Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a fibrosis inhibitor that solves the problem of inhibiting fibrosis of an organ or tissue surface, and especially of inhibiting fibrosis of an epicardial surface. Furthermore, by inhibiting fibrosis, the present invention prevents or reduces subsequent development of adhesions to avoid organ or tissue damage during re-operation. Provided is a fibrosis inhibitor for inhibiting fibrosis of a tissue by fixing a biocompatible polymer to a tissue where it is desirable to inhibit fibrosis.

Abstract: An anti-adhesion material comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing an anti-adhesion material comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; an anti-adhesion material kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a substitute biomembrane comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing a substitute biomembrane comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; and a substitute biomembrane kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue.

Abstract: An anti-adhesion material comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing an anti-adhesion material comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; an anti-adhesion material kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a substitute biomembrane comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue; a method for preparing a substitute biomembrane comprising complexing a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue to decellularized tissues; and a substitute biomembrane kit comprising decellularized tissues and a biocompatible polymer or fibrin glue.

Abstract: A sheet preparation characterized by that fibrinogen is held on one surface of a sheet-shaped support and thrombin is held on the other surface of the sheet-shaped support where fibrinogen is not held and that fibrinogen and thrombin are held separately from each other, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus 1 having a high efficiency of information transfer includes one or more recording media forming a plurality of recording surfaces, a plurality of heads respectively disposed on the recording surfaces, a first actuator for supporting the heads and moving the heads uniformly, a plurality of second actuators provided one for an associated one of the heads, the second actuators moving the heads independently relative to the first actuator, recording processing circuits for simultaneously outputting recording signals, and reproducing processing circuits simultaneously supplied with reproduced signals read out by the heads to reproduce information from the reproduced signals.

Abstract: A disk drive. The disk drive includes a non-volatile memory that is incapable of being overwritten more than a limited number of times, a disk and a controller. The controller includes a memory management table used to manage a correlation between a logical block address (LBA) and a physical address of the non-volatile memory. In the absence of a replaceable region in the non-volatile memory and in response to an occurrence of a failure to write data in a region, defined as a failure region, in the non-volatile memory at a first physical address correlated with a first LBA, the controller is configured to write the data at a second physical address correlated with a second LBA of the non-volatile memory different from the first LBA, and is configured to correlate in the memory management table the first LBA with the second physical address.

Abstract: Embodiments protect user data in its entirety from unauthorized access when an authorized user does not access a medium for a predetermined length of time by making encryption key data used to encrypt the user data unavailable. In one embodiment, using a magnetic disk in which a data losing time of an encryption key data recording area is shorter than a user data recording area, recording is performed to the magnetic disk while encrypting user data during recording, and encryption key data for use with encryption is recorded in the encryption data recording area. For reproduction of the user data, the encryption key data is read from the encryption key data recording area, and the user data encrypted during the recording is output while being decrypted using an encryption key generated by the encryption key data, and the encryption key data is overwritten on the encryption key data recording area.

Abstract: In an information recording/reproducing method performing a thermo-magnetic recording, a tracking offset value of a recording light spot and/or a tracking offset value of a magnetic flux detecting element is changed in accordance with a radial position at which a tracking is performed at the present time, to make a direction of a magnetic wall of a recording magnetic domain in accord with a longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element. Alternatively, a shape of a heated area is changed to be in accord with the direction of the magnetic flux detecting means at respective radial position, to make the direction of the magnetic wall of the recording magnetic domain in accord with the longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element.

Abstract: A near-field optical probe and optical near-field generator are provided. A problem of a probe having a scatterer in which optical near-field noises are generated at the parts other than for a point at which an intense optical near-field is generated, is solved. In one example of the probe, a surface of the parts except for a vertex of the scatterer at which the intense optical near-field is generated is etched so that an etching depth becomes not less than a penetration depth of the optical near-field. The probe facilitates control of noises when a sample is observed or recording marks are reproduced.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: A thermally assisted magnetic recording system is provided to achieve excellent thermal resistance and low noise. In one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium is used, in which the magnetic intergrain exchange coupling is large to let the magnetization be thermally stable by coupling the magnetic grains constituting the recording layer at room temperature (the temperature maintaining the magnetization) and reduced by heating during recording to let the recording magnetization transition slope become steep. Parameter A normalizing the slope around the coercivity of the MH-loop of the medium is 1.5?A<6.0 at room temperature, and it becomes approximately 1.0 with heating.

Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to facilitate the driving of the recording energy source, and to secure sufficient cooling time of the recording medium to promote the high-speed formation of high-precision marks and to provide high-speed and large-capacity information recording apparatuses at a low cost. To achieve the above objects, at the time of information recording, p is chosen as the integer constant for marks natural number k times long of the detection window width by referring to the mark length in the recording data sequence, the recording data sequence is discriminated according to the quotient obtained by and the remainder remaining after dividing k+p by two or more integer constants, and the energy generating means is driven according to different procedures based on the result of discrimination obtained thereby.

Abstract: In an information recording/reproducing method performing a thermo-magnetic recording, a tracking offset value of a recording light spot and/or a tracking offset value of a magnetic flux detecting element is changed in accordance with a radial position at which a tracking is performed at the present time, to make a direction of a magnetic wall of a recording magnetic domain in accord with a longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element. Alternatively, a shape of a heated area is changed to be in accord with the direction of the magnetic flux detecting means at respective radial position, to make the direction of the magnetic wall of the recording magnetic domain in accord with the longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention enable a disk drive of an address system to write data normally, wherein track groups of different track widths are discretely disposed on the storage medium in a same disk drive and the dimensional relationship among physical block addresses of a sector is valid for the dimensional relationship among logical block addresses. Track groups are managed corresponding to their respective track width in a disk drive and for disposing successively in a logical block address space the respective track groups located discretely on the physical block address space.

Abstract: In an information recording/reproducing method performing a thermo-magnetic recording, a tracking offset value of a recording light spot and/or a tracking offset value of a magnetic flux detecting element is changed in accordance with a radial position at which a tracking is performed at the present time, to make a direction of a magnetic wall of a recording magnetic domain in accord with a longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element. Alternatively, a shape of a heated area is changed to be in accord with the direction of the magnetic flux detecting means at respective radial position, to make the direction of the magnetic wall of the recording magnetic domain in accord with the longitudinal direction of the magnetic flux detecting element.

Abstract: Recording information is disclosed in which an information recording medium is irradiated with a recording energy beam that is power-modulated into at least a record power level and a record-ready power level lower than the record power level. The information is recorded on the recording medium in the form of length and interval of a mark portion. When forming a mark portion of a predetermined length, the radiation energy of the energy beam is increased as compared with when forming a mark portion of a different length before or after the first pulse of an energy beam pulse train including at least a pulse for forming the mark portion.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus 1 having a high efficiency of information transfer includes one or more recording media forming a plurality of recording surfaces, a plurality of heads respectively disposed on the recording surfaces, a first actuator for supporting the heads and moving the heads uniformly, a plurality of second actuators provided one for an associated one of the heads, the second actuators moving the heads independently relative to the first actuator, recording processing circuits for simultaneously outputting recording signals, and reproducing processing circuits simultaneously supplied with reproduced signals read out by the heads to reproduce information from the reproduced signals.