by Lam Pai-mui. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.v / LIST OF GRAPHS --- p.vi / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- MANAGEMEOT IN CHINA --- p.14 / Historical Setting --- p.14 / Problems in the Past --- p.15 / Organizational Structure --- p.15 / Managerial Skills --- p.16 / Party and Management --- p.16 / Operations --- p.18 / Motivation and Labor Discipline --- p.18 / Economic and Management Reforms --- p.19 / Chapter IV. --- IMPACT OF CULTURE --- p.22 / Key Features --- p.22 / Respect for Age and Hierarchy --- p.22 / Group Orientation --- p.22 / Face' --- p.23 / Relationships --- p.23 / Cultural Consequences --- p.24 / Chapter V. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.36 / Questionnaires --- p.36 / Sampling --- p.38 / Distribution of Questionnaires --- p.39 / Chapter VI. --- FINDINGS --- p.41 / Company Profile --- p.41 / Demographic Profile --- p.41 / Organizational Climate --- p.48 / Comparison between Local and Foreign Firms --- p.59 / Chapter VII. --- SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION --- p.64 / APPENDIX I : ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE QUESTIONNAIRE --- p.67 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.71

Chan Ping-Kong, Lo Yee-Wah, Eva, Chen Chien-Yeh. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54). / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.iii / Hong Kong Economic Indicators --- p.Table2-1 / Taiwan Economic Indicators --- p.Table2-2 / Population in Major Cities in China --- p.Table2-3 / "Retail Sales Growth in Shanghai, Guangdong & Fujian" --- p.Table2-4 / China/ Shanghai Economic Indicators --- p.Table2-5 / Methodology Flowchart --- p.Table4-1 / Chapter / Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The concept of Greater China and its significance --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Greater China Regional Strategy of MNCs --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Cultural Challenge --- p.2 / Chapter 1.4 --- Culture and Management --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Corporate Culture --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Corporate Culture and Managerial Value --- p.3 / Chapter II --- COUNTRY BACKGROUND --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Hong Kong --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Taiwan/Taipei --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- China/Shanghai --- p.7 / Chapter III --- COMPANY BACKGROUND AND MANAGEMENT STYLE …… --- p.9 / Chapter 3.1 --- Johnson & Johnson Corporation --- p.9 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- J&J (H.K.) Ltd.- Consumer Products Division --- p.10 / Chapter 3.1.2. --- J&J( Taiwan) Ltd --- p.11 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Shanghai J&J Corporation --- p.12 / Chapter 3.2 --- Unilever --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Unilever Hong Kong --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- FUIC/ Unilever Taiwan --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Unilever China --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- Janssen Pharmaceuticals Ltd --- p.16 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Janssen Hong Kong --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Janssen Taiwan --- p.18 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Janssen Xian --- p.18 / Chapter IV --- METHODOLOGY --- p.20 / Chapter 4.1 --- Design and Approach --- p.20 / Chapter 4.2 --- Procedure and Method --- p.21 / Chapter V --- ANALYSIS --- p.23 / Chapter 5.1 --- Model of Analysis --- p.23 / Chapter 5.2 --- Independent Variables Analysis --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- National Culture Analysis --- p.24 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Development Stage Analysis --- p.26 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Corporate Culture Analysis --- p.27 / Chapter 5.3 --- Definition of Dependent Variables --- p.31 / Chapter VI --- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION --- p.33 / Chapter 6.1 --- Results Format --- p.33 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results Grouped by Country --- p.34 / Chapter 6.3 --- Patterns of Independent Variables --- p.34 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- National Culture --- p.35 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Corporate Culture --- p.35 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Development Stage --- p.35 / Chapter 6.4 --- Relationship of Independent Variables and Dependent Variables --- p.35 / Chapter VII --- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.38 / Chapter 7.1 --- Leadership Quality --- p.38 / Chapter 7.2 --- Organisational Structure --- p.39 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Senior Level --- p.39 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Middle and Junior Level --- p.40 / Chapter VIII --- APPENDIX --- p.41 / Chapter 8.1 --- Summary of Analysis of Presence and Nature of Dependent Variables among Respondents --- p.41 / Chapter 8.2 --- Questionnaires --- p.45 / Chapter IX --- BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.52 / Chapter X --- ATTACHMENT --- p.55 / Chapter 10.1 --- Contact report of the interviews --- p.55

Recent work has shown that paranoia - excessive suspiciousness of others - exists on a spectrum of severity in the adult general population. Yet little is known about either the nature of mistrust in children or whether studying paranoia in children could increase our understanding of the aetiology of adult paranoia and inform early prevention strategies. The current thesis, comprised of three main studies, adopted a hitherto lacking developmental perspective to examine social mistrust in middle childhood. The first goal was to assess the structure, prevalence, correlates and short-term stability of childhood mistrust in nonclinical samples drawn from two different countries (the UK and Hong Kong). Classroom-based surveys of 8- to 14-year-olds from the UK (N = 1,086) and Hong Kong (N = 1,470) were carried out between 2011 and 2014. A new measure developed for the study was administered: The Social Mistrust Scale. The second goal was to examine children’s definitions and reasons for social trust and mistrust. This was a large qualitative examination of interviews with children, in order to learn more about the phenomenon at this age and generate future research questions to test. The final main goal was to test the association with childhood mistrust and a number of potential causal factors identified from the adult literature. Cognitive processes (i.e., reasoning bias, theory of mind and executive function) and psychosocial risk factors (i.e., bullying, loneliness, peer-rated social status, and hostile attribution bias) were studied. Overall, this thesis presented evidence that: (i) Social mistrust is prevalent in a minority of children, and it is associated with both internalising and externalising problems; (ii) Qualitative interviews indicated that mistrust was often well-justified but that a minority of children may well be having excessive suspiciousness about being targeted; (iii) Mistrustful children (especially with mistrust about school) report persistent victimisation and hostile attribution bias but do not show biases in non-affective cognitive performance compared with trusting peers; and (iv) There is moderate agreement between self-report and interviewer assessments of paranoia, child and peer ratings of mistrust but not with parent ratings. This thesis began the task of researching a developmental perspective on childhood suspiciousness, extending the work in adults. Mistrust is present in children and associated with symptoms of mental health problems and adverse experiences. The extent to which the fears were unfounded (i.e. true paranoia was assessed) was not established in the thesis nor the causal direction of the associations found. Continued research on social mistrust in community children and beyond may provide promising avenues to earlier preventions and better treatments of paranoia.

The goal of this study is to try to understand multi-strain diseases with the presence of cross-immunity by using mathematical models and other mathematical tools. Cross-immunity occurs when a host who is exposed to one disease, or one strain of a disease, develops resistance or partial resistance to related diseases or strains. It is an important factor in the epidemiology of diseases prone to mutation. This work includes modelling influenza in both presence and absence of controls. It also includes modelling malaria when cross-species immunity is present. In addition, vector-bias of mosquitoes to infected humans is also studied in the single-strain malaria model.

Three measurements of top-quark pair production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS experiment are presented. The single-lepton final states are used, where one electron or muon, two b-jets and two other jets can be identified. The inclusive ttbar production cross section is measured to be sigma(ttbar) = 817 +/- 13 (stat.) +/- 103 (syst.) +/- 88 (lum.) pb, which is in good agreement with predictions and with other measurements. Absolute and relative differential cross sections of ttbar production are also measured, showing an overall good agreement with predictions, except for the top-quark transverse momentum distribution. As already reported in measurements at lower proton-proton collision energies, this distribution is shifted towards higher momenta in all predictions with respect to the observations. Total and differential fiducial cross sections of ttbar production in association with heavy-flavour jets are also presented. All tested models are found to agree with data within the uncertainties of these measurements.

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Cheung Pik Shan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Named Entity Translation Matching --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Mining New Translations from News --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Organization --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.5 / Chapter 3 --- Named Entity Matching Model --- p.9 / Chapter 3.1 --- Problem Nature --- p.9 / Chapter 3.2 --- Matching Model Investigation --- p.12 / Chapter 3.3 --- Tokenization --- p.15 / Chapter 3.4 --- Hybrid Semantic and Phonetic Matching Algorithm --- p.16 / Chapter 4 --- Phonetic Matching Model --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1 --- Generating Phonetic Representation for English --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Phoneme Generation --- p.22 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Training the Tagging Lexicon and Transformation Rules --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2 --- Generating Phonetic Representation for Chinese --- p.29 / Chapter 4.3 --- Phonetic Matching Algorithm --- p.31 / Chapter 5 --- Learning Phonetic Similarity --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Widrow-Hoff Algorithm --- p.39 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Exponentiated-Gradient Algorithm --- p.41 / Chapter 5.3 --- The Genetic Algorithm --- p.42 / Chapter 6 --- Experiments on Named Entity Matching Model --- p.43 / Chapter 6.1 --- Results for Learning Phonetic Similarity --- p.44 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results for Named Entity Matching --- p.46 / Chapter 7 --- Mining New Entity Translations from News --- p.48 / Chapter 7.1 --- Metadata Generation --- p.52 / Chapter 7.2 --- Discovering Comparable News Cluster --- p.54 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- News Preprocessing --- p.54 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Gloss Translation --- p.55 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- Comparable News Cluster Discovery --- p.62 / Chapter 7.3 --- Named Entity Cognate Generation --- p.64 / Chapter 7.4 --- Entity Matching --- p.66 / Chapter 7.4.1 --- Matching Algorithm --- p.66 / Chapter 7.4.2 --- Matching Result Production --- p.68 / Chapter 8 --- Experiments on Mining New Translations --- p.69 / Chapter 9 --- Experiments on Context-based Gloss Translation --- p.72 / Chapter 9.1 --- Results on Chinese News Translation --- p.73 / Chapter 9.2 --- Results on Arabic News Translation --- p.75 / Chapter 10 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.77 / Bibliography --- p.79 / A --- p.83 / B --- p.85 / C --- p.87 / D --- p.89 / E --- p.91 / F --- p.94 / G --- p.95

Law Wing-Man Rita. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-33). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract / English version --- p.v / Chinese version --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction / Importance of Relationships and Avoidance of Interpersonal Harm --- p.1 / Regulation of Hostility by Cognitive Adjustments --- p.2-3 / Plausible Psychological Mechanism Behind the Regulation of Hostility --- p.3-6 / Purposes and Design of the Present Study --- p.6-7 / Cross-Cultural Examinations --- p.7-8 / Hypotheses of the Present Study --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method / Participants --- p.9 / Procedure --- p.9 / Measurement scales --- p.9-12 / Overview of the Data Analyses --- p.12-14 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results / Means and Zero-Order Correlations --- p.15-18 / Testing the Measurement Model Across Cultures --- p.18-19 / Testing the Validity of the Original Models Across Cultures --- p.23-24 / Testing Model A with Familiarity Across Cultures / Chapter ■ --- Testing Factor Invariance --- p.19-20 / Chapter ■ --- Testing Path Invariance in the Final Model --- p.20-22 / Explained Variances for Hostility --- p.23 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion / Rejecting Model B Across All Cultures --- p.2 / Accepting Model A Across All Cultures --- p.24-25 / Pancultural Model of Interpersonally triggered Hostility --- p.25 / Culture-Specific Properties of the Model --- p.25-26 / The Role of Familiarity --- p.26-27 / Relationships Among Variables From Original Model A --- p.27-28 / Implications of Cultural Effects --- p.29 / Limitations and Implications for Further Studies --- p.29-30 / Closing Remarks --- p.30-31 / References --- p.32-33 / Tables / "Table 1: Means and Standard Deviations of Variables, Along With Scale Properties" --- p.16 / Table 2: Correlations Among Variables in the Four Cultural Groups --- p.17 / Table 3: Findings of Tests for Path Invariance --- p.21 / Figures / Figure 1: Model A (with Modified Measures) --- p.4 / Figure 2. Model B (with Modified Measures) --- p.5 / Figure 3. Model A with Familiarity --- p.13 / Appendix / Items on the Questionnaire --- p.34-36

Emotion theories from social and functionalist perspectives have greatly emphasized the importance of relationship contexts for emotions (Carolyn, 2004; Lazarus, 1991), yet relatively few empirical efforts have been spent on exploring whether and how individuals differentially deal with anger under different relationship contexts. Study 1 investigated how individuals' anger responses might vary with relationship contexts across cultural contexts. Two hundred and sixty-six participants from America, Hong Kong and Mainland China reported their responses toward anger-eliciting scenarios that were elicited by a kin, a close or a casual friend. Results indicated that, after controlling for demographic variables, personality, and relationship qualities, individuals displayed a higher level of direct and replaced aggression but a lower level of cognitive reappraisal and indirect aggression in kinship than in the two types of friendships across the three samples. While Hong Kong Chinese displayed a higher level of fractious motives in kinship than in two types of friendships, Mainland Chinese displayed a lower level of malevolent motives in kinship than in two types of friendships. / To resolve the controversy between two interpretations for the above relationship effect on anger response, we conducted an experiment to examine the roles of approach and avoidance motives in determining relationship effects on anger responses in Study 2. One hundred and fifty two Hong Kong Chinese female participants' anger responses during emotion recalling tasks were assessed in terms of subjective feeling, physiological arousal and facial expression, after approach and avoidance motives were manipulated. Results revealed that, even after controlling for relevant personality traits, demographic variables, and relationship qualities, individuals displayed a higher level of anger-related subjective feeling and facial expression in kinship than in friendship. Such relationship effects were reversed and disappeared when approach and avoidance motives. In addition, we found that approach motives reduced individuals' sympathetic activation to anger-eliciting events in kinship, and avoidance motives lowered individuals' parasympathetic activation to happy events in friendship. The above findings have great implications for anger regulation and health promotion under relationship contexts. / You, Jin. / Adviser: Helene H. L. Fung. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-92). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Chan Kit Sze Amy. / "June 2002." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-354). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.