基于地理标记照片的赴大连游客时空行为特征研究

利用地理标记照片研究游客时空行为具有明显的优势,其研究前景广阔.以Flickr网站收录的1997—2014年18年间3 147张大连地理标记照片为基础数据,通过时间序列分析法和AcrGIS空间分析方法对赴大连游客拟态时空行为进行研究,结果发现:(1)1997—2014年赴大连游客Flickr照片数量大体呈非平稳上升趋势;(2)赴大连游客Flickr照片月际变化和日间变化说明赴大连游客时间选择具有明显的季节性和时段性;(3)赴大连游客Flickr照片空间分布主体呈稳定带状结构,呈左倾的"工"字型,可见游客集聚分布在城市中心和旅游中心;(4)照片分散趋势日益加强,游客目的地选择愈加不局限于传统景点.

Period-Doubling Cascades and Strange Attractors in Extended Duffing-Van der Pol Oscillator

The dynamical behavior of the extended Duffing-Van der Pol oscillator is investigated numerically in detail. With the aid of some numerical simulation tools such as bifurcation diagrams and Poinearé maps, the different routes to chaos and various shapes of strange attractors are observed. To characterize chaotic behavior of this oscillator system, the spectrum of Lyapunov exponent and Lyapunov dimension are also employed.

Using hot-vapor bypass for pressure control in distillation columns

Distillation column control is widely explored in literature due to its complexity and importance in chemical and petrochemical industries. In this process, pressure represents one of the most important variables to be controlled. However, there are few studies about how pressure affects the dynamic behavior of distillation columns and most research on distillation column control involve direct manipulation of cooling fluid through the condenser. Nevertheless, such an approach demands constant changes in cooling fluid flowrates that are commonly by the order of tons per hour, which can be difficult to work or even unfeasible in a real plant. Furthermore, this strategy is usually avoided, as it can cause fouling and corrosion acceleration. The hot-vapor bypass strategy fits well as a solution for these issues, eliminating the need to dynamically manipulate cooling fluid flowrates in the condensation unit. This work presents the modeling and simulation of a conventional distillation column for the separation of water and ethanol, in which a comparative study between a conventional pressure control and a control using hot-vapor bypass was performed. The main results were obtained through dynamic simulations which considered various disturbances in the feed stream, and demonstrated superior performance by the hot-vapor bypass system over the usual scheme proposed in literature, while evaluating the lntegral Absolute Error （IAE） norm as the control performance index.

Using Successive Multi-Goals Method in the Individual-Based Model to Simulate Crowd Behavior during Evacuation Processes

The fact of proportional population growth in many countries drags the attention of researchers in the field of crowd dynamics to the need for developing reliable models to predict the behavior of human crowds in emergency situations such as evacuation processes. Computer based models that simulate human crowd dynamics prove to offer the optimum way to predict the crowd realistic behavior especially in emergency situations. This paper presents a vital extension of my previous work in which an individual-based model to simulate the behavior of human crowd was developed using the artificial potential fields to describe the interaction forces between each crowd member and the environment on one side and amongst the crowd members on the other side to add realistic flavor to the predicted crowd behavior. In this paper, the successive multi-goals （SMG） method, which is a new method to represent the environment in which the crowd moves, is developed. Rather than using the traditional static potential field, the successive multi-goals method uses a dynamic potential field which is vital to solve the reactive problem that is considered as a drawback of the model when simulating the human crowd behavior during evacuation of buildings whose structures are complex such as bottlenecks and narrow corridors. Numerical results that match the real behavior of human individuals in emergency situations prove the efficiency of the new method to solve the problem on an individual basis as well as its applicability.

Does defensive posture increase mimetic fidelity of caterpillars with eyespots to their putative snake models？

Organisms often evolve behaviours that increase or reinforce the protection from predators afforded by their morpho- logical defences. For example, mimetic animals may adopt postures or locomotory behaviours that emulate a characteristic fea- ture of their model to increase predator deception. Caterpillars with eyespots are thought to mimic snakes, and when threatened many of these caterpillars adopt a posture that appears to enhance this resemblance. Herein we evaluate the quantitative strength of evidence of behavioural mimicry in the caterpillars of 14 species by comparing how closely a series of putative snake-mimicking caterpillars resemble snakes while at rest and when threatened. Specifically, we quantified the head morphology and eye position of a range of snake species, as well as the shape of the apparent head （i.e. anterior body segments） and position of eyespots in caterpillars resting or in their defensive posture. This allowed us to objectively examine evidence for an increased resemblance to either snakes generally, or to Viperidae snakes specifically, upon adopting the defensive posture. Widening the anterior body segments during the defensive posture typically made caterpillars appear more viper-like as opposed to more snake-like in general. Enhanced resemblance to vipers upon mounting the defensive posture was apparent only from the dorsal view. Laterally, caterpillars more closely resembled snakes in the resting posture and shifting to the defensive posture instead reduced mimetic fidelity, Overall we found evidence for behavioural mimicry in all 14 species examined. We highlight that objectively quantifying mimetic fidelity can help identify key features involved in deception .

Mapping Nuclear Decay to a Complex Network

Nuclear decay is investigated by the view of network science and the relationship of nuclear decay among different radionuclide can be mapped to a network topology directly.The network includes 1410 nodes and 1275 edges.The average degree of the network of nuclear decay is about 1.8,the cumulative degree distribution still meets the typical power-law distribution,and the corresponding exponent is about 4.1.Not considering their dynamic behavior,the fitting parameters of the nuclear decay network are obtained according to the LUHNM theory proposed by our group before.Their cumulated degree distributions of the nuclear decay network match well.The idea and method may provide a new way to study some other problems of nuclear physics.

The Prediction of Wave Competitions in Inhomogeneous Brusselator Systems

The competition of waves has remained a hot topic in physics over the past few decades,especially the area of pattern control.Because of improved understanding of various dynamic behaviors,many practical applications have sprung up recently.The prediction of wave competitions is also very important and quite useful in these fields.This paper considers the behaviors of wave competitions in simple,inhomogeneous media which is modeled by Brusselator equations.We present a simple rule to judge the results of wave competitions utilizing the dispersion relation curves and the waves coming from different wave sources.Moreover,this rule can also be used to predict the results of wave propagation.It provides methods of obtaining the desired waves with given frequencies in inhomogeneous media.All our results are concluded and verified by computer simulations.