Li Sheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Li Sheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Li |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheng |
| SIGNATURE | SHENG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8792-3734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A citizen science approach toward parents-administered remote language assessment for bilingual Mandarin-English children
Introduction The growing population of bilingual children and lack of bilingual clinicians have created an increased need for reliable and accessible bilingual language assessment to accurately detect language delays and disorders globally. To address this growing need, this study evaluated the Mandarin-English Receptive Language Screener (MERLS), a web-based receptive language assessment designed for bilingual Mandarin-English (ME) speaking chil…
Semantic skills and input frequency influence classifier learning among Mandarin-speaking children
This study aimed to explore how classifier-based semantic skills and frequency of classifier input affect the learning of Mandarin shape classifiers among Mandarin-speaking children. A novel classifier learning task was developed, which allowed the examination of the influences of semantic skills and input frequency within the same task. Two novel classifiers were invented, each encoding distinct shape features not present in any real Mandarin cl…
AD-AutoGPT
In this pioneering study, inspired by AutoGPT, the state-of-the-art open-source application based on the GPT-4 large language model, we develop a novel tool called AD-AutoGPT, which can conduct data collection, processing, and analysis about complex health narratives of Alzheimer’s Disease in an autonomous manner via users’ textual prompts. We collated comprehensive data from a variety of news sources, including the Alzheimer’s Association, BBC, …
Relationship between disease perception and feelings of powerlessness in lymphoma patients
Disease perception and powerlessness were positively correlated in lymphoma patients, and in addition, social support and level of hope mediated the relationship. This conclusion provides a theoretical basis and guidance for nursing interventions to reduce powerlessness in lymphoma patients
Shen-Qi-Di-Huang Decoction induces autophagy in podocytes to ameliorate membranous nephropathy by suppressing USP14
Comprehension skills of Chinese-English dual language learners
Chinese-English dual language learners (Chinese DLLs) are a growing population in the US. Existing studies of preschool-aged Chinese DLLs mostly focused on single-word vocabulary and rarely explored other skills important for school readiness. In the current study, we examined Chinese DLLs’ development of receptive vocabulary and comprehension of semantic concepts (i.e. spatial and quantification expressions) in both English and Chinese (Mandarin…
Network pharmacology, molecular docking and experimental verification of the mechanism of huangqi-jixuecao herb pair in treatment of peritoneal fibrosis
Exploring Chinese EFL teachers’ perceptions of creativity and criticality in assessment practices
Various studies have highlighted the significant role of creativity and criticality in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts. Yet, their contribution to and mechanism in assessment domains are widely neglected. To address this shortcoming in the literature, the present study took advantage of a qualitative design via a semi‐structured interview with a sample of 29 Chinese EFL teachers to unravel their perceptions of creativity and critical…
Deconstructing media narratives of the Indo-Pacific strategy
India’s attempt to forge a distinct role for itself in the global order started soon after independence in 1947. Since this watershed event, India’s policymakers have gradually recast their initial strategy of nonalignment, as they realized that Nehruvian “soft” power was not adequate for creating an especially dynamic presence in an increasingly volatile international environment. In response to this realization, India embarked on a journey of t…
Children's likelihood to perform adult-like in word association test
Little is known about the effects of bilingualism and distributional properties of word relationships on children's development of semantic convergence, operationalized as children's ability to produce word associates that mirror adults’ responses in a word association task. Forty-five Mandarin–English bilingual, 32 Spanish–English bilingual, and 28 English-speaking monolingual children, aged 4 to 7, produced three associates to each of 15 single…
Developmental language disorder in Chinese children
TMT quantitative proteomics and network pharmacology reveal the mechanism by which asiaticoside regulates the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway to inhibit peritoneal fibrosis
Big Tech Firms and International Relations
How Covid-19 Reshapes New World Order
Specialization or diversification
Embodying ageing
This article explores the embodied practices of anti-ageing among middle-aged and older Chinese women (damas) who engage in plaza dancing ( guangchangwu ) as a leisure activity in urban areas. Drawing upon data collected from three months of participant observation in three different plaza dance groups and 29 semi-structured interviews with older Chinese women, I first investigate my participants’ experiences of plaza dancing in terms of health-k…
Big Tech Firms and International Relations
The Belt and Road Initiative in South–South Cooperation
Modeling the Economic Effect of Statutory Taxation on Gaming Hospitality
This article shows that casino taxation may be welfare enhancing for gaming hospitality resorts due to their market power to export local taxes to tourist customers. The price-inelastic tourism demand for casino gambling plays an important role in such power of tax exportation. We use a mathematical programming model to derive a tax threshold, through which a specific tax can be identified to be good or bad for efficiency. The policy implication …
Exploring influential factors of shape classifier comprehension and production in Mandarin-speaking children
Mandarin classifiers are a complex system, but little is known about how Mandarin-speaking children manage to learn the system. Based on the extant literature, we explored potential factors influencing the comprehension and production of Mandarin shape classifiers, including classifier-based semantic categorization and errors pertaining to the semantic strategies, input frequency of classifier-noun combinations, and vocabulary knowledge. In total…
Love and Trade War
Business cycles of casino cities
Applying a Markov switching model (MSM) to Las Vegas and Macao, this paper decomposes their business cycles of the casino hospitality industry into high and low growth states (HGS, LGS). Compared with Las Vegas, casino gaming in Macao is more volatile due to larger ups and downs in tourism flows, with HGS being far higher and LGS being much lower. Gaming hospitality in both travel destinations has a strong tendency to stay in HGS, but a low chanc…
Belt and Road Initiative in South-South Cooperation
“Family-bound” or “Pulled by Work”?—A Study of Chinese Women’s Social Participation and the Factors Influencing It
On the basis of an analysis of data from the Chinese Social Survey (CSS) 2015, and with male social participation as the reference, we undertook an empirical study of Chinese women’s current social participation and the factors affecting it along the two dimensions of “marriage and family life” and “employment and income status,” as well as the basic characteristics of individuals. Our findings show that in general women display a lower level of …
Yueju-Ganmaidazao Decoction confers rapid antidepressant-like effects and the involvement of suppression of NMDA/NO/cGMP signaling
Casino boom and local politics
A general equilibrium approach to tourism and welfare
Foreign investment and urban development
Foreign Investment in Tourism
Using a modified international economics model, this paper first illustrates theoretically how side effects – economic, social and, particularly, political – caused by foreign investment in tourism can reduce the true benefits for host communities in the case of small tourism economies. The case study of Macao gives empirical evidence of the existence of side effects, thus contributing to the validity of the theory to a certain extent. It is argu…
Explaining urban economic governance
Tourism and externalities in an urban context
Embodying ageing
This article explores the embodied practices of anti-ageing among middle-aged and older Chinese women (damas) who engage in plaza dancing ( guangchangwu ) as a leisure activity in urban areas. Drawing upon data collected from three months of participant observation in three different plaza dance groups and 29 semi-structured interviews with older Chinese women, I first investigate my participants’ experiences of plaza dancing in terms of health-k…
Specialization or diversification
Explaining US–China economic imbalances
China has witnessed a continual drop in the labour income share of its gross domestic product (GDP) and a steep rise in income that has caused a savings glut and high investments. China’s shrinking domestic demand indicates that its output growth must increasingly rely on expanded manufacturing exports to the US. China’s state accommodation for US offshoring further aggravates trade imbalances between the two countries. The United States is also …
Lexical-Semantic Organization in Bilingually Developing Deaf Children With ASL-Dominant Language Exposure
This study compared the lexical-semantic organization skills of bilingually developing deaf children in American Sign Language (ASL) and English with those of a monolingual hearing group. A repeated meaning-association paradigm was used to assess retrieval of semantic relations in deaf 6-10-year-olds exposed to ASL from birth by their deaf parents, with responses coded as syntagmatic or paradigmatic. Deaf children's responses in ASL and English w…
Dealing with financial risks of international capital flows
This article discusses a number of significant negative externalities generated by free capital flows and analyses certain justifications for regulating the capital account regime as an efficiency-enhancing tool used to limit externalities. This interventionist tool may limit the deviation of private equilibrium from social optimization by both improving the composition of capital flows and mitigating the accompanying distorted incentive that cre…
A political economy approach to foreign investment and local welfare
A number of papers in the economics and urban literature observe several positive impacts of foreign investment on urban development and urge cities to actively pursue foreign investors. The author conducts a political-economy analysis illustrating that an economic boom stimulated by a massive inflow of international capital may bring about serious social–environmental side effects for tourist cities. If foreign investors dominate a city's policy…
Taxing tourism and subsidizing non-tourism
Exploring the Equity and Spatial Evidence of Educational Facilities in Hangzhou, China
Explaining urban governance in the midst of political transformation
This paper takes a close look at the urban governance and political culture of Macao, the world largest casino city. Macao has experienced spectacular economic growth since gaming liberalisation in 2002 and China's Free Individual Travel scheme launched in 2003. However, the booming gaming sector has crowded out other sectors of Macao. It has not only made the city's economy mono‐structured and consequently extremely vulnerable to external shocks…
Growth–volatility tradeoff in the face of financial openness
This paper analyses optimal tradeoffs between economic growth and economic volatility given the risk of open capital markets in developing countries due to their financial vulnerability to unfettered capital flows. It is argued that free policy choices are efficiently superior to free capital mobility and that a developing country can be open to higher growth and lower volatility only if its financial system is substantially strengthened
Theorizing income inequality in the face of financial globalization
Based on an extended post-Keynesian model, we find that the association between the savings rate and income inequality is negative if savers' funds are borrowed by spending households for consumption but positive if savings are channeled to investing firms for production. A negative association, such as the one that exists in the U.S., hinges on an income illusion created by an asset bubble and cheap credit. Thus, financial globalization leads co…
Free capital mobility and sustainable community development
Theorising free capital mobility
Using a simple economic model, this article illustrates the greatly diverging interests and preferences of developed and developing countries with regards to capital mobility. Theoretically, developed countries' gain from free capital mobility likely comes at the expense of risk and loss for developing countries due to the latter's financial vulnerability. It is also found that it does not pay for a developed country to push its developing counte…
The precocious two-year-old
This is a study of the lexical and grammatical abilities of 16 lexically precocious talkers. These children, aged 2;0 were compared to their age-matched peers, 22 typical talkers aged 2;0, and their expressive vocabulary-matched peers, 22 typical talkers aged 2;6. Individual differences in children's lexical knowledge at 2;0 were stable – evident in parent report, laboratory observation, and an experimental fast-mapping paradigm. In accordance wi…
Casino boom and local politics
A general equilibrium approach to tourism and welfare
Climate-induced hotspots in surface energy fluxes from 1948 to 2000
Understanding how land surfaces respond to climate change requires knowledge of land-surface processes, which control the degree to which interannual variability and mean trends in climatic variables affect the surface energy budget. We use the latest version of the Community Land Model version 3.5 (CLM3.5), which is driven by the latest updated hybrid reanalysis-observation atmospheric forcing dataset constructed by Princeton University, to obta…
Growth–volatility tradeoff in the face of financial openness
This paper analyses optimal tradeoffs between economic growth and economic volatility given the risk of open capital markets in developing countries due to their financial vulnerability to unfettered capital flows. It is argued that free policy choices are efficiently superior to free capital mobility and that a developing country can be open to higher growth and lower volatility only if its financial system is substantially strengthened
Foreign Investment in Tourism
Using a modified international economics model, this paper first illustrates theoretically how side effects – economic, social and, particularly, political – caused by foreign investment in tourism can reduce the true benefits for host communities in the case of small tourism economies. The case study of Macao gives empirical evidence of the existence of side effects, thus contributing to the validity of the theory to a certain extent. It is argu…
A political economy approach to foreign investment and local welfare
A number of papers in the economics and urban literature observe several positive impacts of foreign investment on urban development and urge cities to actively pursue foreign investors. The author conducts a political-economy analysis illustrating that an economic boom stimulated by a massive inflow of international capital may bring about serious social–environmental side effects for tourist cities. If foreign investors dominate a city's policy…
Taxing tourism and subsidizing non-tourism
Theorising free capital mobility
Using a simple economic model, this article illustrates the greatly diverging interests and preferences of developed and developing countries with regards to capital mobility. Theoretically, developed countries' gain from free capital mobility likely comes at the expense of risk and loss for developing countries due to the latter's financial vulnerability. It is also found that it does not pay for a developed country to push its developing counte…
Foreign investment and urban development
Residents’ Attitude to Pay for Urban River Restoration
Dealing with financial risks of international capital flows
This article discusses a number of significant negative externalities generated by free capital flows and analyses certain justifications for regulating the capital account regime as an efficiency-enhancing tool used to limit externalities. This interventionist tool may limit the deviation of private equilibrium from social optimization by both improving the composition of capital flows and mitigating the accompanying distorted incentive that cre…
Free capital mobility and sustainable community development
Theorizing income inequality in the face of financial globalization
Based on an extended post-Keynesian model, we find that the association between the savings rate and income inequality is negative if savers' funds are borrowed by spending households for consumption but positive if savings are channeled to investing firms for production. A negative association, such as the one that exists in the U.S., hinges on an income illusion created by an asset bubble and cheap credit. Thus, financial globalization leads co…
Spatio-Temporal Trends and Identification of Correlated Variables with Water Quality for Drinking-Water Reservoirs
It is widely accepted that characterizing the spatio-temporal trends of water quality parameters and identifying correlated variables with water quality are indispensable for the management and protection of water resources. In this study, cluster analysis was used to classify 56 typical drinking water reservoirs in Zhejiang Province into three groups representing different water quality levels, using data of four water quality parameters for the…
Theorizing global imbalances
The recent global financial crisis has generated substantial research interest in the relationships among savings, inequality and global imbalances. Our study examines the causes of global imbalances by analysing the relationship between income inequality and economic performance and the relationship between savings imbalances and economic instability. We identify a positive link between savings and inequality whenever savings are allocated throu…
Explaining US–China economic imbalances
China has witnessed a continual drop in the labour income share of its gross domestic product (GDP) and a steep rise in income that has caused a savings glut and high investments. China’s shrinking domestic demand indicates that its output growth must increasingly rely on expanded manufacturing exports to the US. China’s state accommodation for US offshoring further aggravates trade imbalances between the two countries. The United States is also …
Lexical-Semantic Organization in Bilingually Developing Deaf Children With ASL-Dominant Language Exposure
This study compared the lexical-semantic organization skills of bilingually developing deaf children in American Sign Language (ASL) and English with those of a monolingual hearing group. A repeated meaning-association paradigm was used to assess retrieval of semantic relations in deaf 6-10-year-olds exposed to ASL from birth by their deaf parents, with responses coded as syntagmatic or paradigmatic. Deaf children's responses in ASL and English w…
Political Economy of Macao since 1999
Explaining urban governance in the midst of political transformation
This paper takes a close look at the urban governance and political culture of Macao, the world largest casino city. Macao has experienced spectacular economic growth since gaming liberalisation in 2002 and China's Free Individual Travel scheme launched in 2003. However, the booming gaming sector has crowded out other sectors of Macao. It has not only made the city's economy mono‐structured and consequently extremely vulnerable to external shocks…
Explaining urban economic governance
Tourism and externalities in an urban context
Hong Kong and Shanghai
This research discusses Hong Kong's long-run role as a preeminent international finance centre in the greater China with a view of Shanghai's rapid growth. Using a synthesis approach of politics and economics, rather than pure economic analysis and forecasting, it is argued Shanghai is not likely to overtake/replace Hong Kong as an international finance hub in the region. Hong Kong will still keep its position in many years to come even if Shangh…
Chemical constituents of Patrinia heterophylla Bunge and selective cytotoxicity against six human tumor cells
Retracted Article
Statement of RetractionWe, the editors and publisher of The Social Science Journal, have retracted the following article: Li Sheng & Wanyang Hu, “Tourism and hospitality market structure: A theoretical discussion,” The Social Science Journal, doi: 10.1016/j.soscij.2019.07.013.The above article has been retracted because another version was previously published in The Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research as Xinhua Gu, Li Sheng, and Chun Yip Y…
Economics (26 works) · Political science (20 works) · Business (14 works) · Market economy (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economy (10 works) · Tourism (10 works) · Macroeconomics (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (8 works)