Abstract: An object of the present invention is to dynamically transfer a virtual file server within a cluster that is configured by a plurality of file servers in which virtual file servers are set up. A storage system includes: a first file server; a second file server; and a disk subsystem, in which: the first file server and the second file server each include a virtual file server control unit that sets up the virtual file server; the virtual file server includes a routing table that stores path information necessary for communication; and the virtual file server started up in the second file server determines a communication path by using the routing table used by the virtual file server in the first file server after taking a failover from the virtual file server of the first file server to the second file server.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an enhancer which functions only in human brain and/or spinal cord motor neurons, where the enhancer comprises a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 10, or SEQ ID NO: 16. The enhancer can be utilized as part of a nucleic acid construct which also has a nucleic acid encoding a marker protein or a therapeutic protein, a 3? control region, and, optionally, a basal promoter, where these components are positioned with respect to one another to permit expression of the marker protein or the therapeutic protein. The enhancer of the present invention is useful in a method of isolating an enriched or purified population of motor neurons from a mixed population of human brain and/or spinal cells. In addition, the enhancer of the present invention can be used in a method of therapeutically targeting motor neurons.

Abstract: Predicting whether a file migration will be executed successfully or not.

Abstract: A light quantity control apparatus, which controls light quantity of a light of a vehicle, includes a traffic-jam-information obtaining unit obtaining traffic-jam-information including information on positions and on presence/absence of a traffic jam, a vehicle-position obtaining unit obtaining a position of a vehicle, a traffic-jam identifying unit identifying whether the vehicle is in a traffic jam based on the traffic-jam-information and the position of the vehicle, a traffic-jam-time light quantity control unit decreasing the light quantity compared with a normal time if the vehicle is in a traffic jam, an urban-district obtaining unit obtaining information on whether or not the vehicle is in an urban district or near an intersection, and an urban-district-traveling-time light quantity control unit decreasing the light quantity compared with a case where the vehicle is in an area other than urban districts and intersections if the vehicle is in the urban district or near an intersection.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and an intermediate layer. The first dielectric layer is a layer containing BaO, Nd2O3, and TiO2, the second dielectric layer is a layer containing a different material from the material of the first dielectric layer, and the intermediate layer is a layer formed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer and containing main components that are not contained in the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer in common as the main components.

Abstract: The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation unit for creating a virtual communication channel between the management unit and the control units; a virtual communication channel connection unit for separately connecting the management unit and each control unit to the virtual communication channel created by the virtual communication channel creation unit; and a sending unit for sending, to each control unit, a command sent from the management computer via the virtual communication channel connected by the virtual communication channel connection unit.

Abstract: A control apparatus sets, in a node located at the start point of an aggregatable segment of two or more packet forwarding paths including the aggregatable segment, a packet handling operation for each flow, the packet handling operation being for writing a flow identifier for identifying the flow and a path identifier used for packet forwarding through the aggregatable segment in a region of each of packets to be matched against the matching rule and then causing the packet to be output. The packets respectively belong to the individual flows, and each of the packets is to be forwarded through a corresponding one of the two or more packet forwarding paths. Further, the control apparatus sets, in a node located intermediate on the aggregatable segment, a common packet handling operation for causing the packet that matches the path identifier to be forwarded according to the packet forwarding path.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production schedule creating apparatus that acquires daily operation record for each process and changes the production sequence so as to instruct an operation in order to meet due date. A production schedule creating method plans a production schedule of a production process. The production process includes a plurality of operation processes. The production schedule creating method estimates a future status of delivery delay using a current status of the production process, performs a production simulation using a plurality of dispatching rules on a production process where the future delivery delay is estimated by the estimation, selects the most appropriate dispatching method with respect to a threshold value of a production management index of an on-time delivery rate and total overtime hours based on a result of the performed production simulation, and provides a production instruction to the production process using the selected dispatching method.

Abstract: The use of the known feature amounts results in a low level of accuracy in finding similar files. To deal with this problem, the similar file determination process of this invention involves dividing a file, while at the same time changing a file dividing condition, and repeating this dividing operation until the total number of divided pieces of data exceeds a predetermined number. For each of the divided pieces of data thus obtained a hash value is calculated and all the hash values are output.

Abstract: A dielectric ceramic includes a main component and a minor component. The main component includes a BaTi4O9 crystal phase and a Ba2Ti9O20 crystal phase, is represented by BaO.xTiO2, has a molar ratio x of TiO2 to BaO of 4.6 to 8.0, and in X-ray diffraction, and has an X-ray diffraction peak intensity ratio I29/I14 of a maximum diffraction peak intensity (I14) of the BaTi4O9 crystal phase to a maximum diffraction peak intensity (W of the Ba2Ti9O20 crystal phase of 1 or more. The minor component includes a boron oxide and a copper oxide, in which the boron oxide content is in the range of 0.5 to 5.0 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the main component, and the copper oxide content is in the range of 0.1 to 3.0 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the main component.

Abstract: An information system comprises: a storage system including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of virtual volumes to be allocated pages from a storage pool of volumes; and a metadata server which, upon receiving from a client a write request containing file data to be written to a virtual volume in the storage system, returns the write request to the client with parallel information which is added to a data layout of the file data to be written in the virtual volume. The storage system, upon receiving the write request with the parallel information, allocates, based on the parallel information, pages from the storage pool to the virtual volume for writing the file data, so that the data layout is striped and the allocated pages fit striped data access according to the striped data layout.

Abstract: A vehicle lighting apparatus has a semiconductor light-emitting device, an optical unit for discharging light of the semiconductor light-emitting device toward an irradiated area, a driving circuit portion for supplying electric power to the semiconductor light-emitting device, and a heat radiating portion. The semiconductor light-emitting device is directly attached to the driving circuit portion. The optical unit, the driving circuit portion and the heat radiating portion are assembled together to form a lighting module.

Abstract: An information processing system retains one or more files utilized by an external apparatus, each of which is made up of a plurality of chunks, in a manner that the chunks making up each of the files are distributed. The information processing system includes a plurality of chunk servers, each storing chunks, and one master server communicatively coupled thereto. The master server retains a file name of a file, chunk IDs indicating chunks making up the file, and chunk IDs indicating chunk servers storing the chunks. When a snapshot taking request for a file is received, the master server identifies chunks included in the file from the file name and the chunk IDs to instruct the chunk servers having these chunks to take a differential snapshot of each of the chunks with the use of a differential snapshot function included in a local file system of each of the chunk servers.

Abstract: A storage where one NAS server makes snapshot management information including global paths of snapshots based on snapshot identifiers and global paths of file systems corresponding to the snapshots, so that global paths of both the file systems and snapshots are configured on the same global namespace simultaneously, with a directory configuration of the snapshots being the same in configuration layout as a directory configuration of the file systems; the one NAS server informs other NAS servers of the snapshot management information; memory in each of the NAS servers stores the snapshot management information; the snapshot management information includes the snapshot identifier, local path and global path for each of snapshots obtained by each NAS server at each point in time; and the computer obtains the snapshot management information from at least one of the NAS servers and displays at least a part of the snapshot management information.

Abstract: A file server including: a first interface coupled to a client computer which manages a client side user identifier used by the client computer to identify a client computer user; a second interface coupled to a first storage storing first file system data and a first file system side user identifier used by the first file system to identify the client computer user, and a second storage storing second file system data and a second file system side user identifier used by the second file system to identify the client computer user; a processor which receives a client computer's first access request to the first file system, obtains a first file system identifier which identifies the first file system and the first file system side user identifier, and translates the first file system side user identifier to a first client side user identifier using the first file system identifier.

Abstract: Proposed are a backup apparatus and a backup method capable of improving the backup performance, as well as a file reading apparatus capable of improving the file reading performance. As a result of determining a read sequence upon reading the respective files from a disk device based on a physical address of the respective storage areas storing data of each of the files in the disk device, and sequentially reading data of each of the files from the disk device according to the determined read sequence, overhead such as the head seek and rotational delay in the disk device upon reading a plurality of files from such disk device can be dramatically reduced.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a technique that avoids occurrence of interference among multiple placement heads, when multiple placement heads simultaneously access a circuit board, and a pallet which is arranged in one direction with respect to the circuit board. When the component placement part 150 having the multiple placement heads simultaneously pick up the components from the pallet 160 and simultaneously place the components on the circuit board, the controller 140 specifies a pair of component groups to be picked up simultaneously from the pallet 160 by the multiple placement heads and places the components on the circuit board, so that an area where the multiple placement heads move in overlapping manner is minimized, and the placement heads respectively pick up the components included in the pair of component groups being specified and place the components on the circuit board.

Abstract: An electric camera includes an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having N vertically arranged pixels and an arbitrary number of pixels arranged horizontally, N being equal to or more than three times the number of effective scanning lines M of a display screen of a television system, a driver to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signal charges accumulated in individual pixels of K pixels to produce, during a vertical effective scanning period of the television system, a number of lines of output signals which corresponds to 1/K the number of vertically arranged pixels N of the image sensing device, K being an integer equal to or less than an integral part of a quotient of N divided by M, and a signal processing unit having a function of generating image signals by using the output signals of the image sensing device.

Abstract: The client computer which transmits an access request specifying an object existing in the first file system and the second computer which accesses the second file system are connected to the first computer which accesses the first file system. The second file system includes a shared directory. A specific object which is an object complying with the path name including the name determined in accordance with the type of the second computer is stored in the shared directory. The controller mounts the shared directory to the first file system. The controller creates a link which comprises a name determined in accordance with a certain naming regulation independent of the type of the computer and corresponds to the specific object in the first file system.

Abstract: The information storage system of an aspect of the present invention includes a first differential data storage area which stores differential data of a higher volume from a first point of time to a second point of time, a lower snapshot manager which provides a lower snapshot at the second point of time of the higher volume, and a second differential data storage area which stores differential data of the higher volume after the second point of time. The higher snapshot manager acquires a plurality of generations of higher snapshots from the lower snapshot and the data in the first differential data storage area and acquires a plurality of generations of higher snapshots from the data of the higher volume and the data in the second differential data storage area.