529 research outputs found
The globalization of Chinese food
Get PDFIncludes bibliographical references and index.Foreword: Food for thought / Sidney W. Mintz -- Introduction: The globalization of Chinese food and cuisine: markers and breakers of cultural barriers / David Y.H. Wu and Sidney C.H. Cheung -- Food culture and overseas trade: the trepang trade between China and Southeast Asia during the Qing Dynasty / Dai Yifeng -- Sacred food from the ancestors: edible bird nest harvesting among the Idahan / Mohamed Yusoff Ismail -- Improvising Chinese cuisine overseas / David Y.H. Wu -- The development of ethnic cuisine in Beijing: on the Xinjiang Road / Zhuang Kongshao -- Cantonese cuisine (Yue-cai) in Taiwan and Taiwanese cuisine (Tai-cai) in Hong Kong / David Y.H. Wu -- Food and cuisine in a changing society: Hong Kong / Sidney C.H. Cheung -- Food consumption, food perception and the search for a Macanese identity / Louis Augustin-Jean -- Heunggongyan forever: immigrant life and Hong Kong style yumcha in Australia / Siumi Maria Tam -- Chinese dietary culture in Indonesian urban society / Mely G. Tan -- The invention of delicacy: Cantonese food in Yokohoma Chinatown / Sidney C.H. Cheung -- Chinese food in the Philippines: indigenization and transformation / Doreen G. Fernandez.xx, 195 p. map 24 c
Optical signal degradation study in fixed human skin using confocal microscopy and higher-harmonic optical microscopy
No full textA model for pseudo-Dirac neutrinos: leptogenesis and ultra-high energy neutrinos
Get PDFWe propose a model where sterile neutrinos are introduced to make light neutrinos to be pseudo-Dirac particles. It is shown how tiny mass splitting necessary for realizing pseudo-Dirac neutrinos can be achieved. Within the model, we show how leptogenesis can be successfully generated. Motivated by the recent observation of very high energy neutrino events at IceCube, we study a possibility to observe the effects of the pseudo-Dirac property of neutrinos by performing astronomical-scale baseline experiments to uncover the oscillation effects of very tiny mass splitting. We also discuss future prospect to observe the effects of the pseudo-Dirac property of neutrinos at high energy neutrino experiments. © 2016, The Author(s)3611Nsciescopu
Rung-Shu Chen and Tai-Hong Young. Formation of salivary acinar cell spheroids in vitro above a PVA-coated surface
No full textUnravelling Interdependence: Coordinating Public-Private Service Networks
No full textGovernments aim to improve service delivery towards citizens and businesses. One of the main trends in this area is that organisations are increasingly trying to integrate service delivery by using information and communication technology (ICT). Service integration is necessary as individual service offerings are often just a part of a bigger process. This overall process does not stop at the boundaries of individual organisations, or at the boundary between the public and the private sector. Therefore, in order to improve service delivery, the service providers have to collaborate and integrate their services across organisational boundaries. The challenges that these collaborations face are varied, including heterogeneous organisations, a variety of processes, and fragmented information systems. How can we deal with these challenges to realise integrated service delivery? It is this question that is the background of this dissertation. It is addressed by exploring the interdependence in integrated service delivery, provided by networks of public and private organisations. Ultimately, the dissertation improves the understanding of the coordination of such public-private service networks.Infrastructure Systems & ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Fears about treatment among young drug abusers in Hong Kong
No full textAuthor name used in this publication: Yida Y.H. Chung2010-2011 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishedVoR allowe
IT-induced public sector transformation
No full textIT-induced public sector transformation investigates the organizational changes that are undertaken to transform public administrations using information technology (IT). While IT made governments more efficient, it is unclear whether it will also make them more effective in creating public value for citizens and businesses. This study investigates the outcomes of IT-induced transformation and the factors that influence these outcomes. It finds that transformed organizations do not emerge on the short term; IT-induced transformation often remains a promise of IT projects rather than an outcome. Instead of realizing organizational change, governments focus on setting up governance. While many of the public sector IT-projects traditionally aim to improve service delivery to citizens and businesses, in practice, they more often create better enforcement and control for government organizations.ICTTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Author Correction: Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality.
Get PDFCorrection to: Nature Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40599-x, published online 24 August 2023 The original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 17th author, “Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) collaborative research network”, which is the consortium providing the mortality data. A list of consortium authors and their affiliations are provided in the HTML version of this Correction. Part of the Author Contributions statement was incorrectly given and should have read ‘A.M.V.C., E.M.F., B.A., M.D.S.Z.S.C., Y.L.G., Y.G., Y.H., V.H., J.K., E.L., D.R., N.R., N.S., S.S., A.U., A.G. and the MCC were involved in resources and data curation.’ In addition, the primary affiliation ‘Climate Research Foundation (FIC), Madrid, Spain’ for Dominic Roye was missing
HCMV IE2-mediated inhibition of HAT activity downregulates p53 function
No full textTargeting of cellular histone acetyltransferases (HATs) by
viral proteins is important in the development of virusassociated
diseases. The immediate-early 2 protein (IE2) of
human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) binds to the tumor suppressor,
p53, and inactivates its functions by unknown
mechanisms. Here, we show that IE2 binds to the HAT
domain of the p53 coactivators, p300 and CREB-binding
protein (CBP), and blocks their acetyltransferase activity
on both histones and p53. The minimal HAT inactivation
region on IE2 involves the N-terminal 98 amino acids. The
in vivo DNA binding of p53 and local histone acetylation
on p53-dependent promoters are all reduced by IE2, but
not by mutant IE2 proteins that lack the HAT inhibition
region. Furthermore, the p53 acetylation site mutant,
K320/373/382R, retains both DNA binding and promoter
transactivation activity in vivo and these effects are repressed
by IE2 as well. Together with the finding that only
wild-type IE2 exerts an antiapoptotic effect, our results
suggest that HCMV IE2 downregulates p53-dependent
gene activation by inhibiting p300/CBP-mediated local
histone acetylation and that IE2 may have oncogenic
activity
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