Introducing Canada's expression of interest model - the early shortfalls of express entry

Trying to wrap one’s head around Canada’s rapid (and frequently changing) immigration system can leave you breathless (Alboim & Cohl, 2012). From temporary entry limitations, to new citizenship legislation, and increased ministerial powers, immigration policy changes have continuously been reshaping Canada’s future. During a House of Commons session in late 2013, Ms. Maria Welbourne, Senior Director of Strategic Policy and Planning of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, provided an overview of an Expression of Interest (EOI) model approach, a modernization initiative which was coming to Canada to facilitate a faster (and more flexible) immigration system (House of Commons, 2013). Fast forward just over one year later and the EOI model, already in place in New Zealand and Australia, is in full effect as Canada’s new Express Entry system (Bellissimo, 2014). While chatter and speculation of the now fully-automated electronic application management system existed prior to its inception, the discussion since the January 1, 2015 start date has grown, raising many questions as to whether this new system will in fact achieve Canada’s economic objectives, primarily reducing application backlogs and coordinating application volume, and selecting those immigrant candidates who are expected to meet Canada’s economic needs (Richard, 2014). Key Terms: Expression of Interest (EOI), Express Entry (Pool), Ministerial Instructions, Economic Classes

Introducing Canada's expression of interest model - the early shortfalls of express entry

Trying to wrap one’s head around Canada’s rapid (and frequently changing) immigration system can leave you breathless (Alboim & Cohl, 2012). From temporary entry limitations, to new citizenship legislation, and increased ministerial powers, immigration policy changes have continuously been reshaping Canada’s future. During a House of Commons session in late 2013, Ms. Maria Welbourne, Senior Director of Strategic Policy and Planning of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, provided an overview of an Expression of Interest (EOI) model approach, a modernization initiative which was coming to Canada to facilitate a faster (and more flexible) immigration system (House of Commons, 2013). Fast forward just over one year later and the EOI model, already in place in New Zealand and Australia, is in full effect as Canada’s new Express Entry system (Bellissimo, 2014). While chatter and speculation of the now fully-automated electronic application management system existed prior to its inception, the discussion since the January 1, 2015 start date has grown, raising many questions as to whether this new system will in fact achieve Canada’s economic objectives, primarily reducing application backlogs and coordinating application volume, and selecting those immigrant candidates who are expected to meet Canada’s economic needs (Richard, 2014). Key Terms: Expression of Interest (EOI), Express Entry (Pool), Ministerial Instructions, Economic Classes

Publishing scientific papers in the 21st century

The format of science papers and articles now have hardly changed since the 17th century, even though research methods and published content have evolved immensely. Why do scientists produce innovative modern-day research, but still publish it in a 400-year-old format? What can we do to produce scientific articles ‘of the future’ that better serve the global, collaborative, and data-rich science of the 21st century? Alberto Pepe, Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation, Atypon and Matteo Cavalleri, Publisher, Wiley will be discussing Wiley’s vision of the scientific article, and how preprints, interactive figures, multimedia elements and code integration are innovating scholarly publications. Part of Wiley Research APAC Webinars, recording available (free registration required) here.

Melanie Leveridge on ELRIG and a career in drug discovery

Melanie Leveridge is a Senior Director at GSK, a science-led global healthcare company headquartered in Brentford, UK. She has recently been elected Chair of ELRIG (York, UK), the European Laboratory Research and Innovation Group. Here she speaks to Future Drug Discovery Editor Jennifer Straiton about what she hopes to achieve during her tenure as ELRIG Chair and gives her advice for Early Career Researchers just starting out in the field of drug discovery.

Diretrizes para o Desenho Universal para a Aprendizagem (DUA)

RESUMO: As Diretrizes do Desenho Universal para a Aprendizagem - DUA (UDL na língua inglesa) começaram como um projeto do Centro Nacional de Acesso ao Currículo Geral (NCAC), um acordo de colaboração entre o Centro de Tecnologias Especiais Aplicadas (CAST) e o Escritório de Programas de Educação Especial (OSEP) do Departamento de Educação dos Estados Unidos. Estas Diretrizes foram compiladas pelo Dr. David H. Rose, Co-fundador e Diretor Educacional do CAST, e Jenna Gravel, Mestre em Educação e Doutoranda na Universidade de Harvard. Eles receberam inúmeras colaborações e comentários de colegas do CAST, professores dos diferentes níveis de ensino (ensino fundamental, médio e superior), pesquisadores e outros profissionais. Esta tradução e revisão foram realizadas como atividade do Grupo de Estudos: Pesquisas em Políticas e Práticas Educativas Inclusivas: Reconstruindo a escola, na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande (MS/Br), ao longo do segundo semestre de 2019, integrado pelas seguintes pessoas: Andre Luiz Alvarenga de Souza, Angelita Leal de Castro Fonseca, Evelyn Mello, Franciele Cristina da Silva, Jaqueline Vargas, Jociane de Oliveira Nunes Gonçalves, Juliana Moreno Cavalheiro, Leandro Vieira, Mareide Lopes de Arruda e Patricia Tanganelli Lara - coordenados pelo Prof. Dr. Eladio Sebastián-Heredero. A autorização para esta publicação no Brasil na língua portuguesa foi feita pelo Sr. David Gordon, Senior Director, Publishing & Communications do CAST, com o conhecimento da Sra. Kim Ducharme, Director of Educational User Experience Design do CAST, com data de 10 de julho de 2020.

Should You Pay for the Chicken When You Can Get It for Free? No Longer Life on the Farm as We Know It

The scholarly publishing ecosystem is being forced to adapt following changes in funding, scholarly review, and distribution. Taken alone, each changemaker could markedly influence the entire chain of research consumption. Combining these change forces together has the potential for a complete upheaval in the biome. During the 2019 Charleston Library conference, a panel of stakeholders representing researchers, funders, librarians, publishers, digital security experts, and content aggregators addressed such questions as what essential components constitute scholarly literature and who should shepherd them. The 70-minute open dialogue with audience participation invited a range of opinions and viewpoints on the care, feeding, and safekeeping of peer-reviewed scholarly research. The panelists were: James King, Branch Chief & Information Architect at the NIH; Sharon Mattern Büttiker, Director of Content Management at Reprints Desk; Crane Hassold, Senior Director of Threat Research at Agari; and Susie Winter, Director of Communications and Engagement, Springer Nature. The panel was moderated by Beth Bernhardt, Consortia Account Manager at Oxford University Press. Beth posed questions to the panel and each panelist replied from their vantage point. The lively discussion touched on ideas and solutions not yet discussed in an open forum. Such collaborative approaches are now more essential than ever for shaping the progress of the scientific research community. In attendance were librarians, editorial staff, business development managers, data handlers, library collection managers, content aggregators, security experts and CEOs.

Classification of brain processing indicators in financial officers

Background: Arthur F. Carmazzi discovered new way of identifying the human brain’s clarity based on the foundations of genetic neurosciences. The specific terminology of “Ambiguity Relief” was used to refer to the human brain’s processing that supports evaluating information to relate new context to existing knowledge, simplifying ideas, making decisions, and problem solving into actionable elements. Aim and Objective: This study identified the relationship between brain processing indicator and communication of financial officers in Thailand by using the Colored Brain Communication Inventory. Materials and Methods: Fifty participants were involved in this study. All participants were assessed by using the Colored Brain Communication Inventory developed by Arthur F. Carmazzi. Results: All participants were thirty-one males (62%) and nineteen females (38%). There were eleven persons worked as Manager, considered 25%. Nine participants worked as Director and seven participants worked as Deputy Director and Senior Manager were about 18%, 14%, and 14%, respectively. Five participants worked as Senior Director were in the amount of 10% of all the participants while two participants worked as Senior Officer and Officer were 4% and 4%, respectively. Of the fifty participants, the highest number of 28 participants (56%) were reported as Green Brain Processing while 12 participants (24%) were reported as Purple Brain Processing. The less of 7 participants (14%) were reported as Red Brain Processing while only 3 participants (6%) were reported as Blue Brain Processing, respectively. Conclusion: This study is the first study to explore the effects of brain processing indicator and communication on the leadership and working environment by using Colored Brain Communication Inventory tool in Thailand. By adopting conceptual and hypotheses of Colored Brain model, any awareness by participants might help their team members adopt a cooperation attitude instead of trying to change others beyond their own processes which creating frustration on both sides.

2019 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB awarded to Barb Bryant

The Outstanding Contributions to the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) Award recognizes outstanding service contributions to the Society by any member through exemplary leadership, education, service, or a combination of these three elements. Barbara (Barb) Bryant, Senior Director at Constellation Pharmaceuticals, is the 2019 ISCB winner of the Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award and will be recognized at the 2019 Joint Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) in Basel, Switzerland on July 21-25, 2019.

„Marktdynamik verändert die Rolle der Hersteller“

PARTNERSCHAFTEN | Zusammen kommt man weiter als allein. Diese Erkenntnis machen sich vermehrt auch Global Tech Player zunutze, indem sie Partnerschaften suchen. Bentley Systems beispielsweise, international tätiger Anbieter von Softwarelösungen für Infrastrukturmanagement, kooperiert unter anderem mit Siemens, Microsoft und Topcon. BWK sprach mit Ton de Vries, Senior Director Business Development bei Bentley Systems, über die Gründe. Für den Niederländer sind Kooperationen eine zwangsläufige Folge der veränderten Anforderungen des Energiemarkts.

Organizational Analysis Leads to Dissection of Recurrent Training Issues

After consistently missing the contract's monthly-required staffing personnel requests, the senior director and senior manager of recruiting decided the day-to-day operations, procedures, and recruiting processes should be standardized within the recruiting section. The staffing department at Variant Data Systems, Inc. decided to move forward with instructional and noninstructional interventions to address incomplete biography submissions between the recruiters and the technical writer. This case study demonstrates how a layered organizational performance analysis was conducted to dissect recurring performance problems. The case also examines how an internal performance improvement consultant was utilized on the project to identify the performance issue and develop the expectations of the position, a communication plan, the formal instructional unit and knowledge management database, and accountability metrics to ensure it met the needs of the recruiting section in the staffing department.