Dan Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3712652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guangxi Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6812-6246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Totalizing drone gaze in tourism contexts
Predicting Postgraduates’ Use Behavior of AI-Based Chatbots for Academic Writing: Based on the UTAUT2 Model
Based on Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2), this research investigates the key factors that influence postgraduate students’ engagement with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots in the context of academic writing, while also analyzing how gender moderates these relationships. A total of 232 postgraduate participants were randomly chosen to complete a structured questionnaire evaluating their responses to nine …
Distributional Vector Autoregression: Eliciting Macro and Financial Dependence
This paper extends the vector autoregression framework by introducing a flexible distributional regression that models multivariate time series without imposing restrictive parametric distribution assumptions. We develop a distributional impulse response function that captures the future effect of distributional disturbances within the system, providing a more detailed view of dynamic heterogeneity. We propose a straightforward estimation method …
What makes a digital human twin more than a simulation? A computational-ecological stance
The emergence of digital human twins (DHTs) raises questions not only of modeling fidelity but of operational coupling with the environment: the extent to which DHTs can independently perceive, decide, and learn within data-rich virtual environments (VEs). This paper challenges the mirror metaphor: DHTs need not merely reflect their human counterparts but can develop affordance-based perceptions of virtual surround. Building on Object Oriented On…
The dialectics of good and evil in state power: A model of master-slave asymmetry
State power possesses an inherent dialectic of good and evil, rooted in the fundamental tension between the asymmetrical nature of the master-slave relationship and the ethical pursuit of symmetrical recognition. This paper depicts this dialectical process as a movement: it begins with the false harmony of Substantive Good, subsequently falls into the evil of a Bad Infinite stalemate where antagonism becomes ontological, and then attempts to achi…
UPLC-Q-TOF/MS-based spectrum-effect correlation combined with chemometrics and molecular docking for quality assessment and screening of bioactive components with hemostatic, antinociceptive, and anti…
Exploring the kidney-protective potential of traditional Zhuang medicine 'Yingbupu': Insights from serum metabolomics, network pharmacology, and experimental validation
The renoprotective effect of YBP can be attributed to its ability to effectively reverse the abnormal activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway
Comparative analysis and forecast of spinal cord injury burden in BRICS countries (1990–2021): Insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Background: As major emerging economies, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) face a significant and distinct burden of spinal cord injury (SCI). We systematically assessed trends in the burden of SCI and its leading causes from 1990 to 2021 and forecasted trends to 2031, providing evidence to optimize prevention and control strategies. Methods: Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021), we calculated the a…
Estimating Posterior Sensitivities with Application to Structural Analysis of Bayesian Vector Autoregressions
The inherent feature of Bayesian empirical analysis is the dependence of posterior inference on prior parameters, which researchers typically specify.However, quantifying the magnitude of this dependence remains difficult.This article extends Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis, widely used in classical simulation, to compute asymptotically unbiased and consistent sensitivities of posterior statistics with respect to prior parameters from Markov …
Analysis of Key Factors Affecting the Digital Transformation of Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises in China
This study evaluates the factors influencing the digital transformation of small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) in China, introducing a hybrid evaluation framework that integrates multiple dimensions through the Grey-DANP method. Unlike previous descriptive studies, this research quantifies factor weights and maps their interrelationships across economic, environmental, socio-cultural, personal, and technological dimensions. …
Warming of northern peatlands increases the global temperature overshoot challenge
East Asian Family Ethics in Crisis: Hegelian Analysis of Meritocracy Versus Warmth Logics
We employ Hegel's dialectical phenomenological method to conceptualize meritocracy logic (valuing performance through quantifiable metrics) and warmth logic (sustaining cohesion through emotional bonds) as interpretive paradigms for East Asian families. Analyzing regional crises through Hegelian dialectics, we reveal that the negation of warmth by meritocracy causes the dissolution of the ethical entity (the family's ethical foundation). To resol…
Crafting creativity and its impact on the trajectory of career withdrawal intentions of hospitality employees: A latent growth modeling approach
This study examines the role of supervisor support in fostering employees' incremental and radical creativity, with employee ambition as a moderating factor. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, it further investigates how these forms of creativity influence changes in the career withdrawal intentions of hospitality employees over time. Utilizing three-wave longitudinal data from a dyadic sample of 204 hospitality workers and their superv…
A meta-analysis of tourists’ destination visits and theory of planned behavior: The Moderating Roles of Destination Scale and Cultural Difference
The literature has explored what motivates tourists to visit a place, but there has not been much work done to compile and synthesize the results of empirical investigations. This study meta-analytically reviews extant research in tourists’ destination visits and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) exploring the moderating roles of destination scale (large versus small) and cultural difference (Eastern versus Western). Using 99 individual sample…
How growing up without siblings affects the adult brain and behaviour in the CHIMGEN cohort
Privacy-Preserving Techniques with e-Healthcare Applications
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: A pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…
Constructing density forecasts from quantile regressions: Multimodality in macrofinancial dynamics
Quantile regression methods are increasingly used to forecast tail risks and uncertainties in macroeconomic outcomes. This paper reconsiders how to construct predictive densities from quantile regressions. We compare a popular two‐step approach that fits a specific parametric density to the quantile forecasts with a nonparametric alternative that lets the “data speak.” Simulation evidence and an application revisiting GDP growth uncertainties in …
Tourists’ Adoption of Extended Reality Technologies: A MetaAnalytical Structural Equation Modeling
This study uses meta-analytic structural equation modeling to investigate the applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) in predicting tourists’ adoption of extended reality technologies. It further examines whether the type of extended reality [Virtual Reality vs. Augmented Reality] and cultural differences (Eastern vs. Western) moderate the relationships amongst the TAM constructs. Using 32 individual samples ( N = 10,630), the stud…
The familial transmission of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury in different income levels in town
BACKGROUND: Prior researches have established that suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) exhibit familial transmission patterns. However, the extent to which these patterns vary across different income levels remains unclear, as well as the specific factors that influence them. This study aimed to explore these questions. METHODS: We analyzed data from 13,988 parent-child pairs in Chongqing, China, where the children were aged from 7 to 12 …
Study of Correlation between Fetal Bowel Dilation and Congenital Gastrointestinal Malformation
The presence of the double-bubble sign in fetuses indicates a close association with duodenal obstruction. The risk of gastrointestinal malformations increases when the bowel diameter exceeds 18.05 mm, particularly when the D/GA surpasses 0.4931
Total flavonoids of Litchi chinensis Sonn. seed inhibit prostate cancer growth in bone by regulating the bone microenvironment via inactivation of the HGFR/NF-κB signaling pathway
Taking Stock: A Meta-Analysis of Work Engagement in the Hospitality and Tourism Context
Although a number of empirical studies on work engagement have been conducted in the context of hospitality and tourism, few efforts have been made to consolidate previous findings in this area. Hence, this article explores the current stage of work engagement studies and meta-analyses the relations of work engagement with its antecedents and outcomes in the hospitality and tourism context. Through a systematic review, 134 empirical studies (N = …
Victim profiles and the protective role of school anti-bullying norms: A study of Chinese adolescents
Effects of robotics STEM camps on rural elementary students’ self-efficacy and computational thinking
A meta-analysis of antecedents of pro-environmental behavioral intention of tourists and hospitality consumers
Guides' handling of multiple roles in interactions with tourists: The prism of impression management
Behind Buying: The Chinese Gaze on European Commodities
Europe has become a popular destination for Mainland Chinese in recent years and shopping in Europe is essential and very exciting to most of them. While previous research has mostly comprised descriptive marketing studies, and a few have interpreted the shopping behavior of this emerging market from the traditional Chinese culture perspective, this paper presents a dynamic sociological approach to interpret the deeper mindset behind the Chinese …
Changes in Academic Self-efficacy and Value and Crossover of Burnout Among Adolescent Students: A Two-wave Longitudinal Study
Crafting creativity and its impact on the trajectory of career withdrawal intentions of hospitality employees: A latent growth modeling approach
This study examines the role of supervisor support in fostering employees' incremental and radical creativity, with employee ambition as a moderating factor. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, it further investigates how these forms of creativity influence changes in the career withdrawal intentions of hospitality employees over time. Utilizing three-wave longitudinal data from a dyadic sample of 204 hospitality workers and their superv…
Framing a Relational Typology of Tourism Shopping Space by Affective Atmosphere: Thinking with Assemblage
Shopping venues are important resources to improve the tourist experience in a destination. Previous studies mainly take reductionist understandings of the functions of destination shopping venues. It ignores the tourist shopping process where multiple human and non-human actors assemble the tourism shopping space (TSS) and shape the venue's function relationally. By reviewing the conceptual connection between assemblage and affective atmosphere,…
What about my opposition!? The case of rural public hearing best practices during the Covid-19 pandemic
Influence of Religion on Prosociality: A Priming Study of Buddhist Concepts among Nonbelievers in China
From a theoretical perspective, there is consensus that religion is positively associated with prosocial behaviors. However, rather little is known about whether religion can increase the accessibility of prosocial concepts among nonbelievers. In the current study, we explored the influence of religion on the accessibility of such concepts among nonbelievers of Buddhism using supraliminal and subliminal priming techniques. Specifically, we employ…
Study on anticancer activity of caulis spatholobi extract on human osteosarcoma saos-2 cells
The objective of the present study was to investigate the anticancer activity of Chinese medicine Caulis Spatholobi extract on multicentric osteosarcoma cells. Ultraviolet spectrophotometry was used to determine the total flavonoid content in each sample; vanillin sulphuric acid assay was used to determine the condensed tannin content in each sample; and the varying degrees of inhibitory activities of ethanol, ethyl acetate and n-butanol extracts…
Current City Problems in Beijing: Discussion of PM2.5 Related Toxic Air Pollution
Recent reports show that an estimated one-fifth of the world’s population is suffering from toxic air pollution (Qu, 2013; Liu, 2013; Zhou et al., 2013). This is especially evident in China, where PM2.5 covers one-seventh of China’s total territory. In order to combat this disaster, three aspects will be included in this paper to analyze Beijing’s air pollution management through a scientific and philosophical lens for the future human health in …
Behind Buying: The Chinese Gaze on European Commodities
Europe has become a popular destination for Mainland Chinese in recent years and shopping in Europe is essential and very exciting to most of them. While previous research has mostly comprised descriptive marketing studies, and a few have interpreted the shopping behavior of this emerging market from the traditional Chinese culture perspective, this paper presents a dynamic sociological approach to interpret the deeper mindset behind the Chinese …
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: A pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants
BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and …
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…
Self-development of Chinese Overseas Students in their European Travels
Departing from a sociological perspective, this paper adopts a cognitive framework of ‘three-forms’ of Chinese self to analyze the question of how contemporary Chinese overseas students develop themselves during their European travels. Through two rounds of in-depth interviews and data analysis, we find three forms of self-development among contemporary Chinese overseas students when they travel in European countries, which are the development of…
China, Crimes Against Humanity and the International Criminal Court
China has long supported the establishment of a permanent international criminal court, but it cast a negative vote at the end of the Rome Conference in 1998 due to certain outstanding concerns about the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), including those relating to the definition of crimes against humanity. As the major objection of China towards crimes against humanity was raised in the context of customary international law, th…
Influence of Religion on Prosociality: A Priming Study of Buddhist Concepts among Nonbelievers in China
From a theoretical perspective, there is consensus that religion is positively associated with prosocial behaviors. However, rather little is known about whether religion can increase the accessibility of prosocial concepts among nonbelievers. In the current study, we explored the influence of religion on the accessibility of such concepts among nonbelievers of Buddhism using supraliminal and subliminal priming techniques. Specifically, we employ…
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…
Benchmark estimates for aboveground litterfall data derived from ecosystem models
Litter production is a fundamental ecosystem process, which plays an important role in regulating terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles. However, there are substantial differences in the litter production simulations among ecosystem models, and a global benchmarking evaluation to measure the performance of these models is still lacking. In this study, we generated a global dataset of aboveground litterfall production (i.e. cLitter), a benchmark …
China, Crimes Against Humanity and the International Criminal Court
China, the international criminal court, and global governance
This article explores the Chinese policies towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the context of global governance. Despite China’s fast-growing foreign policy competence, the level of confidence held by China in engaging with global governance systems has not yet fully transmitted to the legal institutions governing human rights issues, and the ICC is such an example. This article examines specific policy concerns of China regarding t…
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: A pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million p…
BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …
Environmental Design vs. Environmental Art Design: A Chinese Perspective
Environmental (Art) Design is one of the most dynamic and studied design disciplines in China, derived and developed from Interior Decoration and Design. "Environmental Design" and "Environmental Art Design", two naming variations for the same discipline, coexist within the Chinese cultural context, in which many Chinese scholars developed their own comprehension of the nature of "Design". Therefore, these two names are often misused in Chinese a…
Lei-gong-gen formula granule attenuates hyperlipidemia in rats via cGMP-PKG signaling pathway
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: A pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants
BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…
How do water table drawdown, duration of drainage, and warming influence greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands of the Zoige Plateau
Alpine peatlands on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau are an important soil carbon pool and are extremely sensitive to global change. Duration of drainage and water table drawdown accelerate peatland degradation because the soil changes from an anaerobic to aerobic environment, and climate warming exacerbates this shift. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of drainage on microbial characteristics and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissi…
Guides' handling of multiple roles in interactions with tourists: The prism of impression management
An automated prior robustness analysis in Bayesian model comparison
It is well‐known that the marginal likelihood, the gold standard for Bayesian model comparison, can be sensitive to prior hyperparameter choices. However, most models require computationally intense simulation‐based methods to evaluate the typically high‐dimensional integral of the marginal likelihood expression. Hence, despite the recognition that prior sensitivity analysis is important in this context, it is rarely done in practice. We develop …
A systematic review of academic dishonesty in online learning environments
A strong mitigation scenario maintains climate neutrality of northern peatlands
The Wellbeing of Chinese Migrating Grandparents Supporting Adult Children: Negotiating in Home-Making Practices
Health geography provides a relational approach to understanding elders' wellbeing experience in relation to place. That the migrating grandparents move between their home and their adult children's home to support their children's life in the migrating city provides a particular pattern to supplement the place-based wellbeing literature. How they negotiate their wellbeing remains to be observed in the daily home-making practices related to their…
Marsdenia tenacissima (Roxb.) Moon injection exerts a potential anti-tumor effect in prostate cancer through inhibiting ErbB2-GSK3β-HIF1α signaling axis
What about my opposition!? The case of rural public hearing best practices during the Covid-19 pandemic
A meta-analysis of antecedents of pro-environmental behavioral intention of tourists and hospitality consumers
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Business (11 works) · China (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Population (9 works)