2. Government has undertaken its own urban renewal projects for many years. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HS) started its Urban Improvement Scheme in 1974. In 1988, the Land Development Corporation (LDC) was established to speed up the process of urban renewal. The Housing Authority (HA) has also played an important role in urban renewal, in particular by redevelopment of its own estates and a...

This issue of Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology contains a number of articles reviewing the cellular functions of proteoglycans. Proteoglycans are proteins, substituted with glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), that generally either decorate the cell membrane or fill the extracellular space. GAGs are linear polysaccharides consisting of a repeating disaccharide, generally of an acetylated amino ...

Chick embryo skin fibroblasts and vertebral chondroblasts were infected with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus, LA24A, and were grown at permissive (36 degrees C) and nonpermissive (41 degrees C) temperatures. During exponential growth, infected and parallel uninfected cultures were labeled with D-[3H]glucosamine, and newly synthesized glycosaminoglycans were identified by an...

We determined the interrelations of chronological age, age at seizure onset, duration of seizure disorder, cognitive functioning (IQ), scales of activities of daily living, depressive mood disorder and measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Furthermore, we investigated the association of the laterality of seizure onset zone and absence/presence of hippocampal atrophy and/or scleros...

PURPOSE Current evidence suggests that the mechanisms underlying depth electrode-recorded seizures beginning with hypersynchronous (HYP) onset patterns are functionally distinct from those giving rise to low-voltage fast (LVF) onset seizures. However, both groups have been associated with hippocampal atrophy (HA), indicating a need to clarify the anatomic correlates of each ictal onset type. We...

Key distribution schemes always played a pivotal role in the security of wireless sensor networks. In this research work we focus mainly on the security aspect of WSN . We have developed a modified key distribution scheme which uses the concepts of post as well as pre distribution scheme and thus hs proved to be a better alternative then the rest of two schemes. Simulation study has been carrie...