GROWING UP IN IRELAND KEY FINDINGS: COHORT ’98 AT 20 YEARS OLD IN 2018/19 NO. 2 PHYSICAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT

This Key Findings report presents summary information on the lives and circumstances of the 20-year-olds from the fourth wave of interviews with Growing Up in Ireland’s older Cohort ’98 between August 2018 and June 2019. It provides the most recent data on key indicators of physical health such as self-reported health, chronic conditions and weight status. It also explores important health-related behaviours such as drinking, smoking and substance use, physical activity, and sleep. Topics relating to mental health and well-being are covered in Key Finding 3

GROWING UP IN IRELAND KEY FINDINGS: COHORT ’98 AT 20 YEARS OLD IN 2018/19. NO. 1 BEING 20 YEARS OLD

This Key Findings report presents summary information on the lives and circumstances of the 20-year-olds from the fourth wave of interviews with Growing Up in Ireland’s older Cohort ’98 between August 2018 and June 2019. It focuses on where they live; their main activity as regards work, education or training; their financial situation; their engagement with the wider world (including voluntary activity and political activity); their aspirations for the future; and whether they have had any contact with the Gardaí or the courts

GROWING UP IN IRELAND KEY FINDINGS: COHORT ’98 AT 20 YEARS OLD IN 2018/19 NO. 4 EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

This Key Findings report presents summary information on the lives and circumstances of the 20-year-olds from the fourth wave of interviews with Growing Up in Ireland’s older Cohort ’98 between August 2018 and June 2019. It focuses on young adults’ achievements at the end of second-level education, the profile of those who left school before the Leaving Certificate and the reasons for their departure. The report looks at participation in post-school education and training, how students funded their education/training and the extent of direct and indirect support from their parents. Finally, it examines whether the jobs held by 20-year-olds are stop-gaps or a step on the career ladder, and the kinds of qualities they value in jobs

Measurements of |V_{cb}| and |V_{ub}| at BABAR

We report on new measurements of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix elements |V_{cb}| and |V_{ub}| with inclusive and exclusive semileptonic B decays, highlighting the recent precision measurements with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC.Comment: Comments : Latex, 4 pages. Talk given at PANIC05: The Particles and Nuclei International Conference, October 24-28, 2005 Santa Fe, USA. Proceedings to appear in the American Institute of Physic

Study of the Decay $\Lambda_c \to \Lambda l^+ \nu_{l}

Using the CLEO II detector at CESR, we observe 500 $\Lambda l^+$ pairs consistent with the semileptonic decay $\Lambda_c \to \Lambda l^+ \nu_{l}$. We measure $\sigma (e^+ e^- \to \Lambda_c X) \dot {cal B}(\Lambda_c^+ \to \Lambda l \nu_{l}) =4.77 \pm 0.25 \pm 0.66$pb. Combining with the charm semileptonic width and the lifetime of the $\Lambda_c$, we also obtain ${\cal B}(\Lambda_c \to p K^- \pi^+)$. We find no evidence for $\Lambda l^+ \nu_{l}$ final states in which there are additional $\Lambda_c^+$ decay products. We measure the decay asymmetry parameter of $\Lambda_c \to \Lambda l^+ \nu_{l}$ to be $\alpha_{\Lambda_c} =-0.89\pm{^{0.17}_{0.11}}\pm{^{0.09}_{0.06}}.Comment: 18 pages uuencoded compressed postscript (process with uudecode then gunzip). hardcopies with figures can be obtained by sending mail to: [email protected]