Abstract: A healthcare management apparatus for determining a health condition of subjects is provided. The following configuration realizes the above object. The healthcare management apparatus includes an acquiring means for acquiring physical data and blood components data of subjects, data conversion formula and data determination criteria; and a processing means for converting the physical data and the blood components data into relative values by using the data conversion formula, and for determining health condition of the subjects by using the data determination criteria. Preferably, the acquiring means further comprise health assessment formula and health condition determination criteria.

Abstract: A detection instrument of the present invention includes: a flow path through which a sample to be examined flows, the flow path having a plurality of detection areas in each of which a target substance in the sample is detected, the plurality of detection areas respectively including detection sections and immobilizing sections each of which immobilizes an antibody, and the plurality of detection areas being separated by bulbs. As such, it is possible to provide a detection instrument which can detect plural kinds of target substances in a single flow path.

Abstract: A contents synthesizing apparatus includes an input receiving portion receiving an input of first contents data including a synthesizing script describing synthesis of contents data and an input of second contents data, and a synthesis processing portion synthesizing the input first contents data with the input second contents data, based on the synthesizing script included in said input first contents data. Therefore, it becomes unnecessary to newly prepare a synthesizing script required for synthesizing contents data.

Abstract: An animation data producing method of producing second animation data by replacing specific element data of first animation data with different data, includes the steps of extracting element data included in the different data and a tag for determining the element data, replacing the specific element data included in the first animation data with the element data corresponding to the extracted tag matching with the tag for determining the element data, and producing the second animation data.

Abstract: A method of sending information to a terminal of a user includes the steps of preparing a theme item while keeping a first corresponding relationship with position information and preparing article data to be provided to the user while keeping a second corresponding relationship with the theme item, receiving the position information from the user (S102), reading the theme item having the first corresponding relationship with the received position information and the article data having the second corresponding relationship with the received position information from a fixed disk (S104, S108); and sending the read article data to the user (S112). The method may be configured such that position information is received from the terminal, and is narrowed to establish communication between terminals within shorter distance from each other.

Abstract: A method of transferring data in a system including a plurality of pieces of equipment capable of transferring data with one another includes the steps of preparing information to specify a data transfer function corresponding to a combination of source equipment and destination equipment in a machine-readable form, specifying source equipment through physical interaction with the source equipment, specifying destination equipment through physical interaction with the destination equipment, and operating the source equipment and the destination equipment to uniquely determine the data transfer function based on information related to the specified source equipment, information on the specified destination equipment, and the information to specify the data transfer function prepared in the machine-readable form, and to automatically execute transmission.