Cardiff University

Childhood facial emotion recognition: Associations with the parental emotional environment and child emotional and behavioral problems

Abstract Impairments in negative facial emotion recognition (FER) are widely reported in children with internalizing and externalizing problems; however, it remains unclear whether these impairments reflect response biases or reduced discrimination accuracy. Children’s emotion so...

Accelerated Zeolite Defect Healing Suppresses Oxygen-Containing Species Trapping for Tandem Propene Epoxidation

Abstract Selective oxidation of chemical feedstocks with in situ-generated H2O2 offers a sustainable route to high-value oxygenates, yet such tandem catalysis is often fundamentally limited by the trapping of oxygen-containing species, including H2O2-derived intermediates and oxy...

Targeting the MLN64/STARD3-cholesterol axis disrupts tight junction remodelling and attenuates gastric cancer aggressiveness

Introduction Gastric cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality, largely due to invasion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance. Dysregulated cholesterol metabolism is increasingly recognised as a driver of gastric cancer progression, but how intracellular choleste...

Respecifying Stigma and the Language of Relationships: Attributes and Categories as Contexturally‐Achieved Phenomena in the Search for Help

This article revisits Goffman's original formulations of stigma. In doing so, the discussion focuses, specifically, upon his emphasis that a “language of relationships, not attributes is needed.” The analysis is intended to demonstrate how Goffman's observations offer a starting...

Architects as educators in owner-occupied retrofit: Situated learning in design interactions

Retrofitting owner-occupied housing is critical to achieving decarbonisation targets, yet uptake remains limited. While social approaches emphasise building experts' role in engaging households with retrofit, the interactional agency of architects remains insufficiently specified...

Repair in the Circular Economy: From Fragmented Practices to Strategic Repair Capability

ABSTRACT Repair is central to the circular economy, yet research remains fragmented across product design, consumer behaviour, business models, community initiatives and policy, limiting understanding of how these dimensions interact to enable repair at scale. This study systemat...

Super Warm Early Eocene Simulations With HadGEM3‐GC31‐LL

Abstract The early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO; 53.3–49.1 million years ago) represents the period of greatest sustained warmth in the Cenozoic (last 66 million years), with proxy‐data indicating global‐mean temperatures 10–16°C above preindustrial and atmospheric concentration...

Stacking and the Triviality of Invertible Phases

Abstract We study the superselection sectors of two quantum lattice systems stacked onto each other in the operator algebraic framework. We show in particular that all irreducible sectors of a stacked system are unitarily equivalent to a product of irreducible sectors of the fact...

Quantifying Patenting by Women in the US, 1845–1924

Abstract US patents do not report inventors’ gender, requiring researchers to infer the gender of inventors. To conduct these inferences, researchers must make several choices. We show how these researcher choices can affect conclusions about the role of women inventors in the US...

Natural Hazards, Critical Infrastructure Systems, and Resilience Enhancement: A Structured State-of-the-Art Review and a Synthesis-Based Rapid Assessment Framework

Abstract Critical infrastructure systems (CISs) are increasingly exposed to natural hazards whose impacts are amplified by infrastructure interdependence, urban complexity, and the growing prevalence of compound and cascading events. Existing research provides valuable insights i...

Enhancing parametric and causal reasoning through a formula-augmented language model approach for belt grinding knowledge assistance

Abrasive belt grinding is a flexible surface finishing process in which precision machining of geometrically complex components often involves coupled parameters and contact mechanisms. Retrieval-augmented large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in domain-specific knowled...

Study on the Strength Characteristics of Frozen Salt-Rich Red Clay

Abstract In low-temperature environments, water and sulfates in red clay crystallize into ice and salt crystals, respectively, triggering a synergistic effect of frost heave and salt heave. Saturation and salt content significantly influence the strength and structural evolution...

Lessons from the history of antipsychotic discovery: part 3 - muscarinic mechanisms.

After more than seven decades in which antipsychotic drug development has been dominated by dopaminergic mechanisms, the recent emergence of a muscarinic receptor-based treatment represents a conceptual shift in the pharmacotherapy of psychosis. This article reviews the history a...

Lessons from the history of antipsychotic discovery: part 1 - initial insights.

The recent introduction of the first non-dopaminergic antipsychotic marks a pivotal moment in psychopharmacology. This article revisits the development of chlorpromazine, the world's first licensed antipsychotic, and considers what its history reveals about innovation in psychiat...

Evaluation of the SPEED Sample Preparation Protocol for Metabolomics

Abstract Multiomic (paired proteomic and metabolomic) analyses allow researchers to better decipher the underlying biology being studied. While sample preparation techniques for multiomic analyses exist, they are often automation-unfriendly or secondary to preferred techniques fo...

Electrochemical Flow α-Selenylation of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds with Diselenides

Organoselenium compounds have attracted sustained interest because of their distinctive chemical reactivity and broad biological relevance. Selenium-mediated functionalization of carbonyls provides direct access to valuable selenium-containing building blocks. Herein, we report a...

The unintended effect of monetary incentives on shirking in manufacturer–reseller relationships

Purpose This study investigates how temporal changes in manufacturer monetary incentives influence reseller behavior within manufacturer–reseller relationships. We theorize, using agency theory, and examine empirically how the manufacturer's incentive changes have complex and uni...

Lessons from the history of antipsychotic discovery: part 2 - dopaminergic diversification.

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AI Companions and Loneliness: Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Synthetic Mindfulness and Exploring Its Role in Alleviating Loneliness

ABSTRACT The rise of AI companions has sparked interest in their potential to alleviate the growing social problem of loneliness, yet evidence of their effectiveness remains unsettled. Drawing on social surrogacy theory with a theories‐in‐use approach, this research introduces sy...

Spatiotemporal Changes and Driving Factors of Ecosystem Services in the Yangtze River Delta, China: Insights from XGBoost and Structural Equation Modeling

Ecosystem services (ESs) are the benefits that humans derive from ecosystems. Clarifying their spatiotemporal changes and driving factors is fundamental to regional ecological security. The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of the most urbanized and human-disturbed regions in Chin...