Search for dissertations about: "Hong Kong"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Hong Kong.

  2. 1. The Last Urban Frontier : Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong

    Author : Elton Chan; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public space; commodification; protest; right to the city; Hong Kong;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the production and transformation of public spaces in Hong Kong, a city that is steeped in neoliberal ideals and has seen substantial deterioration in terms of democratic rights and freedoms in recent years. As a result of the expansion of neoliberal capitalism, commodification of urban space has not only exacerbated, but also become more far-reaching and indiscriminate. READ MORE

  4. 2. The object markers ba and jiang in modern literary Chinese

    Author : Wai-Ling Ragvald; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary Chinese; South-East China; object marker; jiang; ba; instrumental; disposal construction; pattern; action verbs; style; euphony; four character phrase; Mandarin; tradition; Cantonese; Minnan dialect; Hakka; East and Central China; North China; Taiwan; Hong Kong;

    Abstract : Modern standard written Chinese has two common object markers, 把 ba and 将 jiang, both of which mark a direct object preceding the verb. Both markers appear to have been widely used in the spoken language of the Tang dynasty but the actual distribution is not entirely clear. READ MORE

  5. 3. Seven Senses of the City : Urban Spacetime and Sensory Memory in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction

    Author : Astrid Møller-Olsen; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary sensory studies; sensory studies; urban fiction; senses; Sinophone fiction; comparative literature; Chinese literature; Taipei; Hong Kong; Shanghai; literary studies; spacetime; spatiality; narratology; rhythmanalysis;

    Abstract : The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the narrative mechanisms and imagery that fictional works employ to conceptualize and communicate complex human experiences of space, time and memory. Furthermore, this study shows how contemporary cities change the way we think about such basic concepts by analyzing narratives that employ and encourage multisensory, spatiotemporal understandings of reality characterized by permeable boundaries between the material, social and imaginary domains. READ MORE

  6. 4. Improving balance and gait using biomechanical and electronic approaches

    Author : Christina Zong-Hao Ma; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Biomedical Engineering; []
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  7. 5. The regulation of factor Va activity by activated protein C -Importance of the individual activated protein C cleavage sites in factor Va

    Author : Eva Norström; Malmö Klinisk kemi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; extracellulära vätskor; Hematologi; extracellular fluids; Haematology; activated protein C resistance; activated protein C; Blood coagulation; Factor V;

    Abstract : The subject of this thesis is the activated protein C (APC)-mediated inactivation of factor Va. The activated form of factor V (FVa) is a procoagulant cofactor for Factor Xa (FXa) in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin. READ MORE