Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng, KL Chou, I Chi Department of Community Medicine and Unit for Behavioural Sciences, The University of Hong Kong YH Cheng Department of Politics and Sociology, Lingnan University KL Chou Institute of Human Performance, The University of Hong Kong DJ MacFarlane School of Social Work and School of Gerontology, University of Southern Cal...

Samples from Hong Kong, China, were analyzed for organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), and total carbon (TC) by three thermal protocols (low-temperature IMPROVE and high-temperature STN and NIOSH) and two optical monitoring methods: reflectance and transmittance. Good agreement (+/-10%) for TC among the three protocols was observed for sample loadings of 1-55 microg m(-3). The two protoco...

English is an important language in Hong Kong, an international city located on the southern coast of the People’s Republic of China that, for over 150 years to 1997, was a British colony. This paper describes and analyses changes in teaching methodologies in the English language curriculum formally proposed for Hong Kong junior secondary schools from 1975 to the present day, to study how the c...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of highly active antiretroviral therapy resistance mutations in the viral pol gene of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) genotypes that circulate in Hong Kong, by means of an in-house HIV-1 genotyping system. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Two HIV clinics in Hong Kong. PATIENTS A modified in-house genotyping resistance test was used to sequenc...

Purpose. To compare the costs of femoral head banking versus bone substitutes. Methods. Records of femoral head banking from 1998 to 2008 were reviewed. The cost of allogenic cancellous bone graft was calculated by estimating the direct expenditure of femoral head procurement, screening tests, and storage, and then divided by the amount of bone harvested. Results. 326 females and 141 males (mea...

national currency depreciation or appreciation has always been argued seriously among policymakers since changing in exchange rate could cause improvement or deficit in trade balance. these changes affect the trade volume of a country in both short-run and long-run. long-run effects are recognized as the marshall-lerner condition, while short-run effects are analyzed by two concepts: j-curve an...

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...

Raymond Cheung, Li Xiong, Shek Kwan Chang, Choi Ting Tse, Yin Yu Pang, Vincent Mok, Thomas Leung, Tak Hong Tsoi, Richard Li, May Mok, Chee My Chang, Kwok Kwong Lau, Bun Sheng, Terrence Li, Jonas Yeung, Ping Chung Leung, Ping Chook, Ka Sing Wong Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ...

In November of 1997 an invitation was received to participate in a seminar in Hong Kong, that was concerned with solid waste management practices that are used outside their respective area. The thrust of the seminar, was to examine waste disposal techniques that are being employed throughout the world, and evaluate same for future use in the Chinese empire. Representatives from the Hong Kong a...

Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong: Department of Pathology KYK Chan, MS Xu, JCY Ching, YC Ip, US Khoo Department of Surgery VS Chan, P Tam, CL Lin Department of Psychiatry Sham P School of Public Health GM Leung Department of Microbiology JSM Peiris Pamela Youde Nethersole Hospital L Yam United Christian Hospital CM Chu Princess Margaret Hospital ST Lai, KM So Infecti...