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Launching Theme-based Research
An $18 billion Research Endowment Fund was established with allocation from the Government. $4 billion of the Fund is set aside for Theme-based Research which will support projects on themes of a longer-term nature and strategically beneficial to the development of Hong Kong. A Steering Committee, with membership consisting of the academia, representatives from different sectors of the community and the Government, and the Chairman of Research Grants Council (RGC), was set up with the major charge to identify the themes.
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The Legacy of Meritocracy: Peking University Undergraduates, 1949-1999
Meritocracy has been the principle of social mobility in China for thousands of years, and education has played a central role in the realization of meritocratic principles. Education has been the ladder for upward social mobility for all, and this principle has been one of the enduring legacies of the Chinese civilization.
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Negotiating with Media Globalization: The
Impact of China's Accession to the WTO on Its
Media and Telecommunications Industries
China's media conglomerates have been using
post-WTO competition to rhetorically justify
their own market monopoly. Meanwhile, the
party-state has been using the scare of foreign
competition to organize media conglomerates as a
way of furthering ideological and administrative
control. The party-state shares overlapping
goals with the press groups, and decides that
press groups should be among "the first to get
rich." In point of fact, foreign media
competition seems a remote concern, even though
the rhetoric may sound urgent.
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Neuroimaging studies of reading disability in Chinese children
We have shown, for the first
time, that the
brains of
developmental dyslexics differ depending on the
language they speak. Developmental dyslexia
affects 7% to 9% of children in Hong Kong, and
up to 17% throughout the world. It results in a
severe learning disability in acquiring reading
skills. Previous studies using magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI
(fMRI) have revealed that dyslexic readers of
alphabetic languages have decreased gray-matter
volume and weak reading-related activity in
posterior brain systems. These brain regions are
responsible for letter-to-sound conversion and
are spatially close to the auditory cortex. For
alphabetic readers, reading and listening are
very closely related.
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Random Geometric Graphs and Their Applications
A wireless sensor networks (WSN) consists of
sensor nodes with limited computation and
communication capabilities, as illustrated in
Figure 1. In most practical applications of
WSNs, the wireless sensors are deployed in a
large volume. The sheer large number of sensors
deployed coupled with the potential harsh
environment often hinders or completely
eliminates the possibility of strategic device
placement, and consequently random deployment is
often the only viable option. For all these
applications, it is natural to represent the
sensors by a finite random point process over
the deployment region-typically a uniform point
process or a Poisson point process. WSNs over
finite random point processes are modeled by
various types of random geometric graphs
depending on the probabilistic behavior to be
studied. The probabilistic studies of these
random geometric graphs are notoriously
difficult in general due to the local dependence
of the edges and the complicated boundary
effect. In this project, we have completed the
random geometric studies for the following three
specific parameters:
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Paleoenvironmental Interpretation
of the Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya Rift Valley
Our human ancestors roamed across the continent
of Africa for several millions of years and
evolved in response to changing environments.
Evidence of their activities is now preserved as
stone tools and as fragmentary skeletons in
areas favorable for preservation. This
investigation has focused on one such location,
in the southern Kenya Rift Valley, at a place
called Olorgesailie, which was once the home of
Homo erectus.
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