Hui Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hui Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hui |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2994-9834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Clean heating transition in China: Technological innovation, residual emission burden, and regional inequality in northern cities
Assessing the balance and correlation of global sustainable development within a safe and just operating space
Large language models in Chinese anesthesiology residency examinations: A comparative analysis of performance, reliability and clinical reasoning
BACKGROUND: Although large language models (LLMs) show potential in medical education, their effectiveness in Chinese anesthesiology Standardized Residency Training Program (SRTP) exams remains unexplored. This study aimed to assess the performance, consistency, and clinical reasoning capabilities of LLMs in this specific context. METHODS: We conducted a multidimensional evaluation of three LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Pro) usi…
Career Wisdom in Fostering Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Living a Calling
While research has supported the role of career wisdom in fostering well-being and adjustment, it is important to expand the understanding of the role and mechanisms through which career wisdom facilitates career development. Using a sample of U.S. employed adults ( n = 995), the current study employed a three-wave design to examine the time-lagged predictions of career wisdom for subsequent job performance—including task and contextual performan…
Behavioral decision-making and path optimization of stakeholders in straw collection, storage, and transportation within rural public health governance
Introduction: Efficient utilization of straw resources addresses both resource scarcity and environmental degradation while promoting green development. Despite China's abundant straw resources, uneven spatial distribution and practical challenges in collection, storage, and transportation (CS&T) limit large-scale utilization and pose rural public health risks due to improper disposal. Methods: This study integrates government, straw-specialized …
Reversing the dark side of gamification: A study of the influence of interpersonal interaction gamification on ethical behaviour
Applying it to motivate people's ethical behaviours is one of the effective ways to reverse the dark side of gamification. However, existing research is unclear as to which gamification elements are more effective in motivating ethical behaviour. This study focuses on the systematic design of gamification elements to investigate the effect of interpersonal interaction gamification on people's green travel intention. Based on the altruistic attrib…
Voluntary use of LLM-powered virtual standardized patients and medical students’ interview performance: An observational study
Background Large language model (LLM)-powered Virtual Standardized Patients (VSPs) offer scalable practice opportunities for clinical interviewing, but their added value within established human Standardized Patient (SP) curricula remains unclear. This study examined how self-directed VSP engagement relates to interview performance on traditional SP assessments through the lens of self-regulated learning theory.Methods We analyzed VSP usage logs …
Development of career wisdom: A time-lagged examination of the role of More resources
Assessing the impact of technical and vocational education and training on career choice intentions: The mediating role of general skills and competencies and the moderating role of learning environme…
This study investigates the impact of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) on students' Career Choice Intentions (CCI) in Nigeria, focusing on the mediating role of General Skills and Competencies (GSC) and the moderating effect of the learning environment (LE). A survey of 747 students from four public TVET colleges in Anambra State revealed that TVET education significantly influences CCI (β = .082, p = .026), with a small eff…
Towards scenario-conditioned urban renewal using a progressive CP-GAN framework under heat–carbon–wind scenarios
Action on hot nights: A scoping review of nighttime heat thresholds and their critical role in urban climate resilience
Agroforestry and Sustainable Environment: Climate Resilience Perspective for BRICS Economies
This study empirically explores the heterogeneous impacts of agricultural and natural resource‐based activities on CO 2 emissions. This study examines the impact of agricultural, forestry, and fishery value‐added, renewable energy consumption, trade openness and natural resource rents on environmental degradation in BRICS economies over the period 1992–2023. To estimate the models, this study utilizes quantile regression (QR) method, which provid…
Clinical Efficacy and Safety of Shenqu Xiaoshi Oral Liquid for Functional Constipation in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Aim: We aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of Shenqu Xiaoshi Oral Liquid in the treatment of functional constipation in children. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted from inception to 20 October 2025, across PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Chinese VIP Information Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wan Fang Med Database. For quantitative analysis, the mea…
Targeted monetary policy and loan availability for small and microenterprises: A bank competitive strategy perspective
The Contested Terrain of Skills: Revisiting Labor Process Debates and the Chinese Factory Regime
The deskilling thesis has long anchored debates in labor process theory (LPT), yet its deterministic framing has faced sustained critique. This paper revisits these debates by theorizing skills as a contested terrain of capitalist development. First, it traces the intellectual trajectory from Marx's analysis of the division of labor to Braverman's account of Taylorism, and to subsequent critiques that have emphasized worker consent, institutional…
Comprehensive evaluation of regional sustainable development along the belt and road from production and consumption perspectives
Exploring global sustainable development pathways based on the spatial spillover effects of ecological wellbeing performance
Measuring customer-perceived service quality in the ride-hailing industry: A generic approach for the development and validation of a multidimensional scale
Service issues and limitations of generic measures (scales, instruments) necessitate well-developed customized measures to evaluate service quality. Against methodological limitations that grounded in researchers’ thoughts and second-hand knowledge (existing literatures and materials) to derive measure items and dimensions, limited considerations for measure validity (e.g., measurement invariance), this study proposes a generic approach for custo…
Identifying multilevel factors on student mathematics performance for Singapore, Korea, Finland, and Denmark in Pisa 2022: Considering individualistic versus collectivistic cultures
Employing a two-level hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) analysis, the current study comparatively explored the effects of student- and school-level factors on student mathematics performance for Singapore, Korea, Finland, and Denmark in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The results showed that (a) economic, social and cultural status (ESCS), school average ESCS, mathematics self-efficacy, and mathematics anxiety ar…
Study on the behavioral decision of multiple subjects of agricultural green production under the double carbon target in China
Excessive carbon emissions constitute a major driver of contemporary global warming. Achieving carbon neutrality in agriculture, particularly via carbon peaking, represents a critical strategy for emission reduction, wherein green agricultural production serves as a pivotal component. This study constructs a unified model encompassing the government, agricultural enterprises, and farms engaged in green agricultural production, utilizing a dynamic…
How individual BMI affected general cognitive ability in young adults: A moderated chain mediation model
Objective: With the rising global obesity rates, increasing research has been directed toward understanding how obesity affects cognitive ability in young adults. This study aims to explore the impact of body mass index (BMI) on general cognitive ability and how sleep quality and impulsive trait mediate this relationship. Methods: A total of 1,205 young adults from Human Connectome Project(HCP) project were included, and questionnaires and cognit…
How digital leadership impacts community resilience: A moderated mediation model
Introduction: Community resilience is crucial for communities to effectively respond to disasters such as public health emergencies. Digital technology and leadership are integral to building community resilience; however, the impact of digital leadership on community resilience has been underexplored. Methods: This study administered a questionnaire survey to 306 participants to examine the impact of digital leadership on community resilience. F…
Impact of lead exposure on global chronic kidney disease attributable to hypertension: Deaths and disability-adjusted life years from 1990 to 2021 and projected trends for 2022–2036
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) due to hypertension represents a major global health challenge, with lead exposure exacerbating this burden. Objective: This study aims to analyze the global burden of lead-attributable hypertensive CKD from 1990 to 2021 and project trends over the next 15 years. Method: Data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study were utilized, focusing on mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). …
Was the study time allocation based on expectation-maximization in value-test likelihood tradeoff situation
Multi-scenario impacts on ecosystem services and relationships in alpine ecosystems: A case study of the Daxing’anling forest area, Inner Mongolia
PLUS-InVEST-CMIP6 integrated framework for analyzing ESs and relationships under nine scenarios. • Under the SSP126-EP scenario, ESs and relationships perform relatively optimally. • Local relationships for ESs are mainly synergistic, while overall relationships are trade-offs dominated. • ESs and their relationships show strong scenario-dependence and spatial heterogeneity. • Strategies for alpine ecosystem management include climate adaptation,…
Sustainable urbanization in China: A comprehensive literature review
Return Migrants: The Rise of New Entrepreneurs in Rural China
The Yue Yuen Strike: Industrial Transformation and Labour Unrest in the Pearl River Delta
In April 2014, approximately 40,000 workers stalled production at Yue Yuen (YY) Gaobu, a shoemaker, in Guangdong, China. We identify three reasons for the strike: First, China’s rise is leading to a wave of capital relocation to lower wage countries. Accordingly, YY Gaobu faces increasing pressure, which contributes to a deterioration of working conditions to save costs. Second, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is creating n…
Left-behind children and return migration in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model that incorporates economic and non-economic motives to migration duration. Using individual data from a survey carried out in Wuwei county (Anhui province) in 2008, we find that migrant parents of children in primary school tend to delay their return, a result we interpret as illustrating the need for migrant parents to…
Socializing Labour Protest: New Forms of Coalition Building in South China
Over the course of the last decade, China has experienced growing labour unrest in many economic sectors including electronics, textiles and services. One reason for this is that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is not engaged at the shop floor level; it does not represent workers and has failed to organize strikes. Instead, labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to fill the representation gap and to support …
Chinese land policies and farmers’ adoption of organic fertilizer for saline soils
How the United States Flunked the Covid-19 Test: Some Observations and Several Lessons
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has already caused enormous economic and human life losses in the United States and it is still ravaging the country. In this article, the authors argue that the pandemic has exposed key issues of concern in several areas of the American government system ranging from federalist intergovernmental relations to public health system and to health care policy. These issues of concern include the strained federal-st…
Rethinking Revolution; reflections on China's 1985 educational reforms
(1989). Rethinking Revolution; reflections on China's 1985 educational reforms. Comparative Education: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 7-17
Does Windfall Money Encourage Charitable Giving? An Experimental Study
Recently, increasing numbers of nonprofit studies have used experiments to understand individuals’ charitable giving decisions. One significant gap between experimental settings and the real world is the way in which individuals earn the incomes that they use for charitable donations. This study examined the relationship between individuals’ income sources and their charitable giving decisions. To do so, we conducted a laboratory experiment with …
Discipline or damage: Students' experiences of corporal punishment in Cameroon secondary schools and implications for education
Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China
Frescoes restoration via virtual-real fusion: Method and practice
In the era of artificial intelligence, image-based virtual restoration of cultural relics is one of the methods used in the restoration of cultural relics. As the most informative representative of cultural heritage in the study of historical materials, murals occupy a significant position in archaeology and ancient culture. Currently, most of the existing virtual restoration of murals is limited to the restoration of image information for local …
Environmental Pesticide Pollution and Its Countermeasures in China
Rethinking Revolution; reflections on China's 1985 educational reforms
(1989). Rethinking Revolution; reflections on China's 1985 educational reforms. Comparative Education: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 7-17
Educational Innovation in China: Tracing the Impact of the 1985 Reforms
In 1985 the Communist Party of China announced the most wide-ranging reforms of education since the cultural revolution. This book explores the impact of these reforms on the process of schooling and higher education and identifies emerging issues and problems. The primary data for the book are drawn mainly from the experience of reform in Zhejiang Province. Secondary material is drawn from a variety of English and Chinese language sources to fac…
Development Strategy for Organic Food Industry in China
Environmental Pesticide Pollution and Its Countermeasures in China
Environmental Pesticide Pollution and Its Countermeasures in China
Mobilité professionnelle et activités indépendantes des migrants de retour. Le cas du district de Wuwei
Depuis plus de 20 ans, la Chine connaît un exode massif de main-d’oeuvre des campagnes vers les villes(1). Toutefois, depuis quelques années se profile parallèlement une tendance inverse puisque les mouvements migratoires de retour, des villes vers les campagnes, sont en augmentation. Cet article s’intéresse aux activités économiques de migrants qui sont retournés dans leur village d’origine et s’appuie sur les résultats d’une enquête menée dans …
Return Migrants: The Rise of New Entrepreneurs in Rural China
Career Adapt-Abilities Scale—China Form: Construction and initial validation
Chinese land policies and farmers’ adoption of organic fertilizer for saline soils
Left-behind children and return migration in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model that incorporates economic and non-economic motives to migration duration. Using individual data from a survey carried out in Wuwei county (Anhui province) in 2008, we find that migrant parents of children in primary school tend to delay their return, a result we interpret as illustrating the need for migrant parents to…
The Yue Yuen Strike: Industrial Transformation and Labour Unrest in the Pearl River Delta
In April 2014, approximately 40,000 workers stalled production at Yue Yuen (YY) Gaobu, a shoemaker, in Guangdong, China. We identify three reasons for the strike: First, China’s rise is leading to a wave of capital relocation to lower wage countries. Accordingly, YY Gaobu faces increasing pressure, which contributes to a deterioration of working conditions to save costs. Second, the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption campaign is creating n…
Sustainable urbanization in China: A comprehensive literature review
Trust under the Prospect Theory and Quasi-Hyperbolic Preferences: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
We conduct a field experiment in Vietnamese villages to explore the effect of the prospect theory and of quasi-hyperbolic time preferences parameters on trust and trustworthiness. We find that risk aversion, loss aversion, and present bias do not influence trustors’ decisions, but higher time discounting increases the amount sent to trustees in the south of Vietnam and probability weighting decreases it in the north. If time discounting and loss …
Enhancement of X-ray Induced Apoptosis by Mobile Phone-Like Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields in Mouse Spermatocyte-Derived Cells
To explore the combined effects of environmental radio-frequency (RF) field and X-ray, mouse spermatocyte-derived (GC-1) cells were exposed to 1950 MHz RF field at specific absorption rate (SAR) of 3 W/kg for 24 h combined with or without X-ray irradiation at 6 Gy. After treatment, the cell proliferation level was determined by 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) Assay and 5-Bromo-2-deoxy Uridine (BrdU) enzyme …
Relation of socioeconomic status to overweight and obesity: A large population-based study of Chinese adults
SES was associated with general and abdominal overweight/obesity and sex may play a role in such an association
Socializing Labour Protest: New Forms of Coalition Building in South China
Over the course of the last decade, China has experienced growing labour unrest in many economic sectors including electronics, textiles and services. One reason for this is that the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is not engaged at the shop floor level; it does not represent workers and has failed to organize strikes. Instead, labour non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stepped in to fill the representation gap and to support …
Degradation Characteristics of Color Index Direct Blue 15 Dye Using Iron-Carbon Micro-Electrolysis Coupled with H2O2
Currently, many industrial dyes are discharged into the environment in China, leading to serious water pollution. However, synthetic organic dyes in industrial effluents cannot be degraded by conventional wastewater treatment methods. Consequently, it is necessary to develop new environmentally friendly technologies to completely mineralize these non-biodegradable compounds. In this study, 300 mg/L typical Color Index (CI) Direct Blue 15 (benzidi…
Hydrothermal Treatment of Arsenic Sulfide Residues from Arsenic-Bearing Acid Wastewater
Arsenic sulfide residue (ASR), a by-product from the treatment of arsenic-bearing acidic wastewater, is abundantly generated but not properly disposed of in China. The utilization of such high-content arsenic waste residue is limited by the market. The traditional methods of stabilization/solidification (S/S) by lime cement or iron salt have a large mass/volume addition, high dumping cost and secondary pollution risk. In this paper, hydrothermal …
Real estate advertising campaigns in the context of natural hazards: Evidence from the Wenchuan earthquake
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how advertising is used by real estate companies as an instrument for managing the adverse effects of a catastrophe. Design/methodology/approach Through a theoretical analysis, types of post-disaster advertising messages were identified. On the basis of the likely variations in post-disaster advertising, a content analysis was conducted of a sample of 4,150 property print advertisements to identify …
Does Windfall Money Encourage Charitable Giving? An Experimental Study
Recently, increasing numbers of nonprofit studies have used experiments to understand individuals’ charitable giving decisions. One significant gap between experimental settings and the real world is the way in which individuals earn the incomes that they use for charitable donations. This study examined the relationship between individuals’ income sources and their charitable giving decisions. To do so, we conducted a laboratory experiment with …
Mapping the capacity of concave green land in mitigating urban pluvial floods and its beneficiaries
Identification and Extraction of Geomorphological Features of Landslides Using Slope Units for Landslide Analysis
A slope unit is commonly used as calculation unit for regional landslide analysis. However, the capacity of the slope unit to reflect the geomorphological features of actual landslides still needs to be verified. This is because such accurate representation is critical to ensure the physical meaning of results from subsequent landslide stability analysis. This paper presents work conducted on landslides and slope extraction in two areas in China:…
The End of Sweatshops? Robotisation and the Making of New Skilled Workers in China
Incremental validity of the career adapt-abilities scale total score over general self-efficacy
Resilience Assessment of Complex Urban Public Spaces
Risk events frequently occur in "complex urban public spaces" (CUPSs) and cause serious economic losses and casualties. To reduce the risks and enhance the system resilience, this paper formulates a theoretical framework to assess the resilience of CUPSs. Resilience is defined as the ratio of preparedness to vulnerability, according to the implication of the concept. Three-level practical indicator systems were established for these two dimension…
Psychology (26 works) · Geography (25 works) · Economics (21 works) · China (19 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Environmental Science (11 works)