Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program for controlling diversity reception in a radio receiver are provided. The radio receiver is configured to either activate or disable the diversity reception according to an application type of an application requesting transfer of data.

Abstract: There is provided a control circuit including a sampling controller configured to sample an output voltage of a power converter at an appropriate time slot by opening a control loop. A soft-start circuit configured to enable soft-starting of an internal soft-start reference voltage to start from the sampled output voltage and to control the internal soft-start reference voltage to a predetermined target value in order to pre-charge the output voltage close to an input voltage level, or to continue charging the output voltage to a predetermined output voltage value.

Abstract: This invention discloses a catalyst layer which is formed at first incorporating sulfonated amorphous carbons and later the sulfonated amorphous carbons are removed. In addition, said sulfonated amorphous carbons show 13C NMR spectrum which has chemical shifts indicating carbons of a condensed aromatic 6-membered ring to which sulfonic groups are attached and are not attached respectively, and a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum which has a peak corresponding to the carbon's (002) plane at 5-30 degrees of half-value width (2?).

Abstract: A stent mounting device and a method of coating a stent using the device are provided. The mandrel is made from or is coated with a hydrophobic or hydrophilic material, depending on the type of coating composition that is employed.

Abstract: To provide a power plant which makes it possible to make the power plant more compact in size, reduce manufacturing costs thereof, and improve the degree of freedom in design. The power plant 1 comprises an engine 3, and first and second rotating machines 10 and 20, and drives front wheels 4 by motive power from these. The first rotating machine 10 includes first and second rotors 14 and 15, and a stator 16, and is configured such that a ratio between the number of armature magnetic poles generated in the stator 16, the number of magnetic poles of the first rotor 14, and the number of soft magnetic material cores 15a of the second rotor 15 becomes 1:m:(1+m)/2 (m?1.0).

Abstract: A stent fixture for supporting a stent during the application of a coating substance is provided.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for page-mode messaging. The method includes determining whether a page-mode message exceeds a predetermined size limit. The method further includes sending, using a terminal, the page-mode message using a session-mode messaging mechanism when it is determined that the page-mode message exceeds the predetermined size limit, with an indication indicating that a session-mode is for the page-mode message. Further, the method includes applying, using the terminal, a session description protocol to initiate a session in the session-mode messaging mechanism, and adding, using the terminal, the indication to a header of a session initiation message.

Abstract: A pin placement determining method includes calculating a waveform deterioration amount of wires from a noise amount of the wires and wiring loss of the wires, the wires being coupled to a connector on a printed board, comparing the calculated waveform deterioration amount of the wires to an evaluation criteria, evaluating the wires in which the waveform deterioration amount exceeds the evaluation criteria, and replacing corresponding pins of the connectors to which the wires that have been evaluated as exceeding the evaluation criteria are coupled with replacement pins of connectors that have a low noise amount.

Abstract: A polymer coating for medical devices based on a polyolefin derivative. A variety of polymers are described to make coatings for medical devices, particularly, for drug delivery stents. The polymers include homo-, co-, and terpolymers having at least one olefin-derived unit and at least one unit derived from vinyl alcohol, allyl alcohol and derivatives thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anti-glare film which has <1> sufficient anti-reflection properties, <2> a high level of contrast and <3> strong antifouling properties. A surface of an anti-glare layer of the anti-glare film of the present invention has a concave-convex structure, an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) according to JIS B0601-1994 in the range of 0.02-0.2 ?m when a cut-off wavelength (?c) is 0.8 mm, and a surface free energy in the range of 15-25 mN/m. In addition, a haze of the anti-glare layer of the anti-glare film of the present invention is in the range of 1.0-5.0%.

Abstract: A printed material as an embodiment of the invention comprising; a substrate; partition walls for partitioning the surface of the substrate into a plurality of regions; and an ink film formed by printing method using a printing apparatus in the plurality of regions, in which the partition wall comprises an ink repellent material containing a resin binder and an ink repellent agent, and the ink repellent agent is a compound having a site showing a compatibility with the resin binder and a site having an ink repellency, the critical surface tension of the partition wall is from 24 to 30 mN/m, and the number average molecular weight of the ink repellent agent is from 40,000 to 100,000.

Abstract: There is provided a device for performing interaction between a user and a machine. The device includes a plurality of domains corresponding to a plurality of stages in the interaction. Each of the domains has voice comprehension means which understands the content of the user's voice. The device includes: means for recognizing the user's voice; means for selecting a domain enabling the best voice comprehension results as ht domain; means for referencing task knowledge of the domain and extracting a task correlated to the voice comprehension result; means for obtaining a sub task sequence correlated to the extracted task; means for setting the first sub task of the sub task sequence as the sub task and updating the domain to which the sub task belongs as the domain; means for extracting a behavior or sub task end flag correlated to the voice comprehension result and the subtask; and means for causing the machine to execute the extracted behavior.

Abstract: A method of providing content attributing during an ongoing conversation includes receiving an assignment of an attribute to a selected portion of content from the ongoing conversation, and asynchronously delivering the selected portion to selected recipients based on the attribute.

Abstract: Implantable medical devices fabricated from polymer/bioceramic composites and polymer blend/bioceramic composites are disclosed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: an operation display section for displaying a screen to set processing conditions relating to a job and for receiving an operation to set the processing conditions relating to the job; a generation section for generating a job under the processing conditions set by the operation with the operation display section; a storage section for storing job information comprising the processing conditions relating to the job generated by the generation section; a measuring section for measuring an elapsed time from a time when the job is generated by the generation section; and a control section which displays a plurality of previously generated jobs in a predetermined order using the job information on the operation display section, and replaces an order of the plurality of the jobs based on contents of the operation display section when the processing conditions is set and the elapsed time during displaying.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an S-CSCF receiving a terminating request associated with a called user and executing services for the called user. The S-CSCF determines an indication in Session Case indicating originating services handling in call forwarding situation, and based on this executes a subset of services for the user.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining oil degradation measures a first electric-current value of a driving current used to operate an electric oil pump at a predetermined consistent revolution, and stores the first electric-current value as an electric-current initial value. Data is corrected by measuring a second electric-current value of the driving current, with the second electric-current value being measured when the electric pump is operated at the predetermined consistent revolution when the engine is driven a predetermined time after the electric-current initial value is stored. The electric-current initial value is compared with the second electric-current value. It is then determined that a viscosity of the oil has become low when a difference between the electric-current initial value and the second electric-current value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A rear combination lamp includes a reflector 102, a tail lamp bulb 82 and a tail/stop lamp bulb 83 attached to the reflector 102, and a lens 91 disposed rearward of the bulbs 82, 83 and attached to a tail lamp reflector portion 103. When the rear combination lamp is attached to a motorcycle, the lens 91 is provided to be inclined obliquely rearwardly and upwardly. An upper half portion of the lens 91 is formed to have a cut-lens portion 92, as a uniform-light-emission design surface, processed with projections and depressions in a vehicle width direction. A lower half portion of the lens 91 is formed to have a clear lens portion 93, as a clear lens surface, disposed frontward, in a vehicle body, of an extension line 132 of the cut-lens portion 92.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing an avionics overlay data link. Through embodiments of the present invention, existing ATC (or other) modulated signals using existing frequencies (or other frequencies) may be utilized to transmit (e.g., from an aircraft transponder) additional information in a manner that does not render the transmitted signal unrecognizable by legacy ATC equipment. In various embodiments, legacy equipment may demodulate and decode information that was encoded in the transmitted signal in accordance with preexisting standard modulation formats, and updated equipment can also extract the additional information that was overlaid on transmitted signals.

Abstract: This invention relates to a bromo-phenyl substituted thiazolyl dihydropyrimidine, its preparation method and use as a medicament for treating and preventing hepatitis B infections. The invention also relates to a composition comprising the dihydropyrimidine, one or more antiviral agents and, optionally, an immunomodulator for treating and preventing HBV infections.