Abstract: Disclosed are a packet transmission apparatus and so on that can suppress transmission delays caused by packet integrations and that can perform the transmissions over a broad band. The packet transmission apparatus includes: a packet extraction means that searches for and extracts, from a buffer for sorting and accumulating packets for respective destinations, the packets for the respective destinations and that, if a plurality of packets addressed to an identical destination have been accumulated in the buffer, extracts the plurality of packets from the buffer; and an encapsulation means that encapsulates the packets, which have been extracted by the packet extraction means, into a single packet for each destination.

Abstract: An information processing device is provided that improves the responsiveness of a storage system and a storage device that is accessed via a network. This information processing device includes: a means that calculates an address identifying an area, on the basis of an access identifier specifying data to be accessed, said area being in a storage device that stores a first data corresponding to the access identifier; and a means that obtains the first data included in second data being data for the area and read on the basis of the calculated address, on the basis of management information included in the second data, and executes a first data operation on the second data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for screening a modulator of a TMEM16 family member, which comprises the following steps: (1) treating cells expressing the TMEM16 family member with a candidate of the modulator, and (2) determining whether the candidate alters distribution of a lipid selected from phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, and galactosylceramide in plasma membrane of the cells, wherein a candidate which increases distribution of phosphatidylserine in the outer leaflet of plasma membrane compared to control is selected as a modulator enhancing a function of the TMEM16 family member, and a candidate which decreases distribution of phosphatidylserine in the outer leaflet of plasma membrane compared to control is selected as a modulator suppressing a function of the TMEM16 family member, and a candidate which increases distribution of phosphatidylcholine or galactosylceramide in the inner leaflet of plasma membrane compared to control is selected as a modulator enhancing a function of

Abstract: A fuel cell separator material made of titanium containing a carbon-based conductive layer formed on a surface of a base material. The base material contains pure titanium or a titanium alloy. The carbon-based conductive layer has a two-layer structure. In the carbon-based conductive layer, a layer on a side closer to the base material is a carbon layer and a layer on a side farther from the base material is a conductive resin layer. The carbon layer contains graphite and the carbon layer has a coverage of 40% or more. The conductive resin layer contains a carbon powder and a predetermined resin.

Abstract: Provided is a path calculation device including a calculation unit for performing assigned processing in parallel using a plurality of threads, and a control unit for controlling the calculation unit. The control unit divides nodes that are included in a graph which is object of path calculation, into groups in accordance with distances from a start node. And The control unit causes the calculation unit to perform path calculations between the start node and nodes belonging to a group of nodes to which distances from the start node are relatively short and thereafter to perform path calculations between the start node and nodes belonging to a group of nodes to which distances from the start node are relatively long.

Abstract: A communication system is provided with a transmission terminal and a reception terminal that communicate over a network, and the transmission terminal includes: an encoded packet generation unit which encodes a predetermined number of packets and transmits the encoded packets to the reception terminal over the network; a network environment measurement unit which measures the state of the network; and a parameter calculation unit which determines the predetermined number of packets by using a characteristics to be guaranteed in regard to delay time required for a packet transmitted from the transmission terminal to arrive at the reception terminal and the state of the network. In the communication system in which the transmission terminal and the reception terminal communicate via the network on which a packet loss may occur, a characteristic regarding a packet delay time specified by a user is guaranteed.

Abstract: A ceramic package includes a package main body which is formed of a ceramic material, which has a front surface and a back surface having a rectangular shape in plan view, and which has a cavity opening toward the front surface; a first metalized layer which has a frame shape in plan view and is formed on the front surface; and a second metalized layer which is formed on the front surface of the first metalized layer so as to assume a frame shape, and which has a width smaller than the width of the first metalized layer, wherein the width of the second metalized layer at each corner portion of the front surface in plan view is smaller than the width of the second metalized layer in a region other than the corner portion in plan view.

Abstract: Provided is a system in which a camera monitors safety of a galley arranged in a cabin of an aircraft. A galley 100 includes a storage space 130 of carts divided by structural members 110, and carts 150 are stored. Turn retainers 200 in closed positions prevent the carts 150 from flying out. Hinged doors 310 are attached to front sides of compartments 300, and latches 320 lock the hinged doors 310. A monitoring camera 500 determines safety or unsafety of the turn retainers 200 and the latches 320 by an image and displays the safety or unsafety on a display device 600 or on a PDA terminal device 800 carried by a cabin attendant CA.

Abstract: To provide an anode, corrosion-protecting structure of a concrete constructions using this, and a corrosion protection method capable of protecting electrical corrosion, with little generation of gas due to electrolysis of water or chlorine compounds, by decreasing as far as possible the amount of processing performed on the structural body in on-site construction work and suppressing the voltage that is conducted therethrough to a low level. [Solution] A corrosion-protecting structure (1) is constituted by attaching an anode (10) to the surface layer (3) of a corrosion-protecting body (4) through a first electrolyte layer (12) on one face of a conductive layer (11) formed as a sheet. The electrolyte is formed as a sheet. The first electrolyte layer (12) having adhesiveness is attached to the conductive layer (11) and the surface layer (3) of the corrosion-protecting body (4).

Abstract: In a jet pump measurement pipe repair method according to the present embodiment, a breakage part of a measurement pipe horizontally fixed to a lower part of a jet pump provided in reactor water in a reactor pressure vessel is repaired. The method has: a step of cutting and removing the measurement pipe including the breakage part; a step of retaining a connection pipe for connecting the remaining measurement pipe on the jet pump by means of a clamp; and a step of connecting ends of the remaining measurement pipe by means of the connection pipe.

Abstract: A radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism of the present invention includes a circuit board including a fiber reinforced resin board, instead of an expensive ceramic circuit board. The radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism has a combined configuration of a plurality of fiber reinforced resin boards laminated to each other with a conductive foil therebetween, a via hole array made of an electric conductor passing through the boards, a transmission line closely adhered to the surface of a board, and a waveguide having a notch in a part of the waveguide on the aperture side. The radio frequency electric power conversion mechanism further has other structural features.

Abstract: A CPU 80 controls data transfer from a first device to a second device in a kernel mode. A main memory 90 stores data to be transferred from the first device to the second device. The CPU 80 has: a first device control means 81 which controls the first device; a second device control means which controls the second device; and a data transfer control means 83 which makes a read instruction which instructs the first device control means 81 to store data read from the first device in the main memory 3, and makes a write instruction which instructs the second device control means 82 to write the data stored in the main memory 3 in the second device.

Abstract: Provided is a titanium sheet for fuel cell separators which can surely achieve a low contact resistance. This titanium sheet for fuel cell separators includes a titanium base metal and a surface layer. The titanium base metal has a recrystallized structure. The surface layer includes a compound-mixed titanium layer having thickness less than 1 ?m alone. The compound-mixed titanium layer includes a mixture of matrix titanium (Ti) and a compound between Ti and at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen (O), carbon (C), and nitrogen (N). The matrix titanium contains O, C, and N each solid-soluted in the titanium. Alternatively, the surface layer includes the compound-mixed titanium layer and a passivation layer being disposed on a surface of the compound-mixed titanium layer and having a thickness less than 5 nm.

Abstract: Provided is an infrared image sensor for detecting infrared rays. The infrared image sensor includes a light-receiving unit including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and at least one reference pixel; a difference circuit for acquiring a first differential signal that is a differential signal between a signal of one pixel contained in the pixel region and a signal of the reference pixel and a second differential signal that is a differential signal between signals of two predetermined pixels out of the pixels contained in the pixel region; and a pixel signal calculating unit that calculates a signal of each of the pixels on the basis of the first differential signal and the second differential signal.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a subject detector that detects a predetermined subject in at least one of a first input image and a second input image between which parallax is present; and a combiner that combines a subject frame corresponding to the detected subject with each of the first and second input images stereoscopically displayed on a display section in such a way that the subject frames combined with the first and second input images also provide a depth sensation.

Abstract: The present invention provides an animal model resistant to hearing loss by producing a fatty acid binding protein 7 gene knockout animal.

Abstract: A care robot that assists a standing-upright motion or a sitting motion of a care receiver without making the care receiver uncomfortable. In the care robot, a standing-upright trajectory, along which a movement control portion of a care receiver moves, is set so a center of gravity of the care receiver is in a range of the soles of both feet between a point in time early after the start of a standing-upright motion and an end time point of the standing-upright motion of the care receiver. A sitting trajectory is set so the center of gravity of the care receiver is out of the range of the soles of both feet from a point in time early after the start of a sitting motion of the care receiver, and moves toward a predetermined sitting position of the care receiver.

Abstract: A multi-route connection bridge 24 performs swapping of an address described in a header of network packet to allow a downstream PCI express-network bridge 25 to be connected with a plurality of upstream PCI express-network bridges 21. Also, the multi-route connection bridge 24 configures an I/O resource 3 in advance, maps the configured I/O resource 3 to an address space of each host 1, and swaps header data described in an I/O packet encapsulated to the network packet by using mapping data. Thus, the multi-route connection bridge 24 assigns I/O capability of I/O resource 3 to each host 1 in units of functions to allow the I/O resource 3 to be shared simultaneously by the hosts 1.

Abstract: A material for fuel cell separators having excellent adhesion between a base and a carbon layer, excellent conduction durability and excellent production efficiency; and a method for producing the material are provided. The method includes: a coating step wherein a coating layer that contains carbon and a binder compound containing a carbon atom and an oxygen atom is formed on the surface of a titanium base of titanium or a titanium alloy with a thickness of 40-200 ?m; and a heat treatment step treating the titanium base covered with the coating layer. The titanium base covered with the coating layer is wound into a coil shape and then subjected to the heat treatment carried out in a vacuum atmosphere of 10 Pa or less. A carbon layer and an intermediate layer containing titanium carbide are formed from the coating layer in the heat treatment step.

Abstract: Disclosed is a titanium fuel cell separator having excellent conductivity and durability. In the disclosed titanium fuel cell separator (10), a carbon layer (2) is formed on the surface of a substrate (1) formed from pure titanium or a titanium alloy. The carbon layer (2) comprises graphite which is orientated so as to be parallel to the (002) plane of the carbon layer (2). The deposition amount of the carbon layer (2) is at least 2 ?g/cm2.