Hu, Taobo
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Kumar, Yogesh
Shazia, Iram
Duan, Shen-Jia
Li, Yi
Chen, Lei
Chen, Jin-Fei
Yin, Rong
Kwong, Ava
Leung, Gilberto Ka-Kit
Mat, Wai-Kin
Wu, Zhenggang
Long, Xi
Chan, Cheuk-Hin
Chen, Si
Lee, Peggy
Ng, Siu-Kin
Ho, Timothy Y. C.
Yang, Jianfeng
Ding, Xiaofan
Tsang, Shui-Ying
Zhou, Xuqing
Zhang, Dan-Hua
Zhou, En-Xiang
Xu, Lin
Poon, Wai-Sang
Wang, Hong-Yang
Xue, Hong
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (VPRDO09/10.SC08, VPRDO14SC01, DG14SC02, SRFI11SC06, SRFI11SC06PG, SBI16SC03)
Innovation and Technology Commission - Hong Kong (ITS/113/15FP)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81272469)
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BL2012016)
Article History
Received: 8 May 2018
Accepted: 26 July 2018
First Online: 22 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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