Wei Fang
Biographic Data
| ID | 128102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei Fang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei |
| FAMILY NAME | Fang |
| SIGNATURE | FANG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7448-689X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How supply chain bidirectional empowerment enhances smallholder resilience: An empirical study from China
Spectrum-effect relationship between chromatography fingerprints and bioactive components of Atractylodes macrocephala on alleviating ulcerative colitis
Don’t Judge From a Single Perspective: LVLM-Based Multiview Multimodal Fake News Detection
The prevalence of social media platforms has accelerated the propagation of fake news, with carefully crafted multimodal fake news often gaining public trust and causing severe impacts. Methods based on multimodal small language models (MSLMs) struggle in scenarios with scarce labeled data. Large vision-language model (LVLM)-based approaches, though alleviating this limitation, often face two major problems: They rely too much on text-image consi…
Sf-Qc: Explore the Selection Bias of Large Language Models in Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Intent Detection
Out-of-distribution (OOD) intent detection aims to identify user queries that exceed predefined intent categories and is a crucial technology for ensuring interaction reliability and user experience in practical applications such as dialogue systems and intelligent customer service. Although large language models (LLMs) perform excellently in natural language processing tasks, they encounter difficulties with zero-shot OOD intent detection. This …
Case Report: A case of subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to elbow intravenous injection of diquat poisoning in young male
Background: With the prohibition of paraquat, the use of diquat (DQ) as a substitute herbicide has increased significantly, and the number of poisoning cases has also increased. As a highly toxic herbicide, DQ has a high fatality rate. Currently, there is no specific antidote for its poisoning, posing a serious threat to public health. Case presentation: This paper reports a case of a 23-year-old male patient who self-injected about 120 mL of DQ …
Synergies and Trade‐Offs Between China's Climate Actions and Other Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Global Climate Governance
As global efforts to realize the United Nations 2030 Agenda continue to intensify, China is not only proactively responding to climate change but also steadily advancing the implementation of other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Existing studies largely rely on correlation‐based approaches, which can reveal statistical associations among SDGs but cannot adequately identify causal directionality, dynamic transmission processes, or policy‐re…
Proportionality and Nonreductive Explanations in the Social Sciences
Building upon the notion of proportionality, this article proposes a line of argument in favor of nonreductive explanations in the social sciences. I argue that many higher-level explanations in the social sciences, i.e., explanations over and above the individual-level, are legitimate explanations insofar as their explanantia are proportional to their given explananda of interest. These higher-level explanations are often favored over their indi…
Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat. water extract prevents and treats metabolic-associated fatty liver disease via pan-PPAR activity
Inequalities in digital literacy: Exploring the disparity in tangible outcomes of internet use among college students in China
Introduction In the age of digitization, digital literacy plays a crucial role in ensuring that college students thrive in an increasingly digital world. While many studies have examined disparities in digital literacy focusing on access and skills, there is still a research gap concerning the tangible benefits college students derive from internet use. Using an internet outcome framework, our study scrutinizes the potential disparities in benefi…
Proportionality, Determinate Intervention Effects, and High-Level Causation
Stephen Yablo’s notion of proportionality, despite controversies surrounding it, has played a significant role in philosophical discussions of mental causation and of high-level causation more generally. In particular, it is invoked in James Woodward’s interventionist account of high-level causation and explanation, and is implicit in a novel approach to constructing variables for causal modeling in the machine learning literature, known as causa…
Transforming environmental leadership into environmental performance: The mediating role of green intellectual capital
According to upper echelon theory, this research seeks to explore how environmental leadership (EL) influences environmental performance through green intellectual capital (GIC), while also considering environmental climate as a moderator. We analyze the data from 317 Chinese manufacturing companies in two waves to test these hypotheses. The findings suggest that EL positively affects environmental performance via green structural capital and gre…
How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: Scale and applicability
How Michaelis–Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability, Zhang, Qin, Yi, Chuixiang, Destouni, Georgia, Wohlfahrt, Georg, Kuzyakov, Yakov, Li, Runze, Kutter, Eric, Chen, Deliang, Rietkerk, Max, Tian, Zhenkun, Hendrey, George, Fang, Wei, Krakauer, Nir, Jarsjo, Jerker, Han, Jianxu, Xu, Shiguo
Pesticide poisoning in Zhejiang Province, China: A retrospective analysis from 2008 to 2022
The current situation of pesticide poisoning in Zhejiang Province remains severe and the government should further strengthen the monitoring and governing of pesticide. Moreover, it is imperative that mental health education and early psycho-social interventions be given greater emphasis to effectively reduce pesticide-related suicides
Aluminum resource entitlements realignment: Empowering non-resource nations through listed mining company shareholding
Analyzes global aluminum entitlements via "Resource-Capital" perspective. • Our model reveals shareholder-state ties in listed mining companies. • Shows state control over resources through multi-layered shareholding systems. • Reveals over 90 % of resource entitlements are concentrated in 10 countries. • Highlights complex shareholding shaping resource power and geopolitics . Aluminum, as a strategic mineral resource, plays a critical role in th…
On the evolution of the wage premium for party membership in China
Social media use, social bot literacy, perceived threats from bots, and perceived bot control: A moderated-mediation model
The rapid development and widespread presence of social bots online has been transforming users' online news environment.This study adopts a human-centered perspective to investigate the impact of individuals' social media usage experiences on their social bot literacy, perception of threats posed from bots, and perceived social bot control within the context of China.We collected data from surveying 1159 Sina Weibo users and conducting interview…
Feature Selection and Machine Learning Approaches in Prediction of Current E-Cigarette Use Among U.S. Adults in 2022
Feature selection is essentially the process of picking informative and relevant features from a larger collection of features. Few studies have focused on predictors for current e-cigarette use among U.S. adults using feature selection and machine learning (ML) approaches. This study aimed to perform feature selection and develop ML approaches in prediction of current e-cigarette use using the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINT…
Disease burden of Aids in last 30-year period and its predicted level in next 25-years based on the global burden disease 2019
The global ASIR decreased from 1990 to 2019. Higher incidence and death rates were observed in the lower SDI region, indicating a greater susceptibility to AIDS among women and < 15 years old. This underscores the urgent need for increased resources to combat AIDS in this region, with focused attention on protecting women and < 15 years old as priority groups. The AIDS epidemic remained severe in sub-Saharan Africa. Projections for the next 25 ye…
When and who will take the “escape from haze trip”? An empirical study based on large-scale hotel check-in records
Air pollution may push people to either stay indoors or travel to "escape from haze." However, it is still unclear when and who will travel to escape from air pollution. Using a large-scale hotel check-in dataset, we find that the effect of air pollution on travel demand shows an inverted-U shape over cumulative exposure days. Specifically, the effect is negative in a time window of "1–5" days while positive in another time window of "8–13" days.…
Design principles as minimal models
Study on the evolution law of performance of mid- to long-term streamflow forecasting based on data-driven models
Can Cinderella become Snow White? The influence of perceived trustworthiness on the mental representation of faces
摘要
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D environment
The attentional effect on visual working memory (VWM) has been a heated research topic in the past two decades. Studies show that VWM performance for an attended memory item can be improved by cueing its two‐dimensional (2D) spatial location during retention. However, few studies have investigated the effect of attentional selection on VWM in a three‐dimensional setting, and it remains unknown whether depth information can produce beneficial atte…
Satellite evidence of canopy-height dependence of forest drought resistance in southwestern China
The frequency and intensity of drought events are increasing with warming climate, which has resulted in worldwide forest mortality. Previous studies have reached a general consensus on the size-dependency of forest resistance to drought, but further understanding at a local scale remains ambiguous with conflicting evidence. In this study, we assessed the impact of canopy height on forest drought resistance in the broadleaf deciduous forest of so…
Design principles and mechanistic explanation
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach
I propose a dynamic causal approach to characterizing the notion of a mechanism. Levy and Bechtel, among others, have pointed out several critical limitations of the new mechanical philosophy and pointed in a new direction to extend this philosophy. Nevertheless, they have not fully fleshed out what that extended philosophy would look like. Given a closer look at neuroscientific practice, I propose that a mechanism is a dynamic causal system that…
Holistic modeling: An objection to Weisberg’s weighted feature-matching account
Texture reconstruction of 3D sculpture using non-rigid transformation
Understanding residents’ environmental knowledge in a metropolitan city of Hong Kong, China
This study aimed to understand the environmental knowledge (EK) of the residents of Hong Kong. A territory-wide survey was administered to investigate the subjective and objective EK of the respondents as well as their means of receiving information about the environment. The results indicated that Hong Kong’s residents have a comparatively low level of EK, with a mean environmental knowledge score of 3.35 out of 8. The youngster (15–24 years old…
On the evolution of the wage premium for party membership in China
Design principles and mechanistic explanation
Multiple Realization in Systems Biology
Thomas Polger and Lawrence Shapiro claim that unlike human-made artifacts cases of multiple realization in naturally occurring systems are uncommon. Drawing on cases from systems biology, I argue that multiple realization in naturally occurring systems is not as uncommon as Polger and Shapiro initially thought. The relevant cases, which I draw from systems biology, involve generalizable design principles called network motifs , which recur in dif…
Mixed-Effects Modeling and Nonreductive Explanation
This essay considers a mixed-effects modeling practice and its implications for the philosophical debate surrounding reductive explanation. Mixed-effects modeling is a species of the multilevel modeling practice, where a single model incorporates simultaneously two (or even more) levels of explanatory variables to explain a phenomenon of interest. I argue that this practice makes the position of explanatory reductionism held by many philosophers …
Climate under Cover: Digital Dynamic Simulation in Plant Bio-Engineering
From mulching to greenhouses, the air space between the cover and the soil surface is the key to the classification of climates under cover. The same mechanism governs environments produced by the various covers. This book describes and analyses all the different environments from mulching to greenhouses. The relationship between plants and environment is another important topic in the book. Stress is placed on the link between quantitative pheno…
On the Indigenization of Social Exclusion among Young Rural-Urban Migrant Workers—The Case of Hangzhou, a Coastal City in China
The notion of social exclusion, which originated in France, has become increasingly significant among Chinese scholars in recent years and is now an important angle for research on socially disadvantaged groups. This paper reviews the social exclusion of young rural-urban migrant workers and its characteristics in terms of social insurance based on interviews conducted in Hangzhou, a coastal city in China. The research findings indicate that the …
Understanding residents’ environmental knowledge in a metropolitan city of Hong Kong, China
This study aimed to understand the environmental knowledge (EK) of the residents of Hong Kong. A territory-wide survey was administered to investigate the subjective and objective EK of the respondents as well as their means of receiving information about the environment. The results indicated that Hong Kong’s residents have a comparatively low level of EK, with a mean environmental knowledge score of 3.35 out of 8. The youngster (15–24 years old…
Texture reconstruction of 3D sculpture using non-rigid transformation
CP-25 attenuates the inflammatory response of fibroblast-like synoviocytes co-cultured with Baff-activated CD4+ T cells
You are what you post in “circle of friends” of WeChat: Self-presentation and identity production from a personality perspective
Social media services have become increasingly important in Chinese people’s daily lives, and among them, WeChat is one of the most popular applications. There have been studies examining individuals’ practices of self-presentation and identity production in various online platforms, and they have found the impact of anonymity on users’ presentation and construction of self. However, little is known about whether users present their actual self o…
Holistic modeling: An objection to Weisberg’s weighted feature-matching account
Forest drought resistance distinguished by canopy height
How are the survival and growth of trees under severe drought affected by their size? While some studies have shown that large trees are more vulnerable to drought than smaller trees, others found that small trees are the more vulnerable. We explored the potential relationships between canopy height and forest responses to drought indicated by tree mortality, tree ring width index (RWI), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in the so…
Evolution Decision, Drivers and Green Innovation Performance for Collaborative Innovation Center of Ecological Building Materials and Environmental Protection Equipment in Jiangsu Province of China
Faced with the bottlenecks and shortcomings brought about by the resource and environmental issues regarding the sustainable development of the economy and society, green innovation has become an important symbol to measure the sustainable competitive advantage of a country and a region. As an important carrier of green innovation, the evolution process of the collaborative innovation network and its green innovation performance are affected by m…
Impacts of Water Stress on Forest Recovery and Its Interaction with Canopy Height
Global climate change is leading to an increase in the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought events, which can affect the functioning of forest ecosystems. Because human activities such as afforestation and forest attributes such as canopy height may exhibit considerable spatial differences, such differences may alter the recovery paths of drought-impacted forests. To accurately assess how climate affects forest recovery, a quantitative e…
Mixed-Effects Modeling and Nonreductive Explanation
This essay considers a mixed-effects modeling practice and its implications for the philosophical debate surrounding reductive explanation. Mixed-effects modeling is a species of the multilevel modeling practice, where a single model incorporates simultaneously two (or even more) levels of explanatory variables to explain a phenomenon of interest. I argue that this practice makes the position of explanatory reductionism held by many philosophers …
Multilevel Modeling and the Explanatory Autonomy of Psychology
This article argues for the explanatory autonomy of psychology drawing on cases from the multilevel modeling practice. This is done by considering a multilevel linear model in personality and social psychology, and discussing its philosophical implications for the reductionism debate in philosophy of psychology. I argue that this practice challenges the reductionist position in philosophy of psychology, and supports the explanatory autonomy of ps…
Multiple Realization in Systems Biology
Thomas Polger and Lawrence Shapiro claim that unlike human-made artifacts cases of multiple realization in naturally occurring systems are uncommon. Drawing on cases from systems biology, I argue that multiple realization in naturally occurring systems is not as uncommon as Polger and Shapiro initially thought. The relevant cases, which I draw from systems biology, involve generalizable design principles called network motifs , which recur in dif…
Toward Mechanism 2.1: A Dynamic Causal Approach
I propose a dynamic causal approach to characterizing the notion of a mechanism. Levy and Bechtel, among others, have pointed out several critical limitations of the new mechanical philosophy and pointed in a new direction to extend this philosophy. Nevertheless, they have not fully fleshed out what that extended philosophy would look like. Given a closer look at neuroscientific practice, I propose that a mechanism is a dynamic causal system that…
Satellite evidence of canopy-height dependence of forest drought resistance in southwestern China
The frequency and intensity of drought events are increasing with warming climate, which has resulted in worldwide forest mortality. Previous studies have reached a general consensus on the size-dependency of forest resistance to drought, but further understanding at a local scale remains ambiguous with conflicting evidence. In this study, we assessed the impact of canopy height on forest drought resistance in the broadleaf deciduous forest of so…
Design principles and mechanistic explanation
Study on the evolution law of performance of mid- to long-term streamflow forecasting based on data-driven models
Can Cinderella become Snow White? The influence of perceived trustworthiness on the mental representation of faces
摘要
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D environment
The attentional effect on visual working memory (VWM) has been a heated research topic in the past two decades. Studies show that VWM performance for an attended memory item can be improved by cueing its two‐dimensional (2D) spatial location during retention. However, few studies have investigated the effect of attentional selection on VWM in a three‐dimensional setting, and it remains unknown whether depth information can produce beneficial atte…
Social media use, social bot literacy, perceived threats from bots, and perceived bot control: A moderated-mediation model
The rapid development and widespread presence of social bots online has been transforming users' online news environment.This study adopts a human-centered perspective to investigate the impact of individuals' social media usage experiences on their social bot literacy, perception of threats posed from bots, and perceived social bot control within the context of China.We collected data from surveying 1159 Sina Weibo users and conducting interview…
Feature Selection and Machine Learning Approaches in Prediction of Current E-Cigarette Use Among U.S. Adults in 2022
Feature selection is essentially the process of picking informative and relevant features from a larger collection of features. Few studies have focused on predictors for current e-cigarette use among U.S. adults using feature selection and machine learning (ML) approaches. This study aimed to perform feature selection and develop ML approaches in prediction of current e-cigarette use using the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINT…
Disease burden of Aids in last 30-year period and its predicted level in next 25-years based on the global burden disease 2019
The global ASIR decreased from 1990 to 2019. Higher incidence and death rates were observed in the lower SDI region, indicating a greater susceptibility to AIDS among women and < 15 years old. This underscores the urgent need for increased resources to combat AIDS in this region, with focused attention on protecting women and < 15 years old as priority groups. The AIDS epidemic remained severe in sub-Saharan Africa. Projections for the next 25 ye…
When and who will take the “escape from haze trip”? An empirical study based on large-scale hotel check-in records
Air pollution may push people to either stay indoors or travel to "escape from haze." However, it is still unclear when and who will travel to escape from air pollution. Using a large-scale hotel check-in dataset, we find that the effect of air pollution on travel demand shows an inverted-U shape over cumulative exposure days. Specifically, the effect is negative in a time window of "1–5" days while positive in another time window of "8–13" days.…
Design principles as minimal models
Inequalities in digital literacy: Exploring the disparity in tangible outcomes of internet use among college students in China
Introduction In the age of digitization, digital literacy plays a crucial role in ensuring that college students thrive in an increasingly digital world. While many studies have examined disparities in digital literacy focusing on access and skills, there is still a research gap concerning the tangible benefits college students derive from internet use. Using an internet outcome framework, our study scrutinizes the potential disparities in benefi…
Computer Science (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · China (6 works) · Economics (6 works)