Yun Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yun Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yun |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3396-5867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resilience assessment of urban multimodal transportation networks under the impact of rainfall
Maximizing effectiveness of AI-generated instructors through human-like behavior and dynamic visual cues in instructional videos
Land Resources, Green Energy, and Food Production
In the era of COP27, both the industrialized and developing economies aim to tackle climate‐changing issues. Yet, the complex nexus of land resources, green energy, and food production remains a hot topic for policymakers and scholars. There is a significant literature gap since the existing literature lacks empirical evidence concerning the stated nexus. To bridge the gap, the present study analyzes the influence of land resources (forest, natur…
From recorded to AI ‐generated instructional videos
Generative AI (GAI) and AI‐generated content (AIGC) have been increasingly involved in our work and daily life, providing a new learning experience for students. This study examines whether AI‐generated instructional videos (AIIV) can facilitate learning as effectively as traditional recorded videos (RV). We propose an instructional video generation pipeline that includes customized GPT (Generative Pre‐trained Transformer), text‐to‐speech and lip…
A framework for analyzing the spatiotemporal distribution of urban electric vehicle charging load
Assessing the robustness of urban metro networks under flooding risk
Cross-country health inequality in the asthma burden
Our findings imply that rates of asthma incidence, prevalence, deaths, and DALYs decreased, but age-specific distribution was not essentially changed. Inequality in asthma incidence and prevalence narrowed, but high body mass index-related asthma death concentrated in lower SDI regions and inequality widened. Healthcare system reforms should focus on primary risk factor and lower SDI regions
Regional insights into the relationship between metabolic associated steatotic liver disease and chronic kidney disease
Our findings reveal a geographical correlation between MASLD and CKD incidence, contingent upon socioeconomic factors. To effectively mitigate the global burden of MASLD and CKD, it is imperative to design and implement targeted public health strategies that consider the unique socioeconomic contexts of each region, thus fostering equitable health outcomes
Effects of and mechanisms underlying qingwen baidu decoction in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury
QWBD reduces inflammatory response and pyroptosis in SA-AKI, likely by suppressing the TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB cascade. The monomeric constituents 2,3-Dihydrodauriporphine, homochelidonine, and baicalin may play important roles in regulating these renoprotective effects
Ambient PM 1 on COPD mortality
Background Evidence on the short-term association between particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤1 μm (PM 1 ) and mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is scarce. We aimed to explore the potential effects of PM 1 on COPD mortality. Methods We conducted a province-wide time-stratified case-crossover study in 13 cities of Jiangsu province, China, from 2015 to 2019. Daily mortality data were collected and PM 1 at t…
Country-level Risk and Green Energy Transition
In today's rapidly evolving world, the transition towards green energy remains momentous in attaining ecological sustainability.In this respect, the present study intends to elucidate factors influencing the green energy transition in OECD economies from 2004 to 2020.We use several diagnostic measures to validate the heterogeneity of slopes and cross-sectional dependence in the panel.Nevertheless, cointegration exists between the study variables,…
China's Age of Ascendance, Ambition, and Atrophy
The news coming out of China in recent years points to cracks in an imposing structure—a gilded age gradually losing its luster. Against this backdrop, China's Age of Abundance offers a timely and authoritative account of both China's path that has led the country to its current juncture, as well as its possible future trajectory. Whereas a preponderance of writings has largely attributed China's economic growth to its cheap labor, here, drawing …
Reaching Chinese in the World-Christian Literature in Post-war Hong Kong
During the Cold War, various political forces sought to shape the mindset of the Chinese diaspora. One understudied cultural influence that played an important role in reaching overseas Chinese was Chinese Christian literature. Focusing on Dengta (Lighthouse, 1956-1967), the first Chinese Christian magazine aimed at non-Christian communities in the diaspora, this study examines how the magazine developed an evangelical discourse that engaged with…
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China
ObjectiveThis article examines how gendered lived experiences-the constellation of women's quotidian, on-the-ground encounters and perceptions of gender inequality-shape highly educated women's sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China.BackgroundRecent theoretical developments highlight women's experiences and views of gender (in)equity as powerful forces that drive their fertility aspirations and behavior. Yet, extant research on sex …
An Efficient Planning Method to Recommend COA Based on New Command and Control Organizational Structure Model
This article introduces a command and control (C2) organizational structure model, which can analyze military C2 organization structure from three perspectives: organizational elements, organizational relationships, and organizational processes. In the organizational processes, a decision-making problem of recommending course of action (COA) is described. Then, a planning method is proposed to solve this decision-making problem, which includes si…
Effects of VR instructional approaches and textual cues on performance, cognitive load, and learning experience
The petroleum ether extracts of Chloranthus fortunei(A. Gray) Solms-Laub.with bioactivities
Artistic Interventions in Urban Renewal
The aim of this study was to explore the multiple roles of public art in urban renewal and sustainable development goals, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, with an emphasis on community engagement and the application of theoretical frameworks. Through a detailed analysis of public art projects in Teruel, Spain, and Chengdu, China, this study shows how public art plays an important role in enhancing cultural values, promoting social …
Toward sustainable consumption
Environmental degradation is a severe problem around the globe, which includes a range of worries such as weather extremes, biodiversity loss and heatwaves. The scientific community has widely recognized the urgent need to address these challenges and transition towards sustainable sustainability. One key aspect of sustainability is the concept of eco‐innovation, which involves the production processes that minimize ecological impact of productiv…
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of immunocompromised patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia
Background Immunocompromised patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) warrant special attention because they comprise a growing proportion of patients and tend to have poor clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics and outcomes of immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with SCAP, and to investigate the risk factors for mortality in these patients. Methods We conducted retrospective o…
The Individuals in the Numbers
t was never quite her decision.'I wasn't ready to be a mother, but it was impossible not to,' Hui (a pseudonym) said during our interview in 2016, not long after China's decades-long One-Child Policy ended.Her husband had made it clear to her that the 'DINK' (Double Income, No Kids) life-which Hui had long idealised and believed would ease the pressure of living in Beijing-was unacceptable to both him and his parents.From the moment Hui turned 25…
Web-based music learning environment
The paper compares the effectiveness of the online and blended learning of music during COVID-19. The study involved 140 students from Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in China. The research design: a pre-test and post-test experiment with a control group. The following research findings were obtained: the combination of face-to-face and online learning resulted in significant increases in PK (from 205.72 to 303.40), TPK (from 258.75 to 271.50), PCK…
Circulating plasma and exosome levels of the miR-320 family as a non-invasive biomarker for methamphetamine use disorder
The neurobiological mechanism underlying methamphetamine (MA) use disorder was still unclear, and no specific biomarker exists for clinical diagnosis of this disorder. Recent studies have demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the pathological process of MA addiction. The purpose of this study was to identify novel miRNAs for the diagnosis biomarkers of MA user disorder. First, members of the miR-320 family, including miR-320a-3p, m…
Rural Reform in Republican China
This article explores the Christian efforts to modernize rural women, who were placed at the center of rural reform in Republican China in the 1920s. Rural women represented an important, untapped force for change in rural communities. The Christian magazine Nü xing 女星 (Woman’s Star), launched in 1932, reached out to this group. Through a new model of rural womanhood, a figure called Mrs. Wang, the magazine demonstrated how rural women could tran…
The influences of a virtual instructor's voice and appearance on learning from video lectures
The Dual Demands
This article investigates fertility intentions and obstacles among young Chinese men and women after the lift of the one-child policy. Over a hundred in-depth interviews reveal that while having one child is viewed as the normative step following marriage, various obstacles remain for second-birth transition. Time and financial concerns are salient among both men and women, whereas labor market disadvantage and the perceived incompatibility betwe…
Good Mothers Work”
Drawing on 70 in‐depth interviews, I investigated how maternal employment shapes urban young Chinese women's work–family expectation in a context of rapid social change. These interviews indicated that respondents attached strong moral meaning to mothers’ wage work, regarding it as integral to a “good” mother and an “ideal” woman. This moralization of maternal employment, in turn, led contemporary young Chinese women to view wage work as a taken‐…
Economic Resources, Cultural Matching, and the Rural-Urban Boundary in China's Marriage Market
Objective: This article investigates marital sorting by household registration status (hukou) and education in contemporary urban China, paying special attention to individuals who have achieved rural-to-urban hukou mobility before marriage.Background: Existing theoretical frameworks of assortative mating have highlighted economic resources and cultural matching as two key dimensions. These two frameworks place a different emphasis on individuals…
Sexual behaviour and contraceptive use among unmarried, young women migrant workers in five cities in China
This paper reports the results of exploratory research on reproductive and sexual health knowledge and sexual behaviour of young, unmarried women who migrate to cities from rural areas for work, and their access to and needs in relation to family planning in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Guiyang and Taiyuan, in China. Focus group discussions were conducted with 146 young women aged 16–25 and 58 in-depth interviews with key informants. Some of the…
How gendered lived experiences shape sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China
ObjectiveThis article examines how gendered lived experiences-the constellation of women's quotidian, on-the-ground encounters and perceptions of gender inequality-shape highly educated women's sex preference attitudes in contemporary urban China.BackgroundRecent theoretical developments highlight women's experiences and views of gender (in)equity as powerful forces that drive their fertility aspirations and behavior. Yet, extant research on sex …
Artistic Interventions in Urban Renewal
The aim of this study was to explore the multiple roles of public art in urban renewal and sustainable development goals, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, with an emphasis on community engagement and the application of theoretical frameworks. Through a detailed analysis of public art projects in Teruel, Spain, and Chengdu, China, this study shows how public art plays an important role in enhancing cultural values, promoting social …
Toward sustainable consumption
Environmental degradation is a severe problem around the globe, which includes a range of worries such as weather extremes, biodiversity loss and heatwaves. The scientific community has widely recognized the urgent need to address these challenges and transition towards sustainable sustainability. One key aspect of sustainability is the concept of eco‐innovation, which involves the production processes that minimize ecological impact of productiv…
Transnational but Isolated
Literature on immigrants’ religious activities highlights the importance of transnational ties between the host and home communities. This paper challenges the dominant discourse by looking at a Chinese evangelical church in Chiba, one of the seven prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. This ethnic church is an isolated religious community that grows with limited transnational connections and support. By exploring the structure and members…
Sexual behaviour and contraceptive use among unmarried, young women migrant workers in five cities in China
This paper reports the results of exploratory research on reproductive and sexual health knowledge and sexual behaviour of young, unmarried women who migrate to cities from rural areas for work, and their access to and needs in relation to family planning in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Guiyang and Taiyuan, in China. Focus group discussions were conducted with 146 young women aged 16–25 and 58 in-depth interviews with key informants. Some of the…
Ginseng total saponins enhance neurogenesis after focal cerebral ischemia
Mining interactions in immersive learning environments for real-time student feedback
The analysis and use of data generated by students’ interactions with learning systems or programs – learning analytics – has recently gained widespread attention in the educational technology community. Part of the reason for this interest is based on the potential of learning analytic techniques such as data mining to find hidden patterns in students’ online interactions that can be meaningfully interpreted and then fed back to students in a wa…
The Wuhan-Zhuhai (WHZH) cohort study of environmental air particulate matter and the pathogenesis of cardiopulmonary diseases
The results obtained in WHZH cohort study may increase a better understanding of the relationship between particulate air pollution and its components and possible health damages. And the potential mechanisms underlying the development of cardiopulmonary diseases has implications for the development of prevention and treatment strategies
The Trends in Cardiovascular Diseases and Respiratory Diseases Mortality in Urban and Rural China, 1990–2015
With the rapid development of the economy over the past 20 years, the mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and respiratory diseases (RDs) have changed in China. This study aimed to analyze the trends of mortality rates and years of life lost (YLLs) from CVDs and RDs in the rural and urban population from 1990 to 2015. Using data from Chinese yearbooks, joinpoint regression analysis was employed to estimate the annual percent change…
The Dual Demands
This article investigates fertility intentions and obstacles among young Chinese men and women after the lift of the one-child policy. Over a hundred in-depth interviews reveal that while having one child is viewed as the normative step following marriage, various obstacles remain for second-birth transition. Time and financial concerns are salient among both men and women, whereas labor market disadvantage and the perceived incompatibility betwe…
Transnational but Isolated
Literature on immigrants’ religious activities highlights the importance of transnational ties between the host and home communities. This paper challenges the dominant discourse by looking at a Chinese evangelical church in Chiba, one of the seven prefectures in the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. This ethnic church is an isolated religious community that grows with limited transnational connections and support. By exploring the structure and members…
Potential Effects of Lung Function Reduction on Health-Related Quality of Life
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) was reported to reflect overall quality of life and individual perceptions related to health. Decreased lung function is associated with reduced ventilation and oxygen intake and reported to affect body functions. However, the effect of lung function reduction on HRQOL is still unclear. A total of 8398 retired workers from Dongfeng-Tongji Cohort Study were included in this cross section study. Lung function …
Economic Resources, Cultural Matching, and the Rural-Urban Boundary in China's Marriage Market
Objective: This article investigates marital sorting by household registration status (hukou) and education in contemporary urban China, paying special attention to individuals who have achieved rural-to-urban hukou mobility before marriage.Background: Existing theoretical frameworks of assortative mating have highlighted economic resources and cultural matching as two key dimensions. These two frameworks place a different emphasis on individuals…
Estimating and Interpreting Fine-Scale Gridded Population Using Random Forest Regression and Multisource Data
Gridded population results at a fine resolution are important for optimizing the allocation of resources and researching population migration. For example, the data are crucial for epidemic control and natural disaster relief. In this study, the random forest model was applied to multisource data to estimate the population distribution in impervious areas at a 30 m spatial resolution in Chongqing, Southwest China. The community population data fr…
The Impact of Health Insurance on Healthcare Utilization by Migrant Workers in China
Health insurance is an essential instrument to ensure equal access to medical resources and promote the health of the general population. Robust evidence regarding whether migrant workers have benefited from available insurance schemes is limited. Drawing on survey data from the Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) Project, this paper examines the effects of health insurance on migrant workers' utilization of routine medical services, the medic…
Good Mothers Work”
Drawing on 70 in‐depth interviews, I investigated how maternal employment shapes urban young Chinese women's work–family expectation in a context of rapid social change. These interviews indicated that respondents attached strong moral meaning to mothers’ wage work, regarding it as integral to a “good” mother and an “ideal” woman. This moralization of maternal employment, in turn, led contemporary young Chinese women to view wage work as a taken‐…
Envisioning an Ideal Christian Family in Republican China
Amid debates and discussions on the institution of the family in Republican China, foreign missionaries and Chinese Christians played an active role in promoting an ideal Christian family. This article investigates the three waves of prominent theological thinking that underpinned changing ideals of the Christian family throughout the Republican period: Chinese society’s encounter with the gendered ethics of the Christian community in the early R…
Negative Appraisals of the Covid-19 Social Impact Associated With the Improvement of Depression and Anxiety in Patients After Covid-19 Recovery
Objective: Little is known about the factors affecting the recovery of mental health in COVID-19 patients. The purpose of this study is to look into the change of psychological distress and to explore the role of negative appraisals in the improvement of psychological distress in COVID-19 patients after they recovered from the infection. Methods: We conducted a longitudinal survey on patients with COVID-19 infection in Changsha. The 9-item Patien…
Risk and protective factors for anxiety during Covid-19 pandemic
These findings revealed protective and risk factors associated with anxiety, and developed a simple method of identifying people who are at an increased risk of anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic
The Personal and the Political
Birth rates have declined globally over the past several decades. Extensive research has applied the gender equity theory to examine the link between individuals’ gender role attitudes and their fertility ideations in postindustrial democracies. A puzzle remains: does individuals’ gender ideology still matter for their fertility ideation when the state constrains individuals’ rights to have children? The author turns to a postsocialist authoritar…
The influences of a virtual instructor's voice and appearance on learning from video lectures
Visualizing Gendered Attitudes toward Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in China over a Decade
Scholars have documented increasing cooptation of the institution of heteronormative family by the Chinese state in recent years to maintain its authoritarian control. China’s marriage law and population policies, entrenching heteronormativity and rendering LGBTQ people invisible, define marriages as between women and men and promote “high-quality” childbearing only within such unions. Much public attention on LGBTQ issues in China has focused on…
Singing a New Song
This paper focuses on the songs circulated in the first Christian woman’s magazine in China, Nü duo (1912–1951). Its first editor, American missionary Laura M. White (1867–1937), played a crucial role in creating a wide range of music for Chinese girls through journalism. White used print media to circulate songs that were viewed as an integral part of the spiritual life of ideal womanhood. Unlike the hymnody confined to congregational worship, t…
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of immunocompromised patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia
Background Immunocompromised patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) warrant special attention because they comprise a growing proportion of patients and tend to have poor clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics and outcomes of immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with SCAP, and to investigate the risk factors for mortality in these patients. Methods We conducted retrospective o…
The Individuals in the Numbers
t was never quite her decision.'I wasn't ready to be a mother, but it was impossible not to,' Hui (a pseudonym) said during our interview in 2016, not long after China's decades-long One-Child Policy ended.Her husband had made it clear to her that the 'DINK' (Double Income, No Kids) life-which Hui had long idealised and believed would ease the pressure of living in Beijing-was unacceptable to both him and his parents.From the moment Hui turned 25…
Web-based music learning environment
The paper compares the effectiveness of the online and blended learning of music during COVID-19. The study involved 140 students from Nanjing Xiaozhuang University in China. The research design: a pre-test and post-test experiment with a control group. The following research findings were obtained: the combination of face-to-face and online learning resulted in significant increases in PK (from 205.72 to 303.40), TPK (from 258.75 to 271.50), PCK…
Circulating plasma and exosome levels of the miR-320 family as a non-invasive biomarker for methamphetamine use disorder
The neurobiological mechanism underlying methamphetamine (MA) use disorder was still unclear, and no specific biomarker exists for clinical diagnosis of this disorder. Recent studies have demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the pathological process of MA addiction. The purpose of this study was to identify novel miRNAs for the diagnosis biomarkers of MA user disorder. First, members of the miR-320 family, including miR-320a-3p, m…
Rural Reform in Republican China
This article explores the Christian efforts to modernize rural women, who were placed at the center of rural reform in Republican China in the 1920s. Rural women represented an important, untapped force for change in rural communities. The Christian magazine Nü xing 女星 (Woman’s Star), launched in 1932, reached out to this group. Through a new model of rural womanhood, a figure called Mrs. Wang, the magazine demonstrated how rural women could tran…
An Efficient Planning Method to Recommend COA Based on New Command and Control Organizational Structure Model
This article introduces a command and control (C2) organizational structure model, which can analyze military C2 organization structure from three perspectives: organizational elements, organizational relationships, and organizational processes. In the organizational processes, a decision-making problem of recommending course of action (COA) is described. Then, a planning method is proposed to solve this decision-making problem, which includes si…
Medicine (14 works) · China (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works)