Fang Xia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fang Xia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fang |
| FAMILY NAME | Xia |
| SIGNATURE | XIA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of International Business and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7916-833X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping Soil Heavy Metal Using an Interpretable Framework With Multi‐Sources Data
Predicting the spatial heterogeneity of soil heavy metals (HMs) and identifying the determinants and sources is fundamental to developing effective strategies to mitigate and prevent environmental contamination. This study established a comprehensive research framework of “spatial prediction ‐ driver factor analysis ‐ source contribution quantification”. By comparing and using different methods to draw the spatial distribution map of HMs and comb…
The impact of China’s low-carbon city pilot policy on public health expenditure
Objective: In driving a transition in environmental governance, China's low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy has exerted a dichotomous impact on public health expenditure that is characterized by both a decline in relative proportion and expansion of absolute scale. Research to date is insufficient for understanding the transmission mechanisms and policy coordination pathways underlying this contradiction, which has hindered the sustainable realiz…
A machine learning-based depression risk prediction model for healthy middle-aged and older adult people based on data from the China health and aging tracking study
Background: Predicting depression risk in adults is critical for timely interventions to improve quality of life. To develop a scientific basis for depression prevention, machine learning models based on longitudinal data that can assess depression risk are necessary. Methods: Data from 2,331 healthy older adults who participated in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) from 2018 to 2020 were used to develop and validate the…
The motherhood penalty on health: Evidence from China
Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China
Peer effects of health behaviors and the moderating role of Internet use among middle-aged and older adults: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey in China
Objective This study investigates peer effects on the health behaviors of middle-aged and older adult people in China and examines the moderating role of Internet use. Methods A total of 16,188 respondents were selected from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2020 data set. Ordinary Least Squares and Quantile Regression were used to validate the peer effect of health behaviors on middle-aged and older adults, and a modera…
Registered report “Categorical perception of facial expressions of anger and disgust across cultures”
Previous research has demonstrated that individuals from Western cultures exhibit categorical perception (CP) in their judgments of emotional faces. However, the extent to which this phenomenon characterises the judgments of facial expressions among East Asians remains relatively unexplored. Building upon recent findings showing that East Asians are more likely than Westerners to see a mixture of emotions in facial expressions of anger and disgus…
The impact of spontaneity and presentation mode on the ingroup advantage in recognizing angry and disgusted facial expressions
摘要: 以往研究发现, 识别与自身文化背景相同的个体的面部表情比跨文化背景个体更准确, 这被称为群内优势效应。然而, 以往研究主要关注静态表演表情, 对动态表情和自发表情识别中的群内优势效应知之甚少。为了探究群内优势效应是否受表情自发性(表演和自发)和呈现方式(静态和动态)的调节, 本研究招募了中国和加拿大/荷兰被试, 分别对中国和荷兰模特表演和自发的气愤和厌恶表情(实验1), 以及静态和动态表演的气愤和厌恶表情(实验2)进行识别。研究结果显示, 在多数情况下, 表演和自发表情的识别都呈现群内优势效应, 且表演表情的群内优势效应显著高于自发表情; 静态和动态表演表情的识别也出现群内优势效应, 但两者总体上没有显著差异。这些结果表明, 表情识别的群内优势效应会受到表情自发性的调节, 但可能不受表情呈现方式的影响。本研究结果对于拓展群内优势效应研究和深化跨文化表情识别理解具有重要意义
Intergenerational altruism, pessimism bias on tenure insecurity, and sustainable land use: Evidence from household grassland management in China
Machine learning model for depression based on heavy metals among aging people: A study with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–2018
Objective: To explore the association between depression and blood metal elements, we conducted this machine learning model fitting research. Methods: Datasets from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2017-2018 were downloaded (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes). After screening, 3,247 aging samples with 10 different metals [lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co)…
Identification for heavy metals exposure on osteoarthritis among aging people and Machine learning for prediction: A study based on NHANES 2011-2020
Objective: Heavy metals are present in many environmental pollutants, and have cumulative effects on the human body through water or food, which can lead to several diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA). In this research, we aimed to explore the association between heavy metals and OA. Methods: We extracted 18 variables including age, gender, race, education level, marital status, smoking status, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, diabet…
Association between urinary metals and leukocyte telomere length involving an artificial neural network prediction: Findings based on NHANES 1999–2002
Objective: Leukocytes telomere length (LTL) was reported to be associated with cellular aging and aging related disease. Urine metal also might accelerate the development of aging related disease. We aimed to analyze the association between LTL and urinary metals. Methods: In this research, we screened all cycles of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset, and download the eligible dataset in NHANES 1999-2002 containing …
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone launched the Free Health Care Initiative, which abolished health user fees for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five years of age, in 2010. Combining data from the Demographic and Health Survey and a geocoded dataset for the distribution of public health facilities, I design a difference-in-differences study involving birth timing and transportation cost to investigate its impact on infant mortality and desired fer…
Study on Risk Assessment Methods and Zoning of Hazardous Chemicals Leaking into Seas
In China, studies on the regional risk assessment of hazardous chemicals have been carried out for only a few years, and there are few studies on hazardous chemicals leaking into seas. Previous regional-risk-assessment methods considered a single risk factor for most assessment targets, and comprehensive considerations of risk sources and sensitive resources for a study area are not sufficiently included. Based on previous work, this study establ…
Source Identification and Apportionment of Potential Toxic Elements in Soils in an Eastern Industrial City, China
The extensive pattern of economic growth has an inestimable negative impact on the ecological environment, which causes the soil pollution problem to become increasingly prominent. In order to improve the effectiveness and rationality of prevention and control of heavy metal pollution in regional soil, it is necessary to understand the current situation of pollution, identify pollution sources and clarify future pollution risks. In this paper, an…
Re-reading Immigrant Chinese Self-narratives in English (1980s to 1990s): A West–East Perspective of Philosophy and Literature
This essay addresses the question of why the immigrant Chinese self-narratives published in English during the 1980s and 1990s set against China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) have achieved extraordinary commercial success and unabated popularity in the West. Reading them against the conventions of the Western self and the Chinese self, this essay argues that manipulation of the self by the retrieval of favourable sources from both Western and…
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi
Although most of the world’s agricultural land is cultivated under customary tenure regimes that tend to change over time in response to exogenous factors, the impact of customary rights on productivity and investment remains under-researched. Using unique data from an experiment in Malawi, we show that (i) parcel-level bequest and sale rights affect investment and cash crop adoption; (ii) impacts are gender-differentiated -women’s rights affect …
A comparative study of Aristotle’s doctrine of the Mean and Confucius’ doctrine of Zhong Yong
Interactive and individual effects of multi-factor controls on water use efficiency in Central Asian ecosystems
Water use efficiency (WUE) characterizes the relationship between water dissipation and carbon sequestration. Knowledge of WUE dynamics and its responses to complex climate controls are prerequisites for addressing the challenges of future climate change and human disturbance of wild lands. Owing to a lack of experimental observations and the complexity of quantifying the individual and interactive effects of different environmental factors, the …
Gendered Incidence and Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi’s Customary Tenure System
Malawi’s recent passage of Land Acts provide an opportunity to clarify different aspects of the country’s land tenure in an integrated way. To assess whether doing so might be economically justified, we explore incidence and impact of tenure insecurity among smallholders. Insecurity is not only widespread, with 22 per cent of land users being concerned about losing their land, but is also associated with a productivity loss of 9 per cent for fema…
Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation: Second-Generation Effects from India
Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female mortality raises questions about long-term sustainability of reform effects. We use evidence from three states, one of which amended the HSA in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of this reform using a triple…
Improvement of Spatial Modeling of Cr, Pb, Cd, As and Ni in Soil Based on Portable X-ray Fluorescence (PXRF) and Geostatistics: A Case Study in East China
To verify the feasibility of portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) for rapidly analyzing, assessing and improving soil heavy metals mapping, 351 samples were collected from Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, in eastern China. Ordinary kriging (OK) and co-ordinary kriging (COK) combined with PXRF measurements were used to explore spatial patterns of heavy metals content in the soil. The Getis-Ord index was calculated to discern hot spots of heavy metals…
Assessment of Long-Term Watershed Management on Reservoir Phosphorus Concentrations and Export Fluxes
Source water nutrient management to prevent eutrophication requires critical strategies to reduce watershed phosphorus (P) loadings. Shanxi Drinking-Water Source Area (SDWSA) in eastern China experienced severe water quality deterioration before 2010, but showed considerable improvement following application of several watershed management actions to reduce P. This paper assessed the changes in total phosphorus (TP) concentrations and fluxes at t…
Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers: Challenges and opportunities in Malawi’s estate sector
Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution and Health Risks in the Soil-Plant-Human System in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Heavy metal (HM) contamination and accumulation is a serious problem around the world due to the toxicity, abundant sources, non-biodegradable properties, and accumulative behaviour of HMs. The degree of soil HM contamination in China, especially in the Yangtze River Delta, is prominent. In this study, 1822 pairs of soil and crop samples at corresponding locations were collected from the southern Yangtze River Delta of China, and the contents of …
Moving Off the Farm: Land Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China
Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based Investment: The Case of Mozambique
Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape
While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich produce…
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi
Although most of the world’s agricultural land is cultivated under customary tenure regimes that tend to change over time in response to exogenous factors, the impact of customary rights on productivity and investment remains under-researched. Using unique data from an experiment in Malawi, we show that (i) parcel-level bequest and sale rights affect investment and cash crop adoption; (ii) impacts are gender-differentiated -women’s rights affect …
Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers: Challenges and opportunities in Malawi’s estate sector
Internalizing the external costs to achieve environmental and economic Goals: A Case study of rice production in China
Moving Off the Farm: Land Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China
Does Female Reservation Affect Long-Term Political Outcomes? Evidence from Rural India
Although many studies have explored the \n impacts of political quotas for females, often with \n ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term \n effects have received little attention. This paper uses \n nation-wide data from India spanning a 15-year period to \n explore how reservations affect leader qualifications, \n service delivery, political participation, local \n accountability, and individuals willingness to contribute \n …
Usle-Based Assessment of Soil Erosion by Water in the Nyabarongo River Catchment, Rwanda
Soil erosion has become a serious problem in recent decades due to unhalted trends of unsustainable land use practices. Assessment of soil erosion is a prominent tool in planning and conservation of soil and water resource ecosystems. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) was applied to Nyabarongo River Catchment that drains about 8413.75 km2 (33%) of the total Rwanda coverage and a small part of the Southern Uganda (about 64.50 km2) using Geog…
Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape
While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich produce…
Quantifying Spillover Effects from Large Land-based Investment: The Case of Mozambique
Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution and Health Risks in the Soil-Plant-Human System in the Yangtze River Delta, China
Heavy metal (HM) contamination and accumulation is a serious problem around the world due to the toxicity, abundant sources, non-biodegradable properties, and accumulative behaviour of HMs. The degree of soil HM contamination in China, especially in the Yangtze River Delta, is prominent. In this study, 1822 pairs of soil and crop samples at corresponding locations were collected from the southern Yangtze River Delta of China, and the contents of …
Assessment of Long-Term Watershed Management on Reservoir Phosphorus Concentrations and Export Fluxes
Source water nutrient management to prevent eutrophication requires critical strategies to reduce watershed phosphorus (P) loadings. Shanxi Drinking-Water Source Area (SDWSA) in eastern China experienced severe water quality deterioration before 2010, but showed considerable improvement following application of several watershed management actions to reduce P. This paper assessed the changes in total phosphorus (TP) concentrations and fluxes at t…
Assessing the long-term performance of large-scale land transfers: Challenges and opportunities in Malawi’s estate sector
Gendered Incidence and Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi’s Customary Tenure System
Malawi’s recent passage of Land Acts provide an opportunity to clarify different aspects of the country’s land tenure in an integrated way. To assess whether doing so might be economically justified, we explore incidence and impact of tenure insecurity among smallholders. Insecurity is not only widespread, with 22 per cent of land users being concerned about losing their land, but is also associated with a productivity loss of 9 per cent for fema…
Inheritance Law Reform, Empowerment, and Human Capital Accumulation: Second-Generation Effects from India
Although many studies point towards significant positive impacts of Hindu Succession Act (HSA) reforms on females’ empowerment and access to human and physical capital, the fact that this reform also led to increased female mortality raises questions about long-term sustainability of reform effects. We use evidence from three states, one of which amended the HSA in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of this reform using a triple…
Improvement of Spatial Modeling of Cr, Pb, Cd, As and Ni in Soil Based on Portable X-ray Fluorescence (PXRF) and Geostatistics: A Case Study in East China
To verify the feasibility of portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) for rapidly analyzing, assessing and improving soil heavy metals mapping, 351 samples were collected from Fuyang District, Hangzhou City, in eastern China. Ordinary kriging (OK) and co-ordinary kriging (COK) combined with PXRF measurements were used to explore spatial patterns of heavy metals content in the soil. The Getis-Ord index was calculated to discern hot spots of heavy metals…
A comparative study of Aristotle’s doctrine of the Mean and Confucius’ doctrine of Zhong Yong
Interactive and individual effects of multi-factor controls on water use efficiency in Central Asian ecosystems
Water use efficiency (WUE) characterizes the relationship between water dissipation and carbon sequestration. Knowledge of WUE dynamics and its responses to complex climate controls are prerequisites for addressing the challenges of future climate change and human disturbance of wild lands. Owing to a lack of experimental observations and the complexity of quantifying the individual and interactive effects of different environmental factors, the …
Re-reading Immigrant Chinese Self-narratives in English (1980s to 1990s): A West–East Perspective of Philosophy and Literature
This essay addresses the question of why the immigrant Chinese self-narratives published in English during the 1980s and 1990s set against China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) have achieved extraordinary commercial success and unabated popularity in the West. Reading them against the conventions of the Western self and the Chinese self, this essay argues that manipulation of the self by the retrieval of favourable sources from both Western and…
Investment impacts of gendered land rights in customary tenure systems: Substantive and methodological insights from Malawi
Although most of the world’s agricultural land is cultivated under customary tenure regimes that tend to change over time in response to exogenous factors, the impact of customary rights on productivity and investment remains under-researched. Using unique data from an experiment in Malawi, we show that (i) parcel-level bequest and sale rights affect investment and cash crop adoption; (ii) impacts are gender-differentiated -women’s rights affect …
Machine learning model for depression based on heavy metals among aging people: A study with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–2018
Objective: To explore the association between depression and blood metal elements, we conducted this machine learning model fitting research. Methods: Datasets from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2017-2018 were downloaded (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes). After screening, 3,247 aging samples with 10 different metals [lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), selenium (Se), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co)…
Identification for heavy metals exposure on osteoarthritis among aging people and Machine learning for prediction: A study based on NHANES 2011-2020
Objective: Heavy metals are present in many environmental pollutants, and have cumulative effects on the human body through water or food, which can lead to several diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA). In this research, we aimed to explore the association between heavy metals and OA. Methods: We extracted 18 variables including age, gender, race, education level, marital status, smoking status, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, diabet…
Association between urinary metals and leukocyte telomere length involving an artificial neural network prediction: Findings based on NHANES 1999–2002
Objective: Leukocytes telomere length (LTL) was reported to be associated with cellular aging and aging related disease. Urine metal also might accelerate the development of aging related disease. We aimed to analyze the association between LTL and urinary metals. Methods: In this research, we screened all cycles of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset, and download the eligible dataset in NHANES 1999-2002 containing …
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone launched the Free Health Care Initiative, which abolished health user fees for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five years of age, in 2010. Combining data from the Demographic and Health Survey and a geocoded dataset for the distribution of public health facilities, I design a difference-in-differences study involving birth timing and transportation cost to investigate its impact on infant mortality and desired fer…
Study on Risk Assessment Methods and Zoning of Hazardous Chemicals Leaking into Seas
In China, studies on the regional risk assessment of hazardous chemicals have been carried out for only a few years, and there are few studies on hazardous chemicals leaking into seas. Previous regional-risk-assessment methods considered a single risk factor for most assessment targets, and comprehensive considerations of risk sources and sensitive resources for a study area are not sufficiently included. Based on previous work, this study establ…
Source Identification and Apportionment of Potential Toxic Elements in Soils in an Eastern Industrial City, China
The extensive pattern of economic growth has an inestimable negative impact on the ecological environment, which causes the soil pollution problem to become increasingly prominent. In order to improve the effectiveness and rationality of prevention and control of heavy metal pollution in regional soil, it is necessary to understand the current situation of pollution, identify pollution sources and clarify future pollution risks. In this paper, an…
Peer effects of health behaviors and the moderating role of Internet use among middle-aged and older adults: A nationally representative cross-sectional survey in China
Objective This study investigates peer effects on the health behaviors of middle-aged and older adult people in China and examines the moderating role of Internet use. Methods A total of 16,188 respondents were selected from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) 2020 data set. Ordinary Least Squares and Quantile Regression were used to validate the peer effect of health behaviors on middle-aged and older adults, and a modera…
Registered report “Categorical perception of facial expressions of anger and disgust across cultures”
Previous research has demonstrated that individuals from Western cultures exhibit categorical perception (CP) in their judgments of emotional faces. However, the extent to which this phenomenon characterises the judgments of facial expressions among East Asians remains relatively unexplored. Building upon recent findings showing that East Asians are more likely than Westerners to see a mixture of emotions in facial expressions of anger and disgus…
The impact of spontaneity and presentation mode on the ingroup advantage in recognizing angry and disgusted facial expressions
摘要: 以往研究发现, 识别与自身文化背景相同的个体的面部表情比跨文化背景个体更准确, 这被称为群内优势效应。然而, 以往研究主要关注静态表演表情, 对动态表情和自发表情识别中的群内优势效应知之甚少。为了探究群内优势效应是否受表情自发性(表演和自发)和呈现方式(静态和动态)的调节, 本研究招募了中国和加拿大/荷兰被试, 分别对中国和荷兰模特表演和自发的气愤和厌恶表情(实验1), 以及静态和动态表演的气愤和厌恶表情(实验2)进行识别。研究结果显示, 在多数情况下, 表演和自发表情的识别都呈现群内优势效应, 且表演表情的群内优势效应显著高于自发表情; 静态和动态表演表情的识别也出现群内优势效应, 但两者总体上没有显著差异。这些结果表明, 表情识别的群内优势效应会受到表情自发性的调节, 但可能不受表情呈现方式的影响。本研究结果对于拓展群内优势效应研究和深化跨文化表情识别理解具有重要意义
Intergenerational altruism, pessimism bias on tenure insecurity, and sustainable land use: Evidence from household grassland management in China
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