The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…This is a critical limitation of the research due to the influence of confounding variables and sample selection bias. Using the National Pupil Database and a full cohort of UK pupils (N=590,092), our analysis tracked a sample of 1,490 pupils permanently excluded in year 11 of the English education system in 2018/19. …”
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Do dogs preferentially encode the identity of the target object or the location of others’ actions? by Lonardo, L, Völter, CJ, Hepach, R, Lamm, C, Huber, L

“…However, dogs’ pupil dilation and latency to make an anticipatory fixation suggested that, if anything, dogs expected the agents to keep approaching the same location rather than the same object, and their looking times showed sensitivity to the animacy of the agents. …”

Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing by Yuan, Guang Hui, Rogers, Edward T. F., Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…However, such lenses are bulky and cannot focus light into a hotspot smaller than half wavelength of light. Pupil filters, initially suggested by Toraldo di Francia, can overcome the resolution constraints of conventional lenses, but are not intrinsically chromatically corrected. …”
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Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement by Badger, JR, Holst, CG, Thompson, P, Bowes, L, Hayes, R, Clarkson, S, Hutchings, J, Hastings, RP

“…It is possible that the restricted school context may have been a relief for the most vulnerable pupils. This study adds a new phase of understanding to the global disaster literature and the initial return to school when the environment is the same but the context has changed.…”