Xiaofeng Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaofeng Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaofeng |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5160-0335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Causal Graph Learning for Face-Based Interpretable Hierarchical Diagnosis of Depression
Depression has become one of the most serious mental illnesses, leading to a substantial decline in quality of life, an elevated risk of suicide, and significant societal challenges. Despite significant progress in the application of deep learning for depression diagnosis, most prevalent methods rely on correlative rather than causal features, limiting their accuracy and interpretability. Here, we propose a causal graph learning (CGL) method for …
CEO Incentive Horizon and Employee Workplace Safety
A survey on the trajectory of frailty in the middle-aged and elderly population in the Chengdu community: A retrospective observational study
Over half of Chengdu's residents aged 50 and above show some degree of frailty. Women are more likely to experience fast-growing FI trajectories. Avoiding alcohol and ensuring adequate sleep are associated with a slower progression of frailty
Psoraleae Fructus affects the livers of normal and ulcerative colitis rats differently by altering bile acid metabolism
One railway, many environmental problems: Volumetric scalar politics of the China–Laos Railway
Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: A forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. We have expanded and improved upon previous forecasts produced as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and provide a reference forecast (the most likely future), and alternativ…
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: A systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses an important global health challenge in the 21st century. A previous study has quantified the global and regional burden of AMR for 2019, followed with additional publications that provided more detailed estimates for several WHO regions by country. To date, there have been no studies that produce comprehensive estimates of AMR burden across locations that encompass historical trends and future for…
Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…
Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…
BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…
Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: A compr…
BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys), and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territor…
BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to im…
MMPF: Multimodal Purification Fusion for Automatic Depression Detection
Depression is a common mental disorder that requires objective and valid assessment tools. However, purely data-driven methods cannot satisfy the clinical diagnostic criteria for automatic depression detection (ADD), and the instability and heterogeneity of multimodal data have not been fully resolved. Therefore, we propose a novel auxiliary tool for ADD based on multimodal purification fusion (MMPF). Initially, a prior constraint gating (PCG) st…
The impact of empowerment theory-based health education on Alzheimer’s disease informal caregivers: A randomized controlled trial
Background There is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of empowerment healthy education for caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. Objective To explore the effectiveness of the intervention of health education guided by empowerment theory on dementia knowledge, caregiving readiness, positive caregiving emotions, anxiety, and depression in informal Alzheimer’s disease caregivers. Design A single-blinded, randomized controlled trial. Setti…
Bu-Sui-Dan Enhances Osteoblast Differentiation by Upregulating VGLL4 to Counteract Tead4-Mediated Runx2 Transcription Suppression in Ovariectomized Rats
Influence of Social Work on Life Satisfaction among Rural Residents: Mediated by Social Support and Moderated by the Sense of Self-Governance
Social work as a professionalized set of social services serves communities by promoting communication and interaction between residents. Furthermore, it connects residents to various resources, enhances their sense of belonging to their communities, and addresses their emotional needs. Social work in rural China is expected to enhance rural residents' life satisfaction, although its performance can be difficult to quantify. This study used data …
Governing the Extraterritorial: Global Environmentalities of China's Green Belt and Road Initiative
This article proposes a global environmentality framework to critique efforts to “green” the Belt and Road Initiative (or Green BRI) by examining the Chinese state’s environmental governance of extraterritorial spaces. The article transcends a focus within governmentality studies on domestic processes to reveal the relations between governance techniques and environmental subjects, including state and nonstate actors, beyond sovereign borders. Dr…
Anti-depressant medication use is a risk factor for incident knee surgery and opioid use in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Depression and anti-depressant drug exposure were independently associated with incident knee surgery, highlighting the need for more attention on comorbid depression in KOA management
A review on the protective effect of active components in Antrodia camphorata against alcoholic liver injury
Hotels as border infrastructure: Quarantine filtration and violence along China’s edges
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online June 8, 2023Hotels as border infrastructure: Quarantine filtration and violence along China's edgesXiaofeng Liu and Mia BennettView all authors and affiliationsOnlineFirsthttps://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231157254e
Going out and going green: NGOs in the environmental governance of Global China
10.1080/15387216.2023.2279549
The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic
Scholarly attention to China's domestic experimentation and control measures applied to its population (e.g. the Family Planning Policy and Zero-Covid) has expanded. So, too, has the popularity of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, which refers to political strategies of governing based on a population's biological features. However, China's biopolitical rationales for its growing participation in global governance (全球治理 quanqiu zhili) beyon…
Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power
Red Mud-Amended Soil as Highly Adsorptive Hybrid-Fill Materials for Controlling Heavy Metal Sewage Seepage in Industrial Zone
With the rapid development of urbanization, the problem of environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious. As a major pollutant, heavy metals have caused serious contamination in soil and groundwater. In order to prevent the diffusion of heavy metals in the soil from industrial sewage, the concept of hybrid-fill layer construction improved by red mud was proposed in this study. This study examines the adsorption capacities of lead and …
The geopolitics of knowledge communities: Situating Chinese and foreign studies of the Green Belt and Road Initiative
Viral borders: Covid-19’s effects on securitization, surveillance, and identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong
As COVID-19 spreads, new processes, forms, and scales of bordering practices are transcending national territorial limits. This commentary critiques how ‘viral borders’ are securitizing the global supply chains of medical products, disciplining citizens, and reterritorializing communities and contemplates the consequences of these practices for the post-pandemic era
The geopolitics of knowledge communities: Situating Chinese and foreign studies of the Green Belt and Road Initiative
Going out and going green: NGOs in the environmental governance of Global China
10.1080/15387216.2023.2279549
Closed Windows, Open Doors: Geopolitics and Post‐1949 Mainland Chinese Immigration to Canada
Since 1949 there have been dramatic changes in the flow of migrants from Mainland China to Canada, which existing structural models of migration, emphasizing factors in the destination country, do not fully capture. Conditions in the country of origin, and geopolitical relationships between China and Canada, played a decisive role in this migration. Even though Canada in theory opened a window for family reunification in the postwar era by removi…
Governing the Extraterritorial: Global Environmentalities of China's Green Belt and Road Initiative
This article proposes a global environmentality framework to critique efforts to “green” the Belt and Road Initiative (or Green BRI) by examining the Chinese state’s environmental governance of extraterritorial spaces. The article transcends a focus within governmentality studies on domestic processes to reveal the relations between governance techniques and environmental subjects, including state and nonstate actors, beyond sovereign borders. Dr…
The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic
Scholarly attention to China's domestic experimentation and control measures applied to its population (e.g. the Family Planning Policy and Zero-Covid) has expanded. So, too, has the popularity of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, which refers to political strategies of governing based on a population's biological features. However, China's biopolitical rationales for its growing participation in global governance (全球治理 quanqiu zhili) beyon…
A Case Study of the Labour Market Status of Recent Mainland Chinese Immigrants, Metropolitan Toronto
This article focuses on an analysis of the labour market status of recent MCIs [mainland Chinese immigrants to Canada], taking into account such factors as gender, educational attainment, language proficiency and period of arrival (or length of residence in Canada), and uses Metropolitan Toronto as a case study. The effect of each factor on MCIs' labour market status will be analysed separately, followed by two logit models examining the simultan…
Influence of Social Work on Life Satisfaction among Rural Residents: Mediated by Social Support and Moderated by the Sense of Self-Governance
Social work as a professionalized set of social services serves communities by promoting communication and interaction between residents. Furthermore, it connects residents to various resources, enhances their sense of belonging to their communities, and addresses their emotional needs. Social work in rural China is expected to enhance rural residents' life satisfaction, although its performance can be difficult to quantify. This study used data …
Home, Work, and Locality the Case of Thorold, Ontario
Recent research on the relationship between home and work has established that a complex web of interconnections exists between various aspects of a person's home and paid work outside the home. This study seeks to connect current interpretations of the home-work nexus with locality research. It explores the proposition that relations between home and work, which have been conceptualized as the outcome of broad social and economic processes, are …
Home, Work, and Locality the Case of Thorold, Ontario
Recent research on the relationship between home and work has established that a complex web of interconnections exists between various aspects of a person's home and paid work outside the home. This study seeks to connect current interpretations of the home-work nexus with locality research. It explores the proposition that relations between home and work, which have been conceptualized as the outcome of broad social and economic processes, are …
A Case Study of the Labour Market Status of Recent Mainland Chinese Immigrants, Metropolitan Toronto
This article focuses on an analysis of the labour market status of recent MCIs [mainland Chinese immigrants to Canada], taking into account such factors as gender, educational attainment, language proficiency and period of arrival (or length of residence in Canada), and uses Metropolitan Toronto as a case study. The effect of each factor on MCIs' labour market status will be analysed separately, followed by two logit models examining the simultan…
Closed Windows, Open Doors: Geopolitics and Post‐1949 Mainland Chinese Immigration to Canada
Since 1949 there have been dramatic changes in the flow of migrants from Mainland China to Canada, which existing structural models of migration, emphasizing factors in the destination country, do not fully capture. Conditions in the country of origin, and geopolitical relationships between China and Canada, played a decisive role in this migration. Even though Canada in theory opened a window for family reunification in the postwar era by removi…
Refugee Flow or Brain-Drain? The Humanitarian Policy and Post-Tiananmen Mainland Chinese Immigration to Canada
The humanitarian policy that the Canadian government implemented in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown changed a migration system primarily based on personal networks into a brain drain. Post-Tiananmen mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) were better educated than those arriving in Canada previously. Among the post-Tiananmen MCIs, those who landed under the policy were better educated than those landing in other categories. The analysi…
Refugee Flow or Brain‐Drain? The Humanitarian Policy and Post-Tiananmen Mainland Chinese Immigration to Canada
The humanitarian policy that the Canadian government implemented in response to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown changed a migration system primarily based on personal networks into a brain drain. Post-Tiananmen mainland Chinese immigrants (MCIs) were better educated than those arriving in Canada previously. Among the post-Tiananmen MCIs, those who landed under the policy were better educated than those landing in other categories. The analysi…
Statistical power and optimal design for multisite randomized trials.
The multisite trial, widely used in mental health research and education, enables experimenters to assess the average impact of a treatment across sites, the variance of treatment impact across sites, and the moderating effect of site characteristics on treatment efficacy. Key design decisions include the sample size per site and the number of sites. To consider power implications, this article proposes a standardized hierarchical linear model an…
Stream response to Quaternary tectonic and climatic change: Evidence from the upper Weihe River, central China
Effects of Maternal Stress on Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth Outcomes Across Neighborhoods of South Carolina, 2000–2003
Sino-Theology and the Philosophy of History: A Collection of Essays by Liu Xiaofeng
Since his controversial Delivering and Dallying (published in 1988), Liu Xiaofeng has been considered the most influential among contemporary Chinese intellectuals interested in Christianity. Now for the first time this collection of Liu's essays, translated and commented by Prof. Leopold Leeb, enables the non-Chinese reader to get a comprehensive understanding of the ideas of this inspiring and erudite scholar. Liu Xiaofeng's Sino-Theology and t…
Impact evaluation of a community-based intervention to reduce risky sexual behaviour among female sex workers in Shanghai, China
Following a preventive intervention among Shanghai FSWs, our findings demonstrate that a simple, community-based educational intervention improved overall condom use, HIV and STI knowledge, and attitudes in relation to HIV/AIDS. The intervention should be implemented widely after tailoring educational materials regarding condom negotiation with different partner types (i.e., commercial sex clients and primary partners)
Climatic and tectonic controls on strath terraces along the upper Weihe River in central China
The Weihe River in central China is the largest tributary of the Yellow River and contains a well-developed strath terrace system. A new chronology for the past 1.11 Ma for a spectacular flight of strath terraces along the upper Weihe River near Longxi is defined based on field investigations of loess—paleosol sequences and magnetostratigraphy. All the strath terraces are strikingly similar, having several meters of paleosols that have developed …
PharmMapper 2017 update: A web server for potential drug target identification with a comprehensive target pharmacophore database
The PharmMapper online tool is a web server for potential drug target identification by reversed pharmacophore matching the query compound against an in-house pharmacophore model database. The original version of PharmMapper includes more than 7000 target pharmacophores derived from complex crystal structures with corresponding protein target annotations. In this article, we present a new version of the PharmMapper web server, of which the backen…
Internet Addiction and Depression in Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model
Research has revealed that Internet addiction is a risk factor for adolescents' development of depressive symptoms, although the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study examines the mediating role of positive youth development and the moderating role of mindfulness to determine the association between Internet addiction and depression. A sample of 522 Chinese adolescents completed measures related to Internet addiction, posit…
Prevalence and Psychosocial Correlates of Mental Health Outcomes Among Chinese College Students During the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) Pandemic
A significant proportion of young adults exhibit clinically relevant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxious or depressive symptoms, but a larger portion of individuals showed to effectively cope with COVID-19 pandemic. Interventions promoting resilience should be provided, even remotely, to those subjects with specific risk factors to develop poor mental health during COVID-19 or other pandemics with social isolation
The Relationship between Positive Youth Development and Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Early Adolescents: A Three-Year Cross-Lagged Analysis
Based on the development assets theory and the scar model, the present study examined the relationship between positive youth development (PYD) and depressive symptoms among Chinese early adolescents using a three-year longitudinal study design. Data from three waves were collected from 1301 students (Mean age = 12.46, SD = 0.63 years and 51.2% boys at wave 1) across the junior high school period (Grades 7-9). All participants completed a questio…
Antrodin A from mycelium of Antrodia camphorata alleviates acute alcoholic liver injury and modulates intestinal flora dysbiosis in mice
Viral borders: Covid-19’s effects on securitization, surveillance, and identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong
As COVID-19 spreads, new processes, forms, and scales of bordering practices are transcending national territorial limits. This commentary critiques how ‘viral borders’ are securitizing the global supply chains of medical products, disciplining citizens, and reterritorializing communities and contemplates the consequences of these practices for the post-pandemic era
The geopolitics of knowledge communities: Situating Chinese and foreign studies of the Green Belt and Road Initiative
Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power
Red Mud-Amended Soil as Highly Adsorptive Hybrid-Fill Materials for Controlling Heavy Metal Sewage Seepage in Industrial Zone
With the rapid development of urbanization, the problem of environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious. As a major pollutant, heavy metals have caused serious contamination in soil and groundwater. In order to prevent the diffusion of heavy metals in the soil from industrial sewage, the concept of hybrid-fill layer construction improved by red mud was proposed in this study. This study examines the adsorption capacities of lead and …
Anti-depressant medication use is a risk factor for incident knee surgery and opioid use in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Depression and anti-depressant drug exposure were independently associated with incident knee surgery, highlighting the need for more attention on comorbid depression in KOA management
A review on the protective effect of active components in Antrodia camphorata against alcoholic liver injury
Hotels as border infrastructure: Quarantine filtration and violence along China’s edges
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published online June 8, 2023Hotels as border infrastructure: Quarantine filtration and violence along China's edgesXiaofeng Liu and Mia BennettView all authors and affiliationsOnlineFirsthttps://doi.org/10.1177/23996544231157254e
Going out and going green: NGOs in the environmental governance of Global China
10.1080/15387216.2023.2279549
The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic
Scholarly attention to China's domestic experimentation and control measures applied to its population (e.g. the Family Planning Policy and Zero-Covid) has expanded. So, too, has the popularity of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, which refers to political strategies of governing based on a population's biological features. However, China's biopolitical rationales for its growing participation in global governance (全球治理 quanqiu zhili) beyon…
Medicine (18 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · China (11 works) · Population (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Disease (8 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Law (8 works)