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The urban geology of Hong Kong
No full textpublished_or_final_versionPreface vContributors xiThe role of the geological model in the urban development of Hong Kong C.J.N. Fletcher, S.D.G. Campbell, P.A. Kirk, S. Parry, R.J. Sewell, X.C. Li, K.W. Lai and Y.S. Liu Fletcher, C. J. N. Campbell, S. D. G. Kirk, P. A. Sewell, R. J. Li, X. C. Lai, K. W. Liu, Y. S. 1The contribution of geology to the engineering of Hong Kong International Airport Pinches, G. Tosen, R. Thompson, J. 21Anticipating geotechnical problems S. Hencher and G. Daughton Hencher, S. Daughton, G. 43Managing ground risks C.M. Tse Tse, C. M. 63Scarp morphology and development associated with a large compound retrogressive landslide at Lai Ping Road, Hong Kong N.P. Koor, S.D.G. Campbell, H.W. Sun and K.K.S. Ho Koor, N. P. Campbell, S. D. G. Sun, H. W. Ho, K. K. S. 77Adverse ground conditions at Tung Chung New Town P.A. Kirk Kirk, P. A. 89Engineering geological and geomorphological aspects of the Western Foothills, Tuen Mun G.R. Taylor Taylor, G. R. 99Natural geochemistry and contamination of marine sediments in Hong Kong P.G.D. Whiteside Whiteside, P. G. D. 109The origin and variability of suspended sediment in Hong Kong's marine waters S. Parry Parry, S. 123Quarrying in Hong Kong: current and future situation T.S.K. Lam and K.L. Siu Lam, T. S. K. Siu, K. L. 141Weathering profile development over volcanic rocks in the Tuen Mun Valley, Hong Kong R.B. Owen and R. Shaw Owen, R. B. Shaw, R. 153Archaeology and geology in Hong Kong's development urban environment P. Rumball Rogers Rogers, P. Rumball 171Magnetic survey of the offshore areas of Hong Kong: results, interpretation and significance C.J.N. Fletcher, F.A. Collar and M.W.C. Lai Fletcher, C. J. N. Collar, F. A. Lai, M. W. C. 179Geophysical and radiometric properties of weathered saprolites in Hong Kong L.S. Chan and M.Q. Chen Chan, L. S. Chen, M. Q. 189Towards sustainable coastal development in Hong Kong W.W.S. Yim Yim, W. W. S. 20
Topics in pathology for Hong Kong
No full textpublished_or_final_versionForeword / MacSween, R.N.M. pviiPreface / Ho, Faith C.S. pixIndex p1651 Viral hepatitis in Hong Kong / Wu, Pui-chee p12 Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis and clonorchiasis / Wu, Pui-chee p213 Mortality trends in ischaemic heart disease in Hong Kong / Dickens, Paul p334 Cerebrovascular disease in Hong Kong / Leung, Suet-yi p415 Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and thalassaemia / Chan, Li-chong p536 Systemic lupus erythematosus / Chan, Eric Y.T. p677 Pathology of glomerular diseases in Hong Kong / Chan, Kwok-wah p758 Epidemiology of neoplasia in Hong Kong / Loke, Shee- loong p919 Liver tumours / Ng, Irene O.L. p10110 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma / Nicholls, John M. p11511 Oesophageal tumours / Ma, Lily T. p12312 Malignant lymphomas / Ho, Faith C.S. p12913 Gestational trophoblastic disease / Cheung, Annie N.Y. p14
Culture of indifference : dilemmas of the Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong
No full textIn this study, an examination of the everyday experiences of the contract migrant Filipina domestic helpers exposes a culture of indifference which pervades the Hong Kong society on all levels--individual, community, and judiciary. At the centre of the abuses inflicted upon the Helpers is the employment contract with extraordinarily restrictive terms which promotes abuse by many employers. This study also looks at the transnational informal social infrastructure which has been organized by the Filipino community to mediate the hostile working environment engendered by the indifference of the global economic and political climate upon their lives.
Faced with the task of implementing new policies for controlling labour migration into Hong Kong, the legislators have focused on the end result and finding the means with which to accomplish their goal. Embedded within this process are unexamined cultural mores and practices. Although the starting point is to benefit the community, by providing domestic helpers to serve the middle and upper class households, too often the abusive consequences to individual migrants are ignored as the women become the means to an end. Migration has often been viewed as an aberration to the notion of the sedentary community. Treated as an anomaly, it is the migrant who problematizes simple theoretical positions of social organization and structure. The migrant is always treated as the one who does not conform to the ideal community and is conveniently merged into existing social categories, such as the lower status of women in Hong Kong, and the lower status of domestic workers -- relegated thereby to the periphery of the society's consciousness
The Marine biology of the South China Sea : proceedings of the First International Conference on the Marine Biology of Hong Kong and the South China Sea, Hong Kong 28 October - 3 November 1990
No full textThis is a collection of about 50 papers presented at the First International Conference on the Marine Biology of Hong Kong and South China Sea held at the University of Hong Kong in October 1990. The topics covered are fisheries (including mariculture), conservation, pollution, marine fouling and ecologypublished_or_final_versionv.1 Introduction pxiv.1 Acknowledgements / Morton, Brian pxivv.1 List of participants pxvv.1 Conference programme pxxiv.1 Taxonomic sufficiency and the role of systematics in marine invertebrate studies with special reference to Hong Kong / Oliver, P. Graham p3v.1 Farming of marine algae in China with special reference to the northern South China Sea / Tseng, C.K. p39v.1 The species composition of penaeid prawns and caridean shrimps in a gei wai at the Mai Po Marshes Nature Reserve, Hong Kong / Leung, S.F. p65v.1 Ecological characteristics of the fish fauna of the South China Sea / Wang, Cunxin p77v.1 Fouling organisms at Daya Bay nuclear power station, China / Huang, Z.G. p121v.1 Biofouling of ships in Daya Bay, China / Yan, S.K. p131v.1 A preliminary investigation of marine fungi in the South China Sea / Vrijmoed, L.L.P. p137v.1 Choanoflagellates as fouling organisms / Jackson, Seamus M. p145v.1 Biofouling of Deep Bay buoys / Huang, Z.G. p153v.1 An ecological study of fouling organisms in Beihai Harbour, Beibu Bay, China / Wang, J.J. p167v.1 Research upon and conservation of corals and coral reefs in China / Zou, Renlin p183v.1 Science and the management of mangroves in Asia and the Pacific / Field, C.D. p193v.1 Invertebrate species new to science recorded from the Mai Po Marshes, Hong Kong / Lee, S.Y. p199v.1 The conservation of Deep Bay, Hong Kong / Young, Llewellyn p211v.1 Biomonitoring of marine heavy metal pollution and its application in Hong Kong waters / Rainbow, P.S. p235v.1 The effects of pollutants on the filtration rate of Perna viridis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) / Wang, Chusheng p253v.1 Analysis and assessment of heavy metal pollution in Hong Kong's marine environment / Fung, Y.S. p261v.1 A gray model for predicting red tides / Wang, Zhaoding p273v.1 Ammonium uptake by Ulva lactuca (Chlorophyta: Ulvales) / Ho, Y.B. p289v.1 The occurence of six species of red tide organisms and their relationship with environmental factors in the Pearl River estuary / Lin, Y.S. p301v.1 Accumulation of an antifouling toxin, tributyltinm, in Argopecten irradians (Bivalvia: pectinidae) / Liu, Jianjun p311v.1 The effects of urban sewage on benthic community structure in Xiamen Bay, China / Jiang, J.X. p321v.2 Regional variation in the structure of tropical benthic communities: relation to regimes of nutrient input / Taylor, John D. p337v.2 Are there obligate marine scavengers? / Britton, J.C. p357v.2 Crabs as predators of marine bivalve molluscs / Seed, R. p393v.2 Bivalve shells: chronometers of environmental change / Richardson, C.A. p419v.2 Sacoglossa (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) - specialist herbivores and partial predators: integrating ecological, physiological and morphological data / Jensen, Kathe R. p437v.2 The relationship between herbivorous molluscs and algae on moderately exposed Hong Kong shores / Williams, Gray A. p459v.2 Activity rhythms and 'homing' behaviour by two pairs of high and low-zoned intertidal limpets in Hong Kong / Liu, J.H. p471v.2 The orientation of cirripedes on their hosts from Hong Kong waters / Cai, Ruxing p493v.2 Some aspects of the ecology of sediment fauna in Balingasay, Bolinao, Pangasinan (northern Philippines) / Yap, Helen T. p509v.2 The chemical characteristics of soil and its association with standing litter biomass in a subropical mangrove community in Hong Kong / Tam, N.F.Y. p521v.2 Impact of euthrophication on marine plankon in Tolo Harbour, 1988-89 / Chan, Alice L.C. p543v.2 The physiological ecology of Perna viridis (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from contrasting environments in Hong Kong / Cheung, S.G. p559v.2 Effects of reduced salinities on Holothuria leucospilota Brandt and Polycheira rufescens Brandt (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in Hong Kong / Ong Che, Rosita G. p581v.2 Leaf choice of sesarmine crabs, Chiromanthes bidens and C. maipoensis, in a Hong Kong mangal / Lee, S.Y.v.2 Enigmonia aenigmatica: an enigmatic molluscan chameleon / Moss, Shaun M. p605v.2 A comparative study of the effects of salinity upon growth and respiration in two species of mangrove / Field, C.D. p615v.2 The heart of Hyotissa imbricata (Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae) / Li, Xiaoxu p621v.2 The intertidal ecology of a rocky shore at Yangkou, Qingdao, China / Qi, Zhongyan p627v.2 Pelagic polychaetes from the South China Sea / Wu, B.L. p637v.2 The distribution of intertidal fungi on Rhizophora apiculata / Hyde, Kevin D. p643v.2 The effect of photoperiod and temperature on the release of monospores by Porphyra suborbiculata Kjellman / Lee, K.Y. p653v.2 The macrobenthic infauna of Hoi Ha Wan and Tolo Channel, Hong Kong / Mackie, Andrew S.Y. p657v.2 The Calappidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) of Chinese waters / Chen, H.L. p675v.2 Marine diatoms of the Xisha Islands, South China Sea I. Mastogloia the Ex. Wm. Sm. species of the group Sulcatae / Liu, Shicheng p705v.2 Marine diatoms of the Xisha Islands, South China Sea II. Three new species of diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) / Liu, Shicheng p72
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No full textpublished_or_final_versionList of editors and contributors pviiAcknowledgement pixCh.1 Introduction / Jao, Y.C. p1Pt.I General perspectives p7Pt.II Economic development and reforms in mainland China p37Pt.III The NIC development models p141Pt.IV Special topics p233Ch.2 A comparative analysis of economic development experiences in Chinese societies / Lau, Lawrence J. p9Ch.3 Growth or welfare? On the economic development of Chinese societies with special reference to the nuclear power station at Daya Bay / Ng, Yew-kwang p25Ch.4 Development of a more market-oriented economy in China / Chow, Gregory C. p39Ch.5 The transition to new models of development strategy and management system in China's socialist economy / Liu, Guoguang p49Ch.6 Economic development of the Chinese mainland under the PRC with reference to agriculture / Tang, Anthony M. p61Ch.7 The political economy of Chinese socialism / Hsueh, Tien-tung p81Ch.8 Mainland China's economic reform and its policy appraisal: enterprise management and price structure reform / Chou, Yi p105Ch.9 The role of foreign trade in China's economic reforms, 1978-85 / Hsu, John C. p129Ch.10 Export-led economic development in Chinese societies: the existence and transferability of the NIC model / Chen, Edward K.Y. p143Ch.11 The Hong Kong development model and its future evolution: neoclassical economics in a Chinese society / Sung, Yun-wing p155Ch.12 Singapore's recent economic set-back: lessons for the NICs / Wong, John p177Ch.13 Taiwan's economic development: a case of growth with equity / Yu, Tzong-shian p207Ch.14 The industrialization of Macau / Cremer, Rolf D. p221Ch.15 A comparative analysis of the intertemporal relationship between government expenditure and revenue: the experiences of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan / Wong,Yue-chim p235Ch.16 Case studies of economic development in Chinese societies under Western cultural influences: the managerial experiences of Hong Kong, North America and Europe / Chan, Moung-yin, Anthony p247Ch.17 A model of Chinese regional economic development through international tourism / Shieh, John T. p26
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