Kai Zhao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Zhao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhao |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2394-486X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Carbon Information Disclosure Catering Behavior: An Empirical Study Based on Chinese Manufacturing Enterprises
This study focuses on manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets that published corporate social responsibility reports from 2014 to 2022. It analyzes the mechanisms and economic consequences of climate policy uncertainty's influence on corporate carbon information disclosure catering behavior. Empirical results show climate policy uncertainty exerts a significantly positive impact on such catering behavior, induc…
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Regulation of Positive Affect: The Moderating Effects of Stressor Intensity and Perceived Controllability
The association between positive affect regulation and well-being has often been examined at the intrapersonal level, but positive affect regulation may also occur at the interpersonal level and be shaped by contextual factors. Thus, positive affect regulation strategies, including savoring and dampening, were examined in relation to well-being (i.e. positive affect and life satisfaction) at the intra- and inter-personal levels, while also consid…
Exploring the Outcomes of Leader Bottom-Line Mentality: A Meta-analysis
AI-driven opportunity forecasting for technology startup identification: Integrating graph embedding, LLMs, and informetric analysis
Reconfiguring power: A field analysis of China’s research evaluation reform
This study examines the reconfiguration of power dynamics within China’s academic field following the “Breaking the Five Onlys” (BFO) reform, a top-down policy initiative aimed at transforming research evaluation systems in Chinese universities. Drawing on Bourdieu’s framework of field and capital, this research explores how the reform has altered the value and interplay of intellectual, political, and social capital, reshaping power hierarchies …
Does the certification of specialized, refined, characteristic, and innovative (SRCI) enterprises promote breakthroughs in key digital technologies
Interdisciplinary educational ecosystem and students’ interdisciplinary competence: Evidence from research universities in China
Interdisciplinary competence is recognized as a key outcome of interdisciplinary education; however, empirical research on how this competence is cultivated remains limited. Grounded in Astin’s Input-Environment-Outcome (I-E-O) model and Student Involvement Theory, this study investigates the direct and indirect effects of key components of the Interdisciplinary Educational Ecosystem, namely interdisciplinary curricula, student-centered teaching …
Intersectoral labor reallocation: The impact of digital finance on rural non-agricultural employment
Navigating Dual Identity: A Comparative Study of Research Development in Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities
This study examines the research development of Sino-foreign cooperative universities (SFCUs) in China, analyzing how these institutions navigate their dual identity within global academic standards and local higher education systems. Using comprehensive data from SciVal covering nine SFCUs from 2014 to 2023, we analyze research output, impact, collaboration patterns, and funding sources, comparing performance with established Project 985 and 211…
The impact of digital capabilities on farmers’ choice of marketing channels: Evidence from rural areas of the Yellow River Basin in China
Understanding the impact of digital capabilities on farmers’ choice of marketing channels is crucial for achieving sustainable development goals. Therefore, this paper employs the Probit model to estimate the impact of digital capabilities on farmers’ choice of marketing channels. The empirical results indicate that digital capabilities inhibit farmers from choosing wholesalers’ marketing channels, promoting their choice of cooperatives and direc…
ST2SNet: Spatial–Temporal Two-Layer Synchronous Network for Traffic Flow Prediction
As a crucial component of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), accurate traffic flow prediction has attracted considerable attention. Numerous popular models, such as recurrent neural networks (RNN) and graph convolution networks (GCN), have been extensively applied to this task. However, due to the constraints of the topology of urban road network and the law of dynamic change with time, the single-layer network model cannot capture the dyn…
Body surveillance and physical activity: The parallel yet opposite mediating roles of internal and external shame
Multimorbidity patterns and influencing factors in older Chinese adults: A national population-based cross-sectional survey
Background: This study aims to develop specific multimorbidity relationships among the elderly and to explore the association of multidimensional factors with these relationships, thereby facilitating the formulation of personalised strategies for multimorbidity management. Methods: Cluster analysis identified chronic conditions that tend to cluster together, and then association rule mining was used to investigate relationships within these iden…
How and When Paradoxical Leadership Nurture Innovation: The Role of Self-Leadership and Leader-Member Exchange
This study examines the effects of paradoxical leadership on innovative work behaviours, with a focus on the mediating roles of self-leadership and work engagement and the moderating role of leader-member exchange (LMX). Utilizing a 2 × 2 between-groups quasi-experimental design, the research involved manipulating participants’ perceptions through scenario experiments related to paradoxical leadership and LMX. A sample of 288 service sector emplo…
Rural-Urban differentials in the factors associated with modern contraceptive usage among married reproductive-aged women in Hubei province, China
Contraceptive use across both residencies were high. Age, ethnic minority other than Han, parity, and knowledge of condoms were factors associated with contraceptive use among rural settlers. Also, age, parity, spousal usage of contraceptives and discussion on contraception with spouses were determinants of contraceptive use among urban settlers. Thus, family planning education should be all-inclusive, well prepared, and relevant to women to allo…
Study on the mechanism of Jieduquyuziyin prescription improving the condition of MRL/lpr mice by regulating T cell metabolic reprogramming through the AMPK/mTOR pathway
How Does the Development of the Digital Economy Enhance Farmers' Livelihood Resilience: The Roles of E‐Commerce and Digital Finance
This study investigates the synergistic impact of e‐commerce and digital finance (DF) on livelihood resilience among farmers in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River basin, China. Employing double machine learning, we find that the combined adoption of e‐commerce and DF significantly enhances farmers' livelihood resilience, even after controlling for endogeneity using 2SLS and CMP methods. Our analysis reveals that this synergy promote…
Decoding Legitimacy: A Comparative Analysis of Strategic Positioning of Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities
Sino-foreign cooperative universities (SFCUs) have become an integral component of the Chinese higher education system. This research investigates how SFCUs establish legitimacy and strategically position themselves within a tightly regulated and highly competitive environment, employing a comparative case study of ten institutions. Drawing upon institutional theories, we utilize a four-dimensional legitimacy framework encompassing regulative, co…
Thought Self-Leadership and Life Satisfaction among Older Volunteers: The Opposing Mediating Roles of Resilience and Death Anxiety
Impact of AI on corporate ESG performance: Evidence from China
Is a creative leader always helpful? A dependency perspective on the relationship between leader creativity and follower creativity
Prior studies draw on social learning theory to argue a positive relationship between leader creativity and follower creativity, lending support to the directing approach of leading for creativity. However, our study aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding for this approach by also exploring the negative effects of leader creativity on follower creativity, particularly from a dependency perspective. We investigated the mechanisms and b…
Responding to the new research assessment reform in China: The Universities' Institutional Hybrid Actions
The Hierarchical Clustering of Human Mobility Behaviors
Human mobility flow prediction forecasts the number of passengers coming into (inflows) or leaving from (outflows) every region of a city. It is crucial for many applications such as mobile marketing or route optimization. People have proposed deep learning methods to predict human mobility flows. However, existing methods neglect the hierarchical nature of human mobility behaviors. Each of us is unique, and we live beyond our neighborhoods. In t…
The Impact of Income Inequality on Health Levels: Empirical Evidence from China:2002–2016
Income inequality had been one of the important manifestations of social inequality, which can affect the health level by affecting savings, health care and living standards. Existing researches about the relationship between income inequality and health ignored the comprehensive characteristic of health concept, and did not consider the intrinsic relationship between health and income inequality. This paper attempts to re-shed light on the relat…
Internet altruistic behavior among Chinese early adolescents: Exploring differences in gender and collective efficacy using a latent growth modeling
Isomorphism, Diversification, and Strategic Ambiguity: Goal Setting of Chinese Higher Education Institutions in the Double World-Class Project
The Motivation Behind China's Public Diplomacy
Made in contemporary China: Exploring the national identity of Chinese international undergraduate students in the US
Given the critical dynamics between students’ national identity and study abroad experiences, this study explores the meanings Chinese international students in the US make of national identity within the context of China’s rise on the world stage. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 23 Chinese undergraduate students studying at a US research public university, this study demonstrated how cultural values, patriotic education received in China,…
Source attribution matters: Mediation and moderation effects in the relationship between work‐to‐family conflict and job satisfaction
On the basis of the source attribution perspective of work–family conflict, this study aims to first test whether threat to the family role mediates the relationship between work‐to‐family conflict and job satisfaction. We then examine boundary conditions of the source attribution perspective by drawing on boundary management and gender role orientation theories to examine whether role segmentation enactment and gender role orientation moderate t…
Liberal arts education in transnational higher education: A comparative study of New York University and its international campuses
Recent decades have seen rapid increases in the number of international campuses and student enrolments at these campuses. While research has indicated that international campuses often struggle to resolve the tension between global integration and local responsiveness, there is currently only a limited understanding of how these campuses navigate and address this tension in their curriculum operations. Combining document and interview data, this…
Does higher education expansion close the rural-urban gap in college enrolment in China? New evidence from a cross-provincial assessment
Although national trends in rural-urban gaps in college enrolment have been well studied, little research has examined variation in gaps across provinces. Using representative data of five provinces from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study adopts a cross-provincial assessment approach to explore the relationship between higher education expansion and rural-urban inequality in college enrolment. Results demonstrate that the higher educat…
How Does the Development of the Digital Economy Enhance Farmers' Livelihood Resilience: The Roles of E‐Commerce and Digital Finance
This study investigates the synergistic impact of e‐commerce and digital finance (DF) on livelihood resilience among farmers in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River basin, China. Employing double machine learning, we find that the combined adoption of e‐commerce and DF significantly enhances farmers' livelihood resilience, even after controlling for endogeneity using 2SLS and CMP methods. Our analysis reveals that this synergy promote…
Decoding Legitimacy: A Comparative Analysis of Strategic Positioning of Sino-Foreign Cooperative Universities
Sino-foreign cooperative universities (SFCUs) have become an integral component of the Chinese higher education system. This research investigates how SFCUs establish legitimacy and strategically position themselves within a tightly regulated and highly competitive environment, employing a comparative case study of ten institutions. Drawing upon institutional theories, we utilize a four-dimensional legitimacy framework encompassing regulative, co…
Responding to the new research assessment reform in China: The Universities' Institutional Hybrid Actions
Human olfactory perception embeds fine temporal resolution within a single sniff
Is Affirmative Action interfering with the Chinese dream in America? Exploring WeChat users’ views on Affirmative Action in US. college admissions
As a fast-growing population in US. society, Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, have started to engage more actively and amplify their presence in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. In order to get a deeper understanding of how US.-based Chinese view affirmative action, we conducted a textual content analysis informed by Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) to analyze comments on several articles su…
Hierarchical value-attainment paths of CBEC consumers: A means-end-chain perspective
Purpose This study elicits the critical attributes, consequences and values associated with the purchasing process in the context of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC). The purpose is to provide a better understanding of the fundamental factors that determine consumer values in CBEC. Design/methodology/approach The study applies the means-end-chain theory and soft-laddering techniques to interview 60 CBEC consumers to construct an implication matrix …
Dynamic interaction between foreign direct investment and the new urbanization in China
Delegation study in asymmetric game
The Motivation Behind China's Public Diplomacy
Comparative Analysis of the Spectral Response to Soil Salinity of Saline-Sodic Soils under Different Surface Conditions
Desiccation cracking is a very common surface soil phenomenon of saline-sodic land. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of salt content on the spectral reflectance of soil with and without desiccation cracks. To achieve our objective, a cracking test was performed using 17 soil samples. Following the tests, crack parameters were extracted, and correlation analysis was then performed between crack parameters and four soil pr…
Source attribution matters: Mediation and moderation effects in the relationship between work‐to‐family conflict and job satisfaction
On the basis of the source attribution perspective of work–family conflict, this study aims to first test whether threat to the family role mediates the relationship between work‐to‐family conflict and job satisfaction. We then examine boundary conditions of the source attribution perspective by drawing on boundary management and gender role orientation theories to examine whether role segmentation enactment and gender role orientation moderate t…
Exploring Determinants of Population Ageing in Northeast China: From a Socio-Economic Perspective
The paper aims to examine the population ageing process in northeast China, typically perceived as a region experiencing dramatic demographic change and socio-economic slowdown that is much deeper and more significant compared to other regions. Using the 2000 and 2010 census data at the sub-regional level, the SEM (spatial error model) estimation suggests that at least seven socio-economic factors are associated with the evolution of the ageing p…
The asymmetric contagion effect from the U.S. stock market around the subprime crisis between 2007 and 2010
This study employed Enders and Siklos asymmetric co-integration frameworks, including the momentum threshold autoregressive (M-TAR) and logistic smooth transition co-integration (LSTC) models, to investigate whether contagion effects had existed in international stock markets by using the changes in the asymmetric co-integration relationships between the U.S. S&P 500 Index and a total of 23 markets in Asia, Europe, and America during the subprime…
Dynamic interaction between foreign direct investment and the new urbanization in China
Isomorphism, Diversification, and Strategic Ambiguity: Goal Setting of Chinese Higher Education Institutions in the Double World-Class Project
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin
Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 18 years ago, a large number of SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats 1–4 . Previous studies have shown that some bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans 5–7 . Here we report the identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans i…
Understanding Contributions of the Creative Class to Sustainable Economic Growth in China
By investigating the direct effect of the ‘3T’s (the creative class; tolerance; technology) and their interactive effects on GDP per capita, based on the data collected from 279 cities over the period of 2002–2014, the aim of this study is to explore the practical value of the creative class theory to the sustainable economic development in China. Using econometric estimations; the results suggest that agglomeration of the creative class; improvi…
Bridging the gap in creative economy and ICT research: A regional analysis in Europe
Following Florida’s seminal work on the ‘creative class’ there is a great deal of interest concerning whether creativity, as an input, is important for regional growth. Answering this question requires developing a production framework that can distinguish creativity from other inputs. With data from Europe, this paper integrates the concept of information and communications technology (ICT) and the creative class into a theoretical production fu…
Single image modeling (SIM) for predicting the temperature and airflows of outdoor air zones in regional planning
Domestic violence among married women of reproductive age in Zimbabwe: A cross sectional study
Domestic violence was found to be strongly associated with women whose husbands drink alcohol, products of abusive parents/father beating their mother and/or polygamous marriage (had more than one wife). Domestic violence still remains a challenge and a more biting policy efforts are needed to eradicate this public health canker in Zimbabwe
Is Affirmative Action interfering with the Chinese dream in America? Exploring WeChat users’ views on Affirmative Action in US. college admissions
As a fast-growing population in US. society, Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, have started to engage more actively and amplify their presence in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. In order to get a deeper understanding of how US.-based Chinese view affirmative action, we conducted a textual content analysis informed by Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) to analyze comments on several articles su…
Hierarchical value-attainment paths of CBEC consumers: A means-end-chain perspective
Purpose This study elicits the critical attributes, consequences and values associated with the purchasing process in the context of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC). The purpose is to provide a better understanding of the fundamental factors that determine consumer values in CBEC. Design/methodology/approach The study applies the means-end-chain theory and soft-laddering techniques to interview 60 CBEC consumers to construct an implication matrix …
Made in contemporary China: Exploring the national identity of Chinese international undergraduate students in the US
Given the critical dynamics between students’ national identity and study abroad experiences, this study explores the meanings Chinese international students in the US make of national identity within the context of China’s rise on the world stage. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 23 Chinese undergraduate students studying at a US research public university, this study demonstrated how cultural values, patriotic education received in China,…
The Changing Patterns of Consumers’ Behavior in China: A Comparison during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper has an opportunity to collect questionnaire-based data regarding respondents' life choices in China at the peak of COVID-19 outbreak (i.e., around 9-11 March 2020) and in a relatively stable period where the national pandemic was over and the lockdown policy was halted (i.e., around 25-30 March 2020). Comparing respondents' answers about their most fundamental aspects of life during and after the pandemic, including income level, expen…
Shareholding structure, private benefit of control and incentive intensity: From the perspective of enterprise strategic behaviour
This paper studies theoretically and empirically the relationship among shareholding structure, the private benefit of control and incentive intensity. By integrating the principal–agent theory and the market competition theory into the three-stage dynamic game model, we built the dual principal–agent relationship including both ‘shareholder-manager’ and ‘controlling shareholders-small and medium shareholders’. Empirically, the panel data of 1971…
Zhenbao pill attenuates hydrogen peroxide–induced apoptosis by inhibiting autophagy in human umbilical vein endothelial cells
Can government subsidy strategies and strategy combinations effectively stimulate enterprise innovation? Theory and evidence
Does higher education expansion close the rural-urban gap in college enrolment in China? New evidence from a cross-provincial assessment
Although national trends in rural-urban gaps in college enrolment have been well studied, little research has examined variation in gaps across provinces. Using representative data of five provinces from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study adopts a cross-provincial assessment approach to explore the relationship between higher education expansion and rural-urban inequality in college enrolment. Results demonstrate that the higher educat…
Analysis on the Sources of China's Economic Growth From the Perspective of Cleaner Production
Since the reform and opening up to the outside world, China's economy has created a remarkable growth miracle. However, as China enters the new normal economy, the world is full of doubts about its potential for economic growth. The article proper concerns an analysis on some factors affecting China's economic growth, such as physical capital, labor quality, labor quantity, energy consumption, and environmental cost. Also embraced in this article…
Data-Driven Approach to Assess Street Safety: Large-Scale Analysis of the Microscopic Design
Safety is an important quality of street space that affects people’s psychological state and behavior in many ways. Previous large-scale assessment of street safety focuses more on social and physical factors and has less correlation with spatial design, especially the microscopic design. Limited by data and methods, street safety assessment related to microscopic design is mostly conducted on the small scale. Based on multisource big data, this …
Rural-urban gap in academic performance at a highly selective Chinese university: Variations and determinants
Rural students’ academic performance is of critical importance for college success and later life outcomes. Prior literature on the rural-urban gap in academic performance has produced mixed results. Drawing on data from students at a highly selective university in Beijing, this study compares the differences in academic performance between students of rural and urban origins across fields of study and college years. Results demonstrate that rura…
Protective effect of Amomum Roxb. essential oils in lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury mice and its metabolomics
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