Abstract: In a variable vane drive device of an axial-flow fluid machine, a ring support unit supporting a movable ring includes: a first roller; a first support part supporting the first rollers so as to be relatively immovable with respect to a vane holding ring in a radial direction and in an axial direction; a second roller; a second support part supporting the second roller so as to be relatively movable with respect to the vane holding ring in the radial direction and pressing the second roller in the radial direction; a third roller allowing relative movement of the movable ring in the radial direction and restricting relative movement of the movable ring in the axial direction; and a third support part supporting the third roller so as to be relatively immovable with respect to the vane holding ring in the axial direction and in the radial direction.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a hydrogen-producing bacterium, which excels in hydrogen yield and hydrogen production rate, and is usable for industrial hydrogen production from biomass as a production source. That is, it is intended to provide a bacterium belonging to the genus Clostridium which has a property of producing hydrogen at a rate of 60 mmol or more per hour per liter of a culture liquid which contains glucose as a substrate, by batch cultivation in a YNU anaerobic culture medium at 47° C. and pH 6.0, and a hydrogen production method comprising the use of the bacterium belonging to the genus Clostridium.

Abstract: The present invention uses a common, hybrid system platform to provide a generalized medical image processing system that can handle the existing medical image application as it is and route the compute intensive medical image processing to a multi-core processor/processing system. The invention allows the processing platform to be shared among healthcare system such as mammography, X-ray, CT Scan MRI, two-photon, laser microscopy, digital pathology, etc. It also allows the processing platform to deliver medical images to a variety of client devices, such as a desktop computer or a handheld device, through the network without high-performance graphical display capabilities because the rendering of the medical images is performed on the Cell BE based platform of the invention.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a hydrogen-producing bacterium, which excels in hydrogen yield and hydrogen production rate, and is usable for industrial hydrogen production from biomass as a production source. That is, it is intended to provide a bacterium belonging to the genus Clostridium which has a property of producing hydrogen at a rate of 60 mmol or more per hour per liter of a culture liquid which contains glucose as a substrate, by batch cultivation in a YNU anaerobic culture medium at 47° C. and pH 6.0, and a hydrogen production method comprising the use of the bacterium belonging to the genus Clostridium.

Abstract: A method and a device for testing an array substrate for a liquid crystal display that allow time for testing to be reduced are provided. An array substrate is divided into two test blocks, and two scanning signal lines in total, one from each of the test blocks, are selected and tested at a time, so that the addresses of possible defective pixels are specified. Then, the array substrate is divided into three test blocks, and three scanning signal lines in total, one from each of the test blocks, are selected and re-tested at a time, so that the addresses of possible defective pixels are specified. Then, the address of a pixel common between the first testing and re-testing is specified as a defective address.

Abstract: The present invention uses a common, hybrid system platform to provide a generalized medical image processing system that can handle the existing medical image application as it is and route the compute intensive medical image processing to a multi0core processor/processing system. The invention allows the processing platform to be shared among healthcare system such as mammography, X-ray, CT Scan MRI, two-photon, laser microscopy, digital pathology, etc. It also allows the processing platform to deliver medical images to a variety of client devices, such as a desktop computer or a handheld device, through the network without high-performance graphical display capabilities because the rendering of the medical images is performed on the Cell BE based platform of the invention.

Abstract: A method and a device for testing an array substrate for a liquid crystal display that allow time for testing to be reduced are provided. An array substrate is divided into two test blocks, and two scanning signal lines in total, one from each of the test blocks, are selected and tested at a time, so that the addresses of possible defective pixels are specified. Then, the array substrate is divided into three test blocks, and three scanning signal lines in total, one from each of the test blocks, are selected and re-tested at a time, so that the addresses of possible defective pixels are specified. Then, the address of a pixel common between the first testing and re-testing is specified as a defective address.

Abstract: A band which can be changed easily and speedily comprises a first band member to which a case is attached detachably, a second band member disposed to overlap on the first band member, and a loop into which the second band member and a right end portion of the first band member are inserted to overlap each other to secure the right end portion of the first band member to the second band member detachably. By pulling out the right end portion of the first band member from the loop, the right end portion of the first band member can be detached from the second band member. By inserting the right end portion of the first band member and the second band member into the loop to overlap each other, the right end portion of the first band member can be attached to the second band member.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of measuring at least one painted layer formed on a sample to be analyzed, which sample may be, for example, a galvanized steel including a substrate having the painted layer formed thereon with or without an intervention of a primer coated layer. In the practice of the invention, radiation is directed onto a surface of the painted layer so as to excite the sample. The intensity of resultant Compton scattering rays, the intensity of resultant fluorescent X-rays emitted from zinc contained in a plated zinc and the intensity of resultant fluorescent X-rays emitted from strontium contained in the primer coated layer are measured, and also the absorption of the fluorescent X-rays are taken into consideration, to provide a basis for calculation of the amount of paint coating forming the painted layer. In this way, the amount of primer and paint material both applied to the galvanized steel can be easily measured on a non-destructive basis.