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Pi, F.; Ren, W.; Yang, X., and Liu, G., 2020. A simplified method to calculate the additional interstory drift of high-rise steel frame based on the P-Δ effect. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 618–623. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The additional interstory drift of high-rise steel frame structure caused by the P-Δ effect usually consists of additional shear interstory drift and additional overall bending interstory drift. For the lateral displacement calculation of structures, the influence of the additional interstory drift is ignored in the first order, and the additional overall bending interstory drift is not considered in the second order. To study the influence of additional deformation on the high-rise steel frame structure, the elastic, simplified formula of additional overall bending interstory drift caused by P-Δ effect is deduced. Then, the simplified calculation method of additional interstory drift is proposed. The numerical simulation using the finite-element and the simplified method of a two-span, 18-story steel frame under horizontal, uniform load is conducted. The results of the two methods are in good agreement, which proves that the simplified method is feasible. In addition, the additional overall bending interstory drift and its proportion in additional interstory drift are analyzed when the aspect ratio of structure is different. The results show that the proportion increases with an increasing aspect ratio and the story numbers; the proportion at the top story is all greater than 70%. Therefore, the additional overall bending interstory drift should be considered in the second-order lateral-displacement calculation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Han, Q., 2020. Application of computer graphics and image software in marine graphic design. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 600–604. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Graphic design includes many aspects, such as advertising, animation, web design, packaging, and book design, and so on. Through the combination of various visual elements, designers can transmit their own ideas and ocean concepts to the public. Through graphic design works, designers can smoothly transmit their ocean ideas, which have the power to move others. With the development of the times, graphic design has become a comprehensive industry, which integrates computer technology, art knowledge, and artistic creativity. The current computer graphics and image software includes Photoshop, CorelDRAW, illustrator, etc., which makes graphic design more convenient and flexible. Through various kinds of software, designers can express themselves by more means, which will make the design works more vivid and creative. Through ocean graphic design, designers can enrich the means of expression of their own ideas, which will improve the audience's understanding of the ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chu, P.; Zhang, L.; Huo, W.; Wang, K., and Chen, Y., 2020. Analysis of high-resolution underwater acoustic imaging technology in multi-subarray beam domain. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 518–521. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The development of ocean resources and the research of ocean engineering are inseparable from the acquisition and mastery of underwater scene information, and the most important way to obtain this information is underwater acoustic imaging technology. This paper is divided into two parts: theoretical research and model simulation. In the theoretical research, the principle of traditional the split-beam phase detection method and the basic principle of cross-correlation detection technology of the phase center in beam domain are analyzed. Then, the signal model is established, and the conclusion that the number of subarray elements is positively correlated with the resolution of the system is obtained. Finally, the simulation model of the seabed is established to verify the algorithm of multi-subarray beam domain seabed detection and the high-resolution underwater acoustic imaging system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tan, L.; Zhou, J.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, J., and Liu, H., 2020. Correlation between the construction of Zhejiang coastal military settlements in the Ming Dynasty and the natural terrain. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 381–387. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The military settlement for the coastal defense of Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) is representative of military settlements throughout ancient China. The distribution of military power was closely related to the natural terrain, and its military hierarchical structure conformed to fractal systems. Based on fractal theory, the box dimension method, which has been widely used in geography, was selected to calculate the geomorphic fractal dimension of coastal-defense settlements within a certain range. The traditional box-counting method was optimized by ArcGIS to obtain the geomorphic-complexity index. By analyzing the correlation between this index and the military-force scale data extracted from historical books, this article breaks through the qualitative conclusions of general studies and obtains the quantitative influence of the complexity of the natural terrain on military construction, especially on the distribution of the size of garrison troops. This method quantifies complex concepts through fractal dimensions and provides a new idea for research on the influence of the natural environment on the formation of traditional settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, J., 2020. Evaluation of financial performance of port enterprises based on radial basis function neural network. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 255–258. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. An objective, fair, and accurate evaluation of the financial performance of the port enterprises is an important measure to mobilize and improve the enthusiasm of the port enterprises employees and the progress of scientific and technological innovation. This paper proposes a refined evaluation model of the financial performance of port enterprise companies based on the radial basis function (RBF) neural network. The normalized financial performance index data of port enterprise companies are multiplied by the corresponding weight coefficient as the network input, using excellent, good, middle, and F5 grade evaluations as output. The particle swarm optimization algorithm was used to cross-validate the RBF network structure parameters. Through analyzing the RBF network structure and enter and export characteristics, it was found that the trained RBF network weights are highly correlated with the five-level evaluation results and can more accurately distinguish scientific research performance differences than the five-level evaluation results. This weight can be directly used to conduct a detailed evaluation of the financial performance of the port enterprises. This paper promotes the application of RBF networks in the evaluation of financial performance of port enterprise companies and provides new ideas for similar evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yuan, B.; Xia, H.; Du, E., and Yang, D., 2020. Research on the framework of intellectual capital information disclosure of listed companies in coastal areas. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 242–246. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Considering that the role of intellectual capital information disclosure in listed companies in coastal areas is increasingly prominent, how to evaluate the quality of intellectual capital information disclosure has become a key issue. At present, most of the current data sources on intellectual capital information disclosure research are derived from annual reports and independent intellectual capital reports. However, with the development of self media, the data sources of information disclosure should not be limited to traditional information media, but should fully consider the information sources of microblogs, company websites, and other channels. This article takes the listed companies in the coastal areas as an example and applies the Delphi method to the construction of the intellectual capital information disclosure framework. Specifically, the author uses the Delphi method to find the expert questionnaire survey, selects the suitable factor index, constructs the multisource intellectual capital information disclosure framework, which integrates the information sources of the annual report, microblog, and official website. Then, the framework was verified in detail by the Krippendorff method. The framework can more scientifically reflect the quality of intellectual capital information disclosure of the listed companies in coastal areas. The research results provide new ideas for intellectual capital information disclosure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ma, D.-Y., 2020. Legal guarantee system for the development and utilization of the coastal marine environment. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 229–232. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The development and utilization of the coastal marine environment have caused serious pollution to the marine environment while bringing great wealth to human kind. This study takes the perspective of the legal prevention and control of coastal marine environmental pollution and studies the legal guarantee system for the development and utilization of the coastal marine environment. For this, the article analyses the important role of the development and utilization of the coastal marine environment in the national economy and the increasingly severe pollution of the coastal marine environment. The study found that insufficiencies in legal basis, enforcement coordination, and judicial relief are the main problems in the legal guarantee system of China's coastal marine environmental pollution; the discontinuous legislative system, imperfect enforcement system, and professional trials in a new and inexperienced court system are the main causes of these problems. Finally, the study suggests three countermeasures: improving the legislative system, innovating cooperative mechanisms, and strengthening judicial protection. The research findings enrich the research on the legal theoretical system for the development and utilization of the coastal marine environment and have certain theoretical value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cheng, B., 2020. Promotive effect of port trade on the international economy considering the effect of industrial clusters. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 221–224. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. China's foreign trade mainly relies on marine transportation, and the port trade develops rapidly and synchronously with the economy. With the continuous increase of the number of port-based enterprises, the effect of industrial clusters of port enterprises is becoming increasingly obvious, and its promotive effect on the international trade is getting stronger. With Shanghai Port as an example and taking the effect of industrial clusters into consideration, this paper explores the promotive effect of port trade on the international economy and conducts related analysis. The research results show that with the progress of foreign trade, industries that are closely related to port industrial clusters are also developing continuously. The economic effects of port industrial clusters are divided into two aspects: the micro-aspect and the macro-aspect. As an example, the industrial cluster effect of the Yangtze River Delta Region and the industrial clusters of port-based enterprises would enhance the promotive effect of Shanghai Port on the international economy. The study in this paper aims to provide a theoretical basis for promoting the effect of port industrial clusters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tang, Y. and Zhang, Y., 2020. Application of an ant colony algorithm in the optimization model for strategic adjustment of the marine industry based on complex marine conditions. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 81–84. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. With the implementation of a national marine strategy, marine industry has become a new economic growth point. The strategic adjustment and optimization of marine industry under complex marine conditions require the rational and dynamic scheduling of human resources, capital, and other resources. Based on this, this paper introduces an improved ant colony algorithm to process resources as heuristic information in the algorithm, so as to achieve scientific strategic adjustment and optimization of marine industry. This paper first introduces the theoretical basis of strategic adjustment of marine industry, then analyzes the qualitative selection model for strategic adjustment optimization of marine industry, and finally presents the application of the ant colony algorithm in the optimization model for strategic adjustment of marine industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, R.; Shen, W.-Q., and Zhang, M., 2019. Analysis and application of port enterprise management mode based on profit mode analysis. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 722–726. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Nowadays, the maritime transport has entered a stable development stage, and port enterprises are trying to win the market and profit with lower prices, however, the results are not satisfactory. For port enterprises, the acquisition of profits should depend on reasonable cost management. With a domestic port enterprise as an example, this paper analyzes its current operation status, finds out problems existing in the cost management, and proposes corresponding improvement solutions. The research shows that the operating income and net profit of the target port enterprise have declined to a certain extent, and its overall profitability is not good. There are big problems in the cost management of the enterprise, such as the operating cost is unstable, the sales cost and financial cost increase slightly, and the retirees-related expenditure is relatively large; and these cost problems of the enterprise could be improved via optimizing human resources and organizational allocation, and enhancing investment management, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, R., Wang, Y. and Qian, Z., 2019. Hybrid SWOT-AHP analysis of strategic decisions of coastal tourism in China: A case study of Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 671–676. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Coastal tourism is an important growth point of marine economic. Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone (SPBEZ) is the first approved strategic marine economic development zone in China. Its coastal tourism development not only has an important demonstration role, but also has important significance for the marine ecological civilization. This study combined SWOT analysis with the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and with experts' professional knowledge, quantitatively calculated the intensities of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of coastal tourism in SPBEZ. From the perspective of SWOT-AHP model, drew strategic quadrilateral, calculated strategic vector, and scientifically established the strategic type and the strength of strategy implementation. The results show that the pioneering strategy of seizing opportunities should be actively implemented, and the implementation focus of OS strategy, OW strategy, ST strategy and WT strategy are further clarified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, R.; Zhang, X.; Liang, B.; Xin, L., and Zhao, Y., 2017. Numerical study on the influences of hydrodynamic factors on water age in the Liao River Estuary, China. In: Zhi, Y. and Guido Aldana, P.A. (eds.), Sustainability of Water Resources and the Development of Coastal Environments: Select Proceedings from the 2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE2016). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 80, pp. 98-107. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The concept of water age (WA) is applied to the Liao River Estuary to estimate the timescale quantifying transport processes. A series of numerical experiments under different hydrodynamic conditions based on a real-time calibrated three-dimensional model have been conducted to investigate the influences of runoff, tide and wind on WA distribution. The model result shows that the WA distribution in a real situation can be estimated roughly by the real-time monitoring runoff with a natural logarithmic function. The influences of tide on WA distribution in the river channel and outside the mouth of estuary are reverse. The variation of tidal forcing affects the fluctuation range of WA in a semidiurnal tidal cycle. The wind-induced estuarine circulation as well as the WA distribution is varied significantly under different seasonal winds. In addition, the vertical difference of WA is more pronounced during neap tide in the rainy season, and it is reduced under wind conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lang, R.; Liu, R.; Lian, J., and Ding, H., 2015. Study on load-bearing characteristics of different types of pile group foundations for an offshore wind turbine. Elevated pile-cap foundation is one of the most popular foundation types for offshore wind turbines. Form selection and design are the keys in the construction of offshore wind farms. Because offshore wind turbines are high-rise structures, a reasonable and applicable foundation can ensure the normal operation of wind turbines. Meanwhile, it can decrease the size of foundation and reduce the cost of construction effectively. Four types of pile group foundations named BPG-type, SPG-type, VPG-type, and CPG-type are developed. Combined with laboratory model experiments, a numerical simulation method is established and verified in this paper. The vertical bearing capacity, horizontal bearing capacity and bending bearing capacity are studied comparatively with the numerical simulation method. Combined with practical engineering, the applicability of the foundations is evaluated. The results indicate that BPG-type and SPG-type have the stronger vertical bearing capacity, horizontal bearing capacity and bending bearing capacity than VPG-type and CPG-type in the same amount of steel. In addition, batter piles can effectively increase the bearing capacity of pile foundations. The VPG-type needs to increase the size of foundation to meet the requirements of wind turbine operation. In practical engineering, the combination of vertical piles and batter piles can increase the bearing capacity of pile group foundations and decrease the cost of construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, R.; Guo, S., and Yan, S., 2015. Study on the lateral soil resistance acting on the buried pipeline. Pipe-soil interaction is a crucial problem in the global buckling design of submarine pipeline under thermal stresses. Soil resistance acting on the pipelines determines the deformation shape and amplitude as the global buckling occurs. The fine sand and soft clay are distributed widely in the upper soil layer of Bohai Gulf. Therefore, these two kinds of soil were chosen as medium in the pipe-soil interaction laboratory tests. Three different diameter pipe segments were adopted to simulate the pipeline. The pipe segments lateral displacement and the corresponding suffered soil resistance were measured during the tests. The tests were carried out separately for the pipe segments with different diameters and different depth to diameter ratios. The test data showed that the lateral soil resistance acting on the pipe depends on the soil properties and pipe diameter and depth-to-diameter ratio. A numerical method was established to simulate the test data. Based on the results fitting well to the test data, the developed method was applied to analyzing the soil resistance acting on actual size pipelines. The relationship between the peak resistance and the corresponding displacement was obtained with considering the pipe diameter and depth to diameter ratio. Comparing the test data with the calculation results, several experimental formulae were proposed, which can determine the maximum lateral resistance and the corresponding displacement of pipeline both in sand and in soft clay. The proposed formulae are good to study lateral global buckling of submarine pipelines under thermal stresses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Xiao, Z., 2020. Relationship between financial innovation and marine economic growth: A VAR-based model. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 61–64. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper focuses on the relationship between marine-related loans and marine economic development. Using a VAR model, this paper proves the role of marine loans in promoting marine economic growth. Then, the approaches and schemes of banking institutions entering the marine economic and financial market are analyzed. There is a pull and significant causal relationship between marine loans and the marine economy, but this pull effect is relatively lagging. Finally, some suggestions are put forward to promote the cooperation between financial institutions and marine enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yu, D., and Tang W., 2019. Marine Healthcare System: An Analysis of Economy and Efficiency. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 658–662. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 926–929. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper develops a DEA-Tobit regression model to explore the efficiency of healthcare system of coastline provinces (or provincial cities) in China using 11 provincial data. According to the external explanatory variables obtained through the constrained dependent Tobit model analysis, this paper recommends the future reform of China's healthcare system strengthen the rational distribution of resources to improve the scale and structure of the healthcare system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, J., 2019. Customer satisfaction and firms' innovation efforts in marketing: taking shipping logistics companies as an example. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 940–944. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. How to make customers arrive at the maximum satisfaction is an important issue in marketing. Attempting to discuss the issue dynamically, this paper highlights an evolutionary perspective and provides mathematical co-evolutionary models on the interplay of firms and customers. The interplay of firms and customers can be taken as the co-evolution between customer satisfaction and innovation efforts of firms. Co-evolution dynamic models between customer satisfaction and firm's innovation efforts are constructed in this paper, which can be classified into four types based on the characters of customers and firms. By using differential geometry theoretical approach, it has been proved that the customers can achieve the maximum satisfaction only when the customers are the type of pursuing fashion and the response coefficient of customers to firms' innovation efforts is greater than the consuming fatigue coefficient. This paper takes China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd. as an example to demonstrate the co-evolution of enterprise innovation and consumer satisfaction. The conclusion provides theoretical foundation for market selection, forecasting analysis and countermeasures of firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Suo, L. and Yang, K., 2019. Connected transactions, targeted additional shares issuance and operational management efficiency—evidence from listed firms in coastal region of China.In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R.(eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 935–939. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Using the sample data of 1isted firms in coastal region of China in 2010-2017, correlation analysis, paired test and the multiple regression analysis method, this paper studies the impact of connected transactions on asset injection of targeted additional shares issuance, and changes of connected transactions on changes of business management efficiency. The results show that: (1)Companies with more connected transactions are inclined to carry out asset injection by targeted additional shares issuance of new shares. (2)Connected transactions significantly decrease after the private placement.(3)Reduce of connected transactions can improve management efficiency after the targeted additional shares issuance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, D. and Zhang, Y., 2019. Maritime communication regulation: A model for evaluating the performance. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 997–1001. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. China's maritime communication regulatory departments have issued some corresponding regulatory policies to ensure the sound development of China's maritime communication, but the evaluation of the regulatory performance of these policies has not been taken seriously, and some existing studies still lack a set of performance evaluation models verified by empirical studies. Based on this, this paper first uses principal component analysis method to establish an exploratory model of China's maritime communication regulation performance evaluation based on the maritime communication data of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China. On this basis, it uses BP neural network algorithm to verify the model and finally establishes a model of China's maritime communication regulation performance evaluation, thus providing a useful reference for China's maritime communication regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu X.-F.; Li W.-R., 2019. Investor's selective deviation on high equity premium: An empirical study of the listed companies in Bohai coast region. In: Gong, D.; Zhu H., and Liu R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 992–996. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper chooses the four dimensions including investment preference, consumption habit, time patience and investment and consumption portfolio decision, and divides into monthly data combination of annual data group two cases, to analyze the influence of selective deviation on high equity premium in stock market. The results show that there is a certain high equity premium in Bohai Bay Rim Region's stock market, and the deviation of the choice of consumption habits, time frequency and investment preference will lead investors to invest in the stock market rational bias, to overestimate the degree of risk aversion, thus boosting the stock market caused high equity premium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Xu, Z.-L.; Zhai, S., and Qian, C.-F., 2019.The impact of green financial agglomeration on the ecological efficiency of marine economy. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 988–991. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Compared human capital with marine economic and technological efficiency, the contribution of physical capital to the marine economy is greater. During the sample period, the marine economic and technical efficiency of China's coastal areas showed an overall upward trend. After entering the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the growth rate of marine economic and technological efficiency accelerated significantly. From the perspective of the region, the efficiency values of Shanghai and Guangdong are always in the higher efficiency range. Tianjin, Shandong and Jiangsu rise from the medium efficiency range to the higher efficiency range, and Hebei rises from the lower efficiency range to the medium efficiency range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deng, W., 2019. Evaluation of Transformation Efficiency of Resource-based Coastal Cities Based on AHP and DEA Analysis. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 878–882. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper compares several commonly used evaluation methods for the transformation efficiency of resource-based coastal cities, uses AHP and DEA analysis to analyze the main factors affecting the transformation efficiency, selects the statistical data of two coastal cities from 2013 to 2016, quantifies and weights each index, establishes a multidimensional, multi-level evaluation system combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation, analyzes the impact of different indexes on the transformation efficiency, and analyzes the internal motivation of transformation success according to the change trend of the transformation efficiency of the two cities. And the transformation efficiency of resource-based cities is evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hu, G.; Li, B., and Xiu, Y., 2019. Impact of cyber attacks on trade between coastal countries: an empirical study., In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 976–982. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This article uses the cyber attack data collected from an Internet Security Corporation and the bilateral trade data, with an extended gravitational model, explores the impact of cyber attacks on bilateral trade between coastal countries for the first time. The empirical results show that: cyber attacks have an impediment to trade on the importing countries. Further research in the sub-category shows that cyberattacks have no significant effect on capital goods, but they have a significant impediment to consumer goods and intermediate products; and cyber attacks on exporting countries have a significant negative impact on heterogeneous products, and cyber attacks on importing countries have a significant negative effect on the import of homogenous products. This article is the first one to study the impact of cyber attacks on trade, it enriches the research content of the Internet's impact on trade, and also provides useful inspiration for the implementation of the "Internet + trade" strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wang, L.; Qiu, X.; Liu, Z., and Chen, S., 2019. Ecological efficiency of China's marine economy: A convergence analysis. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 983–987. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper uses the Minimal Distance to Strong Efficient Frontier (mSBM) method to measure the marine ecological efficiency (eco-efficiency) of 11 coastal provinces in China. Based on this, it further analyses the impact of Chinese marine Malmquist index, efficiency change (EC) and technological change (TC) on the differences of economic growth in the marine regions and also the trend of evolution over time. The results show that China's marine eco-efficiency is positively correlated with the proportion of the secondary industry, and the Yangtze River Delta has the highest marine eco-efficiency; the difference in TC is the main reason for the ME growth difference in marine economy (ME) between the three major economic zones: the circum-Bohai sea, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pan-Pearl River Delta. The convergence test results show that the Malmquist index of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic zone has a σ convergence trend, and the Malmquist index of all zones has an absolute β convergence trend, indicating that the regional gap of China's ME is gradually narrowing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, Y.-N.; Yang, Y., and Zhao, X., 2019. Evaluating financial support efficiency for innovation: A comparative study of the coastal and non-coastal regions of China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 971–975. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Based on DEA model, this paper analyzes the data of the financial input and scientific and technological output of 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities divided by coastal and non-coastal regions from 2006 to 2013 in China, measuring technical efficiency, scale efficiency and pure technical efficiency of financial support for scientific and technological innovation. The conclusion shows that the efficiency which finance supports the scientific and technological innovation presents the increasing trend but inefficiency; this increasing trend mainly depends on the eastern coastal regions, and the inefficiency of the middle non-coastal region is obvious. From the dynamic changes in the efficiency of financial support for science and technology innovation, the number of optimal efficiency has shown the trend of increasing first and then decreasing, and the integration of financial resources and technological innovation may be redundant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jiang, J.; Chen, H., and Wang, L., 2019. Factors of cross-border capital flow: the empirical study of coastal regions. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 966–970. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper selects eight coastal areas as the research objects, constructs a multiple regression model to study the scale of cross-border capital flow in coastal regions and its influencing factors. The speculative capital in coastal areas is more sensitive to the changes of economic and political situations, and the capital inflow or outflow in coastal regions often plays a leading role of other regions. The government should pay more attention to the impact of interest rate spread between China and the United States, exchange rate expectation, the change of real estate price and securities market value on the cross-border capital flows in these eight coastal areas, timely identify risks and intervene, which is of positive significance to prevent systemic financial risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhao, P.-Y.; Sui, Y.-T.; Liu, X.-M.,2019. Measurement of consumer's brand cognitive confusion in China's maritime and land silk road area. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 962–965. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Research on brand cognition has mainly focused on examining its influence on the behavioral outcomes. Many areas in brand information reception and processing, however, have been neglected, such as research on how consumers react to the complex information environment. As such, firstly, this research gives the connotation of brand cognitive confusion based on interdisciplinary literature review. Secondly, the research develops and validates a scale to measure brand cognitive confusion and bases its measurement on Chinese mobile phone market. Considering the inter-regional development imbalance in China and China's current regional development strategy, the research uses samples from both eastern coastal provinces and western in-land province in China's maritime and land silk road area. Finally, the research builds the conceptual model that consists of four dimensions: product quality confusion, product function confusion, brand personality confusion and enterprise capacity confusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, X.-L.; Pei, Y.-L.; Ren J.-Y.; Xue, W.-X., and Li, D.-D., 2019. User experience evaluation: An analysis with the data of East China coastal regions. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 873–877. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The "last mile" service experience of catering O2O determines user satisfaction and user loyalty of catering O2O platforms. Evaluating user experience of catering O2O distribution link will help catering O2O platforms find problems in the distribution link and provide theoretical support for the improvement of user experience and user satisfaction. From the perspective of distribution link, based on the user experience theory, this paper uses the literature research method, Delphi method, and questionnaire survey method to establish user experience evaluation index system of catering O2O distribution link, including browsing experience, tangible experience, empathic experience, responsiveness experience, reliability experience, and assurance experience 6 factors, and also establishes the BP neural network model. On the basis, the paper selects the data of well-known platform users in East China coastal regions, and trains and simulates the model. The results show that the model can achieve the evaluation of user experience in O2O distribution link. Finally, suggestions for improving user experience in catering O2O distribution link in East China coastal regions are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pan, H.-R.; Zhao, J.; Failler P. and Wang, Y., 2019. Sustainable fisheries policy for the Gulf of Thailand: A general equilibrium analysis. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 955–961. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Study of fisheries policy has conventionally been limited to partial equilibrium analysis where capture fisheries are considered in an isolated world without connection with the rest of the economy and without endogenous change in prices. This causes a two-way problem in policy analysis in that firstly consequences of fisheries policy cannot spread out of the sector and thus incorporate feedback from the rest of the economy, and secondly any economic policy also cannot affect the fisheries sector. As a result, any policy analysis regarding the fisheries sector cannot be accurate or even correct. This research builds a computable general equilibrium model for Thai fisheries to study full consequences of fisheries or economic policies in Thailand. The model specifies the economic activities of not only capture fisheries but also aquaculture, fish processing and fish marketing sectors as well as the rest of the economy, and captures their interactions. The empirical applications of the model with market-based policy instruments such as fishing taxes and subsidies reveal that fisheries or economic policies aiming to protect the resources or restructure the sector, if properly designed and combined, can achieve their goal as well as avoid potential losses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sun, B.; Yang, X., and Cui, Y., 2019. Quality and safety factors in aquatic products circulation: a case study of Dalian city. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 950–954. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Aquatic products objectively have higher requirements on circulation for its fresh characteristics and the quality and safety problems are complex. Affected by food quality and safety incidents in recent years, residents have a skeptical attitude towards the quality and safety of aquatic products. Therefore, the study on the aquatic product quality and safety is becoming more and more important. Dalian is a coastal city, and the quatic products are the main foods. Based on the five aspects of the circulation of aquatic products in Dalian, such as the source of circulation, processing, transportation, wholesale and retail, this paper analyzes the causes of the problems and analyzes the factors affecting the quality and safety of aquatic products in Dalian city by analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The weight of each influencing factor is determined, and the main factors in each criterion layer are analyzed. These factors include water environment pollution, cold chain logistics technology factors, government supervision strength factors and circulation subject quality and safety awareness factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gao, S.; Yin, F.; Chen, J., and Guo, Y., 2019. The Mechanism of Inter-Organizational Collaboration Network on Innovation Performance: Evidences from East Coastal Enterprises in China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 945–949. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Inter-organizational collaboration network is an important carrier of organizational learning. This paper explores the impact of inter-organizational collaboration network on innovation performance of east coastal enterprises in China from the perspective of organizational learning, and constructs a corresponding theoretical model. The results show that exploitative learning and exploratory learning play an important mediating role in enterprise innovation performance in terms of network centrality and tie strength. Inter-organizational collaborative network has a significant positive impact on organizational learning and enterprise innovation performance. East coastal enterprises should attach importance to the inter-organizational collaborative network, strengthen exploitative learning and exploratory learning, and further enhance the innovation performance of enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tian, F. and Liu, L. 2019. The impact of intellectual capital spillover on total factor productivity: An empirical study in coastal regions of China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 576–583. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 920–925. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This article incorporates foreign intellectual capital in trade channels and in foreign direct investment channels into the unified analysis framework, using 1990–2015 transnational panel data to calculate the effects of domestic, especially in coastal regions and foreign intellectual capital spillover on total factor productivity of host countries. It is found that domestic intellectual capital investment is the main source of technological progress in host countries, and from the whole sample, foreign direct investment is the main channel for cross-border overflow of intellectual capital, while import trade has no significant impact on total factor productivity. According to the grouping, only developing countries will experience intellectual capital overflow through import trade with developed countries, while foreign direct investment between various types of countries will promote growth of total factor productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ji, H., and Zhang, R., 2019. The impacts of social capital on private enterprise investment: an empirical study in east china coastal cities. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 930–934. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Using the data of private listed companies in east China coastal cities from 2009 to 2014, this paper empirically tested the impact of social capital on investment of private enterprises in east coastal areas within the context of economic transformation. The results show that political connections, financial relations, and commercial association relations have significant impacts on private enterprise investment in east China coastal cities. However, with the increasingly fair competition market environment and the anti-corruption activities, it finds that the influence of hierarchical social capital (such as political relations) on private enterprise investment in east China coastal cities is gradually decreasing, while market based social capital (such as business association relations) still maintains a significant positive impact on private enterprise investment in east China coastal cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ma, J., Zhang, R., Huang, D., Chen, J., and Song, J., 2019. Hierarchical medical cooperative price decision of county-township hospitals in coastal areas of China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 908–912. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This study aims to compare the price-decision between two different types of hospital systems in coastal cities of China. Generally, the difference of medical choice of patients is caused by different factors. Because of economic and social differences, residents in coastal areas usually afford to go to hospitals which fulfill their demands compared with inland areas; therefore, different types of hospitals will make each price decision to maximize the profits. However, in the context of the medical services- and- interests community (MSIC) mode, in order to examine how the two types' hospitals how to make price decisions so as to maximize the total revenue of both sides, Stackelberg game model is employed. Results show that the centralized decision-making mechanism is more profits than the decentralized method. Furthermore, a case study is carried out with the hospital system of a coastal city in China to highlight the topic, which will promote to the reform of China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhou, Y.-Y., and Chen, J.-B., 2019. Factors Affecting Collaborative Innovation Performance of Online Knowledge Communities: Empirical Evidence from Shipping Industry. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 50-54. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 913–919. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Studying the influencing factors of collaborative innovation performance in online knowledge communities has important significance for the better development of knowledge platform enterprises and their participants. According to the MOA theory, this paper divides the participants into knowledge contributors and knowledge seekers, and studies the influence of their motivations on the performance of knowledge innovation based on online communities, and considers the moderating effects of knowledge absorptive capacity and opportunity factors on the relationship between motivation and performance. The results show that in the collaborative innovation activities of online knowledge communities, in addition to the sharing willingness of knowledge contributors, the motivational factors all have a significantly positive impact on performance; except the moderating effect of collaborative innovation atmosphere on the participation motivation and performance of knowledge contributors is not significant, the moderating effect of other moderating variables on the motivation and performance of both parties is significant at different levels. Based on this, the paper proposes several recommendations for management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qin, Z.; Jin, J.-Y.; Zhao, R.; Chuan, M., and He, L.-S., 2019. Empirical study on the relationship between total factor financial input and coastline length in China's coastal regions. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 897–902. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. In terms of economic development, financial development is a priority. In particular, Finance is the driving force of blue marine economic development. In this paper, the continental coastline length and financial total factor input index of 10 coastal provinces/municipalities in China were selected. Factor correlation analysis and regression model establishment were performed in order to demonstrate the relationship between coastline length and financial total factor input. Through an empirical study of the national coastal areas, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle, the Bohai Rim Economic Circle and the Pearl River Delta Economic Circle, it was found that the length of the coastline is positively correlated to financial factor inputs. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and utilize coastline resources rationally in order to attract financial support from financial institutions, security markets and insurance markets to coastal areas. This will aid in the promotion of the economic contribution of regional marine industries, and the enhancement of the economic development capacity of coastal cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tao, C.; Liu, S.; Tian, Y.; Gu X. and Cheng, B., 2019. Effects of China's OFDI on Exports: A Context Analysis with the "21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" Regions. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H. and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 903–907. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. With the implementation of the Belt and Road initiative, China will invest more in countries in the "21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" Regions. Using the data of the 63 countries along "the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" from 2004 to 2015, this paper empirically analyzes the effect of Chinese outward direct investment on export in "the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road" area. The results reveal that the relationship between Chinese OFDI and export towards the host country is changeable and demonstrates an inverted U shape. As a result, OFDI can make full use of the advantages of each country, realize optimal allocation of resources in the countries along "the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road", and enable the transfer of China's spare capacity. And it should be adopted as China's long-term initiative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zhao, X.-N., Qiu, Y. and Zhang X., 2019. Sustainable local foreign direct investment performance in China: Based on the imbalance of coastal regional economy. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 859–862. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. For advantage of the environment, coastal region in China is more attractive to foreign direct investment, such as Yangtze River delta and Pearl River delta. To analyze the differences in foreign direct investment importation performance among different provinces in China from a sustainability perspective, this paper constructed a foreign direct investment importation performance model based on the intertemporal effect of dynamic factors. Furthermore, applying the dynamic Malmquist model and panel data, this paper evaluated the total factor productivity of the foreign direct investment importation model by considering four factors as energy, openness, human capital, and physical capital. To obtain a comprehensive perspective, this paper also identified the bottlenecks of sustainability for FDI importation performance, based on an analysis of factor contributions. The results reveal that dynamic technical changes are critical in promoting foreign direct investment importation performance. Though, the advantange of coastal region is obvious. They are also enslaved to lower dynamic technical changes. Thus, the development of soft power is the greatest bottleneck for most Chinese provinces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jia, D., 2019. Coupling and coordination of marine high-end human resources and marine innovative economic development ability.In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R.(eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 573–576. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Combined with the information space theory, a kind of method for the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system in the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy is put forward in this paper. The information space theory can be used to describe the relationship between the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system and the information space theory. Information space theory is used to represent the interdependence relationship between the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management systems in the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy. The relationship between the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system and the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy can be determined through the information space theory, which has minimized the engineering quantity of the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system in the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy. The optimal Coupling coordination method for the Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system in the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy is determined by the information space theory. The Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system in the Coupling coordination of the Marine Innovative Economy is compared with the other Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management systems, and the Coupling coordination method for the optimal Marine high-end marine high-end human resources management system can be obtained accordingly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yang, B.; Xie, L., 2019. Dynamics model and simulation of core competence of maritime logistics enterprises for service innovation. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 891–896. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The changes in the maritime service market have brought unprecedented challenges to maritime service enterprises. This paper uses the method of system dynamics to study the causal relationship of the core competence of maritime logistics enterprises from the perspective of service innovation by analyzing its influencing factors and evolution process, thus constructs the system dynamics model of the evolution of core competence of maritime logistics enterprises, and then uses Vensim PLE to simulate the model. Through the verification and analysis of the validity and sensitivity of the simulation model, it shows that the model can fit the evolution process of the core competence of the maritime logistics enterprise, reveal the process and mechanism of it, and provide management strategy for the competence's upgrading. So it can improve the overall efficiency of maritime logistics enterprises, guide them to take competitive advantages in the fast and changing market. The construction and operation of computer simulation model provides an effective research method and way for the evolution of core competence of maritime logistics enterprises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cheng H.; Wang B., 2019. Multiplier Effect of Science and Technology Innovation in Regional Economic Development: Based on Panel Data of Coastal Cities. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 883–890. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Science and technology innovation is the core power of economic development, but the influence mechanism effect of science and technology innovation and economic development is still a theoretical blind spot to be elucidated. The input of science and technology innovation factors leads to the multiplier effect of economic development through three levels of diffusion to realize high external economic benefits under low capital input. Through theoretical analysis and empirical research, this paper proves that: In terms of research samples of six coastal provinces and cities from 2000 to 2017, science and technology innovation factors have a strong multiplier effect on regional economic development; the input of new type of practical patent significantly improves the regional economic level in the current period and the lag phase effect is further improved; the input of R and D investment significantly improves the regional economic level in the current period, and the promotion effect is slightly decreased in the lag phase. At present, China's economic development is gradually moving towards marketzation. We should synchronously use "visible hands" to give policy incentives to regions with high capital stock for science and technology innovation and develop the multiplier effect of science and technology innovation in economic development through various paths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wu, Q. and Wang, W.-C., 2019. Environmental measurement and cluster analysis of manufacturing transformation and upgrading: An empirical study in Eastern Coastal cities in China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 867–872. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper chooses the most representative second-tier coastal cities in the critical period of China's economic transformation as the research object. This paper innovatively constructs the evaluation system of manufacturing transformation and upgrading environmental measurement from the specific content contained in "Made in China 2025" which leads the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry. Using the combination of factor analysis and cluster analysis, combined with the entropy weight method of objective weighting, the measurement and difference of coastal environment in manufacturing transformation and upgrading are studied. The results show that the development environment of the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industries in different cities is quite different. The most prominent feature of the empirical analysis is that Hangzhou is a typical city, showing that the supporting factors of innovation capability play an important role in the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qiu, Y. and Zhao, X.-N., 2019. Conceptual model for the taxonomy of food cold chain logistics sprawl patterns within emerging coastal metropolitan areas. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 863–866. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This research focuses on food cold chain logistics (FCCL) and takes the great Beijing city region (GBCR) and its located Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region (BTHM), which is one of the most important emerging coastal metropolitan areas in China, as a case study to propose and verify a conceptual model for the taxonomy of logistics sprawl patterns and the specific features. Standard deviational ellipse analysis and kernel analysis are undertaken as the main research approaches with survey data. The taxonomy for logistics sprawl patterns as well as the related features are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luo X.-Y., 2019. Coastal tourism commodity industry cluster based on diamond model and ecological niche. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 828–832. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Under the background of "all-for-one" tourism, it is worth studying whether the tourism commodity industry can and how to take the path of coastal cluster. China's marine tourism alone ushered in unprecedented diversified development. Based on the evaluation and analysis of the diamond model for the development of traditional industrial clusters, this paper constructs an evaluation model of coastal tourism commodity industrial clusters that taking "consumption demand and market development" as an essential element, and makes an example analysis. Meanwhile, according to the niche theory, the principle of niche breadth and niche overlap, the niche model of strategic layout of coastal tourism commodity industry cluster is established based on the resource and environment utilization status, intracoastal competition and cooperation status and R and D innovation status. The author analyzes the industrial defects under the realistic model, and puts forward the coastal industrial development strategies of dislocation layout, niche expansion, virtual niche and niche policy optimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jian, M.; Sun, F.-S., and Hayrutdinov, S., 2019. Analysis of government differential weight subsidy in an emerging coastal industry supply chain. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 851–858. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper constructs the government cash subsidy strategical model based on the expected profits of the supply chain members. The results show that the existence of the optimal subsidy coefficient makes the supply chain member's expected profits reach the maximum value, but the members in the supply chain have the motivation to reduce the internal funds in order to erode the government subsidy dividend. Thus, to explore this problem, the paper applies the government tax reduction subsidy strategical approach with the cash subsidy strategy. Furthermore, the study proves that the government tax reduction subsidy tends to subsidize the supply chain members with higher production cost and improved subsidy strategy has no influence on the optimal decision time of downstream member. On this basis, the government can effectively prevent downstream members from hiding funds and eroding the divided subsidy through the application of comprehensive subsidy policies to protect the accumulation of emerging coastal industries development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liu, L.; Song, H.; and Xing, J., 2019. Benchmarking of marine equipment manufacturing industry in Liaoning province. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 838–841. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This article constructs an evaluation index system for the competitiveness of marine equipment manufacturing industry from six aspects: industrial scale, economic benefits, international competitiveness, asset management capabilities, innovation capabilities, and social benefits. And it is measured by 14 relatively objective, complete, and quantifiable indicators. Taking the marine equipment manufacturing industry in 12 provinces and cities such as Liaoning, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong, Shanghai and Zhejiang as the research object, quantify this approach of the competitiveness level of seven sub-sectors in the selected 12 provinces and cities in the marine equipment manufacturing industry based on competitive evaluation theory, then comprehensively evaluated and simply sorted, and based on the research to calculate results. Finally, identify the provinces and cities which has characteristics of individual advantage of competitiveness level. As a benchmark province, which will compare the competitive status with that of Liaoning's marine equipment manufacturing industry in order to find out the gaps and identify the reasons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yu, S. and Yuizono, T., 2019. Improving innovation capability of marine industries: A perspective of consumption structure change. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 846–850. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The development of the marine industry plays a decisive role in future economic development. At present, the marine industry still has problems, such as the over-dominance of the primary industry and the slow development of the secondary industry in China. The purpose of this research uses the extended linear expenditure system to analyze the consumption structure and the relationship with marine industries, then find a path for improving innovation capability to promote the development of marine industries. This paper takes Liaoning Province in China as research object. The results show that this consumption structure has entered a stage of development consumption. In this context, the industrial structure coefficient and the industrial influence coefficient are used to explore the impact of the consumption structure changes on the marine industry and conduct industrial structure testing. The study found that the consumption structure has a greater impact on the marine industrial structure, especially in the secondary industry. Based on this analysis, this research builds a double helix innovative development path driven by technology and market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ma, J. and Guo, M., 2019. Technology innovation driven upgrade strategy evaluation model: A case of marine equipment industry. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 842–845. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Aiming at the evaluation problem of technological innovation evaluation in equipment manufacturing companies, this paper proposes a comprehensive evaluation method based on entropy method and improved aggressive cross-efficiency model (EIA). First of all, this paper builds an evaluation index system for technological innovation of equipment manufacturing companies based on the existing research results of technological innovation evaluation and the Delphi method and obtains relevant indexes data by field investigation. Secondly, the basic DEA method is used to analyze the two aspects of the basic efficiency and effectiveness. Next, this paper prove the superiority of the EIA mode by comparing the basic DEA model and the EIA model. Finally, the efficiency of technological innovation of 200 equipment manufacturing companies in Liaoning Province is calculated and ranked by using [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Li, C., and Zhao, J-N., 2019. A container slots allocation model Based on Demand Diversion Probability. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 833–837. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. In recent years, container ships continue to get larger and larger. Yet in the container shipping market, the increase of goods is limited, therefore, the use of container slots is very low. Attention has been paid to the flexible control of the callable mechanism because of inevitable prediction bias and the negative impact of overselling. Study on the callable mechanism in the maritime industry is still blank, and also none of them have considered the callable mechanism based on customers' demand diversion behavior. In this paper, firstly one kind of allocation model for maritime container slots has been proposed base on the callable mechanism, and then the discrete MNL selection model is used to describe the customers' behavior. According to the value function and decision weight of Kahneman and Tversky, the metric is used. The reference point is set as pay willingness, calculation formulas of demand diversion probability based on pay willingness and fare relationship in four different situations are derived, and modified allocation model based on the demand transition probability is concluded. The result of the example analysis shows that the modified model can increase the company's revenue by 7.03%, which verifies the validity of the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chen, W. and Cui, Y., 2019. Motivation and acquisition premium: Evidence from Chinese shipping industry. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R.(eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 447–454. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This paper studies influencing factors of acquisition premium for shipping industry in China with aspects of inner drive, inducement and success probability. It is based on acquisition theories and achievement theories, departing from earlier studies. Under the guidance of M&A Motivation, 379 acquisitions from 2010 to 2016 are empirically verified. The results indicate that the majority of higher premium in shipping industry in China are paid for promoting better enterprises development, and it is not highly correlated with agency motivation. The relationship between M&A motivation and acquisition premium revealed by the paper could contribute to a reasonable price bargain for the acquirer; meanwhile, the innovative consideration of inducement extends the set of influencing factors for acquisition premium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]