Автор: Daniel TL Shek

While it is good to see that there are many leadership programs in the market for different parts of the world, there are several limitations of the existing leadership programs. Primarily, most of …

With the conclusion of adolescence, a child develops into a teenager that may experiment with dating, smoking and drinking, and they may make important decisions without parental knowledge or …

Have universities forgotten their educational role in guiding students to grow up? With specific reference to Hong Kong, the university structure was a three-year program before the 2012/13 academic …

Adolescent risk behavior is a growing problem in the global context. In many places, efforts are carried out to prevent the occurrence of adolescent risk behavior and to identify the best …

Using the experience from the United States on positive youth development, researchers in Hong Kong developed the Project P.A.T.H.S., trained the potential program implementers and evaluated the …

In this book, some other attributes of service leadership and the related curriculum materials are introduced. The first one is moral character. While generic leadership competences are important, …

A team of researchers from five universities in Hong Kong have constructed a comprehensive positive youth development package for junior secondary school students in Hong Kong. This project is called …

Our nation’s electric power infrastructure that has served us so well for so long – also known as "the grid" – is rapidly running up against its limitations. This book substantiates the …

The tomato is one of the world’s major vegetable crops. Like other important crops, tomatoes also suffer huge crop losses due to many severe diseases. In this book, the authors discuss the role of …

Energy is essential to our Nation and our lives; we use energy to power homes and businesses and to transport people and goods, making it an important component of our economy. Reliable, clean and …

The object of this book is to introduce the subject of ejector in refrigerating plants in view of energy savings. A first part concerns the use of an ejector in a heat-operated system for the …

The imminent exhaustion of fossil energy resources and the increasing demand for energy were the motives to put into practice an energy policy based on rational use of energy, and on exploitation of …

The world demand of light and middle distillate petroleum products (mainly gasoline and diesel) is increasing dramatically, especially within the transportation sector. Eventually, such requirement …

New methods used for the detection of DNA hybridization process, including electrochemical, optical scattering, surface plasmon resonance, nanogravimetric, and fluorimetric are described and their …

Service leadership is conceived as "satisfying needs by consistently providing quality personal service to everyone one comes into contact with, including one’s self, others, groups, …

In the traditional Chinese culture, families showed several characteristics. First, male members generally held a superior position whereas females typically occupied a submissive role. Second, under …

Starting out, the history and development of Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Program is outlined and its achievement. For the pilot studies from 2011 to 2014, the Editors found that students joining the …

How can leadership in service economies be developed and nurtured? This issue is of the utmost importance, because the mode of production and requirements of the leaders are different in …

Young people are regarded as future assets of the society. Hence, adolescent prevention programs are commonly developed to tackle adolescent risk behavior and positive youth development programs are …

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in social distancing and lockdown of businesses and also changed life for university students, who had to stay home and learn online instead of frontal teaching. …