East – West versus the West – the rest

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

Getting behind the East - West

Labor markets are the most important mediator of German uniication and wages are a central indicator of its progress. Starting from the observation that a wage diierential between two workers can arise either because workers have diierent endowments of human capital characteristics or remuneration to these characteristics diier, we apply an Oaxaca-style decomposition to the post-uniication wave...

Heredity, East and West

West Meets East

RM proteins link adhesion molecules to the cytoskeleton, but this linkage must be restricted to the necessary place and time. Structural analyses by Toshio Hakoshima (Nara Institute of Science and Technology , Nara, Japan) suggest that phospholipids take care of this regulation. Inactive ERMs, such as radixin, are folded to mask both their actin-and adhesion protein–binding (FERM) domains. This...

West Meets East.

nary protein excretion, preferably with agents that block the renin-angiotensin pathway, and good glycemic control for diabetic patients [5]. Human studies have shown that proteinuria is an independent predictor of progression and that its reduction is renoprotective [6]. At comparable blood pressure control, inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), including angiotensin-converting enz...