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An Interview with Siew Te Wong
No full textAn interview with Siew Te Wong, M.Sc. CEO and Founder, Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre
An Interview with Siew Te Wong
No full textAn interview with Siew Te Wong, M.Sc. CEO and Founder, Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre.</jats:p
Land Lease #1 between Carson Estate Company and Glen Wong, 1943-1946
No full textDescribes lease agreement beginning April 1, 1943, ending March 31, 1946 for 35 acres "more or less" of the Victoria D. de Carson tract. Yearly rent is $700. Lease agreement also includes Foon's citizenship serial number. Lease agreement is transferred to Glen Wong from Wong Fu on March 6, 1944 as handwritten on the second page of the lease
Pharmacoeconomic analysis of adjuvant oral capecitabine vs intravenous 5-FU/LV in Dukes' C colon cancer: the X-ACT trial
No full textOral capecitabine (Xeloda<sup>®</sup>) is an effective drug with favourable safety in adjuvant and metastatic colorectal cancer. Oxaliplatin-based therapy is becoming standard for Dukes' C colon cancer in patients suitable for combination therapy, but is not yet approved by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the adjuvant setting. Adjuvant capecitabine is at least as effective as 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-FU/LV), with significant superiority in relapse-free survival and a trend towards improved disease-free and overall survival. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of adjuvant capecitabine from payer (UK National Health Service (NHS)) and societal perspectives. We used clinical trial data and published sources to estimate incremental direct and societal costs and gains in quality-adjusted life months (QALMs). Acquisition costs were higher for capecitabine than 5-FU/LV, but higher 5-FU/LV administration costs resulted in 57% lower chemotherapy costs for capecitabine. Capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV-associated adverse events required fewer medications and hospitalisations (cost savings £3653). Societal costs, including patient travel/time costs, were reduced by >75% with capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV (cost savings £1318), with lifetime gain in QALMs of 9 months. Medical resource utilisation is significantly decreased with capecitabine vs 5-FU/LV, with cost savings to the NHS and society. Capecitabine is also projected to increase life expectancy vs 5-FU/LV. Cost savings and better outcomes make capecitabine a preferred adjuvant therapy for Dukes' C colon cancer. This pharmacoeconomic analysis strongly supports replacing 5-FU/LV with capecitabine in the adjuvant treatment of colon cancer in the UK
Place attachment of Ngāi Te Ahi to Hairini Marae
No full textTwelve members of Ngāi Te Ahi, a hapū from Tauranga, were interviewed to explore how they talk about their place attachment to Hairini Marae. This was organized around five key dimensions of place attachment taken from the literature—continuity, distinctiveness, symbolism, attachment and familiarity. We found that in discussing all dimensions, place attachment was equally about social and cultural relationships, history, and socialization. Place attachment for groups such as Māori is complex because it encompasses all social relationships past and present. The implication for those working with Māori is to take seriously the wider connotations of place when talking to Māori about marae, traditional homelands, and their land
Replication package for: Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization
No full textLiu, Qingmin, and Yu Fu Wong. "Strategic Exploration: Preemption and Prioritization." (2022), Accepted for Publication by the Review of Economic Studies.
The replication package contains LaTex and MATLAB files for figures used in the paper
“BODY-SNATCHING”: Changes to coroners legislation and possible Māori responses
No full textThe term body-snatcher has enjoyed a renaissance in the media recently, as various Māori have moved to reclaim their deceased relations. From a Māori perspective, the claiming of bodies has nothing to do with body-snatching, a term that referred to episodes in the West. Indeed, Māori may see some laws themselves as instruments that snatch the body, in contravention of Māori customs. One of these laws, the Coroners Act 2006, may have made some progress by quietly acknowledging these customs in many ways, but that is merely the start of a greater dialogue between Māori and the Crown in relation to proper Māori respect of the dead body
Synthesizing Zhenshi (authenticity) and Shizhan (combativity): reinventing Chinese kung fu in Donnie Yen's Ip Man series (2008-2015)
No full textThis article argues that Donnie Yen’s Ip Man series (2008-2015) synthesizes two predominant unarmed, hand-to-hand combat traditions of Hong Kong martial arts cinema – what I call zhenshi (authenticity) and shizhan (combativity), represented by the series of kung fu films featuring Kwan Tak-hing as the legendary Wong Fei-hung and the martial arts action films of Bruce Lee respectively. Despite kung fu cinema’s claim to ‘realism’ since its conception in the 1949, there is a strong suppression of wu (the martial) in the genre’s action aesthetics due to the elevation of wen (the literary and the artistic) in traditional Chinese culture. By exposing the inherent contradictions within kung fu cinema and incorporating of combative action aesthetics derived from Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy and wing chun principles – what I call kuai (speed), hen (brutality), and zhun (precision), the series presents new possibilities of wu and offers a more comprehensive understanding of Chinese kung fu
CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection
No full textWong Chak-fu."September 2004."Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-475).Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Mode of access: World Wide Web.Abstracts in English and Chinese
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