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The PolyU Institutional Research Archive (PIRA) is an online platform that actively collects and disseminates the research and scholarly outputs created by the PolyU community. By showcasing the publications, research interests, activities and academic achievement of PolyU's scholars, the PIRA aims to increase the visibility of the University's research and facilitate knowledge transfer. >>More

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The electoral photograph reloaded : a social semiotic approach Dourado Veloso, FO
Source Letras, Jan./June 2016, v. 26, no. 52, p. 73-87
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Visual metaphors and the construction of political identities : an analysis of the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election. Yap, FH ; Wong, SMC ; Wai, BLM ; Chan, ASL
Source RaAM 11 : Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication, the 11th Conference of the Association of Researching and Applying Metaphor, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, July 1-4, 2016, p. 223-224 (Talks) (Presentation)
Type Presentation

SG50 : the Journey metaphor in the 2015 Singapore election campaign Wong, MC ; Tay, D ; Yap, FH
Source RaAM 11 : Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication, the 11th Conference of the Association of Researching and Applying Metaphor, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, July 1-4, 2016 (Talks) (Presentation)
Type Presentation

Attitudinal copulas in Odia, an Indo-Aryan language Yap, FH ; Sahoo, A
Source 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE-49), August 31-September 3, 2016, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (Presentation)
Type Presentation

Characterization of the coherent scattering induced by ridging patterns in agriculture by the use of polarimetric SAR imagery Zhao, LL; Yang, JE; Li, PX; Huang, X; Shi, L ; Zhang, LP
Source International journal of remote sensing, 2017, v. 38, no. 12, p. 3502-3518
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Blood flow and oxygen transport in descending branch of lateral femoral circumflex arteries after transfemoral amputation : a numerical study Yan, F ; Jiang, WT; Dong, RQ ; Wang, QY; Fan, YB; Zhang, M
Source Journal of medical and biological engineering, 2017, v. 37, no. 1, p. 63-73
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Saliency detection via diversity-induced multi-view matrix decomposition Sun, XL; He, ZX; Zhang, XJ; Zou, WB; Baciu, G
Source Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics), 2016, v. 10111, p. 137-151
Type Conference Paper

Biochar-induced changes in soil properties affected immobilization/mobilization of metals/metalloids in contaminated soils Ahmad, M; Lee, SS; Lee, SE; Al-Wabel, MI; Tsang, DCW ; Ok, YS
Source Journal of soils and sediments, 2017, v. 17, no. 3, p. 717-730
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Bidirectional texture function image super-resolution using singular value decomposition Dong, W; Shen, HL; Pan, ZW; Xin, JH
Source Applied optics, 2017, v. 56, no. 10, p. 2745-2753
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Be a "Superhost" : the importance of badge systems for peer-to-peer rental accommodations Liang, S; Schuckert, M ; Law, R ; Chen, CC
Source Tourism management, 2017, v. 60, p. 454-465
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Atrazine contamination in agricultural soils from the Yangtze River Delta of China and associated health risks Sun, JT ; Pan, LL; Zhan, Y; TSANG, CW Daniel ; Zhu, LZ; LI, XD
Source Environmental geochemistry and health, 2017, v. 39, no. 2, p. 369-378
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Asymptotic normality of nonparametric m-estimators with applications to hypothesis testing for panel count data Zhao, XQ ; Zhang, Y
Source Statistica sinica, 2017, v. 27, no. 2, p. 931-950
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Approaches to better engage parent-child in health home-visiting programmes : a content analysis Lam, W; Dawson, A; Fowler, C
Source Journal of child health care, 2017, v. 21, no. 1, p. 94-102
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Cognitive visual analytics of multi-dimensional cloud system monitoring data Baciu, G ; Wang, YZ ; Li, CH
Source 2016 IEEE 15th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC), Palo Alto, CA, 2016, p. 310-315
Type Conference Paper

Application repartitioning in the cloud Yang, L ; Cao, JN
Source Computer, 2017, v. 50, no. 2, p. 11-11
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Anonymous Announcement System (AAS) for electric vehicle in VANETs AU, Man Ho Allen ; Liu, JK; Zhang, ZF; Susilo, W; Li, J; Zhou, JY
Source Computer journal, 2017, v. 60, no. 4, p. 588-599
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Cartoon and texture decomposition-based color transfer for fabric images Han, Y; Xu, C; Baciu, G ; Li, M; Islam, MR
Source IEEE transactions on multimedia, Jan. 2017, v. 19, no. 1, p. 80-92
Type Journal/Magazine Article

StreamMap : smooth dynamic visualization of high-density streaming points Li, CH ; Baciu, G ; Han, Y
Source IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 2016, no. 99, p. 1-14
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Fast content-aware resizing of multi-layer information visualization via adaptive triangulation Li, CH ; Baciu, G ; Wang, YZ ; Zhang, XJ
Source Journal of visual languages and computing, 2016, In Press, doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.03.004
Type Journal/Magazine Article

Allocutivity in Indo-Aryan languages : on the relationship between addressee-oriented agreement marking and politeness Kashyap, AK; Yap, FH
Source 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE-49), August 31-September 3, 2016, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (Presentation)
Type Presentation

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The impact of subordinates' professionalism on leadership effectiveness in the construction industry Chan, Tak-shing Antony
Type Thesis

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Torsional behavior of short-staple Torque-Balanced Singles ring spun yarns and spirality of resultant knitted fabrics Yang, Kun
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Effect of high temperatures on normal strength concrete and high performance concrete containing steel fibers Lau, Alan
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Analyses of three-dimensional eddy current field and thermal problems in an isolated phase bus Ho, SL ; Li, Y; Lo, E ; Xu, JY; Lin, X
Source IEEE transactions on magnetics, May 2003, v. 39. no. 3, p. 1515-1518
Type Journal/Magazine Article

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Total quality management and organizational performance : a marketing perspective Lai, Kee-hung
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The future of fashion illustration Au, Wai-man Raymond
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Understanding consumer purchasing behaviour regarding luxury fashion-related goods in China Gao, Ling
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Entrepreneurial competencies and the performance of small and medium enterprises in the Hong Kong services sector Man, Wing-yan Thomas
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Street furniture design principles and implementations : case studies of street furniture design in densely populated old urban areas Wan, Pak-hong
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The developmental eye movement test and its application to Cantonese-speaking children Pang, Chi-kong Peter
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The ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) as a measure of 'antioxidant power' : the FRAP assay Benzie, IFF ; Strain, JJ
Source Analytical biochemistry, 1996, v. 239, no. 1, p. 70-76
Type Journal/Magazine Article

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Two-dimensional PCA : a new approach to appearance-based face representation and recognition Yang, J; Zhang, DD ; Frangi, AF; Yang, JY
Source IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Jan. 2004, v. 26, no. 1, p. 131-137
Type Journal/Magazine Article

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Ferric reducing/antioxidant power assay : direct measure of total antioxidant activity of biological fluids and modified version for simultaneous measurement of total antioxidant power and ascorbic acid concentration Benzie, IFF ; Strain, JJ
Source Methods in enzymology, 1998, v. 299, p. 15-27
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The holocene Asian monsoon : links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate Wang, Y; Cheng, H; Edwards, RL; He, Y; Kong, X; An, Z; Wu, J; Kelly, MJ; Dykoski, CA; Li, X
Source Science, 2005, v. 308, no. 5723, p. 854-857
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FSIM : a feature similarity index for image quality assessment Zhang, L; Zhang, L ; Mou, X; Zhang, D
Source IEEE transactions on image processing, 2011, v. 20, no. 8, 5705575, p. 2378-2386
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Online palmprint identification Zhang, DD ; Kong, WKA; You, J ; Wong, M
Source IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, Sept. 2003, v. 25, no. 9, p.1041-1050
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Consumer acceptance and use of information technology : extending the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology Venkatesh, V; Thong, JYL; Xu, X
Source MIS quarterly, 2012, v. 36, no. 1, p. 157-178
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Recoverable catalysts for asymmetric organic synthesis Fan, QH; Li, YM; Chan, ASC
Source Chemical reviews, 2002, v. 102, no. 10, p. 3385-3466
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General tensor discriminant analysis and Gabor features for gait recognition Tao, D; Li, X; Wu, X; Maybank, SJ
Source IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 2007, v. 29, no. 10, p. 1700-1715
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A completed modeling of local binary pattern operator for texture classification Guo, Z; Zhang, L ; Zhang, D
Source IEEE transactions on image processing, 2010, v. 19, no. 6, 5427137, p. 1657-1663
Type Journal/Magazine Article