Annual Report 2009–10

46 醫學院 Faculty of Medicine 法律學院 Faculty of Law 工程學院 Faculty of Engineering 研發網絡機械手系統 Web Robotic Hand-in-Hand System 機械與自動化工程學系劉雲輝教授及其研究小組設計的一套網絡機械手系統，可透 過網絡傳遞動作及觸感，用者只須在前臂配戴「表面肌電感測器」，手部的動作及力 度，觸感及手溫便會受到感測，傳送到網絡另一端的機械手上。過往網絡平台傳遞的 多是文字、圖像和影片，該發明為網絡傳遞情感帶來革命性突破，並可應用於遙距監 察手部活動能力受中風或其他疾病影響的病人之康復進度。 Prof. Liu Yunhui (Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering) headed a research team that has developed a web robotic hand-in-hand system capable of transferring the sensation of hand touching over the internet. The team invented a surface electromyography sensing ring, to be worn at the forearm, to measure the motion and force of a human hand, and a low-cost USB Robotic Hand as a haptic display that generates the hand touch feeling and reproduces the hand’s temperature. The invention will revolutionize the expression of emotional feeling on internet chatting platforms, which are already being used to exchange information in a range of medias (e.g. text, images, video), and can also be applied to programmes such as the internet-based rehabilitation of patients with motor impairments due to stroke and other diseases. 世界貿易制度下的報復行為 Retaliatory Measures in the World Trading System Prof. Bryan Mercurio以其有關世界貿易制度下報復行為的論文，獲得中大青年學者研 究獎。該論文於權威的專業期刊發表後，成為劍橋大學出版社網站在十二個月內十篇 最高瀏覽率的論文之一。文章指出有關世界貿易組織解決爭端機制的修訂建議有其弊 處，可導致違反世貿組織條約的國家借機「付款」逃責。此研究觸及經濟發展、國家管 治、公平和平等議題，現已獲廣泛引用，並為關於此課題的公共政策辯論開啟新頁。 Prof. Bryan Mercurio of the Faculty of Law was awarded a CUHK Young Researcher Award for a highly-regarded article on retaliatory measures in the world trading system. The article, published in the leading specialist journal and currently one of the 10 most viewed articles on the Cambridge University Press website within the last 12 months, uncovers flaws in proposed amendments to the trading rules which would allow for countries violating WTO obligations to ‘buy-out’ of the violation. This research, which considers issues of economic development, multilateral governance and fairness and equality among nations, has already been frequently cited, and has the potential to reshape public policy debate on the issue. 新雙心室起搏療法 Biventricular Pacing in Patients with Bradycardia and Normal Ejection Fraction 內科及藥物治療學系余卓文教授與本地、內地、馬來西亞的研究人員，印證了傳統右 心室起搏療法可能導致心臟病患者左心室功能惡化的說法。該說法早於二十年代提 出，過去七年的觀察研究也傾向達致這個結論。在一項隨機抽樣的研究中，余教授的 研究隊伍證實，傳統的右心室起搏療法會影響左心室重構，並減弱泵血功能。而採用 雙心室起搏療法則可防止這些影響。研究結果於學術期刊《新英格蘭醫學雜誌》發 表，相信會為心臟病人所用的起搏器帶來新技術。 Prof. Yu Cheuk-man (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics), in collaboration with a number of researchers from Hong Kong, mainland China and Malaysia, conducted an important study to determine whether conventional right ventricular apical pacing had a deleterious effect on left ventricular function in patients with cardiac problems, as had been suggested as early as the 1920s and as observational studies during the past seven years had tended to bear out. In a prospective, double-blind, multicenter study, dubbed Pacing to Avoid Cardiac Enlargement (PACE), Professor Yu and his colleagues confirmed that conventional right ventricular apical pacing resulted in adverse left ventrical remodelling and in a reduction in the left ventricle ejection fraction in patients with normal systolic function. The team also established that these effects could be prevented by biventricular pacing. The team’s findings, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine , could hasten a significant shift in the techniques commonly used in the pacemakers prescribed to cardiac patients.