISDAC and M-PACE
… 8 April, 18 April, and 26 April 2008 during the Indirect and Semi Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) and by the University of North Dakota Citation on 4 sorties on 9, 10 and 12 October 2004 during the Mixed Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) were used to test three aerosol indirect effects …
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Racial discrimination and internalizing psychopathology in African Americans: examining cognitive and affective mechanisms
… anxiety, rumination/hopelessness) the effects of which are conditional based on psychopathology-relevant cognitive vulnerabilities (i.e., attention bias to threat, inhibition difficulty). A total of 250 African American participants (73% women) completed the study. For anxious arousal, …
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Problems in high-dimensional mediation analysis
… and explain the mechanism of the direct and indirect effects of an exposure variable on an outcome variable, potentially mediated through several intervening variables. Statistical methods for mediation analysis are well-developed when the number of mediator variables is relatively small, but …
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Understanding addiction stigma: Examining desired social distance toward addicted individuals
… for marijuana and heroin, familiarity had an indirect effect, through perceived dangerousness and fear, on desired social distance. Furthermore, perceived dangerousness had a direct and indirect effect, through fear, on desired social distance. Finally fear had a direct effect on desired …
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Burnout in Applied Behvior Analysis Tutors: The Role of Personality, Stress, and Affectivity
… between personality and burnout, as well as the indirect effect through stress and affectivity. The PROCESS analyses revealed direct effects between the personality variable of Neuroticism and the burnout variables of both Emotional Exhaustion (EE) and Depersonalization (DP). The personality …
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The Mediating Role of Differentiation in the Relationship Between Mindfulness and Working Alliance
… mediation model to quantitatively determine the indirect effect of counselor’s perceptions of mindfulness and their perceptions of working alliance through the variable of differentiation of self. This indirect effect was not statistically significant, <em>b</em> = .08, 95% CI [-.11, .25], …
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Effects of Exchange Rate Misalignment on Agricultural Producer Support Estimates: Empirical Evidence from India and China
… technological progress (Balassa-Samuelson effect), levels of government expenditure, world interest rate, net capital inflows, terms of trade, and openness of the economy. Base on various time series techniques and using data from India and China, sensible long-run relationships are …
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Collateral Benefits Of A Brief, Couple-Focused Intervention On Coparenting: Indirect Effects Through Couple Relationship Quality And Conflict
… parents coordinate in their parenting roles), indirectly through improvements in couple relationship quality and conflict frequency, respectively. A community sample of couples with young children (N = 140 couples; 280 participants; 91.4% heterosexual) participated in a longitudinal randomized …
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Impact of Saharan Dust as CCN on the Evolution of an Idealized Tropical Cyclone
The direct and indirect effect of CCN on TC development and the nonlinear nature of the interaction between nucleating aerosols and TC dynamics are inseparable, which makes the ultimate impact of the ambient aerosol concentration on the TC intensity difficult to predict.
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Role of Cultural and Psychological Factors Influencing Diabetes Treatment Adherence
… to influence treatment adherence directly and/or indirectly through self-efficacy. In support of hypotheses, results based on the analysis of structural equations indicated that cultural beliefs concerning susceptibility to social influence impacted diabetes self-care behaviors and HbA1c, a …
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Racial Socialization, Racial Identity, and Internalizing Symptoms: The Underlying Role of Emotion Suppression in Black Youth
… mechanisms which underlie the differential effects of parental racial barrier socialization and negative public regard on internalizing symptoms in Black youth remain understudied. The present investigation examined direct and indirect effects of (1) parental racial socialization messages …
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Trait mindfulness as a predictive factor for intimate partner violence perpetration among young adults
… the mediational analysis revealed a significant indirect effect of trait mindfulness on IPV through relationship satisfaction and conflict resolution while all variables were measured at the same time point, but no indirect effect of trait mindfulness at time 1 on IPV at time 3.These results …
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An Empirical Investigation of Moral Injury in Combat Veterans
… moral injury model. SEM supported the direct effect of transgressive acts on guilt, and the indirect effect of transgressive acts on suicidality and demoralization through guilt. An alternative configuration of moral injury wherein demoralization was a mechanism (not outcome) of moral injury …
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Diversity Team Building: Impact on Virtual Team Performance
… cultivation of awareness of similarities. The effectiveness of the team-building intervention was tested by an embedded mixed method approach that comprises a primary quantitative approach involving a post-test only control group experiment and conditional process modeling, and a secondary …
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