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Design Opportunities in Service-Product Combined Systems
This paper aims to examine recent research issues related to the integration of service and product in view of industrial design. Further, it attempts to identify new opportunities for further research regarding āproduct-servicizationā vs. āservice-productizationā.
In the continued efforts to provide the users with fuller experiences, one major trend is the blending of products and services.
Much existing research seems to either present cases or propose frameworks regarding the āconnectionā, rather than āintegrationā between products and services. Broadly, two major approaches seem to exist in this area: 1. product-servicization, 2. service-productization. The former generally indicates adding more services to existing products, whereas the latter generally refers to making services tangible and/or visible in the form of a product. However, findings of an extensive literature search conducted for this study suggest one important deficiency in dealing with service issues around the product: the āintegrationā between the actual product design and service elements for supporting new service-product system. That is the rationale behind this research, an attempt to investigate the possibility for the integration of product design and service factors which could be embedded in the design of product itself in new service-product system.
This paper is largely based on qualitative research. New design research opportunities are identified by qualitatively analyzing relevant literature, synthesizing the information and presenting some cases to support the main argument of the research.
Design-led Service-Productization is not, and should not be re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Rather, it should bring practical and tangible design issues related to new service-product system. Findings suggest that this approach could provide a new model of new product development integrated with a service scheme, which is a more proactive approach than āproduct-servicizationā. Further development of this research could lead to establishing a framework for the Design-led Service-Product Integration.
Keywords:
Product-servicization; Industrial design; Service; Product; Integration</p
Light sterile neutrino and leptogenesis
We studied models of leptogenesis where three right-handed Majorana neutrinos
are involved and the minimal-extended seesaw mechanism including an additional
singlet field produces four light neutrinos. This study shows that the type of
mass ordering and heavy Majorana scales can be determined by inputting the
simplest orthogonal matrix into the Casas-Ibarra(CI) representation of seesaw.
The CP asymmetry produced from the decays of heavy neutrinos and the dilution
mass are predicted in terms of the mass and mixing elements of the fourth
neutrino. Upon the choice of CI matrix, the existence of a light sterile
neutrino is required to explain the high-energy lepton asymmetry in light of
phenomenological measurements. Although there are several free parameters
attributable to an additional neutrino, the model can be in part constrained by
low-energy experiments such as sterile neutrino searches and neutrinoless
double-beta decays, as well as the observed baryon asymmetry in the universe.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figure
Cored Dark Matter halos in the Cosmic Neutrino Background
We study the impact of the interaction between DM and the cosmic neutrino
background on the evolution of galactic dark matter halos. The energy transfer
from the neutrinos to the dark matter can heat the center of the galaxy and
make it cored. This effect is efficient for the small galaxies such as the
satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and we can put conservative constraint on
the non-relativistic elastic scattering cross section as
for 0.1 keV dark matter and 0.1
eV neutrino.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Configuration for Micro pH Sensor
A fully integrated pH sensor with a built-in reference electrode is proposed. An iridium oxide microelectrode and a pH-insensitive field-effect transistor are used as a pH sensor and a reference electrode, respectively. The sensitivity of the proposed device matches well with the estimated value to within 0.3 mV/pH deviation
Simultaneous fabrication of line defects-embedded periodic lattice by topographically assisted holographic lithography
We have demonstrated simultaneous fabrication of designed defects within a periodic structure. For rapid fabrication of periodic structures incorporating nanoscale line-defects at large area, topographically assisted holographic lithography (TAHL) technique, combining the strength of hologram lithography and phase-shift interference, was proposed. Hot-embossing method generated the photoresist patterns with vertical side walls which enabled phase-shift mask effect at the edge of patterns. Embossing temperature and relief height were crucial parameters for the successful TAHL process. Periodic holes with a diameter of 600 nm at a 1 Ī¼m-pitch incorporating 250 nm wide line-defects were obtained simultaneously
Classification of epilepsy types through global network analysis of scalp electroencephalograms
Epilepsy is a dynamic disease in which self-organization and emergent structures occur dynamically at multiple levels of neuronal integration. Therefore, the transient relationship within multichannel electroencephalograms (EEGs) is crucial for understanding epileptic processes. In this paper, we show that the global relationship within multichannel EEGs provides us with more useful information in classifying two different epilepsy types than pairwise relationships such as cross correlation. To demonstrate this, we determine the global network structure within channels of the scalp EEG based on the minimum spanning tree method. The topological dissimilarity of the network structures from different types of temporal lobe epilepsy is described in the form of the divergence rate and is computed for 11 patients with left (LTLE) and right temporal lobe epilepsy (RTLE). We find that patients with LTLE and RTLE exhibit different large scale network structures, which emerge at the epoch immediately before the seizure onset, not in the preceding epochs. Our results suggest that patients with the two different epilepsy types display distinct large scale dynamical networks with characteristic epileptic network structures.OAIID:oai:osos.snu.ac.kr:snu2006-01/102/2014017262/4SEQ:4PERF_CD:SNU2006-01EVAL_ITEM_CD:102USER_ID:2014017262ADJUST_YN:YEMP_ID:A079623DEPT_CD:801CITE_RATE:2.438DEPT_NM:ģķź³¼CONFIRM:
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