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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Indian journalism and the ruling elite :a case of contingent heteronomy
Swati Maheshwari
Department of Communication Studies.
Open-world person re-identification
Ye Mang
Department of Computer Science.
Determination of random schrödinger operators
Shiqi Ma
Department of Mathematics.
Convergence analysis and applications of two optimization algorithms
Yaonan Ma
Department of Mathematics.
Impact of social media use on political participation :narcissism, perceived anonymity and social norms as mediators
Yingying Ma
School of Communication.
Corporate governance & culture
Andreas Neuber
Department of Finance.
A study on the impact of unconventional monetary policy regime on money left on the table and net underpricing cost for Hong Kong initial public offerings
Yu Loong Ngan
School of Business.
Geographies of higher education precarity in Hong Kong
Rainbow Wing Yan Ng
Department of Geography.
Single sample face recognition under complex environment
Meng Pang
Department of Computer Science.
Functional characterization of arabidopsis DXO, a5'-3' RNA exonuclease
Shuying Pan
Department of Biology.
Psychological collectivism and mental toughness in traditional Wushu
Veronika Partikova
Department of Sport and Physical Education.
Peptide functionalized drug delivery system for an efficient lung cancer therapy
Muhammad Kashif Riaz
School of Chinese Medicine.
Elucidation of anticancer efficacy of ent-kaurane diterpenes through structure-activity relationship and mechanism of action studies
Md Shahid Sarwar
School of Chinese Medicine.
Fluctuation :a common but neglected phenomenon of physical activity behavior
Borui Shang
Department of Sport and Physical Education.
Stochastic gradient descent for pairwise learning :stability and optimization error
Wei Shen
Department of Mathematics.
Medical concept embedding with ontological representations
Lihong Song
Department of Computer Science.
Toward and aesthetics of sensation :a study of backlighting in Shunji Iwai's films
Waifung So
Department of Humanites and Creative Writing.
Novel microfluidic platform for bioassays
Han Sun
Department of Chemistry.
Social representations of nuclear power on Chinese social media : a topic modeling analysis
Youzhen Su
School of Communication.
Understanding identities in practice, discourse, and activity : English lecturers' experiences in the context of mainland China higher education reform
Feng Teng
Department of Education Studies.
Transtextuality in transcription :Le Rossiniane by Mauro Giuliani
Francesco Teopini Terzetti Casagrande
Department of Music.
Modelling of polysaccharide-chiral stationary phase
Waygen Thor
Department of Chemistry.
Two essays on interfirm relationship management
Sin Yan Tse
Department of Marketing.
From entrepreneurial learning to entrepreneurial intention -- mediation and moderation :evidence from university students in Hong Kong
Cho Yee Wan
Department of Marketing.
Development of luminescent iridium(III) complex-based probes for monitoring analytes in environmental and biological systems
Wanhe Wang
Department of Chemistry.
Stability of nonfullerence organic solar cells
Yiwen Wang
Department of Physics.
Responses of macrobenthic communities to pollution control and fisheries management measures in Hong Kong
Zhi Wang
Department of Biology.
Neuroprotective effects of a novel TFEB activator E4 and its self-carried nanoparticles in MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease models
Ziying Wang
School of Chinese Medicine.
Emerging feminities in selected Sri Lankan English fiction
Jayantha Wannisinghe Mudiyanselage
Department of English Language and Literature.
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to unveil the polybrominated diphenyl ether-47 induced alteration in breast carcinoma
Juntong Wei
Department of Chemistry.
Mechanistic study of the anti-cancer effect of a Chinese herbal extraction in colon cancer
Chi Chiu Wong
Department of Chemistry.
The role of non-state actors in the process of policy transfer :a case of community social workers and the transfer of policy ideas of sustainabe regeneration in Hong Kong
King Lai Wong
Department of Social Work.
Oligosaccharides approach for the qualitative analysis of dendrobium officinale polysaccharides
Tin Long Wong
School of Chinese Medicine.Teaching and Research Division.
The cultural politics of foodie criticism in Hong Kong :a case study of foodies on Instagram
Wilson Heitung Wong
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing.
Authenticated query processing in the cloud
Cheng Xu
Department of Computer Science.
Pathological effects of persistent organic pollutants on obesity and obesity-related liver diseases
Chunxue Yang
Department of Chemistry.
Cell-type and stimulus-dependent activation of p53 pathway in response to cytotoxic chemotherapeutics
Ruizhen Yang
Department of Physics.
Modeling households' long-term mobility and residential decisions and short-term time use/travel choices :group decision-based approaches
Mingzhu Yao
Department of Geography.
The role of opposition parties in crisis management in Hong Kong after the handover
Kong Nam Yau
Department of Government and International Studies.
Baseline, demography and bioerosion of Hong Kong coral communites
Yiphung Yeung
Department of Biology.
Legal Production of Land (In)justice in Hong Kong
Kwan Chung Yip
Department of Geography.
Order determination for large matrices with spiked structure
Yicheng Zeng
Department of Mathematics.
Synthesis, characterization and properties of self-assembled metal complex nanosheets heterostructured organic microrods
Hongyang Zhang
Department of Chemistry.
Advances in categorical data clustering
Yiqun Zhang
Department of Computer Science.
News about news :a re-framing analysis of Chinese reports of foreign coverage about China
Jingwei Zheng
Department of Communication Studies.
Testing a two-pathway model connecting mobile phone use and loneliness among Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong
Li Zhong
School of Communication.
Integrating multi-omics to investigate the correlation between the quality and efficacy of ginseng
Shanshan Zhou
School of Chinese Medicine.Teaching & Research Division.
Studies on probabilistic tensor subspace learning
Yang Zhou
Department of Computer Science.
Anti-hepatocellular carcinoma mode and mechanism of action of antrodia camphorata mycelia
Peili Zhu
School of Chinese Medicine.
Integrated vs independent processing of lexical tone and rime in mandarin sentence comprehension : an event-related potential study
Yun Zou
Department of Education Studies.
盪懷生家國 :中國新詩與現代性 1917-37 = A project on Chinese poetry and modernity 1917-37
劉偉成
人文及創作系.
考律以求雅 : 萬樹《詞律》研究 = From examination of music to canonization of ci : a research on Wanshu's Cilu
李日康
中國語言文學系.
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Mechanism of WRKY transcription factors-mediated defense and heterosis in Arabidopsis polyploids
Jayami Kaushalya Abeysinghe Abeysinghe Arachchige
Department of Biology.
Merchants, seafarers and pirates: maritime societies of Southeast Fujian in the eyes of local officials from the late Ming period
Yat Law Al
Department of History
How does empowering leadership impact on innovative performance? A study on the role of employees' entrepreneurial orientation, values and creative self- efficacy
Kam Man Au
Department of Management.
BIVAS: a scalable Bayesian method for bi-level variable selection
Mingxuan Cai
Department of Mathematics.
Romances of the self: single women, neoliberalism and the nationalist imaginary in Indian chick lit
Charmaine Austin Carvalho
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing.
To take or not to take the risk? Toward a greater understanding of employees' cognitive decision process in change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior
Alison Suk Kuen Chan
Department of Management.
Analysis of biomarkers of age-related diseases by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy
Hei Nga Chan
Department of Chemistry.
Functional characterization of cyclin L in caenorhabditis elegans
Lu Yan Chan
Department of Biology.
A study of social annotation tool in facilitating collaborative inquiry learning
Wun Wa Chan
Department of Education Studies.
A port-based evaluation framework of trade facilitation policies: case study of the Pearl River Delta Region
Chi Bun Cheng
Department of Geography.
Intrinsic meshless methods for PDEs on manifolds and applications
Meng Chen
Department of Mathematics.
Cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes for full-color and near infrered phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes
Zhao Chen
Department of Chemistry.
Teachers' perceptions of Ill-posed mathematical problems: implications of task design for implementation of formative assessments
Kin Pong Chung
Department of Education Studies.
An investigation into new music theater in Hong Kong : thesis and composition portfolio
Priscila Hiu Fong Chu
Department of Music.
Musical experience in fictional narrative: William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass, and Richard Powers
Ivan Delazari
Department of English Language and Literature.
Constructing the internet panoptic-fortification: a legal study on China's internet regulatory mechanism
Juan Du
School of Communication.
Development of the Hong Kong Chinese materia medica Standards monograph of Lini semen
Hau Yee Fung
School of Chinese Medicine.
Biocompatible luminescent probes for imaging and inhibition of cancers
Joan Goetz
Department of Chemistry.
A study on the anti-inflammatory activity and mechanism of action of herba siegesbeckiae (Xixiancao)
Hui Guo
School of Chinese Medicine.
Investigating Kracauerian cinematic realism through film practice and criticism: Life-world series (2017) and selected films of Lino Brocka
Jose Gutierrez III
Academy of Film.
Transplanting korean wave into china's reality television under the statist nationalism
Bonnie Hoi Ting Ho
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing.
Interactive effects of hypoxia and ocean acidification on biofilms and the subsequent effects on the larval settlement of the marine invertebrate Crepdiula onyx
Chun Ming Ho
Department of Biology.
The R&D human resources slack-firm performance relationship and the moderating role of foreign ownership :a study in traditional manufacturing firms in China
Mei Lan Anna Ho
Department of Management.
Explicating political sophistication and its relationship with selective exposure: effects and mechanisms
Yingjie Huang
Department of Journalism.
Novel polymer-based microfluidic devices: fabrication and application for controllable reactions
Chong Hu
Department of Chemistry.
The effect of product diversification on firm performance in an emerging economy: a perspective of sub-national instituions
Yanghong Hu
Department of Management.
New developments in multiple testing and multivariate testing for high-dimensional data
Zongliang Hu
Department of Mathematics.
How do men perceive and react to an unknown woman's use of a luxury brand ?
Kwai Fun Keung
Department of Marketing.
Parental cultural capital and support for students' participation in music activities: a comparative study of Beijing and Hong Kong
Siu Hang Kong
Department of Music.
Effects of unilateral and bilateral lower body plyometric training on jump ability and agility performance of young female volleyball players
Tsz Yeung Kong
Department of Physical Education.
Animorphism in the anthropocene: nonhuman personhood in activist art practice
Bogna Konior
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing
Utilization of molecular switching in rotaxane for manipulating organocatalysis and macromolecular size
Chak Shing Kwan
Department of Chemistry.
Determinants of expertise of Olympic style Taekwondo performance
Heather Hei Man Kwok
Department of Physical Education.
Investigation on logic of the real: Lautman, Deleuze, Badiou and transcendental materialism
Tsz Yuen Lai
Department of Humanities and Creative Writing.
Past, present or future?: the effects of temporal focus on employees' discretionary behaviors
Junbang Lan
Department of Management.
Investigating the implementation of fine-tuning medium of instruction policy in Hong Kong
Connie Man Yuen Lau
Department of Education studies.
Performing identities: performative practices in post-handover Hong Kong art & activism
Nga Wing Law
Academy of Visual Arts.
The impact of absorptive capacity and ordinary capabilities on both financial and social performance: the case of social enterprises
Erica Kim Man Lee
Department of Marketing.
Investigation on the correlation between methylglyoxal and diabetic complications : neurodegeneration and Osteoporosis
Kwanming Lee
School of Chinese Medicine.
Didactical interactions and tool-task dialectic in mathematics classrooms
Ka Hio Lei
Department of Education.
State ownership and firms' growth performance : the perspective of institutionally shaped agency
Pak Chuen Leung
Department of Management.
Professionalism in financial journalism: a struggling field in Hong Kong
Suk Fun Leung
School of Communication.
Pharmacognostical studies on Heshouwu (Polygoni Multiflori Radix): textual research, quality evaluation and processing chemistry investigation
Li Liang
School of Chinese Medicine.Teaching and Research Division.
Automatic extraction of behavioral patterns for elderly mobility and daily routine analysis
Chen Li
Department of Computer Science.
Person re-identification with limited labeled training data
Jiawei Li
Department of Computer Science.