BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) 6a accounts for 23.6% of all HCV infections of the general population and 58.5% of intravenous drug users in Hong Kong. However, the geographical origin of this highly predominant HCV subgenotype is largely unknown. This study explores a hypothesis for one possible transmission route of HCV 6a to Hong Kong. METHODS NS5A sequences derived from 26 HCV 6a sampl...

This paper looks to the history of the development of Information Systems in Hong Kong as a contextual base for examining the Information Systems discipline in Hong Kong. The historical analysis highlights the newness of Information Systems as an academic discipline in Hong Kong, dating back little more than 20 years. The study reports on data from eight of the ten universities in Hong Kong. Al...

Author details Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China. Research Centre of Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China. State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou...

King Sum Luk, Christina Ip, Meng–Qi GONG, Sunny Hei WONG, William KK Wu, Mei DONG, Guang–Ping LI, Ka Pang Chan, Yi–Mei DU, Tong LIU, Martin CS Wong, David Shu Cheong Hui, Gary Tse, International Health Informatics Study (IHIS) Network 1 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Facu...

∗ Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗ School of Information Science & Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P.R.C. E-mail:[email protected]. ∗∗∗ Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. E-mail: macwli@cit...

Jie Pan, Ting Zhang, Haijing Zhang, Bing Zhang, Zhen Dong, and Ping Sheng Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China (Received 20 January 2017; revised manuscript received 2 June 2017; published 12 Septemb...

We study the impact of mainland Chinese listings in Hong Kong on the quality and development of the Hong Kong equity market. At the macro-level, we find that the increasing presence of mainland Chinese stocks in Hong Kong increases the size, trading volume, and its link wit h the China and world markets but reduces the over all volatility of the Hong Kong stock market. At the firm level, the in...

SHU ZHANG School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, No. 1239, Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China [email protected] KWOK-WAI CHUNG∗ Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P. R. China makchu...

Energy and information correlation: towards sustainable energy C.C. Chan, F.C. Chan & Dan Tu a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong b Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany c Bohai University, China d Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong e Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin...

1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of...