Abstract: A battery capable of improving the safety when the battery is broken while securing the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. The anode includes an anode active material layer that has a resin containing sulfur (S). Compared to a case not having the resin containing resin, a sufficient discharge capacity can be obtained even when charge and discharge is repeated, and smoking and ignition are not easily generated when the battery is broken. Thereby, the cycle characteristics are secured, and the safety when the battery is broken is improved.

Abstract: A battery realizing the superior cycle characteristics is provided. An electrode includes a current collector including an active-material-layer-formation region and a flat and smooth region having a surface roughness smaller than that of the active-material-layer-formation region, and an active material layer provided in the active-material-layer-formation region of the current collector. An electrode lead is connected to the flat and smooth region.

Abstract: An address on a network of a control center which can order printed books is attached to corresponding electronic book data. When browsing an electronic book at a user terminal, the user accesses the control center by performing a predetermined operation on the basis of the network address. Upon reception of a user ID and the order request for a printed book, the control center searches for the address of the user on the basis of the user ID and, at the same time, searches for a bookstore server having the stock of the requested printed book, thereby placing an order for the printed book to the nearest bookstore server. The bookstore server which accepted the order notifies a printed book deliverer server of the order of the printed book and the address of the user to which the printed book is to be delivered.

Abstract: A current collector includes a first principal plane and a second principal plane. In the current collector, the roughness of the first principal plane and second principal plane being mutually different.

Abstract: 2-(6-Cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine, 2-(6-cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine 5?-monophosphate, or salts thereof; and drugs containing the same as an active ingredient. The compounds have excellent effects of lowering ocular tension, promoting blood flow in retina, and protecting optic nerve failure and are highly soluble in water. Owing to these characteristics, the compounds are useful as drugs such as remedies for glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

Abstract: A sync signal time difference detection circuit detects a time difference of reproduced sync signals reproduced by a first head and a second head having different azimuth angles. Rotation of a capstan motor is controlled in accordance with sync signal time difference information output from the sync signal time difference detection circuit, thereby performing a highly accurate tracking control not affected by jitter or eccentricity.

Abstract: An information retrieval apparatus includes an input unit from which information-retrieval information is input, database interfaces that can access databases, a display unit for displaying, in the form of a bar, information that is obtained by the access, a central processing unit (CPU) that can move a cursor for designating a position in the lengthwise direction of the information bar and that uses a database interface to retrieve, from the databases, information corresponding to the lengthwise position designated by the cursor. The information retrieved by the CPU is displayed on the display unit, and data can be retrieved without the user performing an input operation by using a keyboard or the like.

Abstract: A sync signal time difference detection circuit detects a time difference of reproduced sync signals reproduced by a first head and a second head having different azimuth angles. Rotation of a capstan motor is controlled in accordance with sync signal time difference information output from the sync signal time difference detection circuit, thereby performing a highly accurate tracking control not affected by jitter or eccentricity.

Abstract: 2-(6-Cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine, 2-(6-cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine 5?-monophosphate, or salts thereof; and drugs containing the same as an active ingredient. The compounds have excellent effects of lowering ocular tension, promoting blood flow in retina, and protecting optic nerve failure and are highly soluble in water. Owing to these characteristics, the compounds are useful as drugs such as remedies for glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

Abstract: 2-(6-Cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine, 2-(6-cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine 5?-monophosphate, or salts thereof; and drugs containing the same as an active ingredient. The compounds have excellent effects of lowering ocular tension, promoting blood flow in retina, and protecting optic nerve failure and are highly soluble in water. Owing to these characteristics, the compounds are useful as drugs such as remedies for glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

Abstract: There are contained first capacitors each having a first lower electrode, a first ferroelectric film, and a first upper electrode, which are formed sequentially in a first region of an insulating film, and a second capacitor having a second lower electrode, a second ferroelectric film, and a second upper electrode, which are formed sequentially in a second region of the insulating film, wherein the first ferroelectric film is formed of first ferroelectric material that consists of plural types of elements containing a first element, the second ferroelectric film is formed of second ferroelectric material that consists of plural types of elements containing the first element, and a concentration of the first element in the second ferroelectric film is lower than a concentration of the first element in the first ferroelectric film.

Abstract: A cathode and a battery including the cathode are provided. The cathode includes a cathode mixture layer with a cathode active material and a binder. The binder can include, for example, a synthetic rubber latex and a thickener, polyvinylidene fluoride denaturalized by maleic acid and/or the like.

Abstract: A sync signal time difference detection circuit (7) detects a time difference of reproduced sync signals reproduced by a first head (100) and a second head (101) having different azimuth angles. Rotation of a capstan motor (2) is controlled in accordance with sync signal time difference information output from the sync signal time difference detection circuit (7), thereby performing a highly accurate tracking control not affected by jitter or eccentricity.

Abstract: The invention relates to an information processing apparatus and the method thereof, and an information processing system and the method thereof for allowing users to browse through and purchase electronic books with ease. Electronic book data are given a header which describes illustratively “<Shidokupage> 200 page </Shidokupage>” on, say, line 4 indicating that a browsable page count is 200; <“Shidoku 1 time> 15 min </Shidoku 1 time>” on line 5 signifying that a one-shot browsing time is 15 minutes; and “<Shidoku total time> 45 min </Shidoku total time> saying that a total browsing time for the electronic book is 45 minutes. The inventive setup controls a browsing display of a desired electronic book on the user's terminal based on such information about the browsable page count, one-shot browsing time, and total browsing time.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a storing element for storing content data; a managing element for managing preference data by which to determine preferences of a user; a reading element for reading the content data from the storing element in response to an instruction from the user; a sorting element for sorting the content data read by the reading element, in accordance with the preference data managed by the managing element; and a composing element for composing the content data sorted by the sorting element, into a single item ready to be handled by the user.

Abstract: In order to construct a PLL circuit corresponding to the plurality of reproduction channel rates by using only a digital loop filter, the generation of a clock in accordance with the reproduction signal, of which the reproduction channel rate varies, is implemented with only one voltage control oscillator 7 in the case when the channel rate of the reproduction signal reproduced from the reproducer 1 varies at n/m of the basic channel rate at the time of recording by allowing the divider 6 to convert the output of the voltage control oscillator 7, which oscillates at the basic channel rate, into a reproduction clock through the n/m division.

Abstract: 2-(6-Cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine, 2-(6-cyano-1-hexyn-1-yl)adenosine 5′-monophosphate, or salts thereof; and drugs containing the same as an active ingredient. The compounds have excellent effects of lowering ocular tension, promoting blood flow in retina, and protecting optic nerve failure and are highly soluble in water. Owing to these characteristics, the compounds are useful as drugs such as remedies for glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

Abstract: There are contained first capacitors each having a first lower electrode, a first ferroelectric film, and a first upper electrode, which are formed sequentially in a first region of an insulating film, and a second capacitor having a second lower electrode, a second ferroelectric film, and a second upper electrode, which are formed sequentially in a second region of the insulating film, wherein the first ferroelectric film is formed of first ferroelectric material that consists of plural types of elements containing a first element, the second ferroelectric film is formed of second ferroelectric material that consists of plural types of elements containing the first element, and a concentration of the first element in the second ferroelectric film is lower than a concentration of the first element in the first ferroelectric film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus which objectively evaluates book reviewers. According to the information processing apparatus, a book evaluation program retrieves, for each book, the book reading period of time per page, the number of lent-out times, the number of turned-over pages and the total number of turned-over pages, the number of pages turned over two times or more, and the number of book reading times included in the book reading data received from a bookstore server to obtain their deviation values for each book and obtain the average value of these deviation values. On the basis of the average deviation value obtained for each book, the book evaluation program obtains a five-step evaluation value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus which facilitates the processing for purchasing printed books after purchasing electronic books from which the printed books are manufactured. According to the information processing apparatus, an address on a network of a control center which can order printed books is attached to corresponding electronic book data. When browsing an electronic book at a user terminal, the user accesses the control center by performing a predetermined operation on the basis of the above-mentioned address. The user terminal sends the user ID to the control center. Upon reception of the order request for a printed book from the user terminal, the control center searches for the address of the user on the basis of the user ID and, at the same time, searches for a bookstore server having the stock of the requested printed book, thereby placing an order for the printed book to the nearest bookstore server.