Di Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1341079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Di Zhu |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | DI ZHU |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3237-6032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Six basic image schemata of creative design thinking from the perspective of categorization
This study investigates the cognitive basis and differentiated patterns of creative design thinking. From the perspective of categorization, and drawing on classic theories in cognitive linguistics, it develops a typological and image-schematic account of how creative design thinking unfolds. Using Grounded Theory, the study analyses representative and influential inventions from modern human history. Through data collection, grounded coding, and…
How do wives affect household tourism expenditure?
This study investigates the nonlinear, inverted U-shaped relationship between wives’ income share within the household and household tourism expenditure. Challenging the assumption of a uniform effect, the research highlights the complexity and evolving nature of intra-household power dynamics in financial decision-making by integrating feminist and rational choice perspectives. The study further develops a household decision-making model, sugges…
Effects of a culturally tailored intervention on medication adherence in Chinese and Vietnamese Americans with hepatitis B
Introduction Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by chronic hepatitis B (CHB), which is caused by infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV). While adherence to antiviral medication is an effective practical approach to managing CHB and preventing liver cancer, medication adherence rates among Chinese and Vietnamese Americans with CHB, two vulnerable yet understudied populations, remain largely unknown. Methods We designed and implemented…
Reassessing and updating the air quality-tourism connection
With recent improvements in air quality in China, it is crucial to revisit the relationship between air quality and tourism. This study expands on Wang and Chen (2021) by using a larger dataset of 100 major tourist cities over a longer timeframe (2004–2019). The nonlinear dynamic panel regression results confirm the existence of an inverted U-shaped effect. However, unlike the previous study, linear dynamic panel regression results indicate that …
Artificial intelligence affordances, consumer value perceptions, and corporate brand value
When algorithms fail us
While extensive research has identified the drivers of algorithm aversion, the influence of users’ subjective perceptions remains largely underexplored. This study investigates the psychological mechanisms linking perceived algorithmic ineffectiveness to algorithm aversion behavior, proposing psychological reactance as a mediator and implicit personality as a moderator. Data were collected from 733 users of a Chinese language short-form video pla…
Express
Corporate carbon management in the hospitality and tourism industry is gaining prominence, yet limited attention has been directed to the issue of carbon greenwashing (CG), wherein corporations mislead stakeholders by overstating their sustainability practices. Such misrepresentation undermines global decarbonization efforts. Grounded in costly signaling theory, this study investigates the relationship between CEO social status and CG tendencies …
Comparative analysis of the structural transformation of consumption in Russia and China
The article is based on the results of the joint Russian Chinese research project. The authors use sociological and statistical data to consider the specifics of the structural shifts in the population’s consumption, which occurred under modernization in Russia and China. During the last thirty years, given an increase in population’s income and expenses, the proportion of household spending on food has decreased, but in China this decrease was m…
Nonlinear and asymmetric effects of women inclusion on hotel financial risks
This study investigates how women’s inclusion in leadership positions affects financial risk in China’s hotel industry, integrating gender role theory with agency theory. Test results of dynamic panel regressions with the two-step SYS-GMM estimation reveal three key insights, providing empirical evidence that strategic gender diversity in leadership can serve as a financial risk management tool. First, both women’s inclusion in executive (EWI) an…
The role of female directors in hotel corporate giving
This study examines and highlights the pivotal role of female directors in shaping hotel corporate giving (HCG) behaviors. By integrating gender socialization theory and agency cost theory, it provides an in-depth analysis of how the presence of female directors influences HCG in the Chinese hotel industry. Dynamic panel regression results demonstrate that the presence of female directors, measured both by percentage (PFD) and number (NFD), posit…
Tolerating Toxicity
By conceptualizing incivility and belief congruence in online comments as message features that elicit motivational system activation, this study investigates how these features influence readers’ real-time psychophysiological responses, self-reported emotional responses, memory, and behavioral intention. The findings revealed that uncivil comments did not elicit stronger physiological responses (i.e. skin conductance and corrugator activity) tha…
Sensing lakeplace
Urban freshwater ecosystems, composed of rivers, ponds, lakes, and other water bodies, have essential socioeconomic and ecological values for urban residents. However, research investigating how individuals interact with lakes remains limited, especially within cities and at fine spatiotemporal resolutions. To fill this gap, we propose a data-driven analytical framework that comprehensively senses human-lake interactions and profiles the socio-de…
Application of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and multi-sources data on urban functional zones identification, A case study of Changchun, China
Urban functional zones (UFZs) identification is integral to comprehensive city management. However, current methods often fail to effectively leverage multiple data sources to enhance identification accuracy and overlook the spatial interconnections between neighboring units. In this study, we employed a Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) model to consolidate information from adjacent units and enhance the accuracy of UFZs identification…
Research on the impact and mechanism of ESG rating on enterprises’ green total factor productivity-based on staggered difference-in-differences model
Effects and potential mechanisms of Alismatis Rhizoma extracts on glucose and lipid metabolism
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities
RegionGCN
Economic impact of Aces trends on the automotive value chain
In the context of green transportation, the automotive industry is undergoing a revolution in autonomous, connected, electric, and shared (ACES) vehicles. ACES vehicles have a relatively short history and there is limited relevant market data available. Therefore, quantitative research on the economic impact of ACES trends remains a new area of exploration. The purpose of the paper is to explore the economic impact of ACES trends on the automotiv…
Understanding complex interactions between neighborhood environment and personal perception in affecting walking behavior of older adults
Digital storytelling intervention to enhance social connections and participation for people with mild cognitive impairment
Swinburne University of Technology's Human Research Ethics Committee gave ethics approval for this research (Approval Number: 20226525-11105; Date: 26/09/2022). Our findings shall be reported in peer-reviewed journal articles and at relevant conferences
Social connections and participation among people with mild cognitive impairment
Multidimensional initiatives are needed to address barriers to social connections, participation, and technology adoption among individuals with MCI. This includes organizing and engaging in social activities, promoting awareness and education on the importance of social participation, and exploring technology-based interventions to improve memory and storytelling abilities. These efforts can create a supportive environment and empower individual…
Nonlinear effects of board characteristics on China’s hotel firm performance
This study uses dynamic panel regression tests based on the estimation of the system generalized method of moments to examine the effects of board size (BS), board age (BA), and board education (BE) on China’s hotel firm performance (FP). Test results reveal that the effects of BS and BA on hotel FP are nonlinear, but BE has no effect. Specifically, BS has a cubic effect on hotel growth opportunities in terms of Tobin’s Q with turning points equa…
Research on the Policy Effect and Mechanism of Carbon Emission Trading on the Total Factor Productivity of Agricultural Enterprises
Given the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, agricultural development is faced with the dual constraints of resources and the environment. Promoting the green development of agriculture is one of the important missions to solve major social issues in the new era. The implementation goal of the carbon emission trading system is to achieve a win-win situation between carbon emission reduction and green development. To evaluate the effect…
Arima model for predicting chronic kidney disease and estimating its economic burden in China
The number of patients with CKD and the economic burden of CKD will continue to rise in China. The number of patients with CKD in China would increase by 2.6 million (1.6%) per year on average from 2020 to 2025. Meanwhile, the total economic burden of CKD in China would increase by an average of $3.1 billion per year. The ARIMA model is applicable to predict the number of patients with CKD. This study provides a new perspective for more comprehen…
Justice and inequality in the household consumption in Russia and China
The authors conducted a comparative analysis of the household consumption in Russia and China on the basis of the reputable empirical information sources. The article focuses on the main trends and peculiarities in how households from each country differed in terms of the structure and level of consumption under dramatic transformations associated with market reforms. Inequality in consumption in Russia and China, which can be characterized as hi…
Understanding Place Characteristics in Geographic Contexts through Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Inferring the unknown properties of a place relies on both its observed attributes and the characteristics of the places to which it is connected. Because place characteristics are unstructured and the metrics for place connections can be diverse, it is challenging to incorporate them in a spatial prediction task where the results could be affected by how the neighborhoods are delineated and where the true relevance among places is hard to identi…
Understanding complex interactions between neighborhood environment and personal perception in affecting walking behavior of older adults
RegionGCN
Understanding middle class consumers from the justification of taste
This paper focuses on the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, using the data from 30 interviews with middle class people conducted in Beijing. The existing literature tends to depict the Chinese middle class one-dimensionally as in pursuit of either conspicuous display or frugality and neglect the moral justifications consumers deploy, whereas this paper argues that peoples’ justifications for their tastes are key to u…
Homeownership of the young middle class
This paper uses the survey data of graduates from six ‘985 Project’ Universities1 in 2010, and for the first time systematically elaborates homeownership of young middle class, i.e. those born in the 1980s generation, and its influence factors. The research shows that: the overall homeownership rate of the ‘985 Project’ Universities graduates is higher than the average rate of the urban youth in China; the graduates who own a house tend to have b…
A Classe Média Chinesa E Seus Padrões De Consumo
Este artigo enfoca as oportunidades de vida e a orientação dos consumidores da classe média na China, além de examinar suas características e sua participação nas práticas de consumo. Os dados foram fornecidos pelo China General Social Survey 2003. Devido a disparidades econômicas significativas entre as regiões, este artigo volta sua atenção para a divisão entre migrantes e habitantes nativos em cidades metropolitanas, que apresentam mais posiçõ…
Understanding middle class consumers from the justification of taste
This paper focuses on the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, using the data from 30 interviews with middle class people conducted in Beijing. The existing literature tends to depict the Chinese middle class one-dimensionally as in pursuit of either conspicuous display or frugality and neglect the moral justifications consumers deploy, whereas this paper argues that peoples’ justifications for their tastes are key to u…
Homeownership of the young middle class
This paper uses the survey data of graduates from six ‘985 Project’ Universities1 in 2010, and for the first time systematically elaborates homeownership of young middle class, i.e. those born in the 1980s generation, and its influence factors. The research shows that: the overall homeownership rate of the ‘985 Project’ Universities graduates is higher than the average rate of the urban youth in China; the graduates who own a house tend to have b…
The inhibitory effect of Aconiti Sinomontani Radix extracts on the proliferation and migration of human synovial fibroblast cell line SW982
Platform and Proximity
This study explored how geographical proximity of news stories (local or international news stories) and bodily proximity of news platforms (reading news on a smartphone or desktop computer) affects people’s cognitive and emotional processing of news messages. The results suggested that geographical and bodily proximity interact to affect individuals’ attentional engagement with the news messages. Reading crime news that happens in a distant loca…
Uncovering inconspicuous places using social media check-ins and street view images
Understanding Place Characteristics in Geographic Contexts through Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Inferring the unknown properties of a place relies on both its observed attributes and the characteristics of the places to which it is connected. Because place characteristics are unstructured and the metrics for place connections can be diverse, it is challenging to incorporate them in a spatial prediction task where the results could be affected by how the neighborhoods are delineated and where the true relevance among places is hard to identi…
Justice and inequality in the household consumption in Russia and China
The authors conducted a comparative analysis of the household consumption in Russia and China on the basis of the reputable empirical information sources. The article focuses on the main trends and peculiarities in how households from each country differed in terms of the structure and level of consumption under dramatic transformations associated with market reforms. Inequality in consumption in Russia and China, which can be characterized as hi…
Predicting Progression of Covid-19 Infection to Prioritize Medical Resource Allocation
Background: The COVID-19 global pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to health care systems all over the world. The speed of the viral spread results in a tsunami of patients, which begs for a reliable screening tool using readily available data to predict disease progression. Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study was performed to develop and validate a triage model. Patient demographic and non-laboratory clinical data were recor…
Nonlinear effects of board characteristics on China’s hotel firm performance
This study uses dynamic panel regression tests based on the estimation of the system generalized method of moments to examine the effects of board size (BS), board age (BA), and board education (BE) on China’s hotel firm performance (FP). Test results reveal that the effects of BS and BA on hotel FP are nonlinear, but BE has no effect. Specifically, BS has a cubic effect on hotel growth opportunities in terms of Tobin’s Q with turning points equa…
Research on the Policy Effect and Mechanism of Carbon Emission Trading on the Total Factor Productivity of Agricultural Enterprises
Given the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, agricultural development is faced with the dual constraints of resources and the environment. Promoting the green development of agriculture is one of the important missions to solve major social issues in the new era. The implementation goal of the carbon emission trading system is to achieve a win-win situation between carbon emission reduction and green development. To evaluate the effect…
Arima model for predicting chronic kidney disease and estimating its economic burden in China
The number of patients with CKD and the economic burden of CKD will continue to rise in China. The number of patients with CKD in China would increase by 2.6 million (1.6%) per year on average from 2020 to 2025. Meanwhile, the total economic burden of CKD in China would increase by an average of $3.1 billion per year. The ARIMA model is applicable to predict the number of patients with CKD. This study provides a new perspective for more comprehen…
Digital storytelling intervention to enhance social connections and participation for people with mild cognitive impairment
Swinburne University of Technology's Human Research Ethics Committee gave ethics approval for this research (Approval Number: 20226525-11105; Date: 26/09/2022). Our findings shall be reported in peer-reviewed journal articles and at relevant conferences
Social connections and participation among people with mild cognitive impairment
Multidimensional initiatives are needed to address barriers to social connections, participation, and technology adoption among individuals with MCI. This includes organizing and engaging in social activities, promoting awareness and education on the importance of social participation, and exploring technology-based interventions to improve memory and storytelling abilities. These efforts can create a supportive environment and empower individual…
Economic impact of Aces trends on the automotive value chain
In the context of green transportation, the automotive industry is undergoing a revolution in autonomous, connected, electric, and shared (ACES) vehicles. ACES vehicles have a relatively short history and there is limited relevant market data available. Therefore, quantitative research on the economic impact of ACES trends remains a new area of exploration. The purpose of the paper is to explore the economic impact of ACES trends on the automotiv…
Understanding complex interactions between neighborhood environment and personal perception in affecting walking behavior of older adults
Comparative analysis of the structural transformation of consumption in Russia and China
The article is based on the results of the joint Russian Chinese research project. The authors use sociological and statistical data to consider the specifics of the structural shifts in the population’s consumption, which occurred under modernization in Russia and China. During the last thirty years, given an increase in population’s income and expenses, the proportion of household spending on food has decreased, but in China this decrease was m…
Nonlinear and asymmetric effects of women inclusion on hotel financial risks
This study investigates how women’s inclusion in leadership positions affects financial risk in China’s hotel industry, integrating gender role theory with agency theory. Test results of dynamic panel regressions with the two-step SYS-GMM estimation reveal three key insights, providing empirical evidence that strategic gender diversity in leadership can serve as a financial risk management tool. First, both women’s inclusion in executive (EWI) an…
The role of female directors in hotel corporate giving
This study examines and highlights the pivotal role of female directors in shaping hotel corporate giving (HCG) behaviors. By integrating gender socialization theory and agency cost theory, it provides an in-depth analysis of how the presence of female directors influences HCG in the Chinese hotel industry. Dynamic panel regression results demonstrate that the presence of female directors, measured both by percentage (PFD) and number (NFD), posit…
Tolerating Toxicity
By conceptualizing incivility and belief congruence in online comments as message features that elicit motivational system activation, this study investigates how these features influence readers’ real-time psychophysiological responses, self-reported emotional responses, memory, and behavioral intention. The findings revealed that uncivil comments did not elicit stronger physiological responses (i.e. skin conductance and corrugator activity) tha…
Sensing lakeplace
Urban freshwater ecosystems, composed of rivers, ponds, lakes, and other water bodies, have essential socioeconomic and ecological values for urban residents. However, research investigating how individuals interact with lakes remains limited, especially within cities and at fine spatiotemporal resolutions. To fill this gap, we propose a data-driven analytical framework that comprehensively senses human-lake interactions and profiles the socio-de…
Application of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and multi-sources data on urban functional zones identification, A case study of Changchun, China
Urban functional zones (UFZs) identification is integral to comprehensive city management. However, current methods often fail to effectively leverage multiple data sources to enhance identification accuracy and overlook the spatial interconnections between neighboring units. In this study, we employed a Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) model to consolidate information from adjacent units and enhance the accuracy of UFZs identification…
Research on the impact and mechanism of ESG rating on enterprises’ green total factor productivity-based on staggered difference-in-differences model
Effects and potential mechanisms of Alismatis Rhizoma extracts on glucose and lipid metabolism
Modeling shared e-micromobility as a label propagation process for detecting overlapping communities
Business (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · China (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Tourism (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 works)