University of South Carolina

An integrated communication and behavioral design model for reducing food waste and sustaining pro-environmental behavior change

Food waste at the retail consumption level is a sustainability problem created by repeated decisions about buying, storing, preparing, serving, eating, and disposing of food. While the communication process helps shape how an issue is understood and discussed, and social marketin...

Synthetic Data as a Pathway to Reproducible Criminology

Abstract Open science practices remain rare in criminology, and scholars commonly point to sensitive data as reason to restrict public access. Synthetic data can expand access, provided their analytic utility and disclosure risks are assessed. We reproduce the data and results of...

Implementation strategies for multi-component school behavioral health interventions: a scoping review

Abstract Background Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of school-based behavioral, social-emotional and mental health interventions, implementation in real-world settings is often disappointing. Implementation strategies are key to attaining desired outcomes. This scoping rev...

Three Strategies to Strengthen Therapist Follow-Through in Therapy Sessions: Examination of Accountability in Clinical Supervision

Abstract Clinical supervision is a natural opportunity for promoting therapist use of clinical practices supported by research in community mental health services. However, the research on thespecific strategies in supervision that are likely to have a positive impact is limited....

Offshore wind power forecasting based on phase-space guided representation and regime-adaptive differential attention mechanism

Offshore wind power forecasting is challenged by nonlinear dynamic evolution, multi-scale atmospheric fluctuations, and redundant environmental disturbances under complex marine conditions. This paper develops a phase-space guided forecasting model with a regime-adaptive differen...

Knowing and feeling: The role of semantic valence in emotional prosody perception for L2 Chinese learners

Abstract In Mandarin Chinese, the same acoustic feature, pitch, conveys both semantic valence and emotional prosody. The effects of semantic valence on bilingual emotional prosody perception are mixed, with some studies reporting semantic facilitation and others showing interfere...

Neural Representation of Hedonic Valence During Narrative Listening

Abstract Hedonic valence, the intrinsic pleasantness or unpleasantness of an experience, is fundamental to human psychological functioning. Yet, how valence is represented in the brain remains an open question. Functional MRI studies have demonstrated that the brain encodes both...

The nucleoside analog kamuvudine-9 shows protective and therapeutic efficacy in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis

Innate immune signaling through inflammasome activation has been implicated in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS). We previously demonstrated that nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), drugs approved to treat HIV and hepatitis B virus infections, and kamuv...

Flash Communication: Copper Complexes Supported by Macrocyclic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands with Ether or Secondary Amine Donors

Abstract Metal complexes featuring secondary amine donors have been extensively studied in the context of hydrogen-bonding or metal–ligand cooperative interactions. In this regard, pincer-type ligand frameworks have been described, but macrocyclic variants remain rare. Herein, we...

The Chornobyl Dogs: Why Scientific Evaluation Must Accompany Population Management

Nearly four decades after the 1986 reactor explosion, several hundred semi-feral dogs persist within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Genomic work has characterised their population structure and shown that radiation-induced mutation does not, on current evidence, drive the differen...

Interrogation duration and the estimation of false confession wrongful conviction risk — A reply to Smith and colleagues

Smith et al. (2026) independently reconstructed our inverse probability analysis of false confession wrongful conviction (FCWC) risk and reproduced its results. Their replication confirms the central point of our original article: the existing literature does not provide reliable...

Precision Physics with Muons: A Decade of Theoretical and Experimental Advances

The muon has been instrumental in establishing the Standard Model of particle physics and continues to play a key role in exploring the nature of New Physics. A global program is underway to enhance the discovery potential of a wide range of muon probes, with significant increase...

Strategic inertia or rational caution? Unpacking short-term rental pricing responses to hotel ADR fluctuations

Purpose This study aims to investigate how short-term vacation rentals (STVRs) adjust their pricing strategies in response to hotel ADRs. While prior research has emphasized the disruptive effect of STVRs on hotel performance, the reverse relationship remains underexplored. The s...

The Physics and Prospects of Super Tau–Charm Factories

The proposed super tau–charm factories are a powerful new class of high-luminosity electron–positron colliders operating in the center-of-mass energy range between 2 and 7 GeV, a region that spans thresholds for tau leptons, open-charm hadrons, charmonium and charmonium-like stat...

IgA deficiency reveals a microbiota-dependent pathway to gluten sensitivity

Selective IgA deficiency (sIgAD) is the most common primary immunodeficiency and increases susceptibility to gluten-related enteropathies, but the underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis are unknown. Utilizing IgA−/− mice and wild-type controls, we investigated how dietary gluten s...

Modeling multivariate lattice data with Dirichlet process mixture spatial random effects

Many multivariate Bayesian spatial models for joint disease mapping assume Gaussian distributions for the spatial random effects, which can be restrictive when the true distributions are unknown. We develop a nonparametric Bayesian methodology that uses a Dirichlet process mixtur...

Sustaining Student Motivation in String Instrument Pedagogy: A Systematic Review of Research (2014–2026)

Sustaining student motivation is a central concern in string instrument pedagogy. Although prior reviews have addressed motivation in applied music contexts, no synthesis has focused specifically on the string instrument domain or incorporated the expanded theoretical landscape a...

No Difference in Short-term Postoperative Complication Rates Between Non-chilled and Chilled Saline Irrigation in Percutaneous Foot and Ankle Surgery

Background: The advent of minimally invasive percutaneous foot and ankle surgery techniques has helped to lower certain complication rates, including wound infection and nonunion. The percutaneous burr is the work horse to perform these procedures. One concern with burr usage is...

Inauthenticity from Transgressive Events: Situational Emotions and Generalized Distress

The affect control theory of self explains how interactions that challenge our core sense of self produce inauthenticity —a discrepancy between who we generally feel we are and how we feel about ourselves in specific events. However, the consequences of inauthenticity for emotion...

New Constraints on the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation From Combined Radiogenic Hafnium and Neodymium Isotopes

Abstract The drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 likely triggered Antarctic glaciation during the Eocene‐Oligocene Transition (34 Ma). Accurately constraining this shift from “greenhouse” to an “icehouse” climate is essential for understanding global carbon cycle dynamics. However, conv...