Wei Yan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3795769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei Yan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei |
| FAMILY NAME | Yan |
| SIGNATURE | YAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peking University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3060-4353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Open letter
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature. By providing independent, site-based verification and engaging local experts, TGBS builds trust, transparency and equity in restoration practice. Its adoption cou…
Assessing social–ecological fit of sustained watershed environmental governance
The Dialectical Self Around the World
This research presents the first known meta-analysis of the Dialectical Self Scale, a widely used measure of the extent to which people hold contradictory and changeable self-conceptions. Data were synthesized from k = 139 studies ( N = 23,629) from 28 countries to produce a national Dialectical Self Index (DSI). Study 1 used meta-analytic techniques to hierarchically order countries on dialecticism and test demographic moderators. No historical …
Who is most at risk, and when? Gender-differentiated patterns and risk heterogeneity of adolescent depression in China
Spatio‐Temporal Farmland Use Transition and Its Spatial Effects on Ecosystem Services at the Township Scale in China
Farmland use transition, defined as the reconfiguration of farmland utilization patterns over time, plays a critical role in balancing food security, land conservation, and rural sustainability. Despite its importance, township‐scale transition processes remain insufficiently understood, limiting the ability to formulate locally adapted and regionally coordinated strategies. This study aims to capture farmland use transition through spatial morph…
Dynamic Changes and Driving Factors of Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Inland River Basins Under Land Use Change
Under the “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality” goals, the extent to which land use restructuring shapes regional carbon storage (CS) in inland river basins remains insufficiently quantified. Using the Tarim River Basin as a case study, we integrated multiple datasets at 1 km resolution for five time points from 2000 to 2023, and coupled the InVEST carbon model, PLUS scenario simulations, and GeoDetector analysis within a “pattern‐process‐projec…
The Transformation of Knowledge Production in China’s Middle East Studies from a Global South Perspective
China’s research on the Middle East has undergone three phases. From the Bandung Conference to the current rise of the Global South, the focus of China’s Middle East studies has shifted continuously: from early research centered on national liberation and decolonization in Middle Eastern countries, to development-oriented modernization studies after the 1980s, and to the present practice of situating Middle East Studies within the framework of th…
Inequities in willingness to disclose contact information to access free mpox self-testing kits among MSM in China
Requiring contact disclosure to access free self-testing can create inequitable barriers. Equity-oriented implementation should: (1) strengthen self-efficacy through peer-led practice and prompts; (2) reduce healthcare-related concerns via privacy-by-design (data minimization, transparent data-use, anonymous pickup); and (3) leverage HIV testing infrastructure. Moderately developed regions warrant priority attention given systematically lower wil…
A New Two-Way Ensemble Prediction for Infectious Diseases
Infectious diseases pose a persistent global health threat, making accurate forecasting essential for effective response. A deep understanding of their underlying mechanisms and the role of environmental factors is crucial to improving predictive models. In this study, we first investigate the relationship between key meteorological variables, including average temperature, relative humidity, PM2.5, and PM10 and the progression of infectious dise…
Comparative study on government subsidy models for competitive drug supply chains under centralized procurement policy
As the generic drug market tends to be saturated, the structural transformation of generic drug companies is imminent, while the high investment and high-risk attributes of innovative drug research and development aggravate the transformation difficulties. Against the backdrop of drug centralized procurement policy, considering the effect of health insurance reimbursement and market competition ferocity, this study constructs a differential game …
How Do Elementary Students Apply Debugging Strategies in a Block-Based Programming Environment
Debugging is a growing topic in K-12 computer science (CS) education research. Although some previous studies have examined debugging behaviors, only a few have focused on an in-depth analysis of elementary students’ debugging behaviors in block-based programming environments. This qualitative study explored the debugging behaviors of four students, including their strategies and challenges. The study employed thematic video analysis of students’…
Impact of Oasis Expansion on Water Yield Services in Arid Inland River Basins
Oasis expansion—driven by both climate change and human activities—profoundly impacts ecosystem services in arid inland river basins. However, previous studies have predominantly focused on broad‐scale climatic or land use changes, lacking a fine‐scale spatiotemporal analysis of how oasis expansion specifically drives water‐yield dynamics in such basins. To fill this critical gap, this study uses the Ebinur Lake Basin as a representative case, em…
Reassessing Soil Wind Erosion in Arid Regions of Central Asia
Wind erosion refers to wind transport of fine particulate matter and nutrient‐rich materials. This form of erosion can have a considerable impact on the ecological environment and human health. Regional wind protection and sand fixation are considered to be major ecosystem services in arid zones. Previous applications of wind erosion assessment models in arid zones applied green vegetation as the main model parameter. However, there has been litt…
Effects of leader–follower perfectionism congruence on follower decisional procrastination
Social exclusion and problem gambling in rural China
When Value Co-creation Meets Supplier Encroachment. A Research Based on the Analytical Model
Retailers leverage service investment to enhance competitiveness and counter supplier encroachment. With the evolving relationship between enterprises and consumers, service-oriented value co-creation offers substantial competitive advantages. This paper develops a game-theoretical model to explore the interaction between value co-creation and supplier encroachment. The results show that value co-creation benefits both sides of implementers and s…
Empathy and emotion recognition
In daily life, the accurate identification of others’ emotions is essential for individuals to respond appropriately in subsequent interactions and to provide effective behavioral feedback. Consequently, emotion recognition plays a crucial role in fostering positive interpersonal relationships and facilitating effective communication within social contexts. Previous research has indicated that empathy is significantly associated with emotion reco…
Altered cortical thickness associated with psychotic symptoms and cognitive profiles in involuntarily hospitalized, first-episode, drug-naive patients with schizophrenia
Our study reveals significant cognitive impairments and cortical thickness alterations in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia patients during their initial involuntary hospitalization. These cortical thickness alterations were significantly associated with psychotic symptoms, but not cognitive impairment. These findings suggest that cognitive dysfunction and symptom presentation in early-stage schizophrenia patients with involuntary hospitali…
Evaluating child-friendliness in the 15-minute community living circle
Examining the transformation of postindustrial land in reversing the lack of urban vitality
A distinct rise of global interest in the role of cultural and creative industries in post-industrial urban development calls for the transformation of our industrial heritage into creative clusters. Despite many factories being removed in deindustrialization, some enterprises still preserve and reuse the former industrial lands. However, the inconclusive judgments on the performances of creative clusters call for an in-depth examination of the u…
Navigating the uncertainty
The Final Year Project (FYP) is one of the most important courses for every undergraduate student, and the effective operation of the FYPs in higher education still faces challenges, such as uneven resource distribution and limited efficiency. This study reports a mixed-methods approach to study the impact of a student-centered FYP allocation mechanism on student performance. This research aims to investigate how aligning students’ FYP choices wi…
Perceptions of UDL Teaching Practices among University Students with Disabilities
The purpose of this study was to investigate how students’ disabilities impacted their learning at the university and to measure their perceptions of universal design for learning (UDL). An online survey was administered at a large public research university in the south-central United States; 160 students with disabilities completed the survey. These students with disabilities described how their disabilities influenced their learning in the fol…
Trade‐Offs and Optimization of Ecosystem Services in the Plain Terminal Lake Basin
Influenced by climate change and human activities, plain terminal lake basins (PTLB) in arid regions experience significant shrinkage, resulting in a decline in ecosystem services (ESs) such as windbreak and sand fixation (SF) and habitat quality (HQ). However, systematic assessments of these services in such basins are limited. A key research challenge is to define and enhance the contribution of plain terminal lakes within the ESs framework of …
Hope as the Mediator in the Relation Between Resilience and Life Satisfaction among Tibetan Orphans
As an extremely disadvantaged group, orphans have received extensive attention from researchers. However, previous research focused on their survival status and psychological distress. The present study aims to explore the mechanism of orphans’ life satisfaction from the perspective of positive psychology. We conducted a survey among Tibetan orphans ( n = 131) and compared the results with Tibetan non-orphans ( n = 134). A mediation model was use…
Network analysis of anxiety and cognitive impairment among mental healthcare workers
Utilizing central and bridge symptoms (i.e., Remembering numbers, Trouble get started, Trouble make decisions, Irritable, Restlessness and Nervousness or anxiety) as primary intervention points may aid in mitigating the serious health consequences of anxiety, cognitive impairment, and comorbidities anxiety and cognitive impairment for mental healthcare workers
Re-examination of the Yicheng Two-Child Program
In discussing the main forces shaping rapid fertility decline, current studies take the Yicheng two-child program as an example showing that the role of the birth-control policy in China’s fall in fertility is not as strong as commonly thought. Based on a close examination of documentary evidence, this paper demonstrates that the Yicheng program is not vastly different from the national population-control effort with regard to the timing of marri…
Timing Matters
Recording and documenting the chromatic information of architectural heritage
Evaluating child-friendliness in the 15-minute community living circle
Formation mechanisms and general characteristics of cultivated land use patterns in the Chaohu Lake Basin, China
Recording and documenting the chromatic information of architectural heritage
Re-examination of the Yicheng Two-Child Program
In discussing the main forces shaping rapid fertility decline, current studies take the Yicheng two-child program as an example showing that the role of the birth-control policy in China’s fall in fertility is not as strong as commonly thought. Based on a close examination of documentary evidence, this paper demonstrates that the Yicheng program is not vastly different from the national population-control effort with regard to the timing of marri…
Outburst flood forecasting by monitoring glacier-dammed lake using satellite images of Karakoram Mountains, China
Curcumol induces cell cycle arrest in colon cancer cells via reactive oxygen species and Akt/ GSK3β/cyclin D1 pathway
Curcumol caused cell cycle arrest at the G0/G1 phase by ROS production and Akt/ GSK3β/cyclin D1 pathways inactivation, indicating the potential of curcumol in the prevention of colon cancer carcinogenesis
Prevalence of and Risk Factors Associated With Mental Health Symptoms Among the General Population in China During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Importance: People exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and a series of imperative containment measures could be psychologically stressed, yet the burden of and factors associated with mental health symptoms remain unclear. Objective: To investigate the prevalence of and risk factors associated with mental health symptoms in the general population in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design, Setting, and Participants: This large-sampl…
Psychological impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on healthcare workers
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers fighting against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are under tremendous pressure, which puts them at an increased risk of developing psychological problems. AIMS: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychological problems in different healthcare workers (ie, physicians, medical residents, nurses, technicians and public health professionals) during the COVID-19 pandemic in China and explo…
Teachers’ grading decisions and practices across cultures
Grades are the dominant currency that enables student migration patterns; in particular, the recent upsurge of Chinese students studying and settling in Canada. Given the use of grades for student promotion, mobilization, and admission into educational programs internationally, there is an urgent need to understand the validity of grades across learning contexts. This study explored 35 Canadian and Chinese secondary school teachers’ grading decis…
Better Choice, Better Health? Social Integration and Health Inequality among International Migrants in Hangzhou, China
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of social integration and socioeconomic status on immigrant health in China. Taking the framework of social determinants of health (SDH) as the theoretical starting point, this paper uses the Hangzhou sample of the 2018 Survey of Foreigners in China (SFRC2018) to explore two core factors affecting the health inequality of international migrants in China: the level of social integration following …
The werther effect revisited
Mental Health Status of Late-Middle-Aged Adults in China During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Background: The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and related compulsory measures have triggered a wide range of psychological issues. However, the effect of COVID-19 on mental health in late-middle-aged adults remains unclear. Methods: This cross-sectional, web-based survey recruited 3,730 participants (≥ 50 years old) between February 28 and March 11 of 2020. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, Insomnia …
Self-regulated learning strategies and student video engagement trajectory in a video-based asynchronous online course
Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK)
Keywords Assessment Use Argument, Chinese as a second language, HSK, large-scale proficiency test, test review
Mental Health in Children in the Context of Covid-19
Introduction: To date, the mental health consequences of children hospitalized with COVID-19 remain unclear. We aimed to assess mental health status in children in the context of COVID-19, with a focus on discharged children. Methods: We recruited discharged children who recovered from COVID-19 and healthy controls between July and September 2020 in Wuhan Children's Hospital. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and sleep p…
The Relationship Between Abnormal Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Left Superior Frontal Gyrus and Cognitive Impairments in Youth-Onset Drug-Naïve Schizophrenia
Objective: Age of onset is one of the heterogeneous factors in schizophrenia, and an earlier onset of the disease indicated a worse prognosis. The left superior frontal gyrus (SFG) is involved in numerous cognitive and motor control tasks. Hence, we explored the relationship between abnormal changes in SFG resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) and cognitive function in the peak age of incidence to understand better the pathophysiological m…
Covid-19 Vaccine-Related Psychological Stress Among General Public in China
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is our generation's greatest global challenge to our public health system. Vaccines are considered one of the most effective tools available for preventing COVID-19 infection and its complications and sequelae. Understanding and addressing the psychological stress related to COVID-19 vaccination may promote acceptance of these vaccines. Methods: We conducted an online survey from January 29 to April 26, 2021 to e…
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Mental Health Symptoms and Suicidal Behavior Among University Students in Wuhan, China During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Background: University students who are exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could be mentally distressed. We aimed to evaluate the pattern and risk factors of mental health and suicidal behavior among students who experienced long-term school closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This large-sample, cross-sectional, online survey was conducted from June 29, 2020, to July 18, 2020. Eleven thousand two hundred fifty four particip…
Long-Term Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health among the General Public
COVID-19 might have long-term mental health impacts. We aim to investigate the longitudinal changes in mental problems from initial COVID-19 peak to its aftermath among general public in China. Depression, anxiety and insomnia were assessed among a large-sample nationwide cohort of 10,492 adults during the initial COVID-19 peak (28 February 2020 to 11 March 2020) and its aftermath (8 July 2020 to 8 August 2020) using the Patient Health Questionna…
The landscape of photoaging
Background: Bibliometric software exists as a platform providing multiple algorithms to process the data to suffice diverse goals. Interpretation of the result must be based on insight into the meaning of the original data and the algorithm used. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms represent the macro-level meaning of topics, keywords that commonly reflect the micro-level aspects. Objective: This study attempts to investigate the landscape of p…
Emotional exhaustion and unhealthy eating among Covid-19 front-line healthcare workers during recuperation
Objective Thousands of healthcare workers on the frontlines who have been battling the COVID-19 pandemic could face emotional and mental health risks even after their critical pandemic work. This study examined the impact of affective rumination on emotional exhaustion and the spillover effect of affective rumination on unhealthy food consumption among healthcare workers during recuperation. Methods A total of 418 frontline healthcare workers fro…
The impact of potentially modifiable risk factors for stroke in a middle-income area of China
Aims: To reveal the impact of eleven risk factors on stroke and provide estimates of the prevention potential. Methods: We completed a multicenter case-control study in Jiangxi, China, a middle-income area. Neuroimaging examination was performed in all cases. Controls were stroke-free adults recruited from the community in the case concentration area. Conditional logistic regression and unconditional logistic regression were used for subgroup ana…
The Economic Impact of Public Capital
Self‐control protects Tibetan adolescent orphans from mental problems
INTRODUCTION: Orphans are usually adopted by eligible families or raised by the government and organizations mutually. Although their basic needs are taken care of, the absence of parents in life makes orphans face higher risks of mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression, leading to lower levels of self-esteem and happiness. Previous studies have shown that self-control may have an effect on improving self-esteem; thus, it could bec…
Bidirectional associations between Tibetan Buddhism and vertical space
Cognitive dysfunction and cortical structural abnormalities in first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucination
Visual learning, verbal learning dysfunction, and specific disruption of cortical structure may characterize schizophrenia patients with AVH during early stages of the disorder. Right lateral orbito frontal cortical deficits may be the pathological mechanisms underlying AVH in first-episode drug-naïve schizophrenia
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Regulates Brain Connectivity in Patients With Late-Life Depression
Late-life depression (LLD) is an important public health problem among the aging population. Recent studies found that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) can effectively alleviate depressive symptoms in major depressive disorder. The present study explored the clinical effect and potential neuroimaging mechanism of MBCT in the treatment of LLD. We enrolled 60 participants with LLD in an 8-week, randomized, controlled trial (ChiCTR18000177…
Psychology (30 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Mental health (11 works) · China (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · COVID-19 and Mental Health (9 works)