Abstract: A method of forming an SiCN film on a surface to be processed of an object, the method including: supplying an Si source gas containing an Si source into a processing chamber having the object accommodated therein; and supplying a gas containing a nitriding agent into the processing chamber after supplying the Si source gas, wherein a compound of nitrogen and carbon is used as the nitriding agent and wherein R1, R2 and R3 in the compound of nitrogen and carbon are linear or branched alkyl groups having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, which may have hydrogen atoms or substituents. Therefore, the SiCN film can be formed while maintaining a satisfactory film forming rate even though the film forming temperature is lowered.

Abstract: A computer system, comprising: a computer for outputting a result in response to a request; and a storage system for storing data output based on the request, the computer including: a request reception module for receiving the request; a processing procedure generation module for generating a plurality of processing procedures including an order of access to the data stored in the plurality of storage devices; a data division module for dividing the data; an information obtaining module for obtaining load information indicating a load condition of the storage system; an allotment determination module for determining, based on the obtained load information, allotments for allocating the divided data to be processed by the generated plurality of processing procedures; and a processing execution module for executing, based on the determined allotments, the generated plurality of processing procedures in parallel.

Abstract: Provided is a database management apparatus, having a processor, a memory, and a storage device, whereby a database which is stored in the storage device is managed, the database management apparatus further comprising: a query acceptance unit which accepts a query to the database; a query execution plan generating unit which generates a query execution plan which includes a database operation which is necessary for executing the accepted query; and a query execution unit which, in executing the accepted query on the basis of the generated query execution plan, dynamically generates a task for executing the database operation, and executes the dynamically generated task. The query execution unit acquires a resource usage state, and, when executing the next database operation, generates a new task on the basis of the resource usage state, and executes the new task in parallel with the task.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus, that performs oxidization on a surface of a substrate in a vacuum atmosphere formed in a vacuum chamber, includes an atmosphere gas supply part configured to supply an atmosphere gas into the vacuum chamber to form a processing atmosphere containing ozone and hydrogen donor, wherein a concentration of the ozone is above a threshold concentration to trigger chain reaction of decomposition. The substrate processing apparatus further includes an energy supply part configured to supply an energy to the processing atmosphere to oxidize a surface of a substrate with reactive species generated by forcibly decomposing the ozone and hydroxyl radical generated by reaction of the hydrogen donor.

Abstract: It is provided a database processing method including: a first step of receiving a query request instructing to output the requested data as query results in a designated order; a second step of generating a query execution plan including an order of accessing tables for storing the data based on the received query request; a third step of acquiring the data requested based on the query request from the database based on the generated query execution plan; a fourth step of generating intermediate results including the acquired data; a fifth step of sorting the generated intermediate results in the designated order; a sixth step of judging, for each of the intermediate results, whether an order of the sorted intermediate results has been determined; and a seventh step of outputting the intermediate results whose order has been determined as the query results in order from a head thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a selective growth method of selectively growing a thin film on exposed surfaces of an underlying insulation film and an underlying metal film, which includes: selectively growing a film whose thickness is decreased by combustion on the underlying metal film using metal of the underlying metal film as a catalyst; and selectively growing a silicon oxide film on the underlying insulation film while combusting the film whose thickness is decreased by combustion.

Abstract: According to this invention, a data arrangement method, the computer connected to a storage system which provides a plurality of logical storage devices comprising a plurality of physical storage devices arranges data in a logical storage volume constructed by integrating the plurality of logical storage devices. The method includes: a step wherein the computer receives an instruction to build the logical storage volume using the plurality of logical storage devices or to rebuild the constructed logical storage volume; a step wherein the computer obtains information about the plurality of physical storage devices constituting each of the plurality of logical storage devices included in the received instruction; and a step wherein the arrangement position of data into the logical storage volume is determined on the basis of the obtained information about the plurality of physical storage devices.

Abstract: [Object] To avoid an image quality deterioration due to image processing while maintaining a resolution of an image in a variable-rate-controlled stream. [Solving Means] An image processing apparatus includes a resolution acquisition section, an image enlargement and reduction section, and an image conversion section. The resolution acquisition section acquires a resolution of each of a plurality of temporally-consecutive images. An enlargement and reduction percentage generation section generates an enlargement and reduction percentage for each of the plurality of images based on the acquired resolution. The image enlargement and reduction section performs image enlargement and reduction processing on each of the plurality of images according to the generated enlargement and reduction percentage. The image conversion section performs image conversion processing on each of the plurality of images subjected to the image enlargement and reduction processing.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a fuel cell separator assembly includes a joining step for bringing opposing projections of uneven portions of separators into contact with each other through use of pressing members to join the projections through use of a welding robot. In the joining step, an elastic member is interposed between the pressing members and at least one of first and second separators so that a pressing force from the pressing members is imparted to the first and second separators. In this way, the opposing projections are brought into contact with each other by elastic deformation of the elastic member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a therapeutic agent for acute liver failure containing a hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), particularly an agent for treating fulminant hepatitis or late onset hepatic failure or suppression of progression of acute liver failure without hepatic coma to fulminant hepatitis or late onset hepatic failure. The present invention also provides a method for evaluating the efficacy of HGF including measuring the amount of ?-fetoprotein (liver regeneration biomarker) and/or soluble Fas (anti-apoptotic biomarker) in a sample obtained from a liver injury patient administered with HGF.

Abstract: A plurality of projections is arranged in a matrix on the upper surface of the housing of a contactless charging unit (110). When supplying power wirelessly to an onboard power reception device, a beam emission unit in a beam reception and emission unit (120) emits a laser beam progressing along the upper surface of a power transmission unit (170) to scan the upper part of the entire upper surface of the power transmission unit (170). When receiving a reflected beam, the beam reception unit in the beam reception and emission unit (120) sends the results of beam reception to a determination unit. The determination unit determines the presence or absence of a foreign substance supported on at least one projection existing on the upper surface of the contactless charging unit (110) on the basis of the results of beam reception.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine whose casing is made compact with a reduced number of components of a radiation mechanism. A slot machine comprising a casing 411 accommodating therein a security cage SK having therein a APX motherboard AM and having a shelf board R21, wherein the APX motherboard has a control unit (not-shown CPU), and a fan configured to cool the control unit; an air hole 411i is formed on a side surface of the casing 411; the shelf board R21 has a hollow portion; and the hollow portion serves as an air intake duct which, with an aide of a negative pressure generated in the security cage SK by the fan, supplies an external air from the air hole 411i to the security cage SK.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a casing top having an upper door device capable of being opened/closed; a casing bottom having a lower door device capable of being opened/closed; an upper door lock mechanism capable of locking the upper door device; and an lower door lock mechanism capable of locking the lower door device, wherein the upper door lock mechanism is provided inside the casing bottom.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a motherboard unit having a substrate on which a semiconductor device is mounted, the semiconductor device being a single package sealing therein a main processor having a CPU function for executing a game processing and sub processor capable of executing video processing, wherein the motherboard unit is connected to a power supply unit, the main processor and the sub processor are connected to each other via a bus of a certain communication protocol, and the main processor, at a time of powering on by the power supply unit, preferentially activates the sub processor as a GPU for executing graphics processing which is a part of the game processing, before a connection destination of a bus of a communication protocol other than the certain communication protocol.

Abstract: A database management system receives a new data table input to a database; and executes unique constraint determination processing of determining whether each comparison-subject value as each value registered in a target column in the new data table is different from each comparison reference value as each value registered in a target column in a stored data table in the database, and stores the new data table in a second database area different from a first database area storing the stored data table in the database when a determination result obtained in the unique constraint determination processing is true.

Abstract: Film formation apparatus includes: rotation mechanism to repeat alternately placing the substrate in first region and second region; raw material gas supply unit to supply the first region with gaseous raw material; processing space formation member to move up and down to form processing space isolated from the first region; atmosphere gas supply unit to supply atmosphere gas for forming ozone atmosphere where chain decomposition reaction is generated; energy supply unit to forcibly decompose the ozone by supplying energy to the ozone atmosphere and to obtain the oxide by oxidizing the raw material adsorbed to surface of the substrate; buffer region connected to the processing space and being supplied with inert gas; and partition unit to partition the buffer region off from the processing space when the atmosphere gas is supplied to the processing space and to have the buffer region communicate with the processing space when ozone is decomposed.

Abstract: A film formation apparatus of forming a thin film by stacking a molecular layer of an oxide on a surface of a substrate in a vacuum atmosphere formed within a vacuum chamber includes: a source gas supply unit supplying a source gas containing a source to the substrate; an atmosphere gas supply unit supplying an atmosphere gas to the vacuum chamber; an energy supply unit supplying energy to the ozone atmosphere; a control unit configured to output a control signal for repeatedly performing a cycle including a supply of the source gas, a supply of the atmosphere gas, and a supply of energy plural times; a buffer region connected to the vacuum chamber, an inert gas being supplied to the buffer region; and a partition unit partitioning the buffer region with respect to the vacuum chamber and making the buffer region communicate with the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A method of forming an SiCN film on a surface to be processed of an object, the method including: supplying an Si source gas containing an Si source into a processing chamber having the object accommodated therein; and supplying a gas containing a nitriding agent into the processing chamber after supplying the Si source gas, wherein a compound of nitrogen and carbon is used as the nitriding agent and wherein R1, R2 and R3 in the compound of nitrogen and carbon are linear or branched alkyl groups having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, which may have hydrogen atoms or substituents. Therefore, the SiCN film can be formed while maintaining a satisfactory film forming rate even though the film forming temperature is lowered.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the memory controller outputs a first command, then outputs N pieces of second commands to first and second memory chips, and reads out the read data from the first and second memory chips. First time is for reading out the read data from a memory cell array to a buffer, and second time is for transferring data of the one-Nth of the read data from the buffer to the memory controller. The memory controller outputs the first command, then outputs M pieces of the second commands to the first memory, then outputs a first command to the second memory chip, and then outputs (N?M) pieces of the second commands to the first memory chip. A relationship of (N?M?1)×(second time)<first time<=(N?M)×(second time) is satisfied.

Abstract: A film forming method for obtaining a thin film by laminating molecular layers of oxide on a surface of a substrate in a vacuum atmosphere includes performing a cycle a plurality of times. The cycle includes: supplying a source gas containing a source to the substrate in a vacuum vessel to adsorb the source onto the substrate; forming an ozone atmosphere containing ozone having a concentration not less than that where a chain decomposition reaction is caused in the vacuum vessel; and forcibly decomposing the ozone by supplying energy to the ozone atmosphere to generate active species of oxygen, and oxidizing the source adsorbed onto the surface of the substrate by the active species to obtain the oxide.