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INTRODUCTION The last meeting of the Joint Advisory Board was held on Tuesday 15th of July 1975. The main subject of the meeting was the sta~us of the Housing Research and Development Unit. The proposal to transform the Unit into a Department was agreed on by the Board. The budget of the HRDU was circulated later. A number of activities have been completed since the last meeting of the Board. These are: Design for Medical Buildings, Housing By-Laws in the Kenya Building Code, Roofing Tiles for Low-Cost Houses, the Future Planning of a Majengo - Swahili Village, Masaku and the Explanatory Notes on the Kibera Experimental Self-Help Scheme. The director Jon Skakke left the Unit in September 1975 on the expiry of his contract and in October 1975 I took up the post as director of the HRDU. The staff situation is as critical as ever: Otto Kaszner is leaving the Unit in August when his contract expires. The vacancies: economist, services engineer and architect planner have yet to be filled. (The post of architect planner has been offered, but not yet accepted). The secretary Alice Justin has left the Unit and the post of secretary is now vacant. On a positive note one can add that Marja Hoek-Smit will remain attached to the Unit in an associate researcher's capacity, supported by the Dutch Government to study further the Majengo urban settlements. A sociologist Ita Muller has taken up her duties in the Unit. It is the intention of the Unit to utilize the growing number of graduates from the various departments and faculties within the University in an attempt to africanize some of the posts in the Unit. Students have already indicated interest in pursuing research and it it hoped that suitable candidates can be identified. The HRDU has been invited to attend a number of conferences and seminars during the last 9 months. A section describing these activities is attached. There has been a growing demand for service teaching from the Faculty of Architecture Design and Development. This activity is considered important and has been given due attention.

Man's ability to perform his daily round of work is a complex matter and depends upon an optimal function of numerous organs and their integration. Intellectual ability, motivation and emotional stability play a great, and sometimes decisive, role in work performances.

Summary: This pilot study looks at the frequency of suicide among Danish soldiers who took part in the UN mandated forces (UNMF) during the 1990's. In a contingent of nearly 4000 Danish UN soldiers four suicides were documented, two of whom committed suicide less than one month before deployment and two who committed suicide within a year after discharge from mission. Contributing factors, prevention strategies, and implications for future research are discussed.

CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [grant numbers 776282, 772253 and 819478] (…) ; Akrami, Y., Andersen, K.J., Ashdown, M., Baccigalupi, C., Ballardini, M., Banday, A.J., Barreiro, R.B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Benabed, K., Bernard, J.-P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Calabrese, E., Casaponsa, B., Chiang, H.C., Colombo, L.P.L., Combet, C., Crill, B.P., Cuttaia, F., De Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., De Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., DI Valentino, E., DIego, J.M., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Dupac, X., Eriksen, H.K., Fernandez-Cobos, R., Finelli, F., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A.A., Franceschi, E., Frolov, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Gerbino, M., Ghosh, T., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K.M., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J.E., Handley, W., Helou, G., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S.R., Hivon, E., Huang, Z., Jaffe, A.H., Jones, W.C., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kiiveri, K., Kim, J., Kisner, T.S., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C.R., Le Jeune, M., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P.B., Lilley, M., Lindholm, V., López-Caniego, M., Lubin, P.M., MacÍas-Pérez, J.F., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Marcos-Caballero, A., Maris, M., Martin, P.G., Martínez-González, E., Matarrese, S., Mauri, N., McEwen, J.D., Meinhold, P.R., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Mitra, S., Molinari, D., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Moss, A., Natoli, P., Paoletti, D., Partridge, B., Patanchon, G., Pearson, D., Pearson, T.J., Perrotta, F., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Rachen, J.P., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renzi, A., Rocha, G., Rosset, C., Roudier, G., Rubiño-Martín, J.A., Ruiz-Granados, B., Salvati, L., Savelainen, M., Scott, D., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Spencer, L.D., Suur-Uski, A.-S., Svalheim, L.T., Tauber, J.A., Tavagnacco, D., Tenti, M., Terenzi, L., Thommesen, H., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tristram, M., Trombetti, T., Valiviita, J., Van Tent, ...

The 15 areas under study in the WHO/Euro Multicentre Study on Parasuicide vary considerably with regard to socio-economic factors, culture, life-styles, etc. In this paper, the authors discuss whether the traditional high risk factors for suicidal behavior (such as unemployment, abuse, divorce, etc.) take on different weights depending on local societal and cultural settings. Results from analyzing covariations between various background factors characteristic of the different areas under study and the frequency of attempted suicide showed weak or insignificant correlations, indicating that high-risk factors can only be identified from international pooled data with great care.

12 pags., 16 figs., 4 tabs. ; We report the first detection of the second-forbidden, nonunique, 2+ → 0+, ground-state transition in the β decay of 20F. A low-energy, mass-separated 20F+ beam produced at the IGISOL facility in Jyväskylä, Finland, was implanted in a thin carbon foil and the β spectrum measured using a magnetic transporter and a plasticscintillator detector. The β-decay branching ratio inferred from the measurement is bβ = [0.41 ± 0.08(stat) ± 0.07(sys)] × 10−5 corresponding to log f t = 10.89(11), making this one of the strongest second-forbidden, nonunique β transitions ever measured. The experimental result is supported by shell-model calculations and has significant implications for the final evolution of stars that develop degenerate oxygen-neon cores. Using the new experimental data, we argue that the astrophysical electron-capture rate on 20Ne is now known to within better than 25% at the relevant temperatures and densities ; This work has been supported by the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme (Nuclear and Accelerator Based Physics Research at JYFL 2012-2017) and Academy of Finland Grants No. 275389, No. 284516, No. 295207, and No. 312544. D.F.S. and G.M.-P. acknowledge the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)-Projektnummer 279384907-SFB 1245 "Nuclei: From Fundamental Interactions to Structure and Stars"; and the ChETEC COST action (CA16117), funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This project has been partly supported by the Spanish Ministry MINECO through the grant FPA2015-64969-P and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 654002 (ENSAR2). O.S.K. acknowledges support from the Villum Foundation through Project No. 10117. P.C.S. acknowledges the support from the Faculty Initiation Grant (FIG) provided by IIT Roorkee. A.K. and M.H. acknowledge the support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No. 771036 (ERC CoG MAIDEN). B.A.B. acknowledges the support from NSF Grant PHY-1811855.

The 7th amendment to the EU Cosmetics Directive prohibits to put animal-tested cosmetics on the market in Europe after 2013. In that context, the European Commission invited stakeholder bodies (industry, non-governmental organisations, EU Member States, and the Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety) to identify scientific experts in five toxicological areas, i.e. toxicokinetics, repeated dose toxicity, carcinogenicity, skin sensitisation, and reproductive toxicity for which the Directive foresees that the 2013 deadline could be further extended in case alternative and validated methods would not be available in time. The selected experts were asked to analyse the status and prospects of alternative methods and to provide a scientifically sound estimate of the time necessary to achieve full replacement of animal testing. In summary, the experts confirmed that it will take at least another 7-9 years for the replacement of the current in vivo animal tests used for the safety assessment of cosmetic ingredients for skin sensitisation. However, the experts were also of the opinion that alternative methods may be able to give hazard information, i.e. to differentiate between sensitisers and non-sensitisers, ahead of 2017. This would, however, not provide the complete picture of what is a safe exposure because the relative potency of a sensitiser would not be known. For toxicokinetics, the timeframe was 5-7 years to develop the models still lacking to predict lung absorption and renal/biliary excretion, and even longer to integrate the methods to fully replace the animal toxicokinetic models. For the systemic toxicological endpoints of repeated dose toxicity, carcinogenicity and reproductive toxicity, the time horizon for full replacement could not be estimated.