Kai Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4020996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kai Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kai |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5415-1814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using a social‐ecological macrosystems framework to understand how human activities alter ecological synchrony
Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or enhancing existing synchrony. However, most studies have focused on single scales, limiting our understanding o…
Managing internet buzzwords in Chinese basic education
This study adopts Language Management Theory to examine how students’ Internet buzzword practices are noted and managed in basic education settings in mainland China. Drawing on interview data from 26 teachers, it analyses how such practices are noted, evaluated, and responded to within institutional contexts through the coding and interpretation of teachers’ accounts. The analysis identifies increasing diversification in students’ buzzword pract…
“Chinese Czechs? No, I prefer Wenzhou Czechs.”
This study employs a multi-method qualitative approach, incorporating interviewbased language biographies and eight months of field observation, to document the dynamic evolution of the family language policy (FLP) of a Chinese diaspora family in the Czech Republic, including how the family members envisage future policies. Utilizing Language Management Theory (LMT) instead of Spolsky’s tripartite model, the research integrates perspectives from …
Staunch Defender of COP27
In response to the risks posed by urbanization and climate change to land availability, China has implemented several significant land cover restoration initiatives since 1998. These initiatives have notably contributed to the objectives of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). However, a systematic evaluation of the ecological restoration effects on vegetation from these initiati…
Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Maximum Expert Consensus Model with Incomplete Information on Uncertain Cost
Opportunities and Perspectives of Formation of the Mountain Tourism Cluster in Almaty Agglomeration
In the current conditions of sustainable development, the main reason for the importance of creating tourism clusters in mountainous areas is determined by competitiveness, the availability of attractive tourist facilities, and the possibility of achieving economic development by increasing the number of tourists. This is due to the fact that recreational resources and landscape features of mountainous areas significantly increase the tourist pot…
Dynamic development of language ideologies
Analysis of Sexual Harassment in China
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear. Here, we assess global inequality in green spaces, which urban residents critically rely on to mitigate outdoor heat stress. We use remote sensing data to quantify daytime cooling by urban greenery in the warm seasons across the ~500 largest cities globally. We show a str…
Motivations for English learning discontinuation among Jiangsu Senior High School students
Utilizing the framework of the L2 motivational self‐system as its theoretical foundation, this study focuses on a total of 52 students who discontinue their English learning within a senior high school in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. The primary objective of this study is to discern the underlying motivations prompting students to discontinue their English learning through a methodological approach encompassing video‐mediated interviews with the s…
Impact of green fiscal policy on the collaborative reduction of pollution and carbon emissions
Research background: Since China is facing the dual challenges of environmental pollution and climate change, how to effectively deal with the collaborative reduction of pollution and carbon emissions (CRPCE) has become an important problem. Energy saving and emission reduction fiscal policy (ESER), as a green fiscal policy, plays an important role in solving China's environmental problems. Purpose of the article: The aim of this study is to anal…
Do you speak English or my language? An LMT approach to language requirements in EU nations’ visa applications
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative analysis of visa statistics with qualitative content analysis of 200 social media narratives.…
Paths to low-carbon development in China
Research background: To achieve the targets for carbon peak and air quality improvement, local governments should propose environmental targets and develop realization paths that are tailored to their unique local conditions. They then promote low-carbon development through the implementation of multiple measures. Purpose of the article: As the government performance appraisal system im-proves, the question arises as to whether governments take t…
Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs
Influence of Hospital Outdoor Rest Space on the Eye Movement Measures and Self-Rating Restoration of Staff
Objective: To investigate the effect of hospital outdoor rest space on the eye movement measures and self-rating restoration of staff. Background: Relieving the pressure of hospital staff through exposure to hospital outdoor rest space is essential, but there is a scarcity of research on the impact of hospital outdoor rest space on the eye movement measures and self-rating restoration of staff, especially for large Chinese hospitals. Methods: Cro…
Assessment of the Ecological Compensation Standards for Cross-Basin Water Diversion Projects from the Perspective of Main Headwater and Receiver Areas
This paper aims to explore how to develop reasonable ecological compensation standards to improve the effectiveness of water diversion projects. Watershed ecological compensation is an important means to coordinate watershed protection and development and, additionally, compensation standard accounting is the core issue of ecological compensation. The previous literature has mainly calculated watershed ecological compensation standards from a sin…
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells
Diffusion Source Localization in Large Networks
Diffusion Source Localization in Large Networks
Equilibrium forest demography explains the distribution of tree sizes across North America
The distribution of tree sizes within a forest strongly influences how it will respond to disturbances and environmental changes such as future climate change and increases in atmospheric CO 2 . This means that global vegetation models must include variation in tree size to accurately represent carbon sinks, such as that seen in North America. Here we use an analytical model of large-scale forest demography which assumes tree growth varies as a p…
Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the location processes of new high‐tech firms in Nanjing, China
Voices of Older Ethnic Mongolian Women in Rural China
China introduced economic reforms to move from a planned to a market economy in 1978. In 1947, the autonomous region of Mongolia, home to more than 5 million ethnic Mongols, was designated in North China. As one of the groups witnessing economic and social changes in China, older ethnic Mongolian women have benefitted in some ways. In this study, 6 ethnic Mongolian women, ages 45 to 78, were interviewed in 3 stages and asked about economic change…
The changing context of China
This article provides a contextualized analysis of the ways in which school social workers may address the impact of economic, social and political challenges as they will be experienced by the children of mainland China, and how the profession of school social work may serve to ameliorate the negative effects on children as they transition through these developments
Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs
Dynamic development of language ideologies
Do you speak English or my language? An LMT approach to language requirements in EU nations’ visa applications
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative analysis of visa statistics with qualitative content analysis of 200 social media narratives.…
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells
The changing context of China
This article provides a contextualized analysis of the ways in which school social workers may address the impact of economic, social and political challenges as they will be experienced by the children of mainland China, and how the profession of school social work may serve to ameliorate the negative effects on children as they transition through these developments
Voices of Older Ethnic Mongolian Women in Rural China
China introduced economic reforms to move from a planned to a market economy in 1978. In 1947, the autonomous region of Mongolia, home to more than 5 million ethnic Mongols, was designated in North China. As one of the groups witnessing economic and social changes in China, older ethnic Mongolian women have benefitted in some ways. In this study, 6 ethnic Mongolian women, ages 45 to 78, were interviewed in 3 stages and asked about economic change…
The changing context of China
This article provides a contextualized analysis of the ways in which school social workers may address the impact of economic, social and political challenges as they will be experienced by the children of mainland China, and how the profession of school social work may serve to ameliorate the negative effects on children as they transition through these developments
Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in the location processes of new high‐tech firms in Nanjing, China
Diffusion Source Localization in Large Networks
Diffusion Source Localization in Large Networks
Equilibrium forest demography explains the distribution of tree sizes across North America
The distribution of tree sizes within a forest strongly influences how it will respond to disturbances and environmental changes such as future climate change and increases in atmospheric CO 2 . This means that global vegetation models must include variation in tree size to accurately represent carbon sinks, such as that seen in North America. Here we use an analytical model of large-scale forest demography which assumes tree growth varies as a p…
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells
Influence of Hospital Outdoor Rest Space on the Eye Movement Measures and Self-Rating Restoration of Staff
Objective: To investigate the effect of hospital outdoor rest space on the eye movement measures and self-rating restoration of staff. Background: Relieving the pressure of hospital staff through exposure to hospital outdoor rest space is essential, but there is a scarcity of research on the impact of hospital outdoor rest space on the eye movement measures and self-rating restoration of staff, especially for large Chinese hospitals. Methods: Cro…
Assessment of the Ecological Compensation Standards for Cross-Basin Water Diversion Projects from the Perspective of Main Headwater and Receiver Areas
This paper aims to explore how to develop reasonable ecological compensation standards to improve the effectiveness of water diversion projects. Watershed ecological compensation is an important means to coordinate watershed protection and development and, additionally, compensation standard accounting is the core issue of ecological compensation. The previous literature has mainly calculated watershed ecological compensation standards from a sin…
Paths to low-carbon development in China
Research background: To achieve the targets for carbon peak and air quality improvement, local governments should propose environmental targets and develop realization paths that are tailored to their unique local conditions. They then promote low-carbon development through the implementation of multiple measures. Purpose of the article: As the government performance appraisal system im-proves, the question arises as to whether governments take t…
Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear. Here, we assess global inequality in green spaces, which urban residents critically rely on to mitigate outdoor heat stress. We use remote sensing data to quantify daytime cooling by urban greenery in the warm seasons across the ~500 largest cities globally. We show a str…
Motivations for English learning discontinuation among Jiangsu Senior High School students
Utilizing the framework of the L2 motivational self‐system as its theoretical foundation, this study focuses on a total of 52 students who discontinue their English learning within a senior high school in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. The primary objective of this study is to discern the underlying motivations prompting students to discontinue their English learning through a methodological approach encompassing video‐mediated interviews with the s…
Impact of green fiscal policy on the collaborative reduction of pollution and carbon emissions
Research background: Since China is facing the dual challenges of environmental pollution and climate change, how to effectively deal with the collaborative reduction of pollution and carbon emissions (CRPCE) has become an important problem. Energy saving and emission reduction fiscal policy (ESER), as a green fiscal policy, plays an important role in solving China's environmental problems. Purpose of the article: The aim of this study is to anal…
Do you speak English or my language? An LMT approach to language requirements in EU nations’ visa applications
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative analysis of visa statistics with qualitative content analysis of 200 social media narratives.…
Staunch Defender of COP27
In response to the risks posed by urbanization and climate change to land availability, China has implemented several significant land cover restoration initiatives since 1998. These initiatives have notably contributed to the objectives of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). However, a systematic evaluation of the ecological restoration effects on vegetation from these initiati…
Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Maximum Expert Consensus Model with Incomplete Information on Uncertain Cost
Opportunities and Perspectives of Formation of the Mountain Tourism Cluster in Almaty Agglomeration
In the current conditions of sustainable development, the main reason for the importance of creating tourism clusters in mountainous areas is determined by competitiveness, the availability of attractive tourist facilities, and the possibility of achieving economic development by increasing the number of tourists. This is due to the fact that recreational resources and landscape features of mountainous areas significantly increase the tourist pot…
Dynamic development of language ideologies
Analysis of Sexual Harassment in China
Using a social‐ecological macrosystems framework to understand how human activities alter ecological synchrony
Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or enhancing existing synchrony. However, most studies have focused on single scales, limiting our understanding o…
Managing internet buzzwords in Chinese basic education
This study adopts Language Management Theory to examine how students’ Internet buzzword practices are noted and managed in basic education settings in mainland China. Drawing on interview data from 26 teachers, it analyses how such practices are noted, evaluated, and responded to within institutional contexts through the coding and interpretation of teachers’ accounts. The analysis identifies increasing diversification in students’ buzzword pract…
“Chinese Czechs? No, I prefer Wenzhou Czechs.”
This study employs a multi-method qualitative approach, incorporating interviewbased language biographies and eight months of field observation, to document the dynamic evolution of the family language policy (FLP) of a Chinese diaspora family in the Czech Republic, including how the family members envisage future policies. Utilizing Language Management Theory (LMT) instead of Spolsky’s tripartite model, the research integrates perspectives from …
Geography (9 works) · China (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works)