Abstract: A control method of the present disclosure is a control method of an information processing apparatus which includes a storage unit that stores predetermined resource information related to a resource required for a living activity of a user, the method including: an acquiring step of acquiring device information; an estimating step of estimating a living activity of the user; a competition extracting step of extracting a living activity group including living activities for which the resources are likely to compete among the living activities, based on the resource information; a resource judging step of judging whether a required resource has been secured for each of the living activities, based on the device information and the resource information; and an inhibition extracting step of extracting, as an inhibited living activity, a living activity for which it has been judged that the required resource has not been secured.

Abstract: A building board includes an inorganic board having a surface covered by an insulating coating film containing a coating film forming material and organic hollow particles, wherein the organic hollow particles have an average particle size in the range of 5 to 50 ?m and an average hollow ratio of 80% or more, and the insulating coating film contains 0 01 to 5.0 parts by mass of the organic hollow particles per 100 parts by mass of solid content thereof, and has an average thickness of 5 to 500 ?m. The method for producing a building board includes: applying, onto a surface of an inorganic board, an insulating coating material containing a coating film forming material and organic hollow particles; and drying the insulating coating material to form an insulating coating film.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an execution unit that executes a control program for causing a functional unit to realize a predetermined function, a memory that stores the control program, a state variable indicating a state of the functional unit, and activation history of either initial activation or second and following activation, in a nonvolatile memory, and a communication unit that causes the execution unit to communicate with the functional unit, wherein the execution unit includes a first procedure where the control program is stored in the memory and the control program is read and is executed, and a second procedure where the control program pre-stored in the memory is read and is executed, refers to the activation history when activation is performed, executes the first procedure in a case of the initial activation, and executes the second procedure in a case of the second and following activation.

Abstract: A storage system according to the present invention includes: a data storage controlling part that stores data into a storage device and, when storing other data of the same data content as the data, refers to the already stored data as the other data; and a defragmentation processing part that moves and stores storage target data stored in an area set as a defragmentation range within a predetermined region of the storage device, into another region of the storage device. The data storage controlling part stores reference frequency that is frequency of referring to data as other storage target data. The defragmentation processing part, depending on the reference frequency of the data, stores the data into an area to become a defragmentation range later within another region of the storage device.

Abstract: Methods and related systems are described for measuring and analyzing refracted acoustic energy. A plurality of receivers mounted are on a downhole tool, and are arranged and adapted to receive refracted acoustic energy from a downhole formation. Measurements of refracted acoustic energy is analyzed such that information relating to an azimuthal direction relative to the downhole tool of an interface within the downhole formation can be estimated. The receivers can be mounted on a drill collar as part of a LWD tool and steering of the drilling trajectory can be based in part on the estimated formation information.

Abstract: A communication control apparatus including: a count portion that counts the number of received data; and a discard portion that is provided at an upstream side of a control portion on a forwarding route of the received data, and discards received data according to a counted value by the count portion.

Abstract: Measurement data of intensities of fluorescence obtained by directing excitation light onto a subject is acquired. An initial value of an absorption coefficient of the phosphor is set on the basis of a concentration distribution of the phosphor, an intensity distribution of the fluorescence on the basis of an absorption coefficient and a diffusion coefficient (reduced scattering coefficient) of the subject, which are set beforehand, are calculated, and the measurement data is compared with the calculation result. If these are found not to be matched, an absorption coefficient of the phosphor at which the error will be a minimum is estimated by performing an inverse problem calculation using a mathematical model. The calculation of the intensity distribution of the fluorescence and evaluation of the error from the obtained concentration distribution are repeated using the absorption coefficient, and a concentration distribution for which the error is the minimum is acquired.

Abstract: In a valve stem connection structure of a pressure reducing valve, an insertion recess portion (72) opened toward a valve mechanism is coaxially provided in a diaphragm rod (68); a reduced diameter stem portion (30a) and a pair of enlarged diameter stem portions (30b, 30c) are provided in one end portion of the valve stem (30); a holding plate (74) is inserted into the insertion recess portion (72) while the reduced diameter stem portion (30a) is loosely inserted into the engaging recess portion (73); and an engaging ring (78) expandable and contractable in a radial direction of the valve stem (30) is engaged with an arc-shaped first engaging groove (76) provided in an outer periphery of the holding plate (74) and an annular second engaging groove (77) provided in an inner periphery of the insertion recess portion (72).

Abstract: A building board includes a base material, an insulating coating film for covering a surface of the base material, and a transparent clear coating film for covering the insulating coating film. The insulating coating film contains a coating film forming material, organic hollow particles, and a water-soluble solvent. The method for producing the building board includes a step of forming an insulating coating film in which an insulating paint is applied to a surface of the base material and then dried to form the insulating coating film, and a step of forming a clear coating film in which a clear paint is applied to a surface of the insulating coating film and then dried to form the clear coating film. The insulating paint contains a coating film forming material, organic hollow particles, and a water-soluble solvent.

Abstract: A program executing apparatus, includes: a nonvolatile memory that stores a program for activating an equipment and a variable used in the program and sustains the stored program and the variable even though power is not supplied, the program and the variable being able to be read out and written into the nonvolatile memory; and an executing unit that transmits the program and the variable to the nonvolatile memory when the activation of the equipment is instructed at an initial status where the program and the variable are not stored in the nonvolatile memory, and successively executes the program using the variable stored in the nonvolatile memory, and, when the activation of the equipment is re-instructed, executes the program using the variable stored in the nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: Provided is a 2-cyanoacrylate-purifying method for decoloring a 2-cyanoacrylate which has been colored, and preventing further coloring of the 2-cyanoacrylate thus decolored. The 2-cyanoacrylate-purifying method includes the steps of: (a) adding a specific polyhydric aromatic compound to the 2-cyanoacrylate which has been colored; and (b) storing, at a temperature in a range of 0° C. to 40° C. for 0.5 day or more, the resulting mixture obtained in the step (a), and then subjecting the mixture to reduced pressure distillation.

Abstract: A washing treatment apparatus and a washing treatment method are provided. A washing treatment apparatus washes in a washing container an object to be washed including a tubular portion, and a main body portion to which one end portion of the tubular portion is connected. The washing treatment apparatus includes a washing solution supply unit which pressurizes and supplies a washing solution to the washing container, a penetration hole portion which is provided on the washing container and includes a penetration hole into which the tubular portion can be inserted, an outlet hole portion which is provided on the washing container and includes an outlet hole through which the washing solution supplied into the washing container flows out to adjust pressure of the washing solution in the washing container to predetermined pressure.

Abstract: The endoscopic diagnosis system comprises an image sensor that receives reflected light from a subject illuminated with white light and first narrowband light to acquire a narrowband light image for blood vessel observation in a narrowband light observation mode, and receives reflected light from the subject illuminated with second narrowband light to acquire a narrowband light image for oxygen saturation level observation in an oxygen saturation level observation mode; a controller that controls such that the narrowband light images for blood vessel observation and oxygen saturation level observation are acquired alternately; an image processor that generates an oxygen saturation level image based on the narrowband light images for blood vessel observation and oxygen saturation level observation; and a display unit that simultaneously displays the narrowband light image for blood vessel observation and the oxygen saturation level image.

Abstract: Provided are an optical fiber which has good laser beam condensation efficiency and is highly resilient, and a shockwave generating device employing same. An optical fiber (11) is employed in an underwater shockwave generating device (10) which projects a laser beam underwater and generates an underwater shockwave. The optical fiber (11) comprises: a main body part (16); and a laser convergence part (17) which is disposed upon a leading end thereof. The laser convergence part (17) is configured so as to exhibit an approximately frustum shape wherein the diameter of the leading end (18a) is narrower than the diameter of the base end (18b), and such that an interior angle ? with respect to a radial direction of a lateral face, of an axial cross-section gradually decreases toward the front thereof.

Abstract: A restart method that performs restart in a label transfer network, the restart method includes: selecting, by a restart node, one or more adjacent nodes based on a processing capacity of the restart node, setting a selected adjacent node as a restart group and notifying the selected adjacent node of restart; restoring, based on a label value of a path notified by the selected adjacent node, an entry corresponding to the path using a label table that associates the path with the label; and repeating a notification of restart and a restoration of an entry to restore the label table.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an execution unit that executes a control program for causing a functional unit to realize a predetermined function, a memory that stores the control program, a state variable indicating a state of the functional unit, and activation history of either initial activation or second and following activation, in a nonvolatile memory, and a communication unit that causes the execution unit to communicate with the functional unit, wherein the execution unit includes a first procedure where the control program is stored in the memory and the control program is read and is executed, and a second procedure where the control program pre-stored in the memory is read and is executed, refers to the activation history when activation is performed, executes the first procedure in a case of the initial activation, and executes the second procedure in a case of the second and following activation.

Abstract: A multi-piece-array formed by laminating a plurality of ceramic layers includes: a product region where a plurality of wiring board portions having a rectangular shape in plan view and including cavities are arranged in matrix; a redundant portion that is positioned along a periphery of the product region; and dividing grooves that are formed on a front surface and/or a back surface along a boundary between the wiring board portions and a boundary between the wiring board portion and the redundant portion. A deepest portion of the dividing groove has an arc shape and the dividing groove includes a middle portion, and a width of the deepest portion is greater than a width of the groove inlet and a width of the middle portion is equal to or less than the width of the groove inlet.

Abstract: An output power transmission device has a transmission plate and a C-ring. The transmission plate is attached to a wheel gear in an axial direction of the wheel gear such that the transmission plate directly engages with the wheel gear in a rotation direction. The transmission plate functions as a transmission member for transmitting rotation of the wheel gear to an output shaft. The C-ring is provided at a position where the C-ring sandwiches the transmission plate with the wheel gear in the axial direction. The C-ring functions as a restriction section for restricting movement of the transmission plate in the axial direction opposite from the wheel gear side. An elastic claw section as a pressing member is formed on the wheel gear. The elastic claw section presses the transmission plate against the C-ring in the axial direction.

Abstract: A pressure-reducing valve is provided in which a diaphragm rod connected to a valve body of a valve mechanism is connected to a central part of a diaphragm having its peripheral edge part clamped between a body and a diaphragm cover, wherein the diaphragm (28) is formed from a disk-shaped rubber sheet for which the sheet thickness of at least its peripheral edge part is uniform in the natural state, and in a state in which the diaphragm cover (17) is fixed to the body (16) so that the peripheral edge part of the diaphragm (28) is compressively held between a collar portion (17b) of the diaphragm cover (17) and a clamping face (91) of the body (16), a portion having, of the gap between the collar portion (17b) and the clamping face (91), a minimum gap is positioned further inward in the radial direction of the diaphragm (28) than a portion having a maximum gap.

Abstract: A measurement data correction method is provided. A living organism is employed as a test sample, fluorescent light generated by excitation light from a fluorescent substance administered to the test sample is received by a light receiving component at a plurality of locations around the periphery of the test sample in a flat plane passing through an observation site of the test sample, and the method is employed for reconstruction of an optical tomographic image of the test sample along the flat plane passing through the observation site. The method includes: generating corrected measurement data, as measurement data to be used in reconstruction of an optical tomographic image along the flat plane passing through the observation site of the test sample, from an obtained first measurement data and an obtained first standardization measurement data using a defined correction coefficient.