664 research outputs found
“Shadow 401(k)s” in response to retirement crisis
No full textPenn Law’s Deepa Das Acevedodiscusses the looming retirement crisis, employment law, and new work model
Beyond the Algorithm Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation
No full textIn Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of gig work. The contributors draw on qualitative empirical research to reveal the narratives and real-life experiences that define gig work, and they connect these insights to policy debates being fought out in courts, town halls, and even in Congress itself. The book also bridges academic and non-academic worlds by drawing on the experiences of drivers, journalists, and workers\u27 advocates who were among the first people to study gig work from the bottom up. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in gig work, the legal infrastructure surrounding it, and how that infrastructure can and must be improved.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_books/1050/thumbnail.jp
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No full textIn Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of gig work. The contributors draw on qualitative empirical research to reveal the narratives and real-life experiences that define gig work, and they connect these insights to policy debates being fought out in courts, town halls, and even in Congress itself. The book also bridges academic and non-academic worlds by drawing on the experiences of drivers, journalists, and workers' advocates who were among the first people to study gig work from the bottom up. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in gig work, the legal infrastructure surrounding it, and how that infrastructure can and must be improved
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Beyond the Algorithm Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation
No full textIn Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, Deepa Das Acevedo and a collection of scholars and experts show why government actors must go beyond mass surveys and data-scrubbing in order to truly understand the realities of gig work. The contributors draw on qualitative empirical research to reveal the narratives and real-life experiences that define gig work, and they connect these insights to policy debates being fought out in courts, town halls, and even in Congress itself. The book also bridges academic and non-academic worlds by drawing on the experiences of drivers, journalists, and workers\u27 advocates who were among the first people to study gig work from the bottom up. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in gig work, the legal infrastructure surrounding it, and how that infrastructure can and must be improved.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_books/1050/thumbnail.jp
Programme and Impact Evaluation of a Community Gender Equity Intervention with Boys and Young Men in Rajasthan, India
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2017-06This paper examines how addressing known determinants of intimate partner violence with boys and men on the community-level can lead to improved gender equality in social norms. We led a process and impact evaluation to assess the effects of the Center for Health and Social Justice’s project, which aimed to engage men in changing gender stereotypes and to ultimately improve health outcomes for women, in villages in Rajasthan, India. We conducted seven focus group discussions with participants where the program was implemented and six in-depth interviews with young male leaders involved in the intervention. We also conducted 70 surveys, originally administered pre- implementation of the program, to assess participant and community knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours surrounding gender, violence, and sexuality. We used thematic analysis to determine process and impact themes, and hierarchical mixed linear regression for primary outcome analysis for post-intervention surveys. Post-intervention, significant changes in knowledge and attitudes regarding gender, sexuality, and violence were made on the individual-level by participants, as well as in the community. Moderate behavioural changes were seen in individuals and in the community. Study findings offer a strong model for prevention programs working with boys and men to create a community effect in encouraging gender equality in social norms
Uma Índia para ocidentais? A poetologia diaspórica de Salman Rushdie e Deepa Metha em Midnight\u27s Children
No full textThis paper examines Deepa Mehta\u27s film Midnight\u27s Children, drawing from the theories of Patrick Cattrysse\u27s (2014) descriptive adaptation studies and André Lefevere\u27s (2007) notion of poetology. We seek to understand, through the approach of the first theorist, how film analysis should take into consideration the target context of the adaptation of a work; we draw on the second theorist to examine the poetology of the creators; finally, we examine how the concept of Orientalism in art can also be produced by non-Westerners, and the implications of this phenomenon for literature and film.Este trabalho examina o filme Midnight\u27s Children, de Deepa Mehta, partindo das teorias dos estudos de adaptação descritiva de Patrick Cattrysse (2014) e da noção de poetologia de André Lefevere (2007). Procuramos entender, por meio da abordagem do primeiro teórico, como a análise de filmes deve levar em consideração o contexto alvo da adaptação de uma obra; baseamo-nos no segundo teórico para examinar a poetologia dos idealizadores; por fim, examinamos como o conceito de orientalismo na arte pode também ser produzido por não ocidentais, e as implicações desse fenômeno para a literatura e o cinema
Computational chemistry and molecular modeling : principles and applications / K.I. Ramachandran, G. Deepa, K. Namboori.
No full text"An exclusive URL (http://www.amrita.edu/cen/ccmm/) for this book with the required support materials has been provided for readers ..."--Preface.pharmacy bookfair2015Includes bibliographical references and index.xxi, 397 pages
Micro-raman spectroscopy of caries lesion formation in dental enamel
No full textCaries lesions form by a complex process of chemical interactions between dental enamel and its environment. They can cause cavities and pain, and are expensive to fix. Lesions form by slow demineralization over many months, even years. It is hard to characterize in vivo as a result of environmental factors and remineralization by ions in the oral cavity. In this thesis the process of demineralization was carried out in vitro and micro-Raman spectroscopy used to investigate and characterize the lesion's chemistry. Demineralization occurs by diffusion across the depth of the lesion of mineral ions via interstitial spaces in the dental enamel. Hydroxyl ions are initially lost by acidic attack, which increases the interstitial space. The demineralization is retarded by diffusion processes in the opposite direction, and a balance in the charges of the ions must be maintained. Having multiple ions diffusing simultaneously is termed “coupled diffusion”. A subsurface highly demineralized region is formed, but this can be remineralized.
Micro-Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for studying material composition by exciting chemical bonds in the sample. Using micro-Raman to characterize the chemical composition of lesions may help in developing preventative measures to stop their formation. Raman (λ=785 nm) was used to characterize lesions grown over 5, 7, 9, 11 and 14 days. The amide I peak at ~1605 cm-1, which has not been observed previously, was seen in the maturing lesions. The extreme demineralization in these lesions enables the organic peaks to be seen rather than the normally stronger mineral peaks. Analysis of crystallinity shows that there is always a reduction in mineral content with distance below the enamel surface, but this becomes magnified as the lesion matures. Type B carbonate substitution for phosphate ions can also be examined with Raman. Correcting for crystallinity shows that both carbonate and phosphate ions are lost at the same rate during demineralization.
In summary, micro-Raman is an effective and relatively easy tool to use in lesion characterization. It also has the advantage that it can be used to identify changes in both the mineral and protein phases of enamel.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-55)
Imageology and clinical examination: Two sides of the same coin
No full textThe continuous and rapid transition of techniques from research lab into clinical practice has been the pattern of development in radiology and imaging, and this has put the concept of clinical imaging into a different perspective. From a passive role of pattern recognition, distinguishing a radiograph from normal to abnormal, the task of a radiologist today has been elevated to reporting a comprehensive clinical imaging assay, giving information at a level profound enough to be useful for scientists working in allied fields. A peep into the literature shows how radiological and clinical examination can be two sides of the same coin
Unbundling Freedom in the Sharing Economy
No full textCourts and scholars point to the sharing economy as the most recent proof that our labor amp employment infrastructure is obsolete because it rests on a narrow and outmoded idea ”namely that only workers subjected to direct personalized control by their employers need workrelated protections and benefits Since they diagnose the problem as being our system\u27s emphasis on control these critics have long called for reducing or eliminating the primacy of the control test in classifying workers as either protected employees or unprotected independent contractors Despite these persistent criticisms however the concept of control has been remarkably sticky in scholarly and judicial circlesbrbrThis Article argues that critics have misdiagnosed the reason why the control test is an unsatisfying method of classifying workers and dispensing workrelated safeguards Controlbased analysis is faulty because it only captures one of the two conflicting ways in which workers scholars and decisionmakers think about freedom at work One of these ways freedom as noninterference is adequately captured by the control test The other freedom as nondomination is not The tension between these two conceptions of freedom both deeply entrenched in American culture explains why the concept of control has been both faulty and sticky when it comes to worker classification brbrDrawing on a firstofitskind body of ethnographic fieldwork among workers and policymakers across several sharing economy industries this Article begins by showing how workers themselves conceptualize freedom as both noninterference and nondomination It then goes on to show that both these conceptualizations of freedom also exist in case law and statutory law pertaining to work In doing so the Article demonstrates that there is no great divide between work law and work practices and that if anything the problem is that classification doctrine reflects and reinforces an irresolvable tension in the way lay and legal actors think about freedom at wor
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