Chinese University of Hong Kong

Capacitance-Based Characterization of Air-Void Distribution in Asphalt Mixtures Using a Saturated Reference Field

Air-void distribution is an important internal characteristic of asphalt mixtures, as it affects compaction quality, moisture susceptibility, permeability, and long-term pavement durability. Conventional air-void testing methods generally provide only an average volumetric parame...

"Just Part of Aging?" Sleep-Problem Normalization, Sleep-Related Worry, Help-Seeking, and Emotional Distress Among Chinese Older Adults

Many older adults experience poor sleep but do not always view it as a problem requiring help. This thesis examines sleep-problem normalization (SPN), defined as the belief that poor sleep is an expected or less serious part of aging. Although sleep-related cognitions and views o...

Cumulative non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol exposure and residual cardiovascular mortality risk in patients with peripheral artery disease

Abstract Background Individuals with peripheral artery disease (PAD) face substantial residual cardiovascular risk despite lipid-lowering therapy. Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C) has been recognized as a more comprehensive marker of cardiovascular risk than l...

Mitigating Stress‐Induced Nonphotoactive Phase Transition Through Sodium Sulfonate Engineering for Stable and Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

ABSTRACT Formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI 3 ) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted significant attention due to their outstanding optoelectronic properties. However, their long‐term stability remains limited by lattice strain‐induced transition from the photoactive α‐p...

Small molecule modified peptides are used to regulate their liquid-liquid phase separation characteristics

Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is a phenomenon in which a uniform mixture spontaneously divides into two liquid phases with differing component concentrations. It is prevalent in soft matter, is observed in systems involving polymers, organic molecules, and proteins, and i...

Neurocognitive Functions and Their Associations With Autistic Symptoms, Emotion, and Behavior in High-Functioning Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Objective Studies have revealed the prognostic significance of intelligence in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but the correlations of non-social cognitive functions and clinical characteristics of high-functioning children and adolescents with ASD remain unclear. T...

From fear to fun: leveraging AI-powered videos in nursing education for disaster preparedness

Abstract Background Disasters are increasingly prevalent nowadays, whether it is mass casualty incidents, pandemics, or the growing impact of climate change and conflicts. Nursing students should be prepared to be competent nurses, so that they can react safely and efficiently in...

Phage as a prospective arsenal against superbugs

The escalating crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) necessitates the urgent development of alternatives to traditional antibiotics. Bacteriophage (phage) therapy, which utilizes viruses that specifically infect and lyse bacteria, has re-emerged as a promising therapeutic stra...

Vancomycin optimised dosing regimens for critically ill patients receiving renal replacement therapy

Optimal dosing of vancomycin in critically ill patients receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) is uncertain due to high pharmacokinetic variability. We aimed to develop individualised vancomycin dosing recommendations that optimise efficacy while minimising toxicity. Prospecti...

Spectral configurations and interferences in outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN) exposure measurements and sleep quality modeling

Outdoor artificial light at night (ALAN) may impact human health through disturbing human circadian rhythms. Laboratory experiments have shown that spectral differences in ALAN may lead to disparities in disturbing human circadian rhythms, but such spectral differences are overlo...

Gay Men in Midlife: Moral Time and Temporal Expectations in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau

This qualitative research project examines how time operates as a moral classification system in shaping the self-understandings of gay men aged 35–55 in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Macau. Rather than treating midlife as a biological stage, the study conceptualizes it as a culturall...

Tibial cortex transverse transport accelerates diabetic wound healing via systemic mobilization of non-classical monocytes

Aims: To clarify the immunomodulatory mechanisms by which tibial cortex transverse transport (TTT) accelerates wound healing in a type 2 diabetic rat model, with particular focus on the dynamics of subsets of monocytes and macrophages. Methods: A total of 186 male Sprague-Dawley...

Counterfactual load forecasting with LLM-structured events and representation learning

News-reported social, environmental, and grid events can substantially reshape electricity demand, yet quantifying how such events perturb forecasted load trajectories remains largely unaddressed. Existing news-augmented forecasting studies use news as auxiliary features to reduc...

Shielding against interpersonal threat in later life: The regulatory function of nostalgia among older adults.

= 189, age 21-78 years), older adults reported greater nostalgic engagement in response to social exclusion induced by the Cyberball game than younger adults. Furthermore, after experiencing nostalgia, compared to younger adults, older adults reported increased social engagement...

Defect Engineering of DNA Origami ROS Sensors for Portable Urinalysis

ABSTRACT Translating in situ dynamic changes of key signaling molecules into actionable clinical readouts remains a formidable challenge for noninvasive diagnostics. Here, focusing on reactive oxygen species (ROS) as pivotal signaling mediators, we developed defect‐programmed DNA...

Regional integration and firms’ environmental performance: Evidence from Chinese urban agglomerations under relative regulatory stringency

Abstract Regional integration is widely promoted as a path to greener urban agglomerations, but its firm-level environmental effect remains uncertain because integration can also lower the cost of pollution relocation. This study examines how the regulatory gap between core and p...

Early life sugar rationing and ageing related diseases, biological ageing and mortality

Early-life nutrition may influence lifelong ageing, yet human evidence is scarce. Using Britain’s postwar sugar rationing as a natural experiment, we examine its long-term effects in 64,809 United Kingdom Biobank participants. Exposure to sugar rationing during the first 1,000 da...