Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a vaccine for in ovo inoculation effective for prevention of any fowl viral diseases. A fowl vaccine for in ovo inoculation with high efficacy in view of safety as well wherein, by holding such live viruses on a virus-adsorbing agent through adsorption that have been difficult for practical usage as a vaccine for in ovo inoculation, viral growth in embryonated chicken eggs after in ovo inoculation is retarded to thereby reduce pathogenicity of the viruses to embryo to avoid reduction in hatching rate and to alleviate severity in clinical symptoms after hatching. A virus-adsorbing agent to be used in the vaccine includes an aluminum compound such as aluminum hydroxide gel, potassium alum and the like.

Abstract: A timing decision apparatus includes: an adaptability decision unit configured to decide a correspondence between a feature quantity of media as encoded data capable of being replayed and an adaptability showing a degree of adaptation for providing a specific service; an adaptability storage unit configured to store the correspondence; and a timing decision unit configured to decide timing of providing the specific service in response to a value of the adaptability stored in the adaptability storage unit.

Abstract: To group ID tags distributed in a larger area than the coverage of a tag reader, a parameter which represents a measure of the strength of relationship among a plurality of ID tags is stored in a parameter storage database. Values of the parameter are increased and decreased according to the number of pieces of ID information detected simultaneously in the ID tags by a mobile tag reader. A plurality of ID tags are judged as belonging to the same group according to values of the parameter stored in the parameter storage database, thereby making it possible to group ID tags distributed in a larger area than the coverage of a tag reader.

Abstract: The present invention enables character conversion at a low cost for a contents provider and with a high convenience for a user. In a character input assist system, text data assigned with an identifier and indicating the class of text entry field are sent from a Web server, and the identifier is acquired as class information from the text data received by a class acquisition unit of a character input assist device. In a reference unit, dictionary information corresponding to the class information acquired by the class acquisition unit is acquired with reference to a storage unit. Text data with dictionary information embedded therein are output from an output unit to a user terminal. In the user terminal, when text data are acquired and displayed using a browser, and character input is performed, the search is conducted by a dictionary search unit using a dictionary specified by the dictionary information, and conversion candidates are displayed on a display unit.

Abstract: An information managing unit (4) has an ID information storage (41) for receiving and storing ID information (11) from an RFID reader (2) for detecting, from an RFID tag (1) holding variable ID information (11), the ID information (11) and for updating and managing the stored ID information (11) in synchronization with the variable ID information (11) held by the RFID tag (1), by a predetermined method; an event detector (42) for detecting an event to be a trigger to notify another information managing unit (5) of the stored ID information (11); and an ID information requester (43) for, when the event is detected, notifying the other information managing unit (5) of the ID information (11), for acquiring the ID information (11) and managing unit information about the other information managing unit (5) from the other information managing unit (5), and for storing the acquired managing unit information in correspondence to the ID information (11) into the ID information storage (41).

Abstract: A notification-purpose user state managing apparatus, a notification controlling apparatus, an information notification apparatus, an information notification system and an information notification method capable of reducing an unpleasant feeling and a burden and encouraging a user to recognize information are provided. The information notification system includes a notification-purpose user state managing apparatus including user's internal state assuming means for assuming a user's internal state based on an observable state element and user's notification utility assuming means for assuming utility to a user receiving information when information is notified based on the user's internal state; and a notification controlling apparatus including notification executing means for determining whether or not information is notified based on the utility and notifying information based on the determination.

Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: <Problems> The present invention provides a detection method of estrogen-like chemicals, which uses a plant, needs not use a complicated procedure as sterilization and is highly sensitive as a sensor. <Means for Solving the Problems> The present invention is a transformed plant, which is transformed by transducing effector 1 sequence, effector 2 sequence, a target DNA and a reporter gene, wherein said effector 1 sequence has a promoter, a nuclear localization signal, and a chimeric gene comprising a domain coding a polypeptide binding to a target DNA and a domain coding a ligand binding polypeptide of intranuclear receptors for estrogen-like chemicals, said effector 2 sequence has a promoter, a nuclear localization signal, and a chimeric gene comprising a domain coding an interacting domain with intranuclear receptors in a transcriptional coactivator and a domain coding a transcriptional activation domain, and said reporter gene locates in the down stream of said target DNA.

Abstract: The congestion in a network can be avoided by effectively utilizing a prepared network band even in a network where reception intervals of acknowledgments are not correct. According to the information about Ack or Sack (selective acknowledgment) received in a time of the minimum value of an RTT (rtt_min), the number of bytes of received segments (rcv_bytes) for which a receiving side acknowledges the reception is counted, and a received byte number setting unit 16 sets a congestion window (CWND) or a slow start threshold (SSTHRESH) when a packet loss occurs according to the number of bytes of received segments (rcv_bytes) counted by a received byte number counting unit 14 when a packet loss is detected by a loss detection unit 15.

Abstract: Novel infectious bursal disease (IBD) virus not protectable by the conventional IBD vaccines was isolated and a novel vaccine efficacious to said virus is provided. Novel IBD virus TY2 strain was isolated and its passage strains were obtained. TY2 strain has a distinct genetic type from those of the known IBD viral strains wherein a hypervariable region in VP2, a major host protective antigenic region of said virus, is cleaved with neither TaqI nor SspI but cleaved with MvaI into fragments of about 52 bp and about 422 bp. TY2 strain or the passage strain of said virus allows for production of an excellent vaccine to IBD.

Abstract: A communication system able to smoothly provide services and make requests for services even when the communication link is not constantly connected. The communication system includes a user node, a corresponding node, and a relay node constantly connected to the corresponding node. The relay node acts as proxy for the user node to transmit signals to or receive signals from the corresponding node. The relay node and the user node act as a virtual node with respect to the corresponding node, and the virtual node is identified by the address of the relay node.

Abstract: Transmission of excess segments to a network can be effectively inhibited. A received byte calculation section 14 calculates, at a sending side, the number of bytes of segments which arrive at a receiving side within a period of a minimum value of RTT measured by a minimum time measurement section 13, a target calculation section 15 calculates a target used for controlling segment transmission based on the number of bytes of the received segments calculated by the received byte calculation section 14, and a send segment control section 16 which controls segment transmission based on the target calculated by the target calculation section 15.

Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: A management system includes a manager determining unit determining a manager who manages an article, a user determining unit determining a user related to the article based upon detection of a wireless tag by a wireless tag reader, and an attribute information holding unit holding a wireless tag identifier, the manager, and the user while associating them with each other. The wireless tag identifier uniquely identifies a wireless tag.

Abstract: A retransmission control method of the present invention includes the steps in which a receiving terminal: measures a round trip time (RTT) between the receiving terminal and a sending terminal; calculates an RTO by using the measured RTT; and starts a time counting operation of the RTO upon reception from a point in time when a segment is received from the sending terminal; transmits a segment prompt signal which prompts the sending terminal to transmit a segment, when the segment is not received from the sending terminal until the RTO is completed, and in which the sending terminal: retransmits a segment to the receiving terminal when there is a segment to be retransmitted; and transmits a data-less signal to the receiving terminal when there is a segment that should be retransmitted, the data-less signal indicating that there is no segment that should be retransmitted.

Abstract: A wireless tag determination system includes a detection information storage configured to store information detected from a wireless tag by a tag reader, as detection information. A determination requesting unit is configured to request a determination for reliability of existence of the wireless tag within a detection range of the tag reader. A reliability determination unit is configured to determine the reliability by use of the detection information, in response to the request.

Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.

Abstract: When a tag selector 30 receives a plurality of RFID tag IDs detected by an RFID tag reader 10, by a tag ID receiving part 31, it acquires nonspecificities corresponding to these RFID tag IDs from an attribute information DB 41. The tag selector 30 selects an RFID tag ID with a nonspecificity smaller than a predetermined selected tag threshold by a tag ID selecting part 33 and notifies a service determining device 50 of it. A nonspecificity is an index indicating a diversity of use of an article to which a corresponding RFID tag is attached. Therefore, the service determining device 50 determines a service to be provided for the user, based on the RFID tag ID with the low nonspecificity value, whereby it becomes feasible to promptly provide the service very likely desired by the user.