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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...
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
A Conversation with Ha-Joon Chang
Maha Abdelrahman
Aug 01, 2019
Ha‐Joon Chang is the Director of the Centre of Development Studies and a Reader in the Political Economy of Development in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He grew up in South Korea where he completed his...
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
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...
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
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...
Navigating Central-Local Dynamics
Wing-chung Ho
Jan 01, 2024
This paper examines the central-local relation between Beijing and Hong Kong in the final stage of the COVID-19 combat, by analyzing Hong Kong's policy responses regarding public space governance in 2022. Drawing on the combined...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Newspaper representation and power relations in infrastructure projects
This paper explores newspapers’ representation of different actors in infrastructure projects, and analyses the power relations between them through a case study in Hong Kong. The case in question is the highly controversial...
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...
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...
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...
Characterizing Human Collective Behaviors During COVID-19 - Hong Kong SAR, China, 2020.
Zhanwei Du, Xiao Zhang, Lin Wang, Sidan Yao, Yuan Bai, Qi Tan, Xiaoke Xu, Sen Pei, Jingyi Xiao, Tim K Tsang, Qiuyan Liao, Eric HY Lau, Peng Wu, Chao Gao, Benjamin J Cowling
Mar 16, 2023
WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC?: People are likely to engage in collective behaviors online during extreme events, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis, to express awareness, take action, and work...
Efficient and bright warm-white electroluminescence from lead-free metal halides.
Hong Chen, Lin Zhu, Chen Xue, Pinlei Liu, Xuerong Du, Kaichuan Wen, Hao Zhang, Lei Xu, Chensheng Xiang, Chen Lin, Minchao Qin, Jing Zhang, Tao Jiang, Chang Yi, Lu Cheng, Chenglong Zhang, Pinghui Yang, Meiling Niu, Wenjie Xu, Jingya Lai, Yu Cao, Jin Chang, He Tian, Yizheng Jin, Xinhui Lu, Lang Jiang, Nana Wang, Wei Huang, Jianpu Wang
Apr 19, 2021
Solution-processed metal-halide perovskites are emerging as one of the most promising materials for displays, lighting and energy generation. Currently, the best-performing perovskite optoelectronic devices are based on lead...
Investigating the Moderating Effects of Context-Aware Recommendations on the Relationship Between Knowledge Search and Decision Quality
The paper applied a quantitative method to the impact of context-aware recommendations on decision quality and used partial least squares (PLS) to test the hypotheses of the study. The paper examines how context-aware...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Contributions of BMPR2 Mutations and Extrinsic Factors to Cellular Phenotypes of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Revealed by Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Modeling.
Fedir N Kiskin, C-Hong Chang, Christopher JZ Huang, Baraa Kwieder, Christine Cheung, Benjamin J Dunmore, Felipe Serrano, Sanjay Sinha, Nicholas W Morrell, Amer A Rana
Jun 14, 2018
Molecular phylogeography and species distribution modelling evidence of 'oceanic' adaptation for Actinidia eriantha with a refugium along the oceanic-continental gradient in a biodiversity hotspot.
Rui Guo, Yong-Hua Zhang, Hua-Jie Zhang, Jacob B Landis, Xu Zhang, Heng-Chang Wang, Xiao-Hong Yao
Feb 28, 2022
BACKGROUND: Refugia is considered to be critical for maintaining biodiversity; while discerning the type and pattern of refugia is pivotal for our understanding of evolutionary processes in the context of conservation....
Actinidia eriantha Climatic fluctuations Oceanic–continental gradient Phylogeography Refugium Subtropical China ‘Oceanic’ adaptation Actinidia Adaptation Biological Biodiversity China climate DNA Chloroplast evolution Molecular Genes Plant Genetic Markers Haplotypes Microsatellite Repeats Phylogeography Refugium
A Hox-Embedded Long Noncoding RNA
Licia Selleri, Marisa S Bartolomei, Wendy A Bickmore, Lin He, Lisa Stubbs, Wolf Reik, Gregory S Barsh
Jun 24, 2019
Over 20 years ago, the discovery of Xist as a critical component of X chromosome inactivation revealed a fundamental role for long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in epigenetic regulation during mammalian development and foreshadowed a...
Structure of the DOCK2-ELMO1 complex provides insights into regulation of the auto-inhibited state.
Leifu Chang, Jing Yang, Chang Hwa Jo, Andreas Boland, Ziguo Zhang, Stephen H McLaughlin, Afnan Abu-Thuraia, Ryan C Killoran, Matthew J Smith, Jean-Francois Côté, David Barford
Jul 28, 2021
The Path of Least Resistance: How Strict Chinese Stock Market Regulation Incentivizes Chinese Companies to List in Foreign Stock Exchanges
Chenyu Yin
Jan 01, 0001
Despite the recent trade dispute, decades of increased trade between the U.S. and China have given Chinese companies more opportunities to list on foreign stock markets, so they can find better financing opportunities in foreign...
China Hong Kong Stock Exchange NYSE Alibaba Tencent IPOs listing speed government regulations Business Economics Finance and Financial Management International Economics Social and Behavioral Sciences
Published by: Ursinus College
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