Renmin University of China

Photocatalytic Three-Component Radical Addition of Aromatic Compounds

Abstract Substitution dominates benzene chemistry because σ-adducts formed during bond construction usually rearomatize. We report a photocatalytic three-component reaction that retains the σ-adduct as a 1,4-dioxygenated cyclohexadiene. A highly reactive carbonyloxy radical adds...

Popularity Regression-Based Latent Space Model for Large-Scale Sparse Network Analysis

Degree heterogeneity is one of the most important properties of network data. It is widely observed that degree heterogeneity is often related to the nodal features. In this study, we investigate the estimation and statistical inference for a popularity regression-based latent sp...

Shelter or Capital? Reconstructing the “Best Interests of the Ward” in Chinese Property Guardianship

Abstract The financialisation of household wealth has sharpened a tension between family collectivism and individual property rights in China, where Article 35 of the Civil Code permits a guardian to dispose of a ward’s property only for the ward’s benefit while the indigenous To...

Weak Superconducting Anisotropy in 4 H b ‐Nb 0.95 Ti 0.05 Se 2 With 1 T /1 H Heterostructure

ABSTRACT Heterostructures of layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) exhibit rich physical properties by the combination of strong electronic correlation effects in 1 T layer and superconductivity in 1 H layer. But the limited number of bulk TMD materials with such heterost...

Development and validation of the Beliefs in Social Anxiety Scale (BIAS) for Chinese socially anxious adults and adolescents

BACKGROUND: Maladaptive social beliefs play a pivotal role in the development and maintenance of social anxiety; however, existing measures have limited cultural adaptability for Chinese populations. Therefore, this study developed and validated the Beliefs in Social Anxiety Scal...

Tacrolimus attenuates BCL-2/BAX-mediated chondrocyte apoptosis and cartilage matrix degradation in experimental osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is a progressive whole-joint disease characterized by cartilage matrix degradation, synovial inflammation and impaired chondrocyte survival. Current pharmacological treatments mainly relieve symptoms and do not reliably prevent structural progression. Here, we inve...

A GacS-mediated regulatory framework coordinates bacterial competition and rhizosphere microbiome remodeling in Pseudomonas fluorescens

Plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas bacteria are promising biocontrol agents whose regulatory and effector genes shape bacterial traits involved in interactions with host plants and soil microorganisms. However, previous research has predominantly examined individual genes or trai...

Uncovering the hidden resource cost of urbanization: A globally scalable open-source framework for urban housing vacancy monitoring

Rapid urbanization often outpaces population growth, creating massive resource inefficiencies. Quantifying this structural mismatch between housing supply and actual occupancy remains a global challenge due to costly censuses and imprecise proxy data. Here, we present a globally...

Beyond replication: Technological transmission and adaptive organization of modern human populations during the terminal Pleistocene at Fenghuangling, North China

How technological knowledge is transmitted and transformed remains a central topic in human evolution and behavioral ecology. During the Last Glacial Maximum and the subsequent deglaciation, climatic instability and associated demographic shifts provide an ideal window for unders...

Distributionally-robust heterogeneous graph neural networks via relation-aware grouping

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization remains a key challenge for heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs), which often exhibit substantial performance degradation under real-world distribution shifts. While Group Distributionally Robust Optimization (GroupDRO) has proven e...

Influence of high performers on knowledge hiding and seeking of other employees: evidence from China

Drawing on conservation of resources and social comparison theories, this study examines how high-performing coworkers, who occupy more resources, affect the territoriality and knowledge-management behaviors of other employees. Data were collected from 323 employees at three time...

Information, goal setting and performance: Experimental evidence

We investigate how information about relative performance shapes goal setting and subsequent performance. Combining a field experiment in a university course with a complementary laboratory experiment, we exogenously vary whether individuals receive baseline relative-performance...

High Sewage Sludge Loading Drives N2O-Dominated Warming Potential and Destabilizes Soil Microbial Networks during Ryegrass Cultivation

Abstract The application of sludge as a fertilizer contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but the associated microbial and geochemical mechanisms across sludge application rates remain unclear. A field experiment evaluated three sludge application rates (0, 3, and 30 kg/m...

Time, cognition, and culture: A three-dimensional self-system model of subjective well-being and interdependent happiness

This research proposes a “time–cognition–culture” self-system model to examine whether and under what conditions Future Self-Continuity (FSC) is associated with well-being among Chinese undergraduate students across three studies ( N = 1010). Study 1 experimentally showed that in...

Dual pathways from adversity: CEO childhood famine experience, motivational orientations, and organizational resilience

Organizational resilience is critical for sustained development in turbulent contexts; however, the mechanisms linking chief executive officers’ (CEOs) early-life adversity to organizational resilience and their boundary conditions remain underexplored. Drawing on imprinting and...

Towards Wearable Opportunistic Crowdsensing for Open-Vocabulary Activity Data Collection Through User-Scheduled Trigger-Action Routines

Collecting richly labeled wearable activity data in everyday settings remains difficult because retrospective annotation is costly and often imprecise. Prior data collection apps rely on a labor-intensive self-reporting strategy and primarily treat participants as crowd labelers....

Are two heads better than one? When and how commitment-focused HR attributions can trigger work engagement

Purpose Drawing on the Conservation of Resources theory, this study investigates how commitment-focused human resource (HR) attributions interact with leader-member exchange (LMX) in predicting work engagement via job crafting. Design/methodology/approach Three complementary stud...

Rising Connectivity, Shifting Hubs: The Evolving Network and Governance Challenges of Global Wild‐Sourced Trade

ABSTRACT Global wild‐sourced wildlife trade is structured not only by the intensity and composition of traded species, but also by the routes, hubs, and redistribution pathways that connect countries/territories into an intricate network. Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics...

Reconfiguring global value chains for low-carbon technologies and critical minerals: Evidence from solar photovoltaics, batteries, hydrogen and mineral supply chains

The low-carbon transition is reorganizing global value chains (GVCs) for technologies and materials, yet existing evidence remains fragmented across individual sectors. This study conducts an integrated systematic–semantic review of solar photovoltaics, batteries, hydrogen and cr...

Peer influence in juvenile offending: social evaluation, relational identity and moral obligation

Purpose Although peer influence is widely recognized as important in juvenile offending, less is known about how justice-involved adolescents themselves interpret peer evaluation, understand their roles within peer relationships and make sense of their responsibilities in peer-re...