Escaping Boredom in the Classroom. Breakouts, Breakout Boxes and Escape Rooms. Armie, M. and Membrive, V. (Eds.) (2022). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 338 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5275-7775-6

In this book review, the volume Escaping Boredom in the Classroom. Breakouts, Breakout Boxes and Escape Room written by Armie and Membrive has been reviewed. This is a new publication of significance for both teaching practitioners and researchers who hold an interest in pedagogical innovation and would like to become more immersed in gamification in foreign language teaching. In this book review, the volume Escaping Boredom in the Classroom. Breakouts, Breakout Boxes and Escape Room written by Armie and Membrive has been reviewed. This is a new publication of significance for both teaching practitioners and researchers who hold an interest in pedagogical innovation and would like to become more immersed in gamification in foreign language teaching.

The cosmological constant and dimensional reduction

A brief history of the cosmological constant is given and its role in present day theories is discussed along with an indication of why it is a problem in physics today. A discussion of the papers by Visser and Squires on the use of the cosmological constant for dimensional reduction is given and in the case of Squires' paper, an exact treatment of the bound states problem is given in 3-dimensions and some headway is made in the more general N-dimensional case. Some preliminary work on the nonlocallity problem is also presented along with a brief discussion on the concept of nonlocallity. In conjunction with this work a computer program, written in the computer language REDUCE, was developed to work out curvature components and associated variables

Introduction to Policies and Strategies for Digital Government Minitrack

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Trends in incidence and social gradient of thyroid cancer in adolescent and young adult females: an analysis of the national cancer registration data in England, 1985-2016

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P99 Changing epidemiology and age-specific incidence of breast cancer in England, 1985–2018

Background - Although the incidence of breast cancer has been steadily increasing in most countries over the past four decades, there is an indication of stabilisation in some of the Western countries (i.e. France, Italy, Norway, USA) in recent years. We conducted a retrospective population-based cohort study to examine whether there have been changes in the incidence of breast cancer in England during the past four decades. Methods - Individual level data for women diagnosed with breast cancer in England during 1985–2018 were obtained from the Office for National Statistics/Public Health England. Average annual incidence rates were calculated by two age categories (0–49, 50+ years) during the six five-year time periods (1985–89 to 2010–14) and the recent four-year period (2015–18). The percentage change in incidence was calculated as change in the average incidence rate from the first (1985–89) to the last time period (2015–18). Results - During the 34-year study period, a total of 1,218,109 women with breast cancer were registered in England. In women aged 0–49 years, the average annual incidence rates increased by about 50% (from 32.6/100,000 in 1985–89 to 48.8/100,000 in 2015–18); and in women aged 50+ years, the rates increased by 47% (from 241.3/100,000 in 1985–89 to 355.5/100,000 in 2015–18). There was some indication that the rates, particularly in younger women, may be stabilising (or levelling off). With regards to the levels of deprivation, least deprived women were more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, compared to those who were most deprived (23.0% versus 15.2%). Conclusion - It appears that, like some other western countries, incidence rates of breast cancer in England, particularly among young women, may be stabilising (or levelling off). The relatively increased risk of breast cancer among least deprived women is consistent with that reported from other Western countries

The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey -- A 700-Square-Degree, Multi-Epoch Radio Dataset -- II: Individual Epoch Transient Statistics

We present our second paper on the Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey (ATATS), a multi-epoch, ~700 sq. deg. radio image and catalog at 1.4 GHz. The survey is designed to detect rare, bright transients as well as to commission the ATA's wide-field survey capabilities. ATATS explores the challenges of multi-epoch transient and variable source surveys in the domain of dynamic range limits and changing (u,v) coverage. Here we present images made using data from the individual epochs, as well as a revised image combining data from all ATATS epochs. The combined image has RMS noise 3.96 mJy / beam, with a circular beam of 150 arcsec FWHM. The catalog, generated using a false detection rate algorithm, contains 4984 sources, and is >90% complete to 37.9 mJy. The catalogs generated from snapshot images of the individual epochs contain between 1170 and 2019 sources over the 564 sq. deg. area in common to all epochs. The 90% completeness limits of the single epoch catalogs range from 98.6 to 232 mJy. We compare the catalog generated from the combined image to those from individual epochs, and from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS), a legacy survey at the same frequency. We are able to place new constraints on the transient population: fewer than 6e-4 transients / sq. deg., for transients brighter than 350 mJy with characteristic timescales of minutes to days. This strongly rules out an astronomical origin for the ~1 Jy sources reported by Matsumura et al. (2009), based on their stated rate of 3.1e-3 / sq. deg.Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures, ApJ accepte

Young people living in the YMCA

This article presents interim findings and reflections from a case study of multiply excluded homeless people in Stoke-on-Trent. The article focuses on the experiences reported by a group of twelve such people living in the YMCA hostel. From the interviews, a large number of thematic structures were identified, of which only a few are outlined here, due to restrictions on the article length. The article concludes that the YMCA has had an important impact on their lives, mostly for the better, but the nature of this impact is complex and far from being fully understood

The Engagement of Metacognition During Critical Literacy Discourse by Young Talented Readers

While little empirical research has focused on talented readers, so too is little known about the relationship between metacognition and critical literacy. This mixed method qualitative study addresses both of these gaps in the research literature. One premise inspiring this study has been the declining performance of Australia's top-end reading scores in international assessments over the past decade. A recent media release by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) highlighted this disturbing trend from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducted every three years by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the finding that 'Australia's overall performance declined by 13 score points from 2000 to 2009. The decline (in reading) is primarily among higher achieving students' (Masters, 2010, online). In 2004 a review of the literature on talented readers by Reis et al. found much of it to be primarily anecdotal in nature with little research showing how to challenge and meet the learning needs of this group. With a better understanding needed of the self-systems that enable advanced reading skills clearly needed, this study used observations to explore the metacognitive processes adopted by young talented readers during critical literacy activities as compared with their typical peers. This study had a dual focus. First, to find out if critical literacy requires the employment of metacognitive strategies for successful analysis, understanding and critiquing of texts; and second, to discover if young talented readers are more adept at employing metacognition than their same-age peers, when interacting with critical literacy discourse

Changing epidemiology of pancreatic cancer in England: an analysis of the national cancer registration data by age group and sex, 1985-2017

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