Abstract: A print-order receiving apparatus includes a first memory unit for storing an administrator password used to determine whether or not to allow access to administrative information, a second memory unit for storing an order-confirmation password used to determine whether or not to perform printing, a first data-reading unit for reading image data from a first portable recording medium, a password requesting unit for requesting input of the order-confirmation password during an operation of receiving a print-order regarding the read image data, a second data-reading unit for reading password data from a second portable recording medium when the order-confirmation password is requested, and a print-determination unit for checking whether the read password data and the order-confirmation password match and for determining whether or not to print the image data.

Abstract: A system and method for soft decoding data. A plurality of candidate error corrections may be generated to correct one or more data bits having soft bit information. Each candidate error correction may define suggested changes to the data bits and is associated with a soft bit value. The soft bit values associated the plurality of candidate error corrections may be mapped to a uniform scale, for example, a uniform finite or integer grid. The plurality of candidate error corrections may be ordered to have combined associated mapped values in a monotonically non-decreasing order. One or more of the plurality of candidate error corrections may be soft decoded in the order of the associated mapped values by a decoding operation for each candidate error correction therein with the associated non-mapped soft bit values.

Abstract: Flash memory apparatus including a plurality of memory portions, and a controller operative to reserve for data retention purposes, for at least a first duration of time, only certain portions from among said plurality of memory portions including allocating data, during the first duration of time, only to the certain portions, thereby to define at least one of the plurality of memory portions other than the certain portions as a retired memory portion for the first duration of time.

Abstract: A moveable roofing system for covering an interior space includes a fixed half-dome roof fixed to and supported by a first support structure, a rotatable half-dome roof rotatable about and supported by a second support structure, the second support structure being concentric to the first support structure, and, wherein the rotatable half-dome roof is configured to rotate about the second support structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for assessing the risks and/or exposures associated with financial transactions using various statistical and probabilistic techniques. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method and system for identifying plausible sources of error in data used as input to financial risk assessment systems using Bayesian belief networks as a normative diagnostic tool to model relationships between and among inputs/outputs of the risk assessment system and other external factors.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an inductor module including a substrate functioning as a printed wiring board or an interposer; an IC mounting part formed on a surface of the substrate; an inductor which is formed in the substrate at such a position as to overlap with the IC mounting part on a plan-view basis and which is connected to an IC mounted on the IC mounting part; and a magnetic body including a magnetic material selected from among a NiZn ferrite, a NiZnCu ferrite and a Ba ferrite, the magnetic body being disposed intermediately between the IC mounting part and the inductor.

Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device includes photoelectric conversion parts formed on an image pickup surface of a substrate, where each photoelectric conversion part generates a signal charge by receiving incident light on a light reception surface thereof, and color filters formed on an image-pickup surface of the substrate, where each color filter allows the incident light to be colored by passing through. The photoelectric conversion parts are aligned in first and second directions and include first to third color filters. A surface on which the first color filter and the second color filter are laminated in the first direction is larger than a surface on which the first color filter and the third color filter are laminated in the second direction.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV289398. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV289398, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV289398 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV289398 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV289398.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S080135 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080135, to the plants of soybean S080135, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080135, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080135 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S080135, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080135, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S080135 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S080101 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S080101, to the plants of soybean S080101, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S080101, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S080101 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S080101, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S080101, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S080101 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: A sheet for thermal transcription including a substrate (2) and a receiving layer (3) formed on the substrate (2) for receiving a dye. The receiving layer (3) contains a graft polymer of at least one monomer out of acrylic monomers and methacrylic monomers and at least one polyester sort. The sheet for thermal transcription assures satisfactory printing density and satisfactory adhesion performance with respect to a laminate film, while preventing image bleeding or fading and assuring stabilized running performance. Thus, it is possible to generate an image of high quality and high resolution.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods for the treatment and/or prevention of an inflammatory disease or disorder through administration of an inhibitor of a glutaminyl peptide cyclotransferase. Inflammatory diseases or disorders treated or prevented by methods disclosed herein include mild cognitive impairment (MCI), rheumatoid arthritis, atherosclerosis, restenosis and pancreatitis.

Abstract: An imaging device is disclosed. The device includes: a unit pixel that outputs an analog electric signal in accordance with a signal charge; a local voltage supply circuit that generates a local voltage different from an operation voltage; a reference signal generation section that generates a reference signal based on the local voltage provided by the local voltage supply circuit; and a processing section that converts, by referring to the reference signal generated by the reference signal generation section, the analog signal provided by the unit pixel into a digital signal. In the imaging device, the reference signal generation section keeps constant a load current of the local voltage supply circuit in an operating state.

Abstract: A method of forming a mask for lithography includes the step of forming the mask by using reverse data in which positions of at least part of output terminals are reversed, when forming the mask for lithography used for manufacturing a back-illuminated solid-state imaging device which takes incident light from the side of a surface opposite to the side of a surface on which wiring of a device region in which photoelectric conversion elements are formed is formed.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 93454905 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 93454905, to the plants of soybean 93454905, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 93454905, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 93454905 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 93454905, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 93454905, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 93454905 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S090248 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090248, to the plants of soybean S090248, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090248, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090248 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S090248, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090248, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S090248 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: A solid state imaging device having a light sensing section that performs photoelectric conversion of incident light includes: an insulating layer formed on a light receiving surface of the light sensing section; a layer having negative electric charges formed on the insulating layer; and a hole accumulation layer formed on the light receiving surface of the light sensing section.

Abstract: An optical element includes a first filter having the function to transmit a component at a lower frequency than a first cutoff frequency in incident light, a second filter having the function to transmit a component at a higher frequency than a second cutoff frequency in the incident light, and a light-receiving element for photoelectrically converting the components transmitted through the first filter and the second filter in the incident light. A metal optical filter composed of a conductor thin film is used as at least one of the first filter and the second filter.