Abstract: A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M?1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N?M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns.

Abstract: A wireless communication control method suppresses interference using an MMSE weight in an environment of wireless communication where the number of transmission stations transmitting a signal to a receiving station is larger than the number of reception antennas of the receiving station. The receiving station calculates power of an interference signal included in a signal received by the receiving station from the transmission stations the number of which is larger than the number of reception antennas, the interference signal corresponding to a part by which the number of transmission stations exceeds the number of reception antennas. The receiving station calculates the MMSE weight depending on the power of the interference signal, recalculates the power of the interference signal using the MMSE weight, and recalculates the MMSE weight depending on the recalculated power of the interference signal.

Abstract: To provide a waterproof sheet for civil engineering, having sufficient strength and elongation even at a low temperature of about ?10° C. and having excellent adhesiveness to a structure such as a tunnel. Disclosed is a waterproof sheet for civil engineering, which has a layer (A) including a composition containing an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (a1) and a thermoplastic resin (a2) other than the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (a1), and a silica-containing layer containing silica, wherein the content of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (a1) in the composition is 30 to 95% by mass, the content of the thermoplastic resin (a2) is 5 to 70% by mass, and the absolute value of the difference between the SP value of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (a1) and the SP value of the thermoplastic resin (a2) is less than 0.70 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: A base member of a spindle motor includes an upper surface and a lower surface, in which the base member is a casting, the upper surface includes a pin portion extending upward, the lower surface includes a first lower surface and a second lower surface positioned higher than the first lower surface, and the first lower surface and the second lower surface are adjacent to each other with a stepped portion interposed between the first lower surface and the second lower surface, the stepped portion increasing in height from the first lower surface to the second lower surface.

Abstract: A composition analysis apparatus for analyzing a composition of a gas includes: a first measurement part measuring concentrations of gases included in a gas to be analyzed; a part calculating converted calorific values, the part including a second measurement part measuring a refractive index of the gas and a speed of a sound propagating through the gas and calculating a converted calorific value of the gas for the refractive index and the sound speed; a part calculating a base miscellaneous gas total error calorific value, the part calculating, based on the converted calorific values, a base error calorific value of an error calorific value attributable to miscellaneous gases included in the gas; and a part calculating a concentration of a first gas not to be measured, the part calculating the concentration of the first gas based on the concentrations of the measured gases and the base error calorific value.

Abstract: A composition analysis apparatus for analyzing a composition of a gas includes: a first measurement part measuring concentrations of gases included in a gas to be analyzed; a part calculating converted calorific values, the part including a second measurement part measuring a refractive index of the gas and a speed of a sound propagating through the gas and calculating a converted calorific value of the gas for the refractive index and the sound speed; a part calculating a base miscellaneous gas total error calorific value, the part calculating, based on the converted calorific values, a base error calorific value of an error calorific value attributable to miscellaneous gases included in the gas; and a part calculating a concentration of a first gas not to be measured, the part calculating the concentration of the first gas based on the concentrations of the measured gases and the base error calorific value.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a calorific value measuring device and a calorific value measuring method which enable highly reliable measurement of the calorific value of a by-product gas produced in a steelmaking process. In the present invention, with a by-product gas produced in a steelmaking process being employed as an object gas of which calorific value is to be measured, the refractive index and the sonic speed of the by-product gas are measured so as to compute a refractive index equivalent calorific value QO from the value of the refractive index as well as a sonic speed equivalent calorific value QS from the value of the sonic speed. On the basis of the concentration XCO of carbon monoxide gas contained in the by-product gas, an error calorific value QCO is computed by Equation (1) below using a value selected within a range of ?0.08 to ?0.03 as a calorific value equivalent coefficient ?.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a methane number calculation method that allows for readily acquiring a methane number of a natural gas, which is a sample gas to be measured, with acceptable reliability irrespective of toe gas composition, and as another object the provision of a methane number measurement device that is capable of monitoring the fuel property of a natural gas to be used as a fuel gas.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a calorific value measuring device and a calorific value measuring method which enable highly reliable measurement of the calorific value of a by-product gas produced in a steelmaking process. In the present invention, with a by-product gas produced in a steelmaking process being employed as an object gas of which calorific value is to be measured, the refractive index and the sonic speed of the by-product gas are measured so as to compute a refractive index equivalent calorific value QO from the value of the refractive index as well as a sonic speed equivalent calorific value QS from the value of the sonic speed. On the basis of the concentration XCO of carbon monoxide gas contained in the by-product gas, an error calorific value QCO is computed by Equation (1) below using a value selected within a range of ?0.08 to ?0.03 as a calorific value equivalent coefficient ?.

Abstract: The present invention relates to N-acylimino compound of formula (I): wherein X is O or S, in particular O; m is an integer selected from 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; Het is a 5 or 6 membered carbon-bound or nitrogen-bound heterocyclic ring, W1—W2—W3—W4 represents a carbon chain group connected to N and C?N, and thus forming a saturated, unsaturated, or partially unsaturated 5 or 6 membered nitrogen containing heterocycle, wherein W1, W2, W3 and W4 each individually represent CRvRw, R1, R2 may be hydrogen, halogen, etc. R3 may be hydrogen, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, etc. R4a, R4b if present, may be hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, etc. or R3 and R4a may also form a double bound, R5 may be hydrogen, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkylthio, C1-C6-alkylsulfinyl, C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6-alkenylthio, C2-C6-alkenylsulfinyl, C2-C6-alkenylsulfonyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6-alkynylthio, C2-C6-alkynylsulfinyl, C2-C6-alkynylsulfonyl, etc.

Abstract: The use of certain pesticides for protecting plants, the plant propagation material thereof, or soil or water, in which the plants are growing, against the attack or infestation by gastropods is described. Furthermore, a method for controlling gastropods is disclosed, the method comprising contacting the gastropods or their food supply, habitat or breeding ground, or plants or plant propagation material thereof, or soil or water, where the gastropods are present or may occur, with a molluscicidally effective amount of a pesticide. A bait composition is also provided, comprising a pesticide, a mollusc attractant, and optionally at least one further additive.

Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of a methane number calculation method that allows for readily acquiring a methane number of a natural gas, which is a sample gas to be measured, with acceptable reliability irrespective of toe gas composition, and as another object the provision of a methane number measurement device that is capable of monitoring the fuel property of a natural gas to be used as a fuel gas.

Abstract: A sound data processing apparatus includes a central processing unit for controlling predetermined processing in the apparatus, a rewritable RAM, a decoder performing the decoding processing for sound data, and an interface unit for being fitted with an external memory. The sound data processing apparatus reads a driver from the external memory mounted in the interface unit and stores the read driver into the RAM, and reads the sound data from the external memory with the driver and processes the read sound data. As a result, the wastefully using of the memory capacity of the memory mounted in the sound data processing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A sound data processing apparatus includes a central processing unit for controlling predetermined processing in the apparatus, a rewritable RAM, a decoder performing the decoding processing for sound data, and an interface unit for being fitted with an external memory. The sound data processing apparatus reads a driver from the external memory mounted in the interface unit and stores the read driver into the RAM, and reads the sound data from the external memory with the driver and processes the read sound data. As a result, the wastefully using of the memory capacity of the memory mounted in the sound data processing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A sound data processing apparatus includes a central processing unit for controlling predetermined processing in the apparatus, a rewritable RAM, a decoder performing the decoding processing for sound data, and an interface unit for being fitted with an external memory. The sound data processing apparatus reads a driver from the external memory mounted in the interface unit and stores the read driver into the RAM, and reads the sound data from the external memory with the driver and processes the read sound data. As a result, the wastefully using of the memory capacity of the memory mounted in the sound data processing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A method of combating bugs comprising contacting the bugs or their food supply, habitat, breeding grounds or their locus with a pesticidally effective amount of a compound of the formula (I) wherein W is Cl or CF3; X and Y are each independently Cl or Br; R1 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or cycloalkyl optionally substituted with 1 to 3 halogens, or alkyl which is substituted by alkoxy; R2 and R3 are alkyl or may be taken together to form cycloalkyl optionally substituted by 1 to 3 halogens; R4 is H or C1-C6-alkyl, or the enantiomers or salts thereof.

Abstract: A sound data processing apparatus includes a central processing unit for controlling predetermined processing in the apparatus, a rewritable RAM, a decoder performing the decoding processing for sound data, and an interface unit for being fitted with an external memory. The sound data processing apparatus reads a driver from the external memory mounted in the interface unit and stores the read driver into the RAM, and reads the sound data from the external memory with the driver and processes the read sound data. As a result, the wastefully using of the memory capacity of the memory mounted in the sound data processing apparatus is reduced.

Abstract: A seed treatment formulation comprising (a) at least one pesticidal agent; and (b) a carboxyl group containing polymer or copolymer selected from the group consisting of styrene butadiene rubber latex polymers with a glass transition temperature of ?40° C. to 5° C., specific acrylate copolymers and specific ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers; seeds containing it, a method for treatment of seeds prior sowing, a method for combating undesired vegetation and/or insects and/or fungi.

Abstract: A first metal layer of tungsten is formed on a substrate in a scale. A second metal layer of chromium is formed on the first metal layer. The second metal layer is selectively removed with a mask of resist and an etching stopper of the first metal layer to form an optical grating.

Abstract: In a scale for a reflective photoelectric encoder in which a reflective film is not formed on the side faces of phase gratings, an edge angle ? of the phase grating is set larger than 80 degrees and less than 90 degrees. Accordingly, stable diffraction efficiency is obtained, even if there are variations in the shape and size of the gratings.