Abstract: State change means changes a state of an information processing apparatus between an unused state and a used state. First communication means automatically performs communication with another portable information processing apparatus. Second communication means automatically performs communication via an access point. Communication control means performs control such that the communication by the first communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the unused state and the communication by the second communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the used state.

Abstract: Application process means executes a predetermined application program. Communication process means performs a predetermined data communication process with another communication target. Communication stop determination means determines whether or not to stop the data communication process performed by the communication process means, on the basis of an instruction from the application process means. When it is determined by the communication stop determination means to stop the data communication process, the data communication process is stopped.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes an input-output processor, and by following an instruction from the input-output processor, messages are transmitted and received with other game apparatus 12 connected via a network. The messages are transmitted and received in an electronic mail format, and has identification information of an application being a creation source of the message as well as general information, such as a transmission source, a destination and a subject as header information.

Abstract: A computer-readable storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which can efficiently prevent output of inappropriate contents to a recipient. Data including a content is assigned creation information indicating information related to a time when the content is created. Identification information for identifying a content which is inappropriate to be outputted to a user, among contents included in the data received from another information processing apparatus, is previously registered. A content identified on the basis of the previously registered identification information is set so as not to be outputted, whereby only a content which is not set so as not to be outputted can be outputted to the user.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus including: an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a subject; a storage unit configured to store a table that associates information related to an image with at least one effect to be applied to an image; a control unit configured to detect or receive information related to the image captured by the image capturing unit, and select an effect from the table stored in the storage unit based on the detected or received information related to the image; and an image processing unit configured to apply the selected effect to the captured image.

Abstract: An object is to provide a composition that has good viscosity stability and flowability at the time of processing, good shape retention after the processing, and good drying property in a temperature range of not degrading the conductor layer at the time of drying and that enables a coated film excellent in strength of adhesion with metal•polyimide, flame resistance, heat resistance, flexibility, mechanical properties, and chemical resistance to obtained after being dried. To meet this object, a composition is prepared containing (A) polyimide and (B) mixed solvent of two kinds or more, and the solubility parameter of the mixed solvent of two kinds or more ranges from 9 to 14.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit located on a front surface of a case. The information processing apparatus also includes a sensing unit located on a side surface of the case facing away from the display unit.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes an input-output processor, and by following an instruction from the input-output processor, messages are transmitted and received with other game apparatus 12 connected via a network. The messages are transmitted and received in an electronic mail format, and has identification information of an application being a creation source of the message as well as general information, such as a transmission source, a destination and a subject as header information.

Abstract: An example portable information terminal has a used and an unused state and includes a wireless communication module configured to search for a predetermined access point at least when the portable information terminal operates in the unused state and a processor configured to, when the predetermined access point is detected, connect to the predetermined access point and perform a data communication process.

Abstract: When a portable information terminal operates in an unused state, a predetermined access point is searched for. As a result, when the predetermined access point is detected, a connection to the predetermined access point is established, and a predetermined data communication process is performed.

Abstract: First, one or more tasks each representing process contents of transmission or reception of data are set. Next, an access point is searched for, and a connection to the access point is performed if the access point is found. Then, before the one or more tasks are executed via the access point, an execution control parameter, for at least one of the one or more tasks, which indicates at least one of an execution instruction, whether or not to execute the task, and an execution priority, is obtained in accordance with an access point identifier. Then, transmission or reception of data is performed via the access point by executing at least one of the one or more tasks on the basis of the execution control parameter.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information display device, including: an image display section adapted to display binocular parallax images; a display image control section adapted to control the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section; and a position information acquisition section adapted to acquire position information representing the three-dimensional position of a target existing in the three-dimensional space on the display surface of the image display section, wherein the display image control section controls the binocular parallax images displayed on the image display section according to the three-dimensional position of the target represented by the position information acquired by the position information acquisition section.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a sample in a liquid is provided, which is suitable for easily and reliably preventing a liquid for analysis from being evaporated. When the sample in the liquid is observed by using a scanning probe microscope (SPM), a sealing liquid (17) immiscible with a liquid for analysis (16) is filled around the liquid for analysis (16), in which a sample (13) and a probe (15) are immersed, so as to form a sealing state, in which the liquid for analysis (16) is isolated from an external gas. The SPM enables the probe (15) disposed on a front end of a cantilever (14) to approach a surface of the sample (13) immersed in the liquid, scans the surface of the sample, and detects an interaction between the sample (13) and the probe (15), thereby generating an image.

Abstract: The short-pulse laser light 9 emitted from the short-pulse laser light source 1 is focused on and caused to irradiate an organic crystal 8 contained in a sample container 6 via a shutter 2, intensity adjusting element 3, irradiation position control mechanism 4, and focusing optical system 5. The sample container 6 is carried on a stage 7, and can be moved in three dimensions along the x axis, y axis and z axis in an x-y-z orthogonal coordinate system with the direction of the optical axis being taken as the z axis; furthermore, the sample container 6 can be rotated about the z axis. Working of the organic crystal 8 is performed by means of short-pulse laser light that is focused on and caused to irradiate the surface of the organic crystal 8. Prior to working, nitrogen is caused to jet onto the sample container 6 by a low-temperature gas jet device C that is a cooling device; consequently, the organic crystal 8 is cooled to ?150° C. or below.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a sample in a liquid is provided, which is suitable for easily and reliably preventing a liquid for analysis from being evaporated. When the sample in the liquid is observed by using a scanning probe microscope (SPM), a sealing liquid (17) immiscible with a liquid for analysis (16) is filled around the liquid for analysis (16), in which a sample (13) and a probe (15) are immersed, so as to form a sealing state, in which the liquid for analysis (16) is isolated from an external gas. The SPM enables the probe (15) disposed on a front end of a cantilever (14) to approach a surface of the sample (13) immersed in the liquid, scans the surface of the sample, and detects an interaction between the sample (13) and the probe (15), thereby generating an image.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a composition that has good viscosity stability and flowability at the time of processing, good shape retention after the processing, and good drying property in a temperature range of not degrading the conductor layer at the time of drying and that enables a coated film excellent in strength of adhesion with metal·polyimide, flame resistance, heat resistance, flexibility, mechanical properties, and chemical resistance to obtained after being dried. [Overcoming Means] The composition of the invention contains (A) polyimide and (B) mixed solvent of two kinds or more, and the solubility parameter of the mixed solvent of two kinds or more ranges from 9 to 14.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a model animal faithfully reproducing the pathogenic conditions of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a method of screening a remedy for polyglutamine disease using the same, and a remedy for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Namely, a nonhuman animal having the following characteristics (1) to (5) in its conditions or pathological findings: (1) showing progressive myoatrophy; (2) showing lowering in muscular power; (3) in immunostaining with the use of an anti-polyglutamine antibody, showing nuclear diffuse staining and nuclear inclusions; (4) in immunostaining with the use of an anti-androgen receptor antibody, showing nuclear diffuse staining and nuclear inclusions; and (5) showing a neurogenic change. A remedy for polyglutamine disease is screened by administering a test substance to this nonhuman animal and examining changes in its conditions or pathological findings.

Abstract: A modified polyphenylene ether resin is provided which is a product of the reaction of 100 parts by weight of (A) a polyphenylene ether having a main chain structure of the following formula (1): (wherein R1 and R4 each independently represents hydrogen, a primary or secondary lower alkyl, a phenyl, an aminoalkyl or a hydrocarbonoxy, and R2 and R3 each independently represents hydrogen, a primary or secondary lower alkyl or a phenyl), with 0.01 to 10.0 parts by weight of (B) a modifier selected from conjugated non-aromatic diene compounds, dienophilic compounds having one dienophile group and precursors of the diene or dienophilic compounds, wherein the number of rearrangement structures each represented by the following formula (2): (wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 have the same meanings as defined above in the formula (1)) is less than 0.01 per 100 phenylene ether units of the formula (1).

Abstract: A system for delivering contents automatically has first and second signal-selecting-and-delivering devices each for selecting a contents-signal from the contents-signals each having any of first and second formats of contents-signal and delivering the selected contents-signal having each of the first and second formats. It also has a signal-supplying device that supplies the contents-signals having the first and second formats to the first and second signal-selecting-and-delivering devices, respectively, and a signal-converting device that converts the contents-signal having the first format into the contents-signal having the second format and supplies the converted contents-signal having the second format to the second signal-selecting-and-delivering device.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a model animal faithfully reproducing the pathogenic conditions of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a method of screening a remedy for polyglutamine disease using the same, and a remedy for spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Namely, a nonhuman animal having the following characteristics (1) to (5) in its conditions or pathological findings: (1) showing progressive myoatrophy; (2) showing lowering in muscular power; (3) in immunostaining with the use of an anti-polyglutamine antibody, showing nuclear diffuse staining and nuclear inclusions; (4) in immunostaining with the use of an anti-androgen receptor antibody, showing nuclear diffuse staining and nuclear inclusions; and (5) showing a neurogenic change. A remedy for polyglutamine disease is screened by administering a test substance to this nonhuman animal and examining changes in its conditions or pathological findings.