University College Dublin

Quantification of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in a managed grassland following nitrogen fertilisation: A comparative analysis of cumulative emissions determined by automated and manual chamber methods

Accurate quantification of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from grasslands remains challenging owing to their episodic, spatially heterogeneous and diurnally variable nature. This study compared automated chamber (AC) and manual chamber (MC) methods to evaluate the influence of c...

Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Following Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery (RESTORE II)

Objective: RESTORE II compared in an RCT the impact of a 12-week multidisciplinary rehabilitation program versus standard care (SC) on cardiorespiratory fitness and physical function in patients postupper gastrointestinal (UGI) oncologic surgery. Summary of Background Data: The v...

Estimated health burden of environmental noise exceeds that of ambient air pollution in Ireland

To quantify population health risks attributable to environmental noise in Ireland and to compare two assessment approaches, EU harmful-effects estimation and burden of disease (BoD) in terms of interpretability, data requirements and policy applicability. Population exposure to...

Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU’s Digital Services Act

Proposing practical measures to ensure the Digital Services Act fulfills its transparency and accountability goals.

West Antarctic subglacial geology distinguished by Pb isotopes and Rb–Sr ages in ice-rafted feldspars

Provenance data from sediment delivered to the marine environment by icebergs can trace past ice sheet dynamics and help constrain the ice sheet models used in sea level projections. This approach requires an interpretative framework, but in Antarctica, blanketing ice sheets hind...

Institutionalizing portfolio entrepreneurship: the Venture Studio model

Venture Studios (VSs) are organizations that create start-ups by acting as founders or co-founders and operating through standardized venture creation processes conducted in parallel. To examine this organizational model and delineate its distinctiveness from others, we developed...

Environmental drivers of litter- and soil-dwelling springtail communities across European forests, assessed by morphotaxonomy and soil DNA metabarcoding

Springtails are abundant in forest litter and soils, where they play a crucial role in the transformation and decomposition of organic matter. However, most data on springtail communities originates from studies at the local and regional levels, while larger-scale studies are lac...

SLE-Associated rs2295613(A) Allele Strengthens a Predicted c-MYC Motif and Enhances SLAMF1 Promoter Reporter Activity in B Cells

SLAMF1 encodes CD150, an immunoregulatory receptor involved in lymphocyte activation, T–B-cell interactions, and humoral immune responses. The SLAMF1 promoter polymorphism rs2295613(G>A) was previously associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) susceptibility in a Chinese...

A low-cost imaging platform for quantitative characterisation of scaffold surface macrotopography with potential application in craniofacial tissue engineering

Craniofacial bone regeneration is a demanding application of tissue engineering (TE) in which scaffold architecture—pore size, shape and spatial distribution—is a determinant of regenerative success, so that reliable geometric quality control is a prerequisite for translation. Co...

Opening the black box of democracy in international business: polity, politics, and policy distances

In the current context of democratic backsliding, different political systems, such as democracies and autocracies, as well as political differences between democracies, play an important role in shaping economic relationships. Yet, studies of political factors in international b...

When Plain Language Deceives: Frequent but Generic Words and Misleading Sentence Simplicity in a Mobile Phone Advertisement—An Eye‐Tracking and Decision‐Task Study

ABSTRACT This study investigates how plain and apparently simple language can mislead readers in online advertising. Using eye‐tracking and a forced‐choice task, we compared an original smartphone advertisement with a revised version. The revision replaced frequent and generic wo...

Quantification of absolute IgG concentration in bat sera

Abstract Bats are endowed with a remarkable capacity to withstand important pathogens through evolutionary adaptations in their immune systems. Antibodies are essential component of the adaptive immune response and serve as a crucial biomarker, indicating both present and past pa...

Assessing AI-Mediated Interviewing Quality: A Theory-Grounded Comparison of Models for Evaluation Data Collection

As large language models are increasingly used in evaluative settings for their conversational potential in interviews, systematic frameworks for assessing their methodological quality are still lacking. Drawing on evaluation, qualitative interviewing, and validity theories, this...

“Clinical placement logbooks: how do they shape medical student learning behaviours?”

Abstract Background Clinical placement logbooks are widely used to guide learning, document clinical exposure, and support student–tutor feedback. Despite their ubiquity, little is known about how logbooks shape medical students’ learning behaviours, particularly the tension betw...

The global cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic burden from 1990 to 2023

Background The cardiovascular-kidney-liver-metabolic (CKLM) framework represents the multi-organ interplay of systemic metabolic disorders that drive the global burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Methods This study is a descriptive epidemiological analysis of the Global Bur...

Identifying the contours of personal archiving research: a scoping review

Purpose We conducted a scoping review to understand the landscape of literature described as personal archiving research and how it has evolved over three decades. Our objective was to understand how the term personal archiving is conceptualised in research over a 30-year period...

Clinical outcomes of minimally invasive liver resection in patients with cirrhosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Backgrounds/Aims: The impact of cirrhosis on outcomes following minimally invasive liver resection (MILR) remains debated. This meta-analysis evaluates the effect of cirrhosis on perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing MILR. Methods: PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, and Web...

Self-Governance of Common-Pool Resources Under Rapid Urbanisation: The Case of Lake Hawassa, Ethiopia

Contemporary common-pool resource (CPR) theories recommend self-governance as an effective management approach. This article investigates the implications of rapid urbanisation on CPR self-governance, using Lake Hawassa in Ethiopia as a case study. Drawing on semi-structured inte...

Reflexivity in sensitive nursing research: challenges, tensions and methodological insights

BACKGROUND: Reflexivity is widely recognised as central to qualitative inquiry, yet there remains limited discussion of how researchers navigate it in emotionally sensitive research. AIM: This article critically reflects on the first author's experience of conducting an interpret...

Mapping the IntermolecularInteraction Landscape ina New Nicotinamide–Undecanoic Acid Cocrystal: SupramolecularStructure, Spectroscopic Analyses, and Computational Studies

Abstract A novel cocrystal composed of nicotinamide (NA) and undecanoic acid (UA) in a 1:1 stoichiometry has been successfully synthesized via slow evaporation and comprehensively characterized through a multidisciplinary approach combining experimental and computational methods....