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General Research Fund (GRF) (formly Earmarked Research Grant) is administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC) to support quality academic research projects in University Grants Committee – supported institutions.
Listed below are the GRF awardees of our Faculty in the recent six years.
2006/2007
Total amount of funding awarded: HK$6,363,611
Department/
School/Unit |
Principle
Investigator |
Project
Title |
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Architecture
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Gu Daqing
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A Study of the Design Achievements of Hong Kong's Modern Architecture from the 1940s to the 1970s
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Architecture
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Ho Puay-peng
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Tradition and Transformation: An Investigation into the Development of Vernacular Architectural Practices in Southeast China
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Economics
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Li Hongbin
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The One-Child Policy, Fertility, and Testing Economic Hypotheses on Marriage and Child Quality
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Economics
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Meng Qinglai
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A Calibration Analysis of Some Endogenous Business Cycle Models
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Economics
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Zhang Junsen
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An Economic Model of Fertility Behavior under Fines: Theory and Evidence from Rural China
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Geography and Resource Management
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Fung Tung
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A Vision-Based Approach to Remote Sensing Image Classification
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Geography and Resource Management
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Leung Yee
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A Concept Lattice Approach to the Analysis and Discovery of Knowledge in Hierarchical Spatial Information Systems
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Geography and Resource Management
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Lin Hui
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A Study on the GIS-Based near Real-Time Radar Interferometry for Monitoring the Surface Subsidence of a Mining Area
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Government and Public
Administration
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Wong Wilson Wai-ho
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From E-Government to E-Governance - A Study of the Impace of E-Government in Hong Kong
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Psychology
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Au Wing-tung
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Selective Play in a Public Good Dilemma
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Psychology
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Cheung Fanny Mui-ching
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Cross-Cultural Validity and Utility of the CPAI-2 in Career Counseling for College Students
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Total amount of funding awarded: HK$10,721,490
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Department/
School/Unit
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Principle
Investigator
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Project
Title
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Architecture
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Ho Puay-peng
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From Colonialism to Modernity: A Study of Residential Architecture of Hong Kong between 1900-1970
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Architecture
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Ng Edward Yan-yung
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A pilot study using geo-stationary satellite images to predict ground global illuminance under sub-tropical sky conditions for better daylight design of buildings
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Economics
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Chao Chi-chur
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GST, the Environment and Welfare for a Tourism Economy: Analysis and Simulations of the Hong Kong Case
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Economics
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Li Duozhe
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Multilateral Bargaining under Unanimity Rule
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Economics
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Yip Chong-kee
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On the macroeconomics of the elasticity of factor substitution
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Geography and Resource Management
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Claudius Oskar Delang
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The role of NTFPs in sustainable rural development in the Lao PDR
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Geography and Resource Management
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Huang Bo
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Using Support Vector Machines to Support Land Use Change Modelling
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Geography and Resource Management
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Leung Yee
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Propagation of Uncertainty in the Fusion of Multi-Source and Multi-Scale Spatial Information
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Geography and Resource Management
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Lin Hui
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A Study on the Collaborative Virtual Geographic Environment (CVGE) for Simulating Air Polluton in Pearl River Delta (PRD) Region
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Geography and Resource Management
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Shen Jianfa
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Decomposing interprovincial migration in China 1995-2000: the role of spatial structure and areal attributes
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Government and Public Administration
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Ma Ngok
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Mobilization in Functional Elections: A Fieldwork Study
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Psychology
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Chan Agnes Sui-yin
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Cortical Synchronization Associated with Memory Impairments in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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Psychology
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Catherine Alexandra McBride
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Morphological awareness and Chinese childrens literacy development
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Social Work
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Ngai Steven Sek-yum
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Mutual Aid among Youth with Emotional and Behavioral Problems
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Sociology
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Cheung Nicole Wai-ting
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To Bet or Not to Bet: Structural Disadvantage, Social Capital, Individual Mentality and Adolescent Gambling in Hong Kong
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Sociology
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Choi Susanne Yuk-ping
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Sex work in the era of AIDS in Hong Kong: Structure, Identity, and Strategy
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Sociology
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Wong Veronica Suk-ying
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Citizenship Education in Asia and Europe: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study, 1950 - Present
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Journalism and Communication
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So Clement York-kee
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Free Daily Newspapers as Journalistic Paradigm Change
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Total amount of funding awarded: HK$8,247,686
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Department/
School/Unit
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Principle
Investigator
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Project
Title
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Architecture
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Ng Edward Yan-yung
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A user survey investigation into the preferred Solar Access of residents in high density city living – a study in Hong Kong
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Economics
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Meng Qinglai
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Stability and Welfare Analysis in New Keynesian Models with Endogenous Investment under Inflation-Forecast Targeting Policy
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Economics
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Yang Dennis Tao
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Population Policies, Pensions, and Habit Formation: Resolving the Chinese Saving Puzzle
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Economics
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Zhang Junsen
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The One-Child Policy, Sex Ratio Imbalance, and Criminal Behavior in China
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Geography and Resource Management
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Chen David Yongqin
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Alternation of the hydrologic cycle and sediment flux in response to climate change and human activities in the Pearl River basin
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Geography and Resource Management
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Alexander Francis English
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The institutional hurdles to effective Strategic Environmental Assessment practice in China
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Geography and Resource Management
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Fung Tung
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Mangrove Species Mapping and Leaf Area Index Modeling Using Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Technologies in Hong Kong
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Geography and Resource Management
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Lam Kin Che
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Environmental Inequality: Community Socioeconomic Characteristics and Exposure to Air and Noise Pollution in Hong Kong
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Geography and Resource Management
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Lin Hui
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Modeling Pedestrian Evacuation using a Geo-referenced Multi-agent Approach: Taking Hong Kong's Fireworks Show as a Sample Case
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Psychology
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Chen Hsuan-chih
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Lexical access in Chinese word production
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Psychology
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Fung Helene Hoi-lam
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Age differences in reactions to negative, positive and overly positive images of aging
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Psychology
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Huang Liqiang
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Attention and Access to Visual Awareness
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Psychology
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Catherine Alexandra McBride
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Children's literacy development through writing: a 4-culture comparison
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Social Work
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Tang Kwong-leung
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Child Poverty in Chinese Societies: Well-being, Deprivation and the Potential to Escape Poverty
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Journalism and Communication
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Witteborn, Saskia
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Mobilizing Diasporic Identities: The Case of Uyghurs in the United States and in Germany
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Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
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Wong Ka Ying Timothy
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Citizen Politics in Hong Kong: Social Membership and Political Participation
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2009/2010
Total amount of funding awarded: HK$14,674,965
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Department/
School/Unit
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Principle
Investigator
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Project
Title
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Architecture
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Li Shiqiao
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Super Practice: A Study of Large Architectural Practices in China
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Architecture
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Ng Edward Yan-yung
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Using satellite images to predict sky types for better daylight design of buildings in Sub-tropic south China
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Architecture
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Tsou Jin-yeu
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Setting Authenticity Assessment and Conservation Planning Support of Cultural Route Heritage Through GIS-based Spatial Analysis
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Economics
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Du Julan
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The Impacts of Financial Repression on Economic Efficiency and Equality: The Case of China
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Economics
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Ng Travis Ka-ho
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Outsourcing, Risk-pooling and Moral Hazard
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Economics
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Shi Kang
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Vertical Trade and Exchange Rate Pass-through
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Economics
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Zhang Junsen
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The One-Way Permit, Cross-Boundary Marriage, and Family Behavior in Hong Kong
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Geography and Resource Management
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Claudio Oskar Delang
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The role of forest products in the productivity of shifting cultivation systems
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Geography and Resource Management
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Huang Bo
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Land use allocation in high-growth cities using adaptive multiobjective optimization
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Geography & Resource Management
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Lam Kin Che
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The institutional hurdles to effective Strategic Environmental Assessment practice in China
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Geography and Resource Management
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Leung Yee
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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Spread of Avian Influenza
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Geography and Resource Managemen
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Lawal Mohammed Marafa
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Integrating soundscape considerations into the planning and management of outdoor recreation zones in Hong Kong's Country Parks
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Geography and Resource Management
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Xu Jiang
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Planning for the mega-city region in the Pearl River Delta: state reconstruction and regional strategic planning
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Government and Public Administration
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Wu Fengshi
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Ideational Dimensions of Civil Society: An Empirical Research on Political Opinions and Collective Identity of Social Entrepreneurs in China
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Journalism and Communication
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Lee Francis Lap-fung
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The Rise and Transformation of Radio Phone-in Talk Shows during Hong Kong's Political Transition: An Inter-mediation Perspective
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Psychology
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Au Wing-tung
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Revisiting Efficacy and Cooperation in a Public Good Dilemma
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Psychology
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Cheung Fanny Mui-ching
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A Cross-cultural Study of Personality and Socialization Antecedents of Career Self-efficacy among High School Students
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Psychology
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Cheung Him
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A longitudinal study on mentalisation and language
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Psychology
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Wang Qian
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Parents' control during early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation in three regions of contemporary China
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Psychology
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Wong Alan Chun-Nang
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Understanding human expertise in visual character perception
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Social Work
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Ngai Steven Sek-yum
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Effects of Service Participation and Social Capital on the School-to-Work Transition of Economically Disadvantaged Young People
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Social Work
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Wong Chack-kie
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Social Welfare and Life Satisfaction: The Role of Responsible Risk-Taking
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Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
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Wong Ka Ying Timothy
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The Construction of National Identity in Post-colonial Hong Kong: Patterns, Determinants, and Modes of Practice
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Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
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Zhang Yuanzhi
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Water quality monitoring from multi-satellite observations in the coastal region of Hong Kong and the Pearl River estuary
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2010/11
Total amount of funding awarded: HK$12,590,358
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Department/
School/Unit
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Principle
Investigator
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Project
Title
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Architecture
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Chung Wang-leung Thomas
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Understanding Commemorative Space in Modern Japan: On the Peaceful topographies of Yasukuni and Hiroshima
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Architecture
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Gu Daqing
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Architectural Design in Hong Kong from the 1950s to the 1970s - A Topical and Case Study Approach
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Architecture
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Tsou Jin-yeu
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Developing a multi-scale integrated platform to mitigate the urban heat island effects from the perspective of urban planning in PRD region
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Economics
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Che Jiahua
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Complementing financial discipline with bailouts
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Economics
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Hsu Wen-tai
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A Tractable Model of Regional Agglomeration: Eaton-Kortum meets Krugman
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Economics
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Yang Dennis Tao
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Globalization, Institutional Reforms and Wage Growth in China
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Economics
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Zhang Hongliang
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Peer Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from Middle School in China
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Economics
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Zhang Junsen
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Parental Absence, Policy Intervention, and Children's Educational and Health Outcomes in China
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Geography and Resource Management
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Lin Hui
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An integrated model for monitoring Qinghai-Tibet railway deformation based on DInSAR technology and GPS observations
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Geography and Resource Management
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Li Lianjiang
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Rights Consciousness and Rules Consciousness in Contemporary China
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Journalism and Communication
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Chu Donna Shun-chi
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Gendering Teenage Bodies: The Production and Consumption of Desire, Subjectivities and Media Labels in Hong Kong
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Journalism and Communication
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Saskia Witteborn
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Space and Place-Making: The Role of Media and Information and Communication Technologies in Forced Migrants' Lives
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Psychology
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Fung Helene Hoi-lam
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Age Differences in Ideal Affect among European-Americans, Chinese-Americans and Chinese
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Psychology
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Huang Liqiang
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Revealing the constructs of attention behind various paradigms
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Psychology
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Catherine Alexandra McBride
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The Development of Reading Comprehension and Writing Composition in Chinese Children
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Sociology
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Cheung Nicole Wai-ting
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Social Control, Strain and Couple Dynamics Affecting Gender Disparities in Gambling: A Study of Married Couples in Hong Kong
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Sociology
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Jin Lei
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Health Inequality in Contemporary China: A New Assessment and Specification of the Relative Status Hypothesis
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Sociology
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Kim Jee Young
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Private Regulation of Labor Standards and Its Impacts on Vietnam's Fashion and Footwear Factories
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Sociology
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Zhong Hua
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Time-Series Analysis of Female Crime Trends in Taiwan, 1961-2008: Examining the Effects of Development on Female Criminal Involvement
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Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
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Wong Pak-nung
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A comparative historical-ethnographic investigation of the translocal rice-trading networks in the contemporary Philippine and Thai state formation processes, 1960 to 2013
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Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
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Yang Chun
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Regional Innovation Systems in Post-reform China: Indigenous Innovation and Regional Transformation in the Pearl River Delta
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Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
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Zhang Yuanzhi
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Investigating the impact of coastal water quality on Hong Kong's coral environment using satellite remote sensing
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2011/12
Total amount of funding awarded: HK$16,659,462
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Department/
School/Unit
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Principle
Investigator
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Project
Title
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Architecture
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Chung Wang-leung Thomas
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Mapping Urban Culture in Hong Kong: An inter-disciplinary investigation of architecture, urban process and filmic imagination of Central and Yaumatei
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Architecture
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Gu Daqing
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China's Architectural Education at the Turning Point - Its origins, evolutions, characteristics, and challeges
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Architecture
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Ng Edward Yan-yung
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Predicting CIE Standard General Sky based on meteorological data and assessing daylight performance of buildings for subtropical Hong Kong
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Architecture
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Hendrik Tieben
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Measuring Community Benefit in Public Space Transformation in Older Urban Districts: A Case Study of Sheung Wan & Sai Ying Pun
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Economics
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Chong Terence Tai-Leung
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Chow-Lin Disaggregation in the Presence of Structural Breaks
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Economics
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Hsu Wen-tai
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Regional Inequality and Economic Growth: An Open Economy Perspective
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Economics
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Ke Rongzhu
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Mutual Insurance with Private Known Shock: Optimal Mechanism Design for Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAS)
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Economics
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Li Duozhe
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Multi-agent bargaining with externalities: the role of endogenous matching
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Economics
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Song Zheng Michael
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Life Cycle Earings and Saving in Fast-Growing Economies
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Economics
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Yang Dennis Tao
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Fertility and Educational Investment in Children: The Impact of Structural Transformation
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Economics
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Yip Chong-kee
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Factor substitution and Economic Growth
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Geography and Resource Management
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Fung Tung
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A multifractal approach to multiscale feature extraction in remotely sensed images
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Geography and Resource Management
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Leung Yee
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Optimal Route Planning for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods in High-Density-Living Environment
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Geography and Resource Management
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Xu Jiang
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Bargaining for Nature: The Treatment of 'Environment'in China's Urban Planning System
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Government and Public Administration
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Chow Po-chung
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Politics of Liberal Equality in the Chinese Context
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Government and Public Administration
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Li Lianjiang
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Trust in the Center in Contemporary China: Patterns, Significance and Dynamics of Change
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Government and Public Administration
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Wang Shaoguang
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Inequality across Counties in China: A Geospatial Analysis
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Journalism and Communication
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Lee Francis Lap-fung
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The Protest Paradigm Revisited: Media Coverage of Contentious Collective Actions in the Movement Society
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Psychology
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Chen Hsuan-chih
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Tonal processing in the brain: A Cantonese study
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Psychology
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Huang Liqiang
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The Algorithm of Implementing Attentional Selection
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Psychology
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Leung Patrick Wing-leung
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High-depth re-sequencing of the candidate genes for ADHD
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Psychology
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McBride Catherine Alexandra
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Reading difficulties in Chinese (L1) and English (L2): Co-occurrence and cognitive and perceptual correlates in Hong Kong children
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Psychology
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Wong Alan Chun-Nang
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Functional architecture of the human ventral visual pathway for object recognition
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Social Work
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Chan Wallace Chi-ho
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Self-preparation of helping professionals in working with death, dying and bereavement
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Institute of Space and Earth Information Science
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Daniele Perissin
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InSAR multi-band analysis of atmospheric Water Vapor in Hong Kong
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