The Teen Addiction Severity Index around the globe: the Tower of Babel revisited.

Diversity and Culture in Knowledge Creation:The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited

Thank you very much for kind introduction. Ni men hao. An-nyeong ha-shim-ni-kka. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I am very honored and pleased with this great opportunity to speak at this 17th conference of Association for Cultural Economics International in Kyoto today. It is my understanding that this is the fi rst ACEI conference in Asia. My presentation is entitled Diversity and Culture ...

Regional Integration and Cultures in the Age of Knowledge Creation -The Story of the Tower of Babel Revisited-

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for your kind introduction. I am very honored by this great opportunity to speak at the 53 European Regional Science Association Congress in Palermo. Indeed, about half a century ago, before most of you existed, I watched a fascinating movie, “Gatto Pardo,” starring Alain Delon, Burt Lancaster, and Claudia Caldinale in the s...

Tower of Babel: Facilitating Multi-cultural Educational Activities and Group Work with 3d Collaborative Virtual Environments

The project described in this paper focuses on the use of distributed virtual media-rich environments in an educational multi-cultural context. It revolves around the construction of a virtual Tower of Babel in a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (3D CVE), involving students across cooperating institutions from Finland and Taiwan, on two different continents in different time zones. This pro...

Development of Latrodectus Envenomation Severity Score (LESS); a Severity Index for Widow Spider Bite: Initial Step

Background: In order to describe the patients and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for widow spider envenomation, investigators require a reliable assessment tool. In this paper, the development of a clinical index for measuring the widow spider bite severity, Latrodectus Envenomation Severity Score (LESS), is described. Methods: According to the valid methods for index development, a D...

Building the Tower of Babel : Converting