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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...

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

In recent years, the widespread growth of mobile-assisted language learning using apps has made English vocabulary learning increasingly accessible. This study investigated students' perceptions of a vocabulary learning app...

Computer-Assisted Language Learning Education Educational Technologies

Ecology conservation and global change biology RESEARCH ARTICLES Butterflies CONSERVATION human–wildlife interactions megacities nature experiences urban wildlife

We analyze the relationships between country culture and country regulatory structure pertaining to information privacy concerns (IPC) in the context of social media applications. Drawing on prior research we develop a framework...

Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory

This study explores one teacher's forays into multiliteracies practices and multimodal pedagogies in teaching a language other than English in an international school in Hong Kong. Using the Action Learning Circle as a guiding...

Computer-Assisted Language Learning Education Educational Technologies

Electronic business relies heatedly on a predictive tool to provide consumers with the products online in a brief moment. E-commerce activities are handled by many buyers globally compared to conventional distribution, and with...

Banks are leveraging on innovation to address the major concerns of their employees including improvements in service delivery, operational efficiency, and enhancing the speed of transactions. The purpose for this study was to...

Electronic Services & Service Science Business and Management Business Information Systems

The integration of economies always attracts much attention from policymakers and researchers. This paper introduces a novel approach to evaluate potential economic and environmental gains from integrating economies. Based on...

Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory

Discovering entity synonymous relations is an important work for many entity-based applications. Existing entity synonymous relation extraction approaches are mainly based on lexical patterns or distributional corpus-level...

The current study aims to analyse school leaders' understanding and expectation of, and support for, online teaching and learning during and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the theory of reasoned action...

The Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker owned by the ExxonMobil Shipping Company, which gained its infamy after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling more than 11 million galleons (approximately 258,000 barrels) of crude...

Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ENGI 8751)

This paper proposes an audio tampering detection method based on the ENF phase and BI-LSTM network from the perspective of temporal feature representation learning. First, the ENF phase is obtained by discrete Fourier transform...

Big five ecological psychology geographical psychology landscape personality physical environments

Automatic analysis tools are ubiquitously applied on wireless embedded cameras to extract high-level information from raw data. The quality of images may be degraded by factors such as noise and blur introduced during the...

Multimedia Technology Media and Communications Multimedia Technology

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic poses a threat to the everyday life of people worldwide and brings challenges to the global health system. During this outbreak, it is critical to find creative ways to extend the...