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MATHEMATICAL MODELING FOR THE OBESITY DYNAMICS WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS

  • Kim, Sehjeong;Kim, So-Yeun
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.317-330
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    • 2018
  • We develop a mathematical model for the obesity dynamics to investigate the long term obesity trend with the consideration of psychological and social factors due to the increasing prevalence of obesity around the world. Many mathematical models for obesity dynamics adopted the modeling idea of infectious disease and treated overweight and obese people infectious and spreading obesity to normal weight. However, this modeling idea is not proper in obesity modeling because obesity is not an infectious disease. In fact, weight gain and loss are related to social interactions among different weight groups not only in the direction from overweight/obese to normal weight but also the other way around. Thus, we consider these aspects in our model and implement personal weight gain feature, a psychological factor such as body image dissatisfaction, and social interactions such as positive support on weight loss and negative criticism on weight status from various weight groups. We show that the equilibrium point with no normal weight population will be unstable and that an equilibrium point with positive normal weight population should have all other components positive. We conduct computer simulations on Korean demography data with our model and demonstrate the long term obesity trend of Korean male as an example of the use of our model.

CULTIVATION OF STUDENTS' CORE LITERACY BASED ON THE MATHEMATICAL CULTURE PERSPECTIVE

  • Nan, Hua;Tong, Shan;Xu, Yu
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2019
  • In recent years, the term core literacy has been popular in educational circles all over the world, and there are more and more research on core literacy. At the same time, the mathematical culture has also been highly valued on a global scale. The mathematical culture is a part of college students' cultural quality, and then, what is the connection between the mathematical culture and mathematical core literacy? How to improve the mathematical core literacy of contemporary college students? This paper gives the corresponding answers to these two questions. By illustrating the concrete implementation of the course "Mathematical Culture" offered by Yanbian University, this paper discusses various measures for cultivating students' core qualities in Chinese universities. It must be useful and promote the research on mathematical core literacy for the educators in various countries.

Extreme Preservers of Zero-term Rank Sum over Fuzzy Matrices

  • Song, Seok-Zun;Na, Yeon-Jung
    • Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.465-472
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we consider two extreme sets of zero-term rank sum of fuzzy matrix pairs: $$\cal{z}_1(\cal{F})=\{(X,Y){\in}\cal{M}_{m,n}(\cal{F})^2{\mid}z(X+Y)=min\{z(X),z(Y)\}\};$$ $$\cal{z}_2(\cal{F})=\{(X,Y){\in}\cal{M}_{m,n}(\cal{F})^2{\mid}z(X+Y)=0\}$$. We characterize the linear operators that preserve these two extreme sets of zero-term rank sum of fuzzy matrix pairs.

ELLIPTIC PROBLEM WITH A VARIABLE COEFFICIENT AND A JUMPING SEMILINEAR TERM

  • Choi, Q-Heung;Jung, Tacksun
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.125-135
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    • 2012
  • We obtain the multiple solutions for the fourth order elliptic problem with a variable coefficient and a jumping semilinear term. We have a result that there exist at least two solutions if the variable coefficient of the semilinear term crosses some number of the eigenvalues of the biharmonic eigenvalue problem. We obtain this multiplicity result by applying the Leray-Schauder degree theory.

CONTROLLABILITY FOR SEMILINEAR FUNCTIONAL INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

  • Jeong, Jin-Mun;Kim, Han-Geul
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.463-475
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    • 2009
  • This paper deals with the regularity properties for a class of semilinear integrodifferential functional differential equations. It is shown the relation between the reachable set of the semilinear system and that of its corresponding linear system. We also show that the Lipschitz continuity and the uniform boundedness of the nonlinear term can be considerably weakened. Finally, a simple example to which our main result can be applied is given.

AN SDFEM FOR A CONVECTION-DIFFUSION PROBLEM WITH NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION AND DISCONTINUOUS SOURCE TERM

  • Babu, A. Ramesh;Ramanujam, N.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.28 no.1_2
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    • pp.31-48
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    • 2010
  • In this article, we consider singularly perturbed Boundary Value Problems(BVPs) for second order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) with Neumann boundary condition and discontinuous source term. A parameter-uniform error bound for the solution is established using the Streamline-Diffusion Finite Element Method (SDFEM) on a piecewise uniform meshes. We prove that the method is almost second order of convergence in the maximum norm, independently of the perturbation parameter. Further we derive superconvergence results for scaled derivatives of solution of the same problem. Numerical results are provided to substantiate the theoretical results.

COMMODITY FUTURES TERM STRUCTURE MODEL

  • Choi, Hyeong In;Kwon, Song-Hwa;Kim, Jun Yeol;Jung, Du-Seop
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.1791-1804
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    • 2014
  • A new approach to the commodity futures term structure model is introduced. The most salient feature of this model is that, once the interest rate model is given, the commodity futures price volatility is the only quantity that completely determines the model. As a consequence this model enables one to do away with the drudgeries of having to deal with the convenience yield altogether, which has been the most thorny point so far.

ANALYSIS OF THE VLASOV-POISSON EQUATION BY USING A VISCOSITY TERM

  • Choi, Boo-Yong;Kang, Sun-Bu;Lee, Moon-Shik
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.501-516
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    • 2013
  • The well-known Vlasov-Poisson equation describes plasma physics as nonlinear first-order partial differential equations. Because of the nonlinear condition from the self consistency of the Vlasov-Poisson equation, many problems occur: the existence, the numerical solution, the convergence of the numerical solution, and so on. To solve the problems, a viscosity term (a second-order partial differential equation) is added. In a viscosity term, the Vlasov-Poisson equation changes into a parabolic equation like the Fokker-Planck equation. Therefore, the Schauder fixed point theorem and the classical results on parabolic equations can be used for analyzing the Vlasov-Poisson equation. The sequence and the convergence results are obtained from linearizing the Vlasove-Poisson equation by using a fixed point theorem and Gronwall's inequality. In numerical experiments, an implicit first-order scheme is used. The numerical results are tested using the changed viscosity terms.