Factors influencing the healthcare programme selection of students in an Irish university.

Background: Globally, there is a rapidly increasing proportion of women studying and practising healthcare. This has been accompanied by a reducing proportion of males in most healthcare professions. This has been a contributory factor to the decreasing health staffing due to the tendency of females to work fewer hours and leave their profession earlier.

Geography, Trajectories, and Controls of Coastal Water Quality: More Rapid Improvement in the Shallow Zone of the Chesapeake Bay.

Many coastal ecosystems have suffered from cultural eutrophication and dead zones. In the Chesapeake Bay, water quality degradation is manifested in low dissolved oxygen, poor water clarity, and decreased submerged aquatic vegetation acreage. This research combines long-term monitoring data, science-based assessment methods, and novel data analysis approaches (i.

Reasons for Missed Appointments.

Importance: Little is known about reasons behind missed appointments in subspecialty settings, particularly in urogynecology practices.

Objective: The aim of the study was to understand patient-perceived barriers to appointment attendance at an academic urban multisite urogynecology practice.

Study Design: This was a prospective, qualitative study of patients who missed their appointments at a urogynecology practice from April to September 2023.

Dynamic associations between daily acting with awareness and emotion regulation in individuals living with the effects of a stroke.

One often-overlooked consequence of stroke is a deficit in emotion regulation. Acting with awareness in everyday life has been found to support emotion regulation but it is an open question whether such associations generalize to stroke populations. Factors associated with emotion regulation in stroke survivors are key to inform rehabilitation efforts.

A novel 14mer peptide, T14, is associated with age-dependent behaviour in female mice.

Age-related cognitive decline presents a healthcare challenge. While age-related mechanisms are mainly studied in humans, animal models provide key insights. Despite evidence of sex-specific differences in aging and cognition, the impact of age on female rodent behaviour is underexplored.