About 6.5 million people are infected with Chagas disease (CD) globally, and WHO estimates that $ > million people worldwide suffer from ChHD. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) represents one of the leading causes of death worldwide and affects approximately 65% of ChHD patients at a rate of 24 per 1000 patient-years, much greater than the SCD rate in the general population. Its occurrence in the specific context of ChHD needs to be better exploited. This paper provides the first evidence supporting the use of machine learning (ML) methods within non-invasive tests: patients' clinical data and cardiac restitution metrics (CRM) features extracted from ECG-Holter recordings as an adjunct in the SCD risk assessment in ChHD. The feature selection (FS) flows evaluated 5 different groups of attributes formed from patients' clinical and physiological data to identify relevant attributes among 57 features reported by 315 patients at HUCFF-UFRJ. The FS flow with FS techniques (variance, ANOVA, and recursive feature elimination) and Naive Bayes (NB) model achieved the best classification performance with 90.63% recall (sensitivity) and 80.55% AUC. The initial feature set is reduced to a subset of 13 features (4 Classification; 1 Treatment; 1 CRM; and 7 Heart Tests). The proposed method represents an intelligent diagnostic support system that predicts the high risk of SCD in ChHD patients and highlights the clinical and CRM data that most strongly impact the final outcome.
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DO - 10.3934/mbe.2023402
DP - www.aimspress.com
VL - 20
IS - 5
SP - 9159
EP - 9178
J2 - MBE
LA - en
SN - 1551-0018
UR - http://www.aimspress.com/rticle/doi/10.3934/mbe.2023402
Y2 - 2023/03/21/16:22:54
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Diagnóstico à literacia da informação de estudantes de ensino superior: um estudo de caso em Macau
AU - Chan, Emily
AU - Sanches, Tatiana
T2 - Actas do Congresso Nacional de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas
AB - O presente estudo faz parte de uma investigação mais alargada que pretende i) estudar, numa população estudantil de ensino superior, as suas necessidades e comportamento perante a informação e ii) desenvolver um programa de formação em literacia da informação, integrando este conhecimento e os contributos dos diversos intervenientes (estudantes, docentes, bibliotecários). Sabemos hoje que a integração da literacia da informação nas aprendizagens melhora o desempenho dos estudantes e que, por esse motivo, os bibliotecários académicos podem desempenhar um papel importante ao colaborarem no desenho e formação de programas nestas áreas. Esta comunicação apresenta a primeira fase deste estudo. Trata-se da aplicação de um inquérito por questionário a uma população de estudantes de graduação, no ensino superior, em Macau. Os resultados demonstram as perceções dos estudantes relativamente às suas necessidades de informação, bem como o uso dos recursos informativos preferidos na prossecução dos seus estudos. A formação destes estudantes na pesquisa, recuperação, análise e uso da informação parece ser essencial. A construção de programas de formação em literacia da informação deve ser concebida à medida, recorrendo-se a um diagnóstico próximo e efetivo. A par, é importante continuar a desenvolver ambientes físicos e virtuais que disponibilizem informação credível e que deem resposta às necessidades informacionais dos que os utilizam, apoiando a aprendizagem.
DA - 2023/05/03/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.48798/congressobad.2901
DP - publicacoes.bad.pt
IS - 14
LA - pt
ST - Diagnóstico à literacia da informação de estudantes de ensino superior
UR - https://publicacoes.bad.pt/revistas/index.php/congressosbad/article/view/2901
Y2 - 2023/05/23/09:53:13
KW - Estudantes
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - How social media affects the purchase intentions of female consumers in Macao - watching beauty and cosmetics product experience videos on YouTube
AU - Chan, Velda
AU - Silva, Susana C.
AU - Lampo, Alessandro
T2 - Revista Gestão em Análise
AB - YouTube has become increasingly popular for marketing purposes. As corporate and user-generated content is widely available on this platform, beauty-related professionals need to understand how to create videos that make their products more appealing and stand out from the clutter. In this study, we examine four factors (i.e., perceived usefulness of the information, perceived credibility of the information, attitude toward the purchase, and perceived video characteristics) that affect the purchase intentions of female consumers. After viewing beauty-related videos, a sample of 204 female consumers was analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings showed that videos with more views, likes, and comments tend to have a greater effect on the respondents' intentions to purchase. Also, the factors of perceived usefulness of the information, perceived credibility of the information, and attitude toward the purchase exhibited a significant effect on the intention to buy beauty-related products. The result showed that perceived video characteristics (such as quality and visuals) did not significantly influence the purchase intention, however, there is evidence that this factor should not be ignored by content creators. Finally, our research provides insights, strategies, and future directions for industry practitioners and marketers.
DA - 2022/09/19/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.12662/2359-618xregea.v11i3.p107-118.2022
DP - periodicos.unichristus.edu.br
VL - 11
IS - 3
SP - 107
EP - 118
LA - en
SN - 2359-618X
UR - https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/gestao/article/view/3947
AN - 204 female consumers in Macau
Y2 - 2023/03/17/01:59:26
KW - YouTube beauty products
KW - YouTube marketing
KW - beauty and cosmetics marketing
KW - purchase intention
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Management Transition in South Korea: A Case Study
AU - Chan, Wai Ip
AU - Trimarchi, Michael
AU - Negreiros, Joao
T2 - Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences
AB - South Korea management system has been influenced significantly by their traditional social and religious beliefs for hundreds of years. Yet, the 1997 Asian financial crisis has gradually confirmed this shifted, from the Confucius mentality to a close Westernized system. This paper aims to evaluate this management transition in South Korea. The theoretical model of the convergent-divergent, as proposed by Chatterjee and Nankervis [2006], is applied to identify a number of critical factors. The aforementioned factors altogether have influenced the management system in four main vectors: (A) From seniority to meritocracy performance management; (B) From consultative to individualistic decision-making style; (C) From ignoring to embracing corporate governance; (D) From avoiding to improving environmental sustainability.
DA - 2012///
PY - 2012
VL - 2
IS - 6
SP - 53
EP - 68
SN - 2047-2528
UR - http://www.ajbms.org/articlepdf/4ajbms2012260726.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Ontogenetic development of the inner ear saccule and utricle in the Lusitanian toadfish: Potential implications for auditory sensitivity
AU - Chaves, Patrícia P.
AU - Valdoria, Ciara M. C.
AU - Amorim, M. Clara P.
AU - Vasconcelos, Raquel O.
T2 - Hearing Research
AB - Studies addressing structure-function relationships of the fish auditory system during development are sparse compared to other taxa. The Batrachoididae has become an important group to investigate mechanisms of auditory plasticity and evolution of auditory-vocal systems. A recent study reported ontogenetic improvements in the inner ear saccule sensitivity of the Lusitanian toadfish, Halobatrachus didactylus, but whether this results from changes in the sensory morphology remains unknown. We investigated how the macula and organization of auditory receptors in the saccule and utricle change during growth in this species. Inner ear sensory epithelia were removed from the end organs of previously PFA-fixed specimens, from non-vocal posthatch fry (<1.4 cm, standard length) to adults (>23 cm). Epithelia were phalloidin-stained and analysed for area, shape, number and orientation patterns of hair cells (HC), and number and size of saccular supporting cells (SC). Saccular macula area expanded 41x in total, and significantly more (relative to body length) among vocal juveniles (2.3–2.9 cm). Saccular HC number increased 25x but HC density decreased, suggesting that HC addition is slower relative to epithelial growth. While SC density decreased, SC apical area increased, contributing to the epithelial expansion. The utricule revealed increased HC density (striolar region) and less epithelial expansion (5x) with growth, contrasting with the saccule that may have a different developmental pattern due to its larger size and main auditory functions. Both macula shape and HC orientation patterns were already established in the posthatch fry and retained throughout growth in both end organs. We suggest that previously reported ontogenetic improvements in saccular sensitivity might be associated with changes in HC number (not density), size and/or molecular mechanisms controlling HC sensitivity. This is one of the first studies investigating the ontogenetic development of the saccule and utricle in a vocal fish and how it potentially relates to auditory enhancement for acoustic communication.
DA - 2017/09/01/
PY - 2017
DO - 10.1016/j.heares.2017.06.008
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 353
SP - 112
EP - 121
J2 - Hearing Research
LA - en
SN - 0378-5955
ST - Ontogenetic development of the inner ear saccule and utricle in the Lusitanian toadfish
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378595517300977
Y2 - 2021/02/10/10:30:58
KW - Auditory sensitivity
KW - Batrachoididae
KW - Hair cell
KW - Ontogeny
KW - Saccule
KW - Utricle
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Anti-epileptic Kunitz-like peptides discovered in the branching coral Acropora digitifera through transcriptomic analysis
AU - Chen, Hanbin
AU - Siu, Shirley Weng In
AU - Wong, Clarence Tsun Ting
AU - Qiu, Jianwen
AU - Cheung, Alex Kwok-Kuen
AU - Lee, Simon Ming Yuen
T2 - Archives of Toxicology
AB - Approximately 50 million people are suffering from epilepsy worldwide. Corals have been used for treating epilepsy in traditional Chinese medicine, but the mechanism of this treatment is unknown. In this study, we analyzed the transcriptome of the branching coral Acropora digitifera and obtained its Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), EuKaryotic Orthologous Groups (KOG) and Gene Ontology (GO) annotation. Combined with multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis, we discovered three polypeptides, we named them AdKuz1, AdKuz2 and AdKuz3, from A. digitifera that showed a close relationship to Kunitz-type peptides. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation indicated that AdKuz1 to 3 could interact with GABAA receptor but AdKuz2–GABAA remained more stable than others. The biological experiments showed that AdKuz1 and AdKuz2 exhibited an anti-inflammatory effect by decreasing the aberrant level of nitric oxide (NO), IL-6, TNF-α and IL-1β induced by LPS in BV-2 cells. In addition, the pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced epileptic effect on zebrafish was remarkably suppressed by AdKuz1 and AdKuz2. AdKuz2 particularly showed superior anti-epileptic effects compared to the other two peptides. Furthermore, AdKuz2 significantly decreased the expression of c-fos and npas4a, which were up-regulated by PTZ treatment. In addition, AdKuz2 reduced the synthesis of glutamate and enhanced the biosynthesis of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). In conclusion, the results indicated that AdKuz2 may affect the synthesis of glutamate and GABA and enhance the activity of the GABAA receptor to inhibit the symptoms of epilepsy. We believe, AdKuz2 could be a promising anti-epileptic agent and its mechanism of action should be further investigated.
DA - 2022/09/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s00204-022-03311-4
DP - Springer Link
VL - 96
IS - 9
SP - 2589
EP - 2608
J2 - Arch Toxicol
LA - en
SN - 1432-0738
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-022-03311-4
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:33:17
KW - Anti-epileptic
KW - GABAA
KW - Kunitz peptide
KW - Transcriptome
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Chemical toxicity prediction based on semi-supervised learning and graph convolutional neural network
AU - Chen, Jiarui
AU - Si, Yain-Whar
AU - Un, Chon-Wai
AU - Siu, Shirley W. I.
T2 - Journal of Cheminformatics
AB - As safety is one of the most important properties of drugs, chemical toxicology prediction has received increasing attentions in the drug discovery research. Traditionally, researchers rely on in vitro and in vivo experiments to test the toxicity of chemical compounds. However, not only are these experiments time consuming and costly, but experiments that involve animal testing are increasingly subject to ethical concerns. While traditional machine learning (ML) methods have been used in the field with some success, the limited availability of annotated toxicity data is the major hurdle for further improving model performance. Inspired by the success of semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms, we propose a Graph Convolution Neural Network (GCN) to predict chemical toxicity and trained the network by the Mean Teacher (MT) SSL algorithm. Using the Tox21 data, our optimal SSL-GCN models for predicting the twelve toxicological endpoints achieve an average ROC-AUC score of 0.757 in the test set, which is a 6% improvement over GCN models trained by supervised learning and conventional ML methods. Our SSL-GCN models also exhibit superior performance when compared to models constructed using the built-in DeepChem ML methods. This study demonstrates that SSL can increase the prediction power of models by learning from unannotated data. The optimal unannotated to annotated data ratio ranges between 1:1 and 4:1. This study demonstrates the success of SSL in chemical toxicity prediction; the same technique is expected to be beneficial to other chemical property prediction tasks by utilizing existing large chemical databases. Our optimal model SSL-GCN is hosted on an online server accessible through: https://app.cbbio.online/ssl-gcn/home.
DA - 2021/11/27/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1186/s13321-021-00570-8
DP - BioMed Central
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 93
J2 - Journal of Cheminformatics
SN - 1758-2946
UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-021-00570-8
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:33:31
KW - ADMET
KW - Chemical toxicity
KW - Deep learning
KW - Graph convolutional neural network
KW - Mean teacher
KW - Semi-supervised learning
KW - Tox21
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein Alpha Is a Novel Regulator of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Osteochondrogenic Transition and Vascular Calcification
AU - Chen, Pengyuan
AU - Hong, Wanzi
AU - Chen, Ziying
AU - Gordillo-Martinez, Flora
AU - Wang, Siying
AU - Fan, Hualin
AU - Liu, Yuanhui
AU - Dai, Yining
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Jiang, Lei
AU - Yu, Hongjiao
AU - He, PengCheng
T2 - Frontiers in Physiology
AB - AimsVascular calcification is a common clinical complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD), atherosclerosis (AS), and diabetes, which is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients. The transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to an osteochondrogenic phenotype is a crucial step during vascular calcification. The transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBPα) plays an important role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation, but whether it regulates the calcification of arteries and VSMCs remains unclear. Therefore, this study aims to understand the role of C/EBPα in the regulation of vascular calcification.Methods and ResultsBoth mRNA and protein expression levels of C/EBPα were significantly increased in calcified arteries from mice treated with a high dose of vitamin D3 (vD3). Upregulation of C/EBPα was also observed in the high phosphate- and calcium-induced VSMC calcification process. The siRNA-mediated knockdown of C/EBPα significantly attenuated VSMC calcification in vitro. Moreover, C/EBPα depletion in VSMCs significantly reduced the mRNA expression of the osteochondrogenic genes, e.g., sex-determining region Y-box 9 (Sox9). C/EBPα overexpression can induce SOX9 overexpression. Similar changes in the protein expression of SOX9 were also observed in VSMCs after C/EBPα depletion or overexpression. In addition, silencing of Sox9 expression significantly inhibited the phosphate- and calcium-induced VSMC calcification in vitro.ConclusionFindings in this study indicate that C/EBPα is a key regulator of the osteochondrogenic transdifferentiation of VSMCs and vascular calcification, which may represent a novel therapeutic target for vascular calcification.
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - Frontiers
VL - 13
SN - 1664-042X
UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.755371
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:43:32
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Neuropeptide Y/F-like Polypeptide Derived from the Transcriptome of Turbinaria peltata Suppresses LPS-Induced Astrocytic Inflammation
AU - Chen, Qian
AU - Liang, Zirong
AU - Yue, Qian
AU - Wang, Xiufen
AU - Siu, Shirley Weng In
AU - Pui-Man Hoi, Maggie
AU - Lee, Simon Ming-Yuen
T2 - Journal of Natural Products
AB - Neuropeptides are a group of neuronal signaling molecules that regulate physiological and behavioral processes in animals. Here, we used in silico mining to predict the polypeptide composition of available transcriptomic data of Turbinaria peltata. In total, 118 transcripts encoding putative peptide precursors were discovered. One neuropeptide Y/F-like peptide, named TpNPY, was identified and selected for in silico structural, in silico binding, and pharmacological studies. In our study, the anti-inflammation effect of TpNPY was evaluated using an LPS-stimulated C8-D1A astrocyte cell model. Our results demonstrated that TpNPY, at 0.75–3 μM, inhibited LPS-induced NO production and reduced the expression of iNOS in a dose-dependent manner. Furthermore, TpNPY reduced the secretion of proinflammatory cytokines. Additionally, treatment with TpNPY reduced LPS-mediated elevation of ROS production and the intracellular calcium concentration. Further investigation revealed that TpNPY downregulated the IKK/IκB/NF-κB signaling pathway and inhibited expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome. Through molecular docking and using an NPY receptor antagonist, TpNPY was shown to have the ability to interact with the NPY Y1 receptor. On the basis of these findings, we concluded that TpNPY might prevent LPS-induced injury in astrocytes through activation of the NPY-Y1R.
DA - 2022/06/24/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00158
DP - ACS Publications
VL - 85
IS - 6
SP - 1569
EP - 1580
J2 - J. Nat. Prod.
SN - 0163-3864
UR - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.2c00158
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:33:01
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Use of stable isotopes to understand food webs in Macao wetlands
AU - Chen, Qian
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Ho, Wei-Tim
AU - Chan, Shek Kiu
AU - Li, Qiu-hua
AU - Huang, Jian-Rong
T2 - Wetlands Ecology and Management
AB - In this study, components of the food-web in Macao wetlands were quantified using stable isotope ratio techniques based on carbon and nitrogen values. The δ13C and δ15N values of particulate organic matter (δ13CPOM and δ15NPOM, respectively) ranged from −30.64 ± 1.0 to −28.1 ± 0.7 ‰, and from −1.11 ± 0.8 to 3.98 ± 0.7 ‰, respectively. The δ13C values of consumer species ranged from −33.94 to −16.92 ‰, showing a wide range from lower values in a freshwater lake and inner bay to higher values in a mangrove forest. The distinct dietary habits of consumer species and the location-specific food source composition were the main factors affecting the δ13C values. The consumer 15N-isotope enrichment values suggested that there were three trophic levels; primary, secondary, and tertiary. The primary consumer trophic level was represented by freshwater herbivorous gastropods, filter-feeding bivalves, and plankton-feeding fish, with a mean δ15N value of 5.052 ‰. The secondary consumer level included four deposit-feeding fish species distributed in Fai Chi Kei Bay and deposit-feeding gastropods in the Lotus Flower Bridge flat, with a mean δ15N value of 6.794 ‰. The tertiary consumers group consisted of four crab species, one shrimp species, and four fish species in the Lotus Flower Bridge Flat, with a mean δ15N value of 13.473 ‰. Their diet mainly comprised organic debris, bottom fauna, and rotten animal tissues. This study confirms the applicability of the isotopic approach in food web studies.
DA - 2017/02/01/
PY - 2017
DO - 10.1007/s11273-016-9502-2
DP - Springer Link
VL - 25
IS - 1
SP - 59
EP - 66
J2 - Wetlands Ecol Manage
LA - en
SN - 1572-9834
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-016-9502-2
Y2 - 2021/02/10/09:01:46
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Integrated Learning Platform Focusing on STEAM and Collaborative Modules for Macau
AU - Cheng, Un Man
AU - Abreu, Filipa C. A. Martins de
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
AB - In Macau, the effectiveness of traditional classroom learning is questioned as the problem is discovered by the changes in technology advances, social media, and the varieties of learning methods. Learning experiences, interests, discoveries, and creativity development are considered essential to ac...
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.311425
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 18
J2 - IJCICG
LA - en
SN - 1947-3117
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/an-integrated-learning-platform-focusing-on-steam-and-collaborative-modules-for-macau/www.igi-global.com/article/an-integrated-learning-platform-focusing-on-steam-and-collaborative-modules-for-macau/311425
Y2 - 2024/01/25/03:48:56
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Integrated Learning Platform Focusing on STEAM and Collaborative Modules for Macau
AU - Cheng, Un Man
AU - Martins de Abreu, F.
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
AB - In Macau, the effectiveness of traditional classroom learning is questioned as the problem is discovered by the changes in technology advances, social media, and the varieties of learning methods. Learning experiences, interests, discoveries, and creativity development are considered essential to ac...
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.311425
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 18
J2 - IJCICG
LA - en
SN - 1947-3117
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/an-integrated-learning-platform-focusing-on-steam-and-collaborative-modules-for-macau/www.igi-global.com/article/an-integrated-learning-platform-focusing-on-steam-and-collaborative-modules-for-macau/311425
Y2 - 2023/04/25/06:36:33
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - When the Gospel meets the China Dream: Religious Freedom and the Golden Rule
AU - Chiaretto Yan, Kin Sheung
T2 - International Bulletin of Mission Research
AB - The issue of religious freedom affects Sino-Vatican relations, but the Roman Catholic Church shares values with Confucianism, which provides common ground for dialogue. Pope Francis is focusing the church outward by promoting a culture of encounter and by working unceasingly for a fraternal dialogue of peace. Chinese president Xi Jinping urges his people to fulfill the China dream, emphasizing the core values of harmony, friendship, and civilization. Many have believed that the Gospel can contribute to China?s spiritual civilization; normalization of relations between China and the Holy See would benefit China and the Catholic Church and contribute to world peace and harmony.
DA - 2018/07/01/
PY - 2018
DO - 10.1177/2396939317747149
DP - SAGE Journals
VL - 42
IS - 3
SP - 212
EP - 219
LA - en
SN - 2396-9393
ST - When the Gospel meets the China Dream
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/2396939317747149
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:21:44
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The influence of SAR government performance on people’s trust toward Central government: Implications for Hong Kong and Macau civic education
AU - Chris Cheung, Hin Wah
AU - So, Man Yum Larry
AU - Choi, Chi U. Francis
AU - Chow, Chin Fung Philip
T2 - Asian Education and Development Studies
AB - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of Special Administrative Region (SAR) performance on the “trust” of Hong Kong and Macau people, who “live” under similar context of “one country, two systems,” toward Beijing Central Government. The different perceptions, relating to the abovementioned issue, of the young peoples’ are also investigated. Implication for civic education in these two societies will be brought to light. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts secondary data analysis on the captioned topic. To further illustrate the said issue, this study reviews and analyzes data from protest campaigns in both societies. Findings This paper finds that the performance of Hong Kong and Macau SAR Governments has different impacts on the peoples’ “trust” toward Central Government. It may attribute to the different perceptions about the role of Central Government and levels of democratization in these societies. Civic education emphasizing the “core spirit” of “One country, two systems,” roles of SAR and Central Governments could enable young people better comprehend their relationship with Mainland China and their role as SAR–Chinese citizens. Originality/value This paper is an exploratory study for providing implications for further research on this topic.
DA - 2018/01/01/
PY - 2018
DO - 10.1108/AEDS-04-2017-0039
DP - Emerald Insight
VL - 8
IS - 1
SP - 47
EP - 58
SN - 2046-3162
ST - The influence of SAR government performance on people’s trust toward Central government
UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-04-2017-0039
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:19:05
KW - Civic education
KW - Political trust
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Murky shooting: The use of auditory (non-speech) feedback on mobile audiogames
AU - Cordeiro, J.
AU - Baltazar, A.
AU - Barbosa, A.
T2 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
DA - 2012///
PY - 2012
DO - 10.1145/2371456.2371462
DP - ORCID
SP - 40
EP - 43
ST - Murky shooting
UR - 10.1145/2371456.2371462
Y2 - 2021/01/29/04:20:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Privacy in sound-based social networks
AU - Cordeiro, J.
AU - Barbosa, A.
T2 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-45071-0_29
DP - ORCID
VL - 473
SP - 355
EP - 367
UR - 10.1007/978-3-662-45071-0_29
Y2 - 2021/01/29/04:20:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Da aptidão à aspiração: um caminho por percorrer
AU - Correia, Ana
T2 - CECS - Publicações / eBooks
DA - 2015/07/14/
PY - 2015
DP - www.lasics.uminho.pt
SP - 109
EP - 127
ST - Da aptidão à aspiração
UR - http://www.lasics.uminho.pt/ojs/index.php/cecs_ebooks/article/view/2132
Y2 - 2021/04/26/09:38:39
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Visions for Education among Chinese and Non-Chinese Student Teachers: Exploring Cultural Differences
AU - Correia, Ana
T2 - The International Journal of Diversity in Education
AB - Using Habermas’s theory of communicative action, this study explores the educational visions held by a multi-cultural class of students enrolled in a teacher preparation programme set in a culturally and linguistic diverse urban environment with a recent history of colonialism. The purpose of the study was to analyse the educational and teaching visions put forward by student teachers in an essay during the course “Principles of Education,” which took place in the 2013–2014 academic year and to determine whether the variation in respondents’ vision statements was related to the students’ cultural backgrounds. The students’ awareness of the instructor’s grading role may have influenced the content of their vision statements, and thus Habermas’s theory of communicative action was selected as it allows one to focus on both the content and the process of communicative interaction. The current qualitative research presents data from twenty Macau-Chinese and twenty non-Chinese overseas students. Their visions for education and teaching were examined along the lines of culture. The findings revealed that the idealised representations of what education and teaching is, does and symbolise, varies along culture lines. Since urban educational environments are growing culturally diverse, it is recommended that additional attention be given to cultural awareness in teacher education programmes.
DA - 2015///
PY - 2015
DO - https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0020/CGP/v16i01/40051
VL - 16
IS - 1
SP - 15
EP - 28
UR - https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/visions-for-education-among-chinese-and-nonchinese-student-teachers
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Exploring the participation and agency of students with special education needs in a Macau-Chinese secondary school
AU - Correia, Ana M.
AU - Forlin, Chris
AU - Sio, Eva
T2 - Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs
AB - The research explores the perceptions of five secondary school students with special education needs (SEN) about their participation in learning, group membership, and agency within an inclusive school in Macau SAR. This goal is achieved by using students' voices documented in open-ended interviews and is underpinned by the conceptual framework of heutagogy. The aim is to shed light on students' perceptions on school effectiveness in supporting their needs through successful participation and agentic possibilities. Findings showed that students were more prone to social rejection and being isolated or bullied than their peers. They were struggling to feel included or participate, their needs were only partially being met, and they had few opportunities to exert influence on their educational trajectories. Recommendations are provided to assist educators and schools in enhancing students with SEN to connect to the learning process and community, with the provision of appropriate learning adjustments and more active approaches to ensure their acceptance by mainstream students, including the formation of coaching peers to assist in developing social and academic skills under teacher's scaffolding practices. This study highlights the contribution of the heutagogical perspective to advance research on the participation and agency of students with SEN in mainstream schools.
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1111/1471-3802.12566
DP - Wiley Online Library
VL - 22
IS - 3
SP - 288
EP - 296
LA - en
SN - 1471-3802
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-3802.12566
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:23:22
KW - Macau SAR
KW - Special education needs
KW - agency
KW - disability
KW - inclusive education
KW - participation
KW - students' voice
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Classroom management into learning: using phenomenography to analyse student teachers’ conceptions of classroom management
AU - Correia, Ana Maria
T2 - Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional
AB - Classroom management is a critical area in the curriculum of teacher education programs. Student teachers’ conceptions of the role of the teacher as a class leader are frequently backed by their intuition and experience as students and socio-cultural context rather than evidence-based. This paper examines the conceptions of classroom management held by a multicultural group of forty-four student teachers attending a teacher education program at a higher education institute in Macao. The study aims at understanding the patterns of variation expressed by student teachers regarding the purpose and relevance of the object of learning. It compares a) the patterns of variation in students’ views of classroom management, and b) the students’ learning progress based on the pre-and post-test. The phenomenographic approach was adopted as the conceptual framework. Participants handwritten transcripts from student teachers at the first and last sessions of the course are the primary type of data collection. The findings show that changes in student teachers’ understanding of the conceptions of classroom management occurred during the course. The initial preferences for disciplinary approaches to classroom leadership have given way to conceptions of promoting the integration of classroom management into learning. The participants expressed increasing adherence to classroom management systems targeting and providing behavioural and academic supports and interventions to children and adolescents with and without special needs.
DA - 2019/01/01/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.34632/INVESTIGACAOEDUCACIONAL.2019.5300
DP - DOI.org (Datacite)
VL - n. 19
SP - 257
EP - 280 Páginas
LA - en
ST - Classroom management into learning
UR - https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/investigacaoeducacional/article/view/5300
Y2 - 2021/04/26/09:32:54
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A análise da cultura organizacional escolar através dos seus artefactos
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Costa, Adelino
T2 - Revista do Fórum Português de Administração Educacional,
DA - 2003///
PY - 2003
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Liderança feminina nas escolas de Macau: uma abordagem exploratória
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Costa, Jorge
T2 - Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Educacional
DA - 2004/01/01/
PY - 2004
DO - 10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2004.3216
DP - revistas.ucp.pt
IS - 3
SP - 89
EP - 109
LA - pt
SN - 2182-4614
ST - Liderança feminina nas escolas de Macau
UR - https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/investigacaoeducacional/article/view/3216
Y2 - 2021/04/26/09:41:05
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN A CONFUCIAN-HERITAGE CULTURE AND TEACHERS' SENTIMENTS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS INCLUSION IN MACAU
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Forlin, Chris
AU - Teixeira, Vitor Manuel dos Santos
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
AU - Monteiro, Elisa
AB - Macau Special Administration Region (Macau SAR) is in the process of revising legislation concerning special and inclusive education. While the institutional discourse revolves around establishing inclusive education, it is unclear as to how the proposed changes will enable or depress this from occurring. This research, therefore, examined teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion as an indication of how well the new legislation may be received. Specifically, it investigated the interplay between 508 teachers working in private schools in Macau, that identified themselves as being inclusive schools, and teachers’ sentiments and attitudes towards the acceptance of inclusion and the role that Confucian values might play in shaping these attitudes. Discussion focusses on four key outcomes that need to be addressed if a significant improvement in including all children in regular schools in Macau is to be achieved. These include the need (1) to clarify the concept of inclusion at government, school, and teacher levels as it currently has ambiguous meaning; (2) to provide teachers with more opportunities to have systematic contacts with students with SEN, as this is crucial to improving their sentiments and attitudes toward people with disability; (3) to provide professional learning about inclusive education with better partnerships between teacher education institutions and schools to bridge theory and practice; and (4) to review the hidden influence of the subtle levels of time-honoured Confucian beliefs in Macau, which are not manifest nor easily detected but possibly have a deep impact on day-to-day practices.
DA - 2019/11/20/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.5281/ZENODO.3548921
DP - USJ Library
UR - https://zenodo.org/record/3548921
Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:08:06
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The interplay between a Confucian-heritage culture and teachers’ sentiments and attitudes towards inclusion in Macao
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Monteiro, Elisa
AU - Kuok, Angus
AU - Forlin, Christine
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
T2 - European Journal of Special Education Research
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
VL - 5
IS - 2
SP - 43
EP - 60
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Catholic schools and inclusive education in Macao: a journey of a thousand miles
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
T2 - EDUCA - International Catholic Journal of Education
DA - 2017/06/05/
PY - 2017
VL - 3
LA - pt-PT
ST - Catholic schools and inclusive education in Macao
UR - https://educa.fmleao.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Educa_3_06_Correia_Ana_M.-Teixeira_Vitor_S.pdf
Y2 - 2021/02/10/10:07:57
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - "The will and the way of inclusive education in Macao",
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
T2 - Asian Education and Development Studies
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
DO - https:// doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-05-2016-0040
VL - 6
IS - 4
SP - 401
EP - 413
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Home–School Collaboration in Assessment, Placement, and Individual Education Plan Development for Children With Special Education Needs in Macao: The Views of Parents
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
AU - Forlin, Chris
T2 - School Community Journal
AB - The aim of this study was to explore home–school collaboration in the areas of assessment, placement, and Individual Education Plan (IEP) development for children identified with disabilities or special educational needs (SEN) in Macao. Despite the noted benefits of parent–school partnerships from prior research, minimal research has been conducted from the perspective of parents of children with SEN to examine whether these partnerships materialize in the context of Macao. Participants included 115 parents of school-aged children diagnosed with SEN. They provided demographic information and completed a 36-item questionnaire derived from two validated instruments. The research identified a range of factors which hinder parental involvement in decision-making and in the inclusion of children with SEN in optimal ways in Macao schools. Parents indicated they were not receiving relevant information and assessment feedback from the teachers; they were minimally involved in the IEP process, and their children were not receiving one-to-one support, regardless of the type of placement. Parents also underlined issues related to the timing of assessment procedures. Parents of children attending special classes in regular schools voiced more satisfaction with support provision than parents of children following the full inclusion model. Recommendations about how services could be improved for greater parental involvement are discussed.
Key Words: parental involvement, school–family collaboration, inclusion, special educational needs, Macao, Individual Education Plans, IEP
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
VL - 31
IS - 1
UR - https://www.adi.org/journal/2021ss/CorreiaEtAlSS21.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The Political and Economic Dependence of the Press in Macao under Portuguese and Chinese Rule: Continuity and Change
AU - Costa-Ribeiro, Nelson
AU - Simões, José Manuel
T2 - Communication & Society
AB - The article analyses the media system in Macao, a special administrative region of China that transitioned from Portuguese to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, becoming one of cities in the world with the largest number of published newspapers per capita. Combining historical research with the analysis of contemporary empirical data collected through interviews with journalists working on the ground, the research demonstrates how there is a long tradition of state control that goes back to the colonial era and that has assumed different forms, ranging from outright censorship to physical intimidation of journalists and economic dependence on the government. Limitations and control strategies imposed on news reporting during the Portuguese administration continue to be practiced today by the Chinese authorities. Even so, journalists operating on the Macao media market tend to overstate the level of freedom they are given, which can be attributed to media outlets being economically dependent on the state. Nevertheless, the level of freedom attributed to the press is today higher than it had been during the colonial period with some critical voices being allowed to reach the media. This needs to be understood in the context of what has been defined as the Chinese safety valve strategy.
DA - 2021/01/12/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.15581/003.34.1.29-40
DP - revistas.unav.edu
VL - 34
IS - 1
SP - 29
EP - 40
LA - en
SN - 2386-7876
ST - The Political and Economic Dependence of the Press in Macao under Portuguese and Chinese Rule
UR - https://revistas.unav.edu/index.php/communication-and-society/article/view/35382
Y2 - 2023/04/11/03:49:39
KW - Censorship
KW - Journalism Practice
KW - Media Systems
KW - Press Freedom
KW - Press Subsidies
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Subjective Wellbeing in China: A Review
AU - Davey, Gareth
AU - Rato, Ricardo
T2 - Journal of Happiness Studies
AB - We critically review studies of subjective wellbeing conducted in China by the International Wellbeing Group, and we evaluate the International Wellbeing Index (IWI), a new instrument they developed. Subjective wellbeing was positive and similar in studies across China, and conformed to the normative range. Its resilience (PWI = 61.2–67.1) mirrors survey findings conducted in Western countries, in agreement with Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis. Reliability, validity and psychometric analyses support the utility of the IWI as a measure of subjective wellbeing. Our conclusions have implications for research and social development in China, discussed further in this review.
DA - 2012/04/01/
PY - 2012
DO - 10.1007/s10902-011-9266-6
DP - Springer Link
VL - 13
IS - 2
SP - 333
EP - 346
J2 - J Happiness Stud
LA - en
SN - 1573-7780
ST - Subjective Wellbeing in China
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9266-6
Y2 - 2023/04/12/03:26:05
KW - China
KW - Happiness
KW - International wellbeing index
KW - Quality of life
KW - Subjective wellbeing
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Lead: An iOS Application to Help in the Construction of New Habits
AU - de Aguiar, André Wescley Oliveira
AU - Bezerra, Jagni Dasa Horta
AU - Marques, João Alexandre Lobo
AU - de Alexandria, Auzuir Ripardo
T2 - International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DP - Google Scholar
VL - 9
IS - 4
ST - Lead
UR - http://www.ijiee.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=87&id=820
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response
AU - DeVito, Michael
AU - McNabb, Tyler
T2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
AB - In this essay, we put forth a novel solution to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, utilizing recent work done by Duncan Pritchard on radical skepticism. Key to the success of Plantinga’s argument is the doubting of the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties. We argue (viz. Pritchard and Wittgenstein) that the reliability of one’s cognitive faculties constitutes a hinge commitment, thus is exempt from rational evaluation. In turn, the naturalist who endorses hinge epistemology can deny the key premise in Plantinga’s argument and avoid the dilemma posed on belief in the conjunction of naturalism and evolution.
DA - 2022/04/29/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3
J2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
SN - 1572-8684
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-022-09832-3
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Divine foreknowledge and human free will: Embracing the paradox
AU - DeVito, Michael
AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton
T2 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
DA - 2021/02/25/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1007/s11153-021-09791-1
J2 - Int J Philos Relig
LA - en
SN - 0020-7047, 1572-8684
ST - Divine foreknowledge and human free will
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11153-021-09791-1
Y2 - 2021/09/06/03:18:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - COVID-19: Psychological and Psychosocial Impact, Fear, and Passion
AU - Dey, Nilanjan
AU - Mishra, Rishabh
AU - Fong, Simon James
AU - Santosh, K. C.
AU - Tan, Stanna
AU - Crespo, Rubén González
T2 - Digital Government: Research and Practice
DA - 2021/01/31/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1145/3428088
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 2
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 4
J2 - Digit. Gov.: Res. Pract.
LA - en
SN - 2691-199X, 2639-0175
ST - COVID-19
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3428088
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:48:11
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Exploratory Study on the Possibility of Harmonizing Investment Protection Regimes within the OHADA Zone
AU - Diakité, A. D.
AU - Thiam, A. B.
T2 - Transnational Dispute Management (TDM)
AB - Abstract With its large population and natural resources, Africa needs investors who can sustain its development. At the same time, foreign investors expect returns on their investments. In ...
DA - 2022/02/06/
PY - 2022
DP - www.transnational-dispute-management.com
IS - Special Issue
J2 - TDM
SN - 1875-4120
UR - https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/journal-advance-publication-article.asp?key=1942
Y2 - 2022/11/09/04:08:18
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Motives of Traditional and Emerging Donors in Aid Giving: Comparative Study between China and France
AU - Diakite, Ansoumane D.
AU - Phillips, Jenny O. L.
T2 - Journal of Social and Political Sciences
AB - Since the beginning of bilateral aid giving in the aftermath of the Second World War, the motives for aid giving have changed from being purely political and humanitarian to a mix of different interests. While poverty reduction is frequently stated as the goal of aid giving, it is commonplace for donors to use aid to advance their national interests. The rise of new, emerging donors is creating discussion in both the political and academic fields of aid giving. Traditional or western donors see emerging donors, such as China’s efforts in aid-giving as seeking the natural resources of the recipient countries. This paper provides a historical analysis of the aid-giving motivations underlying an emerging donor, China, and a traditional donor, France. The motives for China’s and France’s aid giving to African countries, with special focus on Guinea, show a great number of similarities.
DA - 2019/12/27/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.31014/aior.1991.02.04.140
DP - Zenodo
VL - 2
IS - 4
SP - 1026
EP - 1037
LA - eng
ST - Motives of Traditional and Emerging Donors in Aid Giving
UR - https://zenodo.org/record/3594277#.YBtkopMzZTY
Y2 - 2021/02/04/03:07:19
KW - Aid Giving Motives, Emerging Donor, Traditional Donor, Poverty Reduction
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - China’s Aid policy approach to Poverty Alleviation in the recipient country: A Case study of the Republic of Guinea
AU - Diakite, Ansoumane Douty
T2 - Journal of Social Studies (JSS)
AB - This paper examines the extent to which China’s aid policies integrate poverty alleviation as a goal of their aid in general, particularly in Guinea. More specifically, the paper analyzed how aid donors focus on poverty alleviation and which policies and mechanisms are in place to address poverty in the countries receiving aid. Regarding the methodology, the author collected data from secondary sources, including government declarations of donors, policy documents at both the donor and recipient levels, as well as from scholarly publications. The following findings resulted from study: China’s aid policies have progressively incorporated poverty alleviationobjectives and identified sectors for intervention against poverty. However, the limitations of China approach to poverty is that China adopts a top-down approach to poverty reduction and lacks of an impact evaluation mechanism based on poverty alleviation.
DA - 2023/04/05/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.21831/jss.v19i1.52514
DP - journal.uny.ac.id
VL - 19
IS - 1
SP - 15
EP - 40
LA - en
SN - 2721-4036
ST - China’s Aid policy approach to Poverty Alleviation in the recipient country
UR - https://journal.uny.ac.id/index.php/jss/article/view/52514
Y2 - 2023/05/23/09:49:58
KW - Aid policy
KW - China
KW - Guinea
KW - Poverty alleviation
KW - Strategy
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Perspectives of Local Communities on the Impact of Chinese Aid: A Case Study of China's Aid Projects in the Education Sector in Guinea
AU - Diakite, Ansoumane Douty
T2 - Journal of Globalization Studies
AB - China's re-emergence as an aid donor has attracted the attention and criticism from Western donors, academia, and the media. In contrast to traditional donors, China's aid has been portrayed as anti-poverty aid, mainly due to its combination with other instruments, such as investment, and the absence of any political or economic conditions. This paper examines the impact of Chinese aid projects in Guinea's education sector from the perspective of the beneficiaries. The author collected data from both primary (interviews) and secondary (document analysis) sources. The present study concludes that China's aid projects in the education sector have received both positive and negative feedback, mainly because the recipients' needs have not been appropriately targeted. This study contributes to the literature on China's role in Africa. More specifically, it discusses the conditions for aid effectiveness in the field of education. Moreover, in the context of the globalization of aid practices, the study proposes best practices for China to adopt in order to improve the practices of its aid delivery. The novelty of this study lies in the methodology (qualitative method) used to understand China's aid from the perspective of the beneficiaries of its aid.
DA - 2023/11/30/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.30884/jogs/2023.02.05
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 85
EP - 103
J2 - JGS
SN - 20758103
ST - Perspectives of Local Communities on the Impact of Chinese Aid
UR - https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3611332/
Y2 - 2024/01/25/04:01:09
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Categorization of Foreign Aid Donors: A Critical Review of the Criteria in Light of China's Reemergence as a Donor
AU - Diakite, Ansoumane Douty
AU - Marques, João Alexandre Lobo
T2 - Journal of Global South Studies
AB - Over the past several decades, the dichotomy between traditional and emerging donors has been based upon the notion that emerging donors (such as China) support authoritarian regimes and use foreign aid to pursue their economic interests at the expense of the poor in the recipient countries. Accordingly, Western donors, media, and scholars portray Chinese aid as non-poverty-focused. This study aims to review and analyze whether the dichotomy between traditional and emerging donors is still relevant in the current aid system and to propose a new and rigorous criterion for recategorizing donors. In terms of methodology, this study relies on secondary data, including scholarly works on traditional and emerging donors and foreign aid policy documents. Conclusions based on the research indicate that the divide between traditional donors and (re)emerging donors is becoming more ambiguous. The literature review indicates that the two donors’ aids had a mixed impact and that their approaches were similar. This paper highlights the importance of developing different recategorization criteria depending on the impact of aid.
DA - 2023/12/11/
PY - 2023
DP - journals.upress.ufl.edu
VL - 40
IS - 2
LA - en
SN - 2476-1419
ST - Categorization of Foreign Aid Donors
UR - https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/JGSS/article/view/2381
Y2 - 2023/12/18/08:58:13
KW - China and development assistance committee donors
KW - aid policies
KW - categorization of donors
KW - sustainable development goal
KW - traditional and emerging donors
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Sulfur isotopic compositions of sulfides along the Southwest Indian Ridge: implications for mineralization in ultramafic rocks
AU - Dias, Ágata
AU - Ding, Teng
AU - Tao, Chunhui
AU - Liang, Jin
AU - Chen, Jie
AU - Wu, Bin
AU - Ma, Dongsheng
AU - Zhang, Rongqing
AU - Wang, Jia
AU - Liao, Shili
AU - Wang, Yuan
AU - Yang, Weifang
AU - Liu, Jia
AU - Li, Wei
AU - Zhang, Guoyin
AU - Huang, Hui
T2 - Mineralium Deposita
DA - 2020/10/31/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1007/s00126-020-01025-0
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
J2 - Miner Deposita
LA - en
SN - 0026-4598, 1432-1866
ST - Sulfur isotopic compositions of sulfides along the Southwest Indian Ridge
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00126-020-01025-0
Y2 - 2021/03/30/07:28:44
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Geochemistry and stable isotope constraints on high-temperature activity from sediment cores of the Saldanha hydrothermal field
AU - Dias, Ágata
AU - Früh-Green, G.L.
AU - Bernasconi, S.M.
AU - Barriga, F.J.A.S.
T2 - Marine Geology
DA - 2011/01//
PY - 2011
DO - 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.017
VL - 279
IS - 1-4
SP - 128
EP - 140
J2 - Marine Geology
LA - en
SN - 00253227
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322710002884
Y2 - 2021/03/30/07:34:19
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Surface sediment composition and distribution of hydrothermal derived elements at the Duanqiao-1 hydrothermal field, Southwest Indian Ridge
AU - Dias, Ágata
AU - Liao, Shili
AU - Tao, Chunhui
AU - Su, Xin
AU - Yang, Zhen
AU - Ni, Jianyu
AU - Liang, Jin
AU - Yang, Weifang
AU - Liu, Jia
AU - Li, Wei
AU - Dong, Chuanwan
T2 - Marine Geology
DA - 2019/10//
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.105975
VL - 416
SP - 105975
J2 - Marine Geology
LA - en
SN - 00253227
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0025322719300969
Y2 - 2021/03/30/07:30:43
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Serpentinization and its implications for ultramafic-hosted sulfide mineralization: A case study at the Tianzuo hydrothermal field, 63.5°E, Southwest Indian Ridge
AU - Ding, Teng
AU - Dias, Ágata Alveirinho
AU - Wang, Jia
AU - Tan, Tingting
AU - Liang, Jin
AU - Wu, Bin
AU - Tao, Chunhui
T2 - Marine Geology
AB - Reaction of ultramafic rocks with seawater and subsequent serpentinization has been considered one of the most important factors controlling the formation of ultramafic-hosted seafloor massive sulfide (UM-SMS) deposits. However, the mineralization processes responsible for these deposits remain poorly understood, in particular because they are less abundant as compared with their basaltic counterparts. In this work, serpentinites with different alteration grades collected at the Tianzuo hydrothermal field (THF), Southwest Indian Ridge, were studied. Mineralogical and chemical analyses were performed in the secondary opaque minerals resulting from serpentinization to understand the role of this process during the formation of UM-SMS deposits. Our results show that these opaque minerals mainly consist of magnetite, hematite, pentlandite, and minor pyrite, suggestive of high but varying oxygen and sulfur fugacities. The hematite is characterized by an enrichment in Mg, Si, Ni, and Co as compared with magnetite. Pentlandite associated with hematite has elevated and consistent Ni contents as compared with that associated with magnetite. These results indicate that breakdown and decomposition of primary silicate and sulfide minerals during serpentinization has controlled the sources of ore-forming materials. Concentrations of Te are variable and show a positive correlation with Ni in pentlandite associated with magnetite or hematite, suggesting that gabbroic intrusions provided additional material to the hydrothermal system. Oxidation and sulfidation conditions are ideal for the formation of trisulfur ion S3− in THF, which can significantly improve the capability of hydrothermal fluids for leaching ore-forming metals from the wall rocks, promoting the formation of THF. In addition of reduced systems, hydrothermal fluids with high oxygen and sulfur fugacities triggered by extensive seawater infiltration can most likely also develop in ultramafic-hosted systems. These results suggest that the areas with well-developed fractures are promising candidates for further exploration of UM-SMS deposits along mid-oceanic ridges.
DA - 2023/01/01/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106969
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 455
SP - 106969
J2 - Marine Geology
LA - en
SN - 0025-3227
ST - Serpentinization and its implications for ultramafic-hosted sulfide mineralization
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322722002407
Y2 - 2022/12/25/11:11:31
KW - Opaque minerals
KW - Oxidation and sulfidation
KW - Sulfide mineralization
KW - Tianzuo hydrothermal field
KW - Ultramafic rocks
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Trace-element compositions of sulfides from inactive Tianzuo hydrothermal field, Southwest Indian Ridge: Implications for ultramafic rocks hosting mineralization
AU - Ding, Teng
AU - Wang, Jia
AU - Tao, Chunhui
AU - Dias, Ágata Alveirinho
AU - Liang, Jin
AU - Wang, Yuan
AU - Chen, Jie
AU - Wu, Bin
AU - Huang, Hui
T2 - Ore Geology Reviews
AB - The recently explored inactive Tianzuo hydrothermal field, in the amagmatic segment of the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), is closely associated with detachment faults. In this site, sulfide minerals are hosted by serpentine-bearing ultramafic rocks and include high-temperature (isocubanite, sphalerite, and minor pyrrhotite) and low-temperature (pyrite I, marcasite, pyrite II, and covellite) phases. In this study, trace-element concentrations of isocubanite and pyrite II were used to elucidate mineralization processes in ultramafic rocks hosting sulfides. Results show that isocubanite is enriched in metals such as Cu, Co, Sn, Te, Zn, Se, Pb, Bi, Cd, Ag, In, and Mn, and pyrite II is enriched in Mo and Tl. The marked enrichment in Te, Cu, Co, and In in isocubanite (compared with Se, Zn, Ni, and Sn, respectively) is most likely due to the contribution of magmatic fluids from gabbroic intrusions beneath the hydrothermal field. The intrusion of gabbroic magmas would have enhanced serpentinization reactions and provided a relatively oxidizing environment through the dissolution of anhydrite precipitated previously in the reaction zone, within high temperature and low pH conditions. This might have facilitated the extraction of metals by initial hydrothermal fluids, leading to the general enrichment of most metals in isocubanite. Metals in pyrite II have compositions similar to those of isocubanite, except for strong depletion in magmatically derived Te, Cu, Co, and In. This means that serpentinization processes had a dominating role in pyrite II precipitation as well. The enrichment of pyrite II in Mo and Tl is also indicative of seawater contribution in its composition. The study concludes that serpentinization reactions contribute effectively both to high- and low-temperature sulfide mineralization at Tianzuo hydrothermal field, with gabbroic intrusions further promoting high-temperature sulfide mineralization, providing additional metals, fluids and heat. In contrast, low-temperature sulfide mineralization occurred during the cooling of gabbroic intrusions, with decreasing rates of serpentinization reactions and a significant influence of seawater.
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104421
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 140
SP - 104421
J2 - Ore Geology Reviews
LA - en
SN - 0169-1368
ST - Trace-element compositions of sulfides from inactive Tianzuo hydrothermal field, Southwest Indian Ridge
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136821004479
Y2 - 2022/09/21/13:41:17
KW - SWIR
KW - Serpentinization
KW - Sulfide
KW - Tianzuo
KW - Trace-element
KW - Ultramafic rocks
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Evaluating Mathematical Models for Morphological Classification of the QRS Complex
AU - Do Vale Madeiro, J.P.
AU - Barreto, D.
AU - Marques, J.A.L.
AU - Salinet, J.L.
T2 - Computing in Cardiology
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DO - 10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005790
DP - ORCID
VL - 2019-September
UR - 10.23919/CinC49843.2019.9005790
Y2 - 2021/02/03/09:10:21
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Evaluation of mathematical models for QRS feature extraction and QRS morphology classification in ECG signals
AU - do Vale Madeiro, João Paulo
AU - Lobo Marques, João Alexandre
AU - Han, Tao
AU - Coury Pedrosa, Roberto
T2 - Measurement
AB - It is plausible to assume that the component waves in ECG signals constitute a unique human characteristic because morphology and amplitudes of recorded beats are governed by multiple individual factors. According to the best of our knowledge, the issue of automatically classifying different ’identities’ of QRS morphology has not been explored within the literature. This work proposes five alternative mathematical models for representing different QRS morphologies providing the extraction of a set of features related to QRS shape. The technique incorporates mechanisms of combining the mathematical functions Gaussian, Mexican-Hat and Rayleigh probability density function and also a mechanism for clipping the waveform of those functions. The searching for the optimal parameters which minimize the normalized RMS error between each mathematical model and a given QRS search window enables to find an optimal model. Such modeling behaves as a robust alternative for delineating heartbeats, classifying beat morphologies, detecting subtle and anomalous changes, compression of QRS complex windows among others. The validation process evaluates the ability of each model to represent different QRS morphology classes within 159 full ECG signal records from QT database and 584 QRS search windows from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database. From the experimental results, we rank the winning rates for which each mathematical model best models and also discriminates the most predominant QRS morphologies Rs, rS, RS, qR, qRs, R, rR’s and QS. Furthermore, the average time errors computed for QRS onset and offset locations when using the corresponding winner mathematical models for delineation purposes were, respectively, 12.87±8.5 ms and 1.47±10.06 ms.
DA - 2020/05/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1016/j.measurement.2020.107580
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 156
SP - 107580
J2 - Measurement
LA - en
SN - 0263-2241
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224120301172
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:15:22
KW - ECG feature extraction
KW - Mathematical modeling
KW - Morphology classification
KW - QRS complex delineation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - “Wisdom in Aristotle and Aquinas,” Existenz
AU - Eh, E.
T2 - International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and the Arts
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
VL - 2
IS - 12
SP - 19
EP - 24
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Confucian Perspective on Tertiary Education for the Common Good
AU - Eh, Edmond
T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute
AB - Confucian education is best captured by the programme described in the Great Learning. Education is presented first as the process of self-cultivation for the sake of developing virtuous character. Self-cultivation then ...
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
IS - 3
SP - 26
EP - 34
LA - en
UR - https://mrijournal.riccimac.org/articles/issue_03/eng/3_MRI_Journal_Issue_Three_(EE_English).pdf
Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:25:53
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Aristotle, Lubich And Ratzinger On A New Economic Paradigm
AU - Eh, Edmond
T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
IS - 7
UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-7/160-aristotle-lubich-and-ratzinger-on-a-new-economic-paradigm
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau | Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
AU - Eh, Edmond
AB - In this paper, I address the phenomenon of syncretism with respect to Chinese religions. An analysis of the syncretism that takes place between the three major Chinese religious traditions is first done in its personal and social dimensions. The social structure of Chinese religion is then used as a framework to understand how Buddhism and Daoism were made compatible with Confucianism. All this will serve as a background for the case study of Macau, where Chinese religious syncretism is very much alive. Three popular religious festivals are celebrated annually and simultaneously on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, namely, zuilongjie (醉龍節) Feast of the Drunken Dragon, tangongdan (譚公誕) Tam Kung Festival and fodanjie (佛誕節) Feast of the Buddha.
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
DP - journals.usj.edu.mo
IS - 2
SP - 61
EP - 78
LA - en-US
ST - Chinese Religious Syncretism in Macau | Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/20/16
Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:32:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Wisdom in Aristotle and Aquinas: From Metaphysics to Mysticism
AU - Eh, Edmond
T2 - Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics, and the Arts
AB - This essay contains an attempt to trace the evolution of the concept of wisdom as found in the thought of Aristotle and Aquinas in terms of how the philosophical concept of wisdom as an intellectual virtue is understood and used to express the theological concept of wisdom as a gift of the Holy Spirit. The main aim is to understand how Aquinas derived the concept of wisdom from Aristotle's metaphysics and developed it in his mysticism. This research is based on a close study of Book Six of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, the corresponding sections of Aquinas' Sententia libri Ethicorum and question forty-five of the second part of the second part of Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. The insights gained from the study are then used to decipher the theoretical meaning of Augustine's famous saying: "love and do
what thou wilt" and to expound on the practical value of wisdom for religious leaders.
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
VL - 12
IS - 2
SP - 19
EP - 24
SN - 1932-1066
UR - https://existenz.us/volumes/Vol.12-2Eh.pdf
Y2 - 2021/02/09/08:37:45
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A receção da figura de Melquisedeque na literatura cristã latina
AU - Eleutério, JM
T2 - Didaskalia
AB - A interpretação da Escritura e das suas diferentes personagens enriquece a Tradição cristã, mas este processo de receção é muitas vezes marcado por debates e polémica …
DA - 2015///
PY - 2015
IS - Query date: 2023-04-12 11:19:04
UR - https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/didaskalia/article/view/2514
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Marian Piety and Ecumenical Convergence: Challenges and Opportunities
AU - Eleutério, JM
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious …
AB - In the Catholic world, the year 2017 is marked by the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions of Mary in Fátima, Portugal. Although the field of the devotional and popular …
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
IS - Query date: 2023-04-12 11:19:04
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/download/21/17
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality
AU - Eleutério, João Marques
T2 - Theological Studies
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
VL - 4
IS - 78
SP - 1007
EP - 1008
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Editorial Preface
AU - Estadieu, G
AU - Marcos, Aderito
AU - Caires, Carlos
AU - Mendes, Daniel
AU - Rodrigues, Nuno
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
IS - Special Issue
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Static recording apparatus for soundscape analysis in Macau
AU - Estadieu, Gerald
AU - Cheung, Yin Yan
AU - Pestana, Pedro Duarte
AU - Barbosa, Alvaro
T2 - INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
AB - The concept of Soundscape was initially proposed to study the relationship between humans and their sonic environment. It has gathered momentum from academia to environmentalists and policymakers throughout the years. The study and characterisation of Soundscapes can be complex as it
tries to take a holistic and qualitative approach rather than simply quantifying sound pressure levels. This paper introduces a comprehensive Soundscape study process in an ongoing research project in Macao (China), a small territory (32.9 km2) and one of the most densely populated areas in
the world. The paper seeks to show a first version of a technical solution to systematically capture the local soundscape, analyse it, classify it, and ultimately deliver a dataset library and the intangible qualities of the environmental sound. This implementation, including technical documentation,
code, and sound library with strong labelling, is presented under an open-source license to encourage future collaborative research. Finally, the paper offers suggestions on further developing the apparatus to reach a systematic and near real-time soundscape analysis with the development of
a machine learning system.
DA - 2023/11/30/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.3397/IN_2023_1088
DP - IngentaConnect
VL - 268
IS - 1
SP - 7246
EP - 7256
J2 - INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Social cues in the expression of sequential alternative reproductive tactics in young males of the peacock blenny, Salaria pavo
AU - Fagundes, Teresa
AU - Simões, Mariana G.
AU - Gonçalves, David
AU - Oliveira, Rui F.
T2 - Physiology & Behavior
DA - 2012/10//
PY - 2012
DO - 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.07.011
VL - 107
IS - 3
SP - 283
EP - 291
J2 - Physiology & Behavior
LA - en
SN - 00319384
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0031938412002740
Y2 - 2021/02/19/09:01:16
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Birth date predicts alternative life‐history pathways in a fish with sequential reproductive tactics
AU - Fagundes, Teresa
AU - Simões, Mariana G.
AU - Saraiva, João L.
AU - Ros, Albert F. H.
AU - Gonçalves, David
AU - Oliveira, Rui F.
T2 - Functional Ecology
A2 - Grindstaff, Jennifer
DA - 2015/12//
PY - 2015
DO - 10.1111/1365-2435.12465
VL - 29
IS - 12
SP - 1533
EP - 1542
J2 - Funct Ecol
LA - en
SN - 0269-8463, 1365-2435
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2435.12465
Y2 - 2021/02/19/08:51:47
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Chromosome-level reference genome of the Siamese fighting fish Betta splendens, a model species for the study of aggression
AU - Fan, Guangyi
AU - Chan, Judy
AU - Ma, Kailong
AU - Yang, Binrui
AU - Zhang, He
AU - Yang, Xianwei
AU - Shi, Chengcheng
AU - Law, Henry
AU - Ren, Zhitao
AU - Xu, Qiwu
AU - Liu, Qun
AU - Wang, Jiahao
AU - Chen, Wenbin
AU - Shao, Libin
AU - Gonçalves, David
AU - Ramos, Andreia
AU - Cardoso, Sara D
AU - Guo, Min
AU - Cai, Jing
AU - Xu, Xun
AU - Wang, Jian
AU - Yang, Huanming
AU - Liu, Xin
AU - Wang, Yitao
T2 - GigaScience
DA - 2018/07/11/
PY - 2018
DO - 10.1093/gigascience/giy087
LA - en
SN - 2047-217X
UR - https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giy087/5054042
Y2 - 2021/02/19/08:48:24
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Critical Look at Blockchain-Interactive Generative Art
AU - Farinha, Daniel Filipe
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
AB - Artists are increasingly using blockchain as a tool for trading digital artwork as non-fungible tokens (NFTs); however, some are also beginning to experiment with the blockchain as a medium for generative art, using it as a seed for a generative process or to continuously modify an evolving piece. This paper surveys, reviews, and classifies the state-of-the-art in blockchain-interactive NFTs and presents a liberal-arts critique of the opportunities and threats posed by this technology, whilst addressing existing criticism on the broader topic of art-related NFTs. The paper examines some of the most experimental pieces minted on the Hic et Nunc (HEN) and Teia NFT marketplaces, for which a purpose-built research tool was developed. The survey reveals some reliance on centralised infrastructure, namely blockchain indexers, placing undesired trust on third parties which undermines the potential longevity of the artwork. The paper concludes with recommendations for artists and NFT platform designers for developing more resilient and economically sustainable architectures.
DA - 2022/09/16/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.308809
DP - ACM Digital Library
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 17
J2 - Int. J. Creat. Interaces Comput. Graph.
SN - 1947-3117
UR - https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCICG.308809
Y2 - 2023/03/17/01:48:28
KW - Art Preservation
KW - Blockchain
KW - Crypto Art
KW - Dynamic NFT
KW - Generative Art
KW - Non-Fungible Token
KW - Provenance
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Non-Native Raters and Native Speech: Other Perspective for the Research on Comprehensibility of Second Language Input
AU - Figueiredo, Sandra
AU - Simões, Edlia
AU - Martins, Margarida Alves
AU - Fernandes da Silva, Carlos
T2 - synergy
AB - Abstract: This study examines how specific variables such as age, first language, nationality, school grade and socioeconomic status (SES) affect the comprehensibility of second language (L2) speech in 92 second/non-native language learners. Comprehensibility refers to the degree of speech understanding. Fluency, rhythm, grammatical features and word stressing are concurrent factors for the listening comprehension (and the listener comprehensibility) mainly in L2 context. Research evidence focused the quality and differences of speech samples produced by the L2 learners and the comprehensibility rated by native speakers. In reverse scenario there is less evidence on the judgment of L2 learners for speech samples produced by native speakers. In this study we analysed if the comprehensibility ability of 92 young Portuguese L2 learners differ in the following conditions: age, nationality, home language, school grade, proficiency and socioeconomic status. Speech (one text) was recorded by a native speaker and was judged by L2 speakers using 1-5 Likert scale for comprehension difficulty. Main results showed that neither age nor home language had influence for comprehensibility, but socioeconomic, nationality and grades accounted for statistical differences between the groups tested. Also, data suggested that phonetic features are more likely important for the beginner in second language learning compared to the semantic features of speech that heavily depend on vocabulary domain.
Keywords: Speech comprehensibility, nationality, grades, socioeconomic status, second language. Read more →
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
VL - 5
SP - 15
EP - 20
LA - en-US
ST - Non-Native Raters and Native Speech
UR - http://synergypublishers.com/downloads/ijslpav5a3/
Y2 - 2021/02/10/09:49:28
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Wrestling with God
AU - Flores, Randolf
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives In Religious Studies
AB - This study will discuss the following Old Testament texts: Gen 32:23-32; Jon 1:17; Tob 6:1-9; and Exod 4:24-26 and will argue that these are about the initiation of a person to do a divine mission. Some parallels from Asia—Epic Gilgamesh, texts from Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Philippine epic, Biag ni Lam-ang will also be taken into consideration to shed light on them. It will also present their interpretation as typoi of the sacraments of initiations found in early Christian literature and art.
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
DP - journals.usj.edu.mo
LA - en-US
ST - Wrestling with God | Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/7
Y2 - 2021/03/10/02:45:16
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Relationship between Traditional Chinese Beliefs about Aetiology of Mental Disorders and Help Seeking: A Survey of the Elderly in Macao
AU - Found, A.
T2 - East Asian Archives of Psychiatry: Official Journal of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists = Dong Ya Jing Shen Ke Xue Zhi: Xianggang Jing Shen Ke Yi Xue Yuan Qi Kan
AB - OBJECTIVE: A wide range of factors can influence help-seeking attitudes when individuals experience a mental disorder. The current study investigated the relationship between traditional Chinese beliefs related to the aetiology of mental disorders and help-seeking attitudes among elderly participants in Macao.
METHODS: In order to ensure the suitability of participants for inclusion in this study, the participants were required to complete an initial screening test using the Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ). Participants who successfully passed the test (n = 183) completed a questionnaire that included the Inventory of Attitudes Toward Seeking Mental Health Services (IASMHS), a set of 9 items related to traditional Chinese beliefs about aetiology of mental disorders and demographic items.
RESULTS: The IASMHS scores were higher for female participants and for participants who had completed high school compared with those who had never attended school or who had only completed primary education. Endorsement of traditional Chinese beliefs about the aetiology of mental disorders was higher for male participants. There was a negative correlation between traditional Chinese aetiology beliefs related to mental disorders and help-seeking attitudes.
CONCLUSION: Traditional Chinese beliefs related to the aetiology of mental disorders are a negative factor that inhibits help seeking. Implications for efforts to increase the utilisation of mental health services by the elderly are discussed.
DA - 2016/03//
PY - 2016
DP - PubMed
VL - 26
IS - 1
SP - 3
EP - 9
J2 - East Asian Arch Psychiatry
LA - eng
SN - 2224-7041
ST - Relationship between Traditional Chinese Beliefs about Aetiology of Mental Disorders and Help Seeking
KW - Aged
KW - Asian People
KW - Asian continental ancestry group
KW - Cultural Characteristics
KW - Female
KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW - Help-seeking behavior
KW - Humans
KW - Macau
KW - Male
KW - Mental Disorders
KW - Mental disorders / etiology
KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Negative affect among undergraduates: Why are higher levels reported by Asian students?: Negative affect in Asian undergraduates
AU - Found, Andrew
AU - Cheong, Hoi Ieng
AU - Duarte, Carlos
T2 - Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
DA - 2012/09//
PY - 2012
DO - 10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00193.x
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 4
IS - 3
SP - 210
EP - 218
J2 - Asia-Pacific Psychiatry
LA - en
SN - 17585864
ST - Negative affect among undergraduates
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00193.x
Y2 - 2023/04/12/03:56:17
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Attitudes to mental illness: the effects of labels and symptoms
AU - Found, Andrew
AU - Duarte, Carlos
T2 - East Asian Archives of Psychiatry: Official Journal of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists = Dong Ya Jing Shen Ke Xue Zhi: Xianggang Jing Shen Ke Yi Xue Yuan Qi Kan
AB - OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of different Chinese terms for mental illness and related symptoms on the attitudes of adolescents towards sufferers of a mental illness.
METHODS: A survey of 578 secondary school students attending 4 schools in Macao was conducted. Each student read a short passage about a new student with a mental illness joining their class. Different versions used different labels to refer to the illness of the new student. The symptoms describing the new student also varied: either describing positive symptoms of schizophrenia or mild negative symptoms only. The attitudes of participants to the new student described were measured.
RESULTS: There were significantly more negative attitudes towards the sufferer of a mental illness referred to with a psychiatric label, compared with a general label 'illness'. Participants also expressed significantly more negative attitudes when positive symptoms of schizophrenia were used to describe the new student. The results are discussed in terms of the influence of labels and symptoms on attitudes towards mental illness.
CONCLUSIONS: These results supported the existence of 2 additive costs in terms of negative attitudes towards sufferers of mental illness, one associated with the label and the other associated with the symptoms.
DA - 2011/09//
PY - 2011
DP - PubMed
VL - 21
IS - 3
SP - 91
EP - 98
J2 - East Asian Arch Psychiatry
LA - eng
SN - 2224-7041
ST - Attitudes to mental illness
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adolescent Behavior
KW - Asian People
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Mental Disorders
KW - Stereotyping
KW - Students
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Young Adult
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The etiology of mental disorders: public endorsement of traditional Chinese beliefs in Macau
AU - Found, Andrew
AU - Duarte, Carlos
T2 - The International Journal of Social Psychiatry
AB - BACKGROUND: Public beliefs concerning the causes of mental disorders are important in their effective treatment. The relative importance of public beliefs related to the etiology of mental disorders among Chinese populations and their relationship to other attitudes to mental disorders are poorly understood.
AIMS: To investigate the endorsement of beliefs related to the etiology of mental disorders in Macau, in particular, traditional Chinese beliefs, and to explore their relationship to general attitudes towards mental disorders.
METHODS: A survey of 361 members of the public measured attitudes towards 32 possible causes of mental disorders as well as contact with and social distance from individuals with a mental disorder.
RESULTS: The results indicated that traditional Chinese beliefs were ranked with relatively low importance compared with psychosocial causes. Traditional beliefs related to two underlying factors and were significantly higher in participants with lower education levels. There was a significant negative correlation between endorsement of traditional beliefs and contact with individuals with a mental disorder and a significant positive correlation between endorsement of traditional beliefs and desired social distance from individuals with a mental disorder.
CONCLUSION: Factors underlying traditional Chinese beliefs concerning the causes of mental disorders are associated with more negative attitudes towards individuals with a mental disorder, with such beliefs more strongly endorsed by those with relatively lower education levels.
DA - 2013/12//
PY - 2013
DO - 10.1177/0020764012456811
DP - PubMed
VL - 59
IS - 8
SP - 789
EP - 800
J2 - Int J Soc Psychiatry
LA - eng
SN - 1741-2854
ST - The etiology of mental disorders
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Chinese
KW - Female
KW - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW - Humans
KW - Macau
KW - Male
KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional
KW - Mental Disorders
KW - Mental disorder
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Young Adult
KW - etiology
KW - lay theories
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Gender, sibling position and parental expectations: A study of Chinese college students
AU - Found, Andrew
AU - Sam, David
T2 - Journal of Family Studies
AB - Differences in parental expectations related to cultural background, gender and sibling position were investigated among Chinese college students in Macau. Three-hundred and forty-four Chinese college students completed a questionnaire which included measures of parental expectations and psychological distress, as well as information about their gender, cultural background (Mainland China or Macau) and sibling position. Participants born in mainland China reported significantly higher perceived parental expectations (PPE) compared with students from Macau. Contrary to predictions, there was no evidence of a difference in PPE in relation to gender or being the first-born sibling. These findings are discussed in terms of changes in family values and parental attitudes within Chinese society over the past few decades.
DA - 2013/12/01/
PY - 2013
DO - 10.5172/jfs.2013.19.3.285
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 19
IS - 3
SP - 285
EP - 296
SN - 1322-9400
ST - Gender, sibling position and parental expectations
UR - https://doi.org/10.5172/jfs.2013.19.3.285
Y2 - 2023/04/11/11:50:08
KW - Chinese
KW - gender
KW - parenting
KW - siblings
KW - students
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Religious Vows in their Mystic and Prophetic Dimensions
AU - Gallares, Judette
T2 - Religious Life Asia
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
VL - XXIV
IS - 2
SP - 65
EP - 84
LA - English
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Education in Religious Freedom
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
AB - The author emphasizes the crucial relevance of religious liberty and freedom of expression for a harmonious and peaceful development of modern societies. He follows the prophetic Declaration of Religious Freedom of Second Vatican Council (1965) with its constitutional limitation of governmental powers in matters of religion. The high value of religious freedom is judged as bulwark of all human rights and true capstone of sound human and societal developments, which have to be guarded against any form of infringements. In this regard, a reasonable education in religious freedom and liberty is indispensable for young people of the twenty-first century. Education in religious freedom in the context of moral and religious formation is based on the dignity of every human person and promotes a deeper mutual and cultural understanding by respecting the conscience of every human person. It thus carries the potential to diminish conflicts and clashes in a sustainable way. Educational reforms in countries have to include the high value of religious liberty and freedom as a main element and condition for human dignity and a peaceful global development.
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
IS - 1
SP - 77
EP - 99
LA - en-US
ST - Education in Religious Freedom | Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/10
Y2 - 2021/02/22/03:55:43
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Education in Religious Freedom: Path to Peace and Stability
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - Orientis Aura
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
VL - 1
SP - 77
EP - 99
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Ethical Investment’s Visible Hand: Methods And Transformative Potentials
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
IS - 7
UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-7/166-ethical-investment-s-visible-hand-methods-and-transformative-potentials
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - From Maximum Illud 1919 to the First National Synod Primum Concilium Sinensis 1924 in Shanghai: Historical & Theological Perspectives
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
DA - 2022/04/25/
PY - 2022
IS - 5
SP - 59
EP - 76
J2 - Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/42
Y2 - 2023/05/25/00:00:00
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Learning God’s Mercy: Spiritual Transformation According to Hos 11:8
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute
AB - A growing focus on God’s mercy and forgiveness emerged in the wake of the recent Pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. Our time with its multiple crises cries for healing, forgiveness, and the experience of God’s mercy. In social, political, and global terms, humanity craves for “lasting peace, born of the marriage of justice and mercy” (John Paul II, 2001, no. 15). The experience of God’s forgiveness, merciful healing and new life has been expressed many times in the Bible. But, theologically, it has never been formulated as directly as in Hosea 11:8, when God’s own heart becomes “turned over”, “converted” following the blaze of his own overwhelming compassion, paving the way for a fundamental spiritual transformation, rooted in forgiveness and mercy, that opens wellsprings of dignity, healing, and new life for all.
DA - 2022/10//
PY - 2022
IS - 10
UR - http://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-10/252-mrij10-5-eng
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Science and Laudato Si’ on the Paradigm Shift towards Sustainable Development
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - The Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute
AB - For sustainability researchers and global policy makers it is lucid clear that a radical turnaround of modern societies is needed to approach sustainable development paths. Pope Francis takes his stand on a basic paradigm shift in his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’: Care for our Common Home (2015). He calls for a radical shift of mindsets and ecological and cultural conversion which are needed for sustainability and a life in dignity for all. The author compares aspects from sustainability research and Laudato Si’ and shows how science and Francis spiritual-theological take converge. Both call for the need of new mindsets and spiritual resources to nourish just life-styles and sustainable societies.
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
IS - 2
LA - en-gb
UR - https://mrijournal.riccimac.org/index.php/en/issues/issue-2/24-science-and-laudato-si-on-the-paradigmshifttowards-sustainable-development
Y2 - 2021/02/19/09:17:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - “To Listen to the Language of Nature and to Act Accordingly” :: Natural Law as Beacon guiding to Human Flourishing and Ecological Civilization
AU - Gassner, Franz
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
AB - The article sets off from a speech given by Benedict XVI in the German Bundestag in 2011, where he requested an ecological learning process to aim at sustainable human development. Appreciating the Ecological Movement, he asked to learn to listen to Nature’s language and act accordingly, which he applies analogically to “human ecology”. The article bridges elements of “Listening to Nature” and the Natural Moral Law Tradition in Benedict’s speech and in Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudatu Si’ inview of serving human flourishing in an ecological civilization.
Keywords: Natural Moral Law; Nature, Laudatu Si’, Benedict XVI, Francis; Ecological Civilization/生態文明, Sustainable Development, Ecology of Man.
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
DP - journals.usj.edu.mo
IS - 6
SP - 3
EP - 21
LA - en
SN - 2519-5425
ST - “To Listen to the Language of Nature and to Act Accordingly”
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/118
Y2 - 2024/03/13/02:34:33
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An exploratory study of students' consumption of non‐alcoholic beverages in Nigeria: A qualitative perspective
AU - Gbadamosi, Ayantunji
AU - Olukayode Iwaloye, Ojo
AU - Bamber, David
T2 - Nutrition & Food Science
AB - Purpose – Given the diversity which exists among various groups of consumers, the purpose of this paper is to explore students' consumption of non‐alcoholic beverages in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Three focus groups and 20 in‐depth interviews were conducted with students in three universities located in Lagos, Nigeria. Findings – Initial findings indicate that these students' consumption of non‐alcoholic beverages is influenced in many ways. Nevertheless, the most striking of these influences are found to be convenience of purchase, along with availability, price, health concerns, and culture/social reasons. Originality/value – The main contribution of the study lies in the relevance of segmentation, targeting, and positioning activities of business organisations in respect of marketing of non‐alcoholic beverages. Based on the findings, the empirical study will serve as a valuable input to marketers in their planning, analysis, and implementation of appropriate marketing strategies to students vis‐à‐vis the highlighted influences on their consumption of this category of food. It will thus serve as a tool for creating competitive advantage in this prevailing volatile business environment.
DA - 2009/01/01/
PY - 2009
DO - 10.1108/00346650911002931
DP - Emerald Insight
VL - 39
IS - 6
SP - 609
EP - 618
SN - 0034-6659
ST - An exploratory study of students' consumption of non‐alcoholic beverages in Nigeria
UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/00346650911002931
Y2 - 2023/04/12/03:37:11
KW - Consumer behaviour
KW - Nigeria
KW - Non‐alcoholic drinks
KW - Students
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Internationalisation of higher education: new players in a changing scene
AU - Ge, Yun
T2 - Educational Research and Evaluation
DA - 2022/05/19/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/13803611.2022.2041850
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 27
IS - 3-4
SP - 229
EP - 238
SN - 1380-3611
ST - Internationalisation of higher education
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2022.2041850
Y2 - 2022/09/21/02:07:55
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The Cultivation of Research Labor in Pacific Asia with Special Reference to Singapore
AU - Ge, Yun
AU - Ho, K. C.
T2 - Asia Pacific Education Review
AB - This paper adopts a political economy perspective in understanding how the country context frames the development of higher education doctoral science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs. We argue that a country's commitment to research and development spending as a strategy to maintain its economic competitiveness creates the market for research labor. This embeddedness of STEM doctoral training programs in the country's science and technology system enlarges differences between STEM and non-STEM doctoral programs. This argument is validated from a survey of doctoral students in leading Pacific Asian universities which shows that STEM doctoral programs have stronger research networks, are better financed, use better facilities, and incorporate a variety of research placements. The embeddedness of STEM programs is further illustrated from the case of Singapore. Singapore-based STEM doctoral students mention enjoying better financial support and receiving better career advice from their supervisors. They depend on collaborative peer learning and cite more varied employment options when asked about their career plans.
DA - 2018/06//
PY - 2018
DO - 10.1007/s12564-018-9531-z
VL - 19
IS - 2
SP - 199
EP - 210
LA - en
SN - 1598-1037
Y2 - 2022/01/10/10:28:40
KW - Career Counseling
KW - Cooperative Learning
KW - Doctoral Programs
KW - Educational Facilities
KW - Employment Opportunities
KW - Financial Support
KW - Foreign Countries
KW - Graduate Students
KW - Networks
KW - STEM Education
KW - Student Attitudes
KW - Student Placement
KW - Student Research
KW - Student Surveys
KW - Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
KW - Universities
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Belt and Road Initiatives: implications for China’s internationalisation of tertiary-level education
AU - Ge, Yun
AU - Ho, Kong Chong
T2 - Educational Research and Evaluation
AB - Since the launch of the One Belt and One Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, the internationalisation of China’s tertiary education has entered a new stage. Central to the BRI is investment and strategic planning for talent cultivation, knowledge production, and transmission. This paper explains how the BRI redirects, reinforces, and intensifies China’s strategic planning and actions for internationalising its education. It adopts a policy analysis approach and reviews three key aspects of development and shifting emphasis of internationalisation under the impact of the BRI: international education networks along the Six BRI Economic Corridors, vocational colleges as new players in international education, and promotion of the Chinese language as a new global language. The analysis captures an important moment in which international education processes are being visibly altered through China’s strategies to take the lead in economic globalisation and to compete for a central place in the world via the BRI.
DA - 2022/05/19/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/13803611.2022.2041858
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 27
IS - 3-4
SP - 260
EP - 279
SN - 1380-3611
ST - Belt and Road Initiatives
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2022.2041858
Y2 - 2022/09/21/02:08:03
KW - Belt and Road Initiatives
KW - Chinese language
KW - Internationalisation of higher education
KW - vocational education
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Conceptualizing the Second Education Circuit for China’s Doctoral Students in Asia
AU - Ge, Yun
AU - Ho, Kong Chong
T2 - International Journal of Chinese Education
AB - The quest to become research universities of international repute has led flagship universities in East and Southeast Asia to develop a new focus on attracting international doctoral students. This paper aims to understand Chinese doctoral students’ mobility in the immediate region and their education to work perceptions. The study draws from a sample of 301 doctoral students from China who were studying at five universities in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. Analysis on students’ decision making and after-study pathways highlights the regional exchange in related areas. We argue that this regional mobility of doctoral students, characterized as the second education circuit, is facilitated by a higher education migration infrastructure with three interactively weaved dimensions: commercial, social, and regulatory. The research findings suggest the growing importance of Asia as a regional second circuit of doctoral training for students from China.
DA - 2019/12/18/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1163/22125868-12340112
VL - 8
IS - 2
SP - 186
EP - 208
J2 - International Journal of Chinese Education
LA - en
SN - 2212-5868, 2212-5868
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1163/22125868-12340112
Y2 - 2022/01/10/09:09:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Researching international student migration in Asia: research design and project management issues
AU - Ge, Yun
AU - Ho, Kong Chong
T2 - Journal of Population Research
AB - In the context of Asia, the changing dynamics of higher education has increased the visibility and significance of the group of intraregional education migrants. There are several methodological issues which need to be addressed in conducting research for this group of migrants. First, how does the particular type of migrant group and Asian context influence the research design? Second, in order to capture the scale and diversity of this migrant group, how should research be conducted across multiple sites? Third, how does a mixed method design allow researchers to learn more about the behaviour, practice and orientations of education migrants? Our paper aims to make contributions to the discussions on the methods of education migration research in Asia through answering these questions. We use research experiences and preliminary data from a multinational project to illustrate the issues involved in the selection of methods, research design and project management.
DA - 2014/09/01/
PY - 2014
DO - 10.1007/s12546-014-9129-1
DP - Springer Link
VL - 31
IS - 3
SP - 197
EP - 217
J2 - J Pop Research
LA - en
SN - 1835-9469
ST - Researching international student migration in Asia
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-014-9129-1
Y2 - 2022/09/21/02:08:12
KW - Asia
KW - Higher education
KW - International student migrants
KW - Mixed methods
KW - Multi-site design
KW - Multicultural research
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A contribution to Paulo Freire’s theory and practice: The ‘Cultural Extension Service/University of Recife’ (1962–64)
AU - Gerhardt, Heinz Peter
T2 - Educational Philosophy and Theory
AB - This contribution to the special issue is an historical account of Paulo Freire’s pedagogical and administrative praxis before his forced exile in 1964. It relies on interviews collected during a field trip in 1976, a conversation with Paulo Freire in Geneva one year later and on the secondary literature up to date. Being the head of the first Extension Service of a major Brazilian university in the early 1960s gave Freire and his collaborators the space and time to experiment with the today world famous literacy method bearing his name. The concept of ‘Field of Cultural Production’ (Bourdieu) is used to elucidate better Freire and his team’s avant-gardist production within the spaces opened up by Brazil’s popular movements in the early sixties. The contribution shows how the ‘Paulo Freire System’ developed in the praxis of a cultural movement and received its academic consecration in an incremental and eclectic style.
DA - 2022/11/10/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/00131857.2022.2129007
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 54
IS - 13
SP - 2256
EP - 2274
SN - 0013-1857
ST - A contribution to Paulo Freire’s theory and practice
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2129007
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:21:51
KW - Bourdieu
KW - Brazil
KW - Paulo Freire
KW - University of Recife
KW - extension service
KW - literacy
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An eco-structuralism approach in soundscape (data) composition
AU - Gomes, J.A.
AU - Barbosa, A.
AU - Penha, R.
T2 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
DO - 10.1145/2636879.2636903
DP - ORCID
VL - 2014-October
IS - October
UR - 10.1145/2636879.2636903
Y2 - 2021/01/29/04:20:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Capture and transformation of urban soundscape data for artistic creation
AU - Gomes, Jose Alberto
AU - Pinho, Nuno Peixoto De
AU - Lopes, Filipe
AU - Costa, Gustavo
AU - Dias, Rui
AU - Tudela, Diogo
AU - Barbosa, Álvaro
T2 - Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
DA - 2014/12//
PY - 2014
DO - 10.7559/citarj.v6i1.132
DP - ORCID
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 97
UR - https://doi.org/10.7559%2Fcitarj.v6i1.132
Y2 - 2021/01/29/04:20:02
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Vatican II
AU - Gomez, Fausto
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives In Religious Studies
AB - From a reason-faith perspective, I reflect on “Vatican II: Gaudium et Spes Fifty Years Later.” In the introduction, I speak briefly on the Second Vatican Council, and on its Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes (“Joy and Hope”) and its ethical and social teachings.
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
IS - 1
LA - en-US
ST - Vatican II | Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/9
Y2 - 2021/03/10/02:41:27
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Alternative pathway history in a fish with plastic reproductive tactic
AU - Gonçalves, David
T2 - Functional Ecology
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Oestradiol and prostaglandin F2α regulate sexual display in female of a sex-role reversed fish
AU - Gonçalves, David
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
VL - 281
IS - 1778
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Neuromarketing and Global Branding Reaction Analysis Based on Real-Time Monitoring of Multiple Consumer's Biosignals and Emotions
AU - Goncalves, Marcus
AU - Lobo Marques, Joao Alexandre
AU - Silva, Bruno Riccelli Santos
AU - Luther, Valorie
AU - Hayes, Sydney
T2 - Journal of International Business and Management
AB - Consumers' selections and decision-making processes are some of the most exciting and challenging topics in neuromarketing, sales, and branding. From a global perspective, multicultural influences and societal conditions are crucial to consider. Neuroscience applications in international marketing and consumer behavior is an emergent and multidisciplinary field aiming to understand consumers' thoughts, reactions, and selection processes in branding and sales. This study focuses on real-time monitoring of different physiological signals using eye-tracking, facial expressions recognition, and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) acquisition methods to analyze consumers' responses, detect emotional arousal, measure attention or relaxation levels, analyze perception,
consciousness, memory, learning, motivation, preference, and decision-making. This research aimed to monitor human subjects' reactions to these signals during an experiment designed in three phases consisting of different branding advertisements. The nonadvertisement exposition was also monitored while gathering survey responses at the end of each phase. A feature extraction module with a data analytics module was implemented to calculate statistical metrics and decision-making supporting tools based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Feature Importance (FI) determination based on the Random Forest technique. The results indicate that when compared to image ads, video ads are more effective in attracting consumers' attention and creating more emotional arousal.
DA - 2023/04/26/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.37227/JIBM-2023-04-5912
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 6
IS - 5
SP - 01
EP - 32
J2 - JIBM
LA - en
SN - 2616-4655, 2616-5163
UR - https://rpajournals.com/jibm-2023-04-5912/
Y2 - 2023/05/29/02:15:18
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Pathophysiological, cardiovascular and neuroendocrine changes in hypertensive patients during the hemodialysis session
AU - Gutiérrez-Adrianzén, O. A.
AU - Moraes, M. E. A.
AU - Almeida, A. P.
AU - Lima, J. W. O.
AU - Marinho, M. F.
AU - Marques, A. L.
AU - Madeiro, J. P. V.
AU - Nepomuceno, L.
AU - da Silva Jr, J. M. S.
AU - Silva Jr, G. B.
AU - Daher, E. F.
AU - Rodrigues Sobrinho, C. R. M.
T2 - Journal of Human Hypertension
AB - The pathophysiological mechanisms of arterial hypertension during hemodialysis (HD) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are still poorly understood. The aim of this study is to investigate physiological, cardiovascular and neuroendocrine changes in patients with ESRD and its correlation with changes in blood pressure (BP) during the HD session. The present study included 21 patients with ESRD undergoing chronic HD treatment. Group A (study) consisted of patients who had BP increase and group B (control) consisted of those who had BP reduction during HD session. Echocardiograms were performed during the HD session to evaluate cardiac output (CO) and systemic vascular resistance (SVR). Before and after the HD session, blood samples were collected to measure brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), catecholamines, endothelin-1 (ET-1), nitric oxide (NO), electrolytes, hematocrit, albumin and nitrogen substances. The mean age of the studied patients was 43±4.9 years, and 54.6% were males. SVR significantly increased in group A (P<0.001). There were no differences in the values of BNP, NO, adrenalin, dopamin and noradrenalin, before and after dialysis, between the two groups. The mean value of ET-1, post HD, was 25.9 pg ml−1 in group A and 13.3 pg ml−1 in group B (P=<0.001). Patients with ESRD showed different hemodynamic patterns during the HD session, with significant BP increase in group A, caused by an increase in SVR possibly due to endothelial dysfunction, evidenced by an increase in serum ET-1 levels.
DA - 2015/06//
PY - 2015
DO - 10.1038/jhh.2014.93
DP - www.nature.com
VL - 29
IS - 6
SP - 366
EP - 372
J2 - J Hum Hypertens
LA - en
SN - 1476-5527
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/jhh201493
Y2 - 2023/10/18/01:39:00
KW - End-stage renal disease
KW - Haemodialysis
KW - Hypertension
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting
AU - Hannam, Kevin
AU - Butler, Gareth
AU - Witte, Alexandra
AU - Zuev, Dennis
T2 - Tourist Studies
AB - This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for waiting, stillness and immobility – particularly in terms of flying.
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797621992931
SP - 1
EP - 13
LA - en
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1468797621992931
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe
AU - Harsløf, Ivan
AU - Zuev, Dennis
T2 - Mobilities
AB - In a context of a new transnational division of labour, temporary international labour mobility is on the rise in Europe. In particular, recent decades have seen considerably more women seeking work experience abroad. Observers have been concerned with how such mobility is related to individualization, and in particular how it may challenge collective institutions, communities and families. The aim of this study is to explore such issues among women and men with international work experience. Using data from European Social Survey, the paper investigates previously mobile workers in terms of their current working and living conditions. Across genders, we consider different forms of individualization that may be associated with transnational labour mobility. While both women and men with transnational work experience generally feature strong strategic individualization, this is most pronounced among men. Hence, men's mobility is among other things associated with increased autonomy in working life, while – in contrast to women – it does not seem to hamper their integration in the sphere of social reproduction.
DA - 2022/07/11/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/17450101.2022.2092417
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 0
IS - 0
SP - 1
EP - 18
SN - 1745-0101
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2092417
Y2 - 2022/11/09/06:35:51
KW - Europe
KW - Temporary labour mobility
KW - individualization
KW - sphere of production
KW - sphere of social reproduction
KW - transnational division of labour
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Data Augmentation for Deep Neural Networks Model in EEG Classification Task: A Review
AU - He, Chao
AU - Liu, Jialu
AU - Zhu, Yuesheng
AU - Du, Wencai
T2 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
AB - Classification of electroencephalogram (EEG) is a key approach to measure the rhythmic oscillations of neural activity, which is one of the core technologies of brain-computer interface systems (BCIs). However, extraction of the features from non-linear and non-stationary EEG signals is still a challenging task in current algorithms. With the development of artificial intelligence, various advanced algorithms have been proposed for signal classification in recent years. Among them, deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the most attractive type of method due to their end-to-end structure and powerful ability of automatic feature extraction. However, it is difficult to collect large-scale datasets in practical applications of BCIs, which may lead to overfitting or weak generalizability of the classifier. To address these issues, a promising technique has been proposed to improve the performance of the decoding model based on data augmentation (DA). In this article, we investigate recent studies and development of various DA strategies for EEG classification based on DNNs. The review consists of three parts: what kind of paradigms of EEG-based on BCIs are used, what types of DA methods are adopted to improve the DNN models, and what kind of accuracy can be obtained. Our survey summarizes the current practices and performance outcomes that aim to promote or guide the deployment of DA to EEG classification in future research and development.
DA - 2021/12/17/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.3389/fnhum.2021.765525
DP - USJ Library
VL - 15
SP - 765525
J2 - Front. Hum. Neurosci.
SN - 1662-5161
ST - Data Augmentation for Deep Neural Networks Model in EEG Classification Task
UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.765525/full
Y2 - 2022/04/28/11:36:26
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Attentive recurrent adversarial domain adaptation with Top-k pseudo-labeling for time series classification
AU - He, Qi-Qiao
AU - Siu, Shirley Weng In
AU - Si, Yain-Whar
T2 - Applied Intelligence
AB - The key challenge of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) for analyzing time series data is to learn domain-invariant representations by capturing complex temporal dependencies. In addition, existing unsupervised domain adaptation methods for time series data are designed to align marginal distribution between source and target domains. However, existing UDA methods (e.g. R-DANN Purushotham et al. (2017), VRADA Purushotham et al. (2017), CoDATS Wilson et al. (2020)) neglect the conditional distribution discrepancy between two domains, leading to misclassification of the target domain. Therefore, to learn domain-invariant representations by capturing the temporal dependencies and to reduce the conditional distribution discrepancy between two domains, a novel Attentive Recurrent Adversarial Domain Adaptation with Top-k time series pseudo-labeling method called ARADA-TK is proposed in this paper. In the experiments, our proposed method was compared with the state-of-the-art UDA methods (R-DANN, VRADA and CoDATS). Experimental results on four benchmark datasets revealed that ARADA-TK achieves superior classification accuracy when it is compared to the competing methods.
DA - 2022/10/06/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s10489-022-04176-x
DP - Springer Link
J2 - Appl Intell
LA - en
SN - 1573-7497
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-04176-x
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:32:16
KW - Adversarial training
KW - Attentive
KW - Domain adaptation
KW - Pseudo-labeling
KW - Time series classification
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Instance-based deep transfer learning with attention for stock movement prediction
AU - He, Qi-Qiao
AU - Siu, Shirley Weng In
AU - Si, Yain-Whar
T2 - Applied Intelligence
AB - Stock movement prediction is one of the most challenging problems in time series analysis due to the stochastic nature of financial markets. In recent years, a plethora of statistical methods and machine learning algorithms were proposed for stock movement prediction. Specifically, deep learning models are increasingly applied for the prediction of stock movement. The success of deep learning models relies on the assumption that massive training data are available. However, this assumption is impractical for stock movement prediction. In stock markets, a large number of stocks do not have enough historical data, especially for the companies which underwent initial public offering in recent years. In these situations, the accuracy of deep learning models to predict the stock movement could be affected. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose novel instance-based deep transfer learning models with attention mechanism. In the experiments, we compare our proposed methods with state-of-the-art prediction models. Experimental results on three public datasets reveal that our proposed methods significantly improve the performance of deep learning models when limited training data are available.
DA - 2022/07/12/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1007/s10489-022-03755-2
DP - Springer Link
J2 - Appl Intell
LA - en
SN - 1573-7497
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-03755-2
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:33:49
KW - Attention mechanism
KW - Deep transfer learning
KW - Instance-based
KW - Stock movement prediction
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Death of a salesman? the new junket regulation and practice in macau
AU - Ho, Hong-Wai
AU - Phillips, Jenny
T2 - Gaming Law Review
AB - This review article is among the first to examine the new junket regulations in the Macau gaming industry. Particular emphasis is on the legal and regulatory framework governing the junket activity of gaming promoters and their associates. The recent changes to Macau gaming laws have resulted in stronger licensing requirements for local junket participants and precipitated the collapse of the VIP room system in casinos. Furthermore, this article highlights the policy and managerial implications of the current junket environment for the gaming industry in Macau and possibly other regional gaming jurisdictions. The effects of the new legal environment for Macau junkets could also provide insights into the implementation of similar legislation in other jurisdictions.
DA - 2023/10//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1089/glr2.2023.0018
DP - liebertpub.com (Atypon)
VL - 27
IS - 8
SP - 366
EP - 374
SN - 2572-5300
ST - Death of a salesman?
UR - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/glr2.2023.0018
Y2 - 2024/01/25/03:17:29
KW - Macao
KW - VIP room
KW - gambling
KW - gaming regulation
KW - international gaming
KW - junket operation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Macau 2.0: New Gaming Law and its Implications for Casino Market
AU - Ho, Hong-Wai
AU - Phillips, Jenny
T2 - Gaming Law Review
AB - This article discusses the new gaming law in Macau with emphasis on the critical aspects concerning the gaming operators, concession regime, and other regulatory obligations.1 Thanks to the gaming liberalization commenced in 2001,2 Macau has experienced tremendous economic growth. The past two decades have seen the rapid development of large-scale integrated resorts, and Macau now ranks among the world's major gaming jurisdictions.3 Policy and regulatory challenges have also emerged along with the growth of the junket-driven VIP business in casinos.4 With the recent amendment of Law No. 16/2001 and the subsequent enactment of Law No. 16/2022, Macau has strengthened the legal underpinnings of its system of gaming regulation to oversee various groups involved in casinos and their industry practices.
The present study is among the first to review the scope and impact of the revised gaming law, and associated managerial and operational implications for Macau casinos. Topics covered include policy directions, concession requirements, industry participants, gaming taxes, and fair business practices. This study could provide insights into the “Macau 2.0” project and how casinos are to be operated and managed over the next decade. This article could also provide practical guidance for policy makers charged with formulating gaming policy and regulation in other jurisdictions.
DA - 2023/03/10/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1089/glr2.2023.0003
DP - liebertpub.com (Atypon)
SN - 2572-5300
ST - Macau 2.0
UR - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/glr2.2023.0003
Y2 - 2023/03/27/09:53:00
KW - Macao
KW - concession
KW - economic diversification
KW - gaming regulation
KW - junket
KW - operation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Education and human capital management in a world city: the case of Singapore
AU - Ho, K. C.
AU - Ge, Yun
T2 - Asia Pacific Journal of Education
AB - There is considerable evidence to suggest that the human capital needs of the world city differ from what Robinson calls “ordinary cities” or what Markusen and associates term as “second tier cities”. This path is blazed most notably in the field of world cities and the flow of skilled labour, in the work by Sassen and with case examples (finance, law, accountancy) provided in the work by Beaverstock and his associates. This focuses on producer services and migration flows needs to be matched by an accompanying look at city-based strategies. This paper represents an attempt to provide this by providing a case history analysis of Singapore in three stages of growth – as port city, industrial city and as world city – in order to show how the evolving infrastructure associated with human capital (education, immigration and labour policies) allows human capital to be developed, attracted, harnessed, deployed, released and retained.
DA - 2011/09/01/
PY - 2011
DO - 10.1080/02188791.2011.595058
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 31
IS - 3
SP - 263
EP - 276
SN - 0218-8791
ST - Education and human capital management in a world city
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2011.595058
Y2 - 2022/09/21/02:08:16
KW - Singapore
KW - human capital
KW - migration
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Constructing an aesthetic discourse: Aesthetic education where Daoism meets postmodernism
AU - Ho, Ka Lee Carrie
T2 - Education Inquiry
AB - Despite the prevalence of aesthetic education as one of the main developmental objectives in curricular worldwide, the mainstream philosophical discourse on its definition is predominately framed by western philosophy due to a paucity of cross-cultural studies on the subject. The article aims to achieve a contemporary understanding of aesthetic education from both the Chinese and Western aesthetic perspectives. Through the lens of postmodernism, the relationship between Daoist aesthetics and the western postmodern aesthetic perspectives, particularly the Deleuzian concept of rhizome, is identified. Both aesthetic perspectives concern de-authorship and promote self-consciousness/self-awareness. The study reconceptualises the functions of aesthetic education with the Chinese aesthetic philosophy that promotes the nurture of better people through benevolence.
DA - 2022/01/02/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/20004508.2020.1831286
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 21
EP - 36
SN - null
ST - Constructing an aesthetic discourse
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1831286
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:25:20
KW - Aesthetic experiences
KW - Daoism
KW - Deleuze
KW - aesthetic environments
KW - rhizome
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Who has the power? A reflection on teaching drama improvisation with young children
AU - Ho, Ka Lee Carrie
T2 - Journal of Early Childhood Research
AB - The following study reflects and explores the dynamics of aesthetic experiences within drama improvisations. This arts-based research was carried out in Hong Kong with six Cantonese children who were aged 3?5?years. Data were collected from the video transcripts of five workshops and the researcher?s own research journal. Two significant milieus were observed: switching in-between roles and intuitive creativity is not talkback. I argue that because each of these two milieus provide the foreground for the complex ? and at times contradictory ? nature of children?s aesthetic experiences where Deleuzian power is at play, opportunities arise for both, challenging the traditional adult?child power relations, and in so doing, educators can be able to reconfigure and reconceptualise teaching goals and practices, both generally and specifically, within the context of early childhood education.
DA - 2020/03/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1177/1476718X19888716
DP - SAGE Journals
VL - 18
IS - 1
SP - 73
EP - 83
LA - en
SN - 1476-718X
ST - Who has the power?
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X19888716
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:13:41
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Preliminary Psychometric Investigation of a Chinese Version of the Engaged Teachers Scale (C-ETS)
AU - Ho, Sammy K.
AU - Chan, Hang
AU - Chan, Edmund Sze-Shing
AU - Fung, Kwok-Kin
AU - Hung, Shirley Suet-Lin
T2 - Frontiers in Education
AB - This study examines the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Engaged Teacher Scale (C-ETS). A translated questionnaire with 16 items was administered to a sample of 341 primary and secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. A series of confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the construct, convergent, and discriminant validity of the scale in alternative models. Results provide support for a second-order model with teacher engagement as an overarching construct with four hypothesized dimensions: emotional engagement, cognitive engagement, social engagement (students), and social engagement (colleagues). The C-ETS provides a useful measure for teacher engagement in Chinese societies. Contributions and limitations of the study are discussed.
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
DP - Frontiers
VL - 6
SN - 2504-284X
UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2021.676835
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:55:40
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Neurofinance: Exploratory Analysis Stock Trader's Decision-Making Process by Real-Time Monitoring of Emotional Reactions
AU - Hsu, Hsin-Tzu
AU - Marques, João Alexandre Lobo
T2 - European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance
AB - Human emotions can be associated with decision-making, and emotions can generate behaviors. Due to the fact that it could be biased and exhaustively complex to examine how human beings make choices, it is necessary to consider relevant groups of study, such as stock traders and non-traders in finance. This work aims to analyze the connection between emotions and the decision-making process of investors and non-investors submitted to the same set of stimuli to understand how emotional arousal might dictate the decision process. Neuroscience monitoring tools such as Real-Time Facial Expression Analysis (AFFDEX), Eye-Tracking, and Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) were adopted to monitor the related experiments of this paper and its accompanying analysis process. Thirty-seven participants attended the study, 24 were classified as stock traders, and 13 were non-traders; the mean age for the groups was 35 and 25, respectively. The designed experiment initially disclosed a thought-provoking result between the two groups under the certainty and risk-seeking prospect theory; there were more risk-takers among non-investors at 75%, while investors were inclined toward certainty at 79.17%. The implication could be that the non-investing individuals were less complex in thought and therefore pursued higher returns besides a high probability of losing the game. In addition, the automatic emotion classification system indicates that when non-investors confronted a stock trending chart beyond their acquaintance or knowledge, they were psychologically exposed to fear, anger, sadness, and surprise. On the contrary, investors were detected with disgust, joy, contempt, engagement, sadness, and surprise, where sadness and surprise overlapped in both parties. Under time pressure conditions, 54.05% of investors or non-investors tend to make decisions after the peak(s) of emotional arousal. Variations were found in the deciding points of the slopes: 2.70% were decided right after the peak(s), 37.84% waited until the emotions turned stable, and 13.51% were determined as the emotional indicators started to slide downwards. Several combinations of emotional responses were associated with decisions. For example, negative emotions could induce passive decision-making, in this case, to sell the stock; nevertheless, it was also examined that as the slope slipped downwards to a particular horizontal point, the individuals became more optimistic and selected the "BUY" option. Future works may consider expanding the study to larger sample size, different demographic groups, and other biometrics for further analysis and conclusions.
DA - 2023/11/13/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.34190/ecmlg.19.1.1692
DP - papers.academic-conferences.org
VL - 19
IS - 1
SP - 147
EP - 155
J2 - ECMLG
LA - en
SN - 2048-903X
ST - Neurofinance
UR - https://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/ecmlg/article/view/1692
Y2 - 2023/12/18/03:07:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Burnout and Service Employees' Willingness to Deliver Quality Service
AU - Humborstad, Sut I W
AU - Humborstad, Bjarte
AU - Whitfield, Richard
T2 - Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism
AB - Employees are vital for enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty in service organizations because their proactive involvement is an essential part of delivering the services offered. With the recent rapid growth of tourism in the Macau SAR, service employee workloads are clearly increasing, and consequently one would expect that the incidence of job burnout is rising. This study uses the well-known Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to investigate the relationship between service employees' burnout and their willingness to deliver quality services. Self-administered questionnaires from 110 operational staff in three hotels in Macau have been analyzed. The results indicate that job burnout reduces staff's willingness to deliver quality services and that this effect is moderated by individual staff's level of affective organizational commitment, and their perceptions of the extent of organizational and supervisor support provided by the organization. Based on these results, practical managerial strategies to improve service performance are identified.
DA - 2007/12/11/
PY - 2007
DO - 10.1300/J171v07n01_03
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 7
IS - 1
SP - 45
EP - 64
SN - 1533-2845
UR - https://doi.org/10.1300/J171v07n01_03
Y2 - 2023/04/12/03:38:26
KW - Job burnout
KW - affective organizational commitment
KW - perceived organizational support
KW - perceived supervisor support
KW - quality service delivery willingness
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Implementation of empowerment in Chinese high power-distance organizations
AU - Humborstad, Sut I W.
AU - Humborstad, Bjarte
AU - Whitfield, Richard
AU - Perry, Chad
T2 - The International Journal of Human Resource Management
AB - The importance of empowerment in service industries is recognized by practitioners and scholars in the West but there has been limited investigation of its impact on the willingness of service personnel in a high power-distance culture. This study examines how empowerment can be facilitated in the high power-distance context of China. Regression and path model analysis using a sample of 290 service employees from six 4-star to 5-star hotels in the Macau SAR China indicate that empowerment positively leads to higher service willingness and this relationship is mediated by performance-based rewards, and organizational and supervisor support. These findings have implications for HR managers considering or using empowerment.
DA - 2008/07/01/
PY - 2008
DO - 10.1080/09585190802110224
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 19
IS - 7
SP - 1349
EP - 1364
SN - 0958-5192
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190802110224
Y2 - 2023/04/12/03:38:13
KW - empowerment
KW - high power-distance culture
KW - organizational support
KW - performance-based rewards
KW - supervisor support
KW - training
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Design Explorations for 3D-Printed Modular Markers for eXtended-Reality Tangible User Interfaces:
AU - Iok Fong, Chau
AU - Cardoso, Jorge C. S.
AU - Estadieu, Gerald Vincent
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
AB - Various materials, objects, and sensors have been explored earlier for creating tangible user interfaces (TUIs). However, there is little work on 3D-printed TUIs based on visual markers for smartphone-based extended reality (XR) experiences. The combination of visual markers and smartphones results in cheap, accessible XR systems within reach of many people. Combined with 3D printing, it could foster do-it-yourself (DIY) projects for XR experiences, which may further expand and open-up possibilities for accessible and tangible interaction. This work explores the design space of modular 3D-printed tangibles for smartphone-based XR. The authors report the design exploration process, provide several interactive 3D-printed markers, and reflect on the resulting possibilities.
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.311426
DP - USJ Library
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 15
LA - ng
SN - 1947-3117, 1947-3125
ST - Design Explorations for 3D-Printed Modular Markers for eXtended-Reality Tangible User Interfaces
UR - https://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/IJCICG.311426
Y2 - 2022/10/27/15:28:57
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Examining the impact of behavioral factors on the intention of adopting E-government services: An empirical study on the hard-to-reach groups in Macao SAR, China
AU - Iong, Kit Yeng
AU - Phillips, Jenny O. L.
T2 - Technology in Society
AB - In government studies, electronic government has become a hot topic in recent decades. Many scholars believe that soon, the government might not be able to operate smoothly without the help of ICTs as the Internet has been overwhelming people's daily lives already. In analyzing people's behavioral factors towards adopting e-government services, most studies targeted the adult population, while those in the hard-to-reach groups are minimal. This study was designed especially to understand the behavioral factors of the younger generation aged between 18 and 24 and the senior citizens above 60 on their adoption of e-government services in Macao SAR. Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted based on the semi-structured interview questions developed from the prior literature on the Theory of Planned Behavior and e-government studies. Six significant findings are yielded, which could serve as an important reference for policymakers designing e-government policy and promoting its implementation strategy. These behavioral factors also contribute empirical data to support the theoretical framework of TPB in the context of Macao SAR e-government services.
DA - 2022/11/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102107
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 71
SP - 102107
J2 - Technology in Society
LA - en
SN - 0160-791X
ST - Examining the impact of behavioral factors on the intention of adopting E-government services
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X22002482
Y2 - 2022/09/15/09:14:11
KW - Electronic government
KW - Hard-to-reach groups
KW - In-depth interviews
KW - The theory of planned behavior
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The transformation of government employees’ behavioural intention towards the adoption of E-government services: An empirical study
AU - Iong, Kit Yeng
AU - Phillips, Jenny O. L.
T2 - Social Sciences & Humanities Open
AB - Electronic government is increasingly dominant in the study of public administration. In analysing people's behavioural factors towards the adoption of e-services, most previous studies targeted the adult population, while those on government employees are minimal. Government employees have an essential function in the process of government operation; they can be regarded as the principal medium of communication between the service provider (government) and the end-users (citizens). This study was designed to understand the government employees' behavioural factors on their intentions towards adopting e-government services. A set of semi-structured interview questions was developed based on the prior literature on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and e-government studies. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted in Macao SAR (Special Administrative Region). In addition to analysing the three primary constructs of TPB, the factor of Trust and some enablers and hindrances were identified. Significant findings were yielded while investigating how the government employees perceived the e-services and how they regarded the general public's perception of this issue. This contextualisation would help policymakers look at this issue from different perspectives and design feasible interventions according to group alignment strategies.
DA - 2023/01/01/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100485
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 7
IS - 1
SP - 100485
J2 - Social Sciences & Humanities Open
LA - en
SN - 2590-2911
ST - The transformation of government employees’ behavioural intention towards the adoption of E-government services
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291123000906
Y2 - 2023/03/27/09:53:07
KW - Electronic government
KW - Government employees
KW - In-depth interviews
KW - The Theory of Planned Behaviour
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - 廣州會議(1667-1668)四十二條條文的意義
AU - Ip, Ka Kei
T2 - 道風:基督教文化評論
AB - Canton Conference (1667-1668) is regarded as an important event in the history of Christianity in China. The Conference was held by missionaries from three religious orders, namely, the Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans. Together they tried to achieve something common to strive for the prosperity of the China mission. It is true that the background and atmosphere of the Conference was influenced and overwhelmed by the Rites controversy. However, another significant part that the conference covered, in a large portion, dealt with wide pastoral issues in the context of Chinese society. The forty two articles in this Conference demonstrate the open-mindedness and a fairly positive knowledge of an approach to Chinese custom. In addition, some recommendations remain open to further inquires, in the sense that they were still finding a better way to cope with the indigenous affairs. Analysis of the articles as a whole gives light to various aspects of missionary work at that time beyond the controversial article forty-first.
DA - 2012/07//
PY - 2012
DP - Airiti
IS - 37
SP - 277
EP - 316
LA - zh
SN - 1023-2583
UR - https://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=P20170411002-201207-201705040027-201705040027-277-316
Y2 - 2023/04/11/11:45:47
KW - Canton Conference
KW - Christianity in China
KW - Missionary Activity
KW - 中國基督宗教史
KW - 傳教士活動
KW - 廣州會議
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Quantification of insecticides in commercial seafood sold in East Asian markets: risk assessment for consumers
AU - Ivorra, Lucia
AU - Cardoso, Patricia G.
AU - Chan, Shek Kiu
AU - Cruzeiro, Catarina
AU - Tagulao, Karen
T2 - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
AB - The extraction of 21 insecticides and 5 metabolites was performed using an optimized and validated QuEChERS protocol that was further used for the quantification (GC–MS/MS) in several seafood matrices (crustaceans, bivalves, and fish-mudskippers). Seven species, acquired from Hong Kong and Macao wet markets (a region so far poorly monitored), were selected based on their commercial importance in the Indo-Pacific region, market abundance, and affordable price. Among them, mussels from Hong Kong, together with mudskippers from Macao, presented the highest insecticide concentrations (median values of 30.33 and 23.90 ng/g WW, respectively). Residual levels of fenobucarb, DDTs, HCHs, and heptachlors were above the established threshold (10 ng/g WW) for human consumption according to the European and Chinese legislations: for example, in fish-mudskippers, DDTs, fenobucarb, and heptachlors (5-, 20- and tenfold, respectively), and in bivalves, HCHs (fourfold) had higher levels than the threshold. Risk assessment revealed potential human health effects (e.g., neurotoxicity), especially through fish and bivalve consumption (non-carcinogenic risk; ΣHQLT > 1), and a potential concern of lifetime cancer risk development through the consumption of fish, bivalves, and crustaceans collected from these markets (carcinogenic risk; ΣTCR > 10–4). Since these results indicate polluted regions, where the seafood is collected/produced, a strict monitoring framework should be implemented in those areas to improve food quality and safety of seafood products.
DA - 2023/03/01/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1007/s11356-022-24413-7
DP - Springer Link
VL - 30
IS - 12
SP - 34585
EP - 34597
J2 - Environ Sci Pollut Res
LA - en
SN - 1614-7499
ST - Quantification of insecticides in commercial seafood sold in East Asian markets
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-24413-7
Y2 - 2023/04/11/08:10:49
KW - Bivalves
KW - Crustaceans
KW - Health risk assessment
KW - Mudskippers
KW - Organochlorine pesticides
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Can mangroves work as an effective phytoremediation tool for pesticide contamination? An interlinked analysis between surface water, sediments and biota
AU - Ivorra, Lucia
AU - Cardoso, Patricia G.
AU - Chan, Shek Kiu
AU - Cruzeiro, Catarina
AU - Tagulao, Karen Arano
T2 - Journal of Cleaner Production
AB - Mangroves are a unique group of plants growing along tropical and sub-tropical coastlines, with the ability to remove several types of contaminants such as heavy metals and other persistent organic compounds in coastal waters. However, little attention has been given to the possible role of mangroves in the removal of organochlorinated pesticides (OCPs) from the environment. Used worldwide, these pesticides were banned in the late 80s, withal they can still be quantified in aquatic environments due to their high stability. Moreover, as persistent and lipophilic compounds, OCPs are known for their tendency to bioaccumulate and biomagnify through the food chain, affecting local ecosystems, and potentially human health. This work aimed to investigate the potential benefits of mangrove ecosystems as OCP phytoremediators. For this purpose, a total of seventy-three articles from non-mangrove and mangrove areas around the world were gathered, integrated and re-analysed as a whole. These data include information from four different matrices (water, sediment, benthic fauna and mangrove plants). A common trend of less pesticide contamination in mangrove areas was observed for all the selected matrices. As a complement, average concentrations were discussed considering International Directives, such as the European legislation 2013/39/EU for water policy and the Dutch List together with the International Sediment Quality Guideline, for sediments. Additionally, theoretical risk assessments were also included. Since information regarding OCPs in mangroves ecosystem is very scarce compared to non-mangrove areas, this review provides valuable insights regarding these environments, and the importance of preserving them as a relevant remediation unit.
DA - 2021/05/01/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126334
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 295
SP - 126334
J2 - Journal of Cleaner Production
LA - en
SN - 0959-6526
ST - Can mangroves work as an effective phytoremediation tool for pesticide contamination?
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652621005540
Y2 - 2023/04/11/08:13:55
KW - Benthic fauna
KW - Intertidal environments
KW - Organochlorinated pesticides
KW - Persistent organic compounds
KW - Toxicological assessment
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Environmental characterization of 4,4′-dichlorobenzophenone in surface waters from Macao and Hong Kong coastal areas (Pearl River Delta) and its toxicity on two biological models: Artemia salina and Daphnia magna
AU - Ivorra, Lucia
AU - Cardoso, Patricia G.
AU - Chan, Shek Kiu
AU - Tagulao, Karen
AU - Cruzeiro, Catarina
T2 - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
DA - 2019/04//
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.12.054
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 171
SP - 1
EP - 11
J2 - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
LA - en
SN - 01476513
ST - Environmental characterization of 4,4′-dichlorobenzophenone in surface waters from Macao and Hong Kong coastal areas (Pearl River Delta) and its toxicity on two biological models
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0147651318313472
Y2 - 2022/11/09/10:05:07
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Uptake and depuration kinetics of dicofol metabolite 4,4′-dichlorobenzophenone, in the edible Asiatic clam Meretrix meretrix
AU - Ivorra, Lucia
AU - Cruzeiro, Catarina
AU - Chan, Shek Kiu
AU - Tagulao, Karen Araño
AU - Cardoso, Patricia G.
T2 - Chemosphere
AB - Uptake and depuration kinetics of 4,4′-dichlorobenzophenone (main metabolite of dicofol) in the edible clam Meretrix meretrix were evaluated through a mesocosm experiment. M. meretrix was exposed to different dicofol concentrations (environmental concentration, D1 = 50 ng/L; supra-environmental concentration, D2 = 500 ng/L) for 15 days, followed by the same depuration period. To accomplish this goal, an analytical method was successfully optimized for 4,4′-DCBP using QuEChERS as extraction method with a range of concentrations 0.3–76.8 ng/g ww quantified by gas chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. Our results demonstrated different kinetics of accumulation depending on the two dicofol treatments. For D1, the uptake kinetic was best fitted using a plateau followed by one phase association kinetic model, while for D2 a one phase association kinetic model suited better. Similar bioconcentration factors were obtained for both concentrations but only animals exposed to D2, showed 4,4′-DCBP levels above the limits of quantification after 24 h exposure. These animals also showed lower uptake rate (ku) than organisms exposed to D1. During the depuration period, only organisms exposed to D1 successfully depurated after 24 h. On the other hand, although animals exposed to D2 presented higher elimination factor, they did not reach the original levels after depuration. Moreover, values detected in these clams were higher than the Maximum Residue Level (10 ng/g) established by the European legislation. This indicates that longer periods of depuration time than the ones used in this study, may be needed in order to reach safe levels for human consumption. This work also demonstrated that studies on metabolite kinetics during uptake/depuration experiments, could be a new alternative to understand the impact and metabolism of pesticides in the marine environment.
DA - 2019/11/01/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.06.155
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 235
SP - 662
EP - 669
J2 - Chemosphere
LA - en
SN - 0045-6535
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653519313967
Y2 - 2022/11/09/10:10:30
KW - Bivalves
KW - GC-MS/MS
KW - Organochlorine pesticides
KW - QuEChERS bioconcentration
KW - Seafood
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - How can environmental conditions influence dicofol genotoxicity on the edible Asiatic clam, Meretrix meretrix?
AU - Ivorra, Lucia
AU - Cruzeiro, Catarina
AU - Ramos, Alice
AU - Tagulao, Karen
AU - Cardoso, Patricia G.
T2 - Environmental Pollution
AB - Genotoxic effects of dicofol on the edible clam Meretrix meretrix were investigated through a mesocosm experiment. Individuals of M. meretrix, were exposed to environmental concentration (D1 = 50 ng/L) and supra-environmental concentration (D2 = 500 ng/L) of dicofol for 15 days, followed by the same depuration period. DNA damage (i.e., strand breaks and alkali-labile sites) was evaluated at day 1, 7 and 15, during uptake and depuration, using Comet assay (alkaline version) and nuclear abnormalities (NAs) as genotoxicity biomarkers. The protective effects of dicofol against DNA damage induced by ex vivo hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) exposure were also assessed. Comet assay results revealed no significant DNA damages under dicofol exposure, indicating 1) apparent lack of genotoxicity of dicofol to the tested conditions and/or 2) resistance of the animals due to optimal adaptation to stress conditions. Moreover, ex vivo H2O2 exposure showed an increase in the DNA damage in all the treatments without significant differences between them. However, considering only the DNA damage induced by H2O2 during uptake phase, D1 animals had significantly lower DNA damage than those from other treatments, revealing higher protection against a second stressor. NAs data showed a decrease in the % of cells with polymorphic, kidney shape, notched or lobbed nucleus, along the experiment. The combination of these results supports the idea that the clams used in the experiment were probably collected from a stressful environment (in this case Pearl River Delta region) which could have triggered some degree of adaptation to those environmental conditions, explaining the lack of DNA damages and highlighting the importance of organisms’ origin and the conditions that they were exposed during their lives.
DA - 2022/01/15/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118467
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 293
SP - 118467
J2 - Environmental Pollution
LA - en
SN - 0269-7491
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749121020492
Y2 - 2023/04/11/08:11:37
KW - Bivalves
KW - Comet assay
KW - DNA damage
KW - Nuclear abnormalities
KW - Organochlorine pesticides
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - International collaboration for mutual benefit: a Southwest China and Southeast United States partnership
AU - Jackson, M. Sebrena
AU - Gardell, Debra Nelson
AU - Williams, Javonda
AU - Tang, Ning
AU - Yang, Fan
T2 - China Journal of Social Work
AB - China’s return to social work education, after a nearly 35-year absence, opened the door for partnerships like the 2012 China Collaborative partnership between the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Katherine A. Kendall Institute, the China Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) and the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW). The University of Alabama School of Social Work (UA SSW) was selected to participate in the collaborative and was connected to the Southwest China Region, specifically partnered with Yunnan University. This manuscript will share the strategies used to engage faculty and students from each partnering institution. Data collected by UA SSW over the five-year partnership will be utilised to contribute to the discussion of the extent to which Western knowledge and theory about social work education might usefully be applied to the Chinese context.
DA - 2021/09/02/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1080/17525098.2021.1909237
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 14
IS - 3
SP - 288
EP - 300
SN - 1752-5098
ST - International collaboration for mutual benefit
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/17525098.2021.1909237
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:57:31
KW - China collaborative
KW - International social work
KW - University of Alabama
KW - Yunnan University
KW - social work education
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Measuring and Targeting Internal Conditions for School Effectiveness in the Free State of South Africa
AU - Kgaile, Abraham
AU - Morrison, Keith
T2 - Educational Management Administration & Leadership
AB - A questionnaire-based methodology for constructing an overall index of school effectiveness is reported, focusing on within-school conditions of schools, which is currently being used in the Free State of South Africa. The article reports the construction and use of a straightforward instrument for measuring the effectiveness of key aspects of the conditions for school effectiveness in the Free State, using a variety of dimensions. It indicates how this instrument can identify where to intervene in improving schools in order to gain the maximum return on investment of time, effort, development activity and support. The instrument provides aggregated and disaggregated data for individual schools, groups of schools and whole districts, both at a single point in time and over time, thereby enabling the most economical and beneficial development to be planned for targeted individual schools and groups of schools. It enables users to identify the key drivers of the internal school conditions for effectiveness, development and change in schools.
DA - 2006/01//
PY - 2006
DO - 10.1177/1741143206059539
DP - USJ Library
VL - 34
IS - 1
SP - 47
EP - 68
J2 - Educational Management Administration & Leadership
LA - en
SN - 1741-1432, 1741-1440
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1741143206059539
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Quality of life during the pandemic: a cross sectional study about attitude, individual perspective and behavior change affecting general population in daily life
AU - Khatoon, F.
AU - Kumar, M.
AU - Khalid, A. A.
AU - Alshammari, A. D.
AU - Khan, F.
AU - Alshammari, R. D.
AU - Balouch, Z.
AU - Verma, D.
AU - Mishra, P.
AU - Abotaleb, M.
AU - Makarovskikh, T.
AU - El-kenawy, E. M.
AU - Dutta, P. K.
AU - Marques, J. A.
AB - Quality of life in general population before and during pandemic is topic need to be address by researcher in terms of mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. The study was carried out among Saudi population. Data were collected from general population using questionnaire during the period from 22 August 2021 to 10th January 2022. As a result, total 214 participants have included in this study. Among them prevalent age group include 40 years (n= 63, 29.4%) shadowed by the age group 25-35 (n= 61, 28.5%) while above 60 years group were least frequent (n= 1, 0.5%). On questioning the applicants whether they were satisfied with their health and how would they rate their quality of life, their answers were as follows: yes, or satisfied (n= 86, 40.2%), very Satisfied (n= 102, 47.7%) Dissatisfied (n= 11, 5.1%) and neither satisfied nor dissatisfied (n= 15, 7%). Due to pandemic, they were rate quality of life very good (n= 94, 43.9%), good (n= 63, 29.4 %) poor (n= 5, 2.3 %) and neither good and nor poor (n= 52, 24.3 %). During pandemic 96 participants feel no change in their weight but 110 participants respond that there is increase in coffee intake during the pandemic. Similarly increased in smoking habits and decrease rate in social activities (n=119,41.4%). The psychosomatic well-being of people has been interrupted by disturbing their social activities during pandemic.
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1049/icp.2023.0596
DP - digital-library.theiet.org
SP - 379
EP - 383
LA - en
ST - Quality of life during the pandemic
UR - https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/conferences/10.1049/icp.2023.0596
Y2 - 2023/10/10/04:32:51
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Extending social networking into the secondary education sector
AU - Kio, Su Iong
T2 - British Journal of Educational Technology
AB - Secondary schools do not have the same technical resources and capabilities as universities. They usually need to rely on ready-to-use tools to fulfill their information and communication technology (ICT) structure. Social networking site (SNS) has emerged as a practical solution to this need. However, few have collected empirical data on the application of SNS in a secondary school setting. This paper probes into the current condition of SNS usage among secondary school students using a sample of 851 students in Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China. Data in terms of access, profile and activities are collected. The activities on SNSs are analyzed by regression techniques to produce a prediction model relating perceived academic benefit and SNS activities. The model yields a strong positive relationship between that benefit and activities such as raising questions and engaging in study-related discussions. The model also yields a weak dependency on activities such as searching for information and entertainment. The paper also evaluates the actual academic utilization of a Facebook Group for one class of secondary school students for a period of one year. At the end of the year, various opinion parameters are measured, and improvements are observed in most parameters.
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12259
DP - Wiley Online Library
VL - 47
IS - 4
SP - 721
EP - 733
LA - en
SN - 1467-8535
UR - https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjet.12259
Y2 - 2021/02/10/09:38:52
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - What students are saying on Facebook about their schools?
AU - Kio, Su Iong
T2 - Webology
DA - 2015///
PY - 2015
DP - www.webology.org
VL - Volume 12
IS - No 1
SP - 1
EP - 12
LA - English
SN - 1943-023X
UR - http://www.webology.org/abstract.php?id=244
Y2 - 2023/04/11/12:43:08
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Work engagement: Evolution of the concept and a new inventory. Psychological Thought,
AU - Kuok, A.C.H.
AU - Taormina, R.J.
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
VL - 2
IS - 10
SP - 262
EP - 287
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Are Work Engaged Employees Perceive Career Success? A Study of Hospitality at Macau
AU - Kuok, A. C. H
T2 - Journal of Hospitality
AB - This study examined 206 casino dealers in hospitality at Macau to investigate the extent of their subjective career success and work engagement. Casino dealers were work engaged, but their subjective career success was fairly low, with significant difference between them, which indicates they have cognitive dissonance about their jobs. Several personality variables (emotional suppression and work ethic), organizational variables, i.e., organizational socialization (training, understanding, coworker support, future prospects), and distributive justice, were assessed in relation to subjective career success and work engagement. Organizational socialization, work ethic, and distributive justice were positively correlated with and predictors of subjective career success and work engagement; while emotion suppression was negatively correlated with and predictor of work engagement. This study provides evidence of extending the theories of subjective career success and work engagement in Chinese society and hospitality. Also, it identifies factors that could resolve the employees’ cognitive dissonance, and implementations for management were discussed.
DA - 2020/03/06/
PY - 2020
DP - htmjournals.com
VL - 2
IS - 1-2
SP - 30
EP - 48
LA - en
SN - 2643-0924
ST - Are Work Engaged Employees Perceive Career Success?
UR - http://htmjournals.com/jh/index.php/jh/article/view/19
Y2 - 2021/01/29/07:33:58
KW - Subjective career success
KW - emotion suppression
KW - hospitality
KW - human resources
KW - socialization
KW - work engagement
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Emotional Intelligence, Work Satisfaction, and Affective Commitment: An Occupational Health Study of Social Workers
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
T2 - Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
AB - Social workers’ work engagement and burnout were tested in relation to (a) personal variable, i.e., emotional intelligence; (b) organizational variables, i.e., work satisfaction and affective commitment. Regressions revealed emotional intelligence - controlling self – negatively predicted depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment and positively predicted three facets of work engagement. Emotional intelligence - understanding others – was a negative predictor of reduced personal accomplishment. In addition, work satisfaction negatively predicted three components of burnout and positively predicted emotional work engagement. Affective commitment was a positive predictor of three facets of work engagement and negatively predicted reduced personal accomplishment. Implications for management are discussed.
DA - 2022/12/05/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.5093/jwop2022a14
DP - journals.copmadrid.org
VL - 38
IS - 3
SP - 223
EP - 230
J2 - Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
LA - en
SN - 1576-5962
ST - Emotional Intelligence, Work Satisfaction, and Affective Commitment
UR - https://journals.copmadrid.org/jwop/art/jwop2022a14
Y2 - 2023/04/11/12:57:58
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Elite athletes’ mental well-being and life satisfaction: a study of elite athletes’ resilience and social support from an Asian unrecognisedNational Olympic Committee
AU - Kuok, A. C. H
AU - K. I. Chio, David
AU - C. H. Pun, Alan
T2 - Health Psychology Report
AB - Introduction
This study aimed to investigate elite athletes’ mental well-being, and to ascertain whether the personal factor resilience and the social factor social support can play a role in promoting mental well-being and life satisfaction. In addition, this is one of the first studies to investigate well-being among elite athletes who are from a region belonging to an unrecognised National Olympic Committee and are not eligible to join the Olympic Games.
Material and methods
Eighty-four full-time elite athletes (37 males, 47 females) with mean age of 22.36 years old participated in this quantitative research study. Formal letters describing the purpose and organiser of the study were sent to the sport entities in Macao asking their permission for the researchers to contact the elite athletes to participate in this study. After gaining the permission, the elite athletes belonging to these entities were approached individually, to inform them of the purpose of the study and receive their consent.
Results
Regression revealed that emotional support and adaptability of resilience were strong positive predictors of mental well-being. Additionally, mental well-being was found to be a strong positive predictor of life satisfaction. The results reflected that in elite athletes possessing high adaptability and receiving more emotional support could help to maintain their mental well-being.
Conclusions
Implications (based on the findings) are discussed in order to provide insights for policy makers or coaches how to promote elite athletes’ mental well-being.
DA - 2021/06/28/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.5114/hpr.2021.107073
DP - USJ Library
J2 - Health Psychology Report
SN - 2353-4184, 2353-5571
ST - Elite athletes’ mental well-being and life satisfaction
UR - https://hpr.termedia.pl/Elite-athletes-mental-well-being-and-life-satisfaction-a-study-of-elite-athletes,137608,0,2.html
Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:06:32
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The antecedents of In-service teachers’ burnout in a casino dominant economy
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
AU - Lam, S. M. I
T2 - KEDI Journal of Educational Policy
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
DP - USJ Library
VL - 15
IS - 2
SP - 67
EP - 86
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - College Students’ Attitudes Toward Counseling for Mental Health Issues in Two Developing Asian Countries
AU - Kuok, A. C. H
AU - Rashidnia, J
T2 - Spritual Psychology and Counseling
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DP - USJ Library
VL - 4
IS - 1
SP - 67
EP - 84
LA - en-US
Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:43:22
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A positivist approach to work engagement: moderating effects of perceived organizational support
AU - Kuok, A. C. H
AU - Taormina, Robert J.
T2 - Dynamic Relationships Management Journal
DA - 2022/05/23/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.17708/DRMJ.2021.v11n01a04
DP - USJ Library
VL - 11
IS - 1
J2 - DRMJ
SN - 22325867, 2350367X
ST - A POSITIVIST APPROACH TO WORK ENGAGEMENT
UR - https://sam-d.si/en/revija/a-positivist-approach-to-work-engagement-moderating-effects-of-perceived-organizational-support/
Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:02:15
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Conflict between affective versus continuance commitment among casino dealers
AU - Kuok, A. C. H
AU - Taormina, Robert J.
T2 - Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship
AB - Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the extent of the reported low affective commitment compared to continuance commitment of Chinese casino dealers, to discern if there is a significant difference between the two types of commitment, and to identify factors that could explain the difference between them.
Design/methodology/approach
– Questionnaire data were obtained from 247 Chinese casino dealers working for the three major casino groups in Macau. Correlations and regressions were used to analyze the data.
Findings
– Dealers’ affective commitment was significantly lower than their continuance commitment, suggesting dealers do not like their jobs but do not leave them, which indicates they have cognitive dissonance about their jobs. Organizational socialization, organizational support, and supervisor integrity were positively correlated with affective commitment; while value of money, pay satisfaction, and neuroticism, were positively correlated with continuance commitment. Organizational support was the strongest predictor of affective commitment, while the value they place on money was the strongest predictor of continuance commitment.
Practical implications
– Casino managers could improve dealers’ affective commitment by facilitating their organizational socialization, especially training and rewards for their work, providing greater organizational support, and fair and supportive treatment from their supervisors.
Originality/value
– This is the first study to provide evidence of the difference between affective and continuance commitment in Chinese society, and identifies factors that influence each type of commitment, and may help resolve the employees’ dilemma about their jobs, which is an important concern for Chinese managers.
DA - 2015/04/07/
PY - 2015
DO - 10.1108/EBHRM-12-2013-0039
DP - USJ Library
VL - 3
IS - 1
SP - 46
EP - 63
LA - en
SN - 2049-3983
UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/EBHRM-12-2013-0039/full/html
Y2 - 2022/11/01/09:14:13
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The Effect of Self-Efficacy and Role Understanding on Teachers’ Emotional Exhaustion and Work Engagement in Inclusive Education in Macao (SAR)
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
AU - Forlin, Chris
AU - Monteiro, Elisa
AU - Correia, Ana
T2 - International Journal of Disability, Development and Education
AB - This study examined responses from 508 full-time teachers working in inclusive schools in Macao (SAR). The intention was to understand the teachers’ perceptions about their roles and how they responded to inclusive practices in their school. Teachers’ perceived levels of emotional exhaustion and cognitive work engagement were assessed in relation to several professional competencies (self-efficacy with using inclusive instruction, collaborating with parents and paraprofessionals, and managing disruptive behaviours), as well as the organisational variable of role understanding. Regression analysis showed that teachers’ self-efficacy with using inclusive instruction was found to be the most powerful negative predictor of emotional exhaustion; while self-efficacy for managing disruptive behaviours was a positive predictor of teachers’ cognitive work engagement. Teachers’ level of understanding of their role and that of their schools was a negative predictor of emotional exhaustion and a positive predictor of cognitive work engagement. Moreover, it further confirmed that the concept of co-existence between work engagement and burnout can be applied to inclusive teachers. Results were interpreted in relation to management in inclusive schools in Macao and were followed by a discussion on the implications of enhancing inclusive education.
DA - 2020/08/20/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1080/1034912X.2020.1808949
SP - 1
EP - 19
LA - English
SN - 1034-912X, 1465-346X
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1034912X.2020.1808949
Y2 - 2021/01/29/07:32:21
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Insights for management among non-gaming industries: Employees’ dissonance in a casino dominant economy
AU - Kuok, A.C.H.
T2 - Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
DA - 2017/04//
PY - 2017
DO - 10.1016/j.rpto.2016.12.003
DP - USJ Library
VL - 33
IS - 1
SP - 33
EP - 39
J2 - Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones
LA - en
SN - 15765962
ST - Insights for management among non-gaming industries
UR - http://journals.copmadrid.org/jwop/article.php?id=df0aab058ce179e4f7ab135ed4e641a9
Y2 - 2022/11/01/09:12:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey among secondary-school students in Hong Kong
AU - Kwan, Yee Wan
T2 - Learning Environments Research
AB - The study examined the factor structure, reliability and validity of a Chinese version of the Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (C-CLES), an instrument for assessing students’ perceptions of the extent of constructivist approaches prevalent in classrooms. A convenience sample of 967 students in Secondary Three (Grade 9) in Hong Kong participated in this study by completing a self-administered questionnaire in their class time. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesised factor structure, indicating five theoretical constructivist environment dimensions that showed goodness-of-fit to 25 items: Personal Relevance, Uncertainty, Critical Voice, Shared Control, and Student Negotiation. Criterion-related validity, involving evidence based on relations to other variables, was assessed by correlations between the constructivist environment dimensions and cognitive strategies and academic ability. Most correlations were statistically significant and in the positive direction. The C-CLES with 25 items provides a useful measure for educational practice and research among school students.
DA - 2020/07/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1007/s10984-019-09301-1
DP - Springer Link
VL - 23
IS - 2
SP - 167
EP - 184
J2 - Learning Environ Res
LA - en
SN - 1573-1855
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-019-09301-1
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:13:26
KW - Cognitive outcomes
KW - Constructivist learning environment
KW - Secondary schools
KW - Validation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Aspects that constitute citizens’ trust in e-government - A review and framework development
AU - Lai, Chimeng
AU - Marques, Alexandre Joao Lobo
T2 - Multidisciplinary Reviews
AB - The extent of citizens' trust in government determines the success or failure of e-government initiatives. Nevertheless, the idiosyncrasies of the concept and the broad spectrum of its approach still present relevant challenges. This work presents a systematic literature review on e-government trust while elaborating and summarizing a conceptual analysis of trust, introducing evaluation methods for government trust, and compiling relevant research on e-government trust and intentional behavior. A total of 26 key factors that constitute trust have been identified and classified into six categories: Government trust, Trust in Internet and technology (TiIT), Trust in e-government (TiEG), Personal Beliefs, Trustworthiness, and Trust of intermediary (ToI). The value added of this work consists of developing a conceptual framework of TiEG to provide a significant reference for future in-depth studies and research on e-government trust.
DA - 2024///
PY - 2024
DO - 10.31893/multirev.2024023
DP - malque.pub
VL - 7
IS - 2
SP - 2024023
EP - 2024023
LA - en
SN - 2595-3982
UR - https://malque.pub/ojs/index.php/mr/article/view/1591
Y2 - 2024/01/14/15:54:06
KW - Systematic Literature Review (SLR)
KW - framework
KW - trust
KW - trust in e-government
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Unravelling potentials and limitations of sharing economy in reducing unnecessary consumption: A social science perspective
AU - Lai, Michael K. W.
AU - Ho, Amy P. Y.
T2 - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
AB - Hyper-consumption in capitalist economies has had a severe impact on the environment that no one can escape. In recent year, there has been a high degree of optimism in sharing economy with regard to coping with the environmental problems caused by consumption. However, most of the current literature focuses on business perspectives in which a sharing economy is portrayed as a new business model, but not as a way to curb environmental degradation. This paper, based on a social science perspective, investigates the potentials and limitations of the strategies adopted in sharing economy projects towards social transformation (especially coping with environmental degradation and hyper-consumption), with the adoption of Erik Olin Wright’s concept of real utopia. A case study approach has been adopted in terms of a sharing economy project named ‘Waste-no-mall (Yuen Long)’ in Hong Kong. The project founder embraces ideological-led strategies based on collective responsibility, self-determination and reflexivity, encouraging the participants to reflect on their consumption behaviours, and thus increasing the level of awareness of the need to reduce unnecessary consumption. However, it is a double-edge sword that limits its impact to those who are active participants, without spreading to others the need for change. It is also limited for their interstitial strategies within the project, and is unable to call for a concrete symbiotic transformation when it comes to policy. The significance of this paper is two-fold. First, it adopts a social science perspective that centres on exploring the proclaimed social implications of sharing economy, an aspect which is under-studied given that most of current studies are from a business perspective; second, it extends Wright’s concept to an operational level by showing an important pathway aiming to solve environmental problems through the simultaneous achievement of both horizontal and vertical balancing strategies, based on Wright’s concept of real utopia.
DA - 2020/02/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104546
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 153
SP - 104546
J2 - Resources, Conservation and Recycling
LA - en
SN - 0921-3449
ST - Unravelling potentials and limitations of sharing economy in reducing unnecessary consumption
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919304525
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:11:53
KW - Hong Kong
KW - Mindful consumption
KW - Real utopia
KW - Sharing economy
KW - Social transformation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Self-Efficacy, Stress and Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service, Novice and Experienced English Teachers: A Study of their Occupational Health
AU - Lam, Stacy
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
AU - Sze, Tat Ming
T2 - Health Psychology Report
AB - Background
This study aimed to investigate English teachers’ self-efficacy for student engagement, classroom management, instructional strategies and literacy instruction, as well as to discover teacher stress and job satisfaction can play a role in interfering their occupational health (in terms of self-efficacy). In addition, this is one of the first studies to understand the differences in self-efficacy among pre-service, novice and experienced in-service teachers in a Chinese society, where English is positioned as a foreign language.
Participants and procedure
271 English teachers (90 pre-service, 181 in-service) with mean teaching experience of 5.57 months for per-service, and 98.51 months for in-service were participated in this quantitative research study, as the targets were not be able to approach randomly, the English teachers were approaching individually though referral sampling, informing that the purpose of the study and receive their consent.
Results
It discovered both pre-service and novice in-service teachers posses lowest self-efficacy. Moreover, teachers’ stress from classroom predicted their self-efficacy for student engagement and classroom management negatively. On the other hand, teachers’ job satisfaction predicts their self-efficacy for student engagement, instructional strategies and literacy instruction positively.
Conclusions
Implications (based on the findings) are discussed in order to provide insights for for schools and education departments to strengthen the teachers’ capability of teaching and their occupational health.
DA - 2022/05/30/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.5114/hpr.2022.115768
DP - USJ Library
J2 - Health Psychology Report
SN - 2353-4184, 2353-5571
ST - Self-Efficacy, Stress and Job Satisfaction among Pre-Service, Novice and Experienced English Teachers
UR - https://hpr.termedia.pl/Self-Efficacy-Stress-and-Job-Satisfaction-among-Pre-Service-Novice-and-Experienced,147488,0,2.html
Y2 - 2022/10/30/17:01:12
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - AN ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES IN MACAU
AU - Lampo, Alessandro
T2 - Revista Gestão em Análise
AB - Macau has long been considered to be an example of remarkable economic growth. With the opening of the gaming sector in 2002, the casino and hospitality sector flourished, creating employment opportunities but also imposing several challenges on managers. Since Macau endeavors to be positioned as the center for international business with Portuguese-speaking countries and a platform for trading with China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA), it becomes essential for international enterprises to understand the local dynamics. In light of the limited research available, this study aims to identify management challenges from the perspectives of senior executives in different industries based in Macau. Our findings point out that managers must contend with several issues, such as the lack of a skilled local talent pool, high turnover rates, employees' work attitudes, and a tightly controlled immigration policy. It is also imperative for international managers to nurture relationships and pay attention to the local culture. Our results suggest that Macau has to develop a highly skilled local workforce to attract international companies, while local organizations also have to create an attractive working environment to compete in the marketplace.
DA - 2023/02/24/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.12662/2359-618xregea.v12i1.p39-48.2023
DP - periodicos.unichristus.edu.br
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 39
EP - 48
LA - en
SN - 2359-618X
UR - https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/gestao/article/view/3940
Y2 - 2023/03/17/01:58:55
KW - Macau
KW - casinos
KW - greater bay area
KW - management
KW - managerial challenges
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The Influence of Society on the Behavioral Intention to Use a Technology: Evidence from the Battery Electric Vehicles Domain
AU - Lampo, Alessandro
AU - Silva, Susana C.
AU - Duarte, Paulo
T2 - International Journal of Business Excellence
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1504/IJBEX.2022.10051975
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 1
IS - 1
SP - 1
J2 - IJBEX
LA - en
SN - 1756-0047, 1756-0055
ST - The Influence of Society on the Behavioral Intention to Use a Technology
UR - http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=10051975
Y2 - 2023/03/17/01:58:17
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The role of environmental concern and technology show-off on electric vehicles adoption: the case of Macau
AU - Lampo, Alessandro
AU - Silva, Susana C.
AU - Duarte, Paulo
T2 - International Journal of Emerging Markets
AB - Purpose
Research on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) has typically considered environmental concern a key determinant of behavioral intention that leads individuals to prefer electric vehicles. This paper challenges this assumption and argues that technology frameworks may require new variables to capture consumers' preferences. A UTAUT2-based study has been developed to assess the role of environmental concern in the BEVs context and put forward the technology show-off (TS) concept to explain the technology's acceptance.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative and cross-sectional look at behavioral intention is adopted. The study uses structural equation modeling to analyze a sample of 236 Macau residents to determine the relevance of the factors behind the choice to adopt BEVs.
Findings
The findings indicate that environmental concern and price may be relevant to explain behavioral intention to adopt the BEVs technology. Furthermore, the UTAUT2 framework seems to benefit from adding new variables, with TS playing a pertinent role in explaining technology acceptance.
Social implications
The findings show that environmental concern fails to build an argument for the shift to full electric mobility and promote the desired behavioral change toward adopting BEVs. Herein lies the necessity to consider new variables that can better describe the characteristics of modern society.
Originality/value
This paper proposes the TS construct, combining visibility and trialability as significant determinants of behavioral intention to use technology. The study also stresses the need to reconsider the role of environmental concerns' impact on consumer decision-making.
DA - 2023/05/05/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1108/IJOEM-10-2021-1637
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
J2 - IJOEM
LA - en
SN - 1746-8809
ST - The role of environmental concern and technology show-off on electric vehicles adoption
UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJOEM-10-2021-1637/full/html
Y2 - 2023/05/18/01:43:58
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Acceptance of Insects as Food: An Exploratory Study of Young Consumers in Macau
AU - Lampo, Alessandro
AU - Sun, Hou Tong
T2 - Indian Journal of Entomology
AB - Substitute foods are increasingly popular to reduce our environmental footprint and promote food security. As the world population is expected to grow and food resources become scarce, insects as food have recently gained attention as a viable alternative. In the present study, a model grounded on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is proposed and analyzed through structural equation modeling software (SmartPLS) to assess consumers intentions toward insects as food. Except for subjective norm, both attitude and perceived behavioral control were key determinants of intention and, in turn, of actual use behaviour. Despite insects being consumed in nearly 1/4 of the sample (for instance in Chinese medicine), the study found that respondents were on average relatively unwilling to use them as a dietary habit. Also, it appeared that men were more likely to consume insects as food than women. The insights of our study have important implications for practitioners and policymakers seeking to promote sustainable nutritional practices among consumers. This study is particularly relevant for Macau, as the city positions itself as a "UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy" with the aim to develop internationally a unique and sustainable food image.
DA - 2023/08/14/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.55446/IJE.2023.1082
DP - indianentomology.org
SP - 1
EP - 7
J2 - IJE
LA - en
SN - 0974-8172
ST - Acceptance of Insects as Food
UR - https://indianentomology.org/index.php/ije/article/view/1082
Y2 - 2023/08/31/10:37:14
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Multi-view Convolution Neural Network with Swarm Search Based Hyperparameter Optimization for Enhancing Heart Disease and Breast Cancer Detection
AU - Lan, K.
AU - Li, T.
AU - Fong, S.
AU - Marques, J.A.L.
AU - Wong, R.K.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence, ISCMI 2018
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
DO - 10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703249
SP - 140
EP - 146
UR - 10.1109/ISCMI.2018.8703249
Y2 - 2021/02/03/09:10:21
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Multi-view convolutional neural network with leader and long-tail particle swarm optimizer for enhancing heart disease and breast cancer detection
AU - Lan, K.
AU - Liu, L.
AU - Li, T.
AU - Chen, Y.
AU - Fong, S.
AU - Marques, J.A.L.
AU - Wong, R.K.
AU - Tang, R.
T2 - Neural Computing and Applications
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1007/s00521-020-04769-y
DP - ORCID
UR - 10.1007/s00521-020-04769-y
Y2 - 2021/02/03/09:10:21
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Noise-induced hearing loss correlates with inner ear hair cell decrease in larval zebrafish
AU - Lara, Rafael A.
AU - Breitzler, Lukas
AU - Lau, Ieng Hou
AU - Gordillo-Martinez, Flora
AU - Chen, Fangyi
AU - Fonseca, Paulo J.
AU - Bass, Andrew H.
AU - Vasconcelos, Raquel O.
T2 - Journal of Experimental Biology
AB - Anthropogenic noise can be hazardous for the auditory system and wellbeing of animals, including humans. However, very limited information is known on how this global environmental pollutant affects auditory function and inner ear sensory receptors in early ontogeny. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a valuable model in hearing research, including investigations of developmental processes of the vertebrate inner ear. We tested the effects of chronic exposure to white noise in larval zebrafish on inner ear saccular sensitivity and morphology at 3 and 5 days post-fertilization (dpf), as well as on auditory-evoked swimming responses using the prepulse inhibition (PPI) paradigm at 5 dpf. Noise-exposed larvae showed a significant increase in microphonic potential thresholds at low frequencies, 100 and 200 Hz, while the PPI revealed a hypersensitization effect and a similar threshold shift at 200 Hz. Auditory sensitivity changes were accompanied by a decrease in saccular hair cell number and epithelium area. In aggregate, the results reveal noise-induced effects on inner ear structure–function in a larval fish paralleled by a decrease in auditory-evoked sensorimotor responses. More broadly, this study highlights the importance of investigating the impact of environmental noise on early development of sensory and behavioural responsiveness to acoustic stimuli.
DA - 2022/04/06/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1242/jeb.243743
DP - Silverchair
VL - 225
IS - 7
SP - jeb243743
J2 - Journal of Experimental Biology
SN - 0022-0949
UR - https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243743
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:11:47
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Characterization of the Natural Soundscape of Zebrafish and Comparison with the Captive Noise Conditions
AU - Lara, Rafael A.
AU - Vasconcelos, Raquel O.
T2 - Zebrafish
AB - Zebrafish is a well-established model organism in hearing research. Although the acoustic environment is known to shape the structure and sensitivity of auditory systems, there is no information on the natural soundscape of this species. Moreover, zebrafish are typically reared in large-scale housing systems (HS), although their acoustic properties and potential effects on hearing remain unknown. We characterized the soundscape of both zebrafish natural habitats and laboratory captive conditions, and discussed possible impact on auditory sensitivity. Sound recordings were conducted in five distinct zebrafish habitats (Southwest India), from quieter stagnant environments with diverse biological/abiotic sounds to louder watercourses characterized by current and moving substrate sounds. Sound pressure level (SPL) varied between 98 and 126 dB re 1 μPa. Sound spectra presented most energy below 3000 Hz and quieter noise windows were found in the noisiest habitats matching the species best hearing range. Contrastingly, recordings from three zebrafish HS revealed higher SPL (122-143 dB) and most energy below 1000 Hz with more spectral peaks, which might cause significant auditory masking. This study establishes an important ground for future research on the adaptation of zebrafish auditory system to the natural soundscapes, and highlights the importance of controlling noise conditions in captivity.
DA - 2019/04//
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1089/zeb.2018.1654
DP - PubMed
VL - 16
IS - 2
SP - 152
EP - 164
J2 - Zebrafish
LA - eng
SN - 1557-8542
KW - Animals
KW - Animals, Laboratory
KW - Auditory Threshold
KW - Batrachoidiformes
KW - Ecosystem
KW - Environment
KW - Female
KW - Hair Cells, Auditory
KW - Hearing
KW - Housing, Animal
KW - India
KW - Male
KW - Neuronal Plasticity
KW - Noise
KW - Saccule and Utricle
KW - Seasons
KW - Sexual Behavior, Animal
KW - Sound
KW - Species Specificity
KW - Vocalization, Animal
KW - Zebrafish
KW - ambient noise
KW - hearing sensitivity
KW - natural habitat
KW - sound pressure level
KW - soundscape
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Impact of noise on development, physiological stress and behavioural patterns in larval zebrafish
AU - Lara, Rafael A.
AU - Vasconcelos, Raquel O.
T2 - Scientific Reports
AB - Noise pollution is increasingly present in aquatic ecosystems, causing detrimental effects on growth, physiology and behaviour of organisms. However, limited information exists on how this stressor affects animals in early ontogeny, a critical period for development and establishment of phenotypic traits. We tested the effects of chronic noise exposure to increasing levels (130 and 150 dB re 1 μPa, continuous white noise) and different temporal regimes on larval zebrafish (Danio rerio), an important vertebrate model in ecotoxicology. The acoustic treatments did not affect general development or hatching but higher noise levels led to increased mortality. The cardiac rate, yolk sac consumption and cortisol levels increased significantly with increasing noise level at both 3 and 5 dpf (days post fertilization). Variation in noise temporal patterns (different random noise periods to simulate shipping activity) suggested that the time regime is more important than the total duration of noise exposure to down-regulate physiological stress. Moreover, 5 dpf larvae exposed to 150 dB continuous noise displayed increased dark avoidance in anxiety-related dark/light preference test and impaired spontaneous alternation behaviour. We provide first evidence of noise-induced physiological stress and behavioural disturbance in larval zebrafish, showing that both noise amplitude and timing negatively impact key developmental endpoints in early ontogeny.
DA - 2021/03/23/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1038/s41598-021-85296-1
DP - www.nature.com
VL - 11
IS - 1
SP - 6615
J2 - Sci Rep
LA - en
SN - 2045-2322
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85296-1
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:12:05
KW - Embryology
KW - Environmental impact
KW - Freshwater ecology
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Attempt to Examine Digital Native and Digital Immigrant Macau Graphic Designers' Perceptions of Adopting Generative Design
AU - Lau, Ching Man
AU - Caires, Carlos Sena
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
AB - The manifestation of generating digital visuals through an algorithm is gaining worldwide attention in the graphic design industry. It is a new form of computing that visualizes data input by the designer or collected in the physical environment and turns them into artwork. The generative design of...
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.311424
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 16
J2 - IJCICG
LA - en
SN - 1947-3117
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/an-attempt-to-examine-digital-native-and-digital-immigrant-macau-graphic-designers-perceptions-of-adopting-generative-design/www.igi-global.com/article/an-attempt-to-examine-digital-native-and-digital-immigrant-macau-graphic-designers-perceptions-of-adopting-generative-design/311424
Y2 - 2023/04/25/09:03:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Actio Ecclesiae: The Participation of the Lay Christian Faithful in the Liturgy of the Hours (c. 1174 Sec. 2)
AU - Law, Cyril Jerome
T2 - The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
VL - 79
SP - 167
EP - 209
LA - eng
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Book Review: ‘The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity’, by D. E. Mungello (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
AU - Law, Cyril Jerome
T2 - Heythrop Journal
DA - 2018///
PY - 2018
VL - 59
IS - 2
SP - 393
EP - 394
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Minimising Maximum Illud: Early Resistance to Missionary Inculturation in China
AU - Law, Cyril Jerome
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
DA - 2022/04/25/
PY - 2022
IS - 5
SP - 7
EP - 22
J2 - Orientis Aura
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/39
Y2 - 2023/06/02/00:00:00
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Lusophony Risks to Be a Heritage with No Future
AU - Leandro, F. J.
T2 - AUSTRAL: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations
DA - 2017///
PY - 2017
DO - https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-6912.79160
VL - 6
IS - 12
SP - 176
EP - 189
SN - 2238-6262
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Desafios à unidade geopolítica da lusofonia
AU - Leandro, Francisco da Silva
T2 - IDNBrief
AB - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
DA - 2017/11//
PY - 2017
DO - https://www.idn.gov.pt/publicacoes/newsletter/idnbrief_novembro2017.pdf
DP - comum.rcaap.pt
LA - por
SN - 2182-5327
UR - https://comum.rcaap.pt/bitstream/10400.26/22815/1/idnbrief_novembro2017.pdf
Y2 - 2021/02/18/02:31:13
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Statistical Forecast Applied to Two Macao Air Monitoring Stations
AU - Lei, M.
AU - Monjardino, J.
AU - Mendes, L.
AU - Gonçalves, D.
AU - Ferreira, F.
T2 - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
AB - The levels of air pollution in Macao often exceeded the levels recommended by WHO. In order for the population to take precautionary measures and avoid further health risks under high pollutant exposure, it is important to develop a reliable air quality forecast. Statistical models based on multiple regression (MR) analysis were developed successfully for Macao to predict the next day concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, and NO2. All the developed models were statistically significantly valid with a 95% confidence level with high coefficients of determination (from 0.89 to 0.92) for all pollutants. The models utilized meteorological and air quality variables based on five years of historical data, from 2013 to 2017. The data from 2013 to 2016 were used to develop the statistical models and data from 2017 were used for validation purposes. A wide range of meteorological and air quality variables were identified, and only some were selected as significant dependent variables. Meteorological variables were selected from an extensive list of variables, including geopotential height, relative humidity, atmospheric stability, and air temperature at different vertical levels. Air quality variables translate the resilience of the recent past concentrations of each pollutant and usually are maximum and/or the average of latest 24-hour levels. The models were applied in forecasting the next day average daily concentrations for PM10, PM2.5, and NO2 for the air quality monitoring stations. The results are expected to be an operational air quality forecast for Macao.
DA - 2020/04//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/489/1/012018
DP - Institute of Physics
VL - 489
IS - 1
SP - 012018
J2 - IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.
LA - en
SN - 1755-1315
UR - https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/489/1/012018
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:23:33
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Macao air quality forecast using statistical methods
AU - Lei, Man Tat
AU - Monjardino, Joana
AU - Mendes, Luisa
AU - Ferreira, Francisco
T2 - International Journal of Environmental Impacts: Management, Mitigation and Recovery
DA - 2019/07/19/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.2495/EI-V2-N3-249-258
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 2
IS - 3
SP - 249
EP - 258
J2 - Int. J. EI
LA - en
SN - 2398-2640, 2398-2659
UR - http://www.witpress.com/doi/journals/EI-V2-N3-249-258
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:23:59
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Macao air quality forecast using statistical methods
AU - Lei, Man Tat
AU - Monjardino, Joana
AU - Mendes, Luisa
AU - Gonçalves, David
AU - Ferreira, Francisco
T2 - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health
AB - The levels of air pollution in Macao often exceeded the levels recommended by WHO. In order for the population to take precautionary measures and avoid further health risks under high pollutant exposure, it is important to develop a reliable air quality forecast. Statistical models based on linear multiple regression (MR) and classification and regression trees (CART) analysis were developed successfully, for Macao, to predict the next day concentrations of NO2, PM10, PM2.5, and O3. All the developed models were statistically significantly valid with a 95% confidence level with high coefficients of determination (from 0.78 to 0.93) for all pollutants. The models utilized meteorological and air quality variables based on 5 years of historical data, from 2013 to 2017. Data from 2013 to 2016 were used to develop the statistical models and data from 2017 was used for validation purposes. A wide range of meteorological and air quality variables was identified, and only some were selected as significant independent variables. Meteorological variables were selected from an extensive list of variables, including geopotential height, relative humidity, atmospheric stability, and air temperature at different vertical levels. Air quality variables translate the resilience of the recent past concentrations of each pollutant and usually are maximum and/or the average of latest 24-h levels. The models were applied in forecasting the next day average daily concentrations for NO2 and PM and maximum hourly O3 levels for five air quality monitoring stations. The results are expected to be an operational air quality forecast for Macao.
DA - 2019/09/01/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1007/s11869-019-00721-9
DP - Springer Link
VL - 12
IS - 9
SP - 1049
EP - 1057
J2 - Air Qual Atmos Health
LA - en
SN - 1873-9326
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-019-00721-9
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:23:38
KW - Macao
KW - NO2
KW - O3
KW - PM10
KW - PM2.5
KW - Particulate matter
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Statistical Forecast of Pollution Episodes in Macao during National Holiday and COVID-19
AU - Lei, Man Tat
AU - Monjardino, Joana
AU - Mendes, Luisa
AU - Gonçalves, David
AU - Ferreira, Francisco
T2 - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
AB - Statistical methods such as multiple linear regression (MLR) and classification and regression tree (CART) analysis were used to build prediction models for the levels of pollutant concentrations in Macao using meteorological and air quality historical data to three periods: (i) from 2013 to 2016, (ii) from 2015 to 2018, and (iii) from 2013 to 2018. The variables retained by the models were identical for nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM10), PM2.5, but not for ozone (O3) Air pollution data from 2019 was used for validation purposes. The model for the 2013 to 2018 period was the one that performed best in prediction of the next-day concentrations levels in 2019, with high coefficient of determination (R2), between predicted and observed daily average concentrations (between 0.78 and 0.89 for all pollutants), and low root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and biases (BIAS). To understand if the prediction model was robust to extreme variations in pollutants concentration, a test was performed under the circumstances of a high pollution episode for PM2.5 and O3 during 2019, and the low pollution episode during the period of implementation of the preventive measures for COVID-19 pandemic. Regarding the high pollution episode, the period of the Chinese National Holiday of 2019 was selected, in which high concentration levels were identified for PM2.5 and O3, with peaks of daily concentration exceeding 55 μg/m3 and 400 μg/m3, respectively. The 2013 to 2018 model successfully predicted this high pollution episode with high coefficients of determination (of 0.92 for PM2.5 and 0.82 for O3). The low pollution episode for PM2.5 and O3 was identified during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic period, with a low record of daily concentration for PM2.5 levels at 2 μg/m3 and O3 levels at 50 μg/m3, respectively. The 2013 to 2018 model successfully predicted the low pollution episode for PM2.5 and O3 with a high coefficient of determination (0.86 and 0.84, respectively). Overall, the results demonstrate that the statistical forecast model is robust and able to correctly reproduce extreme air pollution events of both high and low concentration levels.
DA - 2020/01//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.3390/ijerph17145124
DP - www.mdpi.com
VL - 17
IS - 14
SP - 5124
LA - en
SN - 1660-4601
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/14/5124
Y2 - 2022/09/21/08:23:35
KW - COVID-19
KW - air pollution
KW - air quality forecast
KW - modelling
KW - national holiday
KW - pollution episodes
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Monitoring PM2.5 at a Large Shopping Mall: A Case Study in Macao
AU - Lei, Thomas M. T.
AU - Chan, Yan W. I.
AU - Mohd Nadzir, Mohd Shahrul
T2 - Processes
AB - Employees work long hours in an environment where the ambient air quality is poor, directly affecting their work efficiency. The concentration of particulate matters (PM) produced by the interior renovation of shopping malls has not received particular attention in Macao. Therefore, this study will investigate the indoor air quality (IAQ), in particular of PM2.5, in large-scale shopping mall renovation projects. This study collected on-site PM data with low-cost portable monitoring equipment placed temporarily at specific locations to examine whether the current control measures are appropriate and propose some improvements. Prior to this study, there were no measures being implemented, and on-site monitoring to assess the levels of PM2.5 concentrations was non-existent. The results show the highest level of PM2.5 recorded in this study was 559.00 μg/m3. Moreover, this study may provide a reference for decision-makers, management, construction teams, design consultant teams, and renovation teams of large-scale projects. In addition, the monitoring of IAQ can ensure a comfortable environment for employees and customers. This study concluded that the levels of PM2.5 concentration have no correlation with the number of on-site workers, but rather were largely influenced by the processes being performed on-site.
DA - 2023/03//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.3390/pr11030914
DP - www.mdpi.com
VL - 11
IS - 3
SP - 914
LA - en
SN - 2227-9717
ST - Monitoring PM2.5 at a Large Shopping Mall
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/11/3/914
Y2 - 2023/04/11/09:51:02
KW - air pollution
KW - construction dust
KW - health exposure
KW - indoor air quality
KW - particulate matter
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Application of ANN, XGBoost, and Other ML Methods to Forecast Air Quality in Macau
AU - Lei, Thomas M. T.
AU - Ng, Stanley C. W.
AU - Siu, Shirley W. I.
T2 - Sustainability
AB - Air pollution in Macau has become a serious problem following the Pearl River Delta’s (PRD) rapid industrialization that began in the 1990s. With this in mind, Macau needs an air quality forecast system that accurately predicts pollutant concentration during the occurrence of pollution episodes to warn the public ahead of time. Five different state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms were applied to create predictive models to forecast PM2.5, PM10, and CO concentrations for the next 24 and 48 h, which included artificial neural networks (ANN), random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), support vector machine (SVM), and multiple linear regression (MLR), to determine the best ML algorithms for the respective pollutants and time scale. The diurnal measurements of air quality data in Macau from 2016 to 2021 were obtained for this work. The 2020 and 2021 datasets were used for model testing, while the four-year data before 2020 and 2021 were used to build and train the ML models. Results show that the ANN, RF, XGBoost, SVM, and MLR models were able to provide good performance in building up a 24-h forecast with a higher coefficient of determination (R2) and lower root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and biases (BIAS). Meanwhile, all the ML models in the 48-h forecasting performance were satisfactory enough to be accepted as a two-day continuous forecast even if the R2 value was lower than the 24-h forecast. The 48-h forecasting model could be further improved by proper feature selection based on the 24-h dataset, using the Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) value test and the adjusted R2 value of the 48-h forecasting model. In conclusion, the above five ML algorithms were able to successfully forecast the 24 and 48 h of pollutant concentration in Macau, with the RF and SVM models performing the best in the prediction of PM2.5 and PM10, and CO in both 24 and 48-h forecasts.
DA - 2023/01//
PY - 2023
DO - 10.3390/su15065341
DP - www.mdpi.com
VL - 15
IS - 6
SP - 5341
LA - en
SN - 2071-1050
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/6/5341
Y2 - 2023/04/11/09:51:09
KW - Macau
KW - air pollution
KW - air quality
KW - air quality forecast
KW - machine learning
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Using Machine Learning Methods to Forecast Air Quality: A Case Study in Macao
AU - Lei, Thomas M. T.
AU - Siu, Shirley W. I.
AU - Monjardino, Joana
AU - Mendes, Luisa
AU - Ferreira, Francisco
T2 - Atmosphere
AB - Despite the levels of air pollution in Macao continuing to improve over recent years, there are still days with high-pollution episodes that cause great health concerns to the local community. Therefore, it is very important to accurately forecast air quality in Macao. Machine learning methods such as random forest (RF), gradient boosting (GB), support vector regression (SVR), and multiple linear regression (MLR) were applied to predict the levels of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) concentrations in Macao. The forecast models were built and trained using the meteorological and air quality data from 2013 to 2018, and the air quality data from 2019 to 2021 were used for validation. Our results show that there is no significant difference between the performance of the four methods in predicting the air quality data for 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and 2021 (the new normal period). However, RF performed significantly better than the other methods for 2020 (amid the pandemic) with a higher coefficient of determination (R2) and lower RMSE, MAE, and BIAS. The reduced performance of the statistical MLR and other ML models was presumably due to the unprecedented low levels of PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in 2020. Therefore, this study suggests that RF is the most reliable prediction method for pollutant concentrations, especially in the event of drastic air quality changes due to unexpected circumstances, such as a lockdown caused by a widespread infectious disease.
DA - 2022/09//
PY - 2022
DO - 10.3390/atmos13091412
DP - www.mdpi.com
VL - 13
IS - 9
SP - 1412
LA - en
SN - 2073-4433
ST - Using Machine Learning Methods to Forecast Air Quality
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/13/9/1412
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:32:43
KW - COVID-19
KW - air pollution
KW - air quality
KW - air quality forecast
KW - gradient boosting
KW - multiple linear regression
KW - random forest
KW - support vector regression
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Impacts of Central Bank Digital Currency on Regional Economic Integration: Evidence from the Greater Bay Area of China
AU - Lei, Weng Chi
AU - Wang, Xinru
T2 - The Chinese Economy
AB - An increasing number of countries have launched their central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in recent years, but the economic impacts of CBDC adoption are underexplored. To empirically assess how CBDC adoption influences regional economic integration, this paper investigates the Greater Bay Area, where China carried out one of its first digital renminbi pilot programs. The Greater Bay Area provides a good example because the growing acceptance of digital renminbi in the area can potentially mitigate transaction costs and risks due to the exchange rate volatility of the Chinese renminbi, Hong Kong dollar, and Macao pataca. CBDC adoption can lead to greater real and financial integrations by facilitating cross-border trade in goods and services. This paper evaluates deviations from uncovered interest rate parity, purchasing power parity, and real interest rate parity across Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao based on monthly interest rate and price data from January 2016 to December 2022. The time series have mean values near zero, which validate the parity conditions and indicate high degrees of financial, real, and economic integrations. The Markov regime-switching regression model identifies three regimes: (1) pre-Covid, (2) post-Covid, and (3) post-CBDC. The Covid-19 outbreak brought lower integration and stability, but the launch of the CBDC restored some of the pre-Covid integration and stability. Regimes 1 and 2 are persistent, and transitions from Regime 3 back to Regime 1 are probable. Hence, this study finds evidence that CBDC adoption improves regional economic integration in the short and long run.
DA - 2024///
PY - 2024
DO - 10.1080/10971475.2024.2333124
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 0
IS - 0
SP - 1
EP - 14
SN - 1097-1475
ST - Impacts of Central Bank Digital Currency on Regional Economic Integration
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/10971475.2024.2333124
Y2 - 2024/03/28/06:13:24
KW - Central bank digital currency
KW - Greater Bay Area
KW - digital renminbi
KW - economic integration
KW - financial integration
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Does Romans 2:14 Refer to the Natural Law?
AU - Leong, Chi Hei
T2 - Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies
AB - Whilst after decades of research, exegetes have all agree on the complexity of Paul’s line of thinking in Rom 2:14–16, the ITC in its 2009 document, In Search of a Universal Ethic, still in an oversimplified manner propagates the view that Rom 2:14 presupposes a theory/theology of the natural law. This article makes plain the major disagreements among Pauline exegetes whether such presupposition stands by reviewing some major contributions to the discussion by raising major questions regarding the issue of φύσει in those verses, the nature of the law mentioned by Paul, the identity of the people Paul calls “Gentiles.” This article offers a more nuanced understanding of Rom 2:14.
Keywords: Rom 2:14, ITC, Universal Ethic, Natural Law, φύσει, Gentiles
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
DP - journals.usj.edu.mo
IS - 6
SP - 57
EP - 74
LA - en
SN - 2519-5425
ST - Does Romans 2
UR - https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/191
Y2 - 2024/02/27/03:47:43
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An exploration of building up the quality of parent-child relationship in residential childcare in Macao
AU - Leong, On Na Ribeiro
AU - Liu, Shu-Wen
T2 - Asian Social Work and Policy Review
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1111/aswp.12252
DP - Wiley Online Library
VL - 16
IS - 2
SP - 114
EP - 125
LA - en
SN - 1753-1411
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aswp.12252
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:41:52
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Exploratory Research on Key Technology of Human-Computer Interactive 2.5-Minute Fast Digital Early Warning for Mild Cognitive Impairment
AU - Li, Nan
AU - Yang, Xiaotong
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Ogihara, Atsushi
AU - Zhou, Siyu
AU - Ma, Xiaowen
AU - Wang, Yujia
AU - Li, Shuwu
AU - Li, Kai
T2 - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
A2 - Gong, Daqing
AB - Objective. As the preclinical stage of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is characterized by hidden onset, which is difficult to detect early. Traditional neuropsychological scales are main tools used for assessing MCI. However, due to its strong subjectivity and the influence of many factors such as subjects’ educational background, language and hearing ability, and time cost, its accuracy as the standard of early screening is low. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new key technology of fast digital early warning for MCI based on eye movement objective data analysis. Methodology. Firstly, four exploratory indexes (test durations, correlation degree, lengths of gaze trajectory, and drift rate) of MCI early warning are determined based on the relevant literature research and semistructured expert interview; secondly, the eye movement state is captured based on the eye tracker to realize the data extraction of four exploratory indexes. On this basis, the human-computer interactive 2.5-minute fast digital early warning paradigm for MCI is designed; thirdly, the rationality of the four early warning indexes proposed in this paper and their early warning effectiveness on MCI are verified. Results. Through the small sample test of human-computer interactive 2.5 fast digital early warning paradigm for MCI conducted by 32 elderly people aged 70–90 in a medical institution in Hangzhou, the two indexes of “correlation degree” and “drift rate” with statistical differences are selected. The experiment results show that AUC of this MCI early warning paradigm is 0.824. Conclusion. The key technology of human-computer interactive 2.5 fast digital early warning for MCI proposed in this paper overcomes the limitations of the existing MCI early warning tools, such as low objectification level, high dependence on professional doctors, long test time, requiring high educational level, and so on. The experiment results show that the early warning technology, as a new generation of objective and effective digital early warning tool, can realize 2.5-minute fast and high-precision preliminary screening and early warning for MCI in the elderly.
DA - 2022/03/29/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1155/2022/2495330
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
VL - 2022
SP - 1
EP - 15
J2 - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
LA - en
SN - 1687-5273, 1687-5265
UR - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/2022/2495330/
Y2 - 2023/04/26/07:39:24
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Health and Well-Being Education: Extending the SCARF Learning Analytics Model for Identifying the Learner Happiness Indicators
AU - Li, Tengyue
AU - Marques, Joao Alexandre Lobo
AU - Fong, Simon
T2 - International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH)
AB - The use of learning analytics (LA) in real-world educational applications is growing very fast as academic institutions realize the positive potential that is possible if LA is integrated in decision making. Education in schools on public health need to evolve in response to the new knowledge and th...
DA - 2020/07/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.4018/IJEACH.2020070105
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 2
IS - 2
SP - 42
EP - 53
J2 - IJEACH
LA - en
SN - 2577-4794
ST - Health and Well-Being Education
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/health-and-well-being-education/www.igi-global.com/article/health-and-well-being-education/260728
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:14:11
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - LSDA-APF: A Local Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Unmanned Surface Vehicles Based on 5G Communication Environment
AU - Li, Xiaoli
AU - Jiao, Tongtong
AU - Ma, Jinfeng
AU - Duan, Dongxing
AU - Liang, Shengbin
T2 - Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences
AB - In view of the complex marine environment of navigation, especially in the case of multiple static and dynamic obstacles, the traditional obstacle avoidance algorithms applied to unmanned surface vehicles (USV) are prone to fall into the trap of local optimization. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved artificial potential field (APF) algorithm, which uses 5G communication technology to communicate between the USV and the control center. The algorithm introduces the USV discrimination mechanism to avoid the USV falling into local optimization when the USV encounter different obstacles in different scenarios. Considering the various scenarios between the USV and other dynamic obstacles such as vessels in the process of performing tasks, the algorithm introduces the concept of dynamic artificial potential field. For the multiple obstacles encountered in the process of USV sailing, based on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS), the USV determines whether the next step will fall into local optimization through the discrimination mechanism. The local potential field of the USV will dynamically adjust, and the reverse virtual gravitational potential field will be added to prevent it from falling into the local optimization and avoid collisions. The objective function and cost function are designed at the same time, so that the USV can smoothly switch between the global path and the local obstacle avoidance. The simulation results show that the improved APF algorithm proposed in this paper can successfully avoid various obstacles in the complex marine environment, and take navigation time and economic cost into account.
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DO - 10.32604/cmes.2023.029367
DP - www.techscience.com
VL - 138
IS - 1
SP - 595
EP - 617
J2 - CMES
LA - en
SN - 1526-1492, 1526-1506
ST - LSDA-APF
UR - https://www.techscience.com/CMES/v138n1/54251
Y2 - 2024/01/13/06:21:25
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A model of integrating convolution and BiGRU dual-channel mechanism for Chinese medical text classifications
AU - Li, Xiaoli
AU - Zhang, Yuying
AU - Jin, Jiangyong
AU - Sun, Fuqi
AU - Li, Na
AU - Liang, Shengbin
T2 - PLOS ONE
AB - Recently, a lot of Chinese patients consult treatment plans through social networking platforms, but the Chinese medical text contains rich information, including a large number of medical nomenclatures and symptom descriptions. How to build an intelligence model to automatically classify the text information consulted by patients and recommend the correct department for patients is very important. In order to address the problem of insufficient feature extraction from Chinese medical text and low accuracy, this paper proposes a dual channel Chinese medical text classification model. The model extracts feature of Chinese medical text at different granularity, comprehensively and accurately obtains effective feature information, and finally recommends departments for patients according to text classification. One channel of the model focuses on medical nomenclatures, symptoms and other words related to hospital departments, gives different weights, calculates corresponding feature vectors with convolution kernels of different sizes, and then obtains local text representation. The other channel uses the BiGRU network and attention mechanism to obtain text representation, highlighting the important information of the whole sentence, that is, global text representation. Finally, the model uses full connection layer to combine the representation vectors of the two channels, and uses Softmax classifier for classification. The experimental results show that the accuracy, recall and F1-score of the model are improved by 10.65%, 8.94% and 11.62% respectively compared with the baseline models in average, which proves that our model has better performance and robustness.
DA - 2023/03/16/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0282824
DP - PLoS Journals
VL - 18
IS - 3
SP - e0282824
J2 - PLOS ONE
LA - en
SN - 1932-6203
UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282824
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:09:10
KW - Convolution
KW - Deep learning
KW - Machine learning
KW - Memory recall
KW - Neural networks
KW - Recurrent neural networks
KW - Semantics
KW - Syntax
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Improved Double Channel Long Short-Term Memory Model for Medical Text Classification
AU - Liang, Shengbin
AU - Chen, Xinan
AU - Ma, Jixin
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Ma, Huawei
T2 - Journal of Healthcare Engineering
A2 - Li, Xingwang
AB - There are a large number of symptom consultation texts in medical and healthcare Internet communities, and Chinese health segmentation is more complex, which leads to the low accuracy of the existing algorithms for medical text classification. The deep learning model has advantages in extracting abstract features of text effectively. However, for a large number of samples of complex text data, especially for words with ambiguous meanings in the field of Chinese medical diagnosis, the word-level neural network model is insufficient. Therefore, in order to solve the triage and precise treatment of patients, we present an improved Double Channel (DC) mechanism as a significant enhancement to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). In this DC mechanism, two channels are used to receive word-level and char-level embedding, respectively, at the same time. Hybrid attention is proposed to combine the current time output with the current time unit state and then using attention to calculate the weight. By calculating the probability distribution of each timestep input data weight, the weight score is obtained, and then weighted summation is performed. At last, the data input by each timestep is subjected to trade-off learning to improve the generalization ability of the model learning. Moreover, we conduct an extensive performance evaluation on two different datasets: cMedQA and Sentiment140. The experimental results show that the DC-LSTM model proposed in this paper has significantly superior accuracy and ROC compared with the basic CNN-LSTM model.
DA - 2021/02/23/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1155/2021/6664893
DP - USJ Library
VL - 2021
SP - 1
EP - 8
J2 - Journal of Healthcare Engineering
LA - en
SN - 2040-2309, 2040-2295
UR - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jhe/2021/6664893/
Y2 - 2022/04/28/11:43:23
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An improved ant colony optimization algorithm based on context for tourism route planning
AU - Liang, Shengbin
AU - Jiao, Tongtong
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Qu, Shenming
T2 - PLOS ONE
A2 - Oliva, Diego
AB - To solve the problem of one-sided pursuit of the shortest distance but ignoring the tourist experience in the process of tourism route planning, an improved ant colony optimization algorithm is proposed for tourism route planning. Contextual information of scenic spots significantly effect people’s choice of tourism destination, so the pheromone update strategy is combined with the contextual information such as weather and comfort degree of the scenic spot in the process of searching the global optimal route, so that the pheromone update tends to the path suitable for tourists. At the same time, in order to avoid falling into local optimization, the sub-path support degree is introduced. The experimental results show that the optimized tourism route has greatly improved the tourist experience, the route distance is shortened by 20.5% and the convergence speed is increased by 21.2% compared with the basic algorithm, which proves that the improved algorithm is notably effective.
DA - 2021/09/16/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0257317
DP - USJ Library
VL - 16
IS - 9
SP - e0257317
J2 - PLoS ONE
LA - en
SN - 1932-6203
UR - https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257317
Y2 - 2022/04/28/11:41:57
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Multi-Channel Text Sentiment Analysis Model Integrating Pre-training Mechanism
AU - Liang, Shengbin
AU - Jin, Jiangyong
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Qu, Shenming
T2 - Information Technology and Control
AB - The number of tourist attractions reviews, travel notes and other texts has grown exponentially in the Internet age. Effectively mining users’ potential opinions and emotions on tourist attractions, and helping to provide users with better recommendation services, which is of great practical significance. This paper proposes a multi-channel neural network model called Pre-BiLSTM combined with a pre-training mechanism. The model uses a combination of coarse and fine- granularity strategies to extract the features of text information such as reviews and travel notes to improve the performance of text sentiment analysis. First, we construct three channels and use the improved BERT and skip-gram methods with negative sampling to vectorize the word-level and vocabulary-level text, respectively, so as to obtain more abundant textual information. Second, we use the pre-training mechanism of BERT to generate deep bidirectional language representation relationships. Third, the vectors of the three channels are input into the BiLSTM network in parallel to extract global and local features. Finally, the model fuses the text features of the three channels and classifies them using SoftMax classifier. Furthermore, numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate that Pre-BiLSTM outperforms the baselines by 6.27%, 12.83% and 18.12% in average in terms of accuracy, precision and F1-score.
DA - 2023/07/15/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.5755/j01.itc.52.2.31803
DP - itc.ktu.lt
VL - 52
IS - 2
SP - 263
EP - 275
LA - en
SN - 2335-884X
UR - https://itc.ktu.lt/index.php/ITC/article/view/31803
Y2 - 2024/01/13/06:20:24
KW - Pre-training mechanism
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - An Improved Dual-Channel Deep Q-Network Model for Tourism Recommendation
AU - Liang, Shengbin
AU - Jin, Jiangyong
AU - Ren, Jia
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Qu, Shenming
T2 - Big Data
DA - 2023/03/17/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1089/big.2021.0353
DP - DOI.org (Crossref)
SP - big.2021.0353
J2 - Big Data
LA - en
SN - 2167-6461, 2167-647X
UR - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/big.2021.0353
Y2 - 2023/04/26/07:27:34
KW - context-aware
KW - deep reinforcement learning
KW - dual-channel
KW - tourism recommendation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A medical text classification approach with ZEN and capsule network
AU - Liang, Shengbin
AU - Sun, Fuqi
AU - Sun, Haoran
AU - Chen, Tingting
AU - Du, Wencai
T2 - The Journal of Supercomputing
AB - Text classification is an important topic in natural language processing, with the development of social network, many question-and-answer pairs regarding health-care and medicine flood social platforms. It is of great social value to mine and classify medical text and provide targeted medical services for patients. The existing algorithms of text classification can deal with simple semantic text, especially in the field of Chinese medical text, the text structure is complex and includes a large number of medical nomenclature and professional terms, which are difficult for patients to understand. We propose a Chinese medical text classification model using a BERT-based Chinese text encoder by N-gram representations (ZEN) and capsule network, which represent feature uses the ZEN model and extract the features by capsule network, we also design a N-gram medical dictionary to enhance medical text representation and feature extraction. The experimental results show that the precision, recall and F1-score of our model are improved by 10.25%, 11.13% and 12.29%, respectively, compared with the baseline models in average, which proves that our model has better performance.
DA - 2023/09/13/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.1007/s11227-023-05612-6
DP - Springer Link
J2 - J Supercomput
LA - en
SN - 1573-0484
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05612-6
Y2 - 2024/01/13/06:20:07
KW - Capsule network
KW - Medical text classification
KW - Text mining
KW - ZEN model
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Hydrothermal remobilization of subseafloor sulfide mineralization along mid-ocean ridges contributes to the global oceanic zinc isotopic mass balance
AU - Liao, Shili
AU - Tao, Chunhui
AU - Wen, Hanjie
AU - Yang, Weifang
AU - Liu, Jia
AU - Jamieson, John W.
AU - Dias, Ágata Alveirinho
AU - Zhu, Chuanwei
AU - Liang, Jin
AU - Li, Wei
AU - Ding, Teng
AU - Li, Xiaohu
AU - Zhang, Huichao
T2 - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
AB - Hydrothermal activity on mid-ocean ridges is an important mechanism for the delivery of Zn from the mantle to the surface environment. Zinc isotopic fractionation during hydrothermal activity is mainly controlled by the precipitation of Zn-bearing sulfide minerals, in which isotopically light Zn is preferentially retained in solid phases rather than in solution during mineral precipitation. Thus, seafloor hydrothermal activity is expected to supply isotopically heavy Zn to the ocean. Here, we studied sulfide-rich samples from the Duanqiao-1 hydrothermal field, located on the Southwest Indian Ridge. We report that, at the hand-specimen scale, late-stage conduit sulfide material has lower δ66Zn values (−0.05 ± 0.15 ‰; n = 19) than early-stage material (+0.13 ± 0.15 ‰; n = 10). These lower values correlate with enrichments in Pb, As, Cd, and Ag, and elevated δ34S values. We attribute the low δ66Zn values to the remobilization of earlier sub-seafloor Zn-rich mineralization. Based on endmember mass balance calculations, and an assumption of a fractionation factor (αZnS-Sol.) of about 0.9997 between sphalerite and its parent solution, the remobilized Zn was found consist of about 1/3 to 2/3 of the total Zn in the fluid that formed the conduit samples. Our study suggests that late-stage subsurface hydrothermal remobilization may release isotopically-light Zn to the ocean, and that this process may be common along mid-ocean ridges, thus increasing the size of the previously identified isotopically light Zn sink in the ocean.
DA - 2022/10/15/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1016/j.gca.2022.08.022
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 335
SP - 56
EP - 67
J2 - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
LA - en
SN - 0016-7037
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703722004410
Y2 - 2022/09/21/13:41:02
KW - Hydrothermal activity
KW - Mid ocean ridge
KW - Subsurface remobilization
KW - Zinc isotopic mass balance
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Acculturative stress and coping among migrant workers: A global mixed-methods systematic review
AU - Liem, Andrian
AU - Renzaho, Andre M. N.
AU - Hannam, Kevin
AU - Lam, Agnes I. F.
AU - Hall, Brian J.
T2 - Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
AB - No existing review has synthesized key questions about acculturation experiences among international migrant workers. This review aimed to explore (1) What are global migrant workers’ experiences with acculturation and acculturative stress? (2) What are acculturative stress coping strategies used by migrant workers? And (3) how effective are these strategies for migrant workers in assisting their acculturation in the host countries? Peer-reviewed and gray literature, without time limitation, were searched in six databases and included if the study: focused on acculturative stress and coping strategies; was conducted with international migrant workers; was published in English; and was empirical. Eleven studies met the inclusion criteria. Three-layered themes of acculturation process and acculturative stress were identified as: individual layer; work-related layer; and social layer. Three key coping strategies were identified: emotion-focused; problem-focused; and appraisal-focused. These coping strategies were used flexibly to increase coping effectiveness and evidence emerged that a particular type of acculturative stress might be solved more effectively by a specific coping strategy. Migrant workers faced numerous challenges in their acculturative process. Understanding this process and their coping strategies could be used in developing research and interventions to improve the well-being of migrant workers.
DA - 2021/08//
PY - 2021
DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12271
VL - 13
IS - 3
SP - 491
EP - 517
LA - en
SN - 1758-0854
ST - Acculturative stress and coping among migrant workers
UR - https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aphw.12271
Y2 - 2021/04/07/01:27:52
KW - acculturation
KW - cultural adaptation
KW - global mental health
KW - health disparities
KW - healthcare access
KW - migrant health
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A Deep Neural Network Based on Circular Representation for Target Detection
AU - Lin, Cong
AU - Chen, Zhoujian
AU - Huang, Yiquan
AU - Jiang, Haoyu
AU - Du, Wencai
AU - Chen, Qiong
T2 - Journal of Sensors
A2 - Khan, Waliullah
AB - Convolutional neural network (CNN) model based on deep learning has excellent performance for target detection. However, the detection effect is poor when the object is circular or tubular because most of the existing object detection methods are based on the traditional rectangular box to detect and recognize objects. To solve the problem, we propose the circular representation structure and RepVGG module on the basis of CenterNet and expand the network prediction structure, thus proposing a high-precision and high-efficiency lightweight circular object detection method RebarDet. Specifically, circular tubular type objects will be optimized by replacing the traditional rectangular box with a circular box. Second, we improve the resolution of the network feature map and the upper limit of the number of objects detected in a single detect to achieve the expansion of the network prediction structure, optimized for the dense phenomenon that often occurs in circular tubular objects. Finally, the multibranch topology of RepVGG is introduced to sum the feature information extracted by different convolution modules, which improves the ability of the convolution module to extract information. We conducted extensive experiments on rebar datasets and used AB-Score as a new evaluation method to evaluate RebarDet. The experimental results show that RebarDet can achieve a detection accuracy of up to 0.8114 and a model inference speed of 6.9 fps while maintaining a moderate amount of parameters, which is superior to other mainstream object detection models and verifies the effectiveness of our proposed method. At the same time, RebarDet’s high precision detection of round tubular objects facilitates enterprise intelligent manufacturing processes.
DA - 2022/04/25/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1155/2022/4437446
DP - USJ Library
VL - 2022
SP - 1
EP - 10
J2 - Journal of Sensors
LA - en
SN - 1687-7268, 1687-725X
UR - https://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/2022/4437446/
Y2 - 2022/04/28/11:02:02
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
AU - Liu, Shu-Wen
AU - Zhai, Fuhua
AU - Gao, Qin
T2 - Child & Family Social Work
AB - Abstract As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American Families in New York City. Regression analyses with a rich array of control variables found that a higher level of parental stress and the presence of one or more stressors such as unemployment, low income, and low education were positively associated with the use of harsh discipline and parent?child conflicts and negatively associated with positive parenting practices. Social support functioned as a significant mediator in the relationships between parental stress and positive parenting practices but not in the relationships of parental stress with parent?child conflict or the use of harsh discipline.
DA - 2020/08/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1111/cfs.12734
VL - 25
IS - S1
SP - 135
EP - 148
J2 - Child & Family Social Work
SN - 1356-7500
UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12734
Y2 - 2021/07/28/00:00:00
KW - Chinese immigrants
KW - harsh discipline
KW - parental stress
KW - parenting practices
KW - parent–child conflict
KW - social support
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - A metamorphic devolatilization model for the genesis of the Baiyun gold deposit in the North China Craton: A novel Fe-S isotopes perspective
AU - Liu, Shuaijie
AU - Chen, Bin
AU - Zheng, Jiahao
AU - Wu, Yafei
AU - Bao, Chuang
AU - Zhao, Guochun
T2 - Gondwana Research
AB - The Mesozoic gold deposits in the North China Craton (NCC) were hosted by the Precambrian basement and Mesozoic intrusions. Thus, most researchers consider that these gold deposits were genetically linked to the Mesozoic intrusions. However, we suggest that a metamorphic devolatilization model provides an alternative based on a combined Fe and in-situ S isotopes study on auriferous pyrites from the Baiyun gold deposit in the NCC. The Triassic Baiyun gold deposit contains the quartz vein and altered rock ores that were developed in the Paleoproterozoic metavolcanic-sedimentary rocks (the Liaohe Group). Our in-situ S isotopic analyses show that pyrites from the quartz vein ores are characterized by negative δ34S values (-10.7 ∼ -5.5‰), while those from the altered rock ores have two distinct groups of δ34S values, one being positive (+13.5 ∼ +16.2‰) and the other negative (-10.6 ∼ -3.0‰). We suggest that pyrite grains with positive δ34S values should be relicts from the host rocks, because they show comparable δ34S values with those from the host rocks schists (+3.3 ∼ +16.1‰). Thus, only the negative δ34S values of pyrites in ores (-10.7 ∼ -3.0‰) and the Fe isotopes of the quartz vein ores (δ56Fe = +0.30 ∼ +0.48‰) can represent the isotopic characteristics of ore-forming fluids at Baiyun. Our study shows that the sulfur were probably from the pyritic volcanic-sedimentary sequences of the Liaohe Group, rather than from magmas. The calculated δ56Fe values of the ore-forming fluids (-0.78 ∼ -0.37‰; pyrite-fluid isotope fractionation) could be modelled in a metamorphic devolatilization model with Fe-species (pyrite&magnetite) of the Liaohe Group as sources. Therefore, our combined S- and Fe- isotope data indicate that the metamorphic devolatilization of the Liaohe Group could account for the genesis of the Baiyun gold deposit.
DA - 2022/06/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1016/j.gr.2022.01.003
DP - ScienceDirect
VL - 106
SP - 126
EP - 141
J2 - Gondwana Research
LA - en
SN - 1342-937X
ST - A metamorphic devolatilization model for the genesis of the Baiyun gold deposit in the North China Craton
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X22000041
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:17:30
KW - Baiyun gold deposit
KW - Fe isotope
KW - Metamorphic devolatilization model
KW - Orogenic gold deposits
KW - S isotope
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Trying a board game intervention on children with autism spectrum disorder in Macau: how do they react?
AU - Lok, Ka Ieong
AU - Chiang, Hsu-Min
AU - Lin, Yueh-Hsien
AU - Jiang, Chunlian
T2 - International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
AB - Limited special education and related services are available for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Macau, especially those who are educated in general education classrooms. No intervention study has been conducted on these children. This study was conducted to explore the relationship between a board game play intervention and board game play behaviors and social communication of children with ASD educated in general education classrooms in Macau. A repeated measures design was used and the results of this study showed the mean occurrence of unprompted board game play behaviors per session during intervention was not significantly different from that during pre- or post-intervention. The mean occurrence of social communication per session during intervention was significantly higher than that during pre- and post-intervention. These findings suggest a positive relationship existed between the board game intervention used in this study and social communication of children with ASD.
DA - 2022/07/12/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/20473869.2022.2095861
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 0
IS - 0
SP - 1
EP - 9
SN - 2047-3869
ST - Trying a board game intervention on children with autism spectrum disorder in Macau
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2022.2095861
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:38:07
KW - Autism Spectrum Disorder
KW - Macau
KW - board game
KW - play
KW - social communication
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Reawakening Macanese identity: the impact of Chinese outbound tourism
AU - Lou, Lai-Chu Ivy
AU - Xie, Philip Feifan
T2 - Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
AB - The purpose of this paper examines the potential role of Chinese outbound tourism as a catalyst of change for the Macanese identity. There is an emerging trend to have a new identity amongst Macanese residents to valorize cultural and heritage assets. By using Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, it proposes that the social media space is built to voice concerns of language, place attachment and induced public participation. The study utilizes a mixed method approach comprising a survey for netizens and content analysis of online discussions, in order to fully understand changes due to Chinese outbound tourism.
DA - 2020/01/02/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1080/19407963.2018.1505106
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 50
EP - 65
SN - 1940-7963
ST - Reawakening Macanese identity
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2018.1505106
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:17:12
KW - China
KW - Identity
KW - Macau
KW - linguistic sensitivity
KW - place attachment
KW - public participation
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Crowdsensing-Based Gamification for Collective Assistance for Post-Era of Coronavirus Epidemic in Community Living
AU - Luo, Renfei
AU - Marques, João Alexandre Lôbo
AU - Ong, Kok-Leong
AU - Fong, Simon
T2 - International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH)
AB - Crowdsensing exploits the sensing abilities offered by smart phones and users' mobility. Users can mutually help each other as a community with the aid of crowdsensing. The potential of crowdsensing has yet to be fully realized for improving public health. A protocol based on gamification to encoura...
DA - 2020/07/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.4018/IJEACH.2020070106
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 2
IS - 2
SP - 54
EP - 64
J2 - IJEACH
LA - en
SN - 2577-4794
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/crowdsensing-based-gamification-for-collective-assistance-for-post-era-of-coronavirus-epidemic-in-community-living/www.igi-global.com/article/crowdsensing-based-gamification-for-collective-assistance-for-post-era-of-coronavirus-epidemic-in-community-living/260729
Y2 - 2022/09/21/05:14:38
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Foreword
AU - Ma, J.
AU - Du, W.
AU - Lu, W.
T2 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DP - Scopus
VL - 1055
SP - v
EP - vii
LA - English
SN - 1860-949X
DB - Scopus
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Message from Program Chairs
AU - Ma, J.
AU - Du, W.
AU - Lu, W.
T2 - Proceedings - 2022 IEEE/ACIS 22nd International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2022
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1109/ICIS54925.2022.9882414
DP - Scopus
SP - X
LA - English
DB - Scopus
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Editorial Preface
AU - Marcos, Aderito
AU - Caires, Carlos
AU - Estadieu, Gerald
AU - Mendes, Daniel
AU - Rodrigues, Nuno
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
DA - 2023///
PY - 2023
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG
VL - 13
IS - 1
SN - 1947-3117
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=313926&ptid=278059&ctid=15&title=editorial%20preface&isxn=9781683181750
Y2 - 2023/04/25/07:44:49
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Understanding of base-10 concept and its application: a cross-cultural comparison between Japan and Singapore
AU - Marcruz, Ong Yew Lee
AU - Carrie, Ho Ka Lee
AU - Manabu, Kawata
AU - Mayumi, Takahashi
AU - Kumpei, Mizuno
T2 - International Journal of Early Years Education
AB - It has become increasingly clear that the early use of decomposition for addition is associated with later mathematical achievement. This study examined how younger children execute a base-10 decomposition strategy to solve complex arithmetic (e.g. two-digit addition). 24 addition problems in two modalities (WA: Written Arithmetic; OA: Oral Arithmetic) with sums less than 100 were administered to 22 Japanese and 22 Singaporean 6-year-old kindergarteners. Our findings reveal that they were able to solve complex addition. For instance, Japanese kindergarteners tended to solve complex arithmetic using base-10 decomposition across the modality, whereas Singaporean kindergarteners used standard algorithms and basic counting to solve complex WA and OA problems, respectively. We speculate that Japanese kindergarteners might have a clearer understanding of the base-10 concept and were able to use this knowledge more readily than Singaporean kindergarteners. Mathematical experiences in kindergarten and number-naming systems have been put forward as two of the crucial contributors for such cross-cultural differences. This study also provides new directions for future research on the understanding of the base-10 concept and its application among young children.
DA - 2022/10/02/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1080/09669760.2020.1848525
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 30
IS - 4
SP - 766
EP - 780
SN - 0966-9760
ST - Understanding of base-10 concept and its application
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2020.1848525
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:25:02
KW - Base-10 concept
KW - decomposition strategy
KW - kindergarten
KW - mathematical experiences
KW - number-naming system
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Automatic Cardiotocography Diagnostic System Based on Hilbert Transform and Adaptive Threshold Technique
AU - Marques, J. A. Lobo
AU - Cortez, P. C.
AU - Madeiro, J. P. D. V.
AU - Fong, S. J.
AU - Schlindwein, F. S.
AU - Albuquerque, V. H. C. D.
T2 - IEEE Access
AB - The visual analysis of cardiotocographic examinations is a very subjective process. The accurate detection and segmentation of the fetal heart rate (FHR) features and their correlation with the uterine contractions in time allow a better diagnostic and the possibility of anticipation of many problems related to fetal distress. This paper presents a computerized diagnostic aid system based on digital signal processing techniques to detect and segment changes in the FHR and the uterine tone signals automatically. After a pre-processing phase, the FHR baseline detection is calculated. An auxiliary signal called detection line is proposed to support the detection and segmentation processes. Then, the Hilbert transform is used with an adaptive threshold for identifying fiducial points on the fetal and maternal signals. For an antepartum (before labor) database, the positive predictivity value (PPV) is 96.80% for the FHR decelerations, and 96.18% for the FHR accelerations. For an intrapartum (during labor) database, the PPV found was 91.31% for the uterine contractions, 94.01% for the FHR decelerations, and 100% for the FHR accelerations. For the whole set of exams, PPV and SE were both 100% for the identification of FHR DIP II and prolonged decelerations.
DA - 2019///
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2877933
DP - IEEE Xplore
VL - 7
SP - 73085
EP - 73094
SN - 2169-3536
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8682138
KW - Acceleration
KW - Biomedical monitoring
KW - Cardiography
KW - Cardiotocography (CTG)
KW - Databases
KW - FHR DIP II
KW - FHR accelerations
KW - FHR baseline detection
KW - FHR decelerations
KW - Fetal heart rate
KW - Hilbert transform
KW - Hilbert transforms
KW - Monitoring
KW - PPV
KW - Transforms
KW - accurate fetal heart rate feature detection
KW - accurate fetal heart rate feature segmentation
KW - adaptive threshold technique
KW - antepartum database
KW - automatic cardiotocography diagnostic system
KW - auxiliary signal
KW - cardiotocographic examinations
KW - computerized diagnostic aid system
KW - digital signal processing techniques
KW - fetal distress
KW - fetal heart rate (FHR)
KW - fetal signals
KW - maternal signals
KW - medical signal detection
KW - medical signal processing
KW - obstetrics
KW - patient monitoring
KW - positive predictivity value
KW - preprocessing phase
KW - segmentation processes
KW - uterine contractions
KW - uterine contractions (UC)
KW - uterine tone signals
KW - visual analysis
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Nonlinear characterization and complexity analysis of cardiotocographic examinations using entropy measures
AU - Marques, J.A.L.
AU - Cortez, P.C.
AU - Madeiro, J.P.V.
AU - Albuquerque, V.H.C.
AU - Fong, S.J.
AU - Schlindwein, F.S.
T2 - Journal of Supercomputing
DA - 2020///
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1007/s11227-018-2570-8
VL - 76
IS - 2
SP - 1305
EP - 1320
UR - 10.1007/s11227-018-2570-8
Y2 - 2021/02/03/09:10:20
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Leadership and Neurosciences - The analysis of emotional arousal during decision-making processes with decision-makers exposed to acute stress
AU - Marques, Joao Alexandre Lobo
T2 - European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance
AB - Corporate leaders are constantly dealing with stress in parallel with continuous decision-making processes. The impact of acute stress on decision-making activities is a relevant area of study to evaluate the impact of the decisions made, and create tools and mechanisms to cope with the inevitable exposure to stress and better manage its impact. The intersection of leadership and neurosciences techniques is called Neuroleadership. In this work, an experiment is proposed to detect and measure the emotional arousal of two groups of business professionals, divided into two groups. The first one is the intervention/stress group, n=30, exposed to stressful conditions, and the control group, n=14, not exposed to stress. The participants are submitted to a sequence of computerized stimuli, such as watching videos, answering survey questions, and making decisions in a realistic office environment. The Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) biosensor monitors emotional arousal in real-time. The experiment design implemented stressors such as visual effects, defacement, unfairness, and time-constraint for the intervention group, followed by decision-making tasks. The results indicate that emotional arousal was statistically significantly higher for the intervention/stress group, considering Shapiro and Mann-Whitney tests. The work indicates that GSR is a reliable stress detector and may be useful to predict negative impacts on executive professionals during decision-making activities.
DA - 2023/11/13/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.34190/ecmlg.19.1.1950
DP - papers.academic-conferences.org
VL - 19
IS - 1
SP - 232
EP - 239
J2 - ECMLG
LA - en
SN - 2048-903X
UR - https://papers.academic-conferences.org/index.php/ecmlg/article/view/1950
Y2 - 2023/12/18/03:07:07
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - IoT-Based Smart Health System for Ambulatory Maternal and Fetal Monitoring
AU - Marques, João Alexandre Lobo
AU - Han, Tao
AU - Wu, Wanqing
AU - Madeiro, João Paulo do Vale
AU - Neto, Aloísio Vieira Lira
AU - Gravina, Raffaele
AU - Fortino, Giancarlo
AU - de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C.
T2 - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
AB - The adoption of IoT for smart health applications is a relevant tool for distributed and intelligent automatic diagnostic systems. This work proposes the development of an integrated solution to monitor maternal and fetal signals for high-risk pregnancies based on IoT sensors, feature extraction based on data analytics, and an intelligent diagnostic aid system based on a 1-D convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier. The fetal heart rate and a group of maternal clinical indicators, such as the uterine tonus activity, blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation are monitored. Multiple data sources generate a significant amount of data in different formats and rates. An emergency diagnostic subsystem is proposed based on a fog computing layer and the best accuracy was 92.59% for both maternal and fetal emergency. A smart health analytics system is proposed for multiple feature extraction and the calculation of linear and nonlinear measures. Finally, a classification technique is proposed as a prediction system for maternal, fetal, and simultaneous health status classification, considering six possible outputs. Different classifiers are evaluated and a proposed CNN presented the best results, with the F1-score ranging from 0.74 to 0.91. The results are validated based on the diagnosis provided by two specialists. The results show that the proposed system is a viable solution for maternal and fetal ambulatory monitoring based on IoT.
DA - 2021/12//
PY - 2021
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3037759
DP - IEEE Xplore
VL - 8
IS - 23
SP - 16814
EP - 16824
SN - 2327-4662
KW - Artificial intelligence (AI)
KW - Biomedical monitoring
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Feature extraction
KW - Fetal heart rate
KW - Internet of Things
KW - Medical diagnostic imaging
KW - Monitoring
KW - convolutional neural networks (CNNs)
KW - feature extraction
KW - fetal monitoring
KW - health analytics
KW - maternal monitoring
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF WATERFALL AND AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES – A CASE STUDY FROM MACAU'S CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
AU - Marques, Joao Alexandre Lobo
AU - Morais, João José Bragança dos Reis
AU - Alves, José
AU - Gonçalves, Marcus
T2 - Revista Gestão em Análise
AB - The adoption of project management techniques is a crucial decision for corporate governance in construction companies since the management of areas such as risk, cost, and communications is essential for the success or failure of an endeavor. Nevertheless, different frameworks based on traditional or agile methodologies are available with several approaches, which may create several ways to manage projects. The primary purpose of this work is to investigate the adequate project management methodology for the construction industry from a general perspective and consider a case study from Macau. The methodology considered semi-structured interviews and a survey comparing international and local project managers from the construction industry. The interviews indicate that most construction project managers still follow empirical methods with no specific methodology but consider the adoption of traditional waterfall approaches. In contrast, according to the survey, most project managers and construction managers agree that the project's efficacy needs to increase, namely in planning, waste minimization, communication increase, and focus on the Client's feedback. In addition, there seems to be a clear indication that agile methodology could be implemented in several types of projects, including hospitality development projects. A hybrid development approach based on the Waterfall and Agile methodologies as a tool for the project management area may provide a more suitable methodology for project managers to follow.
DA - 2023/02/24/
PY - 2023
DO - 10.12662/2359-618xregea.v12i1.p23-38.2023
DP - periodicos.unichristus.edu.br
VL - 12
IS - 1
SP - 23
EP - 38
LA - en
SN - 2359-618X
UR - https://periodicos.unichristus.edu.br/gestao/article/view/2508
AN - Interview and Survey
Y2 - 2023/03/22/06:40:23
KW - PMBOK
KW - agile
KW - construction industry
KW - project management methodologies
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The Importance of Readiness for Change, a Leadership Perspective Based on a Case Study in Macau, SAR China
AU - Marques, João
AU - Reis, Joana
AU - Phillips, Jenny O. L.
AU - Diakite, Ansoumane
T2 - Journal of Advanced Management Science
DA - 2020/01/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.18178/joams.8.4.116-120
DP - ResearchGate
SP - 116
EP - 120
J2 - Journal of Advanced Management Science
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Multimodal Game Design Framework for Creativity in Macau's Educational System Through Digital and Tangible Games: Chinese, Portuguese, and English Languages
AU - Martins de Abreu, F.
AU - Barbosa, Álvaro Mendes
T2 - International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG)
AB - Creativity and collaboration are crucial to learning development in today's fast-paced educational environment. New technology can bridge humans and their natural needs through immersion in digital environments with physical objects. As knowledge and information evolve, digital interactive experienc...
DA - 2022/01/01/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.4018/IJCICG.308808
DP - www.igi-global.com
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 1
EP - 30
J2 - IJCICG
LA - en
SN - 1947-3117
ST - Multimodal Game Design Framework for Creativity in Macau's Educational System Through Digital and Tangible Games
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/article/multimodal-game-design-framework-for-creativity-in-macaus-educational-system-through-digital-and-tangible-games/www.igi-global.com/article/multimodal-game-design-framework-for-creativity-in-macaus-educational-system-through-digital-and-tangible-games/308808
Y2 - 2023/04/25/06:35:44
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - NIME education at the school of arts of the portuguese catholic university/CITAR
AU - Martins, L.G.
AU - Barbosa, A.
T2 - Proceedings - 2013 Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, LaTiCE 2013
DA - 2013///
PY - 2013
DO - 10.1109/LaTiCE.2013.50
DP - ORCID
SP - 237
EP - 238
UR - 10.1109/LaTiCE.2013.50
Y2 - 2021/01/29/04:20:03
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Houston, Do We Have a Problem?: Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life and Christian Belief
AU - McIntosh, C. A.
AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton
T2 - Philosophia Christi
AB - Would the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life (ETI) conflict in any way with Christian belief? We identify six areas of potential conflict. If there be no conflict in any of these areas—and we argue ultimately there is not—we are confident in declaring that there is no conflict, period. This conclusion underwrites the integrity of theological explorations into the existence of ETI, which has become a topic of increasing interest among theologians in recent years.
DA - 2021/08/26/
PY - 2021
DO - 10.5840/pc202123110
DP - www.pdcnet.org
VL - 23
IS - 1
SP - 101
EP - 124
LA - en
ST - Houston, Do We Have a Problem?
UR - https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=pc&id=pc_2021_0023_0001_0101_0124
Y2 - 2023/04/11/13:59:47
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Climate Alarmism or Lukewarming? How So-Called American Conservatives Should Think About Climate Change
AU - McNabb, T. D
AU - Devito, M
T2 - Ethics & the Environment
AB - In this essay we argue that, based on current scientific data, the most prudential course of future actions that an American conservative can take, is one that assumes what we call climate change alarmism. In order to establish this thesis, we first provide a basic overview of the relevant climate change science, as well as give an analysis of the alarmist and lukewarming dialectic (the two primary interpretations of the data). We then move to develop our environmental wager. Finally, following Roger Scruton, we end this work by proposing what sort of policies conservatives should endorse going further.
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DP - USJ Library
VL - 27
IS - 1
SP - 101
EP - 121
UR - https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/858108
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Papal Bull: A Response to Contemporary Papal Scholarship
AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton
T2 - Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies
DA - 2021///
PY - 2021
VL - 6
IS - 1
SP - 147
EP - 152
UR - https://jbtsonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/JBTS-6.1-Part2-A4.pdf
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church? Judaism, Catholicism, and Skeptical Theism
AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton
T2 - The Heythrop Journal
DA - 2020/07//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1111/heyj.13571
VL - 61
IS - 4
SP - 671
EP - 676
J2 - Hey J
LA - en
SN - 0018-1196, 1468-2265
ST - Pestilent Popes or a Pestilent Church?
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13571
Y2 - 2021/02/22/09:39:44
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Mary and Fátima: A Modest C-Inductive Argument for Catholicism
AU - Mcnabb, Tyler Dalton
AU - Blado, Joseph E.
T2 - Perichoresis
AB - AbstractC-Inductive arguments are arguments that increase the probability of a hypothesis. In this paper, we offer a C-Inductive argument for the Roman Catholic hypothesis. We specifically argue that one would expect the Miracle of Fátima on Roman Catholicism more so than on alternative hypotheses. Since our argument draws on confirmation theory, we first give a primer for how confirmation theory works. We then, provide the historical facts surrounding the Miracle of Fátima. We offer up two competing naturalistic explanations that attempt to explain the historical facts, but then, argue that a supernatural explanation is superior. Having established that something miraculous likely occurred at Fátima, we move to argue for the overall thesis of the paper. Finally, we engage several objections to our argument.
DA - 2020/12/01/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.2478/perc-2020-0028
DP - sciendo.com
VL - 18
IS - 5
SP - 55
EP - 65
LA - en
ST - Mary and Fátima
UR - https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/perc-2020-0028
Y2 - 2023/04/11/14:14:26
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism: A Synthesis
AU - McNabb, Tyler Dalton
AU - DeVito, Michael
T2 - Religions
AB - Launonen and Mullins argue that if Classical Theism is true, human cognition is likely not theism-tracking, at least, given what we know from cognitive science of religion. In this essay, we develop a model for how classical theists can make sense of the findings from cognitive science, without abandoning their Classical Theist commitments. We also provide an argument for how our model aligns well with the Christian doctrine of general revelation.
DA - 2022///
PY - 2022
DO - 10.3390/rel13010024
DP - USJ Library
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 24
J2 - Religions
LA - en
SN - 2077-1444
ST - Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/1/24
Y2 - 2022/02/11/09:22:27
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Basic Beliefs, the Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting: A Response to Dustin Crummett
AU - McNabb, Tyler
AU - DeVito, Michael
T2 - The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
AB - In this essay, we respond to Dustin Crummett’s argument that one cannot consistently appeal to body count reasoning to justify being a single-issue pro-life voter if one is also committed to the usual response to the embryo rescue case. Specifically, we argue that a modified version of BCR we call BCR* is consistent with the usual response. We then move to address concerns about the relevance of BCR* to Crummett’s original thesis.
DA - 2021/09/09/
PY - 2021
VL - 21
IS - 2
SP - 203
EP - 208
LA - en
ST - Basic Beliefs, the Embryo Rescue Case, and Single-Issue Voting
UR - https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=ncbq&id=ncbq_2021_0021_0002_0203_0208
Y2 - 2021/09/10/08:41:39
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Has Oppy Done Away with the Aristotelian Proof?
AU - McNabb, Tyler
AU - DeVito, Michael
T2 - The Heythrop Journal
DA - 2020/09//
PY - 2020
DO - 10.1111/heyj.13604
VL - 61
IS - 5
SP - 723
EP - 731
J2 - Hey J
LA - en
SN - 0018-1196, 1468-2265
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/heyj.13604
Y2 - 2021/02/22/09:38:18
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Ockham on the Side of the Angels: Why a Classical Theist Shouldn't be Moved by Oppy's Argument from Simplicity
AU - McNabb, Tyler
AU - DeVito, Michael
T2 - New Blackfriars
DA - 2022/06/25/
PY - 2022
DO - 10.1111/nbfr.12766
DP - USJ Library
SP - nbfr.12766
J2 - New Blackfriars
LA - en
SN - 0028-4289, 1741-2005
ST - Ockham on the Side of the Angels
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nbfr.12766
Y2 - 2022/06/30/08:43:15
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - The other side of creative industries in Hong Kong and Macau
AU - Mendes, Carla de Utra
AU - Simoes, José Manuel
T2 - International Journal of Cultural and Creative Industries
DA - 2014/11//
PY - 2014
VL - 2
IS - 1
SP - 50
EP - 61
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - XRD Identification of Ore Minerals during Cruises: Refinement of Extraction Procedure with Sodium Acetate Buffer
AU - Milinovic, Jelena
AU - Dias, Ágata
AU - Janeiro, Ana I.
AU - Pereira, Manuel F. C.
AU - Martins, Sofia
AU - Petersen, Sven
AU - Barriga, Fernando J. A. S.
T2 - Minerals
AB - The on-board identification of ore minerals during a cruise is often postponed until long after the cruise is over. During the M127 cruise, 21 cores with deep-seafloor sediments were recovered in the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse (TAG) field along the Mid Atlantic Ridge (MAR). Sediments were analyzed on-board for physicochemical properties such as lightness (L*), pH and Eh. Selected samples were studied for mineral composition by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). Based on XRD data, sediment samples were separated into high-, low- and non-carbonated. Removal of carbonates is a common technique in mineralogical studies in which HCl is used as the extraction agent. In the present study, sequential extraction was performed with sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.0) to remove carbonates. The ratio between the highest calcite XRD reflection in the original samples (Iorig) vs its XRD-reflection in samples after their treatment with the buffer (Itreat) was used as a quantitative parameter of calcite removal, as well as to identify minor minerals in carbonated samples (when Iorig/Itreat > 24). It was found that the lightness parameter (L*) showed a positive correlation with calcite XRD reflection in selected TAG samples, and this could be applied to the preliminary on-board determination of extraction steps with acetate buffer (pH 5.0) in carbonated sediment samples. The most abundant minerals detected in carbonated samples were quartz and Al- and Fe-rich clays. Other silicates were also detected (e.g., calcic plagioclase, montmorillonite, nontronite). In non-carbonated samples, Fe oxides and hydroxides (goethite and hematite, respectively) were detected. Pyrite was the dominant hydrothermal mineral and Cu sulfides (chalcopyrite, covellite) and hydrothermal Mn oxides (birnessite and todorokite) were mineral phases identified in few samples, whereas paratacamite was detected in the top 20 cm of the core. The present study demonstrates that portable XRD analysis makes it possible to characterize mineralogy at cored sites, in particular in both low- and high-carbonated samples, before the end of most cruises, thus enabling the quick modification of exploration strategies in light of new information as it becomes available in near-real time.
DA - 2020/02/12/
PY - 2020
DO - 10.3390/min10020160
VL - 10
IS - 2
SP - 160
J2 - Minerals
LA - en
SN - 2075-163X
ST - XRD Identification of Ore Minerals during Cruises
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/10/2/160
Y2 - 2021/03/30/07:29:51
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Baptism as Christian Initiation in the New Testament
AU - MONERA, A.
T2 - Orientis Aura
DA - 2016///
PY - 2016
VL - 1
IS - 1
SP - 7
EP - 30
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Perceived efficacy of teachers in Macao and their alacrity to engage with inclusive education
AU - Monteiro, Elisa
AU - Kuok, A. C. H.
AU - Correia, Ana
AU - Forlin, Chris
AU - Teixeira, Vitor
T2 - International Journal of Inclusive Education
AB - This paper reports findings of a mixed methods study examining private school teachers’ perceptions of efficacy in dealing with the challenges presented by inclusive education in Macao. This is highly pertinent after the Government invited consultation to propose changes to amendments of the Decree Law of 1996 concerning the education of students with Special Education Needs (SEN) which will likely see private schools being required to accept these students in the future. Within the context of teacher preparedness for inclusive education, the study found that a number of teachers felt that they were not at all prepared to teach students with SEN. Whilst some teachers suggested that they lacked skills and knowledge in teaching in inclusive classrooms, some felt overwhelmed with the challenges. The teachers proposed that they would need to know how to provide instructional adaptations and modifications to support students with SEN. Implications for continuous development of teacher training and education are discussed within the context of improving teacher efficacy and how private school teachers could better respond to the challenges of inclusive education in Macao.
DA - 2019/01/02/
PY - 2019
DO - 10.1080/13603116.2018.1514762
DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL - 23
IS - 1
SP - 93
EP - 108
SN - 1360-3116
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2018.1514762
Y2 - 2021/02/17/09:36:15
KW - Inclusive education
KW - Macao
KW - teacher education
KW - teacher efficacy
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Challenges of collborataive blend learning in undergraduate students
AU - Monteiro, Elisa
AU - Morrison, Keith
T2 - Education Research and Evaluation
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
VL - 20
IS - 7-8
SP - 564
EP - 591
SN - 1380-6311
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - African Female Nascent Entrepreneurship In The Macao S.A.R.
AU - Morais, Isabel
T2 - Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development
AB - African women from different countries and social classes, from those seeking refugee status to diplomats and peasants' daughters, have been arriving in increasing numbers on Chinese shores since the 1980s. The amazing stories of some of these "invisible" but dynamic women have been ignored, yet they reveal great diversity and deserve scholarly attention, as they provide rich material for studies on the African diaspora in China. This article focuses on African migration to Macao, a former Portuguese colony and primary migration destination in the Pearl Delta River Region, which currently hosts the densest African population in China. It explores both the more recent and the relatively longer-term migration of African women and university students to Macao, and examines the intersection of these communities resulting from the overlap between the ongoing global movements of African diasporas and new African migratory trends to China. The article draws on the life stories as well as the educational and entrepreneurial experiences of African women in Macao, and investigates the relevance of ethnic networks of trust and reciprocity for their communities' survival. This article places specific emphais on the experiences of African women, recognizing their achievements in the face of multiple intersections of racism and sexism on the part of both state and society, and reveals how the women employ a resistance strategy by reinforcing ethnic migrant networks.
DA - 2014///
PY - 2014
DP - JSTOR
VL - 43
IS - 1/2/3
SP - 57
EP - 104
SN - 0894-6019
UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/24643108
Y2 - 2023/04/12/06:56:27
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - “China Wahala”: the Tribulations of Nigerian “Bushfallers” in a Chinese Territory”
AU - Morais, Isabel
T2 - Transtext(e)s Transcultures 跨文本跨文化. Journal of Global Cultural Studies
AB - Recent scholarly studies and media coverage have primarily focused on China’s increasing presence and sometimes asymmetrical engagement with Africa in tandem with the new trend of Chinese migration to that continent. Yet, the inverse flux of Africans to China and the emergence of African communities in Southern China over the last decades is influencing some areas of the Pearl River Delta Region, and changing the fabric of cities like Guangzhou, Macau and Hong Kong, in a way without precedent. There are representations or exotic descriptions from some mass circulation magazines and newspapers on the infamous Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong or the so-called “Chocolate-city,”an area centered aroundHongqiao, the village-district and Canaan market in the city of Guangzhou, with its arcades and strip malls filled with ethnic businesses and transnational migrants. In Macau, significant concentrations of African population of different origins are also seen in the “Papa pun” commercial center or in downtown areas. Despite many studies devoted to the “ethnoburbs” in other latitudes, only very recently, these entrepreneurial African communities in Mainland China are starting to become worthy of serious scholarly attention. Yet,there is total absence of studies dealing with the presence of more and more African students and the cultural manifestations of African communities well portrayed in the new African cinema, in music produced by Afro-Chinese bands or even singers.Besides a continuing inward flow of transient Africans who come to China for business on a regular basis, a significant number of settler African traders, particularly Nigerians, have already married local Chinese women, set up families, autonomously run their businesses without recourse to Chinese intermediaries, and established a web of informal and formal committees representing their home nations and states, to solve disputes while maintaining personal and business links with Africa. Besides, those emigrant ‘bushfallers’ who are coming to China solely for business purposes, a new form of “silent” migration of Nigerians comprising students from different backgrounds is enrolling in higher education institutions in the Macau Special Administrative Region of China. These students are coming to pursue their studies or to seek a job to pay their student fees at the margin of the PRC scholarship and stipendprograms for visiting African students that were popular in China in the 1960s and mid-1970s as part of CCP’s foreign policy for Third World aiming friendly relations with Africa. Today, these “transnational” Nigerian students are in their own way affirming their identity and difference, in southern China, in particularly in Macau SAR, thanks to their network of multiple interrelations across nation-states from Africa to Asia and to a combination of perseverance, zeal, and gentleness without subservience. Although they have not been targets for the hostility and even violence like the Shanghai incident of July 1979 or the Nanjing protests in December 1988 at Hehai University targeting African students, today these Nigerian students are facing more subtle forms of ethnocentrism and legal discrimination from immigration laws to daily practices, which always try to associate their citizenship to problematic or easy stereotypes of scam or colour. Yet, at the same time, everything seems to indicate that these newcomers are quick adapting and finding new forms of negotiating their social integration in the Chinese local society which in turn is offering more opportunities.This paper is part of a more ambitious project which aims to assess the new forms of migration from Africa to China and from China to Africa as well as their impact and contribution of globalization. First, this paper considers why and how Macau has evolved from a Portuguese outpost where slavery was a an institutionalized commodity to special administrative region of China where a new urban African community, mostly composed by Nigerian students, is in formation due to opportunities and rapid changes occurring in the region in the first years of the twenty-first century, by comparing the new to old African communities of students and business people/migrant workers from former Portuguese colonies (Angola, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique).Finally, borrowing the title from a sequel movie with the same title of the promising New African cinema, the paper focus on the “China Wahala”or the troubles of these Nigerian students through their tales of their experiences of racism(s) and their negotiations and responses which radically contradicts not only the slogans of cultural diversity propagated by the official discourse and tourist channels as these Nigerians are confronted daily with often dramatic situations ranging from indifference and ostracism to exclusion.
DA - 2009/06/01/
PY - 2009
DO - 10.4000/transtexts.281
IS - 5
LA - en
SN - 1771-2084
ST - “China Wahala”
UR - http://journals.openedition.org/transtexts/281
Y2 - 2021/02/19/09:43:54
ER -
TY - JOUR
TI - Macao Caught between the "Tropical China" and Oriental-style: An Approach to the Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts/Macau entre a "China Tropical" e a lusofonia a Oriente: Algumas achegas sobre os contextos colonial e pos-colonial/Macao entre la "Chine tropicale" et la lusophonie a l'orientale: contribution a l'etude des contextes colonial et post-colonial.
AU - Morais, Isabel
T2 - Portuguese Studies Review
AB -