Kawasaki Shuji, Ito Kikukatsu
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan.
Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan.
Biophys Physicobiol. 2018 Nov 6;15:235-250. doi: 10.2142/biophysico.15.0_235. eCollection 2018.
A wild plant called is known to heat itself and keep its body warm before spring. We study its homothermal maintenance mechanism from a mesoscopic point of view. We take the increment process of the temperature time series and consider it as 'elastic' force that always tries to backlash its temperature to an intrinsic target temperature. We then propose a kind of extended Poisson distribution for the model of the 'elastic' force. The hypothesis testing result by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test suggests that the proposed distribution is a plausible candidate of the model for the 'elastic' force, on the temperature range in which the system is in equillibrium. In addition, it turns out that the parameters in the model captures well the linear behaviour of the expectations of the 'elastic' force at each of the present temperatures and similarly, the constancy of the variances of the force. Especially, the linearity of the expected increments over displacements of tempertures indicates that the backlash might be considered to be like the elastic force of a spring as described by Fuch's law.
一种名为 的野生植物在春天来临之前会自行发热并保持体温。我们从中观角度研究其恒温维持机制。我们取温度时间序列的增量过程,并将其视为一种“弹性”力,这种力总是试图将其温度反弹至固有目标温度。然后,我们针对“弹性”力模型提出了一种扩展的泊松分布。通过柯尔莫哥洛夫-斯米尔诺夫检验的假设检验结果表明,在所提出的分布在系统处于平衡的温度范围内,是“弹性”力模型的一个合理候选。此外,结果表明模型中的参数很好地捕捉了当前每个温度下“弹性”力期望的线性行为,同样也捕捉了力方差的恒定性。特别是,预期增量随温度位移的线性表明,这种反弹可能被认为类似于胡克定律所描述的弹簧弹力。