Urban Cultural Signature with Web Data: A Case Study with Google Places Venues

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the factors and mechanism which influence the doctor’s social and economic benefits from the perspective of social capital.Design/methodology/approachThis paper mainly investigates the factors and mechanism influencing the doctor's social and economic benefits from the perspective of social capital and then constructs a doctor's social capital model and discusses the effects of doctor's social capital on their economic and social benefits; what is more, this paper also considers the moderating effect of patients’ group behavior.FindingsThe results show that the doctor's social capital has a positive and significant effect on doctor's economic benefits, while it has a negative and significant effect on doctors' social benefits. Patients’ group behavior plays an important moderating role; in particular, the number of online patients of doctors can effectively strengthen follow-up patients’ positive perception of the doctor capital, while the number of offline patients has a negative effect on doctors’ economic benefits, but it can reduce its negative impact on doctors’ social benefits by establishing trust between patient and physician.Originality/valueThis paper enriches the relevant research of social capital theory in the medical field and broadens the research about online health care. For platforms, they should give more attention to doctors and their income issues, which is of great significance for their healthy and sustainable development.

Coordinating the social, economic, and eco-environmental benefits of construction land use has become the key to the high-quality development of Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomerations (LXUA). Therefore, based on the coupling coordination connotation and interaction mechanism of construction land use benefit (CLUB), we measured the CLUB level and the coupling coordination degree (CCD) between its principal elements in LXUA from 2005 to 2018. Results showed that: (1) The construction land development intensity (CLDI) in the LXUA is generally low, and spatially presents a dual-core structure with Lanzhou and Xining urban areas as the core. (2) The comprehensive construction land use benefit has increased over time, but the overall level is not high. The spatial differentiation is obvious, and the core cities (Lanzhou and Xining) are significantly higher than other cities. (3) The regional differences in the subsystem benefit of construction land use are obvious. The social benefit and economic benefit showed a “convex” shape distribution pattern of “high in the middle and low in the east and west wings”, and regional differences of economic benefit vary greatly. The eco-environmental benefit was relatively high, showed a “concave” shape evolution in the east–west direction. (4) In addition, the CCD of the CLUB were still at a medium–low level. The higher the administrative level of the city, the better the economic foundation, and the higher or better the CCD of the social, economic, and eco-environmental benefits. (5) The CCD is inseparable from the influence of the three benefits of construction land use. Therefore, different regions should form their own targeted development paths to promote the coordinated and orderly development of LXUA.

BackgroundThere is global pressure to protect more of the world’s oceans, primarily to protect biodiversity, and to fulfill the “30 by 30” goal set by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that has recently been ratified under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at the fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP-15). Fully protected marine protected areas (MPAs) provide the highest level of protection for biodiversity from destructive or extractive practices and may limit access to the area itself. Fully protected MPAs (also commonly referred to as ‘no-take MPAs’) ban all fishing activities, thereby removing the realisation of direct economic and social benefits from resource extraction within these areas. However, fully protected MPAs can still act as source of productivity to surrounding areas, while also providing an important scientific reference role for off-reserve management thereby providing indirect economic and social outcomes, as well as biodiversity benefits. Sustainable marine resource management strives to achieve ‘triple-bottom line’ benefits, where economic, social, and biodiversity benefits are maximised in managed areas of the ocean. Implementing ‘partially protected’ areas (PPAs) in areas of high biodiversity value (i.e., inshore, productive areas of the ocean) that allow for some extractive activities, may allow us to supplement fully MPAs to meet IUCN conservation goals, while maximising social and economic benefits. However, our current understanding lacks explicit quantitative assessments of whether and how PPAs can benefit (or otherwise) biodiversity, while also providing economic and social benefits. This study provides a method to systematically review the scientific and legislative literature to understand how PPAs may contribute to conserving biodiversity while also providing social and economic benefits to Australia.Methods and expected outputsThe implementation of partially protected areas (PPAs) requires careful consideration of many potentially competing factors, and an understanding of the types of partial protection already in place in a region. We have developed a systematic literature review protocol focussing on the primary research question: “What is the current state of partially protected area (PPA) implementation across Australian marine areas?”. The aim of the review is to provide marine resource managers with a comprehensive overview of PPAs in Australia, including associated goals and stated management strategies to achieve these goals, and a methodological approach that may be utilised globally.The review protocol was designed by the research team for a Fisheries Resource and Development Corporation (FRDC) strategic research grant and will seek input from a project steering committee for the project on aggregation of the initial results. The steering committee is made up of stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds and interests, covering marine conservation, fisheries management, Indigenous values, and academic research in Australia. Multiple academic databases, alongside Australian Federal, State, and Territory legislation and related policies will be reviewed using Boolean keyword search strings for both academic databases and relevant grey literature. Results from eligible documents will be compiled and insights from the review collated to provide information on the status of PPA implementation in Australia.

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), home gardening supports approximately 20% of household food needs, highlighting its significance in addressing food insecurity. This practice has emerged as a vital strategy for promoting sustainable community development in diverse ways. Using Bolgatanga, Ghana, as a case study, this study explores the socioecological and economic benefits of home gardening and their associations with socioeconomic characteristics. In total, 370 residents were interviewed, and the data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that home gardening provides environmental benefits, such as reducing temperature and erosion; social benefits, including enhanced well-being and cohesion; and economic benefits, such as reduced food costs and increased profits. The findings indicated statistically significant associations between environmental benefits, such as soil fertility enrichment (p < 0.01) and natural cooling (p < 0.01); social benefits, including stress reduction (p < 0.01); and economic benefits, such as sustainable living through composting (p < 0.01), and socioeconomic characteristics of respondents. The Relative Importance Index (RII) analysis identified biodiversity enhancement as the most significant environmental benefit, cost savings from homegrown food as the most important economic benefit, and stress reduction as the most significant social benefit. The study concludes that home gardening significantly contributes to sustainable community development through its environmental, social, and economic benefits, therefore it is essential for the Municipal Agriculture Department, non-profit organisations to collaborate with communities in terms of training programmes and resources for home gardening practices to maximize these benefits.

With the increasing scrutiny on tailings management and requirements of the ground subsidence control, both the academia and industry are highly advocating the utilization of cemented paste backfill (CPB) in the mining industry. Literature review has shown that there are some studies conducted to evaluate the ecological environment, economic development, and social impact of mining. However, a comprehensive study about the economic benefits, resource benefits, environmental benefits, and social benefits of CPB is still lacking. This study aims to present a comprehensive benefit index system for CPB from four aspects, i.e., economy, resource, environment, and society. Questionnaires from experts and the mining industry using CPB technology were collected, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The relationships between economy, resource, environment, and society were analyzed. The results show that resource benefits have the greatest impact on the comprehensive benefit of CPB in the mining industry, followed by environmental, economic, and social benefits. According to relevance ranking, resource benefits are positively correlated with social, environmental, and economic benefits, whereas environmental, resource, and social benefits have correlation with economic benefits in turn. Therefore, resource, environmental, economic, and social benefits in order directly affect the comprehensive benefit of CPB on the basis of the influencing degree. Moreover, resource, environmental, and social benefits indirectly affect the comprehensive benefit of CPB. The research findings of this study would help the mining industry popularize the CPB technology and promote the sustainability and cleaner production of the mining industry.

KUD Puspa Mekar is cooperation which has core business development specifically for dairy cow farm. Aim of this study wasto determine the general of KUD Puspa Mekar, identifying some factors which affected performance of cooperation, participation of members, and benefits for members also analyzing the relation among each factors toward performance of cooperation, participation of members, and benefits for members of KUD Puspa Mekar. Method of the research was Path Analysis, with these following exogen variables: vision (X1), capacity (X2), networking (X3), and resources (X4) of cooperation. Endogen variables which were measured such as performance of cooperation (Y1), participation of members (Y2), social (Y3) and economic (Y4) benefits. Factors affected the performance of cooperatives in order are vision, resources, participation, networking and capacity. Factors affected the participation of members was social benefits. The economic benefits less influance the participation of members. Performance of coopertives influance the social and economic benefits. KUD Puspa Mekar should keep more capital from internal rather than external. KUD Puspa Mekar should increase stimulus incentives to members through increase membership benefits. Increase the participation of members in terms of economic benefits can be enhanced by building the business unit in accordance with the expectations of members and build the business unit independently. KUD Puspa Mekar should improve and maintain the performance of cooperatives to social and economic benefits received by members will increase. Keyword(s): cooperation, performance, participation, benefit.

Coupling coordination and spatio-temporal evolution of land-use benefits under the dual carbon goal: A case study in Anhui, China

Bioenergy supply chains can offer social benefits. In most related research, the total number of created jobs is used as the indicator of social benefits. Only a few of them quantify social benefits considering the different impact of economic activities in different locations. In this paper, a new method of measuring the social benefits of bioethanol supply chains is proposed that considers job creation, biomass purchase, and the different impacts of economic activities in different locations. A multi-objective mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed to address the optimal design of a bioethanol supply chain that maximizes both economic and social benefits. The ε-constraint method is employed to solve the model and a set of Pareto-optimal solutions is obtained that shows the relationship between the two objectives. The developed model is applied to case studies in Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Actual data are collected as practical as possible for the feasibility and effectiveness of the results. The results show that the bioethanol supply chain can bring about both economic and social benefits in the given area and offers governments a better and more efficient way to create social benefits. The effect of the government subsidy on enterprises’ decisions about economic and social benefits is discussed.

Optimization of land use structure to balance economic benefits and ecosystem services under uncertainties: A case study in Wuhan, China

Social coding sites (e.g., Github) provide various features like Forking and Sending Pull-requests to support crowd-based software engineering. When using these features, a large amount of user behavior data is recorded. User behavior data can reflect developers preferences and interests in software development activities. Online service providers in many fields have been using user behavior data to discover user preferences and interests to achieve various purposes. In the field of software engineering however, there has been few studies in mining large amount of user behavior data. Our goal is to design an approach based on user behavior data, to recommend relevant open source projects to developers, which can be helpful in activities like searching for the right open source solutions to quickly build prototypes. In this paper, we explore the possibilities of such a method by conducting a set of experiments on selected data sets from Github. We find it a promising direction in mining projects' relevance from user behavior data. Our study also obtain some important issues that is worth considering in this method.

Performative Microforests: Investigating the potential benefits of integrating spatial vegetation environments into buildings, in regards to the performance of buildings, their occupants + local ecosystems

Integrating emerging and existing renewable energy technologies into a community-scale microgrid in an energy-water nexus for resilience improvement

The objectives of this study were to investigate and estimate the economic, social and ecological benefits of agricultural waste processing and to assess farmers’ perception on agricultural waste processing. This research was conducted in Kecamatan Tanjung Lago, Banyuasin, Sumatera Selatan. Survey data were collected from farmers selected using disproportionate stratified random sampling. The results showed that the economic benefits of agricultural waste processing were reducing production costs, increasing income of rice and maize farming, and improving the welfare of farmers. The social benefits were raising the nature of cooperation and triggering farmers to have broader knowledge by organizing associations to exchange the knowledge. Whereas, the ecological benefits were reducing air pollution caused by combustion of agricultural wastes, improving soil physical properties and restoring nutrients obtained from agricultural waste processing. The value of economic benefits estimated from agricultural waste processing to produce liquid bacterial fertilizer were 29.4% and 29.8% increase in income of rice farmers and maize farmers respectively. The overall score of perception of farmers applying agricultural waste processing was higher than those not applying.

We examined the associations between social capital and rural households’ perceptions toward social, economic, and environmental benefits of forest carbon sequestration projects by employing the proportional odds model based on data collected from a rural household survey in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China. Results revealed that: (i) households’ perceptions toward environmental benefits are more positive than their perceptions toward economic benefits and social benefits, and their perceptions toward economic benefits are more positive than their perceptions toward social benefits; (ii) households having a good relationship with village officials have higher odds of holding more positive perceptions toward social, economic, and environmental benefits of the projects; (iii) households which are members of local associations are more likely to have positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects; (iv) households whose members are more frequently involved in village-level public events are more likely to have more positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects; (v) households having more educated household heads have higher odds of holding better perceptions toward the benefits of FCS projects; and (vi) households of Yunnan Province are less likely to express positive perceptions toward benefits of the projects. Based on the research results, we concluded that social capital is significantly and positively associated with rural households’ perceptions toward benefits of forest carbon sequestration projects. Some policy implications are provided regarding how to make use of social capital elements to shape farmers’ perceptions toward benefits of the projects for the purpose of achieving a higher level of local acceptability for and sustainability of the projects.

The management information system is a person-oriented system, which uses computer hardware, software, network communication equipment and other office equipment to collect, transmit, process, store, update, expand and maintain information. Its security is very important to the country and the society. Aiming at the illegal operation of the legitimate users and the illegal user camouflaging into the system, a targeted user behavior anomaly detection scheme is proposed. The user behavior data is obtained by the Web log and click stream. And the user behavior is divided into the role attribute label and behavior habit label. The user behavior data under two kinds of labels are modeled respectively, the user's role behavior contour and user's customary behavior contour are obtained. The two behavior profiles are fused to get the final user behavior model as the basis for the pattern matching and the real time detection of abnormal behavior. And the real-time detection system of user abnormal behavior is designed to meet the special requirements of the management information system, to realize the timely discovery of illegal operations and illegal users and to realize real-time early warning, which could enhance the security guarantee of the management information system.