Abstract: The present invention relates to an amorphous form of N-{2-Fluoro-5-[3-(thiophene-2-carbonyl)-pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidin-7-yl]-phenyl}-N-methyl-acetamide, methods for its preparation, its use as a therapeutically active agent and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the novel form.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for generating digital content using text-to-speech (TTS) conversion. A predetermined script is selected using a portable terminal or user personal computer (PC). A format for converting the selected script into an audio data file is determined. The selected script is generated into the audio data file according to the determined conversion format of the audio data file using a TTS engine provided to at least one of the user PC and a web server.

Abstract: The image recording apparatus includes: a recording head which has at least one row of recording elements arranged at a prescribed arrangement interval in a sub-scanning direction; a scanning device which moves the recording head in a main scanning direction so as to perform recording of a same main scanning line by means of a plurality of scans in the main scanning direction with respect to a recording medium; a conveyance device which conveys the recording head and the recording medium relatively to each other in the sub-scanning direction; a recording control device which controls the recording head to perform recording by using at least two of the recording elements in the recording of the same main scanning line; a recording element selection device which selects a combination of the recording elements to perform recording of the same main scanning line in accordance with a status of each of the recording elements; and a conveyance control device which determines a combination of feed amounts in the sub-

Abstract: A method for transmitting an uplink pilot signal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method for transmitting an uplink pilot signal in a wireless communication system includes forming a basic unit including a plurality of pilot Resource Elements (REs) and data REs and having a size of 4 subcarriers×9 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) symbols, setting the plurality of pilot REs in the basic unit, and transmitting the basic unit to a base station. Each of the REs is time-frequency resource defined by one symbol index and one subcarrier index.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an agent for regulating axon extension during neuranagenesis by regulating ephrin-Eph receptor signaling mechanisms and to provide a mouse having abnormal ephrin-Eph receptor signaling mechanisms. The present invention relates to a regulator of axon extension, comprising an agent for promoting or suppressing the function of ?-chimerin, and to a miffy (mfy) mouse derived from a B6 strain, which displays autosomal recessive inheritance of an abnormal walking trait exhibiting a hopping gait with left-right synchronized movement of limbs and has mutation in an ?-chimerin gene.

Abstract: To provide a structure material having excellent mechanical characteristics and a functional material having excellent regularity, provided are a polymer alloy which is composed of at least two components of thermoplastic resins and of which the structure can be controlled finely and evenly dispersed and a production method of the polymer alloy. With respect to a polymer alloy composed of at least two or more components of thermoplastic resins, a precursor (A) of at least one thermoplastic resin among the thermoplastic resin components composing the polymer alloy is chemically reacted in the co-presence of the remaining thermoplastic resin component (B1) and/or a precursor (B2) of the thermoplastic resin component to induce spinodal decomposition, so that it is made possible to obtain a polymer alloy having excellent regularity and of which the structure is finely controllable and the structure is evenly dispersed.

Abstract: A method of allocating pilot subcarriers in a resource block for a wideband wireless mobile communication system with multiple transmission antennas using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is disclosed. In this method, pilot subcarriers are allocated to the resource block comprised of five (5) or seven (7) OFDM symbols so that only four (4) OFDM symbols of the resource block are allocated for pilot subcarriers.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method including receiving a first signal from an input device of a hearing aid. The first signal may include a noise signal. The computer-implemented method may include low-pass filtering first periodic samples of the first signal, and the first periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to a period of the noise signal. The computer-implemented method may further include low-pass filtering second periodic samples of the first signal, and the second periodic samples may be approximately periodic with respect to the period of the noise signal. The second periodic samples may also be phase shifted relative to the first periodic samples. Hearing aid systems and apparatuses are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a tertiary amine by reacting an alcohol with a primary or secondary amine in the presence of a film catalyst containing a thermosetting resin and an active metal, wherein the film catalyst is reduced at 100 to 150° C., and a method for activating the film catalyst containing a thermosetting resin and an active metal, including applying a coating agent containing the thermosetting resin and a powder catalyst onto the surface of a support, drying the resultant, curing it at 80 to 170° C., and reducing the catalyst at 100 to 150° C.

Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving signals using multi-band Radio Frequencies (RFs) is provided. The method includes transmitting/receiving control information identifying a subsidiary carrier frequency band for a user equipment via a primary carrier frequency band of the user equipment, wherein the control information includes information of a second ID assigned to a first ID of the subsidiary carrier frequency band among a plurality of first IDs, the first ID identifying the subsidiary carrier frequency band in the physical layer and the second ID identifying the subsidiary carrier frequency band in the specific layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solar cell includes forming an impurity doped region of a second conductive type at a substrate of a first conductive type, sequentially irradiating laser shots onto the impurity doped region of the substrate to form an emitter part including a first emitter region having a first sheet resistance and a second emitter region having a second sheet resistance less than the first sheet resistance, and forming a plurality of first electrodes connected to the second emitter region and forming a second electrode connected to the substrate.

Abstract: When transmission of uplink control information is necessary, a transmission processor (a14) allocates the uplink control information to one of radio resources assigned by a base station device, and transmits the uplink control information.

Abstract: A support member and method for supporting a shell into the barrel of a breech-loading weapon. The support member (6) comprises a support element (8) with an rim flange (7), end (16), and edge casing (12), and means for fastening the support element (8) to at least one fin (5) belonging to the tail end (4) of the shell (1). The means for fastening the support element (8) to the tail end (4) of the shell (1) comprise a retainer part (9) arranged to the edge casing (12) and arranged to circle the inner surface (10) of the edge casing essentially level with the plane of the rim flange (7).

Abstract: A method for performing an SUPL-based triggered location service, comprising: sending a pause message for a triggered session to a server, starting the triggered session for a triggered location service with the server; and sending a end message to the server if a condition added to the triggered session is satisfied during pause of the triggered session.

Abstract: A method and a device for detecting a touch position and a flat panel display using the method and the device are disclosed. The touch position detecting method includes generating touch data from a touch sensor array; computing the touch data input in each of adjacent frames to generate difference data and then performing at least one binary operation and a filtering operation on the difference data to correct the difference data; determining an effective area and then calculating a first central coordinate and a second central coordinate; computing a reference vector between the first central coordinate and the second central coordinate, a position vector between a position coordinate and the second central coordinate, and an angle between the reference vector and the position vector; and determining the position coordinate on the touch boundary portion at the angle having a minimum value as a touch coordinate.

Abstract: Providing a coil spring manufacturing machine capable of adjusting the shape of a manufactured spring with fixing a wire feeding unit, followed by moving a shaping tool mounting member, attached to one or a plurality of movable members, in the front-rear, left-right, and/or up-down direction of the wire feeding direction. The shaping tool mounting member may be moved in all the three directions. Each movable member is provided with a drive source for driving the movable member.

Abstract: A lead frame for optical semiconductor devices in which a layer 2 composed of silver or a silver alloy is formed on an electrically-conductive substrate 1, having: a surface layer 4 composed of a metal or alloy thereof excellent in corrosion resistance as an outermost layer, wherein a concentration of a metallic component excellent in corrosion resistance of the surface layer is 50% by mass or more at the uppermost portion of the surface layer, and wherein a solid-solution layer 3 of silver and a metallic material which is a main component of the surface layer is formed between the surface layer and the layer composed of silver or a silver alloy.

Abstract: A first signal is detected from the central part of a light beam returning from a super-resolution optical disc; a second signal is detected from a peripheral part in a direction corresponding to a track on the super-resolution optical disc; a gain adjustment unit is provided to adjust the amplitude of the first signal; a subtraction unit is provided to generate a third signal by subtracting, from the second signal, the first signal with the amplitude adjusted by the gain adjustment unit; and an unit is provided to generate a reproduced signal by combining the first signal and a signal obtained by delaying the third signal.

Abstract: It aims to provide a heavy duty pneumatic tire with block patterns and capable of improving deflected wear resisting performances without sacrificing wet grip performances or on-snow performances and that can particularly be favorably used for all seasons.

Abstract: Provided is a method for constructing an image database for object recognition, which includes a feature extraction step of extracting local descriptors from object images which are to be stored in an image database, a scalar quantization step of quantizing a numeric value indicating each dimension of each of the local descriptors into a predetermined number of bit digits, and a storing step of organizing each of the local descriptors after the quantization to be able to be searched for in the closest vicinity, giving to the local descriptor an identifier of the image from which the local descriptor has been extracted, and storing the local descriptor to which the identifiers are given in the image database.