Abstract: A method for estimating an emotional state is executed by a computer and includes acquiring an amount of change of a cerebral blood flow of a user from a reference time, acquiring an amount of change of a heart rate of the user from a reference time, and outputting a signal indicating that the user is in an excited state in a case where the amount of change of the cerebral blood flow is smaller than a first threshold value and the amount of change of the heart rate is larger than a second threshold value.

Abstract: A biological measurement device includes a light emitting device, a sensor, and a processing circuit. The light emitting device irradiates a first region and a second region, which is located on an upper side relative to the first region, of a forehead of a subject with light. The sensor detects first scattering light generated by the light incident on the first region and second scattering light generated by the light incident on the second region and outputs detection signals according to intensities of the first and second scattering light. The processing circuit selects one of the first and second regions as a target region based on the detection signals and/or an image signal indicative of an image including a face of the subject and generates and outputs brain activity data indicative of a state of brain activity of the subject based on the detection signal in the selected target region.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes first and second light sources, a diffuser, a photodetector, and a processing circuit. The first and second light sources respectively output first emitted light and second emitted light. The mirror causes the first emitted light and the second emitted light to be concentrated and incident on one region of the diffuser. The photodetector detects first reflected light and second reflected light that emanate from a subject due to the first emitted light and the second emitted light diffused by the diffuser, respectively. The processing circuit generates and outputs information related to the subject, based on the result of detection of the first reflected light and the second reflected light by the photodetector. The distance between two light spots respectively formed on the one region by the first emitted light and the second emitted light is less than the distance between the first and second light sources.

Abstract: A measurement apparatus includes a light source, a sensor including light detection cells including a first light detection cell and a second light detection cell, and an electronic circuit. The circuit causes the light source to emit a light pulse, causes the first light detection cell to detect a reflected light pulse from a target in an exposure period including at least part of a period from when an intensity of the reflected light pulse starts increasing to when it starts falling and generate a first signal, causes the second light detection cell to detect the reflected light pulse in an exposure period including at least part of a trailing period from when the intensity of the reflected light pulse starts falling to when it stops falling and generate a second signal. The circuit generates, based on the first and second signals, data representing states of the target.

Abstract: A computer-readable medium recorded with a deadlock pre-detection program for making a computer execute a first procedure of making the computer read job logic design information structured of a plurality of process steps including an access step involving an access to any one of a plurality of databases, a second procedure of generating a process route configured of at least two access steps on the basis of the job logic design information, a third procedure of acquiring the first access step and the second access step from the process route, a fourth procedure of judging whether a data base access sequence based respectively on the first step and the second step is a predetermined access sequence or not, and a fifth procedure of notifying of, in the case of judging that the access sequence is not the predetermined access sequence, a purport of deviating from the predetermined access sequence.

Abstract: A deadlock pre-detection program for making a computer execute a first procedure of making the computer read job logic design information structured of a plurality of process steps including an access step involving an access to any one of a plurality of databases, a second procedure of generating a process route configured of at least two access steps on the basis of the job logic design information, a third procedure of acquiring the first access step and the second access step from the process route, a fourth procedure of judging whether a data base access sequence based respectively on the first step and the second step is a predetermined access sequence or not, and a fifth procedure of notifying of, in the case of judging that the access sequence is not the predetermined access sequence, a purport of deviating from the predetermined access sequence.

Abstract: A thermometer includes an infrared sensor (14) for receiving infrared radiation to generate a corresponding electrical signal; a reference unit (10) for emitting a standard infrared radiation; a temperature sensor (11) for receiving the standard infrared radiation to generate a corresponding standard electrical signal; a support unit (1, 2) for supporting the infrared sensor and the reference means such that the infrared sensor receives the standard infrared radiation from the reference means in a standby state and infrared radiation from a subject in a measurement state; an arithmetic unit (44) for computing a temperature of the subject based on the electrical signals from the infrared sensor in both the standby and measurement states and from the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A gas trubine combustor includes a main body with a combustion portion into which mixture of fuel and air is supplied. The gas mixture is burned through a catalytic reaction at a catalyst body arranged in the main body. The gas mixture passed through the catalyst body is introduced into a gas phase combustion portion provided in the main body. Between the catalyst body and the gas phase combustion portion is arranged a dividing unit which has a plurality of branch passages. The gas mixture passed through the catalyst body is divided by the dividing unit into a plurality of gas streams flowing through the branch passages. Each of the gas streams is mixed with fuel supplied from a fuel supply tube.