Abstract: A waste disposing system and apparatus are described which use inverted conical frustum cup-like containers of paper or synthetic resin with brims having an adhesive applied thereto, said apparatus comprising: a container supplying means for holding a stack of containers having a top and a bottom, and formed by one sliding over another, and releasing, in response to a request, one after another, from the stack of containers, permitting the falling of a sequential container that has descended down to the bottom of the stack for its turn; a standby means for holding the container with the open side thereof up, thereby permitting the filling of waste into container on standby; a sealing means for pressing the top circumference of the container which is filled with waste to seal the container; and a carrier means for transporting containers from the container supplying means to the standby means, and from the standby means to the sealing means.

Abstract: A data receiving apparatus includes: a receiving portion for receiving a QPSK (PSK, GMSK) signal using a local oscillation signal; a forward (FWD) equalizing portion for effecting a FWD equalization to the PSK signal using FWD tap coefficients, including a FWD main tap coefficient, successively renewed; a backward equalizing portion for effecting a backward equalization to the PSK signal using backward tap coefficients, including a backward main tap coefficient, successively renewed; and a prediction portion for predicting a phase difference between a carrier frequency of the PSK signal and the local oscillation frequency according to the FWD and backward main tap coefficients. In this apparatus, the FWD and backward equalizing portions effect FWD and backward equalizing training processings using the sync word in the PSK signal in the FWD and backward directions to determine the FWD and backward tap coefficients before FWD and backward equalizations respectively.

Abstract: A data decoding device eliminates the need for encoding by a decoder for estimating an error rate and can estimate the error rate at a high precision even if an error is included. A square error sum is calculated by an error calculator based on an output of an equalizer. A estimated error rate is determined based on the error sum, a likelihood is determined based on the estimated error rate, and soft discrimination decoding is made based on the likelihood and the output of the equalizer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a use of ubenimex or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof for treating myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).