University College Cork

Prospective observational study of the impact of early-life feeding on gut microbiome development in caesarean-delivered infants: associations with clinician-confirmed illness

Caesarean section (C-section) born infants acquire a compromised gut microbiome at birth. This prospective observational study investigated the impact of early-life feeding on gut microbiome of C-section born infants and its association with clinician-confirmed, parent-reported i...

Ethical dilemmas or uneasy situations? Using a dialogical reflective method to address intersectional challenges in research conducted by female researchers with male participants

Ethical dilemmas in research are common and often anticipated through institutional review processes, yet some challenges only surface during fieldwork. These unanticipated dilemmas are discussed far less frequently by women researchers, partly due to shame, stigma, or the absenc...

An integrated modelling framework of a two-bladed floating VAWT based on two-way fluid–structure interaction

Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are increasingly regarded as promising alternatives for horizontal-axis configurations in large-scale floating wind systems. However, existing coupled modeling tools for floating VAWTs still present several limitations: simplified aerodynamic f...

Lights, camera, coopetition: film and television production in a peripheral region

While ‘coopetition’ – the simultaneous competition and cooperation of firms in regional clusters – supports regional value creation, its dynamics in peripheral regions remain underexplored. This research addresses this gap by examining the antecedents of coopetition in the film a...

An interactive workshop for first year pharmacy students on caring for visually impaired patients: Development, implementation and evaluation

Background Patients with disabilities, such as those are visually impaired (VI), require an individualised approach to care by pharmacists. However, disability awareness training is not widely implemented across modern pharmacy curricula. To address this gap, a workshop was devel...

Condition-Specific LC Retention Time Prediction: Feature-Selected QSRR Versus Pretrained Graph Isomorphism Network Transfer Learning

Condition-specific liquid chromatographic retention time prediction remains challenging because retention depends on both molecular structure and experimental conditions. This study compared feature-selected quantitative structure–retention relationship (FS-QSRR) models with pret...

33rd GP2A Annual Medicinal Chemistry Conference, XIVth Paul Ehrlich MedChem Euro-PhD Network Meeting & COST Action One Health Drugs Against Parasitic Vector Borne Diseases in Europe and Beyond (OneHealthdrugs)

The 33rd Annual Conference of the Group for the Promotion of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Academia (GP2A), held in Nantes from 11 to 13 June 2025, marked a significant expansion of the organization’s scope and collaborative efforts. Building on the success of the previous meeting...

Nonexistence of positive entire solutions to systems of semilinear elliptic inequalities

Abstract Consider the system $$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{aligned}&\Delta u \ge p(x)g(v) \quad & \text{ in } \mathbb {R}^n, \\&\Delta v \ge q(x)f(|\nabla u|) \quad & \text{ in } \mathbb {R}^n, \\&u>0, v>0 \quad & \text{ in } \mathbb {R}^n, \end{a...

Copper as a central element critical to interkingdom interactions within a polymicrobial wound environment

Abstract Staphylococcus aureus is a global health concern, estimated to cause over one million deaths each year. To colonise and survive in humans, S. aureus must overcome the host immune system and compete with other native and invading microorganisms. As a frequent coloniser of...