City University of Hong Kong

Classifier congruency effects in Spanish–Chinese noun phrase production: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Abstract Mandarin Chinese employs a classifier system requiring classifiers obligatorily positioned between demonstratives or numerals and nouns in noun phrases (NPs; e.g., 一张桌子 , [one specific-classifier-zhang1 table] , ‘one table’). While classifier congruency effects have...

Detection and differentiation of Babesia banethi and Babesia vulpes in foxes and potential tick vectors by a duplex real-time PCR assay

The increasing interactions among wildlife, domestic animals, vectors, and humans are reshaping the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases, including babesiosis. Among piroplasmids infecting wild canids, Babesia vulpes is widely distributed in red foxes, whereas many scientific as...

Statistical Theory of Multi-stage Newton Iteration Algorithm for Online Continual Learning

We focus on the critical challenge of handling non-stationary data streams in online continual learning environments, where constrained storage capacity prevents complete retention of historical data, leading to catastrophic forgetting during sequential task training. To more eff...

Not for Soft Power: Chinese Universities Behind Confucius Institutes

As China’s flagship educational initiative to promote Chinese language and culture abroad, Confucius Institutes lie at the intersection of politics, education, and culture, and feature prominently ...

Deformable precipitates locally modify fault-mediated plasticity for strength-ductility synergy

Precipitates in structural alloys are conventionally understood as passive obstacles to dislocation motion. Here we show that semi-coherent hexagonal close-packed precipitates in a low-stacking-fault-energy Ni50Co30Ru20 multi-principal element alloy cooperate with planar-fault pl...

Through-Space-Conjugated Viologen Cyclophanes for Single-Molecule Junctions

Abstract Molecular electronics offers a promising route toward device miniaturization beyond the limits of silicon-based technologies, but the rational design of molecular components with stable and tunable charge transport remains challenging. Through-space-conjugated (TSC) viol...

Pressure-Robust Staggered DG Methods for the Navier–Stokes Equations on General Meshes

Abstract In this paper, we design and analyze staggered discontinuous Galerkin methods of arbitrary polynomial orders for the stationary Navier–Stokes equations on polygonal meshes. The exact divergence-free condition for the velocity is satisfied thanks to the carefully designed...

Functional Adaptive Huber Linear Regression

Abstract. Robust estimation has played an important role in statistical and machine learning. However, its applications to functional linear regression are still underdeveloped. In this paper, we focus on Huber’s loss with a diverging robustness parameter which was previously use...

Open framework–based Brønsted acid–Lewis base interfaces boost proton transfer in the fuel cells

Limited proton conductivity within the catalyst layer induces severe ohmic polarizations and constrains power output at high hydrogen-to-electricity efficiencies in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. We demonstrate that proton transfer can be boosted by constructing Brønsted ac...

Convergence Analysis of Controlled Particle Systems Arising in Deep Learning: From Finite to Infinite Sample Size

Abstract This paper deals with a class of neural SDEs and studies the limiting behavior of the associated sampled optimal control problems as the sample size grows to infinity. The neural SDEs with N samples can be linked to the N -particle systems with centralized control. We an...

Chamber-to-Field Development and Validation of Integrated Filtration–Adsorption Air Cleaners for Particle and VOC Control in Shipboard Cabins

Shipboard cabins can contain both oil mist-dominated particulate matter and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), creating a need for compact air-cleaning systems capable of simultaneous particle and gas-phase removal. This study developed an integrated filtration–adsorption air cle...

Taxonomy and Estimation of Multiple Breakpoints in High-Dimensional Factor Models*

This paper proposes a quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) estimator for break points in high-dimensional factor models, specifically accounting for multiple structural breaks. We begin by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition to categorize two distinct types of breaks in f...

Neuromotor modules revealed by direct electrical stimulation of the human primary motor cortex

Muscle synergies extracted from multimuscle electromyographic (EMG) signals are widely interpreted as fundamental building blocks of motor control that coordinate groups of muscles during movement. Whether EMG-derived muscle synergies represent genuine neurally encoded modules or...

Are individual differences in social behaviour a cause or a consequence of endoparasite infection in feral cattle?

Host–parasite interactions are often described as ‘vicious circles’, with infected hosts differing from their noninfected conspecifics in ways that can increase their parasitic load and risk of concurrent infections. However, the question of whether individual differences are a c...

Ultrafast 4‐Azidopyridinium‐Based Staudinger (UApS) Ligation for Bioorthogonal Labeling and Imaging

ABSTRACT Fast click reactions that operate efficiently in aqueous buffers are highly desirable across many areas of chemistry, yet remain scarce. Herein, we report an u ltrafast 4‐ a zido p yridinium‐based S taudinger (UApS) ligation that proceeds with large bimolecular reaction...

Preparing Geopolymers Using Waste Wind Turbine Blade Powders: Mechanical Activation of Glass Fiber–Reinforced Polymer and Its Effects

Abstract With global wind power capacity exceeding 1.021 billion kW, decommissioned carbon/glass fiber blades create a major disposal challenge. This study aims to effectively dispose of and utilize discarded wind turbine blades by developing a technology for preparing geopolymer...

Aromatic Heterocycle Ligands for Perovskite Photovoltaics: Balancing Defect Passivation and Heterostructure Formation

ABSTRACT Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) possess great potential for improving efficiency and operating stability, but parasitic charge recombination at the interfaces still limits their performance. As additives and surface treatment agents, ammonium ligands have been rep...

Humor in organizational dynamics: affiliative and aggressive humor, creativity and constructive voice

Abstract This study examines how employees’ perceptions of affiliative and aggressive humor influence creativity and constructive voice in organizational settings. We propose that affiliative humor fosters a supportive work environment for employees with higher liking of humorous...

Sample-to-Answer Quantitative Rapid Test for Point-of-Care Monitoring of Urinary Cystatin C Levels

Abstract Urinary cystatin C (uCysC) has emerged as an endogenous biomarker for renal impairment. In managing renal pathologies, early screening and monitoring of disease progression are crucial for both at-risk individuals and diagnosed patients. The ultimate goal is to prevent a...

Ordered J‐Aggregation Directed by Inner Alkyl Chains Enables Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free Organic Solar Cells With 20.73% Efficiency

ABSTRACT Molecular aggregation behavior of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) plays a pivotal role in the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). In Y‐series NFAs, excessive H‐like core contacts may increase packing disorder, while terminal group‐mediated J‐like inter...