According to a survey conducted by Thomson Scientific in 2006, an established authority in compiling Science Citation Index, PolyU has been ranked number one in the world on the number of papers published in leading journals from 2003 to 2005 in the field of civil engineering.

In the sub-category of Arts and Humanities in the THE-QS ranking exercise ( From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings ), PolyU has been ranked 198th in 2009.

The " Arts and Humanities " discipline at PolyU has been ranked among the top 40 in Asia and one of the top 4 in Hong Kong ( QS. com Asian University Rankings 2009 ).

With the expertise available in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, PolyU has been designated as a collaborative partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has sent forth experts to prepare national athletes for the Olympics.

In the 2011 QS World University Rankings, PolyU ( the university as a whole ) is ranked 177th in the WORLD, versus 198th in 2009.

In THES's 2010-2011 ranking, PolyU is ranked 149.

In the 2010 QS World University Rankings ( QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited ,), PolyU is ranked 70th in the WORLD, for " Technology and Engineering ".

According to the 2009 by-fields Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ( conducted by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan ), PolyU was ranked 72nd in 2008 but 63rd in 2009, in the world in terms of engineering publication performance.

This places PolyU among the world's top 100 universities in the disciplines of engineering and information technology.

According to a recent study published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research in 2008, PolyU ranks as the fourth most productive institution among all Asian countries in publishing research papers in the area of Operations Research and Management Science, topping other universities in Hong Kong.

In 2010, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ’ s Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ) ranks PolyU as the world's top 75 in " Engineering / Technology and Computer Sciences ".

Today, PolyU is an institution of higher learning and offers more than 130 postgraduate, undergraduate and sub-degree programmes, supported by more than 1, 000 academic and research staff members from different parts of the world.

PolyU Student Halls of Residence is probably the largest single block of hall premises in the world that can house over 3, 000 student residents.

Mars Rock Corer, a rock sampling tool jointly developed by leading PolyU engineers and a local dentist, became the first Chinese made instrument launched to space in a European Space Agency spacecraft, Beagle2 Lander, for Mars exploration on 3 June 2003.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( PolyU, ) is the largest government-funded university in Hong Kong.

PolyU researchers have developed a new drug for treating liver cancer: BCT-100.

In March 2007, following the signing of space collaboration agreement between China and Russia, scientists at PolyU started to develop another sophisticated space tool, known as the Soil Preparation System, for a mission to Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, on board a Russian spacecraft.

The Library also maintains several special collections and self-developed databases, including a comprehensive Standards Collection, the PolyU Examination Paper Database, the PolyU Course Scheme Database, the Senate Paper Database, a Digital Image Gallery, and a Slide Collection.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.