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Oral health and its impact on the life quality of homeless people in Hong Kong

Author(s) : Luo, Y , McGrath, C
Description : Objectives: To report on the oral health status and its impact on the life quality of homeless people in Hong Kong. Design: A cross sectional epidemiological survey involving clinical oral examinations and face-to-face interviews with 147 homeless participants. Clinical examinations were carried out...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

The spirit of capitalism, precautionary savings, and consumption

Author(s) : Luo, Y , Smith, WT , Zou, HF
Description : Recent research has shown that the "spirit of capitalism" - a preference for wealth itself, in addition to consumption - has important implications for growth and asset pricing. This paper explores how the spirit of capitalism affects saving and consumption behavior. We demonstrate that the spirit o...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

A performance study of clustering web application servers with Distributed JVM

Author(s) : Lam, KT , Luo, Y , Wang, CL
Description : A Distributed Java Virtual Machine (DJVM) is a cluster-wide set of extended JVMs that enables parallel execution of a multithreaded Java application. It has proven effectiveness for scaling scientific applications. However, leveraging DJVMs to cluster real-life web applications with commercial serve...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

Oral health status of homeless people in Hong Kong

Author(s) : Luo, Y , McGrath, C
Description : The authors report on an oral health survey among Hong Kong Chinese homeless people. A total of 140 homeless men underwent clinical examination and were interviewed with a structured questionnaire. More than 90% had evidence of caries experience; moat (75%) were related to untreated caries. The mean...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

Outreach dental service for persons with special needs in Hong Kong

Author(s) : Lo, ECM , Luo, Y , Dyson, JE
Description : The authors describe the acceptance and efficiency of an outreach dental service, which provided oral health care to persons with special needs in Hong Kong. Portable dental equipment was transported to various institutions. Basic dental care including prevention, scaling, restoration, extraction, a...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

Optimization of exhaust emissions of a diesel engine fuelled with biodiesel

Author(s) : Leung, DYC , Luo, Y , Chan, TL
Description : The performance of biodiesel in a single-cylinder diesel engine was studied and optimized by varying the engine settings, including the injection timing, injection pressure, and fuel pump plunger diameter. The engine emissions were found to be lowered for particulate matters (PM) and hydrocarbon (HC...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

Effects of musical meditation training on auditory mismatch negativity and P300 in normal children.

Author(s) : Luo, Y , Wei, J , Weekes, B
Description : The auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) and P300 of event-related potentials were compared in normal children either with or without musical meditation training. The experimental group consisted of 11 subjects who had been trained with musical meditation for six months and the control group consisted...
Repository : The HKU Scholars Hub
Language(s) : English

Climate change in China and China’s policies and actions for addressing climate change

Author(s) : Qin D. , Huang J. , Luo Y.
Description : Since the first assessment report (FAR) of Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990, the international scientific community has made substantial progresses in climate change sciences. Changes in components of climate system, including the atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere, indicate...
Repository : DOAJ-Articles
Language(s) : English

Spin-triplet pairing in large nuclei

Author(s) : Bertsch, G. F. , Luo, Y.
Description : The nuclear pairing condensate is expected to change character from spin-singlet to spin-triplet when the nucleus is very large and the neutron and proton numbers $Z,N$ are equal. We investigate the transition between these two phases within the framework of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations, ...
Repository : arXiv
Language(s) : Undetermined

Inhibition of apple polyphenol oxidase activity by sodium chlorite.

Author(s) : Lu, S. , Luo, Y. , Feng, H. , USDA, ARS
Description : Sodium chlorite (SC) was shown to have strong efficacy both as a sanitizer to reduce microbial growth on produce and as a browning inhibitor on fresh-cut apples in previous experiments. This study was undertaken to investigate the inhibitory effect of SC on polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and the associate...
Repository : 中国西部环境与生态知识积累平台 - SeekSpace
Language(s) : Undetermined

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