Evaluation of carrying capacity of city clusters in China with the example of the Blue Economic Zone of Shandong Peninsula

The conflict between city development and urban carrying capacity is getting ever prominent. In order to study and predict the restriction factors and prominent problems in the development of the Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone as well as promote the transfer of economic development pattern in this region, this study starts from four single factor carrying capacity indicators of water, earth, transportation and environment in the city and its comprehensive carrying capacity indicator, evaluates and analyzes its carrying capacity and then papooses policy suggestions for improving its carrying capacity.     

“Single-minded,compelling, and unique”: Visual Communications,Landscape, and the Calculated Aesthetic of Place Branding

Place branding strategies play a significant role in the professional composition of landscape imagery, including the depiction of “natural” landscapes. In this paper, Brand Blue Mountains, a brand currently implemented in the Blue Mountains region (Australia), is discursively analyzed. The brand sets out an all-encompassing “Vision” defining the identity, values and personality of the World Heritage listed Blue Mountains landscape, summarized in the tagline Elevate Your Senses. This “vision” is visually translated into a strictly coordinated and copyrighted suite of logos, graphic design, color, fonts and various photographic styles. Analysis reveals that the degree of control that place brand strategists seek to exert over the visual expression of landscape identity is significant. A highly selective narrative of positive nature-based sensory experience is constructed through the holistic application of contemporary visual media. The brands' communications strategy naturalizes and reinforces a particular market-friendly version of place. The framework that brands set for the representation of landscapes overall amounts to an exercise in calculated aesthetics, whereby the form and content of landscape images of various kinds is measured to achieve the greatest market differentiation and impact which technologies allow. The result of this calculated aesthetic system, with its taglines, saturated color, careful composition and magazine-format brevity, is a reduction in the complexity of landscape representations and a perpetuation of nature stereotypes.     

Clockwork blue: on the evolution of non-image-forming retinal photoreceptors in marine and terrestrial vertebrates

This paper presents a hypothesis that could explain why blue light appears to dominate non-image-forming (NIF) ocular photoreception in marine as well as terrestrial vertebrates. Indeed, there is more and more evidence suggesting that 'novel' retinal photoreceptors, which are sensitive to blue light and were only discovered in the 1990s, could be a feature shared by all vertebrates. In our view, blue light photoreception evolved and persisted as NIF photoreception because it has been useful in the colonisation of extensive photo-dependent oceanic habitats and facilitated the move of vertebrates from an aquatic to a terrestrial environment. Because the available scattered evidence is compatible with the validity of our hypothesis, we hope that our rationale will be followed up. Indeed, it (1) involves testable predictions, (2) provides plausible explanations for previous observations, (3) unites phenomena not previously considered related to one another and (4) suggests tests that have not been carried out before. Overall, our approach not only embraces cross-disciplinary links; it, moreover, serves as a reminder of an all-embracing evolutionary history, especially with regard to a ubiquitous photoreceptive 'clockwork-blue' in marine and terrestrial vertebrates.     

稀土铒掺杂TiO_2光催化剂的吸附和光催化活性研究

通过溶胶-凝胶法成功的制备了一系列Er3+掺杂的TiO2光催化剂,并通过XRD、DRS对催化剂进行了表征,结果表明所制催化剂为锐钛矿型,Er3+的掺杂有利于抑制晶粒生长,提高晶体的热稳定性。紫外-可见吸收(DRS)光谱证实,Er3+的掺杂增强了催化剂在可见光区域的吸收能力。吸附实验结果表明,Er3+的掺杂显著提高了橙黄I在TiO2催化剂表面的吸附能力,随掺杂量增加,吸附增强。活性实验结果表明,Er3+的掺杂显著提高了TiO2的光催化活性,最佳掺杂量为1.5%。     

二氧化钛悬浮体系中几种不同结构染料的光催化降解实验

以钛酸丁酯为原料,乙醇为溶剂,利用溶胶凝胶法制备纳米TiO2微粒。以紫外灯为光源,以橙黄Ⅱ、酸性品红和亚甲基蓝溶液为降解对象,实验考察了纳米TiO2微粒的光催化活性,同时比较了不同结构的染料的降解效果。结果表明:自制的纳米TiO2对染料废水具有明显的降解,不同结构的染料中,具有单偶氮结构的染料橙黄Ⅱ的降解效果最好。