The phrase "mediating link between" is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to describe the connection between two things that act as an intermediary between them. For example, "The artist acted as a mediating link between the two sides, helping to bring them closer together."
The job was once freighted with importance, a vital, mediating link between artist and audience.
This issue is called the 'black box', i.e., the mediating link between HRM and performance.
A cardinal problem in the neuroscience of human behaviour is the nature of the mediating link between a potential reward and the action intended to secure it (Platt and Huettel, 2008; Rangel et al., 2008).
George and Solomon [ 53, 54] have proposed a mediating link between the mother's attachment status and the attachment classification of her child, which is her symbolic representation of her relationship with her child i.e. her caregiving representation.
Medical student attitudes are important because they are viewed as a mediating link between clinical competence (knowledge and skills) and clinical performance and influence what the will do in clinical practice [ 4].
It is notable that the changes in lifestyle (smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, exercise) and health cognition (seeking for health care) are also regarded as an indirect mediating link between psychological factors and breast cancer development 5.
Thus miR-278 has multiple functions, potentially including mediating links between nutrient availability and egg development.
With caveat that we did not originally predict that initial academic adjustment would mediate links between social adjustment and the other outcomes, this pathway ultimately provided a two-step pathway of mediation from contact to social adjustment to academic adjustment and, finally, to the mid-year outcomes.
Dissociation mediated links between inner speech and hallucination proneness.
While much research on video games has focused on aggressive outcomes, the extant research has not come to consensus on the role of other factors, notably enjoyment, frustration and individual differences amongst players, in mediating the link between violent game play and aggression.
The mechanisms mediating the link between long sleep duration and MetSyn require further investigation.
