Summary in Chinese. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong. / Bibliography: leaves 88-90.

Yao Li. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Weather Derivatives: A Review --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Types of weather risk --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3 --- Key weather derivative elements --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Methods for pricing weather derivatives --- p.5 / Chapter 1.5 --- Current Situation in Hong Kong: the Recreation Industry --- p.8 / Tables and Figures --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Markov Models with Application to Hong Kong's Rainfall --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Model --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- Maximum Likelihood Estimation --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Estimates for Occurrence Model --- p.18 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Estimates for Intensity Model --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3 --- Model for Amount --- p.28 / Tables and Figures --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Contract Specifications and Option Evaluation --- p.42 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Contract --- p.42 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Monte-Carlo Simulation --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- The Rainfall Event --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Aggregate Payoff --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Some Simulation Results --- p.48 / Chapter 3.3 --- Further Applications --- p.49 / Tables and Figures --- p.55 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Concluding Remarks and Discussions --- p.64 / References --- p.66

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

Background: Medical tourism is arising in Asian countries and in Hong Kong, the maternal tourism is evolving due to the influx of non-entitled pregnant women from mainland China for deliveries. The visitors were attracted not only by the technical advancement of Hong Kong healthcare system, but its special administrative background which grants the babies with a permanent resident identity as well as the citizenship benefits regardless to their parental status. Besides, the parents could avoid penalties from the "One Child Policy" in China. With the limited healthcare resources, non-local mothers started to compete with the local mothers for obstetric services. The community raised their concerns in developing of maternity tourism and verbalised their demands in protecting local rights and equity to resources. Aims and Objectives: There are limited published researches available on maternal tourism or the specific situation faced by Hong Kong. By analysing grey literature, this paper would like to suggest the impact exerted on the healthcare system by the influx of non-eligible mothers with a medical tourism framework. Results: The impact of non-local-mother deliveries on healthcare system were discussed in the areas of governance, delivery, financing, human resources and regulation. Future research could be done on assessing the priorities in the framework components and the direction, effectiveness of the management strategies for non-entitled deliveries. / published_or_final_version / Public Health / Master / Master of Public Health

In the context of global competition, Hong Kong has positioned her social and urban infrastructure to foster the advanced service sector activities of urban tourism. The success of the urban area as a place making for tourism is the embedding of sustainable and innovative principles in the planning process and the implementation of the stakeholders and travelers aspirations. A holistic and adaptive public transport planning and alternative transport modes are one of the key issue that contribute to the success of urban tourism development now and the future. For the advancement of travel information technology and infrastructure of urban tourism, it enables more individual travelers rather than conventional group-tour visit to Hong Kong. Those individual travelers are mostly in the form of slow travel where one visits to destinations more slowly overland, stay longer and travel less with the importance of travel experience to a destination engagement with slow modes of transport. This morphology from mass and efficient tourism to newer form of individual and experienced tourism takes forward the notion of queries and justifications of conventional fast and efficient transport planning and modal choice could provide tourist a real understanding of localities of urban culture and detail settings. This dissertation aiming to examine the concept and theory of slow travel in associate with slow mode of transportation application and the potential planning recommendation for urban tourism in Hong Kong. The objective of this research is to see how slow travel theories that had been popularized in overseas countries could be applied in Hong Kong with the support of public transport service and planning enhancement. In this research, the interdisciplinary research to examine of the problem is form a multi-disciplinary approach while the solution and recommendation is form a management perspective –transport and urban planning / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / abstract / Geography / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

by Wan Man-fong Sylvia. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. / Bibliography: leaves 58-59.

Wong Ka Ho. / Thesis submitted in: October 2005. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-170). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2 / Acknowledgements --- p.5 / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1 --- Multi-modal and Multi-media --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2 --- Overview --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Goal --- p.13 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.15 / Chapter 2 --- Background --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1 --- Multi-modal Fission --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2 --- Multi-modal Data collection --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Collection Time --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Annotation and Tools --- p.21 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Knowledge of Multi-modal Using --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3 --- Text-to-audiovisual Speech System --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Different. Approaches to Generate a Talking Heading --- p.23 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Sub-tasks in Animating a Talking Head --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4 --- Modality Selection --- p.27 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Rules-based approach --- p.27 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Plan-based approach --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Feature-based approach --- p.29 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Corpus-based approach --- p.30 / Chapter 2.5 --- Summary --- p.30 / Chapter 3 --- Information Domain --- p.31 / Chapter 3.1 --- Multi-media Information --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2 --- "Task Goals, Dialog Acts, Concepts and Information Type" --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Task Goals and Dialog Acts --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Concepts and Information Type --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3 --- User's Task and Scenario --- p.37 / Chapter 3.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.38 / Chapter 4 --- Multi-modal Response Data Collection --- p.41 / Chapter 4.1 --- Data Collection Setup --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Multi-modal Input Setup --- p.43 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Multi-modal Output Setup --- p.43 / Chapter 4.2 --- Procedure --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Precaution --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Recording --- p.50 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Data Size and Type --- p.50 / Chapter 4.3 --- Annotation --- p.52 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Extensible Multi-Modal Markup Language --- p.52 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- "Mobile, Multi-biometric and Multi-modal Annotation" --- p.53 / Chapter 4.4 --- Problems in the Wizard-of-Oz Setup --- p.56 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Lack of Knowledge --- p.57 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Time Deficiency --- p.57 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Information Availability --- p.58 / Chapter 4.4.4 --- Operation Delay --- p.59 / Chapter 4.4.5 --- Lack of Modalities --- p.59 / Chapter 4.5 --- Data Optimization --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Precaution --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Procedures --- p.61 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Data Size in Expert Design Responses --- p.63 / Chapter 4.6 --- Analysis and Discussion --- p.65 / Chapter 4.6.1 --- Multi-modal Usage --- p.67 / Chapter 4.6.2 --- Modality Combination --- p.67 / Chapter 4.6.3 --- Deictic term --- p.68 / Chapter 4.6.4 --- Task Goal and Dialog Acts --- p.71 / Chapter 4.6.5 --- Information Type --- p.72 / Chapter 4.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.74 / Chapter 5 --- Text-to-Audiovisual Speech System --- p.76 / Chapter 5.1 --- Phonemes and Visemes --- p.77 / Chapter 5.2 --- Three-dimensional Facial Animation --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Three-dimensional (3D) Face Model --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- The Blending Process for Animation --- p.84 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Connectivity between Visemes --- p.85 / Chapter 5.3 --- User Perception Experiments --- p.87 / Chapter 5.4 --- Applications and Extension --- p.89 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Multilingual Extension and Potential Applications --- p.89 / Chapter 5.5 --- Talking Head in Multi-modal Dialogue System --- p.90 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Prosody --- p.93 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- Body Gesture --- p.94 / Chapter 5.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.94 / Chapter 6 --- Modality Selection and Implementation --- p.98 / Chapter 6.1 --- Multi-modal Response Examples --- p.98 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Single Concept-value Example --- p.99 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Two Concept-values with Different Information Types --- p.102 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Multiple Concept-values with Same Information Types Example --- p.103 / Chapter 6.2 --- Heuristic Rules for Modality Selection --- p.105 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- General Principles --- p.106 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Heuristic rules --- p.107 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Temporal Coordination for Synchronization --- p.109 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Physical Layout --- p.110 / Chapter 6.2.5 --- Deictic Term --- p.111 / Chapter 6.2.6 --- Example --- p.111 / Chapter 6.3 --- Spoken Content Generation --- p.113 / Chapter 6.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.115 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.117 / Chapter 7.1 --- Summary --- p.117 / Chapter 7.2 --- Contributions --- p.118 / Chapter 7.3 --- Future work --- p.119 / Chapter A --- XML Schema for M3 Markup Language --- p.123 / Chapter B --- M3ML Examples --- p.128 / Chapter C --- Domain-Specific Task Goals in the Hong Kong Tourism Do- main --- p.131 / Chapter D --- Dialog Acts for User Request in the Hong Kong Tourism Do- main --- p.133 / Chapter E --- Dialog Acts for System Response in the Hong Kong Tourism Domain --- p.137 / Chapter F --- Information Type and Concepts --- p.141 / Chapter G --- Concepts --- p.143 / Bibliography --- p.149

Wong Chung Yiu. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-59). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / List of Appendices / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- Literature Review on Tourism / Chapter 2.2 --- Literature Review on Production Externalities / Chapter 2.3 --- Literature Review on Unemployment / Chapter Chapter 3. --- The Basic Model and Elfects of Tourism / Chapter 3.1 --- The Basic Model / Chapter 3.2 --- Effects of Tourism on Residents' Welfare / Chapter 3.3 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter Chapter 4. --- "Tourism, Unemployment and Residents.' Welfare" / Chapter 4.1 --- The Model / Chapter 4.2 --- EU'ects of Tourism on Residents' Welfare / Chapter 4.3 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter Chapter 5. --- "Tourism, Capital Accumulation and Welfare" / Chapter 5.1 --- The Model / Chapter 5.2 --- "Effects of Tourism on Residents"" Welfare" / Chapter 5.3 --- Concluding Remarks / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Concluding Remarks / References / List of Appendices / Chapter A.1 --- Stability condition in equations (36) and (51) / Chapter A.2 --- Comparative statics in equation (60) / Chapter A.3 --- dPN/dΔ and dK/dΔ in equations (68) and (69) / Chapter A.4 --- Solutions of the system (**)