The Relation Between Discipline Identity and Academic Achievement Within a Marketized Higher Education Context: A Serial Mediation Model of Approaches to Learning and Course Complaints.

Social-psychological dimensions of learning are under-researched, but they affect student achievement. Within a marketized higher education context in England, United Kingdom, this study examined whether the relation between students' social identities as members of their discipline and academic achievement could be further understood by considering the mediating roles of approaches to learning and frequency of making course complaints. Undergraduates ( = 679) completed a questionnaire to assess these constructs.

Longitudinal Associations Between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence.

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Participants were 1,234 adolescents (52% female) aged 11-13 years, drawn from six secondary schools in England. Self-reports of psychosocial adjustment (loneliness, depressive symptomatology, and self-esteem) and humor styles were collected at two time points (fall and summer).

Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads.

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective (fall to spring) associations between four different humor styles to assess the degree to which stable friendships are characterized by similarity, and to assess whether best friends' humor styles influence each other's later use of humor. Participants were aged 11-13 years, with 87 stable, reciprocal best friend dyads. Self-report assessments of humor styles were completed on both occasions.

A randomised controlled trial of Outpatient versus inpatient Polyp Treatment (OPT) for abnormal uterine bleeding.

Background: Uterine polyps cause abnormal bleeding in women and conventional practice is to remove them in hospital under general anaesthetic. Advances in technology make it possible to perform polypectomy in an outpatient setting, yet evidence of effectiveness is limited.

Objectives: To test the hypothesis that in women with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) associated with benign uterine polyp(s), outpatient polyp treatment achieved as good, or no more than 25% worse, alleviation of bleeding symptoms at 6 months compared with standard inpatient treatment.

Does the gender of the bully/victim dyad and the type of bullying influence children's responses to a bullying incident?

Children's responses to bullying are context related; they will vary depending on the specific bullying episode. The aim of the present study was to explore whether children's responses to bullying vary depending on the gender of the bully and victim and the type of bullying portrayed. In total, 437 children aged 9-11 years from four primary schools in the UK took part in the study.

The influence of norms and social identities on children's responses to bullying.

Background: Research on bullying increasingly focuses on social processes, showing that group membership affects children's responses to bullying scenarios. Additionally, correlational research has shown links between norms of cooperation and prosocial behaviour, and between competition and more aggressive forms of behaviour.

Aims: This paper focuses on how children's peer group membership affects their group-based emotions in response to an intergroup bullying incident, and the action tendencies that these emotions predict, in the context of different background norms (for competitive or cooperative behaviour).

Ganging up or sticking together? Group processes and children's responses to text-message bullying.

Drawing on social identity theory and intergroup emotion theory (IET), we examined group processes underlying bullying behaviour. Children were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a perpetrator's group, a target's group, or a third party group. They then read a gender-consistent scenario in which the norm of the perpetrator's group (to be kind or unkind towards others) was manipulated, and an instance of cyberbullying between the perpetrator's group and a member of the target's group was described.

Birds of a feather bully together: group processes and children's responses to bullying.

Recent research has shown that a group-level analysis can inform our understanding of school bullying. The present research drew on social identity theory and intergroup emotion theory. Nine- to eleven-year olds were randomly assigned to the same group as story characters who were described as engaging in bullying, as being bullied, or as neither engaging in bullying nor being bullied.

Rate, type, and cost of invasive interventions for uterine myomas in Germany, France, and England.

Study Objective: The objective of our study was to quantify the rate, type, and cost of interventions for uterine myomas to payers in Germany, France, and England.

Design: Computations using data from national hospital activity databases.

Design Classification: II-3.

Profound hypoxemia in pulmonary patients in airline-equivalent hypoxia: roles of VA/Q and shunt.

Background: Airliners at cruise altitudes have cabin pressures of 84.3-75.2 kPa, equivalent to 5000-8000 ft.

Hysteroscopy in the diagnosis of postmenopausal bleeding.

Postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) accounts for 5% of gynaecology referrals. Investigations should exclude malignancy and pre-malignancy, and diagnose the benign conditions that need treatment. The three modalities that are most commonly used are transvaginal ultrasound scan (TVS), endometrial biopsy (EB) and hysteroscopy.

Ambulatory hysteroscopy: evidence-based guide to diagnosis and therapy.

Healthcare providers are facing increasing demands for improvement in quality of life for patients. Improvements in service provision for women are being ensured by the introduction of minimally invasive technologies into all spheres of gynaecologic practice. Ambulatory hysteroscopy (direct endoscopic visualization of the endometrial cavity) is an extremely exciting and rapidly advancing field of gynaecologic practice.

The benefits of setting up a nurse hysteroscopy service.

Many nurses are extending their roles in line with the Government's NHS Plan. In the outpatient hysteroscopy service in one trust nurses are now undertaking diagnostic hysteroscopy. This has improved continuity of care for patients and allowed the nurses to combine their traditional nursing role of providing information and reassurance with performing the procedure.