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Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Desgarraduras del cuerpo y degolladuras de la voz
B Epps
Aug 24, 2017
El mismo mar de todos los veranos de Esther Tusquets narra la tormentosa relación erótica y emocional de una mujer de la alta burguesía catalana, casada y desencantada, que ejerce de profesora de literatura, con una joven...
A joint analysis of influenza-associated hospitalizations and mortality in Hong Kong, 1998-2013.
Influenza viruses may cause severe human infections leading to hospitalization or death. Linear regression models were fitted to population-based data on hospitalizations and deaths. Surveillance data on influenza virus activity...
Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Loss sensitive investors and positively biased analysts in Hong Kong stock market
Taufiq Choudhry, Gishan Dissanaike, Ranadeva Jayasekera, Woo-Young Kang, Matthias Nnadi
Sep 22, 2021
Abstract: The Hong Kong stock market is known to be highly volatile. Professional investors have a strong demand for timely information because of the infrequent nature of Hong Kong analysts’ interim reports (Cheng et al....
Education for Justice-Oriented and Participatory Citizenship in a Politicized Era in Hong Kong
This chapter aims at introducing issues of citizenship education arising from the social, historical, and political context of Hong Kong before and after its handover from Britain to the People's Republic of China in 1997. It...
Civic Engagement & Social Justice Education Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Social Sciences and Humanities
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Forecasting Migration to the United States from Hong Kong and India
Priyanka pkogta@my.harrisburgu
Jan 01, 0001
This study investigates the forecasting of migration from India and Hong Kong to the United States. To study this, quantitative design is employed so numerical data can be used. The proposed research strategy uses the...
Migration Forecasting Quantitative Design Descriptive Analyses Inferential Analyses United States india Hong Kong Computer and Systems Architecture Demography, Population, and Ecology Migration Studies
Published by: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Juana Dib El Mahyar poesía árabe-americano Latin American Literature Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Juana Dib El Mahyar poesía árabe-americano Latin American Literature Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Revealing the impacts of passive cooling techniques on building energy performance
Environmental concerns and growing energy costs raise the importance of sustainable development and energy conservation. The building sector accounts for a significant portion of total energy consumption. Passive cooling...
The Y Chromosome
The Human Y chromosome (ChrY) has been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for phylogenetics, population genetics, genetic genealogy and forensics. However, the importance of ChrY genetic variation in relation to human complex...
Y Chromosome Y haplogroups complex human traits complex locus genetic association analyses Genetic epidemiology Chromosomes Human Y Genetic Association Studies genetic variation Genetics Population Genome-Wide Association Study Haplotypes Humans Male Models Genetic molecular epidemiology Multifactorial Inheritance Quantitative Trait Loci Recombination Genetic Sex Determination Processes
Juana Dib y el mahyar árabe-americano
Marcus S. Palmer
Apr 01, 2020
This paper investigates the thematic and aesthetic links between Juana Dib’s poetry with that of emigrant Mahjar writers. It evidences adaptations of perennial themes in Arabic poetry (nationalism, nostalgia, and memory) in...
Juana Dib El Mahyar poesía árabe-americano Latin American Literature Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Published by: Digital Commons @ Texas A&M University-San Antonio
English as a lingua franca communication between domestic helpers and employers in Hong Kong
This paper discusses an exploratory, small-scale study that investigated the use of English as a lingua franca in domestic workplaces in Hong Kong between Filipino employees and Hong Kongese employers. Through data collected...
How did the guppy Y chromosome evolve?
The sex chromosome pairs of many species do not undergo genetic recombination, unlike the autosomes. It has been proposed that the suppressed recombination results from natural selection favouring close linkage between...
The study of human Y chromosome variation through ancient DNA
T Kivisild
May 17, 2017
High throughput sequencing methods have completely transformed the study of human Y chromosome variation by offering a genome-scale view on genetic variation retrieved from ancient human remains in context of a growing number of...
Novel Heating-Induced Reversion during Crystallization of Al-based Glassy Alloys.
Thermal stability and crystallization of three multicomponent glassy alloys, Al86Y7Ni5Co1Fe0.5Pd0.5, Al85Y8Ni5Co1Fe0.5Pd0.5 and Al84Y9Ni4Co1.5Fe0.5Pd1, were examined to assess the ability to form the mixture of amorphous (am)...
How did the guppy Y chromosome evolve?
The sex chromosome pairs of many species do not undergo genetic recombination, unlike the autosomes. It has been proposed that the suppressed recombination results from natural selection favouring close linkage between...
An Antecedent Study of Mobile Social Game Addiction vs. Virtual Goods Purchase
This study aims to investigate how cognitive antecedents impact on social game addiction and virtual properties purchase among Generation Y players in Malaysia. Using a quantitative method with 341 Generation Y gamers and...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
English as a lingua franca communication between domestic helpers and employers in Hong Kong
This paper discusses an exploratory, small-scale study that investigated the use of English as a lingua franca in domestic workplaces in Hong Kong between Filipino employees and Hong Kongese employers. Through data collected...
Analysis of the Establishment and Closure of the Ta Teh Institute in British Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War
Chung Fun Steven Hung
Aug 25, 2016
The Ta Teh Institute was a prominent and important higher learning institute that existed in Hong Kong during the period of the Chinese Civil War, after the Second World War. The institute was founded in October, 1946 and then...
Colonización interna, cultura material y poder en el imperio inca
E DeMarrais
Aug 10, 2017
In Spanish
En este artículo se emplean perspectivas de la teoría postcolonial para entender la “experiencia discrepante” del personal imperial y de las poblaciones sujetas dentro del Imperio inca. El análisis de la cultura...
Mechanistic insights into non-coding Y RNA processing.
Martina Billmeier, Darrell Green, Adam E Hall, Carly Turnbull, Archana Singh, Ping Xu, Simon Moxon, Tamas Dalmay
May 01, 2022
Y RNAs (84-112 nt) are non-coding RNAs transcribed by RNA polymerase III and are characterized by a distinctive secondary structure. Human Y RNAs interact with the autoimmune proteins SSB and RO60 that together form a...
Prevalence of dementia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Yu-Tzu Wu, Gemma-Claire Ali, Maëlenn Guerchet, A Matthew Prina, Kit Yee Chan, Martin Prince, Carol Brayne
Jun 20, 2018
BACKGROUND: There are several existing systematic reviews of prevalence of dementia for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but several studies have been newly reported. The aim of this study is to update prevalence data in...
Structural and functional analysis of four non-coding Y RNAs from Chinese hamster cells
Quirino Alves de Lima Neto, Francisco Ferreira Duarte Junior, Paulo Sérgio Alves Bueno, Flavio Augusto Vicente Seixas, Madzia Pauline Kowalski, Eyemen Kheir, Torsten Krude, Maria Aparecida Fernandez
Sep 29, 2016
BACKGROUND: The genes coding for Y RNAs are evolutionarily conserved in vertebrates. These non-coding RNAs are essential for the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication in vertebrate cells. However thus far, no information is...
An 8.22 Mb Assembly and Annotation of the Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) Y Chromosome.
Matthew J Jevit, Brian W Davis, Caitlin Castaneda, Andrew Hillhouse, Rytis Juras, Vladimir A Trifonov, Ahmed Tibary, Jorge C Pereira, Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith, Terje Raudsepp
Apr 12, 2021
The unique evolutionary dynamics and complex structure make the Y chromosome the most diverse and least understood region in the mammalian genome, despite its undisputable role in sex determination, development, and male...
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