University College Cork

Interweaving pedagogy, content, language, and technology

Abstract Research in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is beginning to examine learners’ development of bi-/multilingual disciplinary literacies (BMDLs). Digital technologies play a key role in this process, yet little is known about how teachers integrate them in C...

Informing Data-Based Suicide Prevention – Evaluation of the Real-Time Suicide Observatory in Cork and Kerry

The Suicide Observatory in Cork and Kerry was established to address the urgent need for real-time suicide data in Ireland to enable timely suicide prevention. This study aimed to assess the performance and efficiency of the Suicide Observatory to inform decisions about its upsca...

Enhanced cognitive behavioural therapy for suicidality among people with comorbid mental and physical health conditions: study protocol of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

Suicidal behaviours represent significant public health concerns. People who present with suicidal ideation and/or self-harm are at an increased risk of suicide. The presence of co-existing or comorbid mental and physical health conditions, coupled with neurobiological factors, e...

Baseline gut microbiome and metabolome profiles predict weight loss after a structured lifestyle intervention

Abstract Background Obesity remains a global health challenge, and responses to lifestyle-based weight-loss interventions are heterogeneous. Here, we evaluate a one-year structured lifestyle program in 50 adults with obesity (mean BMI 42 ± 7.0 kg/m 2 ), integrating clinical, micr...

Elucidating a potential role of the infant gut microbiome on L-tyrosine bioavailability in phenylketonuria using whole-body metabolic modelling

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inherited metabolic disorder caused by phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency, leading to elevated L-phenylalanine and severe neurological damage if untreated. While phenylalanine-based biomarkers are diagnostic and phenylalanine levels correlate w...

Developing a core competency framework for psychiatric pharmacists: a Europe-wide e-Delphi consensus study conducted by the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy Mental Health Special Interest Group

Abstract Introduction Consensus on essential clinical activities of psychiatric pharmacists is currently unavailable. Agreement on core non-clinical roles relating to research, education, leadership and management is also unavailable. Consensus on the core clinical and non-clinic...

Exploring nurses’ experiences of caring for older adults with depressive symptoms in China: a qualitative descriptive study

Depression and depressive symptoms among older adults impose a substantial health and service burden on individuals, families and the healthcare system in China, yet they often remain unrecognised due to symptom concealment, low help-seeking and limited public awareness. Hospital...

International Comparison of Ambulance Time Intervals for Suspected Stroke/Transient Ischemic Attack Across 7 Emergency Medical Services Before and During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

BACKGROUND: International reports highlight the COVID-19 pandemic's wide-ranging impacts on time-sensitive conditions, including stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA). Comparing ambulance time intervals globally offers insights into COVID-19's effects on different health care sy...

Older adults and families/caregivers' experiences of access and use of emergency medical services (EMS): a study protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis

Older adults account for one of the largest users of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and require specialised care and tailored interventions during this time. The experiences of older adults and those important to them is crucial to ensure an age-friendly EMS. This review aims t...

The power of adaptation: Multilingual localisation of extIPA for clinical phonetics and cross-linguistic speech assessment

The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet (extIPA) support clinical transcription of atypical and disordered speech, but their chart metalanguage is primarily available in English. This article presents a feasibility study of multilingual extIPA localisation as clinic...

Integrating convolutional variational autoencoders and the Gaussian mixture model for efficient manifold learning and clustering of spatially preserved EEG topographic maps

EEG microstate analysis segments continuous brain activity into brief, quasi-stable topographic configurations whose quantity, duration, and transition dynamics index cognitive state and neuropsychiatric conditions. The standard algorithm, modified k -means (ModKMeans), operates...

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...