Ding Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ding Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ding |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9467-860X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“This Emerging Technology is Revolutionary!”
Purpose While scholars are concerned about media hype of emerging science and technologies, hype remains an under-theorized construct. This study investigates the presence of multiple features of media hype using quantum science and technology as a case study. Design/methodology/approach We conducted a content analysis of 192 online stories about quantum science from top US national media outlets in 2022 and 2023. Findings Findings revealed that …
Status and influencing factors of weight loss behavior among college students
Background College students are the main force of the country’s future. The physical health of college students is directly related to the country’s future development and progress. Overweight and obesity not only affect the appearance of college students, but also increase the risk of illness, and affect their study, life and career development. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the current status of weight loss behavior and its influencing…
Atravesados
Unpacking tourism blind boxes
Tourism blind boxes represent tourism products – typically hotel, airline, and package tours – that are purchased without knowing their exact nature or details. Despite its continuous expansion in size and scope worldwide, little is understood about the overall experiences of consuming tourism blind boxes. This study adopted a qualitative design, combining online comments and in-depth interviews, to obtain a comprehensive understanding. The analy…
Grounding through objects
Relational affect and authenticity in themed space
Affect was regarded as a crucial foundation for relational authenticity in theme parks and tourism performance. However, authenticity was often treated as an individual emotional response and cognitive judgment triggered by external stimuli. In response to the affective turn’s call to attend to the relational, non-representational, and political-economic dimensions of affect, this study integrates feeling, emotion, and discourse into a relational…
Born in a tour guide’s family
Studying social mobility can help understand societal development and changes, but it is lacking in nowadays tourism research. Focusing on tour guides, the present paper concerns how tourism employment affects intergenerational social mobility. We interviewed 22 tour guide families in Wulingyuan, China, where tourism has been the main economic driver for over 40 years. Drawing on the concept of capital with thematic analysis, we found that tour g…
Developing and validating a scale to measure perceived cultural atmosphere in historic districts
Digitally enriched exhibitions
Travel vlogging practice and its impacts on tourist experiences
Travel vlogging is gaining popularity and studying the practice of travel vlogging can provide insights into tourist behaviour, communication, and management. The notion of practice was adopted as the theoretical base and the analytical framework. A qualitative approach was employed, including interviews with 12 strategically sampled vlogger tourists and analysis of their vlog productions. The findings suggested that travel vlogging is a practice…
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Deconstructing tourist scams
Aberrant Resting-State Cerebellar-Cerebral Functional Connectivity in Methamphetamine-Dependent Individuals After Six Months Abstinence
The present study suggests that cerebellar dysfunction, in particular aberrant cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity, might involve in neurobiological mechanism of MA dependence, which supply a potential target for therapeutic interventions in the future
Long-Term Effects of Mind-Body Exercises on the Physical Fitness and Quality of Life of Individuals With Substance Use Disorder—A Randomized Trial
Background: Mind-body exercises (MBE) are sequences of low to medium-intensity activities that benefit healthy performers physically and mentally. In contrast to the unmodified application of traditional tai chi, qi gong, or yoga in the healthy population, MBEs are typically tailored for individuals with substance abuse disorder (SUD). Despite numerous applications in practice, the detailed effects of tailor-made MBEs for SUD are unclear. Objecti…
Visitors’ spatio-temporal behavior at a zoo in China
Information on tourists’ spatio-temporal behavior is useful for destination marketing and management. GPS data collection, GIS and statistical analyses of survey data from a zoo in Beijing are reported. Results indicate that seven behavior patterns exist that are distinct according to demography and visit attributes. Tourist behavior is influenced by animal features (e.g. the number of animals, endangerment category, feeding habits and aggressive…
Tourists’ spatio-temporal behaviour and concerns in park tourism
To understand the recreational uses of national parks, a field investigation was employed at Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan. Through a mixed-methods approach and visual portrayal of the spatio-temporal behaviours of four types of visitors is undertaken and associated demographic and other features described. Tourists’ concerns regarding wilderness tours are found to be comprised of three dimensions “physical safety,” “travel comfort” and “qua…
A CP analysis of Mandarin Chinese
According to The answer however, seems to be negative at first sight, since Mandarin Chinese lacks Complementizers in those positions where they do occur in European languages. This is illustrated in (1) where the subordinate clause immediately follows the main clause without being preceded by a Complementizer
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Digitally enriched exhibitions
Deconstructing tourist scams
Developing and validating a scale to measure perceived cultural atmosphere in historic districts
Tourists’ spatio-temporal behaviour and concerns in park tourism
To understand the recreational uses of national parks, a field investigation was employed at Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan. Through a mixed-methods approach and visual portrayal of the spatio-temporal behaviours of four types of visitors is undertaken and associated demographic and other features described. Tourists’ concerns regarding wilderness tours are found to be comprised of three dimensions “physical safety,” “travel comfort” and “qua…
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Visitors’ spatio-temporal behavior at a zoo in China
Information on tourists’ spatio-temporal behavior is useful for destination marketing and management. GPS data collection, GIS and statistical analyses of survey data from a zoo in Beijing are reported. Results indicate that seven behavior patterns exist that are distinct according to demography and visit attributes. Tourist behavior is influenced by animal features (e.g. the number of animals, endangerment category, feeding habits and aggressive…
A CP analysis of Mandarin Chinese
According to The answer however, seems to be negative at first sight, since Mandarin Chinese lacks Complementizers in those positions where they do occur in European languages. This is illustrated in (1) where the subordinate clause immediately follows the main clause without being preceded by a Complementizer
Tourists’ spatio-temporal behaviour and concerns in park tourism
To understand the recreational uses of national parks, a field investigation was employed at Giant Panda National Park, Sichuan. Through a mixed-methods approach and visual portrayal of the spatio-temporal behaviours of four types of visitors is undertaken and associated demographic and other features described. Tourists’ concerns regarding wilderness tours are found to be comprised of three dimensions “physical safety,” “travel comfort” and “qua…
Aberrant Resting-State Cerebellar-Cerebral Functional Connectivity in Methamphetamine-Dependent Individuals After Six Months Abstinence
The present study suggests that cerebellar dysfunction, in particular aberrant cerebellar-cerebral functional connectivity, might involve in neurobiological mechanism of MA dependence, which supply a potential target for therapeutic interventions in the future
Long-Term Effects of Mind-Body Exercises on the Physical Fitness and Quality of Life of Individuals With Substance Use Disorder—A Randomized Trial
Background: Mind-body exercises (MBE) are sequences of low to medium-intensity activities that benefit healthy performers physically and mentally. In contrast to the unmodified application of traditional tai chi, qi gong, or yoga in the healthy population, MBEs are typically tailored for individuals with substance abuse disorder (SUD). Despite numerous applications in practice, the detailed effects of tailor-made MBEs for SUD are unclear. Objecti…
Visitors’ spatio-temporal behavior at a zoo in China
Information on tourists’ spatio-temporal behavior is useful for destination marketing and management. GPS data collection, GIS and statistical analyses of survey data from a zoo in Beijing are reported. Results indicate that seven behavior patterns exist that are distinct according to demography and visit attributes. Tourist behavior is influenced by animal features (e.g. the number of animals, endangerment category, feeding habits and aggressive…
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Deconstructing tourist scams
Travel vlogging practice and its impacts on tourist experiences
Travel vlogging is gaining popularity and studying the practice of travel vlogging can provide insights into tourist behaviour, communication, and management. The notion of practice was adopted as the theoretical base and the analytical framework. A qualitative approach was employed, including interviews with 12 strategically sampled vlogger tourists and analysis of their vlog productions. The findings suggested that travel vlogging is a practice…
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Born in a tour guide’s family
Studying social mobility can help understand societal development and changes, but it is lacking in nowadays tourism research. Focusing on tour guides, the present paper concerns how tourism employment affects intergenerational social mobility. We interviewed 22 tour guide families in Wulingyuan, China, where tourism has been the main economic driver for over 40 years. Drawing on the concept of capital with thematic analysis, we found that tour g…
Developing and validating a scale to measure perceived cultural atmosphere in historic districts
Digitally enriched exhibitions
“This Emerging Technology is Revolutionary!”
Purpose While scholars are concerned about media hype of emerging science and technologies, hype remains an under-theorized construct. This study investigates the presence of multiple features of media hype using quantum science and technology as a case study. Design/methodology/approach We conducted a content analysis of 192 online stories about quantum science from top US national media outlets in 2022 and 2023. Findings Findings revealed that …
Status and influencing factors of weight loss behavior among college students
Background College students are the main force of the country’s future. The physical health of college students is directly related to the country’s future development and progress. Overweight and obesity not only affect the appearance of college students, but also increase the risk of illness, and affect their study, life and career development. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the current status of weight loss behavior and its influencing…
Atravesados
Unpacking tourism blind boxes
Tourism blind boxes represent tourism products – typically hotel, airline, and package tours – that are purchased without knowing their exact nature or details. Despite its continuous expansion in size and scope worldwide, little is understood about the overall experiences of consuming tourism blind boxes. This study adopted a qualitative design, combining online comments and in-depth interviews, to obtain a comprehensive understanding. The analy…
Grounding through objects
Relational affect and authenticity in themed space
Affect was regarded as a crucial foundation for relational authenticity in theme parks and tourism performance. However, authenticity was often treated as an individual emotional response and cognitive judgment triggered by external stimuli. In response to the affective turn’s call to attend to the relational, non-representational, and political-economic dimensions of affect, this study integrates feeling, emotion, and discourse into a relational…
Tourism (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Political science (5 works)