189 research outputs found
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
Hong Kong cinema 1982-2002 : the quest for identity during transition
No full textElectronic redacted version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holderThis thesis seeks to interpret the cinematic representations of Hong Kongers’ identity quest during a transitional state/stage related to the sovereignty transfer. The Handover transition considered is an ideological one, rather than the overnight polity change on the Handover day. This research approaches contemporary Hong Kong cinema on two fronts and the thesis is structured accordingly: Upon an initial review of the existing Hong Kong film scholarship in the Introduction, and its 1997-related allegorical readings, Part I sees new angles (previously undeveloped or underdeveloped) for researching Hong Kong films made during 1982-2002. Arguments are built along the ideas of Hong Kongers’ situational, diasporic consciousness, and transformed ‘Chineseness’ because Hong Kong has lacked a cultural/national centrality. This part of research is informed by the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, and the diasporic experiences of Ien Ang, Rey Chow and Ackbar Abbas. With these new research angles and references to the circumstances, Part II reads critically the text of eight Hong Kong films made during the Handover transition. In chronological order, they are Boat People (Hui, 1982), Song of the Exile (Hui, 1990), Days of Being Wild (Wong, 1990), Happy Together (Wong, 1997), Made in Hong Kong (Chan, 1997), Ordinary Heroes (Hui, 1999), Durian Durian (Chan, 2000), and Hollywood Hong Kong (Chan, 2002). They meet several criteria related to the undeveloped / underdeveloped areas in the existing Hong Kong film scholarship. Hamid Naficy’s ‘accented cinema’ paradigm gives the guidelines to the film analysis in Part II. This part shows that Hong Kongers’ self-transformation during transition is alterable, indeterminate, and interminable, due to the people’s situational, diasporic consciousness, and transformed ‘Chineseness’. This thesis thus contributes to Hong Kong cinema scholarship in interpreting films with new research angles, and generating new insights into this cinematic tradition and its wider context
Reduced Uncertainties in the Flutter Analysis of the Aerostructures Test Wing
No full textTuning the finite element model using measured data to minimize the model uncertainties is a challenging task in the area of structural dynamics. A test validated finite element model can provide a reliable flutter analysis to define the flutter placard speed to which the aircraft can be flown prior to flight flutter testing. Minimizing the difference between numerical and experimental results is a type of optimization problem. Through the use of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Dryden Flight Research Center s (Edwards, California, USA) multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization tool to optimize the objective function and constraints; the mass properties, the natural frequencies, and the mode shapes are matched to the target data and the mass matrix orthogonality is retained. The approach in this study has been applied to minimize the model uncertainties for the structural dynamic model of the aerostructures test wing, which was designed, built, and tested at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Dryden Flight Research Center. A 25-percent change in flutter speed has been shown after reducing the uncertaintie
Updating the Finite Element Model of the Aerostructures Test Wing using Ground Vibration Test Data
No full textImproved and/or accelerated decision making is a crucial step during flutter certification processes. Unfortunately, most finite element structural dynamics models have uncertainties associated with model validity. Tuning the finite element model using measured data to minimize the model uncertainties is a challenging task in the area of structural dynamics. The model tuning process requires not only satisfactory correlations between analytical and experimental results, but also the retention of the mass and stiffness properties of the structures. Minimizing the difference between analytical and experimental results is a type of optimization problem. By utilizing the multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization (MDAO) tool in order to optimize the objective function and constraints; the mass properties, the natural frequencies, and the mode shapes can be matched to the target data to retain the mass matrix orthogonality. This approach has been applied to minimize the model uncertainties for the structural dynamics model of the Aerostructures Test Wing (ATW), which was designed and tested at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) (Edwards, California). This study has shown that natural frequencies and corresponding mode shapes from the updated finite element model have excellent agreement with corresponding measured data
Subspace Iteration Method for Complex Eigenvalue Problems with Nonsymmetric Matrices in Aeroelastic System
No full textModern airplane design is a multidisciplinary task which combines several disciplines such as structures, aerodynamics, flight controls, and sometimes heat transfer. Historically, analytical and experimental investigations concerning the interaction of the elastic airframe with aerodynamic and in retia loads have been conducted during the design phase to determine the existence of aeroelastic instabilities, so called flutter .With the advent and increased usage of flight control systems, there is also a likelihood of instabilities caused by the interaction of the flight control system and the aeroelastic response of the airplane, known as aeroservoelastic instabilities. An in -house code MPASES (Ref. 1), modified from PASES (Ref. 2), is a general purpose digital computer program for the analysis of the closed-loop stability problem. This program used subroutines given in the International Mathematical and Statistical Library (IMSL) (Ref. 3) to compute all of the real and/or complex conjugate pairs of eigenvalues of the Hessenberg matrix. For high fidelity configuration, these aeroelastic system matrices are large and compute all eigenvalues will be time consuming. A subspace iteration method (Ref. 4) for complex eigenvalues problems with nonsymmetric matrices has been formulated and incorporated into the modified program for aeroservoelastic stability (MPASES code). Subspace iteration method only solve for the lowest p eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors for aeroelastic and aeroservoelastic analysis. In general, the selection of p is ranging from 10 for wing flutter analysis to 50 for an entire aircraft flutter analysis. The application of this newly incorporated code is an experiment known as the Aerostructures Test Wing (ATW) which was designed by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California to research aeroelastic instabilities. Specifically, this experiment was used to study an instability known as flutter. ATW was a small-scale airplane wing comprised of an airfoil and wing tip boom. This wing was formulated based on a NACA-65A004 airfoil shape with a 3.28 aspect ratio. The wing had a span of 18 inch with root chord length of 13.2 inch and tip chord length of 8.7 inch. The total area of this wing was 197 square inch. The wing tip boom was a 1 inch diameter hollow tube of length 21.5 inch. The total weight of the wing was 2.66 lbs
Clustering Search Engine Query Log Containing Noisy
No full textQuery clustering is a technique for discovering similar queries on a search engine. In this paper, we present a query clustering method based on the agglomerative clustering algorithm. We first present an overview of the agglomerative clustering algorithm proposed by Beeferman and Berger [1]. We point out a weakness of the method caused by noisy user clicks and propose an improved clustering algorithm. Our results show that in general the agglomerative clustering algorithm can cluster similar queries effectively and that our improved algorithm can successful eliminate noisy clicks and produce cleaner query clusters. 1
New Flutter Analysis Technique for Time-Domain Computational Aeroelasticity
No full textA new time-domain approach for computing flutter speed is presented. Based on the time-history result of aeroelastic simulation, the unknown unsteady aerodynamics model is estimated using a system identification technique. The full aeroelastic model is generated via coupling the estimated unsteady aerodynamic model with the known linear structure model. The critical dynamic pressure is computed and used in the subsequent simulation until the convergence of the critical dynamic pressure is achieved. The proposed method is applied to a benchmark cantilevered rectangular wing
Symmetric wing in symmetric flow
No full textCER53CSY5.October, 1952.Includes bibliographical references
Clustering search engine query log containing noisy clickthroughs
No full textQuery clustering is a technique for discovering similar queries on a search engine. In this paper, we present a query clustering method based on the agglomerative clustering algorithm. We first present an overview of the agglomerative clustering algorithm proposed by Beeferman and Berger. We point out a weakness of the method caused by noisy user clicks and propose an improved clustering algorithm. Our results show that in general the agglomerative clustering algorithm can cluster similar queries effectively and that our improved algorithm can successful eliminate noisy clicks and produce cleaner query clusters.</p
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