• 牙科新聞

    Updated: 2010-05-31 08:41:55
    14 – 31 May 2010 香港   1. 每日刷牙少於兩次 心臟病風險增七成  [明報] 2010-05-29 B16 MP+ 2. 牙刷勁多菌月換免招腸胃炎  [蘋果日報] 2010-05-29 E05 36樓E 3. 衞署診所剝錯老婦牙  [東方日報] 2010-05-28 A18 港聞 4. 港大牙科治療中心開幕  [成報] 2010-05-28 A12 港聞 5. 港大添新儀器 植牙僅需一日  [大公報] 2010-05-28 A05 要聞 6. 港大牙醫學院「尋」內地尖子  [大公報] 2010-05-28 A05 要聞 7. 蛀牙症狀及後果  [都市日報] 2010-05-27 P32 健康 健康口腔 8. 裂唇和裂顎 (一)  [am730] 2010-05-26 M22 健康 醫ZONE 鄭碧純 9. 牙齒矯正5大之謎 [香港經濟日報] 2010-05-20 C08健康 10.  SUN特搜：洗牙整容價廉多港人捧場 [太陽報] 2010-05-18 A18 [...]

  • WHO Calls for Protection of Women and Girls from Tobacco Use

    Updated: 2010-05-31 08:08:19
    News Release WHO/13   28 MAY 2010 | GENEVA - In observance of World No Tobacco Day 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) is urging global action to protect women and girls against the sickness and suffering caused by tobacco use.   “The trends in some countries are extremely worrisome,” said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. “Tobacco use is [...]

  • Database Update - Ovid SP 3.0

    Updated: 2010-05-31 02:25:12
    OvidSP 3.0 - a new platform for OvidSP has been launched with following enhancements:-   New Work Productivity Tools New search filters, a “widget” approach to results management, and numerous new citation management options, and more. My Workspace Create work projects and organize all of your research materials—individual articles, search strategies, images, and more—into a dedicated area. Ovid [...]

  • World Cup Offers Hope

    Updated: 2010-05-28 18:21:52
      In addition to all of the international attention and investment, the World Cup is also providing hope to many Africans, and an opportunity to combat negative stereotypes and misconceptions about the Continent. This article discusses what the World Cup means to a young boy from Cameroon, and many other individuals, suggesting that it will serve [...]

  • April New Acquisitions

    Updated: 2010-05-28 18:19:32
    DT386.73.T35 O86 2005x Takla Hawaryat. Otobayografi : (yeheywate tarik). Adis Ababa: Adis Ababa yunivarsiti pres, 1998 2005 or, 2006. DT433.545.M33 M37 2009x Masharen. The Maasai pioneers : the first modern cream. Nairobi: S. Ole Masharen, 2009. DT515.45.H38 R69 1981x The Hausa of Northern Nigeria : a catalogue of the R.E. Miller collection and others in the Royal Scottish Museum. Edinburgh: [...]

  • SAGE outstanding reference books

    Updated: 2010-05-28 09:44:29
    SAGE Reference Online which contains authoritative, award-winning, international and interdisciplinary handbooks across the social sciences. These collections increase the content on SAGE Reference Online to 200 reference works in many disciplines including Communication, Psychology, Business, Sociology, Education and more. Below are titles that have received an award or starred review: 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook Encyclopedia [...]

  • Past public lectures available online

    Updated: 2010-05-28 09:43:44
    Already bored with the semester break? There are past public lectures of some universities available online, open to the public: Australian National University (ANU) Podcasts Duke University On Demand Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Public Health Open Course Ware London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Public lectures and events Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [...]

  • New Exhibit@Medical Library - Alexandre Yersin and the Discovery of the Plague Bacillus in Hong Kong

    Updated: 2010-05-28 09:17:18
    Exhibit of “Alexandre Yersin and the discovery of the plague bacillus in Hong Kong” is now on display at the Medical Library.  Highlight of the exhibit includes a miniature reproduction of Dr Alexandre Yersin’s hut in Hong Kong where he discovered the plague bacillus.   The 1894 plague epidemic in Hong Kong lasted for over twenty-five years [...]

  • Wiley Online Library Goes Live In July

    Updated: 2010-05-28 08:21:46
    Wiley Online Library will completely replace Wiley InterScience when it goes live over the weekend of July 24th.   More information about the period of ‘downtime’ during the transition will be available nearer the time.    Wiley Online Library will deliver integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 8000 books, and hundreds of reference works, [...]

  • Book highlights in sociology via Springer

    Updated: 2010-05-28 05:47:50
    Book Highlights in Sociology: Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu Globalization and Families The Gülen Movement Handbooks and Reference Works: Handbook on Crime and Deviance Handbook of European Societies Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines For more books in the Social Sciences, please click here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fobelix.lib.hku.hk%2Fcdblog%2F%3Fp%3D5679'; addthis_title = 'Book+highlights+in+sociology+via+Springer'; addthis_pub [...]

  • Most Downloaded Articles in Psychological Research

    Updated: 2010-05-28 05:47:05
    The following were among the 10 most downloaded articles during 2009, published in the highly cited journal Psychological Research (Impact factor: 1.754 (2008)). Psychological Research publishes articles that contribute to a basic understanding of human perception, attention, memory and action. Enjoy FREE access to these articles until the end of June:    Emotional Stroop task: effect of word arousal [...]

  • Development Trajectories

    Updated: 2010-05-26 21:13:00
    This note introduces an evolutionary approach to economic and governance reform. It lays out two especially prevalent trajectories that differ starkly from one another in how they prioritize and sequence economic growth, state building, and the development of civil society and political institutions.

  • Reducing the Harmful Use of Alcohol Improves Health and Communities

    Updated: 2010-05-26 10:07:45
    News Release WHA/01   21 MAY 2010 | GENEVA - For the first time, delegations from all 193 Member States of World Health Organization (WHO) reached consensus at the World Health Assembly on a resolution to confront the harmful use of alcohol — which contributes to poor health globally, can devastate families and damage the structure of [...]

  • Managing the Shift from Experience to Engagement

    Updated: 2010-05-26 00:49:54
    Globalization blog Analysis and advice on content globalization localization issues by Gilbane Group . Analysts Home Archives XML Search Blog Globalization Publishing News Conferences Press gilbane.com Sign In Search Managing the Shift from Experience to Engagement By Mary Laplante on May 25, 2010 8:49 PM Vote 0 Votes We have the honor of presenting at the popular Web Managers Roundtable meeting in Washington , DC , this Thursday , May 27. The general topic is managing global user engagement . Our talk explains why global companies need to rethink their web presence and shift investments from world-class customer experience to web experience management . What are the trends driving this fundamental shift , nbsp what are the implications for web managers , and how can you create competitive

  • Africa on the World Football (Soccer) Stage: From Colonization to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa

    Updated: 2010-05-17 20:57:56
    Leading to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kick-off on June 11, the Africana Collection, Center for International Collections at Alden Library will host; Africa on the World Football (Soccer) Stage: From Colonization to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa a presentation by Dr Gerard Akindes of the College of Health [...]

  • Kill or cure? Uganda assails its homosexuals

    Updated: 2010-05-15 16:46:00
    : MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Sunday May 16, 2010 Kill or cure Uganda assails its homosexuals By Don Cayo 15 May 2010 COMMENTS(3 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Jack Webster Foundation CIDA Uganda Canadian International Development Agency human rights A leading proponent of Uganda's anti-gay campaign says the real aim of a bill before parliament is to curb and to cure homosexuality , but a provision of the bill calls for persistent or aggressive offenders to be put to . death My colleague Tara Carman , one of the recipients of this year's CIDA Jack Webster Foundation fellowship for young journalists to visit subSaharan Africa , examines the issue in a feature-length story in The Sun . She examines how such assault on human rights came to be taking place in

  • Africa Kicks

    Updated: 2010-05-11 17:50:32
    This interesting BBC documentary tells the story of football (soccer) in Africa leading to the 2010 FIFA world cup in South Africa in June. Football stars and former stars like C. K Gyamfi, Abedi Pele, Neil Tovey, Emmanuel Adebayor, Nii Lamptey and others give personal accounts of their experiences and administrators and officials reveal the struggle for the [...]

  • A Game For Life

    Updated: 2010-05-06 16:16:01
    Grassroot Soccer project coordinator, Nolusindiso “Titie” Plaatjie, uses soccer to educate South African youth about HIV/AIDS prevention. She describes her childhood in the poverty-stricken city of Port Elizabeth and how soccer gave her the drive to be who she is today.

  • Ubuntu

    Updated: 2010-05-06 15:18:15
    Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy, recognizes how we are inextricably bound in each other’s humanity. Translated as, “I am because you are,” Ubuntu describes a sense of unity between people through which we each discover our own strengths and virtues. Featuring healer Credo Mutwa, GreenHouse Project director Dorah Lebelo, and former Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe [...]

  • A Thousand Suns

    Updated: 2010-05-05 20:20:45
    A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably intact both biologically and culturally. It is one of the most densely populated rural regions of Africa yet its people have been farming [...]

  • International Week Keynote Address

    Updated: 2010-05-04 20:07:15
    Monday May 10th: 7:00PM Emmanuel Jal a former Sudanese child soldier and an international  hip hop artist will be at Ohio University to give the keynote address for this year’s Internatioanl Week at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The speech will focus on war and peace, human generosity and how individuals can make a difference.  Jal’s autobiography; War [...]

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