Gary Tse, Cheuk Wai Wong, Meng–Qi GONG, Lei MENG, Konstantinos P Letsas, Guang–Ping LI, Paula Whittaker, Aishwarya Bhardwaj, Abhishek C Sawant, William KK Wu, Sunny Hei Wong, Jayaprakash Shenthar, Lap Ah Tse, Martin CS Wong, Adrian Baranchuk, Gan–Xin YAN, Tong LIU, International Health Informatics Study (IHIS) Network 1 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese Unive...

OBJECTIVES There is limited cross-national research on youth mortality. We examined age-and gender-variations in all-cause mortality among youth aged 15-34 years across 52 countries. METHODS Using the 2014 WHO mortality database, mortality rates for all countries were computed for the latest available year between 2007 and 2012. Rates, rate ratios, and ordinary least squares (OLS) and Poisson...

Heidi Q. Xie, Roy C. Y. Choi, K. Wing Leung, Nina L. Siow, Ling W. Kong, Faye T. C. Lau, H. Benjamin Peng and Karl W. K. Tsim The Department of Biology and the Molecular Neuroscience Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay Road, Hong Kong, China Running Title: Regulation of PRiMA in muscle Address correspondence to: Prof. Karl W.K. Tsim, Department of Biology...

There exists a paucity of empirical research that focuses on focal business network interactions that take place within the Hong Kong business environment. In an earlier study that included 10 interviews with Hong Kong Chinese traders, compatibility was identified as an important factor for the study of interactions between Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese and Western actors (Trimarchi, 1997...

The source profile for soil in Hong Kong is important both for determination of the main air pollutant source in Hong Kong and for assessment of the impact of Asian dust storms on Hong Kong. Soil associated with different rock types have been sampled, and the concentrations of 19 chemical elements, Na, Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, K, Ca, Ni, Cu, Zn, Pb, Rb, Sr, Y and Zr, have been determined ...

Ahmed Bayoumy, Meng-Qi GONG, Ka Hou Christien Li, Sunny Hei Wong, William KK Wu, Guang-Ping LI, George Bazoukis, Konstantinos P Letsas, Wing Tak Wong, Yun-Long XIA, Tong LIU, Gary Tse; International Health Informatics Study (IHIS) Network Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Facu...

OBJECTIVES To review the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia in Hong Kong. DESIGN Questionnaire study and review of previous presentations at the Hong Kong Urological Association meetings. SETTING Urology centres in the public sector, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Thirteen public urology centres replied to the questionnaire survey. Thirty-two papers on benign prostatic hyperplasia present...

This paper is the first to apply a nested logit model to measure the probabilities of speculative attacks and the probabilities of successful defenses by the central banks. This model allows us to predict not only the probability of speculative attacks but also the probability of successful defenses given attacks. Also, it provides a framework to analyze the degree to which different factors af...

From 1967 to 1971 little antigenic variation was detected in the prevalent influenza B viruses but in December 1972 a new antigenic variant of influenza B was isolated in Hong Kong from sporadic cases of influenza. The new variant, B/Hong Kong/5/72, possessed a haemagglutinin antigen which showed considerable antigenic differences from that of former influenza B strains while its neuraminidase ...

BACKGROUND Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged disease caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV), which spread globally in early 2003, affecting over 30 countries. We have used molecular epidemiology to define the patterns of spread of the virus in Hong Kong and beyond. METHODS The case definition of SARS was based on that recommended by WHO. We genetically sequenced th...