Background Previous studies have shown that subjective well‐being and adaptability are linked to adaptive educational outcomes, including higher achievement and lower anxiety. It is not presently clear, however, how school‐related subjective well‐being and adaptability are related, or predict behavioural outcomes such as student conduct. Aim The aim of the present study was to test a bidirectional model of school‐related subjective well‐being and adaptability, and how they relate to achievement and behavioural conduct. Method Data were collected from 539 Year 12 students over four waves. Achievement and behavioural conduct were measured in the first wave of data collection (T1), school‐related subjective well‐being and adaptability at the second and third waves (T2 and T3), and achievement and behavioural conduct again in the fourth wave of data collection (T4). Results A structural equation model showed that T2 school‐related subjective well‐being predicted higher T3 adaptability, but not vice versa. T3 school‐related subjective well‐being predicted greater T4 achievement and positive behavioural conduct, and T3 adaptability predicted greater T4 positive behavioural conduct. Conclusion School‐related subjective well‐being promotes adaptability, achievement, and positive behavioural conduct, and adaptability is also related to positive behavioural conduct. Attempts to foster well‐being and adaptability could show educational gains for students.

When supporting plates of plastic material are subjected to alternating transverse Lorentz forces while in a strong magnetic field normal to the plate surface, compressional waves within the solid produce a modulation of the plate surface that launches an acoustic wave in air along the magnetic field axis. We have extended our previous theory describing this process to include a detailed description of the formation of an acoustic interference pattern in air described by Fraunhofer diffraction at a distance from the plate surface. The extended theory predicts that the observed acoustic signal midpoint and normal to the plate surface gives a variation with frequency in approximate agreement with our previous measurements. The acoustic output off axis shows acoustic blazing that produces two main diffraction peaks with a splitting inversely proportional to the velocity of sound in the plate material. The new results could have important ramifications for the minimization of sound output in gradient coil design for MRI. A new arrangement of coils is proposed to ameliorate the acoustic output problem centrally and normal to the plate by extending the frequency response of the supporting plates to much higher frequencies. Also presented are estimates of the compressional wave velocities deduced from frequency response data recorded at the center-point of a number of different plates.

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ObjectivesTo test for social structural effects on the gender paradox in suicidal behaviour.MethodsWe analyzed newspaper reports of completed and attempted suicides in the Scottish city of Dundee during the mass movement of women into the paid labour force in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. We calculated rates of suicides per 100,000 of the male and female populations.ResultsWe found that the female suicide rate dropped during this time period, whereas there was only a significant reduction in attempted suicide amongst men.ConclusionsOur understanding, and action to prevent, suicide in men and women must take place in the context of our gendered social world.