Biomimetics has traditionally meant the study of the structure and function of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of materials and machines. Some stunning results showing how biomimetics has been put into practice include Velcro, the Millennium Dome in London and the...

The late 1960s was a ‘major watershed’ for the evolution of labour laws in Hong Kong because social disturbances during 1966 and 1967 caused a ‘crucial shift of establishment attitudes’. Employers, who were ‘severely jolted’ by the events, quickly accepted thereafter the need for...

This article uses previously under-exploited quantitative and qualitative primary sources in Hong Kong, the US, and the UK to chronicle how radio broadcast technologies extended in a Less Developed Country. As incomes were rising and the price of radio receiving sets was falling, demand-side...

At the UK Stata User's Group meeting in 2000, we presented a series of linked commands which made it possible to declare exposure, stratifying and confounding variables, and to combine this information with Stata estimation commands such as regress, logistic, poisson, stcox, xtpois, etc., to...

Stata incorporates commands for carrying out two of the three general approaches to asymptotic significance testing in regression models, namely likelihood ratio (lrtest) and Wald tests (testparms). However, the third approach, using "score" tests, has no such general implementation. This...