Ageing-in-place : home enhancement to give elderly a dream home

Everyone has their own definition of dream home , but there is always something in common - comfort and safety. Seniors prefer to stay in their own house for as long as possible, yet the inevitable decline of their physical functionality in the process of ageing has rendered some to rely on wheelchairs, canes and other aids. The original interior design might pose threats to them, making the house unsuitable for them. In view of this service gap, collaborated with the Institute of Surveyors Building Surveying Cooperation, the Hong Kong Housing Society launched the Elderly Safe Living Scheme to enhance public awareness of barrier-free domestic design through public education in the forms of road shows, seminars, consultation, and home assessment

Research - Shall we talk about filial piety?

Several cases of parents murdering have been reported in Hong Kong recently, which raised the alarm that whether teenagers nowadays have no sense of Filial Piety . So how important is filial piety to the younger generation? To find out, Commission on Youth has commissioned Asis-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies through Home Affairs Bureau to conduct a research entitled Views on Filial Piety among Youth in Hong Kong

研究 - 言孝 ? 說教 ?

近年香港接連發生多宗「逆子弒親」的倫常慘案，不禁令人懷疑現今香港青年是否已視 「孝」為無物。究竟「孝」在青年眼中有多重要？為了解時下青年對孝的概念，青年事務委員 會就透過民政事務局委託亞太老年學研究中心，進行「香港育年對孝的看法研究」

Beyond public health : the cultural politics of tobacco control in Hong Kong

This work provides cultural and political explanations on how and why cigarette smoking has increasingly become an object of intolerance and control in Hong Kong. Since the 1980s, the smoking population has been falling. Smoking behavior, sales and promotion of cigarette products have been under close surveillance by the government, medical experts and society at large. Cigarette smoking, as well as smokers, has increasingly been rejected and demonized in the public discourse. What are the conditions that make the growing intolerant discourses and practices against cigarette smoking possible and dominant? Why and how has the tobacco control campaign become prevalent as a governmentalist project, which is strong enough to tear down the alliance of tobacco industry giants? Why is tobacco singled out from other legal but harmful substances, such as alcohol, as an imperative object of intolerance and control? This work tackles these questions by adopting a Foucauldian discursive approach and the theory of articulation developed in cultural studies. By considering tobacco control as a historical and contextual practice, it traces the specific trajectory of tobacco control in Hong Kong, maps the cultural and political contexts that make it possible, and considers its consequence regarding the complex relationship among control, construction of risk, identity and freedom in society

New Faculty Hire Transition: The Impact of the Extent of the Learning Organization Traits of Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of the study was to determine the degree to which implementation of learning organization processes in higher education institutions (HEI) affects new faculty hires’ perception of their transitioning success. In this quantitative, ex post facto, comparative study, the researcher also investigated various factors, including academic disciplines, gender and ethnicity, and personality type, to determine if any of these factors would contribute an interaction effect on the relationship between the HEI exhibiting learning organization traits (LOT) and the new faculty hires’ perceived transition success. The researcher collected a convenience sample of 310 full-time professors employed by 33 4-year, private, nonprofit HEIs in the Northwestern United States. The findings indicated statistically significant differences existed in the perception of successful transition of the new hires between faculty who perceived their HEI exhibiting high levels of LOT versus those who perceived their institution exhibiting low levels of LOT. The findings also revealed that the interaction effect with academic disciplines, gender and ethnicity, and personality type on LOT and perception of new faculty success was not statistically significant. When the participating professors were asked about adjustment tactics they used to help facilitate their transition, there were 11 frequently recurring themes that emerged from the participants’ comments: observing, understanding organizational culture, talking, using support offered, asking questions and listening, networking, relationship building, stress management, personal efforts, mentoring, and nonspecific strategies. HEIs exhibiting high LOT are more likely to facilitate the successful transitions of new faculty hires

Factorization of a class of perfect reconstruction modified DFT filter banks with IIR filters

This paper proposed a new factorization of a class of perfect reconstruction (PR) causal-stable modified discrete Fourier transform (MDFT) filter bank (FB) with IIR filters, whose prototype filter has identical denominator in their polyphase components. This factorization technique, which is based on the lifting scheme, is also complete for the PR FIR MDFT FB. It can be applied to convert a nearly PR MDFT FBs to a structural PR system, which is very useful to their multiplier-less realization because the PR property in these structural FBs is unaffected by coefficient quantization. Therefore, it is possible to employ canonical signed digits (CSD) or sum of powers of two coefficients to approximate the coefficients in the factored form without changing the PR property. © 2005 IEEE.published_or_final_versio