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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
Dexamethasone and long-term outcome of tuberculous meningitis in Vietnamese adults and adolescents.
M Estée Török, Duc Bang Nguyen, Thi Hong Chau Tran, Thi Bich Yen Nguyen, Guy E Thwaites, Thi Quy Hoang, Huy Dung Nguyen, Tinh Hien Tran, Tran Chinh Nguyen, Hoang Thi Thanh Hoang, Marcel Wolbers, Jeremy J Farrar
Jun 26, 2018
BACKGROUND: Dexamethasone has been shown to reduce mortality in patients with tuberculous meningitis but the long-term outcome of the disease is unknown. METHODS: Vietnamese adults and adolescents with tuberculous meningitis...
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
On the way to self-employment:
This qualitative study offers empirically-based explanations of the dynamics of career mobility trajectories to self-employment, a popular phenomenon in real life but less so in the literature. Embedded in the career ecosystem...
On the way to self-employment:
This qualitative study offers empirically-based explanations of the dynamics of career mobility trajectories to self-employment, a popular phenomenon in real life but less so in the literature. Embedded in the career ecosystem...
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
Viral Metagenomic Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Acute Central Nervous System Infections of Unknown Origin, Vietnam.
Nguyen To Anh, Le Nguyen Truc Nhu, Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, Tran My Phuc, Pham Thi Thanh Tam, Dang Thao Huong, Tran Tuan Anh, Xutao Deng, Ho Dang Trung Nghia, Tran Thua Nguyen, Nguyen Van Hung, Nguyen Dac Thuan, Pham Thi Hong Phuong, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Stephen Baker, Eric Delwart, Guy Thwaites, Le Van Tan, VIZIONS Consortium1
May 17, 2021
Central nervous system (CNS) infection is a serious neurologic condition, although the etiology remains unknown in >50% of patients. We used metagenomic next-generation sequencing to detect viruses in 204 cerebrospinal fluid...
Career Ambition and Employee Performance Behaviour
This study develops and tests a theoretical model that investigates how career ambition can have an impact on different types of academics' performance behaviour, and how ideological development at work can affect this model in...
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...
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...
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
Career Ambition and Employee Performance Behaviour
This study develops and tests a theoretical model that investigates how career ambition can have an impact on different types of academics' performance behaviour, and how ideological development at work can affect this model in...
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...
Structure of general-population antibody titer distributions to influenza A virus.
Nguyen Thi Duy Nhat, Stacy Todd, Erwin de Bruin, Tran Thi Nhu Thao, Nguyen Ha Thao Vy, Tran Minh Quan, Dao Nguyen Vinh, Janko van Beek, Pham Hong Anh, Ha Minh Lam, Nguyen Thanh Hung, Nguyen Thi Le Thanh, Huynh Le Anh Huy, Vo Thi Hong Ha, Stephen Baker, Guy E Thwaites, Nguyen Thi Nam Lien, Tran Thi Kim Hong, Jeremy Farrar, Cameron P Simmons, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Marion Koopmans, Maciej F Boni
Apr 10, 2019
Seroepidemiological studies aim to understand population-level exposure and immunity to infectious diseases. Their results are normally presented as binary outcomes describing the presence or absence of pathogen-specific...
A universal genome sequencing method for rotavirus A from human fecal samples which identifies segment reassortment and multi-genotype mixed infection.
Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, Pham Thanh Duy, October M Sessions, Uma K Sangumathi, Voong Vinh Phat, Pham Thi Thanh Tam, Nguyen Thi Nguyen To, Tran My Phuc, Tran Thi Hong Chau, Nguyen Ngoc Minh Chau, Ngoc Nguyen Minh, Guy E Thwaites, Maia A Rabaa, Stephen Baker
Apr 10, 2019
BACKGROUND: Genomic characterization of rotavirus (RoV) has not been adopted at large-scale due to the complexity of obtaining sequences for all 11 segments, particularly when feces are used as starting material. METHODS: To...
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...
Genome-wide dynamics of a bacterial response to antibiotics that target the cell envelope.
Andy Hesketh, Chris Hill, Jehan Mokhtar, Gabriela Novotna, Ngat Tran, Mervyn Bibb, Hee-Jeon Hong
Jun 18, 2011
ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters Anti-Bacterial Agents Biotin Cell Wall Drug Resistance Bacterial Genome Bacterial Heat-Shock Response Ligases Osmotic Pressure Oxidative Stress Peptidoglycan Peptidyl Transferases Regulon Sigma Factor Signal Transduction Streptomyces coelicolor Transcription Genetic Zinc
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...
AN ELASTIC FLOW FOR NONLINEAR SPLINE INTERPOLATIONS IN ℝ<sup>n</sup>
In this paper we use the method of geometric flow on the problem of nonlinear spline interpolations for non-closed curves in n-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The method applies theory of fourth-order parabolic PDEs to each...
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