Rapidly rising population and climate changes are two critical issues that require immediate
action to achieve sustainable development goals. The rising population is posing increased …

Linear structural equation modeling has become an indispensable methodology for
specifying, estimating, and testing hypothesized interrelationships among a set of …

The authors address the assumptions and methods that allow us to turn observations into
causal knowledge, and use even incomplete causal knowledge in planning and prediction …

The Takab metallogenic province in the northwestern Iran hosts a number of gold resources
including carline-like and epithermal type mineralization. These occurrences are hosted by …

Filial piety is a central concept in Confucianism, containing important ideas about how
children should treat their parents. Research over the past two decades has resulted in …

We describe anytime search procedures that (1) find disjoint subsets of recorded variables
for which the members of each subset are d-separated by a single common unrecorded …

Research on self–compassion, which is defined as being understanding and kind to oneself
when confronted with negative experiences, has produced an impressive number of articles …

The advent of large-scale assessment, but also the more frequent use of longitudinal and
multivariate approaches to measurement in psychological, educational, and sociological …

Many psychological instruments are psychometrically inadequate because derived person-
parameters are unfounded and models will be rejected using established psychometric …

Measurement of the structure/process of care is the first step in improving end-of-life care.
The primary aim of this study was to psychometrically validate an instrument for directly …