WL LAU MBBS, FRCOG, FHKAM (O&G) Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kwong Wah Hospital, Yaumatei, Kowloon, Hong Kong EC HUI MD, PhD Medical Ethics Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong FK LAI B. Sc (N), MSSc (Counselling) TK LO MBBS, MRCOG, FHKAM (O&G) RKH CHIN MBBS, FRCOG, FHKAM (O&G) WC LEUNG MD, FRCOG, FHKAM (O&G), Cert RCOG (Maternal a...

Y. X. Wang , X. L. Zhu, M. Deng, Y. W. Siu, C. S. Leung, Q. Chan, T. M. Chan, and W. S. Poon Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control...

drome (SARS) Coronavirus by a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay, Leo L.M. Poon, Cynthia S.W. Leung, Masato Tashiro, Kwok Hung Chan, Bonnie W.Y. Wong, Kwok Yung Yuen, Yi Guan, and Joseph S.M. Peiris ( Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; 2 Department of Viral Diseases and Vaccine Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Mu...

One key function of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is to promote the stability and integrity of the financial system in Hong Kong. There are about 200 authorized institutions (AIs) in Hong Kong, many of which are deposit taking banks. The total assets of AIs as of June 2010 are about HKD 11 trillion, 6 times as large as the latest annual GDP of Hong Kong and about 60% of the total mark...

Objectives: To investigate patterns of behaviours and attitudes related to SARS prevention in the Hong Kong cross border traveller population. Settings: A survey was carried out at the Hong Kong-China cross border checkpoint in the middle of the epidemic. Participants: A total of 839 Hong Kong adult residents returning to Hong Kong from mainland China were surveyed. Main outcome measures: Pract...

Hong Kong’s post-war catching up with economically advanced nations is well documented. Starting as a piece of ‘barren rock’, the island economy has emerged as the ‘Mart of East Asia’. While there are numerous explanations for the success from neoclassical development economists, few studies have focused on the technological strategies and paths of Hong Kong’s manufacturing firms, the chief eco...

1 Olfactory coding: Unusual conductances contribute to sparse neural 2 representations. 3 4 Focus on “Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of 5 Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding?” 6 7 8 Rose C. Ong and Mark Stopfer 9 10 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, US National Institutes 11 of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Department of Biochemist...

Transplantation, Yanni Y.N. Lui, Kam-Sang Woo, Angela Y.M. Wang, Chung-Kwong Yeung, Philip K.T. Li, Elaine Chau, Peter Ruygrok, and Y.M. Dennis Lo (Departments of 1 Chemical Pathology, 2 Medicine & Therapeutics, and 3 Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR; 4 Department of Cardiology, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong SAR; 5 Dep...

X. L. Fan,*,†,‡ W. M. Lau,‡,§,# and Z. F. Liu|,× School of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical UniVersity, 127 YouYi Road West, Xian, 710072, Shaanxi, China, Department of Physics, The Chinese UniVersity of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China, Surface Science Western, UniVersity of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada, and Department of Chemistry and Centre...