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Appendix M: Competitive Earmarked Research Grant Projects Supported by RGC in 2000-2001 Engineering 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Optimization Modeling of Public Housing Construction Site Facilities Layout Using Weighted Factor Analysis and Genetic Algorithm A Study of Spalling of Reinforced Concrete Structures under Fire Situations A Cash Flow Decision-support System for the Hong Kong Construction Industry Fractal Elements for Life Prediction of Structures An Investigation of Solar Heat and Daylighting for Cooling- dominated Office Buildings in Hong Kong The Use of Possibility Measure for the Prediction of Wayfinding Patterns of Evacuees under Fire Situations Full Scale Measurements of Wind Effects on Three High-rise Structures and Comparison with Wind Tunnel Test Results Residual Strength, Assessment, Damage Mechanisms and Durability of High Performance Concrete Incorporating Pulverized Fuel Ash after Exposure to High Temperature A Novel Process for Removing and Recovering Metal Contaminants Using Integrated Biosorption and Electrodeposition Dynamic Impact of Land Supply on Population Mobility with Evidence from Hong Kong The Development of a Web-based Digital Neural System for Construction Project Management Optimum Condensing Temperature at Part-load Operation of Air- cooled Chillers for Energy Efficiency Development of a Multi-criteria Decision Making Model for Sustainable Building Development for Hong Kong Development of Harmonic Impedance Database of Low-Voltage Power Cables Optimized Air Supply Temperature and Velocity with Radiant Cooling and Desiccant Humidity Control a/c Systems An Investigation on the Self-noise Generation of the Dissipative Silencer and its Control Fault Validation and Fault Tolerant Control of Building Automation Systems Experimental Scale Studies in Smoke Control Strategy in Large Linear Atria in HKSAR Energy Performance Evaluation of Advanced-window Frame Systems Method and Data for Modelling Humidity in Residential Buildings in Hong Kong Implications of Volatile Organic Emissions from Pearl River Delta Cities of South China Including Hong Kong 463,817 480,817 556,817 457,817 571,817 457,817 601,817 495,060 517,817 447,817 462,817 437,817 421,600 487,817 561,817 985,817 710,817 526,817 457,817 537,817 1,205,817 On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going On-going CityU 1018/00E CityU 1026/00E CityU 1038/00E CityU 1047/00E CityU 1048/00E CityU 1052/00E CityU 1131/00E CityU 1141/00E PolyU 5001/00E PolyU 5007/00E PolyU 5016/00E PolyU 5018/00E PolyU 5020/00E PolyU 5024/00E PolyU 5028/00E PolyU 5030/00E PolyU 5031/00E PolyU 5032/00E PolyU 5033/00E PolyU 5034/00E PolyU 5037/00E Dr Chi Ming Tam Dr Richard Kwok Kit Yuen Dr Ka Chi Lam Prof Andrew Yee Tak Leung Dr Joseph C Lam Dr Siu Ming Lo Dr Qiusheng Li Dr Ramapillai V Balendran Dr Wai Hung Thomas Lo Dr Chi Man Eddie Hui Dr Kam Din Wong Dr Kwok Tai Chan Dr Chi Kwan Chau Dr Ya Ping Du Dr Jian Lei Niu Dr Shiu Keung Tang Dr Sheng Wei Wang Dr Ling Tim Wong Dr Hong Xing Yang Prof Wai Hung Francis Yik Dr Lo Yin Chan Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded (HK$) Project No. Status Subject Area: Civil Engineering, Surveying, Building & Construction

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Appendix M: Competitive Earmarked Research Grant Projects Supported by RGC in 2000-2001

Engineering

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Optimization Modeling of Public Housing Construction SiteFacilities Layout Using Weighted Factor Analysis and GeneticAlgorithm

A Study of Spalling of Reinforced Concrete Structures under FireSituations

A Cash Flow Decision-support System for the Hong KongConstruction Industry

Fractal Elements for Life Prediction of Structures

An Investigation of Solar Heat and Daylighting for Cooling-dominated Office Buildings in Hong Kong

The Use of Possibility Measure for the Prediction of WayfindingPatterns of Evacuees under Fire Situations

Full Scale Measurements of Wind Effects on Three High-riseStructures and Comparison with Wind Tunnel Test Results

Residual Strength, Assessment, Damage Mechanisms andDurability of High Performance Concrete Incorporating PulverizedFuel Ash after Exposure to High Temperature

A Novel Process for Removing and Recovering Metal ContaminantsUsing Integrated Biosorption and Electrodeposition

Dynamic Impact of Land Supply on Population Mobility withEvidence from Hong Kong

The Development of a Web-based Digital Neural System forConstruction Project Management

Optimum Condensing Temperature at Part-load Operation of Air-cooled Chillers for Energy Efficiency

Development of a Multi-criteria Decision Making Model forSustainable Building Development for Hong Kong

Development of Harmonic Impedance Database of Low-VoltagePower Cables

Optimized Air Supply Temperature and Velocity with RadiantCooling and Desiccant Humidity Control a/c Systems

An Investigation on the Self-noise Generation of the DissipativeSilencer and its Control

Fault Validation and Fault Tolerant Control of Building AutomationSystems

Experimental Scale Studies in Smoke Control Strategy in LargeLinear Atria in HKSAR

Energy Performance Evaluation of Advanced-window FrameSystems

Method and Data for Modelling Humidity in Residential Buildingsin Hong Kong

Implications of Volatile Organic Emissions from Pearl River DeltaCities of South China Including Hong Kong

463,817

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556,817

457,817

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CityU 1018/00E

CityU 1026/00E

CityU 1038/00E

CityU 1047/00E

CityU 1048/00E

CityU 1052/00E

CityU 1131/00E

CityU 1141/00E

PolyU 5001/00E

PolyU 5007/00E

PolyU 5016/00E

PolyU 5018/00E

PolyU 5020/00E

PolyU 5024/00E

PolyU 5028/00E

PolyU 5030/00E

PolyU 5031/00E

PolyU 5032/00E

PolyU 5033/00E

PolyU 5034/00E

PolyU 5037/00E

Dr Chi Ming Tam

Dr Richard Kwok Kit Yuen

Dr Ka Chi Lam

Prof Andrew Yee Tak Leung

Dr Joseph C Lam

Dr Siu Ming Lo

Dr Qiusheng Li

Dr Ramapillai V Balendran

Dr Wai Hung Thomas Lo

Dr Chi Man Eddie Hui

Dr Kam Din Wong

Dr Kwok Tai Chan

Dr Chi Kwan Chau

Dr Ya Ping Du

Dr Jian Lei Niu

Dr Shiu Keung Tang

Dr Sheng Wei Wang

Dr Ling Tim Wong

Dr Hong Xing Yang

Prof Wai Hung Francis Yik

Dr Lo Yin Chan

Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Subject Area: Civil Engineering, Surveying, Building & Construction

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Dynamic Analysis and Semi-active Control of Bridge Stay Cablesexcited by Support Motions

The Reallocation of Road Space to Different Modes of Transport

Predicting the Load Carrying Capacity of Press-braked Cold-formedSteel Sections with Initial Imperfection by the Finite Strip Method

Correlation of Extreme Waves and Surges Using a DynamicallyCoupled Third-generation Wave Model and 3D Flow Model

Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Stability of Curved Plates

Stabilisation/solidification of Hazardous Wastes Using Flue GasDesulphurisation (FGD) Sludge Activated Low Grade PulverisedFuel Ash

Field Observation and Model Analysis of Photochemical OzonePollution in Western Hong Kong

Development and Application of a Three-dimensional Limit Methodfor Stability Analysis of Slopes in Hong Kong

Centimetre Level Vertical Positioning for Bathymetric Surveys UsingCarrier Phase GPS

Estimation of Real-time Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) in theHong Kong Region Based on GPS Measurements

Geodetic Study of Sea Level Change and Land Subsidence and theirEnvironmental Impacts in HK and Southeastern Coastal Areas ofChina

A Prototype Dynamic Marine GIS

Enhanced InSAR Technology for Monitoring Earth SurfaceDeformation

Investigation of the Current Crustal Deformation in North Chinausing Global Positioning System Measurement

An Integrated Planning Methodology For Win-Win Public TransitServices

Centrifuge Modeling Of Pile-sand Systems Under Multi-directionalEarthquake Loading

Laboratory- And Full- Scale Study Of Permeable Reactive BarriersFor Removal Of Chlorinated Solvents In Groundwater

Investigation Of Slope Instability In Unsaturated Expansive Soils

Advanced Composite Reinforced Concrete

Investigation Of Flow Behavior In Pipeline Hydraulic Transients

Modeling And Evaluating Joint Implementation Of Road PricingAnd Route Guidance Systems

Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete For Slope Protection

Prediction Of Joint Behaviour In Segmental Hollow Box GirderBridges

Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

PolyU 5045/00E

PolyU 5046/00E

PolyU 5048/00E

PolyU 5051/00E

PolyU 5055/00E

PolyU 5056/00E

PolyU 5059/00E

PolyU 5064/00E

PolyU 5065/00E

PolyU 5066/00E

PolyU 5067/00E

PolyU 5068/00E

PolyU 5070/00E

PolyU 5073/00E

HKUST 6083/00E

HKUST 6084/00E

HKUST 6086/00E

HKUST 6087/00E

HKUST 6091/00E

HKUST 6092/00E

HKUST 6094/00E

HKUST 6225/00E

HKUST 6228/00E

Prof Jan Ming Ko

Prof William Hing Keung Lam

Dr Eddie Siu Shu Lam

Dr Chi Wai Li

Dr Chung Fai Ng

Prof Chi Sun Poon

Dr Tao Wang

Dr Jian Hua Yin

Dr Jason Chih Hung Chao

Prof Yong Qi Chen

Dr Xiaoli Ding

Prof Christopher Gold

Dr Zhi Lin Li

Mr Conrad Hong Wai Tang

Dr Hong Kam Lo

Dr Xiang Song Li

Dr Irene M C Lo

Dr Charles W W Ng

Dr Zongjin Li

Dr Mohamed S B H Ghidaoui

Dr Hai Yang

Dr Christopher K Y Leung

Dr Neil C Mickleborough

467,817

795,817

637,817

457,817

437,817

497,817

870,817

437,817

447,817

447,817

479,817

655,817

653,817

745,817

670,817

835,817

843,817

695,817

572,817

547,817

635,817

944,817

487,817

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Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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HKUST 6239/00E

HKUST 6245/00E

HKUST 6249/00E

HKUST 6252/00E

HKUST 6253/00E

HKU 7002/00E

HKU 7004/00E

HKU 7005/00E

HKU 7006/00E

HKU 7008/00E

HKU 7012/00E

HKU 7014/00E

HKU 7015/00E

HKU 7213/00E

HKU 7222/00E

CityU 1072/00E

CityU 1074/00E

CityU 1076/00E

CityU 1078/00E

CityU 1080/00E

CityU 1083/00E

CityU 1087/00E

CityU 1109/00E

Wind-induced Motion Of Tall Flexible Buildings And Its Effects OnOccupant Comfort And Mental Efficiency

On Integrated Computer-aided-design Of Buildings In ACollaborative Design Environment

Structural Optimization For Seismic Design Of Reinforced ConcreteBuildings

Calibration Of Landslide Probability From Observed Performance

A Statistical Methodology For Structural Model Updating And HealthMonitoring

Development of code-based seismic spectra and risk assessmentprocedures for Hong Kong

Biofilm corrosion of metals in polluted seawater

Experimental and theoretical studies of reinforced concretecoupling beams in shear wall structures

Mixing of a round buoyant jet in a counterflow

Transformation of landslips into debris flows

Rational detailing for beam-column joints of reinforced concreteframes in Hong Kong

Interaction of multiple branched cracks

A multi-commodity discrete/continuous approach to trafficequilibrium problems

Technological progress and productive efficiency of constructionfirms in Hong Kong

Benchmarking Hong Kong (and PRC) strategic planningcompetitveness in the construction industry

Specification and Verification for Component-based Software andWorkflow Systems (a Petri-net-based Approach)

Efficient Searching of Unknown Directed Graphs

Adaptive QoS Routing Protocols for Anycast & Multicast Messages

Efficient Concurrency Control Protocols for Transactions in MobileReal-time Database Systems

A Multi-resolution Caching Framework for Web Objects Using UserProfiles for Importance Estimation

Fault-based Software Testing Strategies for Logical Expressions

Sequence Alignment, k-median Substring, and RNA StructureSimilarity

Intelligent Internet Negotiation and Trading with Mobile SoftwareAgents

Prof Chung Sau Kwok

Prof Paul T Y Chang

Dr Chun Man Chan

Prof Wilson H Tang

Dr Lambros Katafygiotis

Prof Adrian Mark Chandler

Prof Herbert Han Ping Fang

Dr Albert Kwok Hung Kwan

Dr Kit Ming Lam

Prof Chack Fan Lee

Dr Hoat Joen Pam

Dr Kai Leung Su

Dr Sze Chun Wong

Prof Kwong Wing Chau

Dr Stephen Michael Rowlinson

Subject Area Total

Prof To Yat Cheung

Dr Xiaotie Deng

Dr Weijia Jia

Dr Kam Yiu Lam

Dr Rynson Wing Hung Lau

Dr Yuen Tak Yu

Dr Lusheng Wang

Dr Hon Wai Chun

646,817

833,817

457,817

457,817

507,817

671,817

1,001,817

487,817

537,817

930,817

517,817

419,490

457,817

467,817

437,817

34,952,902

437,817

437,817

623,817

437,817

673,817

437,817

623,817

467,817

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

Subject Area: Computing Science, Information Technology & Applied Mathematics

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Concatenated Hadamard Codes for CDMA Systems

Hierarchical Cache Scheme for Enhancing TCP over HeterogeneousNetworks with Wired and Wireless Links

Encoding the Connectivity of Events: A Dynamic ConnectionistApproach to Gist Preservation

Information Geometry of Kernel Methods with Applications to DataMining

An Improvement of Mallat's Method on Singularity Detection andProcessing with Wavelets

Extending APT Financial Modeling by State Space Approach,Kalman Filtering and Temporal BYY Learning

Linear Quadratic Control via Semidefinite Programming, withApplications

Semi-Automatic Grammar Acqusition for Understanding NaturalLanguage Queries

Conic Optimization: Theory and Methods

Collaborating Redundant Models in Constraint Satisfaction

An Intelligent Virtual Environment for Chinese AcupunctureLearning and Training

Accelerating High-Quality Volume Visualization with Image-basedComputer Graphics

Dependability and Security Paradigms for Mobile Agent Systems

Dynamic Aggregate View Selection and Maintenance for LargeFinancial Data Warehouses

Power Control for Wireless Multimedia System in a FadingEnvironment

Mobile Communication Enhancement through Fast Adaptive SignalProcessing

Integrated Retansmission and Adaptation Scheme for VideoStreaming over Legacy and Advanced Internet with QoS Guarantee

Digital Filter Design via Optimization Techniques

Non-Convex Multiple Criteria Optimization

Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling Models for Team-WorkJobs

Progressive Image Mosaics and Morphing in Wavelet Domain

Quantum Packet for Integrated Services Data Network - the ThirdGeneration ISDN

Semantic Chunking for Web Queries

Adaptation Guided Retrieval of Text-based Cases: A Neuro-FuzzyApproach

Markov Decision Problems With Partial Observable States

646,817

437,817

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623,817

623,817

635,817

437,817

437,817

437,817

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437,817

239,817

437,817

635,817

437,817

437,817

437,817

437,817

449,600

437,817

635,817

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Dr Ping Li

Dr Lawrence Kwan Yeung

Dr Samuel Wai Kwong Chan

Dr James Kwok

Dr Yuan Yan Tang

Prof Lei Xu

Prof David Da Wei Yao

Prof Helen Mei Ling Meng

Prof Shuzhong Zhang

Prof Jimmy Ho Man Lee

Prof Ann Pheng Heng

Prof Tien Tsin Wong

Prof Michael Rung Tsong Lyu

Prof Jeffrey Xu Yu

Prof Wing Shing Wong

Prof John B Moore

Prof Soung Chang Liew

Prof Kok Lay Teo

Dr Xiaoqi Yang

Dr Xian Zhou

Dr Paul Ge Bao

Dr Henry Chun Bun Chan

Dr Vincent To Yee Ng

Dr Simon Chi Keung Shiu

Prof Xiren Cao

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CityU 1110/00E

HKU 1180/00E

CUHK 1221/00E

HKUST 2033/00E

HKBU 2057/00E

CUHK 4169/00E

CUHK 4175/00E

CUHK 4177/00E

CUHK 4181/00E

CUHK 4183/00E

CUHK 4185/00E

CUHK 4186/00E

CUHK 4193/00E

CUHK 4198/00E

CUHK 4222/00E

CUHK 4227/00E

CUHK 4229/00E

PolyU 5078/00E

PolyU 5080/00E

PolyU 5081/00E

PolyU 5082/00E

PolyU 5085/00E

PolyU 5094/00E

PolyU 5096/00E

HKUST 6050/00E

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

XBASE: An XML Document Management System

Strongest Necessary Conditions, Weakest Sufficient Conditions,And Their Applications

Enhancing The Performance Of Distributed WWW Server Systems

Coping With Nonuniform Traffic And Heterogeneous UserMobilities In Wireless Multi-media Networks

Complex Spatial Query Processing

Numerical Simulation Of The Tidal Bore On The Qiantang River

Analyzing The Capacity Of Two-dimensional Constrained Codes

Bandwidth Allocation With QoS Guarantee For Multiple TrafficStreams In Wireless Cellular Networks

Editing And Presenting High-dimension, Online, Large AndDynamic (HOLD) Tables

Efficient Expected-case Algorithms For Problems In GeometricSearching

Data Access And Dissemination In A Multicell Mobile ComputingEnvironment

User Guided Multidimensional Feature Extraction AndVisualization

Two-tier Bigrammars: A Unified Approach To Machine TranslationLearning

Tetrahedralization of convex polyhedron

On the theory and practice of digital signatures in workflow

New techniques towards task-independent subword modeling forPutonghua recognition

Design, implementation, and evaluation of parallel multithreadingfor high speed processing of communication protocols on aLinux-based symmetric multiprocessor

State-space modeling of multivariate grouped survival data

Parsing of inteference between quadric primitives

Study of Expanded Smart-antenna Concept and Architecture forImproved System-capacity and Quality-of-service in Future MobileCommunication Systems

Lowering Operating Voltage of Organic Light-emitting Diodes byImproving Electron Transport Capability

Electrode Modification and Interface Optimization of PolymerLight Emitting Diodes

Dr Hongjun Lu

Dr Fangzhen Lin

Prof Samuel Chanson

Dr Jelena Misic

Dr Dimitrios Papadias

Prof Grafton W H Hui

Dr Mordecai J Golin

Dr Bo Li

Prof Derick Wood

Dr Sunil Arya

Dr Dik Lun Lee

Dr Chi-keung Tang

Dr Dekai Wu

Prof Francis Yuk Lun Chin

Dr Chi Kwong Hui

Dr Qiang Huo

Dr Yu Kwong Kwok

Dr Kwok Fai Lam

Dr Wen Ping Wang

Subject Area Total

Prof The Bao Vu

Prof Liang Sun Hung

Dr Chun Sing Lee

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619,000

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633,817

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HKUST 6060/00E

HKUST 6061/00E

HKUST 6066/00E

HKUST 6067/00E

HKUST 6070/00E

HKUST 6122/00E

HKUST 6162/00E

HKUST 6163/00E

HKUST 6166/00E

HKUST 6229/00E

HKUST 6241/00E

HKUST 6246/00E

HKUST 6256/00E

HKU 7019/00E

HKU 7021/00E

HKU 7022/00E

HKU 7024/00E

HKU 7026/00E

HKU 7032/00E

CityU 1005/00E

CityU 1027/00E

CityU 1028/00E

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

Subject Area: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Plasma Immersion Treatment of Biomedical Materials andComponents

Ion Beam Nucleation of Diamond

Image Reconstruction and Recovery from Incomplete Information

Secure Internet Image Communication via Multi-resolution ChaosSynchronization and Control

On the Differential Equations of Surface Current Densities onAntennas and Scatterers

Active Feed Network for Third Generation Mobile RadioTransmitters

Fuzzy Electromagnetics for CAD Integrated Circuit Design andLayout

Linearly- and Circularly-polarized Dielectric Resonator Antennaswith a Backing Cavity

A Fundamental Integrated Study for Power Electronics ControlledHigh-intensity-discharge (HID) Lamp Systems

Inputting A 3D Moving Object into Virtual Reality

Multiplexed Fibre Sensor System for Electric Current Measurement

Investigation of Microwave Devices Incorporating Planar Photonic-bandgap Structures

M-ary Phase Shift Keying Detection by Fuzzy Logic

A High Frequency Multi-layer Circuit Design Technique of FieldTheory for EM Couplings with Consideration to ThermalConduction

A Shaped-beam Circular-cylindrical Microstrip Antenna Array

Fundamental Limits in Information Storage Systems

Real-Time Control of Cooperative Robots via the Internet withForce Reflection

Recurrent Neural Networks for Real-Time Grasping ForceOptimization of Dexterous Manipulations using Multi-fingeredRobotic Hands

Smart Wheelchair

Approximation Methods for the Discrete NonlinearServomechanism Problem

Harmonic Tuning of Source and Load Impedance to ImprovePhase Linearity of Microwave Power Amplifiers for Wireless DigitalCommunications

New Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT) with GaAsSb basefor Wireless Communication Applications

Simulation and Design Methodology of Advanced Multi-ChipModule (MCM) System for Wireless Communication Applications

Size Effects of SrBi2Ta2O9 (SBT) Ferroelectric Thin Films

CityU 1032/00E

CityU 1051/00E

CityU 1088/00E

CityU 1098/00E

CityU 1127/00E

CityU 1129/00E

CityU 1135/00E

CityU 1136/00E

CityU 1156/00E

CityU 1157/00E

CityU 1182/00E

CityU 1219/00E

CityU 1228/00E

CityU 1229/00E

CityU 1231/00E

CUHK 4165/00E

CUHK 4173/00E

CUHK 4174/00E

CUHK 4197/00E

CUHK 4209/00E

CUHK 4210/00E

CUHK 4212/00E

CUHK 4213/00E

CUHK 4214/00E

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Prof Paul Kim Ho Chu

Dr Igor Bello

Prof Hong Yan

Dr Guanrong Chen

Prof Kenneth Kwan Hsiang Mei

Dr Wing Shing Chan

Prof Leonard Yung Chow

Dr Kwok Wa Leung

Prof Ron Shu Yuen Hui

Dr Kelvin Shiu Yin Yuen

Dr Beatrice Chi Bik Chu

Prof Chi Hou Chan

Dr Peter Sai Wing Leung

Dr Kim Fung Tsang

Prof Kwai Man Luk

Prof Raymond Wai Ho Yeung

Prof Yunhui Liu

Prof Jun Wang

Prof Yangsheng Xu

Prof Jie Huang

Prof Michael Kwok Keung Cheng

Prof Chung Chi Hsu

Prof Ke Li Wu

Prof Jian Bin Xu

687,817

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623,817

437,817

530,817

487,817

840,817

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835,817

572,817

722,817

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764,817

635,817

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Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

The Formation of Metal Nano-clusters in Dielectric Materials by IonGettering

Nano-granular Metal-carbon Thin Films by Pulsed Filtered VacuumArc Deposition

Hybrid Generalized Characteristic Method and Extended FiniteDifference Time Domain Method for Active Antenna Design andOptimization

900 and 1800 MHz Digital Controlled Oscillators for WirelessCommunication

Development of a Cantonese Text-to-Speech System with HighNaturalness

A New Family of Electrically Wavelength-tunable Semiconductorand Fiber Lasers

Measurement of All-optical Nonlinearities in Ion-ImplantedMaterials

Architecture for IP Operating on WDM

System Limitations of Optical Netwroks due to Crosstalk

Homodyne Crosstalk Reduction using Nonlinear Absorption in FPLaser Diode

A New Biometric Authentication System Based on PalmprintTechnology

Polymer Optical Fibre Grating Pressure Sensors for Medical(Orthopaedic) Applications

Real-Time Electromagnetic Electromechanical Hybrid TransientSimulation for Large Power Systems

Applications of Pseudo-Spectral Time Domain (PSTD) Method forEM Wave Propagation in Indoor and Outdoor Environments

Environmentally Green Energy Management System for FutureHomes/Offices

Intelligent Control System for Home Appliances

Wavelet Singularity Detection for Very Low Bit-rate Image and VideoCoding

Infinite Horizon Model Predictive Control

Designing Compact Integrated Diversity Antennas For WirelessCommunication

Chinese Speech Recognition Using The Segmental Models

Organic Light Emitting Diodes With Novel Structures Using ACombination Of Evaporation And Pulsed Laser Deposition

Applications Of Metal Induced Laterally Crystallized PolycrystallineSilicon To Integrated Micro-systems

On The Minimization Of Flicker And Image Retention In ActiveMatrix Liquid Crystal Displays

CUHK 4215/00E

CUHK 4216/00E

CUHK 4217/00E

CUHK 4218/00E

CUHK 4219/00E

CUHK 4220/00E

CUHK 4221/00E

CUHK 4223/00E

CUHK 4225/00E

CUHK 4228/00E

PolyU 5105/00E

PolyU 5115/00E

PolyU 5118/00E

PolyU 5119/00E

PolyU 5125/00E

PolyU 5127/00E

PolyU 5129/00E

HKUST 6046/00E

HKUST 6048/00E

HKUST 6049/00E

HKUST 6051/00E

HKUST 6053/00E

HKUST 6056/00E

Prof Ian Howard Wilson

Prof Joseph Sai Peng Wong

Prof Albert Kin Yue Lai

Prof Cheong Fat Chan

Prof Tan Lee

Prof ChesterChing Tat Shu

Prof Hon Ki Tsang

Prof Peter Tak Shing Yum

Prof Ricky Keang Po Ho

Prof Franklin Fuk Kay Tong

Dr David Da Peng Zhang

Dr Hwa Yaw Tam

Dr Ka Wing Chan

Dr Yin Chao Chen

Prof Yim Shu Lee

Dr Frank Hung Fat Leung

Dr DanielPak Kong Lun

Dr Li Qiu

Dr Ross D Murch

Dr Man Hung Siu

Prof Hoi Sing Kwok

Dr Man Wong

Dr Ho-chi Huang

487,817

935,817

437,817

517,817

447,817

514,817

567,817

437,817

707,817

557,817

447,817

646,817

655,817

454,400

437,817

437,817

457,817

635,817

467,817

437,817

891,817

668,817

437,817

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

154

155

156

157

158

159

160

161

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

A Computational Framework For Non-invasive Recovery OfMaterial Properties From Image Sequence: Applications ToCardiac Tissues

Fully Depleted SOI MOSFET Using Self-aligned Polysilicon GateWith Low And Symmetric Source/Drain Resistance

Novel Photodetectors With Very Low Intrinsic Noise For VeryWeak Light Detection

Photonic Switching Networks Under Crosstalk Constraints

Wavelets Based Multi-access Digital Communication System

Technology Development And Device Design For 3-D VerticalIntegration

High Performance Thin-film-transistors On Single Grain SiliconBy Locally Enchanced Crystallization

Design And Characterization Of SOI CMOS Mixers For RFApplications

Dual Band (2.4/5.7 GHz) RF Circuit And Coding Scheme For VeryHigh Bit Rate Operation

A study of multiplier-less perfect reconstruction modulated filterbanks

Neuro-fuzzy position control of ultrasonic motors and itsapplication

Providing internet services in next-generation mobile CDMAnetworks

Signal design to reduce effects of carrier frequency offset andpeak-to-average power ratio on orthogonal-multicarrier spread-spectrum systems

Security management with congestion analysis in electricitymarket

Analysis and design of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers forself-sustained pulsation

Fabrication of organic photovoltaic cells

Development of A Hybrid-intelligence Data-mining Framework toDerive Hidden Knowledge from Power-plant Databases

Strategy Investigation, Utilization of Environment and SensoryInformation in Robotic Task

Towards Green Lubrication for Metal Forming and EnhancedFormability of Sheet Metals Using Conventional and Hard Tooling

Basic Studies on the Failure Mechanisms and Microstructures ofShort Glass Fibre-reinforced Polypropylene/elastomer Blends

HKUST 6057/00E

HKUST 6130/00E

HKUST 6151/00E

HKUST 6160/00E

HKUST 6173/00E

HKUST 6183/00E

HKUST 6226/00E

HKUST 6236/00E

HKUST 6254/00E

HKU 7038/00E

HKU 7039/00E

HKU 7047/00E

HKU 7049/00E

HKU 7050/00E

HKU 7056/00E

HKU 7395/00E

CityU 1007/00E

CityU 1015/00E

CityU 1023/00E

CityU 1029/00E

162

163

164

165

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

177

178

179

180

181

Dr Pengcheng Shi

Prof Philip C H Chan

Dr Yuqi Wang

Prof Chin-tau Lea

Dr Chi-wah Kok

Dr Man Sun Chan

Dr Vincent M C Poon

Prof Ping Keung Ko

Dr Jack Lau

Dr Shing Chow Chan

Dr Kwok Tong Chau

Prof Victor On Kwok Li

Prof Tung Sang Ng

Dr Yixin Ni

Dr Siu Fung Yu

Dr Eddie Herbert Li

Subject Area Total

Prof Shiu Kit Tso

Dr Hong Qiao

Dr Kamineni P Rao

Dr Sie Chin Tjong

655,817

839,817

484,817

437,817

655,817

557,817

597,817

860,817

657,817

437,817

447,817

934,817

527,817

437,817

437,817

467,817

39,415,505

445,817

436,840

472,817

527,817

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

Subject Area: Mechanical, Production & Industrial Engineering

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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Properties of a Zirconium-base Amorphous Alloy under VariousLoading Conditions

A Smart, Low-cost, and Fast-to-Process Electronic Ear for FaultDiagnosis Using Machine Operating Sound and Analyzing byWavelet Transforms and Neural Networks

Design and Sensing Configuration Control of an Active VisionSystem for 3-D Object Modeling

Performance-oriented Intelligent Multivariable Control for a Classof Semiconductor Packaging Processes

Dynamic Fracture Characterization of Ductile Polymers and ShortFibre Reinforced Polymers Using the Essential Work of FractureApproach

Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Nanostructured Alloys Synthesized byRapid Solidification

Field-Induced Nano-Engineering (FINE)

Active-Passive Hybrid Vibration Control Using Enhanced Self-Sensing Piezoelectric Actuators

Micromachined Nafion Actuators for Tactile-display Systems

Laser Fabrication of Ceramic-Reinforced Metal Matrix CompositeSurface Layer on Stainless Steel for Enhancing Cavitation ErosionResistance

A Novel Approach for Fabricating Low-Stress Thick Cubic BoronNitride Coatings on Tungsten Carbide-Based Cutting Tools

Heat and Moisture Transfer with Sorption and Phase Change inFibrous Insulation and the Prevention of Condensation in ClothingAssemblies

Study of Permeability of Multilayer Woven Fabrics in CompositeFabrication Process

Mechanisms of Structural Modification of Rotor and Ring KnittingYarns

Experimental Study of the Topology and Evolution Dynamics ofTurbulent Coherent Structures by Using Holographic Velocimetry

A Multiscale Model of Texture Competition During Thin FilmGrowth - Hybrid of ADEPT and EVOLVE

Investigations of Flows around Wavy Cylinders

Computer Simulation of Morphological and MicrostructuralEvolution of Hydride Precipitates in Polycrystalline Metals underNon-uniform Stress and Temperature Transients

An Investigation on Noise Generation Due to Flow-InducedVibrations of Elastic Structures

Active Damage Detection for Composite Material Structures UsingEmbedded Piezoelectric Actuators and Sensors

Enhancement of Ceramic-Metal Bonding of Titanium Implants byLaser Surface Nitriding and Selective Etching

Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

CityU 1039/00E

CityU 1046/00E

CityU 1049/00E

CityU 1054/00E

CityU 1069/00E

CUHK 4170/00E

CityU 4171/00E

CUHK 4205/00E

CUHK 4206/00E

PolyU 5140/00E

PolyU 5141/00E

PolyU 5142/00E

PolyU 5143/00E

PolyU 5146/00E

PolyU 5148/00E

PolyU 5152/00E

PolyU 5154/00E

PolyU 5159/00E

PolyU 5161/00E

PolyU 5164/00E

PolyU 5175/00E

182

183

184

185

186

187

188

189

190

191

192

193

194

195

196

197

198

199

200

201

202

Dr Chan Hung Shek

Dr Peter Wai Tat Tse

Dr You Fu Li

Dr Han Xiong Li

Dr Robert Kwok Yiu Li

Prof Hing Wing Kui

Prof John Kwok Fung Yau

Prof Wei Hsin Liao

Prof Wen Jung Li

Dr Fai Tsun Cheng

Dr Chung Wo Ong

Dr Jintu Fan

Dr Jinlian Hu

Prof Xiaoming Tao

Dr John Kwok Tung Chan

Dr Han Chen Huang

Mr Kit Lam

Dr San Qiang Shi

Prof Ronald Ming Cho So

Dr Lai Hang Yam

Dr Hau Chung Man

520,817

514,817

522,817

437,817

569,817

835,817

592,817

683,817

501,817

514,817

556,817

777,817

550,817

520,817

477,817

515,817

467,817

467,817

596,817

637,817

560,817

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Damage Modelling of Particulate Biocomposite Using HybridMacro-Micro Superelement Technique

Inventory Systems With Substitution And Unreliable Supply Sources

Quality Control For A Multistage Process Combining SPC And APC

Experimental Study On The Deformation And Instability OfSuperelastic TiNi Shape Memory Alloy Micro-tubing

Agent-based Distributed Scheduling

Competitive Dynamic Pricing For Make-to-order Firms

Assessment On The Effects Of Electroless Nickel Plating On TheReliability Of Solder Ball Attachment To The Bond Pads Of PlasticBall Grid Array Substrate

Energy-absorption Of Cellular Materials And Cellular StructuresUnder Dynamic Loading: Experiments And Modeling

Characterization And Modeling Of Strain Gradient Plasticity EffectIn Crack Tip In Polymer

Microfluidic Devices For Capillary Electrophersis

Design And Control Of Multi-site Service Systems With CustomerBalking

Magnetic Materials Study For Magnetic Refrigeration At RoomTemperature

Customer Behavior In Web-based Mass-customization Systems: AnExperimental Study On The Buying Decision-making Process OverThe Internet

A New Method For Numerical Reconstruction Of A 3-D ObjectFrom Its Hologram

Heat Transfer Characteristics Of Micromachined Silicon Inverted-meniscus Evaporators

Coalescence, Heat Transfer And Recondensation In EvaporatingDense Spray

Study Of Mechanical Properties Of Multilayered Thin Film UsingThe Microbridge Testing

Fundamental Heat Transfer Study For Powder Systems With SmallLength Scales

A systematic method for designing heterogeneous components withspecial functions using Axiomatic Design and TopologyOptimization

Feasibility study on development of self-reinforced compositesfrom recycled PET and PP

A study on higher order nonlinear effects in hydrodynamical andoptical solitons

Effects of navigation and reclamation on waves in Victoria Harbour

Functionally graded part fabrication based on the SLS process

PolyU 5176/00E

HKUST 6012/00E

HKUST 6073/00E

HKUST 6074/00E

HKUST 6076/00E

HKUST 6077/00E

HKUST 6078/00E

HKUST 6079/00E

HKUST 6080/00E

HKUST 6082/00E

HKUST 6089/00E

HKUST 6157/00E

HKUST 6164/00E

HKUST 6175/00E

HKUST 6178/00E

HKUST 6180/00E

HKUST 6181/00E

HKUST 6237/00E

HKU 7062/00E

HKU 7064/00E

HKU 7066/00E

HKU 7068/00E

HKU 7069/00E

203

204

205

206

207

208

209

210

211

212

213

214

215

216

217

218

219

220

221

222

223

224

225

Dr Chak Yin Tang

Dr Shaohui Zheng

Dr Fugee Tsung

Dr Qingping Sun

Dr Benjamin P C Yen

Dr Yat Wah Wan

Dr Ricky S W Lee

Prof Tongxi Yu

Dr David C C Lam

Dr Yitshak Zohar

Dr Liming Liu

Dr Xixiang Zhang

Dr Richard H Y So

Dr Lilong Cai

Dr Tianshou Zhao

Dr Huihe Qiu

Prof Pin Tong

Dr Steve H K Lee

Dr Kezhang Chen

Dr Wai Lam Cheung

Dr Kwok Wing Chow

Prof Allen Tse Yung Chwang

Dr Ian Gibson

695,817

914,817

437,817

748,817

437,817

635,817

517,817

567,817

685,817

725,817

821,817

537,817

466,817

437,817

1,064,817

457,817

635,817

785,817

685,817

497,817

437,817

635,817

577,817

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Development of a web-based brokering framework to encourageearly supplier involvement (ESI) in new product development(NPD) on the Internet

A TEM investigation into the anomalous insulator-to-metaltransition in sputter coated nickel-aluminium thin films

On the size effects in micro-mechanics based characterization andperformance modeling of functionally graded composite coatings/layers

Computational methods for meso-electromechanical analysis offerroelectrics and ferroelectric devices

Multiple material objects: from CAD representation to rapidprototyping

Bifurcation and stability of forced convection in curved ducts

HKU 7070/00E

HKU 7077/00E

HKU 7081/00E

HKU 7083/00E

HKU 7085/00E

HKU 7086/00E

226

227

228

229

230

231

Dr Guo Quan Huang

Dr Alfonso Hing Wan Ngan

Dr Ai Kah Soh

Dr Kam Yim Sze

Prof Sooi Thor Tan

Dr Liqiu Wang

Subject Area Total

Grand Total

437,817

675,817

547,817

457,817

713,817

457,817

31,412,141

131,784,998

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

232

233

234

235

236

237

238

239

240

241

242

243

244

245

246

247

248

249

250

251

Development of Fiber Optic Sensors for Rapid Biochemical OxygenDemand (BOD) Measurement

Environmental Applications Of Mesoporous Silica With EngineeredPore Structure And Tailored Chemistry

Dielectric Material Assisted Microwave Freeze Drying Of Extracts OfChinese Medicine

The Role Of Water-soluble Organic Compounds (WSOC) On TheHygroscopic Growth Of Atmospheric Aerosols

Development Of Finite Element Simulation Programs For PolymerElectrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs) And Light Hydrocarbon BasedCompact Reformers

A Systematic Experimental Study Of Wastewater Treatment ByCatalytic Oxidation

Preparation Of High Performance UHMWPE Prostheses In TotalJoint Replacements

A Novel Photocatalytic System With An Aerogel Matrix OfNanometer-sized Catalyst Particles For The Removal Of VolatileOrganic Compounds (VOCs)

Chemical analysis for quality control/quality assurance in thepreparation of traditional Chinese medicine

Silicon-oxide Assisted Growth of Silicon Nanowires: A Tight-bindingMolecular Dynamics Simulation

Growth and Characterization of Semiconductor Nanocomposites

A Study of a Solvent Extraction Method for the Treatment ofRinsewater Generated in Chromium(III) Electroplating

The Preformed Sol Route to YAP

Luminescent Transition Metal Complexes as Non-isotopic Labelsfor Nucleic Acids

Multi-electron Transfer Reactions of Complexes Containing Metal-nitrogen Multiple Bonds

New C2-symmetric Dipyridyl Ligands for Copper-catalyzedAsymmetric Cyclopropanation of Alkenes

Clinical Evaluation and Improvement of Three Radiotherapy SkinDose Detectors

Late Quaternary and Modern Organic Matter Accumulation in HongKong - Implications for Environmental Studies

Steric and Electronic Influence on the Synthesis and Chemistry ofLanthanide Porphyrinate Complexes

Chemistry of Alpha, Beta-Unsaturated Gamma-Sultam

PolyU 5184/00P

HKUST 6037/00P

HKUST 6038/00P

HKUST 6039/00P

HKUST 6042/00P

HKUST 6232/00P

HKUST 6244/00P

HKUST 6247/00P

HKU 7089/00P

CityU 1033/00P

HKUST 1043/00P

CityU 1104/00P

CityU 1114/00P

CityU 1116/00P

CityU 1117/00P

CityU 1119/00P

CityU 1137/00P

HKBU 2016/00P

HKBU 2023/00P

HKBU 2024/00P

Prof Kwok Yin Wong

Dr King Lun Yeung

Dr Guohua Chen

Dr Chak Keung Chan

Dr I-ming Hsing

Dr Xijun Hu

Dr Ping Gao

Prof Po Lock Yue

Dr Ying Sing Fung

Subject Area Total

Dr Rui Qin Zhang

Dr Ning Wang

Dr Peter Yu Keung Sze

Prof Peter A Tanner

Dr Kenneth Kam Wing Lo

Dr Tai Chu Lau

Dr Hoi Lun Kwong

Dr Tsang Cheung

Dr R Bernhart Owen

Prof Wai Kwok Wong

Prof Albert W M Lee

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

337,817

337,817

297,817

443,817

287,817

337,817

337,817

337,817

337,817

3,056,353

626,817

419,817

337,817

313,817

419,817

771,817

419,817

290,817

317,817

399,817

337,817

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

Subject Area: Physical Sciences

Subject Area: Chemical Engineering

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

252

253

254

255

256

257

258

259

260

261

262

263

264

265

266

267

268

269

270

271

272

273

274

HKBU 2025/00P

HKBU 2029/00P

HKBU 2037/00P

HKBU 2041/00P

HKBU 2043/00P

HKBU 2046/00P

HKBU 2055/00P

HKBU 2060/00P

HKBU 2061/00P

HKBU 2062/00P

HKBU 2063/00P

CUHK 4230/00P

CUHK 4264/00P

CUHK 4265/00P

CUHK 4266/00P

CUHK 4267/00P

CUHK 4268/00P

CUHK 4272/00P

CUHK 4273/00P

CUHK 4274/00P

CUHK 4275/00P

CUHK 4276/00P

CUHK 4281/00P

Capillary Electrophoresis: A Powerful Research Tool inPhotodynamic Cancer Therapy

An Important Aspect of Biocatalysis - A Study of Proteins inOrganic Media by Computational Method

An Investigation of the Use of Carbon Nanotubes inHeterogeneous Catalysis

Catalytic Decomposition of Chlorofluorocarbons

Continuous and Discrete Integrable Models and Their ExplicitSolutions

Resonance-enhanced Laser-induced Plasma Spectroscopy forElemental Analysis

A Study of the Specific DNA-Photocleavage Activities ofVanadium(V) - Peroxo Complexes at Neutral pH

Quantum Computing

Current-voltage Characteristics of Mesoscopic SuperconductingNetworks

Study on Optical Property of Organo-porous Silicon Material

Current Transports in Organic Electroluminescent Devices

A Novel Technique for the Analyses of Depth Distribuitons ofChemical States and Compositions in Semiconductor Materialswith Sub-nanometer Resolution

The Construction of Chiral 3-Dimensional Molecular ScaffoldsUsing Tetraphenylenols as Building Blocks

Metal Complexes of a Tridentate Diamide Ligand

Phase Transitions of Novel Polymer Brushes

Group 4 Metal Carborane Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, andReactivity

Studies on the Coordination Chemistry of Acetylenediide andPseudohalide Anions

High-resolution Spectroscopy of CH2+ and Nh2+: The Study ofRovibronic Interactions of Quasilinear Molecules

Artificial Globular Proteins: Synthesis and Characterization ofalpha-Amino Acid-based Peptide Dendrimers Dendrimers

Dissociation of Large Ions in a Fourier-transform Ion-Cyclotron-Resonance Mass Spectrometer

Gaussian-3 Study on the Structures, Reactions, and Energetics ofSome Interesting Chemical Systems

Theoretical Study on Solvation Dynamics and IntraclusterReactions for Al+(H2O)n Ion Clusters

Development of a Technique for and the Determination of theViscous Boundary Layers in Low Prandtl Number TurbulentConvection

Dr Carmen Wah Kit Huie

Dr Yuen Kit Cheng

Prof Ching Fai Ng

Dr Suk Yin Lai

Ms Yong Tang Wu

Prof Nai Ho Cheung

Dr Daniel W J Kwong

Dr Shi Yao Zhu

Dr Lei Han Tang

Dr Kok Wai Cheah

Dr Shu Kong So

Prof Raymond Wai Man Kwok

Prof Henry Nai Ching Wong

Prof Wing Por Leung

Prof Chi Wu

Prof Zuo Wei Xie

Prof Chung Wai Thomas Mak

Prof Man Chor Chan

Prof Hak Fun Chow

Prof Tak Wah Dominic Chan

Prof Wai Kee Li

Prof Zhi Feng Liu

Prof Ke Qing Xia

337,817

287,817

503,817

366,817

287,817

801,817

327,817

297,817

403,817

337,817

419,817

603,817

337,817

337,817

419,817

419,817

1,153,817

337,817

721,817

337,817

297,817

287,817

337,817

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

CUHK 4282/00P

CUHK 4284/00P

CUHK 4286/00P

CUHK 4288/00P

CUHK 4292/00P

PolyU 5077/00P

PolyU 5185/00P

PolyU 5187/00P

PolyU 5188/00P

PolyU 5190/00P

PolyU 5193/00P

PolyU 5194/00P

HKUST 6118/00P

HKUST 6119/00P

HKUST 6121/00P

HKUST 6129/00P

HKUST 6132/00P

HKUST 6137/00P

HKUST 6138/00P

HKUST 6139/00P

HKUST 6140/00P

HKUST 6141/00P

HKUST 6142/00P

HKUST 6143/00P

Applications of Quasinormal-Mode Expansion in Open WaveSystems

First-Principles Approach to Dynamic ER Effects in Complex Fluids

Velocity and Temperature Statistics in Turbulent Convection

Phase Separation in Colossal Magnetoresistance Materials

A Finite Element Method for Nonlinear Convection Problems inRapidly Rotating Spherical Shells with Applications to PlanetaryFluid Systems

Reformulation Methods in Optimization

Novel Chiral Phosphite Ligands and Their Applications inAsymmetric Catalysis

Simulation of Spectra of Short-Lived Molecules of Importance in theEarth Atmosphere and Stellar and Interstellar Atmospheres

s-Bond Metathesis: [LmM(H2O)H]n+ [LmM(H2)(OH)]n+.Reactivities and Catalytic Activities of the Tautomers

Substituent Effects in Cation- Interaction: a Combined MassSpectrometric and Ab Initio Study

Ferroelectric Lead Magnesium Niobate-Lead Titanate Single Crystalsand Composites for Transducer and Actuator Applications

Development of a Model for the Design of Thin Film FerroelectricMemory Devices

Numerical Study Of The Solar Differential Rotation By A GlobalSpectral Method

Ehrhart Polynomials And Combinatorial Riemann-roch For LatticePolytopes And Polyhedra

The Geometry And Statistics Of Particle Dispersion

The Dynamics Of Doubly-singular Parabolic Equations WithAbsorption

Gas-kinetic Methods For Computational Fluid Dynamics

Spin Polarized Vacuum Tunneling From Magnetic Thin Films

Multiple-scattering Theory In Real Space And The QuantitativeTheory Of Photo-induced Interactions

Experimental And Theoretical Study Of The Optical Anisotropy OfCommon-atom Semiconductor Interfaces

High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy AndConductivity Study Of Isolated And Embedded MetallicNanoparticles

Development Of Nanostructured Polymeric Materials And DevicesFor Converting Light To Electricity — Solar Cells And Photo-detectors

Coulomb Blockade And Quantum Effects In Granular Systems

Elastic Wave Bandgap From Tunable Scatterers

Prof Pui Tang Leung

Prof Kin Wah Yu

Prof Emily Shuk Chi Ching

Prof Hai Qing Lin

Prof Jun Zou

Prof Liqun Qi

Prof Albert Sun Chi Chan

Prof Tim Foo Chau

Dr Chak Po Lau

Dr Chun Wai Tsang

Prof Helen Lai Wah Chan Wong

Dr Veng Cheong Lo

Prof Kwing Lam Chan

Dr Beifang Chen

Dr Jimmy C H Fung

Dr Yuan Wei Qi

Dr Kun Xu

Dr Michael S Altman

Dr Che Ting Chan

Dr Bradley A Foreman

Dr Kwok Kwong Fung

Dr Weikun Ge

Dr Tai Kai Ng

Prof Ping Sheng

287,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

379,817

337,817

287,817

337,817

379,817

307,817

287,817

379,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

419,817

631,817

337,817

337,817

307,817

287,817

651,817

275

276

277

278

279

280

281

282

283

284

285

286

287

288

289

290

291

292

293

294

295

296

297

298

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

299

300

301

302

303

304

305

306

307

308

309

310

311

312

313

314

315

316

317

318

319

320

321

HKUST 6144/00P

HKUST 6145/00P

HKUST 6149/00P

HKUST 6152/00P

HKUST 6153/00P

HKUST 6155/00P

HKUST 6156/00P

HKUST 6158/00P

HKUST 6185/00P

HKUST 6186/00P

HKUST 6187/00P

HKUST 6189/00P

HKUST 6191/00P

HKUST 6192/00P

HKUST 6193/00P

HKU 7028/00P

HKU 7090/00P

HKU 7091/00P

HKU 7094/00P

HKU 7095/00P

HKU 7096/00P

HKU 7097/00P

HKU 7098/00P

Interdisciplinary Research On The Topological Characteristics OfPoint Patterns Generated By Agent Dynamics

Light Emission And Lasing From 3D Photonic Crystals Formed ByMetallo-dielectric Micro-spheres

Instabilities And Oscillations Of The Sequential Tunneling InSuperlattices

Synthesis Of Micro-rods And Micro-disks For Electrorheological(ER) And Magnetorheological (MR) Fluids

Microstructure-enhanced Large Third-order Optical Nonlinearity InMetal Nanocluster-doped Dielectric Composite Films

Investigation Of Gauche Defects As An Energy Dissipation ChannelIn Friction For Mixed Alkanethiol Monolayers

Study Of II-VI Semiconductor Buried Interfaces By ReflectanceDifference Spectroscopy With Sub-micrometer Spatial Resolution

The Engineering Of Band Gaps For Elastic/acoustic Waves In“Phononic Crystals”

Chemical Analysis Of Water Soluble Organic Compounds InAtmospheric Particles

Theoretical Studies Of Transition Metal Boryl Complexes

Synthesis, Characterization And NLO Properties Of ConjugatedOctopolar Organic And Organometallic Compounds

Development Of Novel Materials Derived From Transition MetalAryls

Enantiomerically-pure P-chiral Phosphine Oxides, PhosphineSulfides And Phosphines For Asymmetric Catalysis

Thin Films Of Endohedral Metallofullerenes

Theoretical Study Of Metal-alkylidene Catalyzed Ring-closing AndCrossing Metathesis

Common nonlinear dynamics in a panel of time series

South China sea marine geology

Improvement of positron beam flux and quality

Geophysical and radiometric characterization of weathered rocksin Hong Kong

Bis(sigma-carbanionic) tridentate ligands in organometallicchemistry

Electronic and optical properties of polymers based on transitionmetal complexes

Development of a method for identification and quantitativeanalysis of biological molecule - metal ion complexes in herbaldrugs based on CE-ICP and CE-MS analysis of Folium Ginkgo andSemen Ginkgo (Ginkgo leaf and seed)

Classification by cellular automata

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Dr Kwok Yip Szeto

Dr Wing Yim Tam

Dr Xiangrong Wang

Dr Weijia Wen

Prof George K L Wong

Dr Xu Dong Xiao

Dr Zhi Yu Yang

Dr Zhaoqing Zhang

Dr Jianzhen Yu

Dr Zhenyang Lin

Dr Guocheng Jia

Dr Wa Hung Leung

Prof Richard K Haynes

Dr Shihe Yang

Dr Yundong Wu

Prof Wai Keung Li

Dr Jonathan Clement Aitchison

Dr Christopher David Beling

Dr Lung Sang Chan

Dr Michael Chi Wang Chan

Dr Wai Kin Chan

Dr Wing Tat Chan

Dr Hoi Fung Chau

379,817

943,817

379,817

337,817

533,817

419,817

287,817

287,817

419,817

403,817

895,817

419,817

379,817

419,817

287,817

287,817

337,817

419,817

287,817

483,817

337,817

337,817

267,817

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

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Project No. Status

322

323

324

325

326

327

328

329

330

331

332

333

334

335

336

337

338

339

340

341

342

343

HKU 7099/00P

HKU 7100/00P

HKU 7101/00P

HKU 7103/00P

HKU 7107/00P

HKU 7112/00P

HKU 7113/00P

HKU 7115/00P

HKU 7118/00P

HKU 7119/00P

HKU 7120/00P

HKU 7121/00P

HKU 7123/00P

HKU 7124/00P

HKU 7125/00P

HKU 7126/00P

HKU 7129/00P

HKU 7396/00P

CityU 1060/00P

CityU 1061/00P

CityU 1065/00P

CityU 1066/00P

Metal-mediated nitrogen atom transfer reactions. Organoimido,hydrazido and dinitrogen complexes of ruthenium and osmium

Photoexcitation in light harvesting systems

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts

Studies in the enantioselective syntheses and transformations ofheterobicyclic compounds

Development of an integrated particle sampler and lung radiationdosemeter

Time-resolved resonance Raman investigation of selectednitrenium ions and reaction intermediates

Magnetic, charge and orbital orderings in doped transition-metaloxides: theoretical study

Amalgamation of the north China craton

Nonadiabatic noncyclic geometric phase and quantum transport inmesoscopic systems

Lanthanide complexes for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)contrast agents

Combined LEED-IV direct imaging and curve fitting to studycomplex surface structures

Growth of gallium nitride on vicinal substrates

Transition metal complexes with alkynyl-containing moieties asbuilding blocks for metal-based materials with luminescence and/or chemosensing capabilities

Developing asymmetric free radical cyclization methods forsynthesis of biologically active natural products

New chiral catalysts and novel reagents for metal carbenetransformations

Ground-truthing of high-resolution boomer seismic profiles on theHong Kong continental shelf and applications

Statistical inference for some semiparametric regression modelswith censored data

N2-scaling convergent multiple scattering method for analyzingcrystal structures with small interlayer spacings

Vacuum States for Compressible Flow

Iterative Algorithms for Solving Collocation Systems withApplications in Elasticity

Some Topics in Wavelets Concerning Matrix Products

The Theory and Applications of Truncated Newton Methods withPCG Subiterations

Prof Chi Ming Che

Dr Guanhua Chen

Prof Kwong Sang Cheng

Dr Pauline Chiu

Dr John Kon Chong Leung

Dr David Lee Phillips

Dr Shunqing Shen

Dr Min Sun

Dr Zidan Wang

Dr Wing Tak Wong

Dr Hua Sheng Wu

Dr Mao Hai Xie

Prof Vivian Wing Wah Yam

Dr Dan Yang

Dr Tao Ye

Dr Wyss Wai Shu Yim

Dr Lixing Zhu

Prof David Shuk Yin Tong

Subject Area Total

Dr Tong Yang

Dr Wei Wei Sun

Dr Ding Xuan Zhou

Prof Jason Jian Zhong Zhang

711,817

287,817

287,817

337,817

419,817

778,817

379,817

337,817

287,817

337,817

419,817

337,817

1,113,817

811,817

419,817

337,817

287,817

379,817

40,719,883

287,817

379,817

379,817

287,817

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

Subject Area: Pure Mathematics

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Project No. Status

344

345

346

347

348

349

350

351

352

353

354

355

356

357

358

359

360

361

362

363

364

365

CityU 1097/00P

CityU 1132/00P

HKBU 2044/00P

HKBU 2045/00P

HKBU 2059/00P

CUHK 4279/00P

CUHK 4290/00P

CUHK 4291/00P

CUHK 4293/00P

CUHK 4294/00P

CUHK 4295/00P

CUHK 4299/00P

HKUST 6123/00P

HKUST 6126/00P

HKUST 6133/00P

HKUST 6134/00P

HKUST 6135/00P

HKUST 6136/00P

HKU 7130/00P

HKU 7131/00P

HKU 7132/00P

HKU 7134/00P

Complexity and Geometric Recognition

Uniform Asymptotic Expansions for Difference Equations

Adaptive Mesh Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Using of Artificial Boundary Conditions in Option Pricing

Point Processes Embedded in Interacting Population/DiffusionNetworks

Analysis of Some Problems for Incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

Partial Ordering and Convexity in Applied Functional Analysis andApplications

Analysis on Complete Manifolds

Ruelle Operators and Dynamical Systems

Topics in Curvature Flows

Explicit Construction and Decoding Algorithms of Algebraic-geometric Codes

Wavelets in Statistical Function Estimation and NonparametricInferences

Integrability, Painleve Property, And Regular Differential Systems

Spectrum Of Laplacian On Arithmetic Manifolds

Structure And Representation Theory Of Simple Vertex OperatorSuperalgebras Determined By Their Subspaces Of Small Weights

Value Distribution Theory For Some Classes Of Non-analyticFunctions And Its Applications

The Theory Of Linear Forms In Logarithms And Its Application ToDiophantine Problems

Structure And Applications Of Finite Dimensional Hopf Algebras

Canonical metrics, uniformization of complex manifolds, rigidityof holomorphic tangent bundles: generalizations of a theorem ofK.H. Look

Consistency and efficiency of iterated resampling algorithmsunder general conditions

Iterative methods for Toeplitz Weighted Least Squares problems

Automorphic conjugacy problem for free algebras: acombinatorial and computational approach

Dr Joseph Maurice Rojas

Prof Roderick Sue Cheun Wong

Dr Tao Tang

Dr Xiaonan Wu

Dr Gang Wei

Prof Zhou Ping Xin

Prof Kung Fu Ng

Prof Tom Yau Heng Wan

Prof Ka Sing Lau

Prof Kai Seng Chou

Prof Hing Sun Luk

Prof Jian Qing Fan

Dr Ji Shan Hu

Prof Jian-shu Li

Dr Xiao Ping Xu

Prof Chung Chun Yang

Prof Kunrui Yu

Dr Yong Chang Zhu

Dr Wing Sum Cheung

Dr Stephen Man Sing Lee

Dr Kwok Po Ng

Dr Jietai Yu

Subject Area Total

Grand Total

379,817

403,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

379,817

287,817

379,817

379,817

287,817

287,817

287,817

403,817

379,817

379,817

287,817

287,817

379,817

287,817

331,817

379,817

379,817

8,771,242

52,547,478

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Physical Sciences

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Project No. Status

366

367

368

369

370

371

372

373

374

375

376

377

378

379

380

381

382

383

384

385

Biokinetics and Biotransformation of PSP Toxins in Green-lippedand Common Fan Mussels in Hong Kong

Pathological Studies on Fish Gill and Liver upon Chronic Exposureto Toxic Algal Toxin

Energetics, Nutrient Utilization and Reproductive Success of theAmphipod Melita Longidactyla under Hypoxia

Toxicity and Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs) in Mangrove Ecosystem

Genotoxicity Assays for Environmental Carcinogens in Hong KongCoastal Waters

Mechanistic Actions of Antiviral Compounds Isolated from theChinese Herbs Banlangen

Using Trees to Clean-up Contaminated Land: The Influences of SoilProcesses Mediated by Earthworms and Mycorrhizae on HeavyMetal Bioavailability

Soil Drying in Relation to the Remobilization of Carbon Reserveduring Grain-filling Period of Rice and Wheat

Chemical Neuroanatomy of Neurons in the Rat Neostriatum. GABAAand GABAB Receptors in Distinct Neuronal Subpopulations and theirSubsynaptic Arrangements in Striatal Synapses

Remediation of Organochlorine-pesticides-contaminated FreshwaterSediments Using Livestock Manure

Hypolipidemic and Antioxidant Activity of Theaflvains andThearubigins from Oolong and Black Tea

Identification of Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor-alpha(PPARalpha)-dependent Genes Involved in Hepatic LipidMetabolism

Structure-function of a Novel RNA-binding Motif-structureDetermination of a Ribosomal Protein L30e From Thermococcusceler by Multi-dimensional NMR Spectroscopy

Revegetation of Newly Restored Landfills: Site EnvironmentalConditions and the Role of Native Species

Modulation of Gill Na+-K+-ATPhase Expression by Salinity andHormonal Factors in the Sea Bream, Sparus sarba

Isolation, Characterization, and Molecular Cloning of theAndrogenic Hormone of the Mud Crab Scylla spp.: Development ofMonosex Crab Aquaculture

An Investigation of the Physiological Functions of Different LaccaseComponents Produced by the Edible Mushroom, Pleurotus Sajor-caju

Testing Equivalence in Paired-Sample Design: An ExactUnconditional Approach

Sink-Source Relationship During Seed Development in Arabidopsisthaliana - Molecular Regulation of Aspartate Family Amino Acids

Biochemical Characterization of Plant Nitric Oxide Synthase

CityU 1103/00M

CityU 1105/00M

CityU 1122/00M

CityU 1123/00M

CityU 1125/00M

HKBU 2036/00M

HKBU 2049/00M

HKBU 2052/00M

HKBU 2053/00M

HKBU 2054/00M

CUHK 4237/00M

CUHK 4241/00M

CUHK 4243/00M

CUHK 4250/00M

CUHK 4252/00M

CUHK 4254/00M

CUHK 4260/00M

CUHK 4261/00M

CUHK 4263/00M

PolyU 5202/00M

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Dr Paul Kwan Sing Lam

Dr Doris Wai Ting Au

Prof Rudolf Shiu Sun Wu

Prof Nora Fung Yee Tam

Dr Bruce J Richardson

Dr Nai Ki Mak

Prof Ming Hung Wong

Dr Jianhua Zhang

Dr Ken K L Yung

Dr Dingyi Ye

Prof Zhen Yu Chen

Prof Susanna Sau Tuen Lee

Prof Kam Bo Wong

Prof Lee Man Chu

Prof Ying Shiu Norman Woo

Prof Ka Hou Chu

Prof John Anthony Buswell

Prof Ping Shing Ben Chan

Prof Hon Ming Lam

Dr Chun Lap Samuel Lo

823,400

1,097,100

763,200

715,200

763,200

633,200

763,200

686,550

675,600

723,248

763,200

830,000

1,015,200

650,000

679,200

763,200

763,200

525,000

1,062,600

763,200

Appendix M: Continued

Biology & Medicine

Subject Area: Biological Sciences

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Project No. Status

Optimization of Microbial Synthesis of Polyhydroxyalkanoates(PHA) in Recombinant Bacteria Utilizing Industrial Food Wastes

Molecular Genetic And Biochemical Studies Of SED5, SFT1, YKT6And SFT2 Four Interacting Genes Whose Products Are Involved InTransport Through The Yeast Golgi

Metabolism Of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins In MammalianSystems

Functional Roles Of G Protein Signaling At The NeuromuscularJunction

The Production And Function Of UV-light Activated Cinnamic AcidIsomer In Higher Plants

Functional Analysis Of The Role Of Tumor Suppressor Genes InEsophageal Cancers

Dietary Uptake Of Major Metal Contaminants In Fishes Of HongKong Coastal Waters

Probing The Role Of P2Y1 Purinoceptor In The Formation Of TheNeuromuscular Junctions

Geochemical And Physiological Controls Of Metal BioavailabilityFrom Contaminated Sediments In Marine Benthic Invertebrates

Regulation Of The c-jun N-terminal Kinase By Opioid Receptors

Ultra-sensitive Determination Of Cyanide In Coral Reef Fishes

C42-A Novel Neuronal Cyclin-dependent Kinase 5 Activator-bindingProtein

Structural Elucidation Of 13C- And 15N- Doubly Labelled TransferRNA For Tryptophan By Multidimensional NMR

A Search For Human Epithelial Cell Receptors Recognizing TheStructural PilS Protein, And The Pilus-tip PilV Proteins,of TheSalmonella Typhi Type IV Pili

Identificaton Of Proteins For Initiation Of DNA Replication InSaccharomyces Cerevisiae Using Novel Genetic Screening Strategies

Transcriptional Regulation Of Myogenin During Myogenesis By P38Map Kinase And Insulin-like Growth Factors

Human Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase: Properties And TRNA TrpRecognition

Cytoplasmic Dynein Light Chains As Target Adaptors Of The MotorComplex: A Structural And Functional Study

Structure Characterization Of Neurogranin And Its Complex WithCa+-Free Calmodulin By High Resolution NMR

Defining molecular mechanisms underlying growth plateabnormalities in Schmid metaphyseal chondrodysplasia by targetedmutagenesis in mice

The study of shrimp CHH/MIH/GIH gene family: gene structure,expression and biological assay of recombinant neuropeptides

PolyU 5205/00M

HKUST 6098/00M

HKUST 6102/00M

HKUST 6103/00M

HKUST 6105/00M

HKUST 6106/00M

HKUST 6108/00M

HKUST 6112/00M

HKUST 6113/00M

HKUST 6115/00M

HKUST 6161/00M

HKUST 6195/00M

HKUST 6196/00M

HKUST 6197/00M

HKUST 6203/00M

HKUST 6205/00M

HKUST6206/00M

HKUST 6207/00M

HKUST 6208/00M

HKU 7227/00M

HKU 7229/00M

386

387

388

389

390

391

392

393

394

395

396

397

398

399

400

401

402

403

404

405

406

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Dr Peter Hoi Fu Yu

Dr David K Banfield

Prof Dennis P H Hsieh

Prof Nancy Y Y Ip

Dr Ning Li

Prof Maria Li Lung

Dr I Hsun Ni

Dr Karl W K Tsim

Dr Wenxiong Wang

Dr Yung Hou Wong

Prof Reinhard Renneberg

Prof Jerry H C Wang

Prof Jeffrey T F Wong

Dr James A Hackett

Dr Chun Liang

Dr Zhenguo Wu

Dr Hong Xue

Dr Mingjie Zhang

Dr Guang Zhu

Dr Danny Chan

Dr Siu Ming Chan

600,000

805,200

560,400

1,062,600

679,200

941,850

679,200

650,000

726,400

763,200

715,200

1,044,000

1,156,800

763,200

954,000

763,200

763,200

1,490,400

1,490,400

650,000

763,200

Appendix M: Continued

Biology & Medicine

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Functional analysis of Arabidopsis acyl-CoA binding proteins

Isolation of overexpressed genes within an amplified region at 1q12-q22 in hepatocellular carcinoma

Molecular genetic analysis of unconventional myosin 5b (Myo5b):its function and interplay with myosin 5a (Myo5a)

Functional genomics of microbial and mammalian peroxiredoxins

Molecular basis of MAD1 mitotic checkpoint functions inmammalian cells

Structural NADP+, subunit interaction and other stabilitydeterminants in human glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase(G6PD) and deficient variants

Formation and regulation of specialized cell junctions in the testisduring spermatogenesis

Identification and molecular cloning of infectious bursal diseasevirus (IBDV) receptors on chicken cells

Ethanol regulated gene transcription: identification of “ethanol-responsive-cis-element” in the promoter region of human MTP gene

Defining the role of RET receptor tyrosine kinase in entericneurogenesis

Effects of male accessory sex gland secretions on the oxidativestress, functional competence and genomic integrity of hamsterspermatozoa

Population genetics, phylogenetic relationships, and conservation ofmangroves

Analysis of the regulation of dehalogenase IVa gene of Burkholderiacepacia MBA4

Identification by differential display of hyper- and hypo-tonicityinducible genes in chloride cell and pavement cell from the gillepithelium of Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica

The effect of DNA methylation on codon substitution and codonusage bias

Estimating population size for open populations with heterogeneouscapture probabilities

Mechanisms of Fluoroquinolone-resistance in Salmonellae in Hong Kong

A Randomized Trial to Investigate the Ocular-hypertensive Responseto Different Dosages of Topical Steroid (0.1% Dexamethasone) inChinese Children

Neuroprotection of Gouqizi in the Eye

Use of Conjunctival-limbal Autografts Versus Intraoperative Applicationof Mitomycin-C in Treatment of Recurrent Pterygium in Hong Kong

407

408

409

410

411

412

413

414

415

416

417

418

419

420

421

422

423

424

425

426

HKU 7232/00M

HKU 7236/00M

HKU 7238/00M

HKU 7240/00M

HKU 7242/00M

HKU 7243/00M

HKU 7245/00M

HKU 7249/00M

HKU 7250/00M

HKU 7252/00M

HKU 7255/00M

HKU 7261/00M

HKU 7262/00M

HKBU 7264/00M

HKU 7265/00M

HKU 7267/00M

CUHK 4049/00M

CUHK 4050/00M

CUHK 4051/00M

CUHK 4052/00M

Dr Mee Len Chye

Dr Xin Yuan Guan

Dr Jian Dong Huang

Dr Dong-Yan Jin

Prof Hsiang-fu Kung

Dr Veronica Min Sien Lam

Dr Will Wai Ming Lee

Dr Boon Leong Lim

Dr Marie Chia-Mi Lin

Dr Vincent Chi Hang Lui

Dr Wai Sum O

Dr Mei Sun

Dr Jimmy Siu Hung Tsang

Dr Chris Kong Chu Wong

Dr Xuhua Xia

Dr Paul Siu Fai Yip

Subject Area Total

Prof Mei Lun Julia Ling

Prof Shun Chiu Dennis Lam

Prof Tim Tak Lam

Prof Tai Shing Alfred Leung

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

1,440,000

763,200

763,200

691,200

1,763,000

763,200

763,200

1,069,500

1,097,100

650,000

650,000

763,200

720,000

763,200

520,180

480,000

47,140,528

631,200

583,200

650,000

872,400

Appendix M: Continued

Biology & Medicine

Subject Area: Medicine, Dentistry & Health

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Strength Training Exercise andDiet in the Management of Obesity in Children

The Roles of Mast Cells in the Pathogenesis of Aspirin SensitiveAsthma

Identification of Brain Areas Involved in Emesis Control in theFerret

The Effect of Orlistat and Rosiglitazone on Insulin Action in agroup of Chinese Patients Affected by the Metabolic Syndrome - ARandomized, Single-blinded and Placebo-controlled Study

Functional Studies of a Novel Epididymis-specific Gene, Bin-1b:Role in Epididymal Host Defense and Male Fertility

Association between Pancreatic Angiotensin System and PancreaticBlood Flow and Ductal Secretion: The Significance of Changes byChronic Hypoxia in the Rat Pancreas

Protein Kinase G-sensitive Ca2+ Influx in Endothelial Cells and ItsRole in Vasoregulation

Analysis of GABAergic Neurotransmission in Rat Globus Pallidus:Correlation of Electrophysiology with UltrastructuralImmunocytochemistry

A Study of the Neurobiological Correlates of Behavioural andPsychological Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease

A Multi-centered Randomized Controlled Trial ComparingStandard Oesophagectomy Versus Primary Chemo-irradiationwithout Surgery as the Treatment for Squamous OesophagealCancer

Novel Strategies for the Treatment of Vein Graft Failure:Investigations Using a Porcine Model

Molecular Biology of Hypertension: A Study Investigating GeneticMarkers and Possible Underlying Pathogenic Mechanisms ofHypertension in Chinese

Development of a Rapid in vitro Drug Susceptibility Test Methodfor Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using Metabolic Markers

A Survey of Drug-resistance Genes in Clinical Isolates ofMycobacterium Tuberculosis and Its Direct Application to theDetection of Drug-resistant M. Tuberculosis in Clinical Specimens

Turbo Spectroscopic Imaging Evaluation of Dose-responseRelationship in Irradiated Normal Brain Tissue after ArteriovenousMalformation Radiosurgery

A Double-blind Placebo-control Randomized Study of the Efficacyof Chinese Herbal Medicine in Reduction of CytotoxicChemotherapy-induced Toxicity

Adenocarcinoma of the Lung in Hong Kong Chinese Females: AGenome Investigation for Underlying Genetic Alterations

Characterization of Differentially Expressed Genes during TerminalDifferentiation of Cardiomyocytes

Cloning, Sequencing and Biological Characterization of AnImmunomodulatory Fungal Protein

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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CUHK 4064/00M

CUHK 4066/00M

CUHK 4069/00M

CUHK 4070/00M

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CUHK 4079/00M

CUHK 4080/00M

CUHK 4082/00M

CUHK 4084/00M

CUHK 4091/00M

CUHK 4095/00M

CUHK 4097/00M

CUHK 4098/00M

CUHK 4104/00M

CUHK 4109/00M

CUHK 4112/00M

CUHK 4116/00M

CUHK 4125/00M

Prof Yn Tz Rita Sung

Prof Alaster Hang Yung Lau

Prof John Anthony Rudd

Prof Kenneth Kwing Chin Lee

Prof Hsiao Chang Chan

Prof Po Sing Leung

Prof Xiao Qiang Yao

Prof Wing Ho Yung

Prof Linda Chiu Wa Lam

Prof Angus Chi Wai Chan

Prof Anthony Ping Chuen Yim

Prof Brian Tomlinson

Prof Chiu Yeung Chan

Prof Augustine Fun Bun Cheng

Prof Yu Leung Chan

Prof Tony Shu Kam Mok

Prof Philip James Johnson

Prof Stephen Kwok Wing Tsui

Prof Ken Wing Keung Liu

526,808

916,800

650,000

811,200

731,400

763,200

787,200

650,000

650,000

960,280

821,100

986,400

682,000

763,200

606,000

1,041,600

811,000

650,000

660,000

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

An Expression and Functional Study of a Prostatic SecretoryProtein of 94 Amino Acids in Normal and Neoplastic Rat ProstateGlands

The Roles of Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans on Axon Growth atthe Mouse Chiasm

Evaluation of Two Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulations forthe Treatment of the Metabolic Syndrome RegardingCardiovascular Function and Insulin Sensitivity

Effects of Oxygen Toxicity on Megakaryocytopoiesis andThrombopoitin Production in Neonates - A Rat Model

Can Exogenous Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)Enhance Angiogenesis and Osteogenesis in Posterior SpinalFusion?

Towards Understanding the Molecular Events of Histogenesis andBiological Behaviour of Giant Cell Tumour of Bone - TheSignificance of Urokinase Type Plasminogen Activating System andOsteoclast Regulatory Factors

The Effects of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure onPlatelet Activation, Fibrinolysis and Activities of the SympatheticNervous System and Renal Kallikrein-kinin System in ObstructiveSleep Apnoea

Evaluation and Characterization of a New CompositeBiocompatible Skin Graft Incorporated on the Noedermis ofIntegra in Experimental Burn Wounds

Comprehensive Study of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Genome

Effects of Phytoestrogens on Calcium Metabolism in ChinesePostmenopausal Women

The Effect of Weight of School Bag on Subjects with AdolescentIdiopathic Scoliosis: A Biomechanical and Physiological Study

Early Detection Of Nasopharyngeal Cancer By FluorescenceEndoscopy

Body mass index, adiposity, serum leptin and insulin sensitivity inChinese and Caucasians: a comparative study

Transmission of tuberculosis in Hong Kong using both molecularand conventional epidemiological methods

Mechanism of plastic changes in vestibulo-cardiovascularinteraction following prolonged otolith stimulation

Functional analysis of the morphogenetic role of type IIAprocollagen during mouse development by conditional tissue-specific gene inactivation

Identification and characterization of cellular targets foradenovirus E4Orf6 protein

Differential expression of genes in gestational trophoblasticdiseases

The role of adrenomedullin in inflammation

Gradual scoliosis correction by use of a superelastic alloy

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CUHK 4132/00M

CUHK 4134/00M

CUHK 4137/00M

CUHK 4140/00M

CUHK 4142/00M

CUHK 4147/00M

CUHK 4153/00M

CUHK 4154/00M

CUHK 4162/00M

PolyU 5217/00M

HKUST 6052/00M

HKU 7248/00M

HKU 7272/00M

HKU 7273/00M

HKU 7275/00M

HKU 7276/00M

HKU 7281/00M

HKU 7282/00M

HKU 7283/00M

Prof Franky Leung Chan

Prof Hector Sun On Chan

Prof Lester Arthur Hall Critchley

Prof Patrick Man Pan Yuen

Prof Jack Chun Yiu Cheng

Prof Shekhar Madhukar Kumta

Prof David Shu Cheong Hui

Prof Choong Tsek Liew

Dr Kwok Wai Lo

Prof Suzanne Chan Sut Ying Ho

Dr Daniel Hung Kay Chow

Dr Jianan Qu

Dr Edmund Tsze Shing Li

Prof Moira Mo Wah Chan

Prof Ying Shing Chan

Prof Kathryn Song Eng Cheah

Dr Nancie Nien Tsyr Chen

Dr Annie Nga Yin Cheung

Dr Bernard Man Yung Cheung

Dr Kenneth Man Chee Cheung

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

650,000

650,000

1,075,200

690,000

763,200

584,000

815,000

800,400

823,200

1,200,000

880,600

1,173,000

937,200

666,610

1,036,800

1,766,400

763,200

731,400

763,200

650,000

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Development of noval artificial finger joints

Role of endothelial and astrocytic ET-1 in the pathogenesis ofdiabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in man

Aldose reductase in diabetic complications

Right-sided hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma by anteriorapproach - a prospective randomized trial

Public perception and health: what value do people give to healthand to features of modern life which affect it?

Evolution of the lymphocyte surface: identification andcharacterization of duck T cell xenoantigens

Estrogenic modulation of human catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT): its relevance in Parkinson’s disease(PD)

Molecular control of Inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptors (IP3R)in cellular models of Alzheimer’s disease

Study of the mechanisms of vascular homeostasis in obstructivesleep apnoea

Molecualr mechanism of bacteria-host interactions in periodontaldiseases-biological, pathological and clinical implications

Role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in renalallograft rejection

Placental apoptotic and proliferative activities and infant outcomein complicated pregnancies - the relationship with insulin-likegrowth factor-I, insulin-like growth factor binding proteins, andplacental insulin-like growth factor expression

Role of nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase2 in angiogenesisafter acute myocardial infarction - therapeutic implication by L-arginine

The effect of embryos on the gene expression of mouse oviduct inthe preimplantation period

Mechanism of IgA-induced glomerular and tubulointerstitutialinjury: role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)

Genetic instability in early onset colorectal cancer in Hong KongChinese

The significance of post-treatment maintenance care and itsrational prescription to patients with advanced periodontal diseasein Hong Kong

Air pollutants and nasal congestion

Cyclooxygenase-2 in inflammatory and fibrotic liver disease

Understanding impaired implantation in IVF cycles with highserum oestradiol levels

Detection of genetic alterations on chromosome 8 in liver cancerby high-throughput fluorescent in-situ hybridization on tissuemicroarrays and by deletion mapping

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HKU 7294/00M

HKU 7295/00M

HKU 7296/00M

HKU 7298/00M

HKU 7301/00M

HKU 7303/00M

HKU 7305/00M

HKU 7307/00M

HKU 7310/00M

HKU 7323/00M

HKU 7324/00M

HKU 7325/00M

HKU 7327/00M

HKU 7329/00M

HKU 7330/00M

HKU 7331/00M

HKU 7338/00M

HKU 7340/00M

HKU 7341/00M

HKU 7342/00M

Prof Shew Ping Chow

Dr Sookja Kim Chung

Dr Stephen Sum Man Chung

Prof Sheung Tat Fan

Dr Richard Fielding

Dr David Anthony Higgins

Dr Shu Leong Ho

Prof Jacques Hugon

Prof Mary Sau Man Ip

Dr Li Jian Jin

Dr Hui Yao Lan

Dr Terence Tzu Hsi Lao

Prof Chu Pak Lau

Dr Calvin Kai Fai Lee

Mr Joseph Chi Kam Leung

Dr Suet Yi Leung

Dr Wai Keung Leung

Dr Mary Agnes Kin Yum Lung

Prof Amin Akbarali Nanji

Dr Ernest Hung Yu Ng

Dr Irene Oi Lin Ng

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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895,200

1,097,100

763,200

905,940

650,000

763,200

655,200

763,200

696,000

1,028,100

835,200

763,200

800,400

763,200

800,400

835,200

496,800

763,200

1,363,900

629,200

763,200

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

EBV as targets of immune intervention of NPC

Regulation of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)expression in atherosclerosis

Studying the roles of endophilins, a family of SH3 domaincontaining proteins, in mouse development by gene targeting

Post-traumatic axonal regeneration in glycosaminoglycan-modifiedspinal cord environments

Probing the mechanisms of magnesium tanshinoate B: inhibitionon stress-activated protein kinase cascade in the ischaemic/reperfused heart

Multiple molecular approaches for elucidating the multigenicnature of hirschsprung’s disease in Chinese patients

The effects of Helicobacter pylori products on human respiratorymucosa in vitro

Ca2+ and contractile responses to k-opioid receptor stimulation inthe heart following chronic hypoxia - signaling mechanisms andreceptor function

The role of androgens in breast carcinogenesis

B cell apoptosis in systemic lupus erythematosus

Effect of delayed transplantation of a peripheral nerve (PN) graft onmotoneuron survival and regeneration after spinal root avulsion

The role of osmotic response element binding protein inosmoregulation

The identification and characterization of Aspergillus fumigatusantigen(s) for the rapid diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis

Airway remodeling in bronchiectasis: the role of matrixmetalloproteinases (MMP8, MMP9) and neutrophil elastase

The role of epidermal cooling in improving the outcome of lasertherapy in the treatment of Nevus of Ota

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HKU 7346/00M

HKU 7352/00M

HKU 7355/00M

HKU 7356/00M

HKU 7358/00M

HKU 7364/00M

HKU 7376/00M

HKU 7378/00M

HKU 7380/00M

HKU 7381/00M

HKU 7382/00M

HKU 7388/00M

HKU 7392/00M

HKU 7400/00M

Prof Mun Hon Ng

Dr Karmin O

Dr Mai Har Sham

Dr Daisy Kwok Yan Shum

DrYaw Loong Siow

Prof Paul Kwong Hang Tam

Dr Kenneth Wah Tak Tsang

Prof Tak Ming Wong

Prof Yong Chuan Wong

Dr Adrian Young-Yuen Wu

Dr Wutian Wu

Dr Yinqing Yang

Prof Kwok Yung Yuen

Dr Ling Zheng

Dr Henry Hin Lee Chan

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1,036,800

763,200

650,000

763,200

763,200

835,200

763,200

763,200

650,000

650,000

763,200

800,400

763,200

725,490

650,000

62,995,728

110,136,256

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Global Benchmarking of Hong Kong Manufacturing Industry

The Impact of Internet in Hong Kong and Mainland China: ALongitudinal and Comparative Study

Strategy, Management and Performance of Hotels in China

Ranking of Membership Likelihood in Discriminant Analysis

Effect of Strategic Alliances on the Productivity, Pricing, andProfitability of Participating Firms

Volume, Frequency, Size of Trade and MacroeconomicAnnouncements: An Intraday Analysis

Testable Implications of Game Theory

Optimal Preventive Maintenance and Replacement Policies for ATwo-unit Series Utility System

Impacts of Group Decision Support Systems: A Process-orientedApproach

Litigation Risk and Audit Fees: Evidence from Hong Kong,Australian, and UK Firms Cross-listed on U.S. Exchanges

An Investigation of the Effects of Earnings Management in China

WTO Accession and Negotiations: Economic Theory and CaseStudies

Village Elections, Citizenship, and Democratic Prospects in China

The Destatization of State Enterprises and Changing Labor Politcs inChina

Modelling Multi-Faceted Activity and Travel Choices: Extending andValidating the Stated Preference Approach

Online News Media as Digital Marketplace: Tracking Their Path ofDevelopment in the New Millenium

Economic Fluctuations with Endogenous Growth: Theory andEvidence (with Particular Emphasis on Hong Kong and other NICs)

Evaluating the Margin Setting Methodology in a Futures Market

The “Bubble Economy”, Land Rent, and Fiscal Policy in Hong Kong

Professionalism and Service Quality in Hospitality and Tourism

The Effects of Clients’ Corporate Governance and ManagementIntegrity on Audit Qualifications: An Empirical Study in Hong Kong

Organizational Forms of Audit Firms - A Game Theoretic Analysis

Duty Drawbacks versus Currency Devaluation: Assessment ofPolicies on China’s Export Competitiveness

Examining the Implications of Portfolio Theory for Trading Volume:A Latent Variable Approach

The Impact of US Monetary Policy on Asian and Latin AmericanStock Markets

CityU 1011/00H

CityU 1152/00H

CityU 1153/00H

CityU 1159/00H

CityU 1167/00H

CityU 1168/00H

CityU 1185/00H

CityU 1192/00H

CityU 1200/00H

CityU 1213/00H

CityU 1224/00H

CityU 1235/00H

HKBU 2012/00H

HKBU 2013/00H

HKBU 2018/00H

HKBU 2022/00H

HKU 2048/00H

HKBU 2069/00H

LU 3008/00H

CUHK 4001/00H

CUHK 4006/00H

CUHK 4011/00H

CityU 4015/00H

CUHK 4018/00H

LU 4019/00H

Dr Hongyi Sun

Dr Jonathan Jian Hua Zhu

Dr Yanni Yan

Dr Bruce Kim Fung Lam

Dr Jong Hun Park

Dr Jun Cai

Prof Lin Zhou

Prof Kin Keung Lai

Dr Moez Limayem

Dr Ananth Seetharaman

Dr Bin Srinidhi

Dr Edwin Lun Cheung Lai

Dr LianJiang Li

Dr Feng Chen

Dr Donggen Wang

Dr Alice Y L Lee

Dr Sau Him Paul Lau

Prof Kin Lam

Prof Lok Sang Ho

Prof Ching Yick Eliza Tse

Prof Chee Keung Kevin Lam

Prof Stephen Yiu Wah Chiu

Prof Eden S H Yu

Prof Joseph W Cheng

Prof Daniel Wai Wah Cheung

407,817

902,817

536,817

395,817

473,817

343,817

426,400

435,817

277,817

312,817

437,817

257,817

807,817

487,817

463,817

500,817

403,817

438,817

403,817

467,817

222,634

225,817

463,817

457,817

247,817

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On-going

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Terminated

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

Appendix M: Continued

Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

Subject Area: Administrative, Business & Social Studies

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Internal Capital Market Misallocation and Inefficient ExternalCapital Market - Evidence from Red Chip Companies

Weak Moments in the Efficient Methods of Moments

A Study on Share Repurchases in Hong Kong

Cross-Cultural Differences in Group Member Expectations andOutcomes

The Impact of Empowerment on Employee and CustomerSatisfaction: A Comparison between Service Organisations in PRC,Hong Kong and North America

Consumer Preference Uncertainty: Effect of Attribute Conflict inJudgement and Choice

Service Quality and the Congruency of Employee Perceptions andCustomer Perceptions

Development, Validation, and Application of an EQ Model in theWork Place

Volatility and Dynamics of Property Prices

Prospective Memory in Patients with Schizophrenia and ItsRelationship with Retrospective Memory, Executive Functions, andDaily-life Adjustment

Social and Political Change in a Period of Reform andReadjustment: Indicators of Social Development in Hong Kong 2001

Re-examining the Role of Parts in Object Recognition

Universal and Indigenous Dimensions of the Chinese PersonalityAssessment Inventory (CPAI)

The Nature of Subliminal Perception

Assessing the Role of Foreign Television in Hong Kong: LocalCulture and Global Identity

Shaping Political Localism in Reform China

Citizenship and Social Development in Post-Colonial Hong Kong

The Politics of Listing Chinese State Enterprises on Hong Kong

Influence Diagnostics for Statistical Models with Missing Data andTheir Applications to Models with Latent Variables

Transitional Dynamics in Monetary Endogenous Growth Models:Theory and Evidence

Learning, Electoral Behaviour, and Democratization in Hong Kong

Analysis and Development of Measurement-Based GeographicInformation System

Experiences and Adjustment of Young New Arrivals from MainlandChina: A Narrative Analysis

Estimating of and Testing for a Break in the Differencing Parameter

CUHK 4021/00H

CUHK 4023/00H

CUHK 4024/00H

CUHK 4026/00H

CUHK 4030/00H

CUHK 4031/00H

CUHK 4032/00H

CUHK 4038/00H

CUHK 4329/00H

CUHK 4330/00H

CUHK 4331/00H

CUHK 4332/00H

CUHK 4333/00H

CUHK 4338/00H

CUHK 4344/00H

CUHK 4347/00H

CUHK 4351/00H

CUHK 4354/00H

CUHK 4356/00H

CUHK 4357/00H

CUHK 4359/00H

CUHK 4362/00H

CUHK 4367/00H

CUHK 4369/00H

Prof Jia He

Prof Ming Liu

Prof Hua Zhang

Prof Chun Hui

Prof Michael K Hui

Prof Jianmin Jia

Prof Gordon Wai Hung Cheung

Prof Chi Sum Wong

Prof Charles Ka Yui Leung

Prof Jin Pang Leung

Prof Siu Kai Lau

Prof William Hayward

Prof Fanny M Cheung

Prof Tin Cheung Chan

Prof Siu Nam Paul Lee

Prof Guoguang Wu

Prof Kenneth K L Chau

Prof Shu Yun Ma

Prof Sik Yum Lee

Prof Chong Kee Yip

Prof Hsin Chi Kuan

Prof Yee Leung

Prof Mong Chow Lam

Prof Tai Leung Chong

563,817

423,817

433,817

467,817

307,817

548,817

207,817

717,817

407,817

527,817

1,505,817

509,817

930,817

579,817

607,817

457,817

686,317

202,817

417,817

207,500

657,817

855,817

407,817

387,817

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On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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On-going

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

The Role of the Foreign Trade Sector in the Chinese Economy:Simulations from Two Bilaterally Linked Econometric Models forChina and Hong Kong

Comparing the New Public Management Reforms in Hong Kongand Singapore

Chinese Families’ Experiences with Residential Care Placement oftheir Elderly Relatives

Attitudes toward and Cultural Meanings of Suicide inContemporary Chinese Society

Development of Financial Distress Evaluation Model for UnlistedState Enterprises in Mainland China

The Liquidity Effects of Open Market Share Repurchases:Evidence from Hong Kong’s Equity Market

Ownership Structure and Income Smoothing: Evidence fromHong Kong, Korea, and Japan

The Effects of Inter-Category Market Dynamics on New ProductLaunch: Implications for International Markets

A Mythological Approach to Analysing Customer Perceptions ofRestaurant Service Experiences in Hong Kong SAR

A Decision Rules Based Forecasting Model for Tourism Demandin Hong Kong

The Effect of Employee Stock Ownership Plan on Employees JobAttitudes and Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal StudyAmong State Owned Enterprises in People Republic of China

Homegrown Chinese Entrepreneurs and Abroad-breed ChineseEntrepreneurs - Are Their Venture Success Context Dependenceor Behavioural Laden?

Towards a Methodology for the Ethical Analysis of Treatment-limiting Decisions in End of Life Care

Migration And Replacement In Low Fertility Population

Post-1997 Intergroup Contact In Hong Kong: The Role Of NeedFor Affective Closure In Intergroup Experiences

The Regionalization Of Innovation In Southeast Asia:Multinational Strategies And Host-state Influences

Social Capital And Competitive Advantage: A Study Of ChineseFirms

Charter Values And The Structure Of Bank Subordinated DebtContracts

International Portfolio Allocation During Asian Financial Crisis:Evidence From The U.S. Closed-end Fund

Central Clearing And Ex-dividend Date Effect

The Impact Of “Mobile Number Portability” On ConsumerWelfare: The Case Of The Mobile Phone Industry In Hong Kong

The Effects Of Framing Product Bundles

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CUHK 4374/00H

CUHK 4376/00H

CUHK 4380/00H

PolyU 5223/00H

PolyU 5224/00H

PolyU 5233/00H

PolyU 5236/00H

PolyU 5241/00H

PolyU 5242/00H

PolyU 5249/00H

PolyU 5252/00H

PolyU 5257/00H

HKUST 6003/00H

HKUST 6005/00H

HKUST 6006/00H

HKUST 6007/00H

HKUST 6008/00H

HKUST 6010/00H

HKUST 6011/00H

HKUST 6019/00H

HKUST 6020/00H

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On-going

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On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

On-going

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313,817

407,817

358,317

907,817

453,817

227,817

329,817

437,817

347,817

411,817

633,817

297,817

693,817

587,817

798,897

377,793

1,108,817

481,817

453,817

403,817

706,817

453,817

Prof Win Lin Chou

Prof Eliza Wing Yee Lee

Prof Diana Tze Fan Lee

Prof Sing Lee

Dr Gongmeng Chen

Dr Dennis Chung

Dr Cheong Heon Yi

Dr Namwoon Kim

Dr Jaksa Kivela

Dr Roberts Chun Hung Law

Dr Warren Chi Kwan Chiu

Dr Theresa Lau

Dr Samantha Mei Che Pang

Dr Jow Ching Tu

Dr Ying Yi Hong

Dr Greg B Felker

Dr Yanjie Bian

Dr Vidhan K Goyal

Dr Ka Lok Chan

Dr Chuan Yang Hwang

Dr Jeongwen Chiang

Dr Anaimalai V Muthukrishnan

Appendix M: Continued

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Consumer Debt And Financing Decisions

The Influence Of Culture, Situations And Values On IntrapersonalAnd Interpersonal Decisions

Segment Reporting By Hong Kong Listed Companies: CurrentPractices And Management Motives

The Impact Of Improved Auditor Independence On Audit MarketConcentration In China

Effect Of Ambiguity On Tax Compliance: An ExperimentalAssessment

Who Benefits More From Eva:shareholders Or Executives?

Does The CEO Bear A Cost From Missing An Earnings Target?

Monetary Policy And Adjustment Of Corporate Liquid Assets AndInventories

The Role Of International Portfolio Holdings In The Propagation OfShocks Across Countries, And The Benefits From FinancialIntegration

Toward A Regulatory State? State-rebuilding In Transitional China

Innovation Processes In A Knowledge Intensive Service Industry:The Case Of Engineering Consultancy In Hong Kong

Property Rights And Economic Changes In Rural China

Efficient Estimation Of The Relation Between Stock Returns AndFirm-specific Variables In Large Cross Sections

Attacks On The Hong Kong Dollar: Fundamentals, Contagion Effects,Or Institutional Loopholes?

Leverage And Business Cycles In The Open Economy

Local Content Requirement And Its Implications For InternationalTrade And Foreign Direct Investment

Electronic Commerce Based On Smart Markets And SoftwareAgents: An Experimental Economics Approach

Framing Reality: A Cognitive Approach To Problem Formulation ByChinese And American Managers

Organizational And Environmental Determinants Of ForeignSubsidiary Strategy And Performance

Organizational Culture And Executive Leadership: TheirRelationship To Employee Motivation, Commitment AndOrganizational Performance In The People’s Republic Of China

Localization Of Expatriate Positions In The PRC

Cross-cultural Field Studies Investigating GSS Effectiveness AndBarriers To Adoption In Hong Kong And US

The Measurement Of Crime In Hong Kong : Official Crime Statistics,Crime Victimization Survey, And The Social Cost Of Crime

Expropriation and incentives in team production

Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

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HKUST 6024/00H

HKUST 6025/00H

HKUST 6026/00H

HKUST 6029/00H

HKUST 6033/00H

HKUST 6034/00H

HKUST 6167/00H

HKUST 6168/00H

HKUST 6182/00H

HKUST 6211/00H

HKUST 6212/00H

HKUST 6213/00H

HKUST 6214/00H

HKUST 6215/00H

HKUST 6216/00H

HKUST 6217/00H

HKUST 6218/00H

HKUST 6219/00H

HKUST 6221/00H

HKUST 6251/00H

HKU 7135/00H

Dr Dilip Y Soman

Dr Donnel A Briley

Dr Peter F Chen

Dr Tak-jun Wong

Dr Chung Kweon Kim

Prof Gary C Biddle

Dr Chul Won Park

Dr Woon Gyu Choi

Dr Timothy K H Chue

Dr Xueliang Ding

Dr Erik Baark

Dr James K S Kung

Dr Chu Zhang

Prof Leonard K H Cheng

Dr David E Cook

Dr Larry D Qiu

Dr Paul J Brewer

Dr Gary J Katzenstein

Dr A K Delios

Dr Katherine R Xin

Dr Kenneth S K Law

Dr Theodore H K Clark

Dr Siu Fai Leung

Dr Chongen Bai

454,317

699,817

307,817

417,317

317,017

453,817

433,817

350,817

403,817

441,817

310,817

965,817

427,817

412,817

511,817

441,817

749,817

430,817

432,817

529,817

672,817

225,817

407,817

413,817

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Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

Homicide in three Chinese cities: Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Beijing

Optimal reserve commitment for stability of currency boardarrangement

Social comparison theory and family caregivers for dementiaelders: a longitudinal study

Asian Chinese families in therapy

Margin requirement and financial market volatility: theory andevidence

Technology and competitive advantage transfers to Hong Kong bythe regional headquarters of foreign multinational firms

Neoliberal institutionalism and China’s cooperation with the UnitedStates on multilateral institutions in the 1990s

The customer satisfaction-loyalty relationship: a re-examinationand extension

Changing Trends and Lasting Norms: Chinese and English PracticalWriting in the Context of Bilingual Representation

Multiple Tonal Substitutions in Hakka and Tianjin

In Quest of China: Teaching Chinese Civilisation in Hong KongUniversities, 1926 to the Present

Signalling Nouns in English

A Prosodic Investigation of the Syllables and Compounds in HongKong Cantonese

Speech to Text Conversion of Court Proceedings: Research onImplementation of Legal Bilingualism in Hong Kong andJurilinguistic Engineering

The Study on the Acquisition of Chinese by Non-Chinese Speakers

A Proposal of the Second Phase of a Complete Study of theNumerous Citations from the Thirteen Classics Found in Pre-Hanand Han Traditional Texts

A Computerized Database of Bronze Inscriptions

Concept and Practice of Humanities Computing: The Integration ofXML into a New Working Model

Culture As Destiny? A Study of the Confucian Experiment inSingapore and the Emergent Global Discourse on Confucianism

A Study of Barkcloth Beaters in Pearl River Delta, Vietnam andTaiwan from Archaeological Context - An Alternative Cloth Traditionin Southeast Asia

Norms and the Evolution of Strategy: The Vicissitude of the Ch'ungMilitary Family in Northern Sung China

597

598

599

600

601

602

603

604

605

606

607

608

609

610

611

612

613

614

615

616

617

HKU 7136/00H

HKU 7137/00H

HKU 7144/00H

HKU 7153/00H

HKU 7159/00H

HKU 7162/00H

HKU 7168/00H

HKU 7172/00H

CityU 1144/00H

CityU 1150/00H

CityU 1169/00H

CityU 1215/00H

CityU 1234/00H

CityU 1238/00H

HKBU 2066/00H

CUHK 4302/00H

CUHK 4303/00H

CUHK 4304/00H

CUHK 4308/00H

CUHK 4310/00H

CUHK 4311/00H

Dr Roderic Girth Broadhurst

Dr Alex Wing Ho Chan

Prof Nelson Wing Sun Chow

Dr Wai Yung Lee

Dr Frank Ming Song

Dr Edmund Roy Thompson

Dr Ken Qingxin Wang

Dr Bennett Chi Kin Yim

Subject Area Total

Mr Sheung Chee Ng

Prof Matthew Y Chen

Prof Pei Kai Cheng

Prof John L Flowerdew

Prof Eric Yun Yang Zee

Prof Benjamin Ka Yin T’sou

Dr Yue Yuan Huang

Prof Hung Kan Chan

Dr Fong Ching Chen

Prof Tze Wan Kwan

Prof Yuen Sang Leung

Dr Chung Tang

Prof Shui Lung Tsang

853,817

427,817

568,817

836,817

318,817

261,817

206,817

615,317

50,324,990

51,6817

758,817

649,817

474,817

566,817

1,187,817

547,317

631,817

707,817

507,817

362,817

580,817

227,817

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Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

Subject Area: Arts & Languages

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Translation and Ideology: A Study of the Translation Activities of theLiterary Societies in Modern China, 1919-1949

A Study of Dialects in the New Territories, Hong Kong

Bureaucratic Structure and Social Forces in the Commandery-Prefecture Levels of Han China (220 BC to AD 220): The Studies ofthe Bamboo Slips and Wooden Documents Found at JuyanPrefecture and Donghai Commandery

The Communicative Role of Intonation in Hong Kong English

Cognates In Sino-tibetan Languages And The Reconstruction OfProto-sino-tibetan

The study of English in Hong Kong: the international corpus ofEnglish project in Hong Kong (HK-ICE)

The art and visual culture of Hong Kong, China

The mimetic imagination: a comparative study of imitative musicalpractices in Mindanao (Philippines)

Maxine Hong Kingston's Broken Book of Life - an intertextual studyof The Woman Warrior and China Men

The Cantonese opera “Princess Chang Ping” by Tang Disheng.

Exploring the Characteristics of Neuromuscular Activity andMovement Kinematics and Kinetics in Tai Chi Exercise

External Environment and School Organizational Learning

Education and Work: The Efficacy of Schooling on Human ResourceDevelopment in Three Regions in China

Effects of Enriched Physical Education Programs on Physical Fitnessin Schoolchildren

The acquisition of the perception of lexical tone contrasts in Cantonese

An investigation into the impact of school-university partnerships inteacher education in Hong Kong

Late talkers in Chinese: a longitudinal study

The Chinese pedagogy of mathematics education: an inquiry into itscharacteristics through international comparisons

An intra-cultural comparative study of citizenship education in theChinese context: the Hong Kong SAR, China, Taiwan and Singapore

Chinese Architecture 1985-2005 — A Study of Its Mechanism,Methodology, Constraints and Prospects

Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

618

619

620

621

622

623

624

625

626

627

628

629

630

631

632

633

634

635

636

637

CUHK 4315/00H

CUHK 4319/00H

CUHK 4324/00H

PolyU 5270/00H

HKUST 6097/00H

HKU 7174/00H

HKU 7176/00H

HKU 7182/00H

HKU 7186/00H

HKU 7189/00H

CUHK 4360/00H

CUHK 4368/00H

CUHK 4379/00H

CUHK 4381/00H

HKU 7193/00H

HKU 7194/00H

HKU 7195/00H

HKU 7198/00H

HKIEd 8002/00H

CityU 1053/00H

Prof Lawrence Wang Chi Wong

Prof Song Hing Chang

Prof Ming Chiu Lai

Dr Martin Warren

Prof Pang-hsin Ting

Mr Kingsley Ronald Bolton

Dr David James Clarke

Dr Manolete Mora

Dr Maureen Alice Sabine

Prof Bell Yung

Subject Area Total

Prof Youlian Hong

Prof Y L Jack Lam

Prof Jin Xiao

Prof David Paul Johns

Dr Valter Ciocca

Dr Jeffrey Richard Day

Prof Paul Jeffrey Fletcher

Dr Frederick Koon Shing Leung

Prof Wing On Lee

Subject Area Total

Dr Qiuli Xue

534,817

361,817

279,817

673,817

1,107,817

820,817

417,817

681,817

167,817

412,817

13,180,291

806,817

507,817

1,007,817

409,817

1,007,817

807,817

675,817

807,817

1,207,817

7,239,353

408,817

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Appendix M: Continued

Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

Subject Area: Education

Subject Area: Law, Architecture, Town Planning & Other Professional & Vocational Subjects

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Project Title Principal Investigator Awarded(HK$)

Project No. Status

638

639

640

641

642

CityU 1186/00H

PolyU 5275/00H

HKU 7214/00H

HKU 7219/00H

HKU 7221/00H

Implications of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism forMainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Evolving Designs in a Virtual Environment

Mutual legal assistance between Hong Kong and the mainland

China’s economic transition and land use change

Enforcing equal opportunities in Hong Kong: a study ofinvestigation, conciliation, and other enforcement mechanisms

Dr John Shijian Mo

Prof John Hamilton Frazer

Dr Hualing Fu

Dr George Chu Sheng Lin

Ms Carole Joan Petersen

Subject Area Total

Grand Total

257,817

850,817

407,817

685,817

781,817

3,392,902

74,137,536

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Appendix M: Continued

Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

Summary of total funds awarded

Awarded(HK$)

Panel

Engineering

Physical Sciences

Biology & Medicine

Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies

131,784,998

52,547,478

110,136,256

74,137,536

368,606,268Grand Total