This evaluation highlights the potential of using a low-cost initiative which targets innovative venues to improve men's knowledge of testicular cancer and rates of self-examination. Longer-term follow-up may be required to determine whether such increases are sustained.

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The article discusses the proposition that the pace of life in big cities is faster than in other sizes of settlement, thus creating conditions conducive to the high levels of social pathology found in those cities. Observation of over 1,300 pedestrians at 10 places in Australia and England revealed that walking speed is a function of city size in that pedestrians move more quickly in big cities than in small towns. The influence of city size was, however, found to be more gradual than had been suggested in some earlier studies. In addition, the age and sex of the pedestrian, the degree of congestion in the areas under study, the time of day, and possibly even the weather had an influence on walking speed.

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This paper investigates the views of 20 full-time international postgraduate students, many of whom were Chinese, on living, learning and becoming successful students at one university in a multi-cultural city in the Midlands of England. The qualitative study built on findings from the International Students' Barometer (ISB) survey for the university, in that it seeks to understand how students experience of context (living) interacted with their experience of learning in building their identities as successful learners. Student participants were sampled opportunistically within a purposive framework. Data, was collected through audio-recorded individual semi-structured interviews, using as a stimulus participant-constructed concept maps of their perceptions of learning in the university and living in the city. Interview data were transcribed and analysed thematically. Main findings showed that participants enjoyed living in a city with an international culture, although some found it strange initially, because they encountered different styles of life and food, including some that they enjoyed at home. They welcomed studying at the university with a high international prestige, a wide range of excellent facilities and generally approachable tutors but were shocked by having to undertake unfamiliar styles of independent learning with brief teaching hours. They perceived culture shock as transitional which declined as they made friends, often with co-linguists, and became familiar with life in the city, work in the university and the extensive support of tutors.