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A Numerical Kano Model for Compliance Customer Needs with Product Development

  • Rashid, Md. Mamunur;Tamaki, Jun'ichi;Sharif Ullah, A.M.M.;Kubo, Akihiko
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.140-153
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    • 2011
  • Functional form and dysfunctional form of Kano model are considered as customer need regarding attribute of product. Both functional and dysfunctional forms are: Like, Must-be Neutral, Live-with and Dislike. The answers of customer regarding a product of functional and dysfunctional forms have been applied for selection of customer needs regarding product attribute (Kano evaluation). Filling.up and returning the Questionnaires by the individuals are essential for determining Kano evaluation. But many Questionnaires have not been returned in that case. Moreover, many possible consumers could not get opportunity to fill-up questionnaire. These uncertain or unknown consumers' opinions are also essential for product development. The choices of Kano evaluations have been outlined by: Attractive, One-dimensional, Must-be, Indifferent and Reverse. In this study, choices of evaluation of unknown customer are considered uniform cumulative vector probability (scenario 1). This study is based on the Monte Carlo simulation method, concept of probability and Kano model. This model has also been tested for its soundness and found fairly consistent including existing Kano model (scenario 2) and case survey for headlight of bicycle (scenario 3).

Correlations among Motor Function, Quality of Life, and Caregiver Depression Levels in Children with Cerebral Palsy

  • Yoo, Ji-Na
    • The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.385-392
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the relationships among quality of life, caregiver depression levels, and disease severity, especially motor function, in children with cerebral palsy. Methods: Data were collected through questionnaires using survey and interview from 80 caregivers of children with cerebral palsy. The caregivers' quality of life was measured using medical outcomes study 36-item short form health survey, and level of depression was scored using the beck depression inventory. In addition, children's motor function was evaluated using gross motor function measure-88 and functional independence measure scores. Results: Among 8 domains of medical outcomes study 36-item short form health survey, "physical functioning," "physical role functioning," "mental health," and "bodily pain" domains were significantly correlated to "total" percentage scores of gross motor function measure-88. In addition, "mental health" and "bodily pain" domains were correlated to each sub-dimension, including "lying and rolling," "sitting," "crawling and kneeling," "standing," and "walking, running, and jumping." Similarly, the "running" and "jumping" dimensions including motor function measures correlated with "transfer," "locomotion," and "motor subtotal" of functional independence measure scores. The beck depression inventory scores were negatively correlated to "lying and rolling," "sitting," "crawling and kneeling," and the "total" percentage scores of gross motor function measure-88. The beck depression inventory scores were negatively correlated to "sphincter control," "communication," "social cognition," "cognitive subtotal," and "total" functional independence measure scores. Conclusion: It is necessary to consider the quality of life and emotional problems of caregivers of CP children and support them both physically and psychologically with comprehensive rehabilitation.

Oligomeric Structure of ${\beta}$-Glucosidases

  • Kim, Sang-Yeob;Kimm, In-Soo
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2004
  • The${\beta}$-glucosidases occur widely in all living organisms and has in general a tendency to form oligomers of varying numbers of subunits or aggregates, although the functional implications of such diverse oligomerization schemes remain unclear. In particular, the assembly mode of the oat ${\beta}$-glucosidase is very unique in that it multimerizes by linear stacking of a hexameric building block to form long fibrillar multimers. Some structural proteins such as actin and tubulin assemble into long fibrils in a helical fashion and several enzymes such as GroEL and Pyrodictium ATPase functional complexes, 20S proteasome of the archaebacterium Thermoplasma acidophilum, and lutamine synthetase fromblue-green algae, assemble into discrete oligomers upto 4 stacked rings to maintain their enzymatic activities. In particular, oat ${\beta}$-glucosidase exists in vivo as a discrete long fibrillar multimer assembly that is a novel structure for enzyme protein. It is assembled by linear stacking of hollow trimeric units. The fibril has a long central tunnel connecting to the outer medium via regularly distributed side fenestrations. The enzyme active sites are located within the central tunnel and multimerization increases enzyme affinity to the substrates and catalytic efficiency of the enzyme. Although it is suggested that oligomerization may contribute to the enzyme stability and catalytic efficiency of ${\beta}$-glycosidases, the functional implications of such diverse oligomerization schemes remain unclear so far.

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On Directions for the Revision of Language Forms Listed in the 2007 Korean English Curriculum

  • Lee, Hyun-Oo
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.39-58
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    • 2011
  • This study highlights some very important future directions for the revision of language forms in the 2007 Korean English Curriculum, expected to be made public in the summer of 2011. A critical review of the 2007 National English Curriculum shows that language forms exemplified in that curriculum are not well-chosen or well-sequenced from the viewpoint of grammar selection and gradation, and that no mention of structural labels or grammatical terminologies makes it hard for teachers to recognize their formal properties. To fulfill the original purpose that languages should be listed in the curriculum so that functional-notional syllabuses can be complemented by form-focused instruction, the study presents partial inventories of grammatical items with well-chosen and well-sequenced examples. Minimal descriptions are given to these inventories that are based on general notions or well-known grammatical notions. Occasional suggestions are also made for which language forms should be taught in which schools.

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The Development of a Shop Floor-Centered Information System for the Integration of Design and Manufacturing Data (생산 현장 중심의 설계/생산 통합 정보 시스템 개발)

  • Han K. H.;Park C. W.;Oak J. S.;Kim K. S.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 2005
  • To increase the productivity and efficiency of an enterprise, all relevant product information should be provided to shop floor workers timely and in a unified form because shop floor workers are final consumers of most accumulated information generated from various departments of an enterprise. But, most existing enterprise information systems have an emphasis upon providing design/manufacturing information to office workers. Proposed in this study is the development of integrated design/manufacturing information system focused on providing cohesive information required to shop floor activities. For developing integrated information system, the functional requirements at the shop floor are identified and analyzed. Based on the extracted functional requirements, object-oriented system design and implementation is conducted. By using this system, shop floor workers can use all relevant information required to their daily operation in a integrated and unified form.

Delay-Dependent Robust Stability of Uncertain Time-Delayed Linear Systems (불확정성 시간지연 선형시스템의 지연 종속 강인 안정성)

  • Yi, Yearn-Gui;Kim, Jin-Hoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.147-153
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose a new delay-dependent criterion on the robust stability of time-delayed linear systems having norm bounded uncertainties. Based on new form of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and the Newton-Leibniz formula, we drive a result in the form of LMI which guarantees the robust stability without any model transformation. The Newton-Leibniz equation was used to relate the cross terms with free matrices. Finally, we show the usefulness of our result by two numerical examples.

Development of a Shop Floor-Centered Integrated Design/Manufacturing Information System for the Production of Aerospace Structure Parts (항공기 기체 부품 생산을 위한 생산 현장 중심의 설계 생산 통합 / 정보 시스템 개발)

  • 한관희;최운집;박찬우;이상한
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.1007-1012
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    • 2004
  • To increase the productivity and efficiency of an enterprise, all relevant product information should be provided to shop floor workers timely and in a unified form because shop floor workers are final consumers of most accumulated information generated from various departments of an enterprise. but, most existing enterprise information systems have an emphasis upon providing design/manufacturing information to office workers. Proposed in this study is a development of integrated design/manufacturing information system focused system, the function required for shop floor activities. For developing integrated information system, the functional required for shop floor are identified and analyzed. Based on the extracted functional requirements, object-oriented system design and implementation is conducted. By using this system, shop floor workers can refer to all relevant information necessary to their work easily and in a integrated form.

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ON KANTOROVICH FORM OF GENERALIZED SZÁSZ-TYPE OPERATORS USING CHARLIER POLYNOMIALS

  • Wafi, Abdul;Rao, Nadeem;Deepmala, Deepmala
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.99-116
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    • 2017
  • The aim of this article is to introduce a new form of Kantorovich $Sz{\acute{a}}sz$-type operators involving Charlier polynomials. In this manuscript, we discuss the rate of convergence, better error estimates. Further, we investigate order of approximation in the sense of local approximation results with the help of Ditzian-Totik modulus of smoothness, second order modulus of continuity, Peetre's K-functional and Lipschitz class.

Inverse Problem of Determining Unknown Inlet Temperature Profile in Two Phase Laminar Flow in a Parallel Plate Duct by Using Regularization Method (조정법을 이용한 덕트 내의 이상 층류 유동에 대한 입구 온도분포 역해석)

  • Hong, Yun-Ky;Baek, Seung-Wook
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.1124-1132
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    • 2004
  • The inverse problem of determining unknown inlet temperature in thermally developing, hydrodynamically developed two phase laminar flow in a parallel plate duct is considered. The inlet temperature profile is determined by measuring temperature in the flow field. No prior information is needed for the functional form of the inlet temperature profile. The inverse convection problem is solved by minimizing the objective function with regularization method. The conjugate gradient method as iterative method and the Tikhonov regularization method are employed. The effects of the functional form of inlet temperature, the number of measurement points and the measurement errors are investigated. The accuracy and efficiency of these two methods are compared and discussed.

Algal Flora in Hallyeo-haesang National Park, Southern Coast of Korea (한려해상국립공원의 해조상)

  • Choi, Chang-Geun
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.371-380
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    • 2008
  • This study elucidated the floral composition of marine algae and community structure at Hallyeo-haesang National Park, on the southern coast of Korea. In all, 89 species, comprising 10 green, 30 brown and 49 red algae, were identified. The dominant species in terms of importance value were Ulva pertusa, Colpomenia sinuosa, Undaria pinnatifida, Padina arborescens, Hizikia fusiformis, Sargassum sagamianum and Amphiroa dilatata. The vertical distribution of marine vegetation was characterized by Enteromorpha linza - Ulva pertusa - Gelidium divaricatum in the upper intertidal zone, Hizikia fusiformis - Sargassum thunbergii in the middle intertidal zone, and Amphiroa spp. - Hildenbrandtia rubra - Corallina pilulifera in the lower intertidal zone. Functional form group analysis showed that coarsely branched forms comprised 50.3% of the algal community, whereas thick leathery forms, sheet forms and filamentous forms comprised 11.9-13.1%. R/P, C/P and (R+C)/P values were 1.91, 0.74 and 2.64, respectively. A cluster analysis of species occurrence suggested that the number of marine algal species differed greatly among the sampling sites.