scholarly journals Temporal and spatial characteristics of male cone development inMetasequoia glyptostroboidesHu et Cheng

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1687-1694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biao Jin ◽  
Liang Tang ◽  
Yan Lu ◽  
Di Wang ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Male Cone ◽  
Cone Development ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics

Temporal and Spatial Characteristics Endogenous Hormone Regulation During Male Cone Development of Dacrydium pectinatum

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenju Lu ◽  
Zhaoji Li ◽  
Xiqiang Song ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Mingxun Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pollen Grains ◽  
Endogenous Hormone ◽  
Hormone Regulation ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Reproductive Process ◽  
Male Cone ◽  
Cone Development ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics ◽  
External Forces

Abstract Background: Dacrydiumpectinatum de Laubenfels is a perennial gymnosperm dominant in tropical montane rain forests. Due to severe damages by excessive deforestation, typhoons, and other external forces, the population of the species has been significantly reduced. Furthermore, natural regeneration is poor. In order to better understand the reproductive process in D. pectinatum, we examined the morphological and anatomical changes during the development of male cone and analyzed the endogenous hormone dynamics.Results: Our study indicates that D. pectinatum male buds become distinguishable in April in tropical montane rain forests, while microspore sac forms in September and pollen mother cell forms and divides in December. Pollen grains mature and disperse in the following February. A mature male cone averages 8.5 mm in length. Level of GA, IAA, ABA and JA and their ratios fluctuated during late August to late November when sporogenous tissues were actively differentiated.Conclusions: The differentiation of sporogenous tissues is accompanied by variations in levels of endogenous hormones (GA, ABA, IAA, and JA) and their balances. The new insights about the cone development in D. pectinatum lay the foundation for future cone induction with hormones and study of factors contributing to the species’ low rate of seed germination.

scholarly journals Analysis on the Riding Characteristics of Mobike Sharing Bicycle in Beijing City, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Cao ◽  
Mengxue Huang
Keyword(s):  
Kernel Density ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Beijing City ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Morning Peak ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Shared Bicycle ◽  
Evening Peak

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The development of the sharing economy has provided an important realization path for urban’s green and healthy development, and has also accelerated the speed of urban development. With the constant capital pouring into the public transport field, dock-less shared bicycle is a relatively new form of transport in urban areas, and it provides a bikesharing service to fulfil urban short trips. Dock-less shared bicycle, with a characteristic of riding and stopping anywhere, has successfully solved the last mile travel problem. Recently, studies focus on the on the temporal spatial characteristics of public bicycle based on public bicycle operation data. However, there are few studies on the identification of riding patterns based on the characteristics of temporal and spatial behavior of residents. In addition, researches have been conducted on public bicycles administered by the government, and the dock-less shared bicycle have different characteristics from public bicycles in terms of scale of use and mode of use. This paper aims to analyze the temporal and spatial characteristics of residents using shared bicycles, and attempts to explore the characteristics of the riding modes of the dock-less shared bicycles.</p><p>Mobike sharing bicycle dataset of Beijing city were obtained for the research and this dataset contains a wealth of attributes with cover of 396600 shared bicycle users and 485500 riding records from May 10 to May 25 in 2017. Additionally, 19 types of POI (Point of Interest) data were also obtained through the API of Baidu Maps. To examine the patterns of shared bicycle trips, these POI data are categorized into five types including residential, commercial, institution, recreation and transport. Spatiotemporal analysis method, correlation analysis methods and kernel density methods were used to analyse the temporal and spatial characteristics of shared bicycle trips, revealing the time curve and spatial hotspot distribution area of shared bikes. Furthermore, a new matrix of riding pattern based on POI was proposed to identify the riding patterns during massive sharing bicycle dataset.</p><p>This paper aims to explore the riding behaviour of shared bicycles, and the research results are as follows:</p><p>(1) Temporal characteristics of riding behaviour</p><p>The use of the Mobike bicycles is significantly different on weekdays and weekends (Figure1). Figure 2 clearly shows a morning peak (7&amp;ndash;9&amp;thinsp;h) and evening peak (17&amp;ndash;19&amp;thinsp;h), corresponding with typical commute time. At noon, some users' dining activities triggered a certain close-distance riding behavior, which formed a noon peak. Different from the riding characteristics of the working days, there are many recreational and leisure riding behaviors on the weekends. The distribution of riding time is more balanced, and there is no obvious morning and evening peak phenomenon.</p><p>(2) Spatial characteristics of riding behavior</p><p> The spatial distribution of riding behaviour varies with different roads (Figure 2) and people prefer to choose trunk roads for cycling trips. Spatial hotpot detecting method based on the kernel density is applied to identify the active degree of bike sharing trip during a whole weekday (Figure 3). The red colour represents a high active degree and the green and blue colour means the low degree. Note that almost no riding occurred in the early hours of the morning and late at night. The characteristics of three riding peaks are obvious in the figure. A large number of travels occurred in Second Ring to Fourth Ring Road, and some travel activities were concentrated near traffic sites.</p><p>(3) Patterns of riding behavior</p><p> Different riding patterns happens in different space and change over the time at two scales of day and hour. During morning peak and evening peak on weekdays, more than 60 percent of riding trips are corresponding with typical commuting activities. The observed commuting pattern of morning peak (Figure 4(a) and (b)) implies that the majority of shared bicycle trips might relate to home, transports, commercial area and some institution. For example, students choose shared bicycles to do some school activities, people prefer to use shared bicycles as a connection tool to bus station and metro stops and people handle daily affairs in some government agencies. However, a large part of the shared bicycle trips on weekends shows the characteristics of non-commuting riding pattern, which means more leisure activities take place at weekends (Figure 4(c) and (d)). Non-commuting pattern of riding behavior mainly occurs among residential areas, metro stops, bus stations and recreational facilities, such as parks, playgrounds, etc.</p>

scholarly journals Assessment of the validity of parameters describing temporal and spatial characteristics of spontaneous infant activity in the period of fidgety movements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Doroniewicz ◽  
Daniel Ledwoń ◽  
Monika Bugdol ◽  
Katarzyna Kieszczyńska ◽  
Alicja Affanasowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Input Data ◽  
Head Position ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Movement Behavior ◽  
Psychomotor Development ◽  
Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Spontaneous Movements ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics

Abstract Background: The assessment of spontaneous activity of infants is of fundamental importance to the diagnosis and prediction of abnormal psychomotor development in children. Comprehensive and early diagnosis allows for quick and effective treatment and therapy. Subjective methods are based on the knowledge and experience of the diagnostician. The lack of objective methods to assess the motor development of infants makes it necessary to search for solutions for reliable, credible, and reproducible assessment expressed in numerical or pictorial terms. This study discusses the possibilities of pictorial standardization and optimization of measurable infant behavior based on video recordings. Methods: The authors attempt to perform computer analysis of spontaneous movements depending on the left, right, and front head position. The study was based on data of 26 healthy infants aged 7 to 15 weeks, with three infants included in an in-depth analysis. The selected films represented the input data for the parameters used as the author's temporal and spatial characteristics describing the global movements of the upper and lower limbs. The obtained videos were used as the input data for the algorithm of automatic detection of characteristic points using the OpenPose library. Results: The following movement characteristics were analysed: Factor of Movement's Area (FMA) ("amount of movement in the movement"), Factor of Movement's Shape (FMS) ("circularity” or "ellipticity" of the movement), Center of Movement's Area (CMA) ("inward and outward" and "up and down" movements). Preliminary analysis of the videos showed that the activity of the limbs, especially the upper limbs, may depend on the position of the head.Conclusions: The movement behavior of the infants varies in terms of the range and quality of movement, depending on age and head position.

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