Few impulses for economic East-West relations

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....

Is East Asia’s Economic Fate Chained to the West?

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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe

10th Anniversary Celebration UCLA Center for East–West Medicine East Meets West for Comprehensive Pain Management

There is a new journal! For this first issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), it is especially appropriate to focus on an event at UCLA because of its significant association to Dr Ka-Kit Hui and others are members of our Editorial Board. Patient care, and perhaps any spill over into basic research, is of great interest. We are pleased to celebrate the tenth anni...

Few Inductive Models for Grammatical Relations Recovery

This paper describes our experience with few models for recovering the grammatical relations in isolated English sentences. Our method starts with a set of linguistically motivated features and then uses machine learning methods to induce a classifier able to identify relations such as logical subject, direct object, etc. Our experiments show that our set of features is powerful and can deliver...