Fan Product Research Articles

New inequalities on the Fan product of M-matrices

This paper focuses on the minimum eigenvalue involving the Fan product. By utilizing the Hölder inequality and the classic eigenvalue inclusion theorem, we introduce two novel lower bounds for τ(A1⋆A2)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$\ au \\left ( A_{1}\\star A_{2} \\right )$\\end{document}, representing the minimum eigenvalue involving the Fan product of two M-matrices A1,A2\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$A_{1},A_{2}$\\end{document}. The newly derived lower bounds are then compared with the traditional findings. Numerical tests are presented to illustrate that the new lower bound formulas significantly enhance Johnson and Horn’s results in certain scenarios and are more precise than other existing findings.

The influence of generative AI on popular music: Fan productions and the reimagination of iconic voices

This essay explores the burgeoning phenomenon of fan-generated content that utilizes generative artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic the voices of deceased or retired popular music artists. This practice can be seen as an extension of Digital Audio Workstations’ (DAWs’) capabilities, potentially leading to the creation of musical pieces that resemble traditional covers and mash-ups. The essay analyzes three representative works in this creative category. Two of them are of a fan nature, exploring imagined alternative paths in the development of popular music, while the third is a parody. As these examples demonstrate, the rise of AI covers raises numerous questions. These include concerns about the nature of human creativity and the potential response of the music industries to this technology’s proliferation.

Optimisation method of product family supplier selection based on data mining under carbon neutral policy

The carbon neutral policy restrains the carbon emissions of product family manufacturers, which incurs additional costs for manufacturers. In previous studies of product family supplier selection, the dilemma of carbon neutrality faced by manufacturers was rarely researched. Therefore, this study puts forward an intelligent optimisation method for product family supplier selection under carbon neutral constraints, which assists manufacturers in satisfying carbon neutrality constraints while minimising total production costs. Firstly, the data representation models of product family are constructed by using information ontology technology, and then the candidate suppliers that meet the manufacturer’s performance requirements are mined by semantic similarity. Secondly, by calculating the configuration cost and carbon footprint of the product family, the configuration cost-carbon neutral cost model (CC-CNC model) of the manufacturer is established with the goal of minimising the manufacturer’s total cost, and then the genetic algorithm is employed to solve the model, thus the optimal supplier selection scheme is mined. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by supplier selection for water-cooled fan product family, which guides the manufacturer to minimise the cost by selecting the best supplier scheme and taking reasonable carbon neutral measures, contributing to the manufacturer’s low-carbon production and economic benefits.

Lower bounds on the minimum eigenvalue of the Fan product of several M-matrices

The concept of the Fan product of several M-matrices is introduced. Furthermore, two new lower bounds of the minimum eigenvalue of the Fan product of several M-matrices are proposed. These obtained new lower bounds generalize and improve some earlier findings. One example is presented to illustrate the precision of the given lower bounds.

Crossing swords and cutting sleeves: The cross-cultural impact of Chinese fandom fan fiction on Asian American youths

Chinese dramas such as The Untamed and other popular media productions have opened further discussions about China’s cultural impact outside its national borders. With the increasing visibility of Chinese pop culture on the international market, more and more Chinese Americans have entered into a variety of cultural and national exchanges through their interactions with Chinese media and its subsequent fan productions, such as English-language fan fiction inspired by non-English productions.

Informal learning of Spanish in a Chinese music fan community

In the context of digitalization and participatory culture, pop culture has sparked numerous online linguistic practices exhibiting the potential for informal language learning. This study centers around an online community consisting of Chinese fans of Spanish-language pop music. Adopting the virtual ethnography approach and using mixed methods including interviews and web-crawling of fan production, we collected data from one particular member who devotes his free time to translating Spanish-language song lyrics into Chinese, and we analyze how informal language learning takes place in this context. Our results indicate that 1) the flexibility of roles and collaborations within the community contribute to the co-construction of knowledge; 2) fan practices are fueled by the technology-facilitated fulfillment of emotional needs and the formation of a shared identity; and 3) systematic strategies appear when amateur online translators go about trying to translate colloquial expressions in a foreign language. Among these strategies are the triangulation of meanings across lyrics, the use of multiple online tools, a reliance on feedback from fellow community members, and a critical approach to sources with an eye to ensuring their reliability. These findings showing highly specialized information retrieval and critical literacy skills in fan practices could serve as inspiration for integrating lyrics translations into formal language education to enhance the acquisition of non-standardized vocabulary and the cultivation of critical thinking.

Nonsport narratives, fan production, and affective discourse in girls and women eSports fandom: An alternative construction of pro-gaming in China

This article discusses the cultural practices of girls and women eSports fans and their significance. The paper argues that the cultural performances of girls and women eSports fans challenge the hegemonic masculinity of the eSports sphere by allowing fans to enter the world of eSports affectively. Girls and women eSports fans oppose the patriarchal competitive discourse of “noob is an original sin” from traditional eSports fans and try to open new discourse spaces from the perspectives of romance, homosociality, and cuteness. Through actively participating in tournament spectatorship, social media discussions, and production of fan products, girls and women fans have developed an affective narrative of “generating power with love.” Thus, girls and women girls and women eSports fans have partially transformed the traditional male-dominant eSports fandom and opened new affective spaces for cultural practices for eSports fans.

Affective stance as positioning in an English-speaking online fan community

This study analyses how affective stance is used for evaluation and positioning in fan discourse. Adopting a corpus-based approach, the paper focuses on affective stance verbs in an English-speaking popular media fandom on three social media platforms, Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit. Fans use affective stance to construct positions in relation to the popular media franchise, in this case a popular Japanese manga and anime series. By combining quantitative and qualitative linguistic analysis the study shows that stancetaking verbalises fans’ investment in the fictional world of the narrative media, in the franchise production, and in the context of fan productivity. The discursively constructed positions reflect common fan practices such as publicising fan affect and emotions, reviewing the franchise critically, and sharing textual fan productivity. The analysis associates platform differences with the social norms of the fans and the technological affordances that enable their interaction. Because hashtag-based interaction on micro-blogs is primarily indirect, the study argues that the interactive functions of stance can be understood in relation to the general fandom affect.

Properties on the Fan Product of M-matrices

In this study, the lower bound expressions of the smallest eigenvalue q(E ★ F) are derived using the row sums of two M-matrices and the maximum of the main diagonal elements. The obtained lower bounds improve the existing related conclusions. Furthermore, the results of this paper are compared with those of related results by two specific examples to verify the accuracy of the results.

Platform Rhetoric and Fan Labour as the Building Blocks of <em>LEGO Ideas</em>

Platform Rhetoric and Fan Labour as the Building Blocks of <em>LEGO Ideas</em>

HOW TO BECOME A PRODUCTIVE FAN? THE EXISTENCE OF FAN TALKS AS FANDOM PRODUCTIVITY

Fans draw sharply the line between what falls within their fandom and what does not. Accumulation and appreciation of knowledge regarding fan’s objects of fandom are important for fan cultural capital. Fiske’s pre-internet model of fan productivity occurs at the interface between industrially-produced cultural commodities and the everyday life of the fan. Fan talk is a circulation mechanism of certain meanings of the object of fandom implying the membership of a particular fan community. BTS is a K-Pop group that uses online exposure with a variety of contents ranging from members personal message to behind-the-scenes footage to create deeper levels of intimacy with their fans. This helps them to advance their careers and create alliances with their fans. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach to explore BTS fan’s participation in fan talk activities shared within face-to-face communication. The data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews and participant observations of four BTS’s fans (called ARMY). The result shows that fan talk is one way of expressing the existence of fans. Digital media and the internet have allowed BTS' fans to share a wide range of signifiers and meanings from their music quickly and easily. This has created a form of symbolic interaction among fans that can be used to communicate concepts and ideas among one another. This enunciative productivity of fans is also serving a widespread promotional function for non-fans.

‘Entangled in War Stories’ – Affect and Representations of War Narratives in Fanvids

This article introduces war-themed fan productions as a medium to tell and spread war narratives, using the example of YouTube fan videos (fanvids). These remixes of third-party audio-visual resources provide information about which and in what way military conflicts are remembered by amateur creators. Based on online ethnographic research and quantitative and qualitative video analysis, the author explores fanvids as an intertextual, highly emotional medium. Furthermore, drawing on Wilhelm Schapp’s ‘entanglement’ theory, fanvids are discussed as a medium causing affect in the viewer, who through fanvid consumption can potentially engage emotionally in the depicted narratives. Emotive potential of war fanvids is presented based on the analysis of the 2022 war in Ukraine videos created by a Ukrainian user. The author argues that fanvids constitute a valuable source of information about bottom-up war narratives circulating internationally among Internet users and shaping their sentiments.

New lower bounds of the minimum eigenvalue for the Fan product of several <i>M</i>-matrices

<abstract><p>In this study, we generalize the definition of the Fan product of two <italic>M</italic>-matrices to any $ k $ <italic>M</italic>-matrices $ {{A}_{1}}, {{A}_{2}}, \cdots, {{A}_{k}} $ of order $ n $. We introduce two new inequalities for the lower bound of the minimum eigenvalue $ \tau \left({{A}_{1}}\star {{A}_{2}}\star \cdots \star {{A}_{k}} \right) $. These new lower bounds generalize the existing results. To validate the accuracy of our findings, we present examples in which our results outperform previous ones in certain cases.</p></abstract>

Prototyping to elicit user requirements for product development: Using head-mounted augmented reality when designing interactive devices

Designers of interactive devices are challenged by the need to accurately elicit user requirements from low-cost prototypes at the early stages of the design process. Head-mounted augmented reality (AR) can potentially assist in this process by economically representing physical-digital blended features with relatively high-fidelity prototypes. To explore this potential, we present and evaluate a head-mounted AR-enhanced hybrid prototyping system created in the context of a fan product development process. We conducted a mixed-methods study comparing the AR-enhanced prototyping method with a conventional prototyping method. The results reveal that the AR system can elicit similar user requirements as the conventional prototyping method with an improved overall experience.

The Influence of Product Quality, Service Quality and Perceived Quality on Repurchase Intention with Customer Satisfaction as Intervening Variables at XXYZ Surabaya Store Customers

Abstract. Product quality is the result of the production of a product that can be a factor in sales volume. Meanwhile, service quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. In addition to product quality and service quality, there is perceived quality, namely the customer's perception of the overall quality or superiority of a product or service related to what is expected by the customer. The hypothesis of this study states that the three variables, namely, product quality, service quality and perceived quality affect repurchase intentions directly and indirectly through the intervening variable, namely satisfaction. This research was conducted on exhaust fan products owned by the XXYZ brand. This study uses a quantitative approach with data collection methods using questionnaires. This study uses the PLS method using SmartPLS3. Respondents in this study were XXYZ Surabaya customers who had purchased exhaust fan products in the period March 2019-March 2021 with age over 30 years. The number of respondents in this study amounted to 100 respondents. The results of this study explain that the independent variables namely product quality, service quality and perceived quality have a significant influence on the intervening variable, namely satisfaction. For the independent variable perceived quality has no direct effect on repurchase intention. And the product quality variable has no indirect effect on repurchase intention.Keywords: Product quality; service quality; perceived quality; satisfaction; repurchase intention

Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator. The Anti-Shippers’ Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production

The author of this paper uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to discusses the anti-shipper movement and its call for exclusion of problematic content from online repositories of fanwork. Anti-shippers, who oppose indiscriminate inclusion of potentially harmful content and its creators in the field of fan production, are a relatively new and vocal faction inside the field. While the research on antis has focused on their methods of harassment and its effects on fan community, this paper discusses the conditions inside the field before the movement’s emergence, focusing on the affordances and terms of service of online fanwork repositories. The author proposes to treat the question of exclusion of sensitive content and its creators as one concerning the field’s autonomy, and presents the anti controversy as a way for newcomers to establish their position in the field and change its problematic.

Inequalities on the Fan Product of M-matrices

The research of M-matrix involving Fan product is an important topic of M-matrix theory research. Three inequalities on the minimum eigenvalue of Fan product are exhibited through the Perron eigenvectors of the M-matrices. The inequalities can be regarded as useful complements to existing research results.

Blended Learning Based Project In Electronics Engineering Education Courses: A Learning Innovation after the Covid-19 Pandemic

Engineering education is an important part of preparing quality graduates for the challenges of the Covid-19 and post-pandemic conditions, and electronics engineering education is no exception. Blended learning-based projects as an alternative to innovative learning at this time. This study aims to explore and explain the application of blended learning-based projects in electronics engineering education courses. The research method used is a project-based product design and development carried out by blended learning. We conduct our project activities in higher education special students from Electronic Engineering Education that take part in the learning of this project. Students who participate are only limited to small groups to avoid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 1 small group consisting of 3-5 people and there is 1 group leader who manages the work, while other members are supportive and help complete joint projects. The results of this study show the ability of students to work by implementing project-based learning in producing products, namely Exhaust Fan products based on Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) as a form of a mini prototype that can be used for small household scale industries. The ability of students to work on product manufacturing by applying the principles of project-based learning in the category already has the ability to, skilled and thoroughly working on the project that was planned until it succeeded in becoming a product prototype which was carried out in project-based blended learning.

Mapping an online production network: The field of 'actual play' media.

This article maps out and analyzes relationships shaping production in a growing cultural field of online gaming media production called 'Actual Play' (AP). AP occupies an ambiguous economic space between fan production and professional media and is marked by widespread monetization. Drawing on qualitative semi-structured interviews with 24 AP producers, this article uses actor-network theory and the concept of cultural fields to understand that space through an account of the actors constituting it. This maps the how AP producers develop their practices through complex relational networks. The analysis identifies 'key actor types' - the varieties of technological, human and corporate actors whose activities give shape to producers' practices. The article concludes that despite pervasive pressures to professionalize, the field offers limited pathways to vocational sustainability.

Design Of Noise Level Control To Reduce The Dosage Of Noise Exposure In Jakarta Electronic Companies

Noise is one of the physical hazard factors that are often encountered in the work environment. Continuous noise can cause discomfort at work. Jakarta Electronics Company is a company that produces electronic goods such as fans. The guard shop production unit is a production area that produces front guard and rear guard (fan product safety net). In the production unit there is a noise problem. Noise occurs at the level of 86 to 92 dB(A) and lasts for 7.8 hours/day, so it has exceeded the noise threshold value permitted by the government based on the Decree of the Minister of Manpower No. KEP.51/MEN/1999. This noise has the effect of hearing loss, feeling disturbed, fatigue, and impaired work communication.The research design used is a descriptive design using a survey method. Research variables include air temperature, noise level, duration of work, exposure to noise. Noise level and room temperature were measured using a 4 in 1 Multi Function Environment Meter. Other data is obtained from company record files.The measurement results show that the noise in the guard shop production unit has passed the threshold value with a noise range of 86 dB to 92 dB, which is in the area of ​​Middle Ring Welding, Cutting, Outer Ring Welding, Forming, , and Projection Welding machines.The design of the noise level management in the guard shop production unit is carried out by engineering control through the installation of barriers. The installation of the barrier will not interfere with the smooth flow of production at the guard shop production unit and other work stations