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Lei Cao

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ID6016468
NAMELei Cao
GIVEN NAMESLei
FAMILY NAMECao
SIGNATURECAO L
AFFILIATIONSTianjin University
ORCID0000-0001-9466-2416
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • Unveiling the interactive mechanisms and key obstacles of urban economic-social-environmental systems under sustainable development goals: A comparative diagnosis of China's three major urban agglomer…

    Open Access•Xinyao Zhao, Chaoyu Zhang et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Production and…•2026

  • The impact of virtual reality-assisted learning on students' critical thinking: A meta-analysis of 37 experimental and quasi-experimental studies

    Open Access•Yuqian Zheng, Chengzheng Li et al.•ARTICLE•Thinking Skills and Creativity•2026

  • Adaptive Conversational Virtual Reality Laboratory for Chemistry Education: Effects on Conceptual Understanding, Presence, and Perceived Usefulness

    Open Access•Lei Cao, Kien Tsong Chau et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Educational Computing…•2026

    Virtual chemistry laboratories support access and safety, but conventional virtual environments often provide limited adaptive instructional support during practical tasks. The Adaptive Conversational Virtual Reality Laboratory (ACVRL) was developed to integrate high-fidelity chemistry simulation, adaptive scaffolding, and conversational artificial intelligence into a unified instructional system. The present study examined the effects of adaptiv…

  • Urban shrinkage and habitat quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration: A regional linkage perspective on coupling coordination and network optimization

    Open Access•Yujia Chen, Yang Gu et al.•ARTICLE•Humanities and Social Sciences…•2026

    Urban shrinkage leads to population loss, economic decline, and spatial contraction, thereby exerting significant effects on urban sustainable development and the ecological environment. This study focuses on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH) and examines the coordinated development of urban shrinkage and habitat quality from a regional linkage perspective between 2010 and 2020. First, a multidimensional urban shrinkage index wa…

  • Urban heat resilience from a state–process perspective: Heatwave-induced cooling service supply–demand mismatch and hierarchical spatial allocation of greening

    Open Access•Yarong Chen, Yujia Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Cities and Society•2026

  • Exploring meaning in life from social network content in the sleep scenario

    Open Access•Qi Li, Mengyao Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

    Introduction The exploration of life’s meaning has been a key topic across disciplines, and artificial intelligence is now beginning to investigate it. Methods This study leveraged social media to assess meaning in life (MIL) and its associated factors at individual and group levels. We compiled a diverse dataset consisting of microblog posts ( N = 7,588,597) and responses from user surveys ( N = 448), annotated using a combination of self-assess…

  • Microblog discourse analysis for parenting style assessment

    Open Access•Zihan Wei, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

    Introduction: Parents' negative parenting style is an important cause of anxiety, depression, and suicide among university students. Given the widespread use of social media, microblogs offer a new and promising way for non-invasive, large-scale assessment of parenting styles of students' parents. Methods: In this study, we have two main objectives: (1) investigating the correlation between students' microblog discourses and parents' parenting st…

  • Relationship between personality and sleep: A dual validation study combining empirical and big data-driven approaches

    Open Access•Lei Cao, Jiake Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2025

    These findings highlight the potential of using deep learning models to analyze the complex relationship between personality traits and sleep, offering valuable insights for future research and interventions

  • Ergonomic interventions to improve musculoskeletal disorders among vehicle assembly workers: A one-year longitudinal study

    Open Access•Xu Jin, Yidan Dong et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

    The findings from this prospective study indicated enhancements in ergonomic conditions and a reduction in musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among vehicle assembly workers following a comprehensive ergonomic intervention

  • Tanshinone IIA, a component of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge, attenuated sepsis-induced liver injury via the Sirt1/Sestrin2/HO-1 signaling pathway

    Open Access•Wencong Tian, Peng Song et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Ethnopharmacology•2025

  • Spatial Mechanisms and Coupling Coordination of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Along the Jinzhong Segment of the Great Tea Road

    Open Access•Lihao Meng, Zhenjian Du et al.•ARTICLE•Heritage•2025•References: 9

    Linear cultural heritage is characterized by complex cross-regional and multi-level features, facing severe challenges of spatial resource fragmentation and an imbalance in cultural and tourism functions. However, existing research lacks quantitative analysis regarding the non-linear driving mechanisms of spatial distribution and the misalignment of culture–tourism coupling. In this study, we construct an integrated identification–explanation–cou…

  • Chinese tradition “voyages in” Western modernity: A case study of Gu Hongming

    Lei Cao•ARTICLE•Inter-Asia Cultural Studies•2025•References: 4

  • Crowdsourced Meteorological Data to Supplement Limited Official Sources: A Survey and Case Study of Precipitation Monitoring in Guangzhou, China

    Open Access•Yu Yu, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Weather, Climate, and Society•2024

    Crowdsourced meteorological data may provide a useful supplement to operational observations. However, the willingness of various parties to share their data remains unclear. Here, a survey on data applications was carried out to investigate the willingness to participate in crowdsourcing observations. Of the 21 responses, 71% expressed difficulty in meeting the requirement of data services using only their own observations and revealed that they…

  • Stress Prediction Based on Chaos Theory and an Event–Behavior–Stress Triangle Model

    Open Access•Ningyun Li, Ling Feng et al.•ARTICLE•IEEE Transactions on Computational…•2024

    Predicting stress can help people take timely action to manage stress before potential physical and psychological problems arise. In this study, we analyze and verify chaotic features of human's stress response to stressor and uplift events, and present an event–behavior–stress triangle model for stress prediction. We reconstruct the phase space based on chaos theory, and integrate stress-correlated pre and postfactors (events and behaviors) thro…

  • Influence of neuroticism on depression among college students by gender: The mediating roles of negative cognitive bias and anhedonia

    Open Access•Xiaowen Hou, Xinyu Lai et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

  • The relationship between different components of executive function and depression in Chinese adolescents: Sequential mediation involving rumination

    Open Access•Ying Li, Tiantian Li et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

  • Factors associated with Sars-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy after stroke: A cross-sectional study

    Open Access•Peng Hu, Ying-Hai Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    We found that post-stroke patients have insufficient SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates, with key risk factors for vaccine hesitancy including concerns about side effects, advanced age, and functional impairments. No severe adverse reactions were observed among the vaccinated population

  • Sars-CoV-2 reinfection with Omicron variant in Shaanxi Province, China: December 2022 to February 2023

    Open Access•Mengyan Zhang, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    In our study, the rate of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection increased over time during epidemic waves predominantly involving the Omicron variant in Shaanxi province, China. Large-scale infections are less likely in subsequent Omicron epidemic waves. Nevertheless, it is essential to continuously monitor cases of infection as well as continue surveillance for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

  • Integrating restorative perception into urban street planning: A framework using street view images, deep learning, and space syntax

    Open Access•Yunfei Wu, Qiqi Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 82

  • Decoding Spontaneous Informal Spaces in Old Residential Communities: A Drone and Space Syntax Perspective

    Open Access•Ran Zhang, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•ISPRS International Journal of…•2023

    Old residential communities are integral parts of urban areas, with their environmental quality affecting residents’ well-being. Spontaneous informal spaces (SIS) often emerge within these communities. These are predominantly crafted by the elderly using discarded materials and negatively impact the environmental quality of communities. Understanding SIS emergence patterns is vital for enhancing the environmental quality of old communities; howev…

  • Parent-adolescent relationship and friendship quality: Psychological capital as mediator and neighborhood safety and satisfaction as moderator

    Open Access•Lin Zhong, Jun Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2023

  • The Relationship between Meaning in Life and Depression among Chinese Junior High School Students: The Mediating and Moderating Effects of Cognitive Failures and Mindfulness

    Open Access•Ying Li, Yihan Jin et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    In recent years, the incidence of depression among adolescents has been increasing yearly, and the severe damage of depression on adolescents' physical and mental health development has caused extensive concern worldwide. Previous research on adults has confirmed that meaning in life is a crucial buffer factor for depression, and developing meaning in life is an essential task in adolescence. Moreover, prior researchers also pointed out that freq…

  • Coupling a Physical Replica with a Digital Twin: A Comparison of Participatory Decision-Making Methods in an Urban Park Environment

    Open Access•Junjie Luo, Pengyuan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•ISPRS International Journal of…•2022

    Public participation is crucial in promoting built environment quality. By using Nancuiping park in China as a case study, this research brings attention to the digital twin park compared to the physical replica in a participatory workshop. Using UAV oblique photography, we created a digital twin model of this park and divided it into six layers to better manage and analyze the environment. Bracing the ‘bottom-up’ design philosophy, in the worksh…

  • Semantic Riverscapes: Perception and evaluation of linear landscapes from oblique imagery using computer vision

    Open Access•Junjie Luo, Tianhong Zhao et al.•ARTICLE•Landscape and Urban Planning•2022

  • Self-concept clarity and Internet addiction disorder among junior high school students: A moderate mediation model

    Open Access•Yue Wang, Weiyi Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2022

    This study constructs a moderated mediation model to explain the effect of self-concept clarity on Internet addiction disorder. It is effective to alleviate Internet addiction disorder by improving self-concept clarity and mindfulness level of the junior school students

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  • How social capital influences community resilience management development

    Open Access•Yiqing Liu, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 14

  • Integrating restorative perception into urban street planning: A framework using street view images, deep learning, and space syntax

    Open Access•Yunfei Wu, Qiqi Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 82

  • Predicting adolescent aggressive behavior from community violence exposure, deviant peer affiliation and school engagement: A one-year longitudinal study

    Open Access•Huang Lin, Shuang Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 43

  • Effects of ecological and anthropogenic factors on waterbird abundance at a Ramsar Site in the Yangtze River Floodplain

    Open Access•Yong Zhang, A D Fox et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 50

    Continuing declines in abundance of many waterbird species on wetland ecosystems require explanations to support effective management interventions. We used 6 year survey data from Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve in the Yangtze River Floodplain, China, to study the effects of ecological and anthropogenic variables as determinants of waterbird species abundance. Our results showed that effects were guild-dependent, although distance to neare…

  • Comparing the Community Composition of European and Eastern Chinese Waterbirds and the Influence of Human Factors on the China Waterbird Community

    Open Access•Willem F De Boer, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 30

  • Comparing the Community Composition of European and Eastern Chinese Waterbirds and the Influence of Human Factors on the China Waterbird Community

    Open Access•Willem F De Boer, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 30

  • Effects of ecological and anthropogenic factors on waterbird abundance at a Ramsar Site in the Yangtze River Floodplain

    Open Access•Yong Zhang, A D Fox et al.•ARTICLE•AMBIO•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 50

    Continuing declines in abundance of many waterbird species on wetland ecosystems require explanations to support effective management interventions. We used 6 year survey data from Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve in the Yangtze River Floodplain, China, to study the effects of ecological and anthropogenic variables as determinants of waterbird species abundance. Our results showed that effects were guild-dependent, although distance to neare…

  • Study on limit flow ratio method for a lateral exhaust hood above high-temperature buoyant jets

    Open Access•Yanqiu Huang, Ke Lu et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Cities and Society•2020

  • Tracking and Analyzing Public Emotion Evolutions During Covid-19: A Case Study from the Event-Driven Perspective on Microblogs

    Open Access•Qi Li, Cong Wei et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2020

    These findings suggest that the public's feedback on COVID-19 predated official accounts on the microblog platform. There were clear differences in the trending events that large users (users with many fans and readings) and common users paid attention to during each phase of COVID-19

  • Predicting adolescent aggressive behavior from community violence exposure, deviant peer affiliation and school engagement: A one-year longitudinal study

    Open Access•Huang Lin, Shuang Lin et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 43

  • The Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccination Under Different Methods of Investigation: Based on Online and On-Site Surveys in China

    Open Access•Yun Lyu, Xiaozhen Lai et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2021

    As Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines became available in December 2020, increasingly more surveys were organized to examine the acceptance of vaccination, while most of them were conducted online. This study aimed to explore the difference between online and traditional on-site surveys in terms of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. From November to December 2020, an online survey ( n = 2013) and an on-site survey ( n = 4,316) were conducted …

  • Coupling a Physical Replica with a Digital Twin: A Comparison of Participatory Decision-Making Methods in an Urban Park Environment

    Open Access•Junjie Luo, Pengyuan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•ISPRS International Journal of…•2022

    Public participation is crucial in promoting built environment quality. By using Nancuiping park in China as a case study, this research brings attention to the digital twin park compared to the physical replica in a participatory workshop. Using UAV oblique photography, we created a digital twin model of this park and divided it into six layers to better manage and analyze the environment. Bracing the ‘bottom-up’ design philosophy, in the worksh…

  • Semantic Riverscapes: Perception and evaluation of linear landscapes from oblique imagery using computer vision

    Open Access•Junjie Luo, Tianhong Zhao et al.•ARTICLE•Landscape and Urban Planning•2022

  • Self-concept clarity and Internet addiction disorder among junior high school students: A moderate mediation model

    Open Access•Yue Wang, Weiyi Tang et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2022

    This study constructs a moderated mediation model to explain the effect of self-concept clarity on Internet addiction disorder. It is effective to alleviate Internet addiction disorder by improving self-concept clarity and mindfulness level of the junior school students

  • Rumination and “hot” executive function of middle school students during the Covid-19 pandemic: A moderated mediation model of depression and mindfulness

    Open Access•Ying Li, Qu Guiping et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2022

    In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, middle school students' rumination would lead to depression, which can negatively impact their "hot" executive function. Besides, mindfulness could resist the adverse effect of rumination on depression. The educators should pay more attention to students' mental health, provide targeted strategies that boost mindfulness to promote their cognitive flexibility, and thus protect the normal development of thei…

  • How social capital influences community resilience management development

    Open Access•Yiqing Liu, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Science & Policy•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 14

  • Decoding Spontaneous Informal Spaces in Old Residential Communities: A Drone and Space Syntax Perspective

    Open Access•Ran Zhang, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•ISPRS International Journal of…•2023

    Old residential communities are integral parts of urban areas, with their environmental quality affecting residents’ well-being. Spontaneous informal spaces (SIS) often emerge within these communities. These are predominantly crafted by the elderly using discarded materials and negatively impact the environmental quality of communities. Understanding SIS emergence patterns is vital for enhancing the environmental quality of old communities; howev…

  • Parent-adolescent relationship and friendship quality: Psychological capital as mediator and neighborhood safety and satisfaction as moderator

    Open Access•Lin Zhong, Jun Chen et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2023

  • The Relationship between Meaning in Life and Depression among Chinese Junior High School Students: The Mediating and Moderating Effects of Cognitive Failures and Mindfulness

    Open Access•Ying Li, Yihan Jin et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    In recent years, the incidence of depression among adolescents has been increasing yearly, and the severe damage of depression on adolescents' physical and mental health development has caused extensive concern worldwide. Previous research on adults has confirmed that meaning in life is a crucial buffer factor for depression, and developing meaning in life is an essential task in adolescence. Moreover, prior researchers also pointed out that freq…

  • Crowdsourced Meteorological Data to Supplement Limited Official Sources: A Survey and Case Study of Precipitation Monitoring in Guangzhou, China

    Open Access•Yu Yu, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Weather, Climate, and Society•2024

    Crowdsourced meteorological data may provide a useful supplement to operational observations. However, the willingness of various parties to share their data remains unclear. Here, a survey on data applications was carried out to investigate the willingness to participate in crowdsourcing observations. Of the 21 responses, 71% expressed difficulty in meeting the requirement of data services using only their own observations and revealed that they…

  • Stress Prediction Based on Chaos Theory and an Event–Behavior–Stress Triangle Model

    Open Access•Ningyun Li, Ling Feng et al.•ARTICLE•IEEE Transactions on Computational…•2024

    Predicting stress can help people take timely action to manage stress before potential physical and psychological problems arise. In this study, we analyze and verify chaotic features of human's stress response to stressor and uplift events, and present an event–behavior–stress triangle model for stress prediction. We reconstruct the phase space based on chaos theory, and integrate stress-correlated pre and postfactors (events and behaviors) thro…

  • Influence of neuroticism on depression among college students by gender: The mediating roles of negative cognitive bias and anhedonia

    Open Access•Xiaowen Hou, Xinyu Lai et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

  • The relationship between different components of executive function and depression in Chinese adolescents: Sequential mediation involving rumination

    Open Access•Ying Li, Tiantian Li et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

  • Factors associated with Sars-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy after stroke: A cross-sectional study

    Open Access•Peng Hu, Ying-Hai Zhu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    We found that post-stroke patients have insufficient SARS-CoV-2 vaccination rates, with key risk factors for vaccine hesitancy including concerns about side effects, advanced age, and functional impairments. No severe adverse reactions were observed among the vaccinated population

  • Sars-CoV-2 reinfection with Omicron variant in Shaanxi Province, China: December 2022 to February 2023

    Open Access•Mengyan Zhang, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2024

    In our study, the rate of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection increased over time during epidemic waves predominantly involving the Omicron variant in Shaanxi province, China. Large-scale infections are less likely in subsequent Omicron epidemic waves. Nevertheless, it is essential to continuously monitor cases of infection as well as continue surveillance for emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

  • Integrating restorative perception into urban street planning: A framework using street view images, deep learning, and space syntax

    Open Access•Yunfei Wu, Qiqi Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Cities•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 82

  • Exploring meaning in life from social network content in the sleep scenario

    Open Access•Qi Li, Mengyao Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

    Introduction The exploration of life’s meaning has been a key topic across disciplines, and artificial intelligence is now beginning to investigate it. Methods This study leveraged social media to assess meaning in life (MIL) and its associated factors at individual and group levels. We compiled a diverse dataset consisting of microblog posts ( N = 7,588,597) and responses from user surveys ( N = 448), annotated using a combination of self-assess…

  • Microblog discourse analysis for parenting style assessment

    Open Access•Zihan Wei, Lei Cao et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

    Introduction: Parents' negative parenting style is an important cause of anxiety, depression, and suicide among university students. Given the widespread use of social media, microblogs offer a new and promising way for non-invasive, large-scale assessment of parenting styles of students' parents. Methods: In this study, we have two main objectives: (1) investigating the correlation between students' microblog discourses and parents' parenting st…

  • Relationship between personality and sleep: A dual validation study combining empirical and big data-driven approaches

    Open Access•Lei Cao, Jiake Wu et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2025

    These findings highlight the potential of using deep learning models to analyze the complex relationship between personality traits and sleep, offering valuable insights for future research and interventions

  • Ergonomic interventions to improve musculoskeletal disorders among vehicle assembly workers: A one-year longitudinal study

    Open Access•Xu Jin, Yidan Dong et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

    The findings from this prospective study indicated enhancements in ergonomic conditions and a reduction in musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among vehicle assembly workers following a comprehensive ergonomic intervention

Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)

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