Abstract: There is provided a transmission apparatus including: a buffer provided with a queue for each of user flows, the buffer configured to store data in the queue for the user flow to which the data belongs; a storage unit configured to store a link list indicating an output order of the user flows; an issuing unit configured to issue a predetermined output permissible amount to the queue for the user flow by referring to the link list; and an output control unit configured to output data from the queue to which the output permissible amount is issued.

Abstract: A packet exchanging device includes queues each configured to accumulate one or more packets, a scheduler unit configured to give a certain permissible reading amount indicating amounts of data of readable packets to each of the queues, and a reading processing unit configured to read the one or more packets from the queues by the permissible reading amount in an order in which a reading condition regarding the permissible reading amount for each queue and an amount of data in the one or more packets accumulated in each queue is satisfied.

Abstract: The packet transmission device including: a first and a second storage module to store a token value; a token controller to add a predetermined token value to a first total token value, and subtract a predetermined token value from the first total value in response to the output of the packet; an overrun state controller to add an excess of the first total token value over a predetermined upper limit value to a second total token value, in the case where the first total token value added by addition control is greater than or equal to the predetermined upper limit value; and an underrun state controller to subtract a predetermined token value from the second total token value and add the subtracted token value to the first total token value, in the case where the subtracted first total token value is less than the predetermined upper limit value.

Abstract: A light emitting element, includes: a luminescent material which is obtained from a plant-derived material as a raw material, and which contains therein a silicon oxide containing therein silicon having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more, and oxygen having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more as a principal component; a fluorescent substance adsorbed on a surface of the luminescent material; and an energy source for exciting the luminescent material and the fluorescent substance.

Abstract: A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, and a substance represented by the following general structural formula (1), the substance represented by the following general structural formula (1) has a dehydration-condensed structure of two molecules of natural product-derived ?-amino acids or a substitution structure thereof, and the two molecules of ?-amino acids are not simultaneously glycine. In the above general structural formula, R1, R2, R3, and R4 indicate groups or substituent groups thereof bonded to the ? carbons of the ?-amino acids.

Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polylactic acid resin; an impact-resistant resin which is superior in impact resistance to the polylactic acid resin and is incompatible with or hardly compatible with the polylactic acid resin; and a nucleating agent which promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin; the nucleating agent existing at least in the phase of the impact-resistant resin.

Abstract: A polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure: In the formula, each of ring A and a ring B is a benzene ring, and the hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings be substituted with other groups. Additionally, Y is —CONH— or —NHCO— and X is a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO.

Abstract: Provided is a drug sustained-release agent including a carbon material (porous carbon material) which has an inverse opal structure. The drug sustained-release agent includes a porous carbon material which has spherical pores having an average diameter of 1×10?9 to 1×10?5 m and arrayed three-dimensionally and which has a surface area of 3×102 m2/g. Or, the drug sustained-release agent includes a porous carbon material in which pores are arrayed in an arrangement corresponding to a crystal structure on a macroscopic basis. Or, the drug sustained-release agent includes a porous carbon material in which pores are arrayed at a surface thereof in an arrangement corresponding to the (111) plane orientation of a face-centered cubic structure on a macroscopic basis.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adsorbent including a porous carbon material which is produced from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of not less than 5 wt. % and which has a value of specific surface area determined by the nitrogen BET method of not less than 10 m2/g, a silicon content of not more than 1 wt. %, and pore volumes determined by the BJH method and the MP method of not less than 0.1 cm3/g. The adsorbent adsorbs indole, uric acid, adenosine, ?-amylase, 3-methylindole, tryptophan, indicant, theophylline, inosine 5-monophosphate disodium salt, adenosine 5-triphosphate disodium salt, a fatty acid, a coloring matter, hydrophobic molecules, or an organic matter (for example, organic molecules or a protein) having a number average molecular weight of not less than 1×102 and less than 5×102.

Abstract: The packet transmission device including: a first and a second storage module to store a token value; a token controller to add a predetermined token value to a first total token value, and subtract a predetermined token value from the first total value in response to the output of the packet; an overrun state controller to add an excess of the first total token value over a predetermined upper limit value to a second total token value, in the case where the first total token value added by addition control is greater than or equal to the predetermined upper limit value; and an underrun state controller to subtract a predetermined token value from the second total token value and add the subtracted token value to the first total token value, in the case where the subtracted first total token value is less than the predetermined upper limit value.

Abstract: A packet relaying apparatus includes queues holding packet information, and queue control units controlling dequeueing. The dequeueing means transmission of packet information from a queue of a previous stage to a queue of a next stage. The packet relaying apparatus further includes a packet information control unit that, on receiving packet information to be dequeued at the time of dequeueing, returns discard information and data volume corresponding to the received packet information, a first bandwidth adjusting unit that, on determining that the received packet has been discarded, discards the packet information, maintains a usable bandwidth, and transfers the discard information and the data volume to the previous stage, and a second bandwidth adjusting unit that, on receiving the discard information and the data volume from the next stage, adds the data volume to the usable bandwidth and transfers the discard information and the data volume to a previous stage.

Abstract: Provided is a porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. A porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material, said porous carbon material having a silicon (Si) content of 1 wt % or lower, and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Abstract: A resin composition includes: a polylactic acid resin; an impact-resistant resin which is superior in impact resistance to the polylactic acid resin and is incompatible with or hardly compatible with the polylactic acid resin; and a nucleating agent which promotes crystallization of the polylactic acid resin; the nucleating agent existing at least in the phase of the impact-resistant resin.

Abstract: A light emitting element, includes: a luminescent material which is obtained from a plant-derived material as a raw material, and which contains therein a silicon oxide containing therein silicon having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more, and oxygen having a content rate of 40 wt. % or more as a principal component; a fluorescent substance adsorbed on a surface of the luminescent material; and an energy source for exciting the luminescent material and the fluorescent substance.

Abstract: A resin composition for molding, added with a nucleating agent suitable for promoting crystallization of a polyester capable of having a crystal structure, and in particular of a biodegradable polyester, and a molded product containing, the resin composition for molding thus improved in the crystallinity has either a cyclic compound expressed by general formula (I): (where each of A1, A2, A4 and A5 commonly or independently expresses —CO— or —NH—, each of A3 and A6 commonly or independently expresses hydrogen, halogen, optionally-substituted aliphatic group or optionally-substituted aromatic group) and having both of —CO— and —NH— in the molecule, or a mixture of (i) a cyclic compound having —CO— but no NH in the molecule and (ii) a cyclic compound having no —CO— but NH in the molecule, together with the polyester capable of having a crystal structure.

Abstract: A polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure: In the formula, each of ring A and a ring B is a benzene ring, and the hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings be substituted with other groups. Additionally, Y is —CONH— or —NHCO— and X is a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polyester resin component having crystallization improved and including a cyclic compound shown by a below-described formula and polyester capable of having a crystal structure. (In the formula, a ring A and a ring B respectively represent benzene rings, and hydrogen bonded to the benzene rings may optionally be substituted with other groups. Y represents —CONH— or —NHCO—. X represents a heterocyclic group or a condensed heterocyclic group including one or more NH or CO respectively).

Abstract: A resin composition includes a polyester capable of forming a crystal structure, and a substance represented by the following general structural formula (1), the substance represented by the following general structural formula (1) has a dehydration-condensed structure of two molecules of natural product-derived ?-amino acids or a substitution structure thereof, and the two molecules of ?-amino acids are not simultaneously glycine. In the above general structural formula, R1, R2, R3, and R4 indicate groups or substituent groups thereof bonded to the ? carbons of the ?-amino acids.

Abstract: By a process for producing a porous carbon material from a plant-derived material as a raw material, said process including carbonizing the plant-derived material at 800° C. to 1,400° C. and then applying a treatment with an acid or alkali, a porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a silicon content of at most 1 wt % and a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g is obtainable from a plant-derived material, which has a silicon content of at least 10 wt %, as a raw material. Also provided is a process for producing a porous carbon material equipped with excellent functionality so that the porous carbon material can be used, for example, as an anode material for batteries, an adsorbent, masks, adsorbing sheets, or carriers.

Abstract: A resin composition that has high mechanical strength properties, has superior chemical characteristics such as chemical resistance and heat resistance, has high degree of freedom of product design, and has a structure considering the impact on environment is provided at low cost. The resin composition composed of a polyamide resin contains a cotton fiber as a natural fiber. The additive amount of the cotton fiber is preferably 1 wt % to 25 wt % both inclusive. The polyamide resin is polyamide 11 using castor oil as a raw material of plant origin. The average fiber diameter of the cotton fiber is 100 ?m or less. The polyamide resin and the cotton fiber are melted and kneaded, and then hot-formed, and thereby a shaped article containing a plant fiber can be fabricated. In addition to the cotton fiber, a plant fiber such as a hemp fiber, a bamboo fiber, and wood powder and a biofiber such as a silk fiber may be applied.