Gang Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3703571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gang Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gang |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1131-430X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feeding a fifth of the world under land constraints
Epidemiological investigation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and evaluation of the therapeutic effect of an integrated sports and medicine rehabilitation strategy for scoliosis treatment
Background Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a common spinal deformity with significant health impacts. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiology of AIS in a Chinese region and evaluate the efficacy of an integrated sports-medicine rehabilitation (ISMR) strategy. Methods This study had two parts. First, a cross-sectional school-based screening investigated AIS epidemiology in adolescents aged 11–19 in Taizhou. Second, a retrospectiv…
Management of hip fracture in older adults with cognitive impairment
Background: Hip fractures in older adults are costly and often fatal. Cognitive impairment (CI) complicates pain assessment, raises delirium risk, and hinders early mobilization and rehabilitation. This review synthesizes recent evidence on postoperative care, covering epidemiology, mechanisms, delirium, rehab, outcomes, and practical bedside strategies. Methods: A narrative review was performed to inform postoperative management of older adults …
Resilience and food security
Purpose In an era of intensifying climate change, geopolitical conflicts, and economic volatility, ensuring the stability of food supply chains is essential for food security. This study investigates a critical yet underexplored question: When subjected to diverse external shocks, do global food trade networks possess the necessary resilience and adaptability to maintain functional import channels for nations? Design/methodology/approach Utilizin…
Economic efficiency evaluation, regional technological heterogeneity, and total factor productivity change in the industrial sector of China
The sustainable growth of the industrial sector is one of the top economic goals of the Chinese government in recent decades. The central and provincial governments employed numerous economic policies to enhance economic efficiency and total factor productivity growth in the industrial sector of China. In response to the modern global challenges related to sustainable development, industrial sector transformation, and environmental and ecological…
Exporting Silk from Byzantine Greece
The silk industry that thrived in Thebes around the twelfth century exemplified Byzantium’s industrial accomplishments during the middle Byzantine period. However, how its silk products were exported still awaits systematic clarification. This topic becomes increasingly compelling as scholars begin to reveal the industry’s potential interactions with other regional economic sectors, especially pottery production in Euripos, in terms of trade logi…
The impact of parental involvement on early childhood development
Parental involvement has an irreplaceable and vital impact on early childhood development. Based on the theory of biological ecosystem and overlapping spheres of influence, this study views early childhood development as the result of the interaction between the family environment and individual genetic qualities and examines the moderating effect of demographic factors in the influence of parental involvement on early childhood development. The …
Income impacts of rural household livelihood strategies
With China’s rapid economic development, rural livelihoods have undergone significant changes, with traditional agriculture increasingly replaced by non-farm employment opportunities. This shift has led some households into a ‘poverty trap’ characterized by reduced income and environmental degradation, hindering local sustainable development. Therefore, this study focuses on ethnic minority rural households in ecologically fragile and economicall…
Integrating ecosystem reference conditions and vulnerability to identify ecological restoration priority areas
Ecological restoration, as a component of sustainable development, can mitigate ecosystem degradation and improve ecological diversity. Accurate identification of ecological restoration priority areas (ERPAs) is essential for developing restoration practice. However, few studies have considered both ecosystem reference conditions and vulnerability during ecological restoration. In this study, a comprehensive framework of ERPA identification was d…
Global, regional, and national burden of self-harm among adolescents aged 10-24 years from 1990 to 2021, temporal trends, health inequities and projection to 2041
Despite an overall decline, significant gender and regional disparities persist. Male adolescents in higher SDI regions and females in lower SDI regions are particularly vulnerable. These findings underscore the need for targeted interventions addressing gender and regional inequalities, optimizing healthcare resource allocation, improving health education, and reducing the socioeconomic costs associated with self-harm in adolescents
Religiosity and Artisanal Mobility
Thebes ascended to prominence as the paramount centre of the Byzantine silk industry during the twelfth century. Renowned for its exquisite weaving craftsmanship, Theban silk products earned an unrivalled reputation within Byzantium and found substantial demand in neighbouring regions. Existing scholarship has reasonably interpreted the industry as supported by an industrial network around Central Greece. However, the question of the supply of ar…
Epidemiological characteristics and influencing factors of tuberculosis aggregation in schools in Wuhan, China during 2017–2022
Background Wuhan is located in the hinterland of China, in the east of Hubei Province, at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Hanshui River. It is a national historical and cultural city, an important industrial, scientific, and educational base, and a key transportation hub. There are many schools in Wuhan, with nearly a thousand of all kinds. The number of students is ~2.2 million, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the resident populatio…
InSAR-based rapid damage assessment of urban building portfolios following the 2023 Turkey earthquake
The Effect of Distraction Techniques on Pain, Fear, and Anxiety in Children Undergoing Circumcision
Circumcision is a common pediatric operation, and distraction technique can be used as an adjunct analgesic method during the perioperative period. The study aims to explore the effect of distraction techniques on reducing pain, fear, and anxiety in children undergoing circumcision. The PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Embase databases were searched for articles published from January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2023. Only randomized controlled trial…
Changes and divergences of urban climate adaptability in Pearl River Delta
With global change and urban expansion, the city’s vulnerable to climate-induced disasters is increasing significantly. Addressing this challenge has become a global priority and there is an urgent need to improve the resilience and adaptability. We focused on the climate adaptability of cities in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the southeastern China, and employed the entropy-weighting method and TOPSIS model to assess city’s adaptability to clim…
A neuroimaging study of brain activity alterations in treatment-resistant depression after a dual target accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation
In this study, we designed a new transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocol using a dual-target accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (aTMS) for patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD). There are 58 TRD patients were recruited from the Second People's Hospital of Guizhou Province, who were, respectively, received dual-target (real continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) at right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and real repet…
Regional decreases of cortical thickness in major depressive disorder and their correlation with illness duration
Our study distinguished that cortical thickness decreases in numerous brain regions both in the left and right hemisphere in individuals with MDD, and the negative correlation between the cortical thickness of left rostral middle frontal gyrus illness duration. Our current findings are valuable in providing neural markers to identify MDD and understanding the potential pathophysiology of mood disorders
The impact of apparent temperature on the emergency visits for traumatic fractures in Hangzhou, China
Higher AT is associated with cumulative and delayed higher traumatic fracture EVs. The male and those aged 18-65 years are more susceptible to higher AT
Response of erosion sensitivity to land use change in populated areas
Flash upcycling of waste glass fibre-reinforced plastics to silicon carbide
The Theban Parthenon
Stemming from a canonical commentary of Theodore Balsamon (1130s–1195), this article examines an underexplored Byzantine Christian practice: the consecration of virgins. It focuses on an unusual religious establishment, a parthenon, founded in Thebes by its metropolitan John Kaloktenes (1166–c.1190), which accommodated lay virgins to pursue asceticism without demonstrating monastic commitments. It investigates the practice's origins, development …
The Venetian Community in Byzantine Thebes (1072–1204)
Thebes is among the best-documented Venetian colonies in Byzantium, with records dating back to 1072. While it is widely acknowledged that Venetians played a crucial role in the development of Byzantine Thebes, the details about the Venetian community of the city remain largely unexplored, which has hindered a deeper understanding of the true extent of the Venetian impact on Thebes. To address this scholarly gap, the article examines the communit…
Reconstructing the Byzantine sericulture practice
Integrating ecosystem service importance and ecological sensitivity to identify priority areas for ecological conservation and restoration in Miyun Reservoir Basin
Ecological protection and restoration helps reverse the ecological degradation caused by climate change and human activities. Accurately identifying the priority areas for ecological protection and restoration is key to achieving effective differentiated ecosystem management. Taking the Miyun Reservoir Basin as a case study, this study evaluated the spatial patterns of ecosystem service importance, ecosystem stability, and ecosystem quality degra…
A DPSR and SEM Based Framework to Evaluate High-Quality Development in Chinese Manufacturing Industry
China’s manufacturing industry has emerged as a major contributor to both the nation’s economic growth and global trade. Achieving high-quality development in this sector is not only crucial for China’s sustainable progress but also holds significant implications for the global economy. Considering the importance of Chinese manufacturing industry, this paper establishes a framework for exploring the mechanism of manufacture industry’s high-qualit…
Analyzing impact factors of CO2 emissions using the STIRPAT model
Flash upcycling of waste glass fibre-reinforced plastics to silicon carbide
Mapping Byzantine Sericulture in the Global Transfer of Technology
The transfer of sericulture into Byzantium is a critical episode in the global dissemination of silk production technology. However, it is now widely accepted that the explanatory model portraying the transfer as a one-off event is at odds with the historical facts. This article seeks to reassess the transfer of this technology through the lens of appropriation, interpreted as a process. Based on a detailed analysis of the limited evidence availa…
Scientific concept and practices of life community of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts in China
Strategies to combat desertification for the twenty-first century in China
During the past half century, China has experienced increasingly severe land degradation, soil erosion, and desert expansion. Desertification is affecting one third of China's total territory and the annual accelerating rate of desertification spread is as high as 2460 km2 in China. In 1996, China developed a National Action Programme to Combat Desertification (NAP), which is aimed to apply new legal measures and technical approaches to slow down…
Biological diversity in the coniferous forest on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain, northeast China
The study focused on the so-called dark coniferous forest belt on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain, at an altitude of 1100 to 1700 m. Forty tree species, 50 shrub species and 165 herb species were recorded in a series of transects. The main impact factors on forest diversity and proposals for sustainable management of this diversity were studied using an altitude and area gradient pattern method. The results showed that the diversity of da…
Species richness in a riparian plant community along the banks of the Xiangxi River, the Three Gorges region
The distribution of vascular plant species richness along an altitudinal gradient and their relationships with environmental variables, including slope, aspect, bank (flooding) height, and river width of the Xiangxi River, Hubei Province, were examined. Total vascular plant species richness changed with elevation: it increased at lower elevations, reached a maximum in the midreaches and decreased thereafter. In particular, tree and herbaceous spe…
The particularities and the research missions of the educational theories
Analyzing impact factors of CO2 emissions using the STIRPAT model
Changes in carbon intensity in China
The impact of tourism on agriculture in Lugu Lake region
Tourism has had some significant effects on local agriculture as well as the economy and environment in the Lugu Lake area because it has developed so rapidly. This paper analysed the effects of tourism on two villages at different locations. Tourism did not have an obvious impact on agriculture in the village near a tourism hot spot because it has tourism administrators who have developed culture-protecting management measures so that this villa…
Effects of land use on water quality of two high-altitude lakes and catchments in Yunnan Province, China
Reclaiming farmland from lakes in China in the 1950s damaged the water quality of many lakes. Tremendous efforts have been made since the late 1990s to restore vegetation around the damaged lakes. This paper examines water quality of Fuxian and Qilu Lakes and land-use characteristics within the two catchments in the high-altitude area of Yunnan Province, China. Landsat TM data acquired in 1989, 1994, 1999 and 2005 were used to extract land use an…
Water quality of Lugu Lake
Lugu lake is an alpine lake in Yunnan Province in western China. It is famous for its beautiful scenery and the special culture of Mosuo people in this area. The lake is becoming contaminated and eutrophicated because of the huge number of visitors and improvements in agriculture during the last decade. This paper uses the water quality index (WQI) as an indicator to describe trends in contamination of Lugu Lake from 1995 to 2004 and analyses sev…
Analysis of land-use scenarios for urban sustainable development
A scientific approach to urban planning is required to ensure environmental protection and ecological sustainability. This paper presents a range of urban land-use scenarios and their implications for urban development and economic demand in the Old Town of Lijiang. Using geographic information system (GIS) and questionnaire analysis, three future urban planning scenarios were created based on data and storylines for the Lijiang region. In all sc…
Analysis of household energy consumption and related CO 2 emissions in the disregarded villages of Lijiang City, China
Energy is one of the most important elements required for poverty alleviation and socioeconomic development, and it has a particularly strong impact on households in rural areas. An extensive survey on household energy consumption patterns that interrelates socioeconomic and demographic factors was conducted in the disregarded villages of Lijiang City by using the stratified random sampling technique for 120 households. This study focuses on hous…
Understanding resilience
Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully in the face of stress and adversity. Stressful life events, trauma, and chronic adversity can have a substantial impact on brain function and structure, and can result in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and other psychiatric disorders. However, most individuals do not develop such illnesses after experiencing stressful life events, and are thus thought to be resil…
Study on the modified quadrat sampling method for urban ecosystem network monitoring
Rapid urbanisation and developments in urban ecosystem research have increased attention on the spatial and temporal rules of urban land expansion, changes to the urban interior spatial structure and improvements to urban ecosystem functioning. There is an urgent need for a scientific method which uses remote sensing (RS), global positioning system (GPS), geographical information system (GIS) and ground surveys to quickly, constantly and accurate…
Study of regional water footprint of industrial sectors
Large-scale industrial activities are primary causes of the crisis in global water resources and water pollution problems. The water footprint (WF) is a new analytical tool which assesses comprehensive impacts on water resources, and it has become a major research direction in water resource assessment and management. However, until now, research into the WF in industrial areas has been very limited. In this study, the accounting method of the WF…
Impacts of government website information on social sciences and humanities in China
Regional-scale analysis on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in sustainable development of Shangri-La County
Shangri-La County is one of the three counties in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (DTAP), Yunnan Province, China, where rich natural resources intersect with tremendous ethnic, cultural, religious, and lingual diversities. Its sustainable development depends on the sustainability of the entire DTAP. Therefore, it is important to analyze the factors that influence DTAP’s sustainable development. In this paper, we evaluated the strengths, weak…
Land-use/land cover changes and their driving forces around wetlands in Shangri-La County, Yunnan Province, China
The Shangri-La County of the Yunnan Province, SW China, is an economically and ecologically important area. This is especially true for Jiantang that is famous for the Napahai, Bitahai and Shudu Lake wetlands. However, continuing development has threatened the wetland ecosystems and the associated biodiversity in these areas. To better document such changes in land use and their effect on the ecosystem, land use was mapped using a time series of …
Measures and planning for wetland restoration of Xianghe Segment of China’s Grand Canal
Wetlands are critical components in the landscape of Xianghe Segment of China’s Grand Canal (XSCGC) as they have many ecological functions such as water purification, habitat and biodiversity maintenance, and provide a lot of ecosystem services for human society. However, severe deterioration and destruction of the wetlands in XSCGC not only have caused the loss of ecological functions and ecosystem services, but also have threatened ecosystem he…
Landsenses ecological planning for the Xianghe Segment of China’s Grand Canal
Traditional methods of urban planning mainly focus on urban land, population size and transport priorities, and fail to consider environmental quality and welfare. To build a suitable urban form for future residents, urban eco-planners should consider the various data and technologies available, especially a resident’s sensitivity in their planning. Rational and scientific planning needs comprehensive analysis of urban ecosystems, including both …
Structure and formation of top networks in international trade, 2001–2010
Assessment of heavy metal contamination in soil associated with Chinese coal-fired power plants
The construction of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) is an important issue in energy production and consumption, and regional sustainable development under Chinese 12th Five-Year Plan. Positively or negatively, the construction of CFPPs could affect ecological sustainability, sustainable development of cities and the surrounding areas, national energy security, and also the actions currently in place to curb air pollution. Specifically, CFFPs coul…
Outlook of coal-fired power plant development and the regional ecosystem and environmental protection in China
Energy plays significant role in the protection of national prosperity and economic development. The development and construction of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) were regarded as an important component of the national energy planning, ecological civilization, national energy security, urban and regional sustainable development, and even atmospheric action. The construction of CFPPs is served as an important contribution to optimizing national …
Sustainable development and ecological protection associated with coal-fired power plants in China
Power generation determines coal resource utilization in China. However, the development and construction of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) are bringing new challenges to coal resource utilization efficiency, coal exploiting and utilizing technology, and ecosystem and environmental protection. To better resolve these challenges, various governmental agencies and industrial organizations have sponsored a series of research projects for top resear…
Anti-atherosclerosis and cardio-protective effects of the Angong Niuhuang Pill on a high fat and vitamin D3 induced rodent model of atherosclerosis
Multiple Margins of China's Export Growth
Using China's Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding Systems (HS) six-digit trade data for 1999–2013 from the UN Comtrade database, we redistribute and re-estimate the intensive and extensive margins of China's export growth on the basis of a dynamic products–markets two-mode network. Three main results emerge. First, the intensive margin was the main reason for China's export growth, and the contribution of the extensive margin was limited.…
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