The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...

1 School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2Division of Life Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 3Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2560, Australia 5Department of Pharmacognosy, Institute of Pharmaceu...

1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of...

Energy and information correlation: towards sustainable energy C.C. Chan, F.C. Chan & Dan Tu a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong b Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany c Bohai University, China d Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong e Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin...

1 College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, and State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries (Northeastern University) Shenyang, Wenhua Road, Heping District, No. 11, Lane 3, Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, China 2Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3 Department of Industrial and Systems Engin...

SHU ZHANG School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China [email protected] KWOK-WAI CHUNG∗ Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China makchu...

Hong Kong has a long history as a place to which refugees flock. In the modern era, the influx resulting from the 1949 communist victory in the Chinese Civil war led to many problems, amongst which was a severe shortage of facilities for birthing mothers. From this rather difficult point, Hong Kong went on to build an enviable record in maternity care. Amongst the achievements have been a mater...

introduction: to retrospectively analyze the outcome of patients who underwent meckel’s scan in a local centre in hong kong over the past fifteen years. diagnostic values in different referring indications were also reviewed. methods: all patients who referred for meckel’s scan in a local hospital in hong kong from 1/1/1996 to 31/12/2010 were identified. patients’ demographic data, presenting s...

Various calendar effects of stock markets were widely studied in the past. However, most of the previous studies use traditional methods such as regression. Furthermore, only a few of them studied Asian countries. This study investigates calendar effects, in particular, Halloween and January effects, on securitized real estate indices of eight economies (five of which are Asian economies): Hong...