Abstract: There are proposed a highly reliable operation management apparatus and method capable of presenting highly effective countermeasures.

Abstract: A management system stores peripheral information apparatus management information for managing a configuration of a peripheral information apparatus on a network of a to-be-managed information apparatus. The peripheral information apparatus management information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the network. The management system receives, from the to-be-managed information apparatus, current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicating a configuration of the peripheral information apparatus in a current network of the to-be-managed information apparatus. The current peripheral information apparatus configuration information indicates an identifier of the peripheral information apparatus recognized in the current network.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reflective polarized-light separating diffraction-element usable in a wide wavelength region including an ultraviolet region, and an optical measurement device comprising the same. The reflective polarized-light separating diffraction-element comprises: a substrate (1); a reflection surface (2) formed on a surface of the substrate (1); and a lattice structured body assembly (3) that is provided on the reflection surface (2) and shows a form birefringence (?n*). The lattice structured body assembly (3) consists of lattice structured bodies (3A, 3B, 3C and 3D) of four patterns having lattice structures of different azimuths. The lattice structured bodies (3A, 3B, 3C and 3D) of a plurality of patterns are aligned on the reflection surface 2 in a predetermined direction such that the azimuths of the lattice structures change in a structurally periodic manner.

Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an evaluation system for evaluating a resource operation of an information system by a user. The evaluation system includes one or more arithmetic units, and one or more storage devices. The one or more storage devices are configured to store risk management information for managing an erroneous operation risk evaluation index relating to the resource operation of the information system. The one or more arithmetic units are configured to: receive operation information indicating a first resource operation designated by a first user, and evaluate an erroneous operation risk of the first resource operation based on the first resource operation and the risk management information.

Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.

Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.

Abstract: To automate processing of agent software which operates in a storage apparatus. A storage system includes: a storage apparatus including a storage device which stores data and one or two or more pieces of agent software, and a controller for controlling the agent software; and a server that transmits and receives information to and from the storage apparatus via a network, wherein the controller: activates the agent software and monitors a status of the agent software; and causes the agent software to execute processing on condition that the status of the agent software is standby.

Abstract: A computer system includes a business system operating services each providing a function corresponding to a request. the computer system comprises: a controller generating a schedule for changing an allocation amount of a resource of the business system for a service; and an allocation change unit changing the allocation amount of the resource for the service based on the schedule. The controller calculates in a case of detecting reception of a request for starting processing, a reception count of the detected request; identifies related services; calculate a predicted value of an index indicating a load of each of the related services based on the reception count of the request; determines whether it is necessary to change the allocation amount of the resource for the each of the related services; and generates the schedule of a determined related service.

Abstract: A composite oxide which includes lithium, at least one of calcium and magnesium, and nickel and manganese, and has a lithium-excess layered rock-salt structure, and a cathode active material and a lithium secondary battery which contain the composite oxide.

Abstract: A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes receiving coils each including an A/D converter configured to convert an MR signal received from an object into a digital signal by sampling the MR signal, a clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock of the sampling, and a radio transmission circuit configured to wirelessly transmit a digitized MR signal; and a main body configured to wirelessly receive the digitized MR signal and generate an image of the object by reconstructing the digitized MR signal, wherein one of the receiving coils selected as a reference receiving coil by the main body is configured to transmit the reference clock to each of other receiving coils by radio or by wire; and each of the other receiving coils is configured to synchronize the reference clock generated by the clock generation circuit with the reference clock transmitted from the reference receiving coil.

Abstract: Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.

Abstract: A composite oxide which includes lithium, at least one of calcium and magnesium, and nickel and manganese, and has a lithium-excess layered rock-salt structure, and a cathode active material and a lithium secondary battery which contain the composite oxide.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes a first RF coil device, a radio communication unit and an image reconstruction unit. The first RF coil device is wirelessly connected to a second RF coil device, and receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal wirelessly transmitted from the second RF coil device. The first RF coil device wirelessly transmits the nuclear magnetic resonance signal detect by the first RF coil device and the nuclear magnetic resonance signal obtained from the second RF coil device to the radio communication unit, via an induced electric field. The radio communication unit receives the nuclear magnetic resonance signals wirelessly transmitted from the first RF coil device via an induced electric field. The image reconstruction unit reconstructs image data on the basis of the nuclear magnetic resonance signals received by the radio communication unit.

Abstract: Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.

Abstract: A process for reducing a radioactive material of an object containing a radioactive material to a safe level in a living environment includes releasing pressure including carrying out a heating process on an aqueous liquid that includes water, water-soluble liquid, or a mixture of water and water-soluble liquid, and the object in a state where temperature is less than or equal to a critical temperature of the aqueous liquid and pressure is greater than or equal to a saturated vapor pressure of the aqueous liquid when the object is immersed in the aqueous liquid to such a degree that the object is covered or to a greater degree and then abruptly releasing the pressure, and separating, after the releasing pressure, the mixture of the object and the aqueous liquid into liquid and solid.

Abstract: To prevent misreading of barcodes and to allow accurate outputting of bar data even when an element is damaged or blurred, an optical information reading device containing a computation means 23a for adding widths of 6 elements containing a bar and a space that are adjacent within one character to derive respective patterns of 2- through n-element added widths and for converting each of the patterns of 2- through n-element added widths into the module number for one character to obtain the module numbers of the patterns of the 2- through n-element added widths; an extraction means 23b for narrowing down the target characters to extract a candidate character wherein the target character is that each module number of the 2- through n-element widths is an integer with an error equal to or less than 1; and a search means 23d for comparing the extracted candidate character, having the module numbers of the patterns of the 2- through n-element added widths with the expected value character for evaluating the candid

Abstract: A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes receiving coils each including an A/D converter configured to convert an MR signal received from an object into a digital signal by sampling the MR signal, a clock generation circuit configured to generate a reference clock of the sampling, and a radio transmission circuit configured to wirelessly transmit a digitized MR signal; and a main body configured to wirelessly receive the digitized MR signal and generate an image of the object by reconstructing the digitized MR signal, wherein one of the receiving coils selected as a reference receiving coil by the main body is configured to transmit the reference clock to each of other receiving coils by radio or by wire; and each of the other receiving coils is configured to synchronize the reference clock generated by the clock generation circuit with the reference clock transmitted from the reference receiving coil.