Abstract: An information collection method for collecting information about an event occurred in a peripheral device, comprising: preparing an e-mail for notifying about the event, sending the e-mail to a server, analyzing the e-mail by the server and collecting information about the event.

Abstract: An information provision method for providing information to deal with an abnormality occurred in a peripheral device, comprising: notifying the abnormality to a host apparatus which controls the peripheral device, obtaining a storage location for information corresponding to the abnormality occurred in the peripheral device from a database which holds the storage location for information corresponding to the abnormality, obtaining information located in the storage location from a server, and displaying the information obtained from the server on a display terminal of the host apparatus.

Abstract: An information provision method for providing information to deal with an abnormality occurred in a peripheral device, comprising: notifying the abnormality to a host apparatus which controls the peripheral device, obtaining a storage location for information corresponding to the abnormality occurred in the peripheral device from a database which holds the storage location for information corresponding to the abnormality, obtaining information located in the storage location from a server, and displaying the information obtained from the server on a display terminal of the host apparatus.

Abstract: An information collection method for collecting information about an event occurred in a peripheral device, comprising: preparing an e-mail for notifying about the event, sending the e-mail to a server, analyzing the e-mail by the server and collecting information about the event.

Abstract: A method for preventing and treating disturbances of intestinal mucous membrane comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of the compound 2-(4-chlorobenzoylamino)-3-(2-quinolon-4-yl) propionic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A method for treating diabetes mellitus comprising administering to a patient in need thereof a pharmaceutically acceptable inert carrier in combination with an effective amount for treating diabetes mellitus of a carbostyril compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a halogen atom, the position of substitution of the side chain in the carbostyril skeleton being at the 3- or 4-position and the bond between the 3-position and the 4-positions in the carbostyril skeleton being a single bond or a double bond.

Abstract: An agent for increasing secretion of somatostatin or inhibiting decrease of secretion of somatostatin which comprises as an active ingredient a carbostyril compound of the formula: ##STR1## or a salt thereof, which is useful for treating diseases associated with the decrease of somatostatin such as esophagitis, Alzheimer's disease, etc.

Abstract: A vector quantizing apparatus having a general vector quantization circuit, and a storage means for storing at least one frame of data as the result of comparison by a matching circuit is provided. Further, provided are a speech analysis-synthesis system having a spectral envelope generator for generating a spectral envelope which is so smooth that excessive beating is avoided, a spectral envelope vector converter for sampling the spectral envelope at equal intervals on mel-scale, a vector quantizer for quantizing vectors, and a spectral envelope reconstructor for reconstructing the spectral envelope by interpolation on the basis of combined parabolas.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a quinoline derivative and salt thereof of the following general formula: ##STR1## (wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and n have the same meanings as defined above). Such a derivative is useful as an antiulcer agent.

Abstract: A system for voice coding based on vector quantization has an apparatus in which a distribution area of parameters representative of a voice is divided into a plurality of domains so that one vector (code vector) may correspond to one domain, an apparatus for representing individual code vectors by codes specific thereto, an apparatus for converting an input voice into a vector and determining membership functions by numerically expressing the distance between the nearest code vector and each of the predetermined number of neighboring vectors, and an apparatus for transmitting, as fuzzy vector quantization information, a code of the nearest code vector and the membership functions.