Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme (URFP)

URFP Poster Session: Student Research Posters

Below is a list of research topics of the student posters in the URFP poster session arranged by Faculty. Please click the links to view the posters.

URFP 2019-20

Architecture

In what ways are the community architectural heritage in Hong Kong worth conserving – A study of Hong Kong Public Toilets and their Cultural Significance (Division of Architectural Conservation Programmes)

Engineering

Acceleration of computation on field robots using FPGA-based reconfigurable computers (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Mapping of electrical potentials in the human body: a review and future prospects (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Medicine

The Effect of Neurostimulation on Synaptoplasticity (Neuroplasticity) in Depression (Biomedical Sciences)
Development and characterization of a novel nanoparticle-based drug delivery system of bosentan monohydrate for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (Pharmacology and Pharmacy)
The roles of neutrophil elastase and proteinase 3 in energy metabolism (Pharmacology and Pharmacy)

Science

Social Sciences

Contemporary Manchu Ethnic Tourism and Ethnic Identity Represented (Politics and Public Administration)
Integrating Mobilization and Institutionalization: Wiping “Black” and “Evils” in China (Politics and Public Administration)
One more minute and I’ll leave the game!’: The relationship among belongingness need, time perception and gaming addiction (Psychology)

Education

Do Cantonese-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder show superior discrimination of speech pitch across languages? An experimental study (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
An early efficacy study of Cross-situational Statistically-based Word Learning intervention for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) using a single subject experimental design (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Effective perceptual training on non-native lexical tone identification for monolingual and bilingual tone language speakers (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
An early efficacy study of Enhanced Milieu Teaching approach on grammar intervention for Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) using a single subject experimental design (Speech and Hearing Sciences)

URFP 2018-19

Architecture

Reorienting the conservation practice in Hong Kong: The application of Singapore’s conservation zoning model in Hong Kong (Division of Architectural Conservation Programmes)

Dentistry

Effect of silver diamine fluoride and potassium iodide on the shear bond strength of glass ionomer cements to caries-affected dentine

Education

A survey of current speech therapy services for children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Australia and Hong Kong (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
An objective investigation of lingual and labial coordination in tongue twister production by Cantonese adults (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Comparing the effectiveness of three training methods on English vowel perception in Cantonese-speaking secondary school students learning English as a second language (ESL) (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Comprehension monitoring in Chinese-English good and poor comprehenders (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Literacy development in second-language learners: The Co-development of Chinese and English biliteracy in native and non-native Cantonese speaking children in Hong Kong (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
The processing of light verb constructions in Cantonese (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Understanding the roles of theory of mind and receptive prosody in reading comprehension among Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder (Speech and Hearing Sciences)

Engineering

Diffusion operator with mediator for hypergraphs (Computer Science)
Fast2Vec: An efficient network embedding framework (Computer Science)
Learning colored transparent object matting from a single image (Computer Science)
On the weak neural dependence phenomenon in wide deep neural networks (Computer Science)
Quantum machine learning with superposition of causal order (Computer Science)
Enhancing the field of view of nonlinear optical microscopy (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Sensory substitution based vibro-tactile prosthetic glove (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Unit commitment of a power system with renewable energy integration and load forecasting (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Medicine

Conditional knockout of vinculin in neural crest cells disrupts gangliogenesis in enteric nervous system development in mice (Biomedical Sciences)
In-vitro study of Camptothecin in an hnRNPA1 cell line (Biomedical Sciences)

Science

Phosphorylation of Ybx1 protein and regulation of the nodal signaling pathway during zebrafish embryogenesis (Biological Sciences)
Preparation of recomibinant protein of adiponectin in E. coli and testing of its bioactivity in cell lines with adiponectin receptor expression and its potential effects on promoter activation of pituitary hormones (Biological Sciences)
Influenza A virus PB1-F2 cytotoxic motif promotes self aggregation to elicit NLRP3 dependent IL-1β release (Biomedical Sciences)
Role of TRPC1-induced Ca²⁺-signaling in neuromuscular synapse development (Biomedical Sciences)
Using neuronal tracing and a passive transparent brain to visualize neuronal pathway (Biomedical Sciences)

Social Sciences

Chinese online media and nationalism in foreign affairs: A case study of China-South Korea tensions in the 2017 anti-THAAD incident (Politics and Public Administration)

URFP 2017-18

Education

Attitudes of pre-service and in-service teachers towards reflective practice: An empirical analysis with the multicomponent model (Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Education)
The efficacy of a Chinese reading strategy instruction program for K3 children in Hong Kong (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Treatment effect of expiratory muscle strength training as an adjunct treatment for improving swallowing functions in nasopharyngeal cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Visuospatial short-term memory correlates of receptive vocabulary ability in Cantonese-speaking and English-speaking preschool children in Hong Kong and Australia (Speech and Hearing Sciences)

Engineering

Free-floating bikesharing in Asia, Europe and North America – Understanding early adoption and expansion trends (Civil Engineering)
Sustainable ground improvement with the use of sand-rubber mixtures – a comprehensive laboratory study (Civil Engineering)
C-Explorer – Browsing communities in large graphs (Computer Science)
Classification for pathological images using machine learning (Computer Science)
Deep learning on mobile GPUs (Computer Science)
HKU-Face: A large-scale dataset for deep face recognition (Computer Science)
Deep learning in customer-centric precision marketing (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Resilient data collection protocol with In-Network processing for oil and gas refinery networks (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Solar powered airship (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Unsupervised Chinese character style generation (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Interfacial folding of aqueous two-phase systems using flow oscillations (Mechanical Engineering)

Medicine

Science

The role of centromere, kinetochore and cell cycle checkpoint proteins in anoxia-induced suspended animation and recovery in S. cerevisiae (Biological Sciences)
Investigation and validation on gene expression during development of nucleus pulposus – Hox genes and cell surface markers (Biomedical Sciences)
Modulation of the cGAS-STING pathway by MERS-CoV (Biomedical Sciences)
Probing the influence of the R-Zn-R bond angle in dialkylzinc complexes on the Lewis acidity of the zinc metal centre and implications for zinc activities (Chemistry)
Studies on the effect of stereochemistry on (4+3) cycloaddition to synthesize perhydroazulenes (Chemistry)
Field trip investigation in Inner Mongolia (Earth Sciences)
Upper-ocean stratification in the polar North Atlantic and its impact on deep-water ventilation during past interglacials (Earth Sciences)

URFP 2016-17

Business and Economics

A new measure for individual ability – An example from major league baseball (Economics and Finance)

Engineering

The behaviour of heavily over-consolidated clays (Civil Engineering)
Cause of the disastrous landslide in Shenzhen on December 20, 2015 (Civil Engineering)
Effect of high-pressure micro-gas inclusions on artificial rocks (Civil Engineering)
Investigation on a high-speed long-runout landslide in Zhenxiong, Yunnan (Civil Engineering)
An empirical comparison of different supports in sequential robotic manipulation (Computer Science)
Using meta structure in heterogeneous information networks (Computer Science)
Network anomaly detection (Computer Science)
Self-balancing robot with PID control and neural networks control (Computer Science)
Distributed optimal power flow: An augmented Lagrangian-sequential quadratic programming approach (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
A virtual reality platform for dynamic human-scene interaction (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
In situ reinforcement of titanium alloy through eutectic solidification (Mechanical Engineering)
The influence of misalignments in a ball screw assembly on the starting torque of a servomotor (Mechanical Engineering)
Rogue waves in a fluid with density stratification: Applications to ocean engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
Mapping of the myocardial mechanical properties using elastic tensor imaging (Medical Engineering)

Medicine

Identifying potential mediators in regulating BART-miRNA in EBV-positive nasopharyngeal epithelial cells (Biomedical Sciences)

Science

Design, synthesis and photophysical study of cyclometallated N^C^N alkynylplatinum(II) complexes (Chemistry)
Novel mechanisms for targeting cancer cells using nanotechnology based drug delivery (Biological Sciences)

Social Sciences

Does it matter who excludes you? Source social status moderates the exclusion-aggression link (Psychology)

URFP 2015-16

Business and Economics

Are NBA teams rational in the draft? (Economics and Finance)
Buyer Power by NGOs (Economics and Finance)

Education

Interactions of cognitive and motor rehabilitation in stroke (Institute of Human Performance)
An acoustical examination of differences in speech motor control associated with bilingual and monolingual speakers (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
Examining the grammatical complexity of preschool children with Specific Language Impairment using the revised Index of Syntax Development (Speech and Hearing Sciences)

Engineering

3D Printing Infilling Structure Optimization (Civil Engineering)
Evaluation of Drought Impacts on the Water Resources of the Dong River Basin in Southern China (Civil Engineering)
Performance of Common Visualisation Algorithms in the Medical Domain (Computer Science)
FPGA Architecture Exploration and CAD Router Optimization (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
A Novel Primary-Side Control Method of Wireless Power Transfer Systems (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Development of a low-cost on-chip flow cytometer (Medical Engineering)

Medicine

Clinical significance and functional role of CAMK1D in the chemoresistance of hepatocellular carcinoma (Surgery)

Science

Red-light-induced Carbon Disulfide Release from a Cobalt Complex (Chemistry)
From Holomorphic Functions to Complex Manifolds (Mathematics)
Investigation on Tensor Network Renormalization Group (Physics)
On the Predictions of Early Galaxy Formation from Quantum Wave Dark Matter in the Hubble Frontier Fields (Physics)

Social Sciences

The role of REM and neuroticism in the napping effect on emotional facial perception (Psychology)

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