• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.267-274
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• 2008

This paper reports generating creative ideas based on customer needs using Kano Model and Importance-Differentiation Matrix (I-D Matrix). Nowadays, every customer demands creative ideas on product innovations in order to be satisfied her needs. However, most existing methods are limited to get creative ideas that reflect customer needs. Any creative ideas that do not fully reflect customer needs are obviously more difficult to succeed in the market than those that reflect customer needs. This paper distinguishes each quality elements the customer needs in terms of Kano Model. And it presents the effective ways of generating creative ideas by I-D Matrix in order to overcome current uppermost limits.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.26 no.3_4
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• pp.471-479
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• 2008

Let $R\;{\in}\;C^{m{\times}m}$ and $S\;{\in}\;C^{n{\times}n}$ be nontrivial unitary involutions, i.e., $R^*\;=\;R\;=\;R^{-1}\;{\neq}\;I_m$ and $S^*\;=\;S\;=\;S^{-1}\;{\neq}\;I_m$. We say that $G\;{\in}\;C^{m{\times}n}$ is a generalized reflexive matrix if RGS = G. The set of all m ${\times}$ n generalized reflexive matrices is denoted by $GRC^{m{\times}n}$. In this paper, an efficient method for the least squares solution $X\;{\in}\;GRC^{m{\times}n}$ of the matrix equation AXB = D with arbitrary coefficient matrices $A\;{\in}\;C^{p{\times}m}$, $B\;{\in}\;C^{n{\times}q}$and the right-hand side $D\;{\in}\;C^{p{\times}q}$ is developed based on the canonical correlation decomposition(CCD) and, an explicit formula for the general solution is presented.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.125-135
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• 2004

One of the intriguing and fundamental algorithmic graph problems is the computation of the strongly connected components of a directed graph G. In this paper we first introduce a simple procedure for determining the location of the nonzero elements occurring in $B^{-1}$ without fully inverting B, where EB\;{\equiv}\;(b_{ij)\;and\;B^T$ are diagonally dominant matrices with $b_{ii}\;>\;0$ for all i and $b_{ij}\;{\leq}\;0$, for $i\;{\neq}\;j$, and then, as an application, show that all of the strongly connected components of a directed graph G can be recognized by the location of the nonzero elements occurring in the matrix $C(G)\;=\;(D\;-\;A(G))^{-1}$. Here A(G) is an adjacency matrix of G and D is an arbitrary scalar matrix such that (D - A(G)) becomes a diagonally dominant matrix.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.22-40
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• 1982

The nuclear LS-energy matrix elements have been calculated with the harmonic oscillator shell model wave functions for the configurations ( $l_{i}$ $l_{i+1}$｜ $l_{i}$ $l_{i+1}$) where 1$_1$= $l_{s}$ , $l_2$=lp, $l_3$=ld, 2s, $l_4$=1f, 2p, $l_{5}$ =1g, 2d, 3s. The resulting matrix elements are expressed in terms of both Talmi integrals $I_1$ and Slater integrals $F^{k}$ . In addition to this various sum rules are derived and applied to check the results of the calculations.ons.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2016

Most of systems engineers make a traceability matrix and attach it to their technical documents as a result of systems engineering activities. I have been working in the field of systems engineering for many years and have been watching traceability matrices created by systems engineers or developers from various companies. I have been thinking that some of them are not suitable in terms of purposes of traceability matrix. In this paper, I would like to suggest a right template for the traceability matrix in conformance to traceability purposes. The key is that traceability matrix should be created from higher level of requirements to current level of requirements.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1258-1266
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• 2005

The present study was carried out in order to assess the protective effects of calycosin-7-O-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside, isolated from Astragali radix (AR), on hyaluronidase (HAase) and the recombinant human interleukin-$1\beta$ (IL-$1\beta$)-induced matrix degradation in human articular cartilage and chondrocytes. We isolated the active component from the n-butanol soluble fraction of AR (ARBu) as the HAase inhibitor and structurally identified as calycosin-7-O-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside by LC-MS, IR, ${1}^H$ NMR, and ${13}^C$ NMR analyses. The $IC_{50}$ of this component on HAase was found to be 3.7 mg/ml by in vitro agarose plate assay. The protective effect of ARBu on the matrix gene expression of immortalized chondrocyte cell line C28/I2 treated with HAase was investigated using a reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and its effect on HAase and IL-$1\beta$-induced matrix degradation in human articular cartilage was determined by a staining method and calculating the amount of degraded glycosaminoglycan (GAG) from the cultured media. Pretreatment with calycosin-7-O-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside effectively protected human chondrocytes and articular cartilage from matrix degradation. Therefore, calycosin-7-O-$\beta$-D-glucopyranoside from AR appears to be a potential natural ant-inflammatory or antii-osteoarthritis agent and can be effectively used to protect from proteoglycan (PG) degradation.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.443-449
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• 1994

In the analysis of circular cylindrical shell's vibration and sound radiation, there are numerical and analytical methods. Numerical methods such as F.E.M and B.E.M, have the limit of frequency range. Analytical method can be applied to the circular cylindrical shell from low frequency to high frequency. In this paper, we use the analytical method for shell, and numerical method, F.D.M, for fluid. We also use the method using transfer matrix and eigenanalysis of transfer matrix which can therefore calculate the rotational d.o.f that is very imkportant in synthesis with inner structure. Inner structure has much effect on the submerged circular cylindrical shell vibration and sound rediation. Results for the immersed circular cylindrical shell vibration and sound radiation are compared with the analytic solutions.

• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.423-432
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• 1998

Let p, q be integers such that 2 $\leq$ p, q $\leq$ n, and let $D_{p, q}$ denote the matrix obtained from $I_{n}$, the identity matrix of order n, by replacing each of the first p columns by an all 1's vector and by replacing each of the first two rows and each of the last q-2 rows by an all 1's vector. In this paper the permanent minimization problem over the face, determined by the matrix $D_{p, q}$, of the polytope of all n $\times$ n doubly stochastic matrices is treated.d.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.511-519
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• 2009

A matrix $P{\in}\mathbb{C}^{n{\times}n}$ is called a generalized reflection matrix if $P^*$ = P and $P^2$ = I. An $n{\times}n$ complex matrix A is said to be a reflexive (anti-reflexive) matrix with respect to the generalized reflection matrix P if A = PAP (A = -PAP). It is well-known that the reflexive and anti-reflexive matrices with respect to the generalized reflection matrix P have many special properties and widely used in engineering and scientific computations. In this paper, we give new necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of the reflexive (anti-reflexive) solutions to the linear matrix equation AXB + CY D = E and derive representation of the general reflexive (anti-reflexive) solutions to this matrix equation. By using the obtained results, we investigate the reflexive (anti-reflexive) solutions of some special cases of this matrix equation.

• Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.40-45
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• 2005

Age-related changes in bone metabolism are well established by biochemical markers of bone matrix in serum and urine, but analysis of the residual bone matrix, which is still turning over, has not been investigated. In the present study, we measured in vivo rates of bone protein synthesis using a precursor-product method based on the exchange of ²H from ²H₂O into amino acids. Four percent ²H₂O was administered to mice in drinking water after intraperitonial (i.p) bolus injection of 99.9% ²H₂O. Mice were divided into the two groups: growing young mice were administered 4% ²H₂O for 12 weeks after an i.p bolus injection at 5 week of age, whereas weight stable adult mice started drinking 4% ²H₂O 8 weeks later than the growing group and continued 4% ²H₂O drinking for 8 weeks. Mass isotopomer abundance in alanine from bone protein was analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Body ²H₂O enrichments were in the range of 1.88-2.41% over the labeling period. The fractional synthesis rates (ks) of bone protein were 2.000±0.071%/d for growing mice and 0.243±0.014%/d for adult mice. These results demonstrate that the bone protein synthesis rate decreases with age and present direct evidence of age-related changes in bone protein synthesis.