a HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute, No. 9 Yuexing 1st RD, South Area, Hi-tech Park Nanshan, Shenzhen 518057, China. E-mail: [email protected] b Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. c Department of Chemistry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China. E-mail: miaoqian@cu...

Medicine in Hong Kong is a microcosm of Hong Kong itself—it is bustling, dynamic, go-ahead, state-of-theart. What is surprising, perhaps, is that Hong Kong should also be in the vanguard of the development of telemedicine, having formed the Hong Kong Telemedicine Association at an early stage in the development of the subject globally, contributed to a series of international telemedicine confe...

a Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China b School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, PR China Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, PR China Department of Applie...

T he sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed over to the People’s Republic of China by the United Kingdom on July 1, 1997, after almost 150 years of British rule. Hong Kong became a special administrative region (Hong Kong SAR) of China, maintaining its own legal structure governed by law based on the principle of “1 country 2 systems.” The basic law continues to recognize the autonomy of medicine ...

The use of tunnel concentration profile data to determine the ratio of NO2/NOx directly emitted from vehicles X. Yao, N. T. Lau, C. K. Chan, and M. Fang Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China Department of Chemical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China Recei...

This research was supported by the RGC Earmarked Grants CUHK 4175/03E, CUHK418605, and Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. Business Section, Institute of Textile and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. E-mail: . Nomura Centre for Mathematical Finance, and Oxford–Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford, 24–29 St ...

Urgent requests and critical messages in healthcare applications must be delivered and handled timely instead of in an ad-hoc manner for most current systems. Therefore, we extend a sophisticated alert management system (AMS) to handle process and data integration in healthcare chain workflow management under urgency constraints. Alerts are associated with healthcare tasks to capture the parame...

NTRODUCTION In 1989 China passed through another cycle of abrupt economy correction and a severe crack down on political dissidents in Tienanmen Square. Some people were confused over these issues and concluded that for a Hong Kong economically dependent on an ailing economy managed by officials wearing Chinese jackboots, the future was dim (Mann 1990). This has led some people mistaken that Ho...

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-related death in women, accounting for 10% of new malignancies worldwide annually, and ~22% of all female malignancies.1 In Hong Kong, breast cancer is the most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women, with an age-standardised incidence and mortality of 61.0 and 9.1 per 100 000 ...

Street dust samples have been collected in different areas in Hong Kong associated with various levels of traffic and pedestrian flow, and the concentrations of 23 chemical elements have been determined using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). The 23 studied elements were Na, Al, Si, Cl, Ti, Ba, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, K, Ca, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Pb, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr and Sn. A profile for average...