Spatial analytical techniques and models are often used in epidemiology to identify spatial anomalies (hotspots) in disease regions. These analytical approaches can be used to not only identify the location of such hotspots, but also their spatial patterns.
Industrial transformation has been regarded as an important measure to promote traditional village revitalization. Research on the spatial pattern and influence mechanism of industrial transformation in traditional villages is urgently needed. In this context, this study takes the 211 national traditional villages in Fujian Province of China as research objects and uses GIS spatial analysis and geographical detectors to analyze the spatial pattern and influence mechanism of industrial transformation in traditional villages. The results show that: (1) the scale of traditional village industry presents the characteristics of wavy growth. High- and medium-density cluster areas were identified. (2) Traditional villages can be categorized into three types, not transformed, to be transformed and transformed villages. These three stages of transformation have different features of industry development and different dominant industries. (3) The core factors affecting the industrial transformation of traditional villages show obvious differences at different transformation stages and spatial differences in coastal and inland areas. Therefore, policies and measures should be customized to local conditions to improve the development quality of traditional villages and promote the industrial transformation and upgrading of traditional villages. This study improves the research on the transformation and development mechanism of traditional village industry from the perspective of industrial revitalization in theory and provides experience and models as reference for the revitalization of traditional village industry in practice.
16 October 2012 in Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
Yehliu Geopark mGuiding is an Android application that can perform several tasks related to guiding tourists. The improvement of the application is based on a user evaluation of the former version of the Yehliu Geopark tour guiding system which was designed to be executed on a personal digital assistant device. The user evaluation data were acquired from a questionnaire survey comprising a sample of 101 respondents and were processed using ridits analysis and importance-performance analysis. Results revealed the tourists' preferences for the tour guiding system. The application was redesigned based on the tourists' preferences. The new features of the application include: (1) a Geopark map that is attractive and easy to read; (2) augmented reality (AR) with camera and global positioning system (GPS) functions; (3) user-friendly guiding interface of scenic spots. The application integrates tracking and location functions using GPS coordinates, multi-media guiding (descriptions of scenic spots, videos, photographs and audio presentations), suggested tour selection and searching using AR. The Yehliu Geopark mGuiding system offers a user-friendly interface that the tourists can use on their own smartphone for a complete tour.
31 January 2013 in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences
Based on the major, trace element, and isotope data of the Cenozoic basalts in the study area, it is indicated that the basalts in this region can be classified into three distinct magma systems: alka-li basalts, tholeiite basalts, and Nushan alkali basalts. The geochemical characteristics observed in the studied basalts indicate that the mantle source in this region might have experienced met-asomatic processes prior to partial melting, which could be linked to an ancient subduction pro-cess. Combining the geochemical characteristics in the studied basalts with previous research, we propose that the underlying mantle source in Anhui province may have undergone metaso-matism due to the carbonatitic melts. These melts are believed to have originated from car-bonated eclogite, derived from subducted Pacific slab materials present in the deeper mantle. According to the Sr-Nd isotope data, it is suggested that the mantle source in the Nushan region could be derived from a depleted asthenospheric mantle, while the basaltic composition in the Niugang area may be representative of the mantle's end components associated with the EM-I enriched mantle source present in this study area. Therefore, we propose that the Anhui basalts may have originated from the partial melting of a mantle source representing a mixing of two end-members: DMM (Depleted MORB Mantle) and EM-Ⅰ (Enriched Mantle 1). The Anhui basal-tic magmas may have originated from the partial melting of EM-Ⅰ, potentially influenced by upwelling asthenospheric mantle or asthenospheric diapirism processes. The mantle source in the study area experiences partial melting at 1-5%, 15%, and 1-10%, resulting in the formation of parent magmas for alkali basalt, tholeiitic basalt, and Nushan alkali basalt. Subsequently, the parent magmas experienced fractional crystallization processes, which included minerals like olivine, pyroxene, and plagioclase. This led to the formation of various types of basalt in the study area.