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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...
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
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
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
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
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It is often necessary to precisely quantify the size of specimens in biological studies. When measuring feature size in fluorescence microscopy, significant biases can arise due to blurring of its edges if the feature is smaller...
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
Design and Practice of Japanese Interactive Teaching Systems in Colleges and Universities Under the Background of Big Data
Hong Xiao
Jan 01, 2024
Relying on the background of big data, this paper introduces the blended teaching model into the secondary vocational Japanese oral classroom and explores whether the teaching model is conducive to the improvement of the...
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...
Bleached Light Verb in Future Tense in Mandarin
Xiaoya YE
Mar 27, 2018
In Mandarin, “yao” has more than one meaning. It can be used as a regular verb which means “to want”; it can also be used as a future tense indicator which means “will” or “shall”. The author's hypothesis in this paper is that...
Published by: Cambridge Journal of China Studies
Study on Influences of Fringing Reef on Harbor Oscillations Triggered by N-Waves
Influences of topographic variations of the offshore fringing reef on the harbor oscillations excited by incident N-waves with different amplitudes and waveform types are studied for the first time. Both the propagation of...
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...
Study on Influences of Fringing Reef on Harbor Oscillations Triggered by N-Waves
Influences of topographic variations of the offshore fringing reef on the harbor oscillations excited by incident N-waves with different amplitudes and waveform types are studied for the first time. Both the propagation of...
PARP10 influences the proliferation of colorectal carcinoma cells, a preliminary study
ChengFang Wu, Ming Xiao, Yalan Wang, Michael Threadgill, Ming Li, Yi Tang, Xiao Lin, Lian Yang, QingShu Li, Xian Li
Mar 31, 2020
PARP10 is an intracellular mono-ADP ribosyltransferase and recent reports suggest that it regulates proliferation of some cell types. However, its effect on the proliferation of colorectal carcinoma cells has not yet been...
Polymer nanotube membranes synthesized via liquid deposition in anodic alumina
Zheyi Meng, Serena Casanova, Halan Mohamed, Nidhi Kapil, Xiao Xiao, Yuheng Zhang, Marc Olivier Coppens, Davide Mattia
Nov 30, 2020
Self-standing polystyrene nanotube (PNT) membranes have been fabricated from liquid deposition in the pores of anodic alumina. PNTs were deposited using 3 wt% concentration of 90 kDa polystyrene in the starting solution...
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