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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
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...
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
Can Your DNA Influence Your Bet-Placing? The Impact of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 Gene on Gambling Tasks.
Are we placing a bet by ourselves or has our DNA already made the decision for us? Previous research has suggested that some genes related to dopamine or serotonin can influence our non-bet-placing decision-making, but little is...
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...
Broad bandwidth dual-wavelength fiber laser simultaneously delivering stretched pulse and dissipative soliton.
We numerically and experimentally demonstrate the generation of broad bandwidth mode-locked dual-wavelength pulses with diverse-pattern from a dispersion managed erbium-doped (Er-doped) fiber laser. The two-peak gain profile of...
Hydrodynamic Response and Power Efficiency Analysis of Heaving Wave Energy Converter Integrated with Breakwater
Ratthakrit Reabroy, Xioangbo Zheng, Liang Zhang, Jun Zang, Zheng Yuan, Mingyao Liu, Ke Sun, Yodchai Tiaple
Sep 01, 2019
The hydrodynamic and power capture performance of an asymmetric floating device called “Dolphin” wave energy converter (WEC) integrated with a fixed breakwater has been proposed. The operation of the floating WEC device is...
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...
Differentiation of Glial Cells From hiPSCs
Glial cells are the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS) and play essential roles in maintaining brain homeostasis, forming myelin, and providing support and protection for neurons, etc. Over the past...
A Universal Relation of Dust Obscuration Across Cosmic Time
We investigate dust obscuration as parametrized by the infrared excess IRX ≡ L IR/L UV in relation to global galaxy properties, using a sample of ∼32 000 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from...
A Universal Relation of Dust Obscuration Across Cosmic Time
We investigate dust obscuration as parametrized by the infrared excess IRX ≡ L IR/L UV in relation to global galaxy properties, using a sample of ∼32 000 local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from...
Hydrodynamic Response and Power Efficiency Analysis of Heaving Wave Energy Converter Integrated with Breakwater
Ratthakrit Reabroy, Xioangbo Zheng, Liang Zhang, Jun Zang, Zheng Yuan, Mingyao Liu, Ke Sun, Yodchai Tiaple
Sep 01, 2019
The hydrodynamic and power capture performance of an asymmetric floating device called “Dolphin” wave energy converter (WEC) integrated with a fixed breakwater has been proposed. The operation of the floating WEC device is...
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