Ling Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ling Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ling |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5750-6588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 105 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 103 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Batri-7 Attenuates Established Inflammation-Associated Colorectal Adenoma via PI3K/AKT Inhibition and BAX-Associated Apoptosis
The effect of systematic aesthetic education of prosthodontics in undergraduate practical teaching - a randomized controlled study
BACKGROUND: The lack of systematic aesthetic education in prosthodontics training leaves undergraduate interns inadequately prepared to manage patients with aesthetic demands. To enhance the theory knowledge and clinical decision-making abilities of undergraduate dental students in aesthetic restoration, we implemented systematic aesthetic education in practical teaching courses. METHODS: A total of 48 undergraduate dental students from the Guang…
Blended Learning in Under-Resourced Contexts
As blended learning has become prevalent in higher education, particularly in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction, there remains a lack of empirical research focusing on perspectives and experiences of students in under-resourced and underrepresented contexts. This research examines EFL students’ perceptions of blended learning in a Chinese local college, where technological integration and instructional innovation often face contextu…
Energy transitions, clean fuel access and urbanization
The rising climate concern has gained extensive global attention in recent times. Various policy measures have been considered to mitigate its impact, but they remain poorly understood. This study extends the discussion on climate risk (cr) mitigation from 2000 to 2022. It explores the roles of energy transition(et), access to clean fuel technologies (acft), and urbanization (urbp) by employing econometric techniques like, two-way fixed effects, …
Spatiotemporal ripple effect in the evolution of urban economic vitality
Toward a trans* theorization of Chinese danmei
Danmei , the Chinese iteration of Japanese Boys Love (BL), is a genre of male–male romance that has surged in popularity since the 1990s. Building on existing scholarship on BL and danmei , and drawing on theoretical insights from transgender studies, queer theory, and fan studies, this article revisits three central questions about danmei : Who are its fans? What narratives and worlds does it construct? Why has it sparked such intense controvers…
Function-intensive urban form exacerbates spatial inequality of urban service accessibility
Global burden of schizophrenia in 204 countries and regions from 1990 to 2021 and machine learning-based projections to 2036
Our research indicates that the ASIR, ASPR, and ASDR of schizophrenia exhibit significant correlations with gender, socio-demographic index (SDI) and regions. From 2022 to 2036, while the global ASIR of schizophrenia may decline, both the ASPR and ASDR are projected to rise. The escalating disease burden of schizophrenia poses a significant challenge for countries across all development levels
Yulinzhu activates ESR1-mediated germline stem cell regeneration to improve diminished ovarian reserve
Mapping urban functional metabolism transformation
Does vulnerability to household energy poverty affect rural children’s cognition?—Empirical study based on CFPS data
Energy poverty constrains human development and brings many negative impacts, which makes it one of the urgent global problems at present. Compared to cities, rural areas face a more severe problem of relative energy poverty, where children are the first to suffer from relative energy poverty. Thus, portraying the vulnerability of rural children to energy poverty not only helps to identify the relative state of energy poverty in rural households …
Toward Knowledge Integration With Large Language Model for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Social Multimedia
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims to identify specific sentiment elements in social multimedia content. To address aspect extraction and sentiment prediction together, recent studies have utilized a sequence tagging approach, mainly leveraging pretrained language models (PLMs) with specific architecture and auxiliary subtasks. However, these approaches often overlook task-related knowledge and struggle to scale across different domains.…
Media’s role in the crisis
Introduction Through variations in reporting volume and discursive strategies, the media communicates risks to the public and shapes perceptions during crises. Methods This study conducted a corpus-based, quantitative analysis of topoi in American newspapers during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, comparing media representations of unemployment. Results It identifies four recurrent topoi common to both crises that charact…
Trends and forecasts of the prevalence and mortality of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in China
Background: As one of the most aging populations in the world, China has experienced a continuous increase in the disease burden of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other dementia (ADRD). This study aims to analyze the trends in prevalence and mortality rates of AD and related dementia in China from 1990 to 2021 and to predict the disease burden by 2040. Methods: Data was extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021). Joinpoint re…
Class-acquired influenza is more severe than non-class-acquired influenza
Background During the influenza season, teachers have a higher infection rate of influenza than the general population. However, there has been no study on the clinical characteristics of this specific influenza in infection type—“class-acquired influenza,” which means teachers acquire influenza infection from exposure to a substantial quantity of influenza virus aerosols in enclosed classrooms by teaching activities in a short period of time. Me…
Environmental exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and childhood congenital heart disease
Background: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure is associated with various health risks. However, limited research has explored their potential connection with congenital heart disease (CHD). Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between different types of PFAS and childhood CHD using a mixed analysis approach. Methods: A hospital-based case-control study was conducted involving 282 children with CHD and 282 …
Dual attentional patterns in fear of missing out
The effects of self-affirmation on school adjustment of college freshmen
Family Resilience and Its Influencing on Patients with Cervical Cancer in China
The high incidence and mortality rates of cervical cancer are global health concerns. Families of cervical cancer patients often encounter difficulties and face great pressure. Family resilience can assist them handle the crisis. This study aimed to explore the influencing factors of family resilience in patients with cervical cancer, providing a reference for healthcare staff to carry out targeted interventions. Data were collected from 280 indi…
The COPD risk associated with adulthood weight change and early adulthood BMI
Gaps concerning general adiposity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are delaying policies for weight interventions in COPD prevention, especially adiposity in early adulthood and weight changes during adulthood. Based on the China Kadoorie Biobank, a prospective cohort between 2004–2008 covering 5 urban and 5 rural areas, we included 138,764 males and 194,159 females aged 35 ~ 70 years. Weight change was defined as the difference b…
Sleep quality and incidence of diabetes in 0.5 million Chinese adults
Poor sleep quality is comparable to traditional risk factors for diabetes. This study evaluated the association between sleep quality index (SQI) and the risk of diabetes incidence in China. We used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank, comprising 462,743 participants aged 30 to 79 years without diabetes at baseline, who were recruited between 2004 and 2008 from ten diverse regions across China. We developed a SQI to assess sleep quality, based o…
Why did individuals seeking Covid-19 advice return to internet hospitals for follow-up in the early pandemic
Machine learning may help identify factors influencing the choice of internet hospitals for follow-up consultations. Integrating the Health Belief Model enables a more nuanced understanding of individuals' online consultation behaviors. Optimizing triage services could enhance the quality and accessibility of internet hospitals, offering valuable insights for future public health events
Fear of losing face and desire to gain face
Materialism can have numerous negative effects on college students’ psychology and behaviour. Previous research has theoretically predicted that face consciousness leads to materialism. Therefore, this study examined the strong predictive association between face consciousness and materialism using experimental evidence. Moreover, this study explored the effect of face message framing on materialism to determine the relative importance of fear of…
Therapeutic effects of Mudan granules on diabetic retinopathy
MuD have the potential to alleviate diabetic retinal dysfunction by effectively curbing the fibrogenesis-associated neoangiogenesis and mitigating the inflammatory response, thereby restoring retinal health and function
Professional identity and learning engagement
On the basis of identification???participation and social identity theories, we investigated the association between preservice teachers’ professional identity and learning engagement, along with the individual and chain mediating effects of teacher occupational identity and emotional resilience. Using convenience sampling, we recruited 1,156 preservice teachers from two Chinese universities and asked them to complete a questionnaire. Findings in…
All for love
The 2005 season of Super Girl not only turned Li Yuchun into a household name in China but also witnessed the birth of Corn fandom, a massive and predominantly female fan group. In this article, I examine Corns’ dedicated support of Li Yuchun’s music career, and analyse their free labour from a fan perspective. I argue that with the emergence of ‘participatory culture’, Corns have been able to participate in the star-making process of Chinese mus…
Danmei , Xianqing, and the making of a queer online public sphere in China
Danmei is the Chinese term for boys’ love, a genre of male–male romance created by and for women and sexual minorities. This commentary focuses on Xianqing, a well-known danmei forum established under the aegis of a women-oriented literature website in 2003. Although mainly dedicated to popular media consumption, Xianqing has over the years become both a part of the larger online public sphere in China and a unique queer public sphere that defies…
Governing entertainment celebrities in China
This article examines the practices, policies and politics of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) governance of entertainment celebrities from 2005 to 2020. We identify and critically analyse four principle governing approaches with related examples: ‘banning celebrities’, ‘governing through professional associations, laws and notices’, ‘platform governance’ and ‘co-opting stars’. We argue that celebrity governance should be understood within t…
C Geochronology and Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect of Reviewed Lakes Study in China
Lacustrine sediments are important archives for paleoclimate research, but there are evident carbon reservoir effects. Radiocarbon ( 14 C) ages of lake sediments must be corrected for these effects before applying them to paleoclimate research. The authors review the lacustrine research from the last 20 years from different climatic regions in China, and systematically investigate the 14 C age and correction methods used in the studies of 81 lake…
How industrial landscape affects the regional industrial economy
Prevalence and patterns of tobacco smoking among Chinese adult men and women
BACKGROUND: China consumes about 40% of the world's cigarettes, predominantly by men, following a large increase in recent decades. We assess sex-specific prevalence and changing patterns of smoking in Chinese adults in the current decade. METHODS: A nationally representative survey of smoking was conducted in 2010 among 100 000 Chinese adults aged ≥18 years, using a multistage stratified cluster sampling method. Information on smoking frequency,…
Educational disparities in ischaemic heart disease among 0.5 million Chinese adults
Background The relationship between educational attainment and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is limited in evidence in middle-income countries like China. Exploring lifestyle-related mediators, which might be not universal between socioeconomic status and health outcomes in diverse regions, can contribute to interventions targeted at the Chinese to narrow the educational gap in IHD. Methods Based on the China Kadoorie Biobank of 489 594 participa…
Vertical 15-minute city
All for love
The 2005 season of Super Girl not only turned Li Yuchun into a household name in China but also witnessed the birth of Corn fandom, a massive and predominantly female fan group. In this article, I examine Corns’ dedicated support of Li Yuchun’s music career, and analyse their free labour from a fan perspective. I argue that with the emergence of ‘participatory culture’, Corns have been able to participate in the star-making process of Chinese mus…
P2-334 Alcohol and mortality among 220 000 men in China, 1990–2005
Introduction Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption is associated with decreased mortality from cardiovascular diseases in most studies in the West. Data on the health effects of alcohol drinking in China, which involves mainly distilled spirit, are limited. Methods A nationally representative prospective cohort study included 220 000 Chinese men aged 40–79 years who were recruited in 1990–1991 from 45 widely separated study sites. By 1 January 20…
O1-4.3 Seasonal variation in blood pressure among Chinese adults
Introduction Seasonal variation in blood pressure and its association with outdoor air temperature has been reported in several studies. However, large population-based studies are few and data from developing countries such as China are limited. Methods Cross-sectional data from the Kadoorie Biobank Study were used to relate seasonal variation in systolic blood pressure (SBP) to outdoor air temperature in 510 000 Chinese adults aged 30–79 recrui…
Queerly Intimate
This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the 'Pink Super Girl Bar', an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in the Sinophone world. Through an ethnographic account of the formation, convention and performati…
The Effect of Value Sequence on Value-directed Metamemory
摘要: 采用选择性记忆任务, 通过价值顺序2(价值在前、价值在后)×价值高低3(低、中、高)的被试内实验设计考察价值导向元记忆的价值顺序效应。结果发现:(1)空间维度上, 价值顺序在前时被试的价值导向元记忆与价值在后无显著差异(实验1); (2)时间维度上, 价值顺序优先时被试价值导向元记忆水平显著高于价值随后呈现, 并且价值顺序对不同学习阶段价值导向元记忆有显著影响, 出现价值顺序效应(实验2)。研究结果为探讨价值顺序对元记忆的影响提供了实证依据, 对教学实践有参考价值
Network pharmacology-based prediction of the active ingredients and potential targets of Chinese herbal Radix Curcumae formula for application to cardiovascular disease
Deciphering the combination principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine from a systems pharmacology perspective based on Ma-huang Decoction
Emotion Regulation in Male Abstinent Heroin Abusers
The present study examined 25 male prisoners with a history of heroin dependency (M = 35.3 yr., SD = 8.5, range = 21-48) and 25 male prisoners with no history of substance abuse (M = 31.5 yr., SD = 9.8, range = 19-47) who were selected to complete the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Results showed that the group with a history of heroin dependency used a cognitive reappraisal strategy less frequently than controls and that there was no differen…
A global reference for human genetic variation
The 1000 Genomes Project set out to provide a comprehensive description of common human genetic variation by applying whole-genome sequencing to a diverse set of individuals from multiple populations. Here we report completion of the project, having reconstructed the genomes of 2,504 individuals from 26 populations using a combination of low-coverage whole-genome sequencing, deep exome sequencing, and dense microarray genotyping. We characterized…
Systems pharmacology to decipher the combinational anti-migraine effects of Tianshu formula
Body-mass index and all-cause mortality
Design and methods of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (Path) Study
The cumulative, population-based data generated over time by the PATH Study will contribute to the evidence base to inform FDA's regulatory mission under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and efforts to reduce the Nation's burden of tobacco-related death and disease
Danmei , Xianqing, and the making of a queer online public sphere in China
Danmei is the Chinese term for boys’ love, a genre of male–male romance created by and for women and sexual minorities. This commentary focuses on Xianqing, a well-known danmei forum established under the aegis of a women-oriented literature website in 2003. Although mainly dedicated to popular media consumption, Xianqing has over the years become both a part of the larger online public sphere in China and a unique queer public sphere that defies…
Tobacco-Product Use by Adults and Youths in the United States in 2013 and 2014
BACKGROUND: Noncigarette tobacco products are evolving rapidly, with increasing popularity in the United States. METHODS: We present prevalence estimates for 12 types of tobacco products, using data from 45,971 adult and youth participants (≥12 years of age) from Wave 1 (September 2013 through December 2014) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a large, nationally representative, longitudinal study of tobacco use and h…
Prevalence and patterns of tobacco smoking among Chinese adult men and women
BACKGROUND: China consumes about 40% of the world's cigarettes, predominantly by men, following a large increase in recent decades. We assess sex-specific prevalence and changing patterns of smoking in Chinese adults in the current decade. METHODS: A nationally representative survey of smoking was conducted in 2010 among 100 000 Chinese adults aged ≥18 years, using a multistage stratified cluster sampling method. Information on smoking frequency,…
Young adulthood and adulthood adiposity in relation to incidence of pancreatic cancer
Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires …
Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols
Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer as in this digital, globalist age. In response to the proliferation of queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires, especially as manifested online, this book explores extended, diversified, and transculturally informed fan communities and practices based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan that have cultivated various forms of queerness. To right an imbalance in the s…
An Improved Shapley Value Method for a Green Supply Chain Income Distribution Mechanism
Low-carbon development and environmental remediation are key factors for green resource-based supply chains in China. With this aim in mind, by applying game theory under uncertain market demand, this paper incorporates low-carbon development and environmental remediation into a resource-based supply chain coordination model for decentralized and centralized markets. The results show that a centralized market can lead to improvement in total prof…
Association between multiple comorbidities and self-rated health status in middle-aged and elderly Chinese
Various diseases were major determinants of global and age-comparative SRH, and cardiometabolic diseases had the strongest impact on both global SRH and age-comparative SRH at the population level. Prevention measures concentrated on these conditions would greatly reduce the total burden of poor SRH and its consequences such as poor quality of life and use of health care services
Diabetes, plasma glucose and incidence of colorectal cancer in Chinese adults
Background Diabetes is associated with higher risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Uncertainty remains about the relevance of duration of diabetes and about the association of blood glucose with CRC risk among individuals without diabetes. Methods The prospective China Kadoorie Biobank recruited 512 713 participants in 2004–2008 from 10 diverse areas in China. After 10 years of follow-up, 3024 incident cases of CRC (1745 colon, 1716 rectal) were reco…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Love Stories in China
Exploring Determinants of Population Ageing in Northeast China
The paper aims to examine the population ageing process in northeast China, typically perceived as a region experiencing dramatic demographic change and socio-economic slowdown that is much deeper and more significant compared to other regions. Using the 2000 and 2010 census data at the sub-regional level, the SEM (spatial error model) estimation suggests that at least seven socio-economic factors are associated with the evolution of the ageing p…
Patterns and trends of alcohol consumption in rural and urban areas of China
Among Chinese men, the proportion of drinkers engaging in harmful drinking behaviours increased in the past decade, particularly among younger men. Harmful drinking patterns tended to cluster with other unhealthy lifestyles and health-related risk factors
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