User profiles for W. Cheung

William Cheung

- Verified email at oceans.ubc.ca - Cited by 43819

Waiman Cheung

- Verified email at cuhk.edu.hk - Cited by 6585

Wing Sum Cheung

- Verified email at nie.edu.sg - Cited by 6258

Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st century

…, MB Araújo, P Balvanera, R Biggs, WWL Cheung… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Quantitative scenarios are coming of age as a tool for evaluating the impact of future
socioeconomic development pathways on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze global …

Calmodulin plays a pivotal role in cellular regulation

WY Cheung - Science, 1980 - science.org
The role of calcium ions (Ca 2+ ) in cell functions is beginning to be unraveled at the
molecular level as a result of recent research on calcium-binding proteins and particularly on …

Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

WWL Cheung, VWY Lam, JL Sarmiento… - Fish and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change can impact the pattern of marine biodiversity through changes in species’
distributions. However, global studies on climate change impacts on ocean biodiversity have …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in Malayan pangolins

…, K Zheng, XM Cui, J Li, GQ Pei, X Qiang, WYM Cheung… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing outbreak of viral pneumonia in China and across the world is associated with
a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 1. This outbreak has been tentatively associated with a …

Large‐scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change

WWL Cheung, VWY Lam, JL Sarmiento… - Global change …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Previous projection of climate change impacts on global food supply focuses solely on
production from terrestrial biomes, ignoring the large contribution of animal protein from marine …

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

…, NJ Bowles-Newark, AM Chenery, WWL Cheung… - Science, 2014 - science.org
In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We …

Students' and instructors' use of massive open online courses (MOOCs): Motivations and challenges

KF Hew, WS Cheung - Educational research review, 2014 - Elsevier
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are among the latest e-learning initiative to attain
widespread popularity among many universities. In this paper, a review of the current …

Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios

JP Gattuso, A Magnan, R Billé, WWL Cheung… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Although the ocean moderates anthropogenic climate change, this has
great impacts on its fundamental physics and chemistry, with important consequences for …

Intraparticle diffusion processes during acid dye adsorption onto chitosan

WH Cheung, YS Szeto, G McKay - Bioresource technology, 2007 - Elsevier
… The sieved chitin was deacetylated to chitosan by using 48% sodium hydroxide solution (w/w)
at 100 C under nitrogen atmosphere for 1 h. Then, the product was washed with …

[PDF][PDF] Synergistic coupling of histone H3 phosphorylation and acetylation in response to epidermal growth factor stimulation

P Cheung, KG Tanner, WL Cheung, P Sassone-Corsi… - Molecular cell, 2000 - cell.com
Histone acetylation and phosphorylation have separately been suggested to affect chromatin
structure and gene expression. Here we report that these two modifications are synergistic. …