Zhao Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3794688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhao Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhao |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6031-6268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Paradigm shifts in achieving global food security
Do platform recommendation logics shape public engagement with sports health content? 400-video evidence from Douyin and Bilibili
Background Digital video platforms are not neutral conduits; their ranking signals and interfaces shape what becomes visible and valuable. Badminton—balancing spectacle and instruction—offers leverage to compare Douyin's engagement-optimized short video with Bilibili's community- and knowledge-oriented ecology. Objective To examine whether engagement patterns differ across platform-native discovery environments and to interpret these differences …
Can public data openness enhance public health resource allocation efficiency? Evidence from the launch of Chinese government data platforms
Introduction: Public health resource allocation efficiency constitutes a critical pillar for protecting public health and social welfare. Nevertheless, data silos and information asymmetry constrain the optimization of public health resource allocation. Methods: Taking the launch of Chinese government data platforms as a quasi-natural experiment, this study uses provincial panel data from 2009 to 2022, adopts DEA, staggered DID and other approach…
Comparative Efficacy of Straw Return Strategies in Ameliorating Coastal Saline‐Alkali Soils in Jiangsu Province, China
As an important reserve of arable land resources, the saline‐alkali soil in the coastal economic zone of Jiangsu Province urgently needs sustainable improvement that balances agricultural productivity and ecological safety. The current traditional straw return practices face a key bottleneck in that they are difficult to coordinate salt regulation and fertility improvement, which seriously restricts regional food security. To date, it remains unc…
The allyl isothiocyanate (Aitc) isolated from mustard (Sinapis alba L.) oil exerts antidepressant effects by blocking the interaction between Sert and nNOS
Psychological adaptation to scaffolded generative AI use in higher education
This study examines how students psychologically adapt to scaffolded generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use in higher education. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), we investigated how acceptance-related beliefs and behavioral intention (BI) were associated with learning engagement (ENG) and student-perceived instructional innovation (PPI) in a New Media Mark…
Geochemical Evidence for Regional Ceramic Exchange Networks in the Pearl River Delta during the Late Bronze Age, 1000–300 BCE
Late Bronze Age communities in the Pearl River Delta of southern China underwent important socio-economic changes. Previous studies have related this transformation to the emergence of an expansive exchange network connecting the production and consumption centers in the upper Dongjiang River valley with coastal and island communities in Hong Kong, as suggested by the wide distribution of stoneware bearing the distinctive “double-F” motif. Yet ar…
A modified radiation model based on the characteristics of airline network under large-scale disruptions
Drought impacts on global crop production decline despite its frequency and severity intensifying
Climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of droughts, posing a significant threat to global crop production. Accurately quantifying drought impacts is challenging and critical for mitigation. Here, we use a high-resolution, bottom–up assessment framework to analyze drought impacts on yields of four major crops—maize, soybean, rice, and wheat—at county, provincial, and national levels over 1997–2021. Results show yield losses esca…
Network meta-analysis of traditional Chinese exercises for cardiovascular health in middle-aged and older adults hypertensive patients
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, PROSPERO CRD420251141539
Measuring road segment resilience patterns under frequent disturbances
Study on medical professionals’ acceptance of and factors influencing drone delivery for medical supplies
Introduction: Drone delivery technology provides innovative alternatives for the transportation of medical supplies. Due to their quick reaction, effectiveness, and adaptability, drones can drastically reduce the time it takes to deliver medications, vaccines, and emergency supplies as compared to standard logistics models. However, the real marketing of drone delivery technology has been hampered by medical professionals' concerns about its stab…
Leveraging local knowledge to develop local forecasts
Maximizers Abandon More Before Decisions, Regret More After Decisions, and Re-Maximize More for Second-Time Decisions
Maximizers, as opposed to satisficers, are defined as decision-makers who consider many alternatives to make the best choice. We adopted records in Taobao (the largest e-commerce platform in China) in 2022 to quantify individual maximization strategy inclination (the number of within-subcategory items that a consumer account considers prior to a first-time purchase). Using this index, we examined whether real-world behaviors in Taobao could be ex…
Multi-tissue metabolomics and network pharmacology study on the intervention of Danggui Buxue Decoction in mice with gemcitabine induced myelosuppression
Topical frankincense treatment for frostbite based on microcirculation improvements
Curiosity and hotel revenue management challenges
Diversity underlying uniformity? A case study of iron implements from Han tombs in Youxian, Hunan, and regional patterns of the iron industry in Southern China
This study presents the analytical results of iron implements from Han tombs in the Youxian area of eastern Hunan, a region within the southern territories of the Han empire that has received limited attention in archaeological and archaeometallurgical research. The findings indicate that most of these objects were made using the solid-state decarburization of cast iron. Two objects containing slag inclusions were identified within the assemblage…
From digital cities to smart homes
China faces a growing challenge in providing adequate age-friendly care services due to a rapidly aging population. Smart older adults care (SOAC), developed under the concepts of age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) and smart healthy age-friendly environments (SHAFE), aims to address this imbalance between service demand and supply. This study explored the impact of SOAC on the life satisfaction of older adults in China using a multi-level…
How can work improve family life quality? The influence of thriving at work on family role performance and work–family balance satisfaction
Threat of low-frequency high-intensity floods to global cropland and crop yields
Birth cohort and social change decreased quality of life among older adults
Quality of life (QoL) has become an essential goal of contemporary healthcare and protective psychological resources. Individual life expectancy has increased with improved social progress, healthcare, nutrition and advanced health‐related technologies. However, research often overlooks the significant impact of social change and generational effects on the QoL of the ageing population. As people age, optimising opportunities for health, particip…
The mediating role of job satisfaction in the stressor–strain relationship among Chinese government employees
In recent years, China has seen a sharp increase in job stress-related suicides among government employees. Existing research already identifies a stressor–strain relationship, although more studies are warranted to investigate how this relationship is played out among Chinese government employees. The Healthy Work Organization model posits that work adjustment (such as job satisfaction) can mediate the stressor–strain relationship. The purpose o…
An Interpretation of Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter from the Perspective of Jung’s Archetype Criticism
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a literary canon in American literature. As a classic, this novel has already been interpreted in many ways, such as feminism, existentialism, ecofeminism and so on. However, as for the analysis of characters, the research of the novel The Scarlet Letter mainly concentrates on Hester or Dimmesdale, yet Roger Chillingworth hasn’t been studied in depth. This essay is going to delve into the psychological …
The heterogeneous relationship between public health expenditures and household medical expenditures
Exploring the heterogeneous relationship between public health expenditures and household medical expenditures from the perspective of relative poverty has positive significance for improving the ability of relative poverty households to cope with the risk of large rigid expenditures and optimizing the public health resource allocation. This paper uses the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2016 to 2020 to identify relative poverty standard f…
Urban Infrastructure Financing in Reform-era China
Urban infrastructure has been substantially upgraded in reform-era China. This paper explains, contextually and empirically, how Chinese cities finance their infrastructure. It demonstrates that China has succeeded in addressing urban infrastructure backlogs by opening up new venues for financing, but simultaneously, heavily relying on unconventional sources. The paper also argues that urban infrastructure financing has much to do with the countr…
Public perception and responses to environmental pollution and health risks
Concerns have been raised among policy-makers, researchers and Chinese citizens regarding the widespread environmental degradation that has occurred in China in recent decades. Years of environmental education and media coverage on pollution harm and health risks have not only provided information about pollution to the public, but have also strengthened people’s concerns. However, an ‘intense focus’ on pollution is far from sufficient; at presen…
Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and Governmentality in Nanjing’s Historic Inner‐City
Housing‐related urban development has become a core plank of China’s economic policy since the mid‐1990s. Reports of resistance to displacement and resettlement associated with urban restructuring, once widespread, have dissipated since the early‐2010s. Using the framework of governmentality and through qualitative empirical fieldwork in the historic inner‐city of Nanjing, we try to understand the dynamics of this change. This research draws atte…
Urban Infrastructure Financing in Reform-era China
Urban infrastructure has been substantially upgraded in reform-era China. This paper explains, contextually and empirically, how Chinese cities finance their infrastructure. It demonstrates that China has succeeded in addressing urban infrastructure backlogs by opening up new venues for financing, but simultaneously, heavily relying on unconventional sources. The paper also argues that urban infrastructure financing has much to do with the countr…
Anti-inflammatory function of ginsenoside Rg1 on alcoholic hepatitis through glucocorticoid receptor related nuclear factor-kappa B pathway
Public perception and responses to environmental pollution and health risks
Concerns have been raised among policy-makers, researchers and Chinese citizens regarding the widespread environmental degradation that has occurred in China in recent decades. Years of environmental education and media coverage on pollution harm and health risks have not only provided information about pollution to the public, but have also strengthened people’s concerns. However, an ‘intense focus’ on pollution is far from sufficient; at presen…
Hepataprotective effects of ginsenoside Rg1 – A review
Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Different response of human mortality to extreme temperatures (MoET) between rural and urban areas
The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia
Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspective by Schaefer and Shapiro). They establish key phases in the population prehistory of Eurasia, incl…
The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years
Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…
Identifying the spatiotemporal changes of annual harvesting areas for three staple crops in China by integrating multi-data sources
Reliable and continuous information on major crop harvesting areas is fundamental to investigate land surface dynamics and make policies affecting agricultural production, land use, and sustainable development. However, there is currently no spatially explicit and time-continuous crop harvesting area information with a high resolution for China. The spatiotemporal patterns of major crop harvesting areas at a national scale have rarely been invest…
Extortion and Cooperation in Rating Protocol Design for Competitive Crowdsourcing
Although crowdsourcing has emerged as a paradigm for leveraging human intelligence and activity to solve a wide range of tasks, strategic workers will find enticement in their self-interest to free-ride and attack in a crowdsourcing contest dilemma game. Existing incentive mechanisms are not effective to avoid socially undesirable equilibrium due to the following features of competitive crowdsourcing: in the presence of imperfect monitoring, hete…
Planning maize hybrids adaptation to future climate change by integrating crop modelling with machine learning
Crop hybrid improvement is an efficient and environmental-friendly option to adapt to climate change and increase grain production. However, the adaptability of existing hybrids to a changing climate has not been systematically investigated. Therefore, little is known about the appropriate timing of hybrid adaptation. Here, using a novel hybrid model which coupled CERES-Maize with machine learning, we critically investigated the impacts of climat…
Relationships between Risk Events, Personality Traits, and Risk Perception of Adolescent Athletes in Sports Training
Personality traits have close relationships with risky behaviors in various domains, including physical education, competition, and athletic training. It is yet little known about how trait personality dimensions associate with risk events and how vital factors, such as risk perception, could affect the happening of risk events in adolescent athletes. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the prediction of risk events by regression …
Associations between Brain Microstructure and Phonological Processing Ability in Preschool Children
Neuroimaging studies have associated brain changes in children with future reading and language skills, but few studies have investigated the association between language skills and white matter structure in preschool-aged children. Using 208 data sets acquired in 73 healthy children aged 2-7 years, we investigated the relationship between developmental brain microstructure and phonological processing ability as measured using their phonological …
Response of rice phenology to climate warming weakened across China during 1981–2018
Climate warming has substantially shifted plant phenology, which alters the length of growing season and consequently affects plant productivity. Recent studies showed a stalled or reversed impact of climate change on vegetation phenology since 1998, as well as an asymmetric warming effect. However, how field crop phenology responded to the recent climate warming and the asymmetric warming remains unknown. In addition, the relative roles of clima…
Evidence for increasing global wheat yield potential
Wheat is the most widely grown food crop, with 761 Mt produced globally in 2020. To meet the expected grain demand by mid-century, wheat breeding strategies must continue to improve upon yield-advancing physiological traits, regardless of climate change impacts. Here, the best performing doubled haploid (DH) crosses with an increased canopy photosynthesis from wheat field experiments in the literature were extrapolated to the global scale with a …
Metagenomic Analysis Reveals the Response of Microbial Communities and Their Functions in Lake Sediment to Environmental Factors
Jingpo Lake is the largest mountain barrier lake in China and plays a key role in breeding, power generation, and providing a source of drinking water. Microbes are important participants in the formation of lake resources and energy cycles. However, the ecological protection of Jingpo Lake has faced serious challenges in recent years. In this study, we investigate the responses of the microbial community's composition of sediments at five locati…
Unraveling the Role of Objective Food Environment in Chinese Elderly’s Diet-Related Diseases Epidemic
The essential role of the objective food environment in achieving healthy aging has been widely recognized worldwide. However, the existing empirical evidence is mostly based on Western cases, and how the objective food environment associates with health outcomes among Chinese elderly remains poorly understood. By merging nationally representative micro survey data with Baidu-based spatial data on the location of food outlets, this study develops…
Do Community Home-Based Elderly Care Services Improve Life Satisfaction of Chinese Older Adults? An Empirical Analysis Based on the 2018 CLHLS Dataset
Population aging has become a major challenge for the Chinese government. Based on the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) in 2018, this study adopts the propensity score matching (PSM) method to assess the effect of community home-based elderly care services (CHECS) on the life satisfaction of the elderly in China. The results demonstrate that CHECS can improve their life satisfaction. Compared with life care services (LCS) and…
Spill-over effect of Wuhan travel ban on population flow in the outbreak stage of Covid-19 in China
Urban Redevelopment, Displacement, and Governmentality in Nanjing’s Historic Inner‐City
Housing‐related urban development has become a core plank of China’s economic policy since the mid‐1990s. Reports of resistance to displacement and resettlement associated with urban restructuring, once widespread, have dissipated since the early‐2010s. Using the framework of governmentality and through qualitative empirical fieldwork in the historic inner‐city of Nanjing, we try to understand the dynamics of this change. This research draws atte…
The application of thymol-loaded chitosan nanoparticles to control the biodeterioration of cultural heritage sites
The mediating role of job satisfaction in the stressor–strain relationship among Chinese government employees
In recent years, China has seen a sharp increase in job stress-related suicides among government employees. Existing research already identifies a stressor–strain relationship, although more studies are warranted to investigate how this relationship is played out among Chinese government employees. The Healthy Work Organization model posits that work adjustment (such as job satisfaction) can mediate the stressor–strain relationship. The purpose o…
An Interpretation of Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter from the Perspective of Jung’s Archetype Criticism
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a literary canon in American literature. As a classic, this novel has already been interpreted in many ways, such as feminism, existentialism, ecofeminism and so on. However, as for the analysis of characters, the research of the novel The Scarlet Letter mainly concentrates on Hester or Dimmesdale, yet Roger Chillingworth hasn’t been studied in depth. This essay is going to delve into the psychological …
The heterogeneous relationship between public health expenditures and household medical expenditures
Exploring the heterogeneous relationship between public health expenditures and household medical expenditures from the perspective of relative poverty has positive significance for improving the ability of relative poverty households to cope with the risk of large rigid expenditures and optimizing the public health resource allocation. This paper uses the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2016 to 2020 to identify relative poverty standard f…
How containment policy and medical service impact Covid-19 transmission
As COVID-19 shows a heterogeneous spreading process globally, investigating factors associated with COVID-19 spreading among different countries will provide information for containment strategy and medical service decisions. A significant challenge for analyzing how these factors impact COVID-19 transmission is assessing key epidemiological parameters and how they change under different containment strategies across different nations. This paper…
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