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3© 2016 Elsevier B.V.The evaporative-cooling roof is a popular passive energy conservation technique. This article presents a novel approach for modelling and analysing the influence of evaporation on roof thermal performance. A multivariate nonlinear model was developed for the prediction of the evaporation rate from porous tile. A computer program was then developed based on the one-dimensional roof unsteady heat transfer theory. Finally, the computer program and hourly weather data of Guangzho…Read more
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28Initiation of discontinuous precipitation at interphase boundaries in a two-phase Zn–6.3 at.% Ag alloyPhilosophical Magazine 84 (17): 1773-1787. 2004.
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Lipstick is one of the most commonly used cosmetics, which is closely associated with female attractiveness and influences people’s perception and behavior. This study aimed to investigate the impact of light sources, lipstick colors, as well as gender on the subjective assessment of lipstick color products from the prospective of color preference, purchase intention and sexual attractiveness. The correlation between color preference evaluations when applying lipstick on lips and on forearms was…Read more
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3Resumo: A música tradicional chinesa tem uma longa história, repleta de conceitos estéticos ricos e extensos. A integração da música tradicional e das ideias estéticas tem um impacto significativo na formação do sistema musical tradicional da China. Este artigo explora a influência interativa da música tradicional e das ideias estéticas, analisando as ideias musicais da estética tradicional chinesa, buscando promover a integração e o desenvolvimento da música tradicional e das ideias estéticas. …Read more
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1The impact of green brand trust repair strategies on trust repair after greenwashing: From a brand legitimacy perspectiveBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility. forthcoming.An increasingly worrying trend is enterprises undertaking greenwashing rather than producing actual green products. When such greenwashing behaviours are exposed, green brand trust between enterprises and stakeholders may be damaged, resulting in stakeholders becoming suspicious of these supposedly green brands. Then, enterprises need to adopt several trust repair strategies to repair the damaged green brand trust. We investigated green brand trust repair from a green brand legitimacy perspectiv…Read more
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11Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension PlansJournal of Business Ethics 1-20. forthcoming.We investigate how firms adjust corporate pension plans in response to economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Using a sample of US-listed firms, we find that firms increase pension underfunding levels when facing higher EPU. The result is robust to controlling for pension portfolio returns, discount rates, plan sizes, pension liability, numbers of employees, other macroeconomic factors, difference-in-differences and instrumental variable estimation, and additional evidence of pension risk-shifting. …Read more
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25Functional Network Alterations as Markers for Predicting the Treatment Outcome of Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Focal EpilepsyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 15. 2021.Background and PurposeTranscranial direct current stimulation is an emerging non-invasive neuromodulation technique for focal epilepsy. Because epilepsy is a disease affecting the brain network, our study was aimed to evaluate and predict the treatment outcome of cathodal tDCS by analyzing the ctDCS-induced functional network alterations.MethodsEither the active 5-day, −1.0 mA, 20-min ctDCS or sham ctDCS targeting at the most active interictal epileptiform discharge regions was applied to 27 sub…Read more
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33Do Chinese Traditional and Modern Cultures Affect Young Adults’ Moral Priorities?Frontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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55What's in the Chinese Babyface? Cultural Differences in Understanding the BabyfaceFrontiers in Psychology 7. 2016.
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7A Study of the styles and characteristics of basic music theory textbooks in China in the past 100 yearsTrans/Form/Ação 46 (spe): 117-144. 2023.Resumen: Debido a varias razones históricas y realistas, el desarrollo de la teoríeorlsica de la mlsica en China se queda atrátrra cuanto al sistema de enseñanza, el contenido de la enseñanza y otros aspectos. Es una tarea importante para los trabajadores chinos de la misica revisar o complementar la teoríeorteorntar sica actual y los libros de texto relacionados, y luego construir un sistema de disciplina de la teoríeorla teordesica en China. Este artículo sintetiza las teoríeorreorr educaciódu…Read more
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338The Therapy of Desire in Times of Crisis: Lessons Learned from Buddhism and StoicismReligions 14 (237): 1-24. 2023.Desire is an important philosophical topic that deeply impacts everyday life. Philosophical practice is an emerging trend that uses philosophical theories and methods as a guide to living a eu‐ daimonic life. In this paper, we define desire philosophically and compare different theories of desire in specific Eastern and Western traditions. Based on the Lacanian conceptual–terminological triad of “Need‐Demand‐Desire”, the research of desire is further divided into three dimensions, namely, the su…Read more
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12Human capital, social capital, psychological capital, and job performance: Based on fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysisFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.The present study investigated the configuration effect of human capital, social capital, and psychological capital on job performance. The human capital questionnaire, social capital scale, psychological capital scale, and job performance scale were used to survey 458 employees. Results revealed that four antecedent configurations could achieve high task performance, and three antecedent configurations can achieve high contextual performance. The high job performance driving path was characteri…Read more
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11Nexus Between Consumer’s Motivations and Online Purchase Intentions of Fashion Products: A Perspective of Social Media MarketingFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.This study aimed to investigate the effects of customers’ motivations on online purchase intentions as mediated by commitment toward online fashion retailers. The survey method was used to collect data from Chinese respondents using a questionnaire. The convenience sampling technique was used to collect data from 275 respondents. Collected data were analyzed on smart-PLS using the structural equation modeling technique. Results of the study show a significant and positive impact of social empowe…Read more
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26The moral behavior of ethics professors: A replication-extension in Chinese mainlandPhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.The relationship between professional ethical reflection and corresponding moral behavior is an important theme of moral psychology in recent years. Following Schönegger and Wagner’s research in German-speaking countries, through a replication-extension of the original US-based research carried out by Schwitzgebel and Rust, we aim at examining their results in the Chinese context. The previous researchers have shown that ethical reflection generally has no positive effect on moral behavior. A cr…Read more
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8Some Naturalistic Comments on Frege's Philosophy of MathematicsFrontiers of Philosophy in China 7 (3): 378-403. 2012.
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18Positive Education Interventions Prevent Depression in Chinese AdolescentsFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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The Empirical Psychological Perspectives on Free WillAdvances in Psychological Science 20 (11): 1869-1878. 2012.Free will is one of the oldest and most debated topics in the history of philosophy. Both positivist philosophy and humanist philosophy considered the problem of free will to be the most difficult issues to untangle. In recent years, psychologists have begun to apply the methods of empirical science to study the psychological mechanism, impact and expression of free will. The general consensus is that free will is an illusion, but people still believe in its existence. Free will has been found c…Read more
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92From Growth Mindset to Grit in Chinese Schools: The Mediating Roles of Learning MotivationsFrontiers in Psychology 9. 2018.
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43Psychopathological Symptoms under Smog: The Role of Emotion RegulationFrontiers in Psychology 8. 2018.
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51Indispensability argument and anti-realism in philosophy of mathematicsFrontiers of Philosophy in China 2 (4): 614-628. 2007.The indispensability argument for abstract mathematical entities has been an important issue in the philosophy of mathematics. The argument relies on several assumptions. Some objections have been made against these assumptions, but there are several serious defects in these objections. Ameliorating these defects leads to a new anti-realistic philosophy of mathematics, mainly: first, in mathematical applications, what really exist and can be used as tools are not abstract mathematical entities, …Read more
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4The Four Political Treatises of the Yellow Emperor: Original Mawangdui Texts with Complete English Translations and an IntroductionUniversity of Hawaii Press. 1998.Includes translations of the important manuscripts in silk found at the famous Mawangdui Tomb in 1973.