Impact of witnessing abuse of their mother and childhood trauma on men's perpetration of intimate partner violence in the cross-sectional UN multi-country study on men and violence... by Rachel Jewkes, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Naeema Abrahams, Nwabisa Shai, Leane Ramsoomar, Bianca Dekel, Andrew Gibbs, Jani Nöthling, Samantha Willan, Esnat Chirwa

“…The SEM showed four paths from witnessing IPV and childhood trauma to the latent variable for physical/sexual IPV perpetration. …”
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Incorporating the Theory of Planned Behaviour into Distracted Driving: Influencing Factors and Intervention Effects by L. Zhang, J. S. Peng, Z. Song, Z. B. Fan, X. H. Yang, Q. W. Kong, L. Zhou

“…We use a structural equation model to determine the path coefficients of each latent variable. Finally, we select the drivers with high tendency of distraction from the results of the questionnaires, conduct a four-stage rational emotional behaviour therapy (REBT) experiment, and use a repeated measures ANOVA analysis to test the validity and persistence of the intervention method. …”
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Measuring and predicting teamwork quality in virtual project teams by Markus Behn, Gilbert Silvius

“…The steps described led to three factors (Personal Commitment, Team Balance & Mutual Support, Result Orientation) that have an influence on the latent variable “Willingness to succeed”. …”
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Exploring User Experience in Virtual Industrial Heritage Platforms: Impact of Cultural Identity, Functional Clarity, Scene Interactivity, and Narrative Quality by Qi Zhou, Shuqi Wang, Jinglin Wang

“…In the literature review, this paper introduces a theoretical model comprising five latent variables: cultural identity, functional clarity, scenario interactivity, narrative quality, and user experience. …”
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Prediction of Trolling behavior from sadism and Internet addiction in young adults of Buenos Aires by Pablo Christian González Caino, Santiago Resett

“…A structural model to predict trolling based on sadism as a latent variable and internet addiction shows an adequate fit CFI = .99, TLI = .98, RMSEA = .04, indicating that sadism predicted trolling and internet addiction. …”
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Unsupervised data imputation with multiple importance sampling variational autoencoders by Shenfen Kuang, Yewen Huang, Jie Song

“…Abstract Recently, deep latent variable models have made significant progress in dealing with missing data problems, benefiting from their ability to capture intricate and non-linear relationships within the data. …”
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AI-based analysis of fetal growth restriction in a prospective obstetric cohort quantifies compound risks for perinatal morbidity and mortality and identifies previously unrecogniz... by Raquel M. Zimmerman, Edgar J. Hernandez, Mark Yandell, Martin Tristani-Firouzi, Robert M. Silver, William Grobman, David Haas, George Saade, Jonathan Steller, Nathan R. Blue

“…Conclusions PGMs are able to capture and quantify context-specific risk relationships in FGR and identify latent variable interactions that are associated with large differences in risk. …”
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Analysis of Individuals’ Acceptance and Influencing Factors for Young Users of Autonomous Vehicles Using the Hybrid Choice Model by Ming Wan, Qingmei Liu, Lixin Yan, Liqun Peng, Xujin Yu, Ping Wan

“…When latent variables are taken into account, the associated goodness ratio coefficient rises by 0.2337 to 0.2898, which is greater than the model as a whole. …”
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Analysis of Influencing Factors of Teaching Effect Based on Structural Equation Model by Xin Xu

“…Among them, the analysis of various latent variables is based on the verification factor analysis technology. …”
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Private Parking Space Sharing Intention in China: An Empirical Study Based on the MIMIC Model by Ange Wang, Hongzhi Guan, Yan Han, Yangliu Cao

“…The results show that (1) the sharing behavioral intention (BI) is directly affected by perceived benefit (PB), perceived risk (PR), social influence (SI), and facilitating condition (FC) and indirectly affected by effort expectancy (EE), of which the total effect of PB is the largest; (2) exogenous variables have an indirect effect on BI through other psychological latent variables; among them, different sociodemographic and economic characteristics have a significant influence on different latent variables, while the built environment has no significant effect on latent variables. …”
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Local Structure Recovery of Chain Graphs after Marginalization by Qiang Zhao, Panpan Luo, Qing Xi

“…This paper discusses local structure recovery of chain graphs (CGs) when there exist unobserved or latent variables or after marginalization over observed variables. …”
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Bayesian hierarchical network autocorrelation models for estimating direct and indirect effects of peer hospitals on outcomes of hospitalized patients by Guanqing Chen, A. James O’Malley

“…The comparative fit of models to the data is assessed using Deviance information criteria tailored to hierarchical models that include peer effects as latent variables.…”
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Latent space improved masked reconstruction model for human skeleton-based action recognition by Enqing Chen, Xueting Wang, Xin Guo, Ying Zhu, Dong Li

“…In SkeletonMVAE, we constrain the latent variables to represent features in the form of distributions. …”
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Impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions in university students in the third wave period  [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] by Yovana Pardavé-Livia, Armando Martínez-Portillo, Evelyn Barboza-Navarro, Luz Elizabeth Mayorga-Falcón, Walter Capa-Luque, Catalina Bello-Vidal, Aldo Bazán-Ramírez, Edmundo Hervias-Guerra

“…The first model shows that the latent variables distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 have direct effects on digital addictions as a general construct (R2 = 22%). …”
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The antecedents of word of mouth intentions about a Brazilian tourist destination by Márcio Moutinho Abdalla, José Roberto Ribas, Paulo Roberto da Costa Vieira

“…Regarding the objective of this study, the results suggest that only the latent variables satisfaction and hedonic value are directly related to the intention to recommend a Brazilian tourist destination by foreign tourists. …”
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An Investigation on Users’ Perceptions of Open Government Data in Qatar by Rima Charbaji El-Kassem, Ali Al-Kubaisi

“…Path analysis demonstrated that the OGD gap, combined with two other latent variables, significantly influenced users’ trust in OGD. …”
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Designing host-associated microbiomes using the consumer/resource model by Germán Plata, Karthik Srinivasan, Madan Krishnamurthy, Lukas Herron, Purushottam Dixit

“…Simultaneously, the latent variables are used to model phenotypic states of hosts. …”
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Preliminary analysis of the questionnaire signals warning of relapse (AWARE) on peruvian drug addicts by Cristian Solano, Anthony Copez-Lonzoy

“…The reliability analysis obtained adequate scores for both observed and latent variables that represented equality at the conceptual and unit level (congeneric and tau-equivalent models). …”
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Critical success factors for a total quality culture: A structural model by Ana Cláudia Campos, Júlio da Costa Mendes, João Albino Silva, Patrícia Oom do Valle

“…In this research a model integrating the critical success factors for a total quality culture was tested in organisations of two subsectors of the tourism industry, using the SEM (Structural Equation Models with Latent Variables) approach by means of the PLS (Partial Least Squares) technique. …”
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Analysis of factors affecting employee performance by Yusuf Ronny Edward, Nagian Toni, Erina Alimin

“…The software SmartPLS is then used to examine the data that has been gathered. The study's latent variables included employee performance, job happiness, work culture, and work experience. …”
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