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Psychosocial oncology and palliative care in Hong Kong : the first decade
No full textThis book documents some, but by no means all, of the developments that have occurred in the past decade in the area of psychosocial oncology and palliative care in Hong Kong. Contributions describing interventions by practitioners involved in service development in nursing, social work and clinical psychology, are complemented by chapters describing academic research and theoretical perspectives. The unique cultural mix of Hong Kong is given rich emphasis in the adaptations made by practitioners and academics to the interventions and theoretical issues outlinedpublished_or_final_versionPreface / Richard Fielding Cecilia Lai Wan Chan pviiContributors pxiIndex p2771 Psychosocial and Palliative Care in the Chinese Context: the Challenges Ahead / Cecilia Lai Wan Chan Richard Fielding p12 The Wider Philosophy of Palliative Care: How It Is Applicable in the General Ward / Katherine Thompson p133 Psychological Care in Oncology / Peter Wing Ho Lee Lina Yuen Fan Wu Amy Shuk Man Fung p294 The Quality of Life of Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy / Camila Suk Yi Li p555 Psychosocial Support For Parents of Children With Cancer / Ida M. Martinson Hau Yee Kuan p756 Coping Strategies of NPC Patients in Hong Kong and Their Effects On Short-term Adjustment / Joyce Lai Chong Ma Damon Tak Kong Choy Jonathan Shun Tong Sham p1057 The Illness Experience of Patients With Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC): Psychosocial Support Services / Josephine Yuk Yi Cheng p1258 Lost For Words - Improving Care For Dying People Through Communication / Richard Fielding p1439 An Empowerment Group For Chinese Cancer Patients in Hong Kong / Cecilia Lai Wan Chan Maria Yuen Yee Law Pamela Piu Yiu Leung p16710 From Expression to Empowerment: Using Creative Arts As Self-healing Media For Cancer Patients / Fiona Man Yan Chang Sandra Kit Man Tsang p18911 Death Awareness and Palliative Care / Cecilia Lai Wan Chan p21312 Turning Grief Into Good Separation: Bereavement Services in Hang Kong / Amy Yin Man Chow Brenda Wing Sze Koo Elaine Wai Kwan Koo Anna Yan Yan Lam p23313 Benefits and Drawbacks or Chinese Rituals Surrounding Care For the Dying / Cecilia Lai Wan Chan June Mui Hing Mak p25514 Conclusion: the Next Decade or a New Millenium? / Richard Fielding p27
Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh
No full textPtak Roderich. Ma Huan (original author), Wan Ming (ed.) Ming chaoben " Yingya shenglan " jiaozh. In: Archipel, volume 71, 2006. Autour de la peinture à Java. Volume II. pp. 240-244
Revisiting the Mitra-Wan Tree Farm.
No full textThe tree-farm model of T. Mitra and H. Wan (1985) contains novelties: a continuum of optimal cycles appear for small discounting and the cyclicality survives perturbations. To isolate the source of novelties, the author studies the simplest case: trees live naturally for two periods. This model specializes the general theory of multisector development under four conditions. It becomes a Ramsey type model, augmented by a cross-vintage constraint: the present acreage under trees, age n, must not be less than the acreage under trees age n + 1, one period hence. Novelties emerge when this constraint bounds the graph of the state-to-control correspondence. Copyright 1994 by Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association.
Social work intervention in health care : the Hong Kong scene
No full textIn the present health care system, the psychological and social needs of patients and their families are much neglected. This book recognizes the importance of the psychosocial aspects of health and illness and aims to provide relevant theories and practice guidelines for social work intervention in hospitals, clinics, welfare agencies and community settingsSocial workers in general ' not just medical social workers' are often confronted with health-related issues. This book also recognizes the needs of these practitioners in terms of background medical knowledge and concepts of stress and coping. Readers are therefore introduced to skills and approaches for working with different target groups in the health care system, such as the psycho- educational approach, life-skills training, reminiscence therapy, cognitive rehabilitation, discharge planning and health promotionThis book contains chapters on mental health, social and medical issues such as suicide, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse and occupational health, as well as on the disease groups of cancer, chronic renal failure, epilepsy, stroke and brain injurypublished_or_final_versionList of figures pixList of tables pxiPreface pxvAcknowledgements / Chan, Lai-wan, Cecilia pxviiContributors pxixIndex p407Sect.I Theory and practice of social work in health care p1Sect.II Crisis intervention and stress management p39Sect.III Developement and coping enhancement p105Sect.IV Skills training and cognitive rehabilitation p177Sect.V Empowerment and self-help p257Sect.VI Resource mobilization and system change p315Ch.1 Introduction / Chan, Lai-wan, Cecilia p3Ch.2 Foundation knowledge for the health care social worker in Hong Kong / Ma, Lai-chong, Joyce p23Ch.3 Helping teenage girls face the multiple crises of unwed motherhood / Tai, Yau-yee, Lianne p41Ch.4 An integrative approach to managing suicidal crisis / Li, Shing-fu p59Ch.5 Stress management for cancer patients: a psycho- educational-support group / Leung, Piu-yu, Pamela p85Ch.6 Growth through coping: a developmental perspective on social work practice with parents of handicapped children / Leung, Yin-ling, Anna p107Ch.7 Getting to know the world: growing up with chronic illness / Ng, Ho-yee p123Ch.8 Working with epileptic children and their families / Lam, Oi-bing, Debbie p141Ch.9 Biopsychosocial approach in working with psychotropic substance abusers / Chan, Kin-yi, Ivy p163Ch.10 Social skills training for psychiatric patients: the case of schizophrenics in Hong Kong / Tsang, Kit-man, Sandra p179Ch.11 Reminiscence groups for institutionalized elderly people in Hong Kong: a practice model / Chong, Ming-lin, Alice p195Ch.12 The community as therapist: working with women addicts in Hong Kong / Soo, Kam-hing, Rosanna p219Ch.13 Rehabilitation of cognitive functioning of patients with traumatic brain injury / Man, Wai-kwong, David p235Ch.14 Social action approach in empowerment of persons with end stage renal disease / Wong, Kam-bun, Donna p259Ch.15 Empowerment for persons of diabetes / Tong, Choi- ying p279Ch.16 Self-help group for parents of children with cooley's anaemia / Liu, Yee-wah, Eva p295Ch.17 Family care in schizophrenia: an undervalued resource / Pearson, Veronica p317Ch.18 Discharge planning for cerebro-vascular accident patients / Lam, Chu-lee, Zarina p337Ch.19 Strategies and processes of policy change in rehabilitation / Kong, Siu-hong p353Ch.20 Macro-practice in health care - application of policy change model for silicosis victims / Chan, Kan-kam p267Ch.21 Promoting oral health through primary health care in Tai O / Lo, Chin-man, Edward p38
A Knowledge Distribution Model to Support an Author in Narrative Creation
No full textAdjusting the knowledge of characters and the reader is a critical task for an author in narrative creation. Throughout a narrative, both characters and the reader experience events according to their own timelines and perspectives. They interpret information accumulated through their experience and update knowledge to the narrative-world which the author constructed. In this paper, we present a Knowledge Distribution Model which supports an author in finely controlling the knowledge of characters and the reader. Within the model, the Knowledge Structure is constructed by connecting event, information, and knowledge. The Knowledge State is evaluated as the degree of belief under the knowledge structure. We adopted a probabilistic reasoning model to calculate the knowledge state. The change in knowledge state, defined as Knowledge Flow, is visually presented to the author. We designed a GUI prototype to implement the proposed modeling process, and demonstrated the knowledge flow with an actual cinematic narrative
Identifying Author Fingerprints in Texts via Graph Neural Networks
No full textThe world is generating more and more network data in many different areas (e.g., sensor networks, social networks and even text). A unique characteristic of these data is the coupling between data values and underlying irregular structure on which these values are defined. Thus, researchers developed Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to use deep learning approaches on these irregular network data. GNNs developers tried to replicate the recent success of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and developed its graph counterpart Graph Convolutional Neural Network (GCNN) and more different variations of GNNs (e.g. EdgeNet). However, all these architectures are relatively young, and the impact of different parameters to classification result is not well researched compared to regular neural network architectures. To address this issue, we propose to use authorship attribution problem to research the impact of different architectures and their variations to classification accuracy and how GNNs can be used to improve on authorship attribution task compared to the baseline architectures. Explicitly, we define the dataset which is going to be used throughout the experiments and the method to convert text excerpts of authors into the network that can be classified with GNNs (called WAN). WAN is as a network that captures unique author fingerprint. We also define the set of GNN architectures (and different combinations and variations of them), baseline architecture (SVM) and experiments that are used with those architectures. This experiment setting allows us to compare different GNN architectures among themselves and the baseline architecture. Also, we define a method to reduce the dimensions of author fingerprints (WANs) and use these sparse author fingerprints for the same experiments with the same architectures. Numerical results show the improvement over the baseline architectures in nearly all defined experiments. Also, we found that more complex GNN architectures (e.g. EdgeNets) are superior to shallower architectures with more laborious experiments (e.g. classification by gender). More complex architectures also require hyperparameter re-tuning in order to achieve optimal results. Furthermore, experiments with sparse author fingerprints showed that we could achieve comparable results to standard fingerprints with faster training times and significantly reduced dimensions. GNN architectures used with sparse author fingerprints were usually superior to baseline architectures
Student Expectations in the New Millennium
No full textHigher education has experienced vast changes as a result of global political and economic developments. Cultural and social changes in the last decade have also added to the continuing evolution of higher education. These changes inevitably lead to changing expectations of students entering higher education. An adequate understanding of student expectations is crucial in ensuring a good fit between higher educational institutions and their students. This study attempts to carry out a baseline descriptive-quantitative research on student expectations in the higher education of Hong Kong. Four scales have been developed to measure students’ attitude toward: 1. job-oriented curriculum design, 2. user-friendly course delivery method, 3. opportunities for lifelong learning, and 4. student consumerism. Students’ priority of what makes a good university, their reasons for going to university, and their self-perception of ability to cope with university life are also explored. The Student Expectations Questionnaire (developed by the author) was used to gather data from 857 first-year undergrads from nine institutions of higher education in Hong Kong. Analyses include, among others, gender, age, major of study as well as institution comparisons
A case study of the planning process of real estate development in Shanghai, China : a Hong Kong developer's perspective
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-84).by Miu-Yu Cecilia Wan.M.S
Grave visitation and concepts of life after death : a comparative study in Frankfurt and Hong Kong
No full textGrave visitation is a tradition common to many cultures. Yet, this sensitive topic is rarely addressed in cross cultural comparisons. Why do people visit the graves of their parents? What do they do in the cemetery? Could there be a similar set of intentions behind the diverse customs? By examining the visiting patterns in Frankfurt and Hong Kong, this research is aimed at comparing the concepts of life after death that underlie the practice. Phenomenologically oriented, this is an exploratory study based on qualitative interviews. Integrated with in-depth semi-structure interviewing and thematic analysis, the project covered twelve cases in each city. Research participants were purposefully selected. Data analysis was conducted according to the analytical framework approach. After identifying and clustering of themes, three central and interlocking issues were found: 1. the grave as a new home that connects the living and the dead; 2. death and the interpretation of hope; and 3.intergenerational reciprocity and continuing bonds. Though the images of life after death were ambiguously depicted, grave tending reflected shared expectations of the world beyond. Most significantly, visits to the graves strengthened the ties between the living and the dead, revealing a longing for a continued bond regardless of the forms of burial. At the end, this research illustrated not only the meanings of death but also the notion of religiosity through evaluating the secularisation thesis. Emphasising the dynamics of tradition and personal experience, this contextual reading of current death rituals serves as an original source for religious dialogue and education
Community mobilization and the environment in Hong Kong
Get PDFpublished_or_final_versionPreface ixContributing authors xiiiCh.I Community and the environment in Hong Kong Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia Hills, Peter Hills, Peter 1Ch.II Community, environment and sustainable development - a socio-political interpretation Lai, On- kwok Lai, On-kwok 19Ch.III Urban poverty and environmental management : a comparative analysis of community activation in asian cities Douglass, Mike Douglass, Mike 53Ch.IV Decision making, community values and the environment in Hong Kong Barron, William F. Barron, William F. 97Ch.V The politics of the environment in Hong Kong Hung, Wing-tat Hung, Wing-tat 113Ch.VI Housing, environment and the community : an overview Chiu, Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Rebecca L.H. 139Ch.VII Mobilizing Tsing Yi residents against environmental hazards Li, Chi-fai Li, Chi-fai Ng, Hang- sau Ng, Hang-sau 161Ch.VIII Grassroots participation of squatters in environment management Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia Cheung, Regina Cheung, Regina Chang, Fiona Chang, Fiona 183Ch.IX Health and safety at work : a neglected environmental concern Yu, Ignatius T.S. Yu, Ignatius T.S. Chan, Kan-kam Chan, Kan-kam 203Ch.X Heritage conservation and conflicting community iterests : heritage held hostage in the New Territories and beyond Lung, David Lung, David Friedman, Ann Friedman, Ann 215Ch.XI The social and psychological procession in community education : towards attitudinal and behavioural change in environmental management Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia 233Ch.XII Environmental education : the contribution of green groups Ng, Mei Ng, Mei Wong, Francis Wong, Francis 249Ch.XIII Business and the environment in Hong Kong Howroyd, Sarah Howroyd, Sarah 261Ch.XIV Environmental education : strategies and roles of children and youth services units Wong, Yu-cheung Wong, Yu-cheung Lai, Wing-hoi Lai, Wing-hoi 289Ch.XV Community mobilization and the environment : a changing context Hills, Peter Hills, Peter Chan, Cecilia Chan, Cecilia 30
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