Abstract: A method includes calculating a plurality of first index values indicating access loads from one or more first virtual storage devices accessing a first physical storage device of a plurality of physical storage devices, to the first physical storage device, in a case where access loads from the one or more first virtual storage devices to a plurality of second physical storage devices including the first physical storage device are equalized across the second physical storage devices, the plurality of second physical storage devices being associated with the one or more first virtual storage devices; and outputting a plurality of second index values indicating access loads from a plurality of virtual machines to the first physical storage device, the second index values being obtained by summing the calculated first index values for each virtual machine associated with each of the one or more first virtual storage devices.

Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control a steering system including a turning mechanism that includes a motor configured to generate a motor torque that serves as power for moving a turning shaft to turn turning wheels of a vehicle. The steering control device includes a control unit configured to control a target control value serving as a target of a control value for controlling the motor torque of the motor. The control unit is configured to perform compensation for the target control value; acquire an offset value; and change the target control value such that the acquired offset value decreases gradually.

Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid with a heater includes: a heating portion that is molded so as to cover the surrounding of the heater; and a support body integrally cast into the heating portion, the heating portion being molded in a state in which the heater is supported by the support body in a die for molding the heating portion.

Abstract: A system that evaluates spoken content, includes: an acquirer that acquires each content spoken by a plurality of participants in a meeting or a briefing; an identifier for identifying each speaker of the each spoken content; and an evaluator for evaluating the each spoken content, wherein the identifier identifies whether the each spoken content is content spoken by a first speaker, or by a second speaker or apparatus that interprets content spoken by the first speaker, and the evaluator evaluates content spoken by an identified speaker that is the first speaker, or the second speaker or apparatus.

Abstract: A musical score processing method that is realized by a computer includes receiving a control data related to displaying of a musical piece from a music processor that executes a process related to the musical piece and that is realized by a music processing program, using inter-application communication, based on a musical score processing program, and executing a display control process by displaying a musical score of the musical piece on a display device and controlling the displaying in accordance with the control data that has been received, based on the musical score processing program. The music processing program is separate from the musical score processing program.

Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid includes: a heater having a heat generating part, the heat generating part being configured to generate heat upon application of current; an electric component configured to control the application of the current to the heater; a tank having an opening portion, the tank being configured to accommodate the heat generating part; a top-plate portion configured to close the opening portion of the tank, the top-plate portion being configured to form a fluid chamber through which the fluid flows; and a first communication port and a second communication port configured to allow the fluid to flow through the fluid chamber; wherein the electric component is provided on an outer side of the fluid chamber along the top-plate portion.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a voice collecting device that collects a voice, and an information processing apparatus capable of generating a job, wherein either of the voice collecting device and the information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that specifies a user who has uttered, and the hardware processor of the information processing apparatus generates, as the job, based on information obtained from a voice in which a first user and a second user are individually specified by the hardware processor, a request job that the first user has requested the second user to execute.

Abstract: A musical score processing method that is realized by a computer includes receiving a control data related to displaying of a musical piece from a music processor that executes a process related to the musical piece and that is realized by a music processing program, using inter-application communication, based on a musical score processing program, and executing a display control process by displaying a musical score of the musical piece on a display device and controlling the displaying in accordance with the control data that has been received, based on the musical score processing program. The music processing program is separate from the musical score processing program.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a storage. The information processing apparatus starts an installer to install a printer driver on the storage. The installer comprises: a registration screen controller that displays a print setting registration screen about a print setting settable at the printer driver; an installation default generating part that generates an installation default print setting about at least one print setting item based on operation for print setting registration on the print setting registration screen by a user; and an output part that outputs the installation default print setting to the printer driver at the time of installation of the printer driver. The printer driver comprises a print setting managing part that stores the installation default print setting output from the installer into a first storage region in the storage, and manages the stored installation default print setting, the first storage region being a region not rewritable.

Abstract: A device identifies an information processing terminal and transmits a device identifier associated with the user to the information processing terminal. A server receives the device identifier from the information processing terminal and then transmits device metadata associated with the device identifier to the information processing terminal. The information processing terminal extracts an app identifier from the device metadata and transmits a distribution request for a device app including the extracted app identifier to the server.

Abstract: A battery unit, a bottomed case, a plate-shaped cooling plate, and first heat transfer material are included. The cooling plate is fastened to a bottom part of the case from the outside of the case, and can cool the battery unit via the bottom part of the case. The first heat transfer material have a plastic property and are held between the bottom part of the case and the cooling plate. The bottom part of the case has heat transfer material housings that house excess first heat transfer material therein when the cooling plate has been fastened to the case.

Abstract: A heating device includes: a heater that generates heat when electrical power is supplied; and at least two switching elements connected to the heater in series, the switching elements being configured to switch supply and interruption of electrical power to the heater by being switched on and off, wherein a first switching element of the at least two switching elements is kept at on state while switching operation of a second switching element is repeated between on and off.

Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid with a heater includes: a heating portion that is molded so as to cover the surrounding of the heater; and a support body integrally cast into the heating portion, the heating portion being molded in a state in which the heater is supported by the support body in a die for molding the heating portion.

Abstract: A fluid-heating device for heating fluid includes: a heater having a heat generating part, the heat generating part being configured to generate heat upon application of current; an electric component configured to control the application of the current to the heater; a tank having an opening portion, the tank being configured to accommodate the heat generating part; a top-plate portion configured to close the opening portion of the tank, the top-plate portion being configured to form a fluid chamber through which the fluid flows; and a first communication port and a second communication port configured to allow the fluid to flow through the fluid chamber; wherein the electric component is provided on an outer side of the fluid chamber along the top-plate portion.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a storage. The information processing apparatus starts an installer to install a printer driver on the storage. The installer comprises: a registration screen controller that displays a print setting registration screen about a print setting settable at the printer driver; an installation default generating part that generates an installation default print setting about at least one print setting item based on operation for print setting registration on the print setting registration screen by a user; and an output part that outputs the installation default print setting to the printer driver at the time of installation of the printer driver. The printer driver comprises a print setting managing part that stores the installation default print setting output from the installer into a first storage region in the storage, and manages the stored installation default print setting, the first storage region being a region not rewritable.

Abstract: A print control device includes an application identification executor that identifies an application, a special print function detector that detects a special print function of the application, a view generator that generates a special function settings view showing the special print function of the application, a display controller that displays a print settings screen on a display device upon instructions for printing from the application, the print settings screen enclosing the special function settings view, and a transmitter that transmits print data to a printing apparatus, the print data being in a predetermined form, the print data including print settings configured by a user via the print settings screen.

Abstract: A technical problem is to fully make up for a restricted upper limit to the preform body wall thickness. An object is to provide a bottle which is narrow-mouthed and yet has a substantially expanded body. In principle, the bottle may include a mouth opening portion with a bore diameter of 10 mm or less and a maximum diameter of the body is 2.5 times or more than the bore diameter of the mouth opening portion, and wherein a maximum diameter portion of the body has a minimum wall thickness of 0.45 mm or more.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a printer driver allowing a computer including a nonvolatile memory to issue a print instruction causing a printing device to execute printing. The printer driver causes the computer to execute: displaying separate reception regions each corresponding to a different printing device and each including one or more configurable items that are related to printing and variable from reception region to reception region; when receiving a configuration with respect to a configurable item included in a reception region, storing the configuration to the nonvolatile memory to be associated with a printing device corresponding to the reception region; and when receiving a designation of a printing device corresponding to a reception region, reading out each configuration associated with the printing device from the nonvolatile memory, and presenting the each configuration so as to be usable in issuing a print instruction.

Abstract: A temperature adjustment device includes a cooling member and a connecting member. The cooling member consists of a first plate and a second plate. The first plate is thermally abutted against a heat-generating member. The second plate is stacked on a lower surface of the first plate to define a cooling space with the first plate, the cooling space a cooling medium flows through, and being configured to include an inlet and an outlet of the cooling medium on a bottom surface facing against the first plate. The connecting member is the connecting member to a temperature adjustment circuit, and that is configured with a tube member having a flat part. The connecting member includes a connecting port connected to the inlet or the outlet on the flat part, and that is laminated and arranged on the second plate such that the flat part is abutted against the second plate.

Abstract: A print control device includes an application identification executor that identifies an application, a special print function detector that detects a special print function of the application, a view generator that generates a special function settings view showing the special print function of the application, a display controller that displays a print settings screen on a display device upon instructions for printing from the application, the print settings screen enclosing the special function settings view, and a transmitter that transmits print data to a printing apparatus, the print data being in a predetermined form, the print data including print settings configured by a user via the print settings screen.