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...

Advanced statistical techniques are used to analyze Hong Kong output dynamics. Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S. are found to share some common long-term and short-term cyclical variations. While the Hong Kong economy is susceptible to external shocks and Granger-caused by the other two economies, local factors account for a large proportion of output growth variability and are mainly responsible f...

This paper discusses a number of issues related to the circulation of Hong Kong dollars (HKD) outside Hong Kong. These include potential benefits and concerns for Hong Kong, and factors contributing to the external demand for HKD. The paper also provides empirical estimates of the likely holdings of HKD outside Hong Kong. Our estimates suggest that some 15-25% of the total outstanding stock of ...

This study aimed to compare the prevalence of frailty across three Chinese populations: Hong Kong, Taiwan-urban and Taiwan-rural. Contributing factors to disparities in frailty were also examined. Data were derived from the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOs) and Women (MsOs) (Hong Kong) Study (n = 4000) and the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (n = 2392). Frailty was defined as an index cal...

Alexander V. Savin,1,2 Yuri S. Kivshar,2 and Bambi Hu3,4 1Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119991, Russia 2Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia 3Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5005, USA 4Centre for N...

INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1 (XAF 1) THROUGH TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION Jide Wang, He Hua, Lifen Yu, Harry Hua-xiang Xia, Marie C.M. Lin, Qing Gu, Ming Li, Bing Zou, Xiaomeng An, Bo Jiang, Hsiang-Fu Kung, Benjamin C.Y. Wong. From the Institute for Digestive Medicine, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Medicine, and Institute of M...

Cell-Free DNA in Blood, K.C. Allen Chan, Sze-Wan Yeung, Wing-Bong Lui, Timothy H. Rainer, and Y.M. Dennis Lo ( Department of Chemical Pathology and 2 Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; * address correspondence to this author at: Department of Chemic...