Fei Yang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3726170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fei Yang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fei |
| FAMILY NAME | Yang |
| SIGNATURE | YANG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston - Downtown |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8675-6076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reassessing the Racial Survival Disparity in Renal Medullary Carcinoma
From destination perceptions to visit behavior in Macao
Introduction This study examines how mainland Chinese tourists' destination-related perceptions are translated into self-reported visit behavior in Macao through a sequential psychological process. Drawing on destination image theory, perceived value theory, push–pull theory, and the Theory of Planned Behavior, the study develops a sequential mediation model linking perceived destination image, electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), perceived destinati…
Governing E-cigarettes in China
China’s e-cigarette governance has entered a complex post-flavor ban era under the “1 + 2 + N” regulatory framework. While this system integrates centralized transaction platforms and mandatory safety standards, critical vulnerabilities remain. Current regulatory asymmetry, characterized by strict e-cigarette flavor prohibitions alongside lenient policies for flavored combustible tobacco, may inadvertently redirect consumption toward traditional …
Analysis of influencing factors and prediction model for fatigue among medical staff at a large primary centralized medical observation point
Objective: Long-term closed-loop management and the demanding nature of work at centralized medical observation points can increase fatigue among medical staff, impair physical and mental health, and degrade the quality of medical services. This study aims to evaluate the factors influencing fatigue among medical personnel at a primary centralized medical observation point, including personal conditions and working environment factors. Methods: A…
Assessment tools for disease risk perception in chronic patients
Disease risk perception is a subjective psychological construct that can predict health-promoting behaviors and support personalized chronic disease management. This narrative review summarizes existing risk perception assessment tools, analyzing their theoretical foundations, structures and psychometric properties. We trace the evolution of these tools from broad, generic scales to disease-specific evaluations for conditions such as cardiovascul…
Different gazes and hands
This paper conducts a multimodal critical discourse analysis of 92 accompanying images in 22 articles related to adolescent depression published on the WeChat official accounts of major Chinese state-aligned media outlets, including People’s Daily , CCTV.com , China News Service , and Health News . We pay special attention to analyze the multimodal discursive strategies employed to represent the causes and solutions of adolescent depression, as w…
Are there seasonal differences in supply and demand for blue-green space cooling in cities with hot summers and cold winters? – A case study from Tianjin, China
Socioeconomic Status and Intentions for Postgraduate Study
The university stage is a critical transitional period for individuals transitioning from late adolescence to early adulthood. During this transition, the supportive environment provided by universities plays a pivotal role in shaping students′ further education decisions. Supervisor and peer support, course quality, and institutional support are key dimensions that determine students′ intentions for postgraduate study. Based on 2025 microlevel s…
Effects of neuromuscular training on stability in volleyball athletes
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The influence of fragmentation on a combined ZooMS and zooarchaeological study at Geißenklösterle Cave in the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany
ZooMS study of 988 bones from the Palaeolithic site, Geißenklösterle Cave. • Carnivore damage three times more prevalent on indeterminate fossils than those with diagnostic features. • Fragment size influences species identifications in ZooMS studies. • Earliest anthropogenic modification on Rhinocerotidae remains in the Swabian Jura. Geißenklösterle Cave, a Palaeolithic site located in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany, has yielded multiple M…
Urban Land Subsidence Analyzed Through Time-Series InSAR Coupled with Refined Risk Modeling
Due to extensive soft soil and high human activities, Wuhan is a hotspot for land subsidence. This study used the time-series InSAR to calculate the spatial and temporal distribution map of subsidence in Wuhan and analyze the causes of subsidence. An improved fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (GD-FAHP) was proposed and integrated with the Entropy Weight Method (EWM) to assess the hazard and vulnerability of land subsidence using multiple evaluatio…
Hybrid Learning Model of Global–Local Graph Attention Network and XGBoost for Inferring Origin–Destination Flows
Origin–destination (OD) flows are essential for urban studies, yet their acquisition is often hampered by high costs and privacy constraints. Prevailing inference methodologies inadequately address latent spatial dependencies between non-contiguous and distant areas, which are useful for understanding modern transportation systems with expanding regional interactions. To address these challenges, this paper propose a hybrid learning model with th…
Does digital economy help reduce carbon emissions from tourism? Evidence from China
In the context of global warming and the continued expansion of tourism, the issue of carbon emissions from tourism (CET) has become more prominent. Development of the digital economy provides a new opportunity to reduce CET. Using data from 30 provinces in China from 2004 to 2020, this study examines the direct effect of the digital economy on CET by employing the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM). An intermediate effects model is applied to e…
“Video is only one little perspective”
This paper examines officer perceptions of body-worn cameras (BWCs) through semi-structured in-depth interviews with officers across ranks in a small community-oriented police agency. Giving voice to officers in a small agency, this study broadens prior knowledge gained from big agency studies and deepens existing understanding of officer perceptions of BWCs beyond a binary classification (either support or resistance). This approach provides a u…
Unraveling the impact of urban expansion on vegetation carbon sequestration capacity
Associations of exposure to volatile organic compounds with biological aging
VOCs exposure was associated with biological aging, and daily behaviors may influence an individual's susceptibility to such exposure. This discovery provided a new way of thinking about slowing down the aging process and improving overall health
It Was A Humbling Experience”
The impact of urban form on land space carbon sink conflicts
Economic Drivers of China's Declining Fertility
The declining birth rate in China has resulted in a decrease in the labour force, increased ageing of the population and constrained economic growth potential, making the increase in the birth rate a priority. This study explores the connections among digital inclusive finance, household debt and fertility rates using microdata from the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) for the years 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, along with data on digital…
Toxic effects and safety assessment of Xanthoceras sorbifolium bunge seed kernels
Design a Voluntary Cooperative Network Research in End‐of‐Life Care
This paper draws on empirical data from a research project on diversified models of palliative care and hospice in China to examine the development and implementation of a Voluntary Cooperative Network Research (VCNR) approach in end‐of‐life care. The current study identifies several barriers to service provision, including limited institutional development, inadequate resource investment, insufficient training in palliative medicine and low leve…
Linguistic Steganography via Self-Adjusting Asymmetric Number System
Linguistic steganography (stego) seeks to conceal secret information within natural language text. However, existing methods often struggle to balance stego text quality with embedding efficiency, largely due to limitations in generation strategies and coding mechanisms. We propose SA-ANS, a self-adaptive linguistic steganography framework based on a self-adjusting Asymmetric Numeral System. SA-ANS allows user-specified embedding rates and uses p…
Widows’ fire
Widows' fire-widows' intense, unbidden sexual desire post-loss-is underexplored, despite its impact on meaning-making and identity. Using an existential-phenomenological design and thematic analysis, this study applied a meaning reconstruction lens to explore how 21 young widows (aged 45 or younger) made sense of widows' fire. Three themes emerged: (1) Widows' fire is a bodily grief response, rooted in trauma regulation, yearning, and vitality-se…
Associations of perceived social mobility with health indicators
Label-Dependent Graph Neural Network
Graph neural network (GNN) provides a powerful expressive way to embed graph-structured data, which has been widely applied and spans many fields. This article found an interesting but unreasonable phenomenon in some classical GNNs, namely label confusion. Theoretically, the dependence between prediction label and ground-truth should gradually increase and tend to converge with training epochs. On the contrary, label confusion shows that the depe…
Towards a win‐win situation for innovation and sustainable development
Innovation and sustainable development are important concerns for countries around the world, and strengthening environmental regulation (ER) may have a critical implication for the promotion of green technology innovation. On the basis of elaborating the mechanism of ER on technological innovation, the Super‐SBM‐Windows‐DEA model is employed to measure the green innovation efficiency (GIE) using provincial‐level panel data from 2004–2017 in Chin…
Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes
Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritoc…
Associations of perceived social mobility with health indicators
Design a Voluntary Cooperative Network Research in End‐of‐Life Care
This paper draws on empirical data from a research project on diversified models of palliative care and hospice in China to examine the development and implementation of a Voluntary Cooperative Network Research (VCNR) approach in end‐of‐life care. The current study identifies several barriers to service provision, including limited institutional development, inadequate resource investment, insufficient training in palliative medicine and low leve…
A Study of the Surface Reflectances and Atrium Geometry on DF in Atrium Spaces
Gender difference in knowledge of tuberculosis and associated health-care seeking behaviors
TB and DOTS program were not well known by rural Chinese. Gender issues should be considered to reduce diagnostic delay of TB and improve both men and women's access to qualified health facility for TB care. Strengthening awareness of TB and improving the accessibility of health-care service is essential in TB control strategy, especially under the current vertical TB control system
Association between Changing Mortality of Digestive Tract Cancers and Water Pollution
The relationship between the ever-increasing cancer mortality and water pollution is an important public concern in China. This study aimed to explore the association between serious water pollution and increasing digestive cancer mortality in the Huai River Basin (HRB) in China. A series of frequency of serious pollution (FSP) indices including water quality grade (FSPWQG), biochemical oxygen demand (FSPBOD), chemical oxygen demand (FSPCOD), and…
Different Choices of Drinking Water Source and Different Health Risks in a Rural Population Living Near a Lead/Zinc Mine in Chenzhou City, Southern China
This study aimed to describe the households' choices of drinking water sources, and evaluate the risk of human exposure to heavy metals via different drinking water sources in Chenzhou City of Hunan Province, Southern China. A cross-sectional face-to-face survey of 192 householders in MaTian and ZhuDui village was conducted. The concentrations of heavy metals in their drinking water sources were analyzed. Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk as…
Heavy Metal Contamination in Rice-Producing Soils of Hunan Province, China and Potential Health Risks
We studied Cd, Cr, As, Ni, Mn, Pb, and Hg in three agricultural areas of Hunan province and determined the potential non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risks for residents. Soil and brown rice samples from Shimen, Fenghuang, and Xiangtan counties were analyzed by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Soil levels of Cd and Hg were greatest, followed by As and Ni. The mean concentrations of heavy metals in brown rice were Cd 0.325, Cr 0.109, As 0.344, Ni …
The blocking lemma and group incentive compatibility for matching with contracts
Effects of Chronic Exposure to Microcystin-LR on Kidney in Mice
Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is a potent hepatotoxin, but a few studies suggested that it might also induce nephrotoxicity. However, nephrotoxicity induced by prolonged oral exposure to MC-LR is unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential influence of MC-LR on the kidney in mice following chronic exposure to MC-LR. In this study, we evaluated the nephrotoxicity of MC-LR in mice drinking water at different concentrations (1, 30, 60, 90,…
Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes
Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritoc…
Dynamic monitoring of desertification in Naiman Banner based on feature space models with typical surface parameters derived from LANDSAT images
Naiman Banner is one of the most typical semi‐arid vulnerable ecological zones that is characterized by vegetation degradation and severe desertification. Previous studies mostly utilized a single feature space or only the linear correlation model to monitor desertification. In this study, the optimal monitoring model that fully considers the multiple feature spaces and the nonlinear relationship between surface parameters in Naiman Banner was de…
Higher Education Expansion, Selections Based on Non-Cognitive Abilities and Gender Differences
Independent or Influential? Spatial-Temporal Features of Coordination Level between Urbanization Quality and Urbanization Scale in China and Its Driving Mechanism
The quality and scale of urbanization development are the two main aspects in China's current urbanization process. By measuring and analyzing the level differences in these two aspects, the healthy development of China's urbanization and urban-rural integration will be promoted. Based on the quality of urbanization and the scale of urbanization, this paper constructs an evaluation index system for urbanization coordination level. On this basis, …
A novel‐optimal monitoring model of rocky desertification based on feature space models with typical surface parameters derived from LANDSAT_8 OLI
Previous studies monitoring the spatial distribution of rocky desertification have used single indices, a comprehensive index, or image classification. However, these approaches could not distinguish between the degrees of rocky desertification as they did not consider various influencing factors and their interactions. To avoid the above shortcomings, this study used the feature space model and seven typical land surface parameters to establish …
A novel feature space monitoring index of salinisation in the Yellow River Delta based on Sentinel‐2B MSI images
Most of previous studies utilized the surface parameters from LANDSAT images to construct the feature space monitoring index model of salinisation (salinization), and a few studies that have combined the feature space model with SENTINEL‐2B MSI images have been reported. In addition, the red edge index derived from SENTINEL‐2B MSI images can provide more detailed information to indicate the vegetation condition when monitoring salinized land ecos…
The “Local Neighborhood” Effect of Environmental Regulation on Green Innovation Efficiency
Current research has generally concentrated on the motivations of environmental policies on local green innovation while ignoring the effect they may have on green innovation in neighboring places. To obtain a thorough understanding and explanation of the influencing mechanism of environmental regulation (ER) on green innovation efficiency (GIE), the super-slack based measure-data envelopment analysis (Super-SBM-DEA) method was applied to evaluat…
Influence of Psychological Factors on College Students' Smoking Behavior
Objectives: The main objective of this study was to examine the role of psychological factors affecting college students' smoking behavior. We considered 3 psychological factors in this study - depressive symptoms, novelty seeking personality, and stress, which are common among learners in institutions of higher learning. Furthermore, we also considered the moderating effect of tobacco advertising receptivity and health behavior. Methods: In this…
Targeting autophagy in ethnomedicine against human diseases
A novel high-resolution monophenolase/diphenolase/radical scavenging profiling for the rapid screening of natural whitening candidates from Peaonia lactiflora root and their mechanism study with molec…
Towards a win‐win situation for innovation and sustainable development
Innovation and sustainable development are important concerns for countries around the world, and strengthening environmental regulation (ER) may have a critical implication for the promotion of green technology innovation. On the basis of elaborating the mechanism of ER on technological innovation, the Super‐SBM‐Windows‐DEA model is employed to measure the green innovation efficiency (GIE) using provincial‐level panel data from 2004–2017 in Chin…
High-risk HPV prevalence and genotype distribution among women in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China from 2016 to 2022
Human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and its associated disease are major problems affecting millions of individuals around the world. The distribution of HPV genotypes is specific to different areas and different populations. Therefore, understanding the prevalence and genotype distribution of HPV in different populations in different geographical regions is essential to optimize HPV vaccination strategies and to maximize vaccine effects. In th…
Anxiety prevalence and associated factors among frontline nurses following the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction: Nurses are more likely to experience anxiety following the coronavirus 2019 epidemic. Anxiety could compromise nurses' work efficiency and diminish their professional commitment. This study aims to investigate nurses' anxiety prevalence and related factors following the pandemic in multiple hospitals across China. Methods: An online survey was conducted from April 16 to July 3, 2023, targeting frontline nurses who had actively parti…
Overcoming personal information protection challenges involving real-world data to support public health efforts in China
In the information age, real-world data-based evidence can help extrapolate and supplement data from randomized controlled trials, which can benefit clinical trials and drug development and improve public health decision-making. However, the legitimate use of real-world data in China is limited due to concerns over patient confidentiality. The use of personal information is a core element of data governance in public health. In China’s public hea…
The role of social media in public health crises caused by infectious disease
IMPORTANCE: The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic highlighted the increasing role played by social media in the generation, dissemination and consumption of outbreak-related information. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the current review is to identify and summarise the role of social media in public health crises caused by infectious disease, using a five-step scoping review protocol. EVIDENCE REVIEW: Keyword lists for two categories were genera…
Spatial–temporal variation analysis of water storage and its impacts on ecology and environment in high‐intensity coal mining areas
In common with other important coal bases in northwestern China, the hydrology and ecology and environment of Ordos, northern Shaanxi (Shanbei), and Shanxi Provinces have much. Terrestrial water storage anomaly (TWSA), soil moisture anomaly (SMA), and groundwater storage anomaly (GWSA), are important water storage qualities that play a critical role in the distribution and growth of vegetation. In this paper, multi‐source remote sensing data were…
The assessment of cooling capacity of blue-green spaces in rapidly developing cities
Collaborative Improvement Mechanism of Preschool Children's Music Appreciation Ability and Mental Health Level
Objectives: Our aim was to explore the collaborative improvement of children's music appreciation ability and mental health level, so as to promote the application of music education in preschool children's mental health education activities. Methods: We first established a mathematical model for the degree of order and degree of collaboration of the complex system for the collaborative improvement of preschool children's music appreciation abili…
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