Abstract: An information processing method, which includes an evaluating step of evaluating at least one item of growth potential, nutrition state of a protein, utilization efficiency of an amino acid, glucose metabolism, stress, appetite, feed efficiency, growth speed, and growth prediction, by using a blood concentration value of at least one amino acid of Asn, Ser, Gly, His, Thr, Arg, Pro, Tyr, Val, Met, Orn, Lys, Ile, Leu, Phe, Trp, and 3Met-His, obtained from an animal, or a value of one or a plurality of formulae that include an explanatory variable to be substituted with the blood concentration value, calculated using the formula and the blood concentration value, wherein at the evaluating step, each evaluation is carried out using the blood concentration value or the value of one formula, is useful for evaluating the health and/or growth state of livestock.

Abstract: An X-ray generation apparatus comprising: an X-ray generating unit; a dispersive crystal whose surface is irradiated with an X-ray generated from the X-ray generating unit in order to monochromatize the X-ray; and a detecting unit that detects an X-ray generated from a sample irradiated with the X-ray monochromatized by the dispersive crystal. The dispersive crystal has a single-bent shape containing the surface that is a concave surface formed by integrating concave curve lines continuously along an axis perpendicular to a plane including the concave curve line. A direction in which a position on the surface irradiated with the X-ray generated from the X-ray generating unit moves is the direction along the axis.

Abstract: An X-ray generation apparatus comprising: an X-ray generating unit; a dispersive crystal whose surface is irradiated with an X-ray generated from the X-ray generating unit in order to monochromatize the X-ray; and a detecting unit that detects an X-ray generated from a sample irradiated with the X-ray monochromatized by the dispersive crystal. The dispersive crystal has a single-bent shape containing the surface that is a concave surface formed by integrating concave curve lines continuously along an axis perpendicular to a plane including the concave curve line. A direction in which a position on the surface irradiated with the X-ray generated from the X-ray generating unit moves is the direction along the axis.

Abstract: A means for determining the nutritional requirements of an industrial animal is provided. The objects can be achieved by identifying an mRNA the expression of which changes before and/or after a change in physiological condition in an industrial animal by comparing mRNA expression data obtained before and after the change in physiological condition, identifying a metabolic pathway of which the expression changes before and after the change in the physiological condition on the basis of the identified mRNA, and identifying a metabolite that is highly required by the industrial animal before or after the change in physiological condition on the basis of the identified metabolic pathway.

Abstract: There is provided a guide frame 10 having a small width and a triangular or other shape. An insertion opening 10e and a withdrawal opening 10g for a wiring harness D.multidot.W/H are formed in spaced-apart positions of the guide frame 10. The wiring harness D.multidot.W/H is fixedly inserted through the insertion opening 10e of the guide frame 10 and withdrawn through the withdrawal opening 10g after being arranged in a roundabout manner inside the guide frame 10. The guide frame 10 is fixed to either one of a door D and a body C, and the leading end of the wiring harness D.multidot.W/H withdrawn from the guide frame 10 through the withdrawal opening 10g is extended to the other of the door D and the body C, so that the wiring harness D.multidot.W/H comes from and returns into the guide frame 10 according to opening and closing movements of the door D.

Abstract: A guide member 10 made of an elastic material has an arcuate portion 10a which extends and contracts while twisting. A wiring harness D.multidot.W/H is arranged between a door and a body of a vehicle after being mounted on the guide member 10, and the opposite ends of the guide member 10 are fixed to the door and the body, so that the movements of the guide member and the wiring harness can follow the opening and closing movements of the door. The arcuate portion 10a is so configured as to construct a part of a torsion coil spring.

Abstract: There is provided a guide frame 10 having a small width and a triangular or other shape. An insertion opening 10e and a withdrawal opening 10g for a wiring harness DW/H are formed in spaced-apart positions of the guide frame 10. The wiring harness DW/H is fixedly inserted through the insertion opening 10e of the guide frame 10 and withdrawn through the withdrawal opening 10g after being arranged in a roundabout manner inside the guide frame 10. The guide frame 10 is fixed to either one of a door D and a body C, and the leading end of the wiring harness DW/H withdrawn from the guide frame 10 through the withdrawal opening 10g is extended to the other of the door D and the body C, so that the wiring harness D.multidot.W/H comes from and returns into the guide frame 10 according to opening and closing movements of the door D.