Affordable ML Based Collaborative Approach for Baby Monitoring

There are numerous baby-monitoring devices available in the market that parents use to keep an eye on babies while they are away. The majority of them are reliant on the installation of expensive hardware, which many parents cannot afford. Another issue with these devices is that they detect high-pitched sounds and frequently give false alarms, causing both children and parents to be disturbed. The majority of smartphone applications in the market work on sound wave and only sound an alarm when the infant start crying. In this project, we proposed the design of a mobile application to detect the status of a baby inside a crib/ on a bed. The application will alert parents when their child requires assistance, will be able to determine whether the child is sleeping in a safe or hazardous position, and will keep track of the child's sleeping patterns. It is less reliant on hardware, making it less expensive. Here the only requirement is two paired mobile phones with the application installed instead of expensive hardware (IoT-based devices). The application is utilizing the transfer-learning technique on tensor flow lite Mobilenet classification and SSD_mobilenet_V1_coco object detection models. The accuracy of the model is 97% for the Mobilenet classification model and 98% for the object detection model.

The Long History of Feminist Legal Theory

The conventional idea is that feminist legal theory began in the 1970s, in the second-wave feminist movement. However, the foundations of feminist legal theory were first conceptualized much earlier, in 1848, and developed over the next century and a half through distinct periods of thought. That development began with the establishment of the core theoretical precepts of gender and equality grounded in the comprehensive philosophy of the nineteenth-century’s first women’s rights movement ignited at Seneca Falls. Feminist legal theory was popularized and advanced by the political activism of the women’s suffrage movement, even as suffragists limited the feminist consensus to one based on women’s maternalism. Progressive feminism then expanded the theoretical framework of feminist theory in the early twentieth century, encapsulating ideas of global peace, market work, and sex rights of birth control. In the modern era, legal feminists gravitated back to pragmatic and concrete ideas of formal equality and the associated legalisms of equal rights and equal protection. Yet through each of these periods, the two common imperatives were to place women at the center of analysis and to recognize law as a fundamental agent of change.

DETERMINAN PEMILIHAN KARIR AKUNTAN

The goal of this research is to find out what factors influence accounting students' decision to pursue a career as an accountant (public accountants, corporate accountants, teaching accountants, government accountants). The variables of consideration of the job market, work environment, financial rewards/salaries, and professional training are used to measure the factors that influence career choice. The respondents for this study were 72 accounting students from Muhammadiyah University of Cirebon's regular class who were in their 5th and 7th semesters. Multiple regression analysis with SPSS version 22 was used as the analytical method in this study. The findings revealed that labor market considerations, financial/salary rewards, and professional training had no significant impact on accounting students' decision to become accountants, whereas the work environment had a significant impact. accounting in order to pursue a career as an accountant.

Motivasi Memoderasi Pengaruh Pertimbangan Pasar Kerja, Lingkungan Kerja, Personalitas terhadap Minat Mahasiswa Menjadi Akuntan Publik

The current phenomenon in Indonesia in the accounting sector is the lack of public accountants based on a statement from the Indonesian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (IAPI). The lack of interest in accounting students towards the public accounting profession is one of the results of the lack of accounting graduates becoming public accountants. Considerations of the labor market, work environment, personality and motivation are factors that influence student interest. This study will take a population, namely accounting students class 2017, Faculty of Economics, Udayana University. The samples obtained after using the Slovin method were 168 students. Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) was used as the analysis technique for this study. The results of this study prove that considerations of the job market, work environment, personality and motivation affect the interest of accounting students to become public accountants. Keywords: Considerations Labor Market; Work Environment; Personality, Motivation; Interests.

Work placements in the media and creative industries: Discourses of transformation and critique in an era of precarity

As graduate labour market conditions have become increasingly challenging, higher education institutions have intensified their focus on ‘employability’ via strategies such as work placements. Focusing on work placements in the media and creative industries, this article identifies and analyses three key discourses that animate the pedagogical literature in these sectors: work placements as facilitating a ‘smooth transition’ to the labour market; work placements as a place in which inequalities in the labour market are (re)produced; and work placements as a space for fostering resilience and adaptation to labour market precarity. The article argues that critiques of inequalities based on race, class or gender are marked by a transformative impulse that is largely absent in critiques of those based on worker precarity. This highlights a need to adopt pedagogies that similarly unnaturalise the economic conditions of neoliberal capitalism to discursively (re)construct work in new, more socially just, ways.

A Nutrition Behaviour Change Intervention Delivered Through Women's Self-Help Groups in India Is Protective Against Depression and Reduces Time Spent in Market Work

Objectives Women's self-help groups (SHGs), which operate at large scale in India, are an important platform for delivering behaviour change communication (BCC) and social support interventions to rural women. Little is known about how such group-based interventions affect women's mental health and time use. Methods The Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) study was a quasi-experimental impact evaluation, comparing 16 blocks (8 matched pairs) with SHG formation support; 8 blocks received a 3-year nutrition intervention (NI) with BCC topics such as nutrition, home-gardens and women's well-being, facilitated by a trained female volunteer; the other 8 received standard activities (STD) to support savings & livelihoods. We conducted repeated cross-sectional surveys of mother-child pairs in 2017–18 (n = 1609) and 2019–20 (n = 1841). We matched treatment groups over time and applied difference-in-difference (DID) regression models to estimate NI impacts. Outcomes assessed: (1) common mental disorder symptoms (CMD) (Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) score, 8 or higher) and (2) time use, constructed using 24-hour recall data. Time indicators were the proportion of time spent on productive work (employed, agricultural work), reproductive work (cooking, caring for children etc.), and time spent on social-leisure activities (hobbies, socializing). Results Overall, women were 25 years old with 5 years of education and worked 10.7 hours/day. CMD were reported by 17% of women. DID estimates showed that CMD prevalence doubled over time among women in STD areas but did not change in NI areas (P < 0.01). Compared to STD areas, women in NI areas reported a larger decrease in time spent on productive work (DID: −5 percentage points (pp); P < 0.01) and larger increases in time spent on reproductive work (DID: +5 pp; P < 0.01) and on social-leisure activities (DID: +22 minutes, P < 0.01). Conclusions A BCC intervention delivered through SHGs in rural India protected against a secular trend in declining mental health and shifted women's time from market work to domestic and social-leisure activities. These findings add to a growing evidence base on the effectiveness of group-based interventions to improve women's wellbeing in developing countries. Funding Sources Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Home Production and Leisure during the COVID-19 Recession

Between the months of February and April of 2020, average weekly market hours in the U.S. dropped by 6.25, meanwhile 36% of workers reported switching to remote work arrangements. In this paper, we examine implications of these changes for the time allocation of different households, and on aggregate. We estimate that home production activity increased by 2.65 h a week, or 42.4% of lost market hours, due to the drop in market work and rise in remote work. The monthly value of home production increased by $39.65 billion – that is 13.55% of the concurrent $292.61 billion drop in monthly GDP. Although market hours declined the most for single, less educated individuals, the lost market hours were absorbed into home production the most by married individuals with children. Adding on the impact of school closures, our estimate of weekly home production hours increases by as much as 4.92 h. The increase in the value of monthly home production between February and April updates to $73.57 billion. We also report the estimated impact of labor markets and telecommuting on home production for each month in 2020.

A Missed Opportunity for Men? Partnered and Employed Individuals’ Involvement with Housework during the COVID-19 Lockdown in the UK

Given the outbreak of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), pandemic during March 2020, lockdown measures taken by governments have forced many families, especially those who have children, to re-arrange domestic and market work division. In this study, I investigate the factors associated with partnered and employed individuals’ involvement with housework during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom. Drawing evidence from the first wave of the Covid-19 Survey from the Five National Longitudinal Studies dataset with using OLS regressions, this study found that daily working hours, socioeconomic status, and partner’s key worker status are important indicators of daily time spent on housework. Furthermore, interaction analysis showed that women living with a key worker partner not only did more housework than women whose partner was working in a regular job, but they also did more housework than men living with a key worker partner during the lockdown. Policy implications of regulating maximum daily working hours and key worker status are discussed in the context of re-arranging paid and unpaid work between couples during the first lockdown in the United Kingdom.