Jian Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jian Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jian |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xihua University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5679-3823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The (In)congruence between creative family and school environments and Chinese adolescents’ creative self-efficacy: The mediating role of growth mindset
Examining the psychometric properties of the Body Talk Scale (BTS) among Chinese sexual minority students: Evidence from adolescents and young adults
Incentive compatibility strategies to prevent cheating in incentive-based travel demand management
Association between early-life relationships with parents and depression in mid-to-late life: The moderating role of relative deprivation
This study examines the association between early-life relationships with parents and depression in mid-late adulthood in China, using data from the 2014 and 2020 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (N = 12,604). Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and Two-stage Least-squares (2SLS) Instrumental Variable (IV) methods were applied. Results suggest that poorer early-life relationships with both father (coefficient = 0.4044, p 0.05).…
From folktale into movement: Children's social values meaning-making in a culturally responsive Chinese Mongolian folktale–dance program
Values education is often criticized for remaining declarative: pupils can name value terms but struggle to enact them in peer relations and everyday classroom life, and children's own meaning-making is still rarely centered in culturally grounded, arts-based programs. This process-oriented qualitative study examined how 20 ten-year-old pupils in China made meaning about social values during a 14-week integrated Chinese Mongolian folktale–dance p…
Prenatal exposure to vanadium and lead and its impact on the risk of congenital heart defects in neonates: Evidence from the Lanzhou Birth Cohort
Background Using data from the Lanzhou Birth Cohort in China, this study examined the associations between prenatal exposure to vanadium (V) and lead (Pb)—both individually and jointly—and the risk of neonatal congenital heart defects (CHDs). Methods This birth cohort study, conducted in Lanzhou, China, included 97 mother-newborn pairs assigned to the case group and 194 pairs serving as controls (1:2 ratio). Maternal blood concentrations of V and…
Information quality, readability, and empathy of AI-generated public mental health information: A comparative evaluation of eight large language models
Background Mental disorders are a growing global health burden, yet healthcare resources remain scarce. Large language models (LLMs) may support public mental health information seeking, but their information quality, readability, and empathy in psychiatric contexts require validation. Method We developed a test bank of 48 public mental health questions from literature, Google Trends (2004–2025), and clinical consultations. Eight LLM chatbots wer…
Blue-green spaces, heat stress, and health-supportive public-space use under urban stress: Machine learning and SEM evidence from jogging flow in Fuzhou, China
Urban blue-green spaces (BGS) are increasingly discussed in relation to health-oriented and resilience-oriented urban planning, particularly in high-density cities exposed to heat-related environmental stress. However, empirical evidence remains limited on how BGS and heat stress are associated with everyday public-space use. Using Fuzhou, China, as a case study, we integrated crowdsourced jogging data, BGS indicators, land surface temperature (L…
Trade-off between NTFP harvesting and tourism income in a protected area: Evidence from the Yading Biosphere Reserve, China
Protected areas contribute to poverty alleviation through the provision of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), but relatively few studies have researched the recreational context and the socio-ecological interactions that influence household NTFPs income. Using household surveys in the Yading biosphere reserve (2020-2022), our study investigated factors affecting income of main NTFPs including caterpillar fungus ( Ophiocordyceps sinensis ) and ma…
The existential fracture model: Reconceptualizing narcissistic personality disorder through a phenomenological-existential lens
Current paradigms for understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)-including psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and neuroscientific approaches-offer valuable insights but remain fragmented. They largely fail to explain the deep motivational structure of narcissism, particularly the co-existence of grandiose and vulnerable subtypes and the disorder's profound resistance to treatment. This paper proposes an integrative meta-theoretical …
Incorporating Indigenous perspectives: An impact assessment of renewable energy development on wildlife conservation
Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Adolescent Flourishing: A Within-Person Longitudinal Mediation Model of Self-Esteem
Analysis of the effectiveness of improving the testing rate of pathogenicity specimens prior to the use of antibiotics in Shandong Province, 2014–2023
Objective To analyze the trend of pathogenic specimen detection rate before antibiotic treatment in inpatients in Shandong Province from 2014 to 2023 and to provide a scientific basis for optimizing antibiotic management. Methods The time of antibiotic use and the time of pathogenic specimen collection for inpatients in each hospital were collected through the hospital information system, the test information system, and the mobile care system. T…
The association between home modifications and depression among older people in China
Background: As individuals age, their living environments often become inadequate to meet the evolving demands associated with aging. An accommodating home environment is crucial for ensuring the health and well-being of older people. Home modifications effectively create a supportive living space for those who choose to age in place. The objective of the study is to examine the association between home modifications and the depression levels of …
Acute air pollution exposure and gastrointestinal cancer mortality: A case-crossover study in coastal China
Background Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for 43.1% of cancer-related deaths in China, with aging populations exacerbating this burden. While chronic air pollution exposure is linked to GI carcinogenesis, evidence on acute effects remains limited. This study investigates short-term ambient pollutant exposure and GI cancer mortality in a coastal Chinese city with moderate pollution levels. Methods Using death registry data from Yancheng, Ch…
Future projections of the rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration based on NEX-GDDP CMIP6 simulations
The relationship between coaches leadership behaviour and training attitudes of college high-level athletes: The role of self-management and sport self-efficacy
Objective High-level college athletes represent an essential part of the talent pool for competitive sports, and training attitude is a key indicator associated with athletes’ training quality and effectiveness. Coaches, as both designers and implementers of training plans, as well as educators and mentors, maintain a close and intrinsic relationship with athletes. Therefore, this study aims to examine the associations among coaches’ leadership b…
Association analysis of suicide risk assessed with Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interviews’ Suicidality Module in adolescents with non suicidal self injury disorder
The results of statistical analysis suggest that severe depressive symptoms are related to the high risk of suicide (based on MINISM) in adolescents with NSSI-D statistical significantly, and anxiety symptoms and low self-concept are associated with depressive symptoms in NSSI-D adolescents. Interventions targeting anxiety symptoms in adolescents with NSSI-D may help reduce their suicide risk
Trends in kidney and renal pelvis cancer mortality and associated risk factors in the United States
Kidney and renal pelvis cancer (KRPC) is a leading cause of cancer death in the United States, yet the mortality trends by sociodemographic characteristics are not well understood. This serial cross-sectional analysis used National Centre for Health Statistics data (1999–2020) to examine kidney and renal pelvis cancer mortality trends among individuals aged ≥ 20, stratified by sex, age, race/ethnicity, and county-level socioeconomic status (SES) …
Reliability and validity validation of the Chinese version of the family vitiligo impact scale
The Chinese FVIS showed satisfactory reliability and validity for assessing vitiligo's psychosocial impact on family membersin Chinese clinical and research settings
Association of dust exposure with anxiety and depression in the occupational population: The important role of sleep duration
Dust exposure duration was associated with anxiety and depression, with a nonlinear relationship between them. Changes in sleep duration may effectively influence mental health problems in occupationally dust-exposed populations
Health economics evaluation of screening for sarcopenia among community-dwelling older persons
Sarcopenia increased the risk of various adverse outcomes, including cardiovascular diseases, falls, and mortality. Implementing interventions could mitigate the harm caused by sarcopenia. With the dearth of health economics evaluation on sarcopenia screening, we aimed to evaluate the costs and benefits of sarcopenia screening strategies among community-dwelling older persons. We constructed a decision-analytic Markov model for a cohort of indivi…
Anti-rheumatic arthritis efficacy of Pueraria montana extract against type-II collagen-induced rheumatoid arthritis rat model an in vitro and in vivo assessment
Multi-property prediction of waterlogged archaeological wood based on Wasserstein GAN-augmented tree models
Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces
This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)-a state-aligned Chinese animation-I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing digital activities around this animation on two platforms, Bilibili and Weibo. First, mainstream discourses p…
What's in a View
The impact of views on property values has not been the specific focus of as much research as has the impact of other externalities on property values. When the impact of views is assessed, it is usually done by adding a single dummy variable to a hedonic regression equation. This paper provides a detailed literature review as well as an empirical analysis of the impact of a view on residential property values with a very rich database of nearly …
Comparing directly measured standard gamble scores to HUI2 and HUI3 utility scores: Group- And Individual-Level Comparisons
The Impacts of State Growth Management Programs on Urban Sprawl in the 1990S
The urban landscape in the United States has been characterized by sprawl for decades. Despite arguments in favor of sprawl or its component attributes, it is widely believed that sprawl leads to many contemporary United States urban and environmental problems. Since 1961, 15 states in the United States have adopted state growth management programs (SGMPs) with various goals, including curtailing sprawl. This article, among a few previous studies…
Mega-events, Local Economies, and Global Status: What Happened before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai
Mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics have been used for economic development, urban transformation and global status enhancement. Beijing and Shanghai embraced these purposes when they won the bids for the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo respectively. This article examines the pre-event economic changes in Beijing and Shanghai that are associated with their pursuit of mega-events. Changes in a group of economic indicators are …
Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces
This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)-a state-aligned Chinese animation-I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing digital activities around this animation on two platforms, Bilibili and Weibo. First, mainstream discourses p…
The Analysis on Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck Site Based on the Mollusca Debris Data
The Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck is a wooden ship sunk 800 years ago during the Southern Song Dynasty of China. The zoobenthic shellfish communities in the sediments covering the wreck came from 296 species from 5 phylums, of which 290 were molluscs. These molluscs were mainly composed of local marine fauna based on the literature. By comparing the structural parameters of the zoobenthic debris communities and their changes among the different sediment…
Adjusting distributions of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 utility scores of health-related quality of life
Comparing directly measured standard gamble scores to HUI2 and HUI3 utility scores: Group- And Individual-Level Comparisons
What's in a View
The impact of views on property values has not been the specific focus of as much research as has the impact of other externalities on property values. When the impact of views is assessed, it is usually done by adding a single dummy variable to a hedonic regression equation. This paper provides a detailed literature review as well as an empirical analysis of the impact of a view on residential property values with a very rich database of nearly …
The Impacts of State Growth Management Programs on Urban Sprawl in the 1990S
The urban landscape in the United States has been characterized by sprawl for decades. Despite arguments in favor of sprawl or its component attributes, it is widely believed that sprawl leads to many contemporary United States urban and environmental problems. Since 1961, 15 states in the United States have adopted state growth management programs (SGMPs) with various goals, including curtailing sprawl. This article, among a few previous studies…
Mega-events, Local Economies, and Global Status: What Happened before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai
Mega-events such as the World Cup and the Olympics have been used for economic development, urban transformation and global status enhancement. Beijing and Shanghai embraced these purposes when they won the bids for the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo respectively. This article examines the pre-event economic changes in Beijing and Shanghai that are associated with their pursuit of mega-events. Changes in a group of economic indicators are …
Effect of aerobic exercise and low carbohydrate diet on pre-diabetic non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in postmenopausal women and middle aged men – the role of gut microbiota composition: Study proto…
Current Controlled Trials: ISRCTN42622771
Global evidence on nitrogen saturation of terrestrial ecosystem net primary productivity
The continually increasing nitrogen (N) deposition is expected to increase ecosystem above-ground net primary production (ANPP) until it exceeds plant N demand, causing a nonlinear response and N saturation for ANPP. However, the nonlinear response of ANPP to N addition gradient and the N saturation threshold have not been comprehensively quantified yet for terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, we compiled a global dataset of 44 experimental stu…
Empirical Analysis and Modeling of Stop-Line Crossing Time and Speed at Signalized Intersections
In China, a flashing green (FG) indication of 3 s followed by a yellow (Y) indication of 3 s is commonly applied to end the green phase at signalized intersections. Stop-line crossing behavior of drivers during such a phase transition period significantly influences safety performance of signalized intersections. The objective of this study is thus to empirically analyze and model drivers' stop-line crossing time and speed in response to the spec…
The Haze Nightmare Following the Economic Boom in China: Dilemma and Tradeoffs
This study aims to expand on a deeper understanding of the relationship between rapid economic development and ensuing air pollution in China. The database includes the gross domestic product (GDP), the value added of a secondary industry, the per capita GDP (PGDP), greenhouse gases emissions, and PM2.5 concentrations. The results indicate that China's PGDP has continued to rise over the past decade, and the rate of PGDP slowed down from 1980 to …
Ginkgo biloba exocarp extracts inhibits angiogenesis and its effects on Wnt/β-catenin-Vegf signaling pathway in Lewis lung cancer
Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
State-of-the-art object detection networks depend on region proposal algorithms to hypothesize object locations. Advances like SPPnet [1] and Fast R-CNN [2] have reduced the running time of these detection networks, exposing region proposal computation as a bottleneck. In this work, we introduce a Region Proposal Network (RPN) that shares full-image convolutional features with the detection network, thus enabling nearly cost-free region proposals…
Evaluation on equality and efficiency of health resources allocation and health services utilization in China
There exist distinct regional disparities in the distribution of health resources in China, which are mainly reflected in the geographic distribution of health resources. Furthermore, the people living in the eastern developed areas are more likely to use outpatient care, while the people living in western underdeveloped areas are more likely to use inpatient care. Moreover, the efficiency of health resources allocation in 21 provinces (67.74%) o…
Assessing equity in the distribution of high-technology medical equipment in Guangxi: Evidence from an ethnic minority region in Southern China
The possession of SPECT per million population in Guangxi is lower than the national average level while it is superior to the national average level for CT, MRI, DSA and LA. The equity status in the distribution of the five medical equipment has deteriorated since 2011. In 2015, the equity status of CT was the best, while the equity status of MRI was the worst. Meanwhile, 45.1% of HTME were concentrated in Nanning, Guilin, and Liuzhou
Health risk assessment of China’s main air pollutants
The highest concentration and risk of PM 2.5 was observed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic belts, and Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Hubei and Anhui provinces. Nevertheless, the highest concentration of O 3 was irregularly distributed in most areas of China. A high-risk distribution of PM 10 , SO 2 and NO 2 was also observed in these regions, with the high risk of PM 10 and NO 2 observed in the Hebei and Shandong province, and high-risk of PM 10 i…
The Analysis on Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck Site Based on the Mollusca Debris Data
The Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck is a wooden ship sunk 800 years ago during the Southern Song Dynasty of China. The zoobenthic shellfish communities in the sediments covering the wreck came from 296 species from 5 phylums, of which 290 were molluscs. These molluscs were mainly composed of local marine fauna based on the literature. By comparing the structural parameters of the zoobenthic debris communities and their changes among the different sediment…
Mapping essential urban land use categories in China (Euluc-China): Preliminary results for 2018
Risk and Protective Factors of Generalized Anxiety Disorder of Elite Collegiate Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study
The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and its risk and protective factors in elite collegiate athletes. A cross-sectional survey was conducted during the 2019 in-season. A sample of elite collegiate athletes ( n = 285) from China completed a self-report form assessing GAD and potential predictors including age, gender, sport type, sport achievement, sport injury, attention deficit hyperactivity …
Exploring the Effects of Urban Built Environment on Road Travel Speed Variability with a Spatial Panel Data Model
Road traffic congestion is a common problem in most large cities, and exploring the root causes is essential to alleviate traffic congestion. Travel behavior is closely related to the built environment, and affects road travel speed. This paper investigated the direct effect of built environment on the average travel speed of road traffic. Taxi trajectories were divided into 30 min time slot (48 time slots throughout the day) and matched to the r…
The Theory of Ecotranslatology in the Development of Translation Skills of Chinese Students
The present study aims to analyse the theory of ecotranslatology developed by the Chinese translator and theorist Hu Gengshen. The authors pay great attention to the application of its basic principles to teaching translation in general, and to the development of translation skills of Chinese students in particular. The main research methods are descriptive and comparative analysis, the systematization of language material, contextual analysis, a…
Density-Peak-Based Overlapping Community Detection Algorithm
Overlapping community detection is essential for revealing the hidden structure of complex networks. In this work, we present an overlapping community detection algorithm that selects community centers adaptively based on density peaks. The proposed algorithm, called the density-peak-based overlapping community detection (DPOCD) algorithm, defines point link strength and edge link strength to construct distance matrix. Unlike the density peaks cl…
Investigation and analysis of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacterial infection rates across hospitals in Shandong Province in China
Background The increasing incidence of carbapenem-resistant bacterial infections has become a serious public health threat. This study aimed to investigate and analyze the current regional differences in carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria (CRGN) in a major Province of China, and provide suggestions for preventing hospital infections. Methods A questionnaire survey was used to obtain the current data on CRGN from 36 hospitals in Shandong …
Plateau pika burrowing and yak grazing jointly determine ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions of alpine meadow
Domestic yak ( Bos grunniens ) have coexisted with plateau pika ( Ochotona curzoniae ) for thousands of and they play irreplaceable roles in shaping the structure and function of alpine meadow ecosystem. However, the mechanisms whereby the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions change in response to the interactive effects between yak grazing and plateau pika burrowing remain unclear. In this study, we examined the response of ecosystem GHG emissions (CO…
Roles of dam and climate change in thermal regime alteration of a large river
Water temperature in the Yangtze River mainstream has been experiencing significant changes due to the climate change and the operation of a series of world-class large dams, i.e. the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and upstream cascade dams (CDs). However, quantitative effects of these factors are not fully known, which hinders our understanding on the thermal regime alterations and further prediction in ecosystem response. Here, we will simulate the riv…
Alveolar Type II Cell Damage and Nrf2-SOD1 Pathway Downregulation Are Involved in PM2.5-Induced Lung Injury in Rats
The general toxicity of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) has been intensively studied, but its pulmonary toxicities are still not fully understood. To investigate the changes of lung tissue after PM 2.5 exposure and identify the potential mechanisms of pulmonary toxicity, PM 2.5 samples were firstly collected and analyzed. Next, different doses of PM 2.5 samples (5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg) were intratracheally instilled into rats to simulate l…
Association between Sleep Duration and Physical Fitness in Children Aged 3–6 Years: A Cross-Sectional Study from China
Aim: To explore associations between sleep duration and physical fitness (PF) of children aged 3−6 years. Methods: This study investigated the sleep duration and PF data of children aged 3−6 years by stratified random sampling. The restricted cubic spline model and binary logistic regression analysis were mainly used for the empirical analysis of the correlation effect between sleep duration and PF. The final data had a total of 21,857 children, …
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