As virtual teams are naturally distributed and diverse, they are susceptible to faultline, causing teams fracturing into subgroups. The current works examining perceived faultline have mostly concentrated on collocated teams. Examining these phenomena in virtual teams deserves more attention due to the greater possibility of members making an inaccurate impression from the limited cues availabl...

Although Bilingual First Language Acquisition research has increased considerably over the past few decades, there is still much controversy regarding the rate of development, i.e. the question whether bilinguals lag behind their monolingual peers in various aspects of language. Some studies have found similar rates of development, whereas others have found that bilingual children lag behind th...

Different sentence types are cued by various intonation patterns in English. Statements are uttered with a falling pitch while questions are cued by a raising pitch over the whole utterance. The intonation of questions in Cantonese, however, is signalled by a rising pitch at the second half of the last syllable. The current study investigates the intonation of statements and questions in Hong K...

The current study surveyed major studies on the characteristics of motivating factors for knowledge workers, both in the USA and in China. Comparisons were made between studies in the two countries, and new perspectives were offered on the motivating factors for knowledge workers. Future research directions were proposed.

The current study investigates the hypothesis that certain Cypriot Greek (CG) whphrases show similar paths of acquisition with cleft sentences based on syntactic complexity. That is, wh-phrases of the inda (mbu)-type in CG can be decomposed in an abstract way as clefts, giving ine ti pu ‘what is it that’. Targeting a comparison between these two structures, wh-questions with inda (mbu) along wi...

Higher-order relations are important for various cognitive tasks, such as analogical transfer. The current study tested people’s ability to learn new relational categories, using a learning test of pure higher-order relations. Each stimulus consisted of 4 objects varying on 3 dimensions. Each category was defined by three binary relations between pairs of objects, producing six logically differ...

The current low-income housing system in China is the security system giving priority to the low-rent housing and the economically affordable housing. The housing security system includes the systems and measures that the government uses the national and social power to provide the basic housing for those difficult housing groups by the transfer payment policy, and realize the equalization of t...