Seize the Moment: The Opportunity to Realize the Human Right to Healthcare in the United States

Building own business is a long-term and laborious process. A person who leads a startup tries to start with building own business by taking first steps toward financial independence. Analyzing conditions in Poland, on average every second startup sells its services abroad, admittedly it is good news, although half of them do not export at all. Half of the startups which export their services and goods generates more than 50% of their revenues outside Poland. Very interesting is the fact that 60% of exporters have conducted their foreign sale since the moment of establishing their business. On which markets do they sell their services? It turns out that the most popular are markets in the European Union (54%), including the United Kingdom 14% and Germany 9%. Only about 25% of Polish startups exports their products and services to the United States. Taking the United States into consideration, in 2008 the USA lost their leading position in the number of startups which are newly created and achieving success in business. Currently in terms of the number of new startups the USA is on a quite distant place after Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, New Zealand, Israel or Italy. In short, more companies were closed than created, so it was, as a matter of fact, like in Poland. Therefore, the condition to improve the development of startups both from Poland and other countries all the world is to increase cooperation and coopetition.

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China’s AI experience: industrial digitalization

RUDN Journal of Economics ◽

10.22363/2313-2329-2020-28-3-536-546 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 536-546

Author(s):

Marina S. Reshetnikova

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

United States ◽

Global Economy ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Global Innovation ◽

Innovative Products ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

The Moment

The rapid acceleration of scientific and technological progress, which started at the beginning of the 21st century, has become a decisive factor in influencing the global economy. Who will lead the global innovation race? This problem is especially relevant in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). At the moment, the United States and China are the main participants in the battle for dominance in this area. The author assesses Chinas innovative potential in the field of AI and identifies its achievements in this area. Based on the statistics provided, Chinas AI leadership has reached a critical point. China is confidently leading the new fundamental research of artificial intelligence, forming its theoretical base and applied research and development, which will contribute to the creation of new high-tech innovative products and services. However, in terms of the number and quality of AI specialists (AI Talents) and the number of companies engaged in AI, China is still lagging behind its main rival, namely the United States. The author proved that, despite the obvious successes of China, the United States still has an equal lead in the global innovation race.

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Journal Entry, July 2020: Affirmation, Inclusion, Equity and Everyone

International Journal of Engineering Social Justice and Peace ◽

10.24908/ijesjp.v8i2.15144 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 129-135

Author(s):

Lauren Thomas Quigley ◽

Monica Cox ◽

Cynthia J. Atman ◽

Jennifer Turns

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Black Students ◽

Engineering Education ◽

The United States ◽

Internal Reflection ◽

Professional Organization ◽

Journal Entry ◽

Personal Stories ◽

Action Change ◽

The Moment

When we reflect on 2020, especially in the United States, the divides in society amplified by the pandemic and laid bare for all to see following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota in May, 2020 will most likely be the top of mind. We could all see this nation’s history and current complicity for racism, both the systematic and systemic. The moment was not unfamiliar, but markedly different. Initially, we wrote this piece in the summer of 2020, in response to our professional organization’s delay and hesitancy to affirm Black lives, Black students, Black engineers and Black faculty. Many of us were crying out. Allies with commitment to action showed up for and with us -- no questions asked, to ensure that what we felt was at least heard. In nearly a year since our original effort to write this piece together, some things have changed for the better. We saw our professional organization affirm Black lives. We saw some of our colleagues take action, change course and use their influence to make the community better. Some learned, listened and tried to do something new. Others, either remained silent, hopefully in contemplation, but some with a silence that convinces us that they are simply not on the same side. We composed the below entries in the summer of 2020, amid national turbulence and internal reflection. Below we provide four personal stories and some specific calls to action situated in the summer of 2020, but these remain our aspirations and hopes for the field of engineering education.

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Comparative-Legal Analysis of Alternative Tax Dispute Resolution: the Practice of the Russian Federation, the United States, the Netherlands and Germany

Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law ◽

10.12737/article_58ec9f5854e2f3.36502980 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 58-64

Author(s):

Елена Цветкова ◽

Elena Tsvetkova

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Dispute Resolution ◽

The United States ◽

Alternative Methods ◽

Main Trend ◽

Legal Analysis ◽

Tax Rate ◽

The Us ◽

The Moment

The main trend of recent years is the complication of tax administration. In order to improve it states develop forms of work with taxpayers, including alternative tax dispute resolution. The author analyses alternative tax dispute resolution that have already developed in Russia and compares them with similar procedures in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany. To the alternative methods that are applied in Russia the author refers tax monitoring and agreement on the settlement of a tax dispute. Tax monitoring is not seen as a form of tax control, but as a mean of resolving and preventing the occurrence of a tax dispute. The conclusion of an agreement between a tax authority and a taxpayer on the settlement of a dispute in court is possible by reaching a compromise on the qualification of relations, on actual circumstances, on the interpretation of the tax rate. The article contains examples of programs that exist in the US and Germany in the sphere of tax dispute resolution. Also issues related to the implementation of the mediation procedure existing in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany and the possibility of their application in Russia are considered. The author emphasizes the impossibility of applying the procedure of mediation in tax disputes in Russia at the moment due to the lack of legislative regulation.

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Black Mothering Legacies: Theorizing Lament as a Form of Justice Research

International Review of Qualitative Research ◽

10.1177/19408447211049518 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194084472110495

Author(s):

Nichole A. Guillory

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

State Violence ◽

Black Child ◽

The State ◽

Black Mothers ◽

Black Life ◽

The Moment ◽

Historical Moment ◽

Black Mothering

I feel compelled by the moment to take up these questions: What does it mean to mother a Black child within/against this historical moment within/against the (carceral) United States? What does it mean to mother a Black child when the legacy of enslavement in the United States is still the basis for assessing the “worth” of you and your children? How do I determine justice for my/a/the Black child in this historical moment? How does this justice come to matter? My approach to critical qualitative research is best understood through Cynthia Dillard’s (2006) notion of “endarkened feminist epistemology” (p. 3). Here I trace a lineage of Black mothering praxis that has been enacted in response to injustice across different historical moments and geographical locations in the United States. This lineage focuses on Black mothers who have lost their children to state violence, when that violence is perpetrated by the state or when the state fails to mete out justice for the taking of Black life.

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Nikolaus Geyrhalter

The Sublimity of Document ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190052126.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 125-154

Author(s):

Scott MacDonald

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

European Community ◽

Food Production ◽

Homo Sapiens ◽

The United States ◽

Cultural Transformation ◽

Modern Life ◽

Global Survey ◽

Balkan Wars ◽

The Moment

This is the first career interview with Austrian documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter, whose films, like those of Fred Wiseman, often focus on cultural institutions, though with a radically different sensibility. Geyrhalter’s most widely known film in the United States is Our Daily Bread (2005), his astonishing documentation of mass food production within the European community. Geyrhalter’s films are visually rigorous and formal—he was a photographer before he turned to filmmaking and is his own cinematographer. His films have explored cultural realities far and wide, from the aftermath of the Balkan wars of the 1990s to the plight of workers laid off from an Austrian factory during the years after the factory closed. His most elaborate film is Elsewhere (2000), a global survey of the edges of modern life and cultural transformation at the moment of the new millennium. The recent Homo Sapiens is a panorama of ruined places and landscapes across the planet at the dawn of the Anthropocene.

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Immigrant Earnings: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/019791838001400301 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 315-341 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Alejandro Portes ◽

Robert L. Bach

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Mexican Immigrants ◽

The United States ◽

Recent Immigrants ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Specific Goal ◽

The Moment ◽

Causal Variables

This study examines the determinants of earnings among two groups of recent immigrants—Cubans and Mexicans—interviewed at the moment of arrival in the United States and reinterviewed three years later. The specific goal is to examine the applicability to these results of causal variables suggested by recent alternative theoretical perspectives on income attainment.

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International Religious Freedom Promotion and US Foreign Policy

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11050260 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 260 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lee Marsden

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Religious Freedom ◽

State Level ◽

The United States ◽

Human Right ◽

National Interests ◽

Politics And Religion ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Political Background

The freedom to practice one’s religious belief is a fundamental human right and yet, for millions of people around the world, this right is denied. Yearly reports produced by the US State Department, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Open Doors International, Aid to the Church in Need and Release International reveal a disturbing picture of increased religious persecution across much of the world conducted at individual, community and state level conducted by secular, religious, terrorist and state actors. While religious actors both contribute to persecution of those of other faiths and beliefs and are involved in peace and reconciliation initiatives, the acceptance of the freedom to practice one’s faith, to disseminate that faith and to change one’s faith and belief is fundamental to considerations of the intersection of peace, politics and religion. In this article, I examine the political background of the United States’ promotion of international religious freedom, and current progress on advancing this under the Trump administration. International Religious Freedom (IRF) is contentious, and seen by many as the advancement of US national interests by other means. This article argues that through an examination of the accomplishments and various critiques of the IRF programme it is possible, and desirable, to discover what works, and where further progress needs to be made, in order to enable people around the world to enjoy freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

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