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Performance of the new automated Abbott RealTime MTB assay for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens
The automated high-throughput Abbott RealTime MTB real-time PCR assay has been recently launched for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) clinical diagnosis. This study would like to evaluate its performance...
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From Voluntarism to Regulation: A Study on Ownership, Economic Performance and Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure in China
This article examines whether economic performance could affect EID and how the relationship is determined by the form of ownership from voluntarism to regulation under the current Chinese context. In this stu...
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Whether Top Executives’ Turnover Influences Environmental Responsibility: From the Perspective of Environmental Information Disclosure
We have empirically examined the relationship between top executives’ turnover and the corporate environmental responsibility by identifying the influence of ten specific turnover reasons resulting in the chai...
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Factors that Drive Chinese Listed Companies in Voluntary Disclosure of Environmental Information
Based on the institutional theory, this article attempts to examine two consecutive questions regarding the impact of various factors on corporate decision in environmental information disclosure (EID): (1) wh...
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Stock Market’s Reaction to Disclosure of Environmental Violations: Evidence from China
The stock market’s reaction to information disclosure of environmental violation events (EVEs) is investigated multi-dimensionally for Chinese listed companies, including variables such as pollution types, inf...
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Special issue on operational research in project management: pragmatic solutions for real life problems
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Peak plasma rifampicin level in tuberculosis patients with slow culture conversion
The clinical utility of therapeutic drug monitoring in tuberculosis has not been adequately evaluated by controlled clinical trials. To examine the relationship between slow culture conversion and peak plasma ...
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Association between RANTES functional polymorphisms and tuberculosis in Hong Kong Chinese
Chemokines play a major role in leukocyte recruitment during the formation of tuberculous granulomas. We studied the association between genetic polymorphisms of three chemokines, monocyte chemoattractant prot...
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Assessment of durability of recycled aggregate concrete produced by two-stage mixing approach
As more than 50% construction and demolition (C&D) wastes are composed of concrete debris in Hong Kong, recycling this debris into Recycled Aggregate (RA) for production of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) is...
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Association of interferon gamma and interleukin 10 genes with tuberculosis in Hong Kong Chinese
Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and interleukin 10 (IL-10) are believed to play opposing roles in host immunity against mycobacterial infection. IFN-γ activates macrophages, while IL-10 downregulates the expression o...
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A study of Feng Shui and its impacts on land and property developments: case study of a village housing development in Tai Po East area
Although there are many variables affecting the housing price of an area, only three significant independent variables (‘Feng Shui’, ‘accessibility’ and ‘building age’) are studied in this paper. It is found t...
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Retention characteristics of alcohols and sugars on polysulfone as a stationary phase with an aqueous mobile phase
Partition coefficients (Ka) necessary for the understanding of solute-material interactions was experimentally generated by liquid chromatography. Using three commercial polysulfones (Udel, Victrex and Radel) as ...
