University of Hong Kong

Yuen v Li : So What if Digital Assets are Third Things?

Yuen v Li is the first English decision to consider the legal treatment of digital assets since the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 was enacted. The case shows that recognising digital assets as possible ‘third things’ does little to settle what legal consequences follow....

A global base temperature dataset for residential building energy demand modelling

Abstract. Accurate building energy demand modeling is critical to decarbonizing regional energy systems. The cooling and heating degree-day models are widely used due to their simplicity and low data requirements; however, the lack of accurate base temperature data limits their p...

High Coverage Does Not Guarantee Regression Detection: A Target-Blind Audit of Representative Task Panels for Versioned AI Coding Agents

Re-evaluating versioned artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents is expensive, motivating small task panels that represent a full benchmark. We audit whether such representativeness predicts regression-screening value (a regression is a task the previous configuration solved an...

Tea Stewardship in Jingmai Mountain: A Practice‐Based and Cross‐Scalar Illustration of Ecological Citizenship in the Making

ABSTRACT The old tea forests of Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan, China, have been cultivated and maintained for centuries by indigenous Bulang and Dai communities through a unique ‘forest‐tea symbiosis’. We take this case as an entry point to examine a broader enquiry: how do a commun...

Reconceptualizing Network Change: Robustness and Resilience of Interorganizational Networks

Existing research on interorganizational network dynamics has largely treated network change as gradual, local, and primarily oriented toward private organizational advantage. Yet contemporary cooperative interorganizational systems are highly interconnected across industrial sec...

β-Catenin Knockout in the Olfactory Bulb and Hippocampus Reveals Dual Roles in Olfactory Discrimination and Working Memory

Mice rely heavily on their sense of smell to provide crucial environmental information. The intricate organization of neural circuits within the olfactory bulb (OB) and the communication across the OB-hippocampus network in mice underpin their ability to discriminate and adapt to...

Employee Creativity in Project-Based Organizations: Inhibited or Promoted by Organizational Controls?

Creativity and control are both vital to creative project-based organizations: The former enables innovation, adaptability, and problem-solving in uncertain or novel conditions, whereas the latter ensures alignment, stability, and goal-directed execution within constraints. Never...

Through an anxious lens: The roles of adolescents' anxiety symptoms in conditioning the relational consequences of parental responses to negative emotions through shaping adolescents' appraisals of parental responses

Abstract Grounded in the cognitive‐affective models of anxiety and the emotion socialization theory, the present study aimed to examine how adolescents' anxiety symptoms may moderate the associations of parental earlier responses to adolescents' negative emotions with the subsequ...

A Rotary DNA Mazzocchio Nanostructure

Abstract DNA nanotechnology offers architectures ranging from compact motifs to scaffolded origami, with trade-offs in structural complexity, addressability, and component economy. Here, we translate Leonardo da Vinci’s mazzocchio geometry into a programmable DNA assembly. Twenty...

An Artificial Olfactory Chip with Temperature Gradient Modulation for Food Waste Management

Abstract Increasing demand for fuels driven by the scarcity of fossil resources necessitates the development of sustainable and innovative strategies for the energy industry. Food waste has emerged as a viable resource with diverse functional chemical components for energy harves...

Optimizing Input Data Collection for Ranking and Selection

We study a ranking and selection (R&S) problem when all solutions share common parametric Bayesian input models updated with the data collected from multiple independent data-generating sources. Our objective is to identify the best system by designing a sequential sampling algor...

Valproic Acid Inhibits Glioma Cell Proliferation by Inducing Neuronal‐Like Differentiation Partly Through HDAC1/REST Suppression

ABSTRACT Inducing differentiation of glioma cells, including glioma stem cells (GSCs), into neuron‐like cells represents a promising therapeutic strategy. Our previous drug repositioning study revealed that histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are potential inducers of glioma ce...

Designing Surprise Bags for Surplus Foods

Problem definition: Surplus-food marketplaces, such as Too Good To Go, enable retailers to monetize leftover inventory and reduce food waste by selling discounted “surprise bags.” Participating stores, however, face complex operational challenges. They must jointly set a reservat...

Multilingual and Multimodal Pedagogy and Assessment to Support Young Learners in CLIL

In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), students learn content knowledge through their additional language (L2). While students may develop their L2 more effectively in CLIL, they need to overcome some challenges when mastering content knowledge through L2 academic la...

Meeting young people where they are – digital adaptations of CBT for psychosis: a real-world approach

Purpose Young people experiencing psychosis frequently disengage from traditional psychological therapies, while their routine use of digital technologies offers new opportunities to improve engagement, accessibility and continuity of care. This practitioner article aims to descr...

Cationic High-Entropy Doping Endows O3-Type Na-Ni-Mn-O-Layered Cathode with High Energy Density and Sustainable Sodium Storage

Abstract Although O3-type layered oxides featuring an open framework demonstrate potential as high-capacity cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries, such cathode materials are confronted with commercial limitations, including intricate phase transition mechanisms, structural d...

Improved estimation of net ecosystem CO 2 exchange over North America using LSTM-based flux upscaling (2001–2021)

Accurate estimation of regional-scale terrestrial carbon budgets is of great importance but remains challenging. With particular advantages, the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network method shows potential for improving regional carbon budget upscaling estimations. Here, using LS...

Differentiable Bilevel Programming for Stackelberg Congestion Games

In a Stackelberg congestion game (SCG), a leader aims to maximize their own gain by anticipating and manipulating the equilibrium state at which the followers settle by playing a congestion game. Often formulated as bilevel programs, large-scale SCGs are well known for their intr...

Semi-Supervised Generative Learning via Latent Space Distribution Matching

We introduce Latent Space Distribution Matching (LSDM), a novel framework for semi-supervised generative modeling of conditional distributions. LSDM operates in two stages: (i) learning a low-dimensional latent space from both paired and unpaired data, and (ii) performing joint d...

Biofilm presence and substrate type influence oyster larval settlement and survival

ABSTRACT Marine invertebrates with a bipartite life cycle typically undergo a developmental transition from pelagic larvae to benthic juveniles. The success of this transition largely depends on appropriate habitat and substrate selection, which is crucial for completing metamorp...