Jing Shen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jing Shen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jing |
| FAMILY NAME | Shen |
| SIGNATURE | SHEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3305-5884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Usability Assessment Framework for Crowdsensing Data and the Implicit Spatiotemporal Information
Crowdsensing data serves as a crucial resource for supporting spatiotemporal applications and services. However, its inherent heterogeneity and quality uncertainty present significant challenges for data usability assessment: the evaluation methods are difficult to standardize due to the diverse types of data; assessment dimensions are predominantly confined to internal quality attributes; and a comprehensive framework for data usability evaluati…
Commodification, subordination, and social disconnection: Public responses to China's home-based child care policy on Douyin
This study examines how the Chinese public interprets and evaluates the Home-Based Child Care (HBCC) policy introduced through the Home-Based Child Care Management Measures (Trial), drawing on debates from Douyin, a Chinese short-video platform. Using Python and Scrapy, we collected comments from five high-engagement Douyin videos. A mixed analytic workflow combined descriptive coding with Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysi…
Does industrial digital transition improve urban land use efficiency? Evidence from Chinese cities
Economic and institutional forces are considered as key determinants of urban land use efficiency (ULUE), while the role of technological change has received insufficient attention. This study examines whether industrial digital transition (IDT) enhances ULUE across 281 prefecture-level cities in China. We measure both IDT and ULUE and employ spatial Durbin and mediation models to identify the effects of IDT on ULUE. The results indicate that bot…
Impact of parental adverse childhood experiences on offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms: A three-year longitudinal study
Research indicates the intergenerational effects of parents’ adverse childhood experiences on anxiety and depressive symptoms in offspring. However, few studies have investigated the longitudinal mechanisms linking parents’ adverse childhood experiences and offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms. This study aimed to explore the longitudinal link between parents’ adverse childhood experiences and offspring anxiety and depressive symptoms throug…
The impact of college students’ physical exercise on subjective well-being: A chain-mediation model involving psychological resilience and social support with gender as the moderator
Based on the background of Healthy China, this study took 494 college students as the subjects, collected data using the Physical Activity Rating Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale, Adolescent Resilience Scale, and Subjective Well-being Scale, and constructed a chained mediation model using SmartPLS software to explore the mechanism of physical exercise on subjective well-being and the moderating effect of gender. The study found that although…
Association and mechanism of Ligusticum chuanxiong alleviating itch: A combination of experimental and network pharmacology study
The study implies a potential positive association and mechanisms between CX and itch by combining network pharmacology and in vivo experiments. It is suggested that CX may offer a promising therapeutic application for patients suffering from itch, particularly in cases of severe itching
Penalty Versus Premium: Social Disposition Differentiates Life Satisfaction Among Living-Alone Immigrant and Native-Born Older Adults—Findings From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)
Using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, in this study we provide an alternative explanation for the gap of life satisfaction between living-alone immigrants and Canadian-born older adults. Based on the Big-Five personality traits, we use the latent class analysis to generate two types of social dispositions, social independence and social dependence. With social dispositions taken into account, living alone contributes to life s…
The distinct effects of digital finance inclusive on water use and carbon emissions between expansive and non-expansive cities in China
The relationship between parental adverse childhood experiences and offspring preschool readiness: The mediating role of psychological resilience
Parental adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may represent a risk for offspring school readiness. Previous studies suggested that children's psychological resilience may mediate between the intergenerational transmission of parental ACEs and offspring school readiness. Using structural equation modeling, our study aimed to explore the role of psychological resilience in the association between parental ACEs and preschool readiness. A sample of 7…
Nek4: Prediction of available drug targets and common genetic linkages in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder
Our study identified NEK4 as a key gene linked to both bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), suggesting its potential as a drug target and a biomarker for differentiating BD subtypes. Using GWAS, SMR, and TSMR approaches, we revealed multiple druggable genes and protein associations with BD and MDD risk, providing new insights into the genetic basis of these disorders. These findings offer promising directions for precision m…
Alcoholic liver disease: Mechanistic insights and therapeutic potential of traditional Chinese medicine through preclinical and clinical evidence
Sleeping the mind before the body: Mechanisms of psychological inflexibility on sleep quality among Chinese college students
The present study examined the role of emotional balance and the moderating role of rumination in the relationship between psychological inflexibility and sleep quality among college students. Participants were 837 Chinese college students (females = 52%, mean age = 18.89, SD = 0.93 years). They completed the Multidimensional Psychological Inflexibility Scale (MPIS), Affect Balance Scale (ABS), Ruminative Response Scale (RRS), Pittsburgh Sleep Qu…
The impact of street greenery on active travel: A narrative systematic review
Domesticating sustainability transitions: Spatial and temporal variation of industrial eco-efficiency in China
Technological progress on embodied carbon emissions in Sino-Korea trade from industry perspective: Input–output and structural decomposition analysis
GLOBAL-Local DRIVING Forces of CHINA'S GREENING of INDUSTRY
The greening of industry is an inevitable path for developing economies to achieve sustainability transition. However, the specific roles of global and local driving forces are still not substantially understood. This study develops a three-dimensional framework, which includes coercive pressures, normative pressures, and technology acquisition to analyze the influence of global and local drivers on China’s greening of industry. We measure the in…
Impact of soda tax on beverage price, sale, purchase, and consumption in the US: A systematic review and meta-analysis of natural experiments
Schizophrenia and cell senescence candidate genes screening, machine learning, diagnostic models, and drug prediction
Six potential candidate genes (SFN, KDM5B, MYLK, IRF3, IRF7, and ID1) had been identified, all of which had diagnostic significance. Fostamatinib might be a drug choice for patients with schizophrenia to develop immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) after treatment, providing effective evidence for the pathogenesis and drug treatment of schizophrenia
Identification of the role of immune-related genes in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder with metabolic syndrome through machine learning and comprehensive bioinformatics analysis
Potential candidate genes for bipolar disorder with metabolic syndrome were found in 5 candidate genes (AP1G2, C1orf54, DMAC2L, RABEPK and ZFAND5), all of which have diagnostic significance
The potential public health impact of adolescent 4CMenB vaccination on Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in England: A modelling study
A partially-effective vaccine against gonorrhoea infection, delivered to 14-year-olds alongside the MenACWY vaccine, could have an important population impact on gonorrhoea. Catch-up and booster vaccination could be considered alongside cohort vaccination to increase impact
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation
Wetland Restoration Planning Approach Based on Interval Fuzzy Linear Programming under Uncertainty
When planning wetland restoration projects, the planting area allocation and the costs of the restoration measures are two major issues faced by decision makers. In this study, a framework based on the interval fuzzy linear programming (IFLP) method is introduced for the first time to plan wetland restoration projects. The proposed framework can not only effectively deal with interval and fuzzy uncertainties that exist in the planning process of …
Gendered Body Mass and Life Satisfaction Among Youth in Three Western European Immigrant-Receiving Countries
In this study we aim to show distinctive patterns of the association between body weight and life satisfaction for adolescent boys and girls, respectively. We understand such patterns by bringing multiple mediating factors into one theoretical framework centred on normative perceptions. By drawing data from the first wave of the CILS4EU that captures 14-15-year-olds in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, findings show that psychological factors,…
Dental attendance and behavioural pathways to adult oral health inequalities
BACKGROUND: While inequalities in oral health are documented, little is known about the extent to which they are attributable to potentially modifiable factors. We examined the role of behavioural and dental attendance pathways in explaining oral health inequalities among adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. METHODS: Using nationally representative data, we analysed inequalities in self-rated oral health and number of natural teeth. Hig…
Investigating Rural Domestic Waste Sorting Intentions Based on an Integrative Framework of Planned Behavior Theory and Normative Activation Models: Evidence from Guanzhong Basin, China
The sorting of domestic waste is the most effective way to alleviate the problem of mass garbage accumulation around the villages of rural China. Farmers are the creators of rural domestic waste as well as the direct beneficiaries of effective waste management. However, few studies have been conducted on the psychological determinants of farmers' intentions to sort domestic waste. This paper applies planned behavior theory (TPB) and normative act…
Rural revitalization of Xiamei: The development experiences of integrating tea tourism with ancient village preservation
Explaining Ethnic Enclave, Ethnic Entrepreneurial and Employment Niches: A Case Study of Chinese in Canadian Immigrant Gateway Cities
Although decades of research have contributed to understanding the operation and implications of minority-concentrated industrial sectors, the reasons for concentration in some sectors but not others remain unclear. To address the question of why some sectors are minority concentrated, this article draws on four sources of literature—human ecology, dual labour market, ethnic enclave and occupational niche—to explore how the factors derived from t…
Fare differently, feel differently: Mental well-being of UK-born and foreign-born working men during the Covid-19 pandemic
Despite numerous studies that have demonstrated widening social inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not yet see research on whether the surge in social inequalities would also have unequal consequences for people’s subjective experience. By linking the countrywide Understanding Society COVID-19 longitudinal survey with the latest wave of the main-stage survey, we examine whether and how the psychological costs of economic lockdowns a…
Does the religious context matter? The causal effect of religious diversity on individual life satisfaction in the UK
This study explores whether and to what extent the change in individual life satisfaction is caused by exposure to a changing religious context. Empirical evidence is from UK society, where the decline in Christian population is accompanied by increases in both Muslim and non-religious populations. By linking the UK Household Longitudinal Study with geographic codes at the Local Authority level between 2009 and 2016, we estimate the relationship …
Immigrants' relative income and life satisfaction: Comparison groups from a multi-generational perspective
With a focus on the immigrant population, this study examines how the association between a relative income position and life satisfaction varies when the comparison group changes. Drawing data from Understanding Society in the UK between 2009 and 2015, this study first shows that after migration, income comparisons with the mainstream and co-ethnic groups in the host country matter more than that with the source-country population for one's life…
State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
A third type of job search behavior: The use of the formal-informal joint channel in matching individual qualifications with hiring requirements in urban China
This study highlights the necessity of distinguishing the use of the formal-informal joint channel from the sole reliance on either the formal or informal job search channel. I first used interview data collected in three Chinese cities as well as ethnographic case studies in the existing literature to illustrate a typology of the distribution of job search behavior, by focusing on the match between individual qualifications and employers’ hiring…
Job Loss or Income Loss: How the Detrimental Effect of Unemployment on Men's Life Satisfaction Differs by Immigration Status
Driven by the ongoing debate of job loss vs. income loss in understanding the detrimental effect of unemployment, this study examines how perceptions of unemployment and the resulting levels of life satisfaction differ by immigration status. Based on a countrywide longitudinal dataset in the UK, findings show that immigrant men's life satisfaction suffers more from the detrimental effect of job loss per se , whereas that of native-born men suffer…
Participation in Voluntary Associations and Social Contact of Immigrants in Canada
We explore how participation by immigrants in voluntary groups is related to their social contact patterns. Our discussion is guided by the structural integration and the homophily perspectives. Drawing from the 2008 Canadian General Social Survey, the findings in general support the structural integration perspective. The findings also show that frequency of participation in voluntary groups and number of voluntary associations participated have…
It's the Economy! Perceptions of Host-Countries' Institutions and Individual Life Satisfaction of Intra-European Migrants
By drawing data from the European Social Survey (ESS) (2008-2016), this study explores how immigrants' assessments of economy, democracy, and quality of public goods (such as health and education systems) in the receiving societies contribute to their life satisfaction. Results indicate that satisfaction with the economy is the strongest correlate of individual life satisfaction among European immigrants, and this association is particularly pron…
Institutions and individual strategies: How did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China
By using qualitative data collected in three representative Chinese cities and quantitative data from a countrywide survey, in this study, we synthesized the conventionally competing arguments from the state-centred and market-centred approaches. We showed the flow of elite resources, such as education, party membership, and family background, among three groups of job seekers—namely, job-assignment adherents, job-assignment networkers, and marke…
Contact use in job placement and its impact on the gender earnings gap in transitional urban China: Evidence from Xiamen, 1999
Unlike the majority of existing studies that explain the gender earnings gap from a structural perspective, this study aims to understand the unexplained part of gender earnings inequality from a behavioural perspective. By adopting a dataset collected in the Chinese city of Xiamen when China's market economy was still in formation, this study focuses on how earnings are affected by contact use in job placement. Results based on the quantile regr…
La formation des droits de propriété dans les campagnes chinoises
En se plaçant dans une perspective sociologique, les auteurs s'intéressent au processus de formation des droits de propriété collectifs dans une communauté rurale de la province du Sichuan. À partir d'une affaire de récupération de ferraille sur des terres ayant appartenu à une équipe de production et ayant été réquisitionnées en vue de la construction d'une ligne de chemin de fer, les auteurs montrent que le processus d'appropriation dont il est…
La formation des droits de propriété dans les campagnes chinoises
En se plaçant dans une perspective sociologique, les auteurs s'intéressent au processus de formation des droits de propriété collectifs dans une communauté rurale de la province du Sichuan. À partir d'une affaire de récupération de ferraille sur des terres ayant appartenu à une équipe de production et ayant été réquisitionnées en vue de la construction d'une ligne de chemin de fer, les auteurs montrent que le processus d'appropriation dont il est…
Ethics and Theater: The Staging of Jingchai Ji in Bimuyu
Recently moral and justice principles have become disordered, And every one blames theater for publicizing wantonness' I want to utilize theater to uphold morality and justice; Let him who tied the bell on the tiger take it off
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and nourished later theatrical traditions including jingju (Beijing Opera). Highly educated dramatists used chuanqi to pr…
Explaining Ethnic Enclave, Ethnic Entrepreneurial and Employment Niches: A Case Study of Chinese in Canadian Immigrant Gateway Cities
Although decades of research have contributed to understanding the operation and implications of minority-concentrated industrial sectors, the reasons for concentration in some sectors but not others remain unclear. To address the question of why some sectors are minority concentrated, this article draws on four sources of literature—human ecology, dual labour market, ethnic enclave and occupational niche—to explore how the factors derived from t…
OP82 An Evaluation of the Effect of the New School Food Policy on Children’s Nutritional Intake and Socio-Economic Consequences in North East England
Background After 20 years with no regulation of school food and a plethora of evidence on the state of children’s diets, new food and nutrient-based standards were re-introduced in 2006 to schools in England. As a major policy change receiving financial and legislative support from Government, our objectives were to evaluate the effect of this policy on children’s nutritional intake, and its wider consequences including the added costs. Methods A…
Neighborhood Social Capital, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Change of Neighborhood as Predictors of School Readiness
Neighborhood income and social capital are considered important for child development, but social capital has rarely been measured directly at an aggregate level. We used Canadian data to derive measures of social capital from aggregated parental judgments of neighborhood collective efficacy and neighborhood safety. Measures of neighborhood income came from Census data. Direct measures of preschoolers’ school readiness were predicted from neighbo…
Recent Trends in Gender Wage Inequality in the United States
In this review article, I focus on the changing trends and main explanations of gender wage inequality in the United States. First, I briefly describe the most prominent trends in gender wage inequality since the end of the 1970s. I then summarize theoretical explanations of these trends at both the individual level and the structural level. At the individual level, neoclassical human capital theory highlights the sharp increase in women’s educat…
Socioeconomic position and subjective oral health: Findings for the adult population in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
There were clear socio-economic inequalities in subjective oral health among adults in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with stronger gradients for those at younger ages
A third type of job search behavior: The use of the formal-informal joint channel in matching individual qualifications with hiring requirements in urban China
This study highlights the necessity of distinguishing the use of the formal-informal joint channel from the sole reliance on either the formal or informal job search channel. I first used interview data collected in three Chinese cities as well as ethnographic case studies in the existing literature to illustrate a typology of the distribution of job search behavior, by focusing on the match between individual qualifications and employers’ hiring…
Participation in Voluntary Associations and Social Contact of Immigrants in Canada
We explore how participation by immigrants in voluntary groups is related to their social contact patterns. Our discussion is guided by the structural integration and the homophily perspectives. Drawing from the 2008 Canadian General Social Survey, the findings in general support the structural integration perspective. The findings also show that frequency of participation in voluntary groups and number of voluntary associations participated have…
Institutions and individual strategies: How did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China
By using qualitative data collected in three representative Chinese cities and quantitative data from a countrywide survey, in this study, we synthesized the conventionally competing arguments from the state-centred and market-centred approaches. We showed the flow of elite resources, such as education, party membership, and family background, among three groups of job seekers—namely, job-assignment adherents, job-assignment networkers, and marke…
Contact use in job placement and its impact on the gender earnings gap in transitional urban China: Evidence from Xiamen, 1999
Unlike the majority of existing studies that explain the gender earnings gap from a structural perspective, this study aims to understand the unexplained part of gender earnings inequality from a behavioural perspective. By adopting a dataset collected in the Chinese city of Xiamen when China's market economy was still in formation, this study focuses on how earnings are affected by contact use in job placement. Results based on the quantile regr…
What Makes a Satisfied Immigrant? Host-Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Life Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries
The causal effect of social capital on income: A new analytic strategy
Atmospheric Environment Vulnerability Cause Analysis for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region
Assessing and quantifying atmospheric vulnerability is a key issue in urban environmental protection and management. This paper integrated the Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), fuzzy synthesis evaluation and Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial analysis into an Exposure-Sensitivity-Adaptive capacity (ESA) framework to quantitatively assess atmospheric environment vulnerability in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region with spatial and te…
State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
A systematic review of food pantry-based interventions in the USA
Objective Food pantries play a critical role in combating food insecurity. The objective of the present work was to systematically review and synthesize scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of food pantry-based interventions in the USA. Design Keyword/reference search was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library and CINAHL for peer-reviewed articles published until May 2018 that met the following criteria. Setting:…
It's the Economy! Perceptions of Host-Countries' Institutions and Individual Life Satisfaction of Intra-European Migrants
By drawing data from the European Social Survey (ESS) (2008-2016), this study explores how immigrants' assessments of economy, democracy, and quality of public goods (such as health and education systems) in the receiving societies contribute to their life satisfaction. Results indicate that satisfaction with the economy is the strongest correlate of individual life satisfaction among European immigrants, and this association is particularly pron…
Investigating Rural Domestic Waste Sorting Intentions Based on an Integrative Framework of Planned Behavior Theory and Normative Activation Models: Evidence from Guanzhong Basin, China
The sorting of domestic waste is the most effective way to alleviate the problem of mass garbage accumulation around the villages of rural China. Farmers are the creators of rural domestic waste as well as the direct beneficiaries of effective waste management. However, few studies have been conducted on the psychological determinants of farmers' intentions to sort domestic waste. This paper applies planned behavior theory (TPB) and normative act…
Coupling Relationship Analysis between Quality Infrastructure and Ecological Environment Quality for Policy Implications
Long-term improvement of ecological environment quality (EEQ) is a hotspot and urgent topic in the context of high-quality and sustainable development. It is urgent to look for methods that could support EEQ improvement in a high-quality and sustainable way. Owing to its natural supporting and guaranteeing functions for enhancing quality, quality infrastructure (QI) is a fundamental and critical element in promoting EEQ, but a neglected one. In t…
Impact of neighbourhood food environment on diet and obesity in China: A systematic review
Objective: This study systematically reviewed literature on the neighbourhood food environment in relation to diet and obesity among residents in China. Design: A keyword search of peer-reviewed articles was performed in Cochrane Library, PubMed, and Web of Science. Eligibility criteria include study designs: longitudinal/cohort studies or cross-sectional studies; study participants: people of all ages; exposures: neighbourhood food environment (…
A review of Penthorum chinense Pursh for hepatoprotection: Traditional use, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and clinical trials
Job Loss or Income Loss: How the Detrimental Effect of Unemployment on Men's Life Satisfaction Differs by Immigration Status
Driven by the ongoing debate of job loss vs. income loss in understanding the detrimental effect of unemployment, this study examines how perceptions of unemployment and the resulting levels of life satisfaction differ by immigration status. Based on a countrywide longitudinal dataset in the UK, findings show that immigrant men's life satisfaction suffers more from the detrimental effect of job loss per se , whereas that of native-born men suffer…
Fare differently, feel differently: Mental well-being of UK-born and foreign-born working men during the Covid-19 pandemic
Despite numerous studies that have demonstrated widening social inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, we do not yet see research on whether the surge in social inequalities would also have unequal consequences for people’s subjective experience. By linking the countrywide Understanding Society COVID-19 longitudinal survey with the latest wave of the main-stage survey, we examine whether and how the psychological costs of economic lockdowns a…
Does the religious context matter? The causal effect of religious diversity on individual life satisfaction in the UK
This study explores whether and to what extent the change in individual life satisfaction is caused by exposure to a changing religious context. Empirical evidence is from UK society, where the decline in Christian population is accompanied by increases in both Muslim and non-religious populations. By linking the UK Household Longitudinal Study with geographic codes at the Local Authority level between 2009 and 2016, we estimate the relationship …
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