Hong Kong Baptist University

Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcome...

Explainable data generation from observed small samples by matrix tri-factorization

Data generation on small samples has exhibited great potential on real-world biomedical scenarios, especially on extreme cases such as early-stage or emerging biomedical conditions (e.g. Patient Zero of a brand-new disease with only one sample) because of insufficient sample info...

Exercise adaptation and proactive health: an information-theoretic framework based on load entropy

Abstract Exercise is among the most powerful stimuli for promoting health, yet exercise science still prescribes load largely through fixed, population-derived intensity zones that overlook how individuals perceive and adapt to training stimuli. This review develops Proactive Hea...

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...

Superstitious CEO and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence From China

Using a Chinese dataset that spans from 2007 through 2019, we examine how superstitious beliefs shape managerial behavior, as reflected in corporate misconduct. In traditional Chinese culture, a person’s zodiac year, which recurs every 12 years, is widely believed to bring bad lu...

Catalytic Enantioselective Addition of Aryl, Heteroaryl, and Alkenyl Halides to Aliphatic Aldehydes

ABSTRACT Cobalt complexes of chiral Josiphos catalyzed enantioselective addition of aryl, heteroaryl, and alkenyl halides to a wide range of linear and branched aliphatic aldehydes, without using directing groups. The new method was easily scalable with low loadings of cobalt cat...

Trust under threat: how AI vs. human mistakes in disaster alerts shape public perception and response

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into disaster communication systems, understanding public responses to AI-led alerts is critical for designing trustworthy and effective crisis messaging. In line with an emerging line of inquiry, this study represen...

Marriage in a divided world: Spousal political dissimilarities and marital conflict in Hong Kong

Amid escalating global affective polarization, this study examines the ramifications of within-couple political dissimilarities for marital relationships using representative dyadic data from Hong Kong (N = 1003 married couples)—the first such examination in a non-democratic, rap...

Contrasting Terrestrial Moisture Controls on Precipitation and Interannual Variability across the Southern and Northern Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) plays a crucial role in the Asian hydrological cycle, yet the dominant moisture sources and their governing physical processes remain debated. Here, we employ the Eulerian water tracer technique embedded in Community Earth System Model version 1 (CESM1),...

On stochasticity of zonostrophic instability

This paper concerns the behaviour of reduced models for turbulence–mean-flow interactions, in particular for the modelling of zonostrophic instability, which accounts for the spontaneous generation of zonal flows observed in many planetary and geophysical fluid systems. In modell...

CRISPR /Cas9‐Mediated Knockout of LbSP1 and LbSP5G1 Reveals Efficient Customization of Shoot Architecture in Black Goji Berry

ABSTRACT Goji is recognized as a nutritionally rich superfruit with medicinal and industrial importance. However, its inherently indeterminate growth habit causes asynchronous flowering and uneven fruit ripening, resulting in harvesting inefficiency with high labour costs and low...

The Role of Information and Communications Technology in Mitigating Loneliness among Older Adults in Deprived Neighborhoods: Introducing a Digital Lens for Aging in Place

Neighborhood deprivation functions as an environmental stress that undermines aging in place by revealing geographic disparities, unmet needs, and resource shortages. Revisiting the context–person framework, this study highlights two components that foster positive aging outcomes...

Does online informal social capital enhance healthcare technology adoption among older adults? The mediating role of attitudes

Healthcare technology adoption is critical for older adults to enhance healthcare access and autonomy. Limited research has examined the effect of social capital on healthcare technology adoption among older adults. Adopting the technology acceptance model and social capital theo...

When AI Venting Helps or Harms: How Perceived Anonymity Shapes Supportive Interactions With Conversational Agents

Artificial intelligence conversational agents are increasingly used for emotional venting, yet their psychological implications remain paradoxically unclear. AI-assisted venting can both support and harm well-being, raising questions about when human-AI interactions are beneficia...

Community Environment, Parenting Practices, Social Support, and Children’s Quality of Life in Shanghai, China: A Multi-Scalar and Gendered Analysis

Abstract This study investigates the relationships between community environment, parenting practices, social support, and children’s quality of life in Shanghai. Grounded in a “4D” framework (Density, Design, Diversity, and Destination), we employed a multi-scalar geospatial app...

Geometric standardized mean difference and its application to meta‐analysis

The standardized mean difference (SMD) is a widely used measure of effect size, particularly common in psychology, clinical trials and meta-analysis involving continuous outcomes. Traditionally, under the equal variance assumption, the SMD is defined as the mean difference divide...

Combined effects of authentic leadership and HRM practices on workplace deviance: the mediating role of trust in leadership

Purpose Drawing on Social Exchange Theory (SET), this study examines the influence of authentic leadership on employees' workplace deviance, positing that trust in leadership serves as a central mediating mechanism. Furthermore, this process depends on followers' perceptions of H...

Analyzing functional data with a mixture of covariance structures using a curve-based sampling scheme

Abstract Motivated by distinct walking patterns in real-world free-living gait data, this paper proposes an innovative curve-based sampling scheme for the analysis of functional data characterized by a mixture of covariance structures. Traditional approaches often fail to adequat...

Rural–Urban Migration and Sustainable Integration in China: Institutional Barriers and Pathways toward Inclusive Urban Citizenship

Abstract China has experienced one of the largest internal migration processes in modern history, driven by rapid industrialization, economic restructuring, and urban expansion since the late 1970s. Rural-to-urban migration has significantly contributed to China’s economic transf...

Nickel-CatalyzedAsymmetric C(sp2)–PCoupling for the Direct Synthesis of the PMOP Atropisomeric PhosphineLigand

Abstract An efficient kinetic resolution of binaphthyl triflates is developed via Ni-catalyzed asymmetric C(sp2)–P cross-coupling to access substituted atropisomeric phosphines. Moreover, the phosphine framework showed superior reactivity and enantiocontrol in Pd-catalyzed asymme...