scholarly journals Virtual Embassy Portal: The Future of Travel

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Dalvin Hill ◽  
Mohabbat Ahmadi ◽  
Julaine Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Application Form ◽  
Great Chance ◽  
Online Application ◽  
The Future ◽  
Visa Application ◽  
Application Forms

As the advent of travel continues to increase, tourism continues to expand, becoming the fastest growing economic activity globally. In order to travel internationally, one needs a passport and in many cases a visa is required. Currently, in order to apply for a visa, consumers have to complete and submit an application: online application completion and submission, visit a website to download the application form(s), physically visit an embassy/consulate, or utilize the services of a third party company to submit the application. Thereafter, there is a great chance the consumer might have to appear in person at the consulate/embassy for an in-person interview. There is a need to streamline the visa application process so that it is more efficient for both applicants as well as embassies. This paper aims to fill the gap by introducing the Virtual Embassy concept. This concept promises to bring all embassies to an applicant’s fingertip while making embassies more efficient in the process. The Virtual Embassy enables individuals to complete one application form which can be disseminated virtually to one or more consulate(s) of choice, without requiring extensive travel to embassies, or to manually complete multiple visa application forms.

Foundation Programme Selection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Metcalfe ◽  
Harveer Dev
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Application Form ◽  
Online Application ◽  
Foundation Programme ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The Many ◽  
Choice Location ◽  
Training Programmes

New doctors intending to work in the United Kingdom (UK) should complete the Foundation Programme. This two- year schedule of rotations ensures core competencies are achieved before doctors enter further training. The first foundation year (FY1) is intended for medical graduates to begin taking supervised responsibility for patient care. Completion of FY1 will usually lead to full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and automatic progression to a further year of training. Doctors take on additional responsibility in the second foundation year (FY2) and its successful completion results in the award of a Foundation Achievement of Competence Document (FACD). The FACD indicates that a doctor has achieved the competences necessary to begin one of the many core or specialty training programmes. Selection to the Foundation Programme is overseen by the UK Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO). This organization is responsible for allocating final- year medical students to their new foundation schools. Allocation to foundation schools depends on a score achieved by each student. Applicants through the UKFPO must rank all foundation schools (Units of Application) during the online application process. The system begins with the highest- scoring applicant and assigns them their first- choice foundation school. It does the same for the second highest- scoring applicant and continues in this vein. Once the system reaches an applicant whose first- choice foundation school is ‘full’, they are assigned their second choice, and so on. Therefore, the key determinants as to whether an applicant is placed in their first- choice location are their UKFPO ‘score’ and the popularity of their chosen foundation school. The ratio of first- choice applicants to places varies every year, but some foundation schools (e.g. Oxford and those in London) are almost always oversubscribed. Therefore, it is important to understand how scores are assigned and maximize your performance on these measures. Until 2012 entry, student preferences were allocated according to two measures: 1. Position within their medical school cohort by quartile. Quartiles were determined locally by each medical school with only general guidance from the UKFPO. 2. Answers provided on an application form which asked about academic achievements but weighted most points towards short essaytype answers.

More than victims: Resiliency of undocumented Latinas near Chicago, United States, and the strategic use of psychological suffering in obtaining legal status

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-368
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jean Kohl
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Psychological Suffering ◽  
Visa Application ◽  
Biological Citizenship

Caught between abusive partners and restrictive immigration law, many undocumented Latina women are vulnerable to domestic violence in the United States. This article analyzes the U-Visa application process experienced by undocumented immigrant victims of domestic violence and their legal advisors in a suburb of Chicago, United States. Drawing on theoretical concepts of structural violence and biological citizenship, the article highlights the strategic use of psychological suffering related to domestic violence by applicants for such visas. It also investigates the complex intersection between immigration law and a humanitarian clause that creates a path towards legal status and eventual citizenship.

About Noonomics as the Basis of Global Transformation (Review of the Book by S. D. Bodrunov “Noonomics: The Trajectory of Global Transformation”)

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Elena S. Zotova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Critical Reviews

The article provides a review of a book by S. D. Bodrunov “Noonomics: the Trajectory of Global Transformation”, which is constructed in the form of a summary of the main ideas developed in the theory of noonomics – ​a noneconomic method of economic activity focused on meeting specific human needs based on the criteria of reasonableness determined by the development of knowledge and culture. The article presents the position of the author of the book, who singled out eight steps towards the development of the human community to noonomics through the new industrial society of the second generation (NIS.2). It is shown that the theory of noonomics developed by the author of the book offers a scientific basis for resolving the contradictions of modern human civilization. It is emphasized that technological transformations are determinable to shape the future of human civilization. Critical reviews of the proposed concept are considered.

scholarly journals Technology Predicting the Future using Data Mining Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 4204-4208
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Security Technology ◽  
Great Chance ◽  
Technology Service ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Using Data

The technologies of the future society can make a super connective society where everything is connected and organically interacted, and it promotes “Hyper-Connected”, “Hyper-Intelligent”, "Hyper-Real" as it is possible to become intellectual by techniques such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis. To find out the key triggers by extracting the technologies with these characteristics and identifying what factors and forms are used allows us to grasp changes in the industry due to the rapidly changing domestic environment and the influence of innovation technologies. According to the analysis, the key triggers of major technologies in information society are keywords such as security, technology, service, virtual, and finance which have a great chance to converge with other technologies. The implications of this study are as follows. First, key technologies of domestic information society were identified based on a huge amount of reliable news data. In addition, Network Analysis based on Data, which has increased the frequency of studies all over the field including computer science, sociology and business administration, is applied to predicting the future. Based on this, the methodology has been proposed that can be used to predict the pattern of technology development or notable technologies in the future. This study wasn’t conducted only on one detailed technology, but comprehensively on major technologies extracted in the era of 4th Industrial Revolution and presents Black Swan Prediction to enhance competitiveness of domestic industry in related technologies and create new added value.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Civil Law Status of Customs Intermediary under the Legislation of Ukraine and the EU

2020 ◽  
pp. 226-233
Author(s):  
Dmytro SHUTIAK
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
National Level ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Legal Relationship ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
The Eu

The article explores the features of civil law regulation of customs mediation under the legislation of Ukraine and the EU. The author identifies the characteristics that distinguish customs mediation from similar institutions in other areas of management. The author substantiates the position that the legal relationship established between customs authorities and participants of foreign economic activity with the participation of a third party is a type of economic binding legal relationship, i.e. the legal relationship for the provision of intermediary services. Within the framework of customs legal relations, contracts of a civil law nature are considered as a specific way of the state's influence on this sphere of public relations. With the participation of customs intermediaries, certain economic and legal relations are established between customs authorities and participants in foreign economic activity. The content of customs intermediary activities should be determined through the provision of services mediated by civil law agreements, representing the interests of foreign economic activity in relations with customs authorities, the provision of customs and related services, the implementation of legally significant actions aimed at customs procedures. The analysis of EU legislation in the study area led the author to conclude that at the EU level not only general qualification requirements for customs intermediaries are set, but also principles, values and rules of conduct that encourage customs intermediaries to achieve high standards of professional ethics and proper implementation their responsibilities. Given the specifics of customs mediation in the EU, the author concludes that at EU level it is impossible to unify the standards of customs services, so to date access to the profession of customs agent in each entity, the Member State is subject to national jurisdiction with its requirements for candidates to the level of their skills and knowledge. The author emphasizes that at the national level it is advisable to integrate certain elements of the legal regulation of customs brokerage to ensure competitiveness, provide quality services and overcome gaps in legislation.

Is the Future ‘Regional’ for Global Standards?

10.1068/a3794 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 2053-2071 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grahame F Thompson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
International Economy ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
The Future

The paper concerns the formation of standard setting in respect to international economic activity. A number of different forms of standard setting are discussed, but the analysis is concentrated upon the macro context for this process. In this paper I review the issue of the convergence in institutional design and systemic patterns of economic activity as global standards are pressed onto the governance framework for international economic management. However, the analysis suggests that the international economy is developing along a distinct path towards supranational regional bloc formations rather than towards an ever more global pattern. The consequences of this shaping of the international economy for the processes of standard setting in a number of different contexts are discussed.

Impacts of Visa Policy on Inbound Tourism in Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (59) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbota Abdrakhman
Keyword(s):  
Asian Country ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
Inbound Tourism ◽  
Visa Application ◽  
Visa Policy ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Migration

Every destination in the world tries to create affordable conditions for tourists to get the maximum benefit from international tourism and one of these conditions is accessibility, which refers to the visa policy of a country. An effective and appropriate visa policy makes travel destinations more attractive and easily accessible to visit. This research focuses on the visa policy of Central Asian country – the Republic of Kazakhstan and reveals several problems related to it, such as lack of information on the visa application process, especially on e-visa, raw systemized visa and migration portal, a long list of visa-needed countries, plenty of refusals in invitation letters by Migration Police and existence of huge visa restrictions for some countries. The current visa policy makes the Republic of Kazakhstan less open to foreigners and less competitive among other countries. Based on a literature review on visa policy and its effects on the economy and tourism sector in a destination and by using comparative analysis of visa policies of two Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, several problems that affect inbound tourism, as well as recommendations for improvement of visa policy for Kazakh government are discussed in this research.

The Future of Television in the US

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Holt
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
Digital Landscape

This chapter examines the issues that are most significant to the developing digital landscape of television in the US, particularly as the industry attempts to navigate the new rules and protocols of digital distribution and ‘connected viewing’. In an environment of ubiquitous mobile screens, third party providers, the fragmentation of the mass audience, increased demands on creative workers, and enhanced surveillance of the digital audience, the television industry is experiencing a host of previously unimagined pressures, even in the multi-channel universe of cable in the 1980s and 1990s. As a result, debates on the future of television in the US are proliferating, as are the complications involved as content providers are forced to look in multiple directions to deliver programming.

Direct Taxation and E-Commerce

2012 ◽  
pp. 26-48
Author(s):  
Subhajit Basu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
International Level ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tax Systems ◽  
International Tax ◽  
The Right ◽  
Specific Tax

E-commerce poses significant challenges for existing tax rules. One of the most important effects of e-commerce has been to de-emphasise the significance of the place where economic activity is carried out, which makes it difficult to determine which jurisdiction has the right to tax. It has also blurred the traditional distinction between the form of delivery and the substance of what is delivered. Thus, the specific tax implications of e-commerce and the threat it imposes on the established tax systems can be examined by reference to how much e-commerce tends to disrupt the concepts and principles of direct taxation and international tax treaty rules. This article explores the effect of e-commerce on the principles of direct taxation. The question is should the tax system of the future be developed at a national or an international level?

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