Representations of women's football in the news

The disparity of coverage within print media between men’s and women’s football is significant (WSFF cited in Topping, 2012). Women’s football in the last ten years has experienced growth in terms of the number of women taking part in the game, however the growth in coverage within women’s football seems to be slow to react. This thesis analysed the men’s World Cup of 2014 and the women’s World Cup of 2015 to investigate the extent of the disparity between men’s and women’s football. It acknowledges whether women are being fairly represented within The Mirror, The Daily Mail, and The Guardian in comparison to men. To answer this question, a combination of both content and discourse analysis was applied to 911 articles. The results show that even during times of heightened popularity women’s football still experiences significantly less coverage than their male counterparts. This shows that the disparity found in other studies historically is still being experienced today. Moreover, there are significantly less female journalists than male journalists involved in the construction of news stories creating significant problems for the ecology of journalism. Further investigation is needed to analyse whether this exists across a greater number of institutions in the UK. Moreover, it would also be beneficial to explore whether this is indeed the case in other countries, acknowledging whether there are still high levels of patriarchal dominance within the economy of football journalism

The Work of the Holy Spirit

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Aviation Database Research

Aviation Database Abstract Database analytics is a growing field in today’s world with the rapid growth of big data that is available for use. Industries will use this big data in any way that they can to be able to get a competitive advantage over their competitors to gain more market share. After collaborating on our interest and doing research, our team choose to look deep into the databases of aviation. After gathering numerous databases on the field, we ended up choosing one that was aviation accidents the recorded statistics involving the accidents. This database is full of different continuous and categorical data that we can use to find any sort of relationships that we are looking for. With everything from hours of flight time that the pilot has recorded to the time of day in which the accident occurred, we can expect to find some correlation the data. Our goal as a team is to find a relationship in the data that would not typically jump out at you at first, but through analyzing and transforming the data be able to present it in a why where the average person would be able to use it

On the Non-Gaussianity Observed in the COBE-DMR Sky Maps

In this paper we pursue the origin of the non-Gaussianity determined by a bispectrum analysis of the COBE-DMR 4-year sky maps. The robustness of the statistic is demonstrated by the rebinning of the data into 12 coordinate systems. By computing the bispectrum statistic as a function of various data partitions - by channel, frequency, and time interval, we show that the observed non-Gaussian signal is driven by the 53 GHz data. This frequency dependence strongly rejects the hypothesis that the signal is cosmological in origin. A jack-knife analysis of the coadded 53 and 90 GHz sky maps reveals those sky pixels to which the bispectrum statistic is particularly sensitive. We find that by removing data from the 53 GHz sky maps for periods of time during which a known systematic effect perturbs the 31 GHz channels, the amplitudes of the bispectrum coefficients become completely consistent with that expected for a Gaussian sky. We conclude that the non-Gaussian signal detected by the normalised bispectrum statistic in the publicly available DMR sky maps is due to a systematic artifact. The impact of removing the affected data on estimates of the normalisation of simple models of cosmological anisotropy is negligible.Comment: 14 pages, plus 8 Postscript and 3 GIF figures. LaTeX2e document using AASTeX v5.0 macros. Revised version accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal: small changes to the text, minor modifications to figures 1 and

Formality and informality in the summative assessment of motor vehicle apprentices: a case study

This article explores the interaction of formal and informal attributes of competence‐based assessment. Specifically, it presents evidence from a small qualitative case study of summative assessment practices for competence‐based qualifications within apprenticeships in the motor industry in England. The data are analysed through applying an adaptation of a framework for exploring the interplay of formality and informality in learning. This analysis reveals informal mentoring as a significant element which influences not only the process of assessment, but also its outcomes. We offer different possible interpretations of the data and their analysis, and conclude that, whichever interpretation is adopted, there appears to be a need for greater capacity‐building for assessors at a local level. This could acknowledge a more holistic role for assessors; recognise the importance of assessors’ informal practices in the formal retention and achievement of apprentices; and enhance awareness of inequalities that may be reinforced by both informal and formal attributes of assessment practices

To what extent have learners with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties been excluded from the policy and practice of inclusive education?

The article is a position paper on inclusive practice in education with respect to students with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties (sld/pmld). It asks if children and young people with sld/pmld have been excluded from the policy and the practice of inclusive education. A review of the literature found that there is a research gap around inclusive education for learners with sld/pmld, and a review of historical and current practices indicated that this group of learners has indeed been excluded from both the policy and practice of inclusion in the United Kingdom with the use of curricula based on a mainstream linear and academic model reinforcing this exclusion. The study makes a theoretical and practical contribution to the continuing debate about inclusive education and will be of interest to teachers, parents, policy-makers and the learners themselves

Effect of Age and Diabetes on the Response of Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells to Fibrin Matrices

Mesenchymal stem cells are showing increasing promise in applications such as tissue engineering and cell therapy. MSC are low in number in bone marrow, and therefore in vitro expansion is often necessary. In vivo, stem cells often reside within a niche acting to protect the cells. These niches are composed of niche cells, stem cells, and extracellular matrix. When blood vessels are damaged, a fibrin clot forms as part of the wound healing response. The clot constitutes a form of stem cell niche as it appears to maintain the stem cell phenotype while supporting MSC proliferation and differentiation during healing. This is particularly appropriate as fibrin is increasingly being suggested as a scaffold meaning that fibrin-based tissue engineering may to some extent recapitulate wound healing. Here, we describe how fibrin modulates the clonogenic capacity of MSC derived from young/old human donors and normal/diabetic rats. Fibrin was prepared using different concentrations to modulate the stiffness of the substrate. MSC were expanded on these scaffolds and analysed. MSC showed an increased self-renewal on soft surfaces. Old and diabetic cells lost the ability to react to these signals and can no longer adapt to the changed environment

Towards Locating the Brightest Microlensing Events on the Sky

It is estimated that a star brighter than visual magnitude 17 is undergoing a detectable gravitational microlensing event, somewhere on the sky, at any given time. It is assumed that both lenses and sources are normal stars drawn from a standard Bahcall-Soneira model of our Galaxy. Furthermore, over the time scale of a year, a star 15th magnitude or brighter should undergo a detectable gravitational lens amplification. Detecting and studying the microlensing event rate among the brightest 10$^8$ stars could yield a better understanding of Galactic stellar and dark matter distributions. Diligent tracking of bright microlensing events with even small telescopes might detect planets orbiting these stellar lenses.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Ap

Leadership around the clock: Balancing caregiving and chairing

Are you reading this abstract while texting to make sure your kids got off the bus ok or your elders took their medications today? If yes, this session is for you! We will discuss finding balance in a “lean in” culture, the effect of role strain and depletion fatigue, and how to generate self-compassion while juggling it all-or at least some of it. We will share strategies to make peace with your individual career trajectory, embrace the multiple purposes in your life, and survive the chaos