Abstract: An information terminal displays a coordinate screen acquired from a coordinate database on a liquid crystal display, acquires data of an article code of clothes coordinated in the coordinate image from the coordinate database, acquires data of inventory status and display status associated with the acquired article code from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor, and displays an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists as an article inventory list on the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium A is provided on a non-magnetic substrate with at least a soft under layer a, an under film 5, an intermediate film 6 and a perpendicular magnetic recording film 7. The soft under layer a is a soft magnetic film having an amorphous structure. The under film 5 is formed of an Ni—W alloy. The intermediate film 6 is formed of an Ru alloy. In the Ni—W alloy, the Ni content is 80 atom % or more, and the W content is 20 atom % or less and preferably in the range of 1 atom % to 12 atom %. A magnetic recording and reproducing device 12 equipped with the magnetic recording medium A is excellent in productivity and capable of recording and reproducing information of high density.

Abstract: A notifying unit performs notifying operation on the outside of a fitting room. A display unit displays information in the fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of the information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: To make possible high density recording by making the structure of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer finer. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium 10 includes at least a nonmagnetic under layer 2, a perpendicular magnetic layer 3, and a protective layer which are stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate 1, wherein the perpendicular magnetic layer includes ferromagnetic crystal grains and nonmagnetic crystal grain boundary regions, wherein the crystal grain boundary region includes at least two kinds of oxide.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation useful for alleviating or treating a pain, e.g., a chronic pain (particularly, a neuropathic pain) is provided. The pharmaceutical preparation contains (a) a propionic acid-derived nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent (e.g., ibuprofen), (b) a non-pyrazolone antipyretic analgesic agent (e.g., acetaminophen), and (c) an opioid analgesic agent (e.g., codeine phosphate, dihydrocodeine phosphate). The pharmaceutical preparation may contain 5 to 100 parts by weight of the antipyretic analgesic agent (b) or 0.5 to 500 parts by weight of the analgesic agent (c) relative to 100 parts by weight of the anti-inflammatory agent (a). The pharmaceutical preparation may be substantially free from a nontoxic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and may contain 20 to 80 parts by weight of the antipyretic analgesic agent (b) and 1 to 100 parts by weight of the analgesic agent (c) relative to 100 parts by weight of the anti-inflammatory agent (a).

Abstract: The invention provides a magnetic recording medium substrate product which enables enhancement of contact strength between a substrate end surface and a soft magnetic layer, as well as suppression of occurrence of corrosion, a magnetic recording medium including the substrate product, which exhibits no deterioration of electromagnetic conversion characteristics and has excellent durability and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording medium substrate product includes a disk-shaped non-magnetic substrate having a circular hole in a center portion thereof, and having a chamfer formed at least one of a portion between a main surface on which a magnetic layer is to be formed and an outer end surface and a portion between the main surface and an inner end surface defining the circular hole, wherein the chamfer has a surface roughness (Ra) falling within a range of 4.0 ??Ra?100 ?, preferably 4.0 ??Ra?50 ?, as measured by means of an AFM.

Abstract: A magnetic-recording medium which is provided on a nonmagnetic substrate with at least an orientation-controlling layer for controlling the orientation of a layer formed directly thereon, a perpendicularly magnetic layer having an easily magnetizing axis oriented mainly perpendicularly relative to the nonmagnetic substrate, and a protective layer. The perpendicularly magnetic layer includes two or more magnetic layers, at least one of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Pt as well and containing an oxide, and at least another of the magnetic layers is a layer having Co as a main component and containing Cr as well and containing no oxide.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium which enables improvement of the layer quality of magnetic layer grown on the surface of a soft magnetic underlayer by conducting excellent control of crystal orientation by imparting an optimal half-width of the Rocking curve (??50), as well as obtainment of SNR that suppresses generation of TA and enables realization of high-density recording. The magnetic recording medium includes a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer, which are disposed on top of a non-magnetic substrate; wherein the magnetic anisotropy ratio (Hmr/Hmc) of the soft magnetic underlayer is 1 or less, and ??50 is 1 to 6 degrees.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium which is able to cope with a higher recording density, there is provided a magnetic recording medium which has a higher retentivity and a lower noise, a production process thereof, and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. The magnetic recording medium is characterized in that at least a non-magnetic base layer, a non-magnetic intermediate layer, a magnetic layer, and a protective layer are laminated in this order on a non-magnetic substrate, and at least one of the layers of the non-magnetic base layer is configured by a WX-based alloy or a MoX-based alloy (X?Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta).

Abstract: The present invention has its object to offer magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing device that can record and reproduce high density data by optimizing the soft magnetic layer material forming the soft magnetic underlayer and the under layer material. In the present invention, the perpendicular magnetic recording medium A has at least the soft magnetic underlayer a, the under layer 5, the intermediate layer 6 and the perpendicular magnetic recording layer on the non-magnetic substrate 1. The soft magnetic layers 2, 4 that form the soft magnetic underlayer a, has an amorphous structure and is made of CoAl alloy or CoFeAl alloy having saturation magnetic flux density Bs greater than 1.1 T.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium which is provided on a nonmagnetic substrate 1 with at least an orientation-controlling layer 3 for controlling the orientation of a layer formed directly thereon, a perpendicularly magnetic layer 4 having an easily magnetizing axis oriented mainly perpendicularly relative to the nonmagnetic substrate 1, and a protective layer 5 and characterized in that the perpendicularly magnetic layer 4 includes two or more magnetic layers, that at least one of the magnetic layers is a layer 4a having Co as a main component and containing Pt as well and containing an oxide and that at least another of the magnetic layers is a layer 4b having Co as a main component and containing Cr as well and containing no oxide.

Abstract: In a magnetic recording medium which is able to cope with a higher recording density, there is provided a magnetic recording medium which has a higher coercive force and a lower noise, a production method thereof, and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. The magnetic recording medium is characterized in that at least a nonmagnetic undercoat layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, a magnetic layer, and a protective layer are laminated in this order on a nonmagnetic substrate, and at least one of the layers of the nonmagnetic undercoat layer is constituted by a WV type multicomponent body-centered cubic crystal alloy.

Abstract: A distributed multimedia server system includes a buffer server module, a storage server module, and an intercluster connection network. Based on memory information on a buffer memory of the storage server module that stores divided multimedia information, the buffer server module obtains the divided multimedia information from the buffer memory using remote direct memory access. The storage server module reads the divided multimedia information requested from the buffer server module from a storage device, and stores the divided multimedia information in the buffer memory.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having an even higher recording density, and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus which utilizes the perpendicular magnetic recording medium is provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises at least a backing layer, an intermediate layer, a perpendicular magnetic recording film, and a protective film, sequentially formed on a nonmagnetic substrate, wherein the perpendicular magnetic recording film is composed of two layers of different composition comprising a granular structure containing at least Co, Pt and an oxide, and the saturation magnetization (Ms) of a lower perpendicular magnetic recording film provided to a substrate side is smaller than the saturation magnetization (Ms) of an upper recording film provided on the lower perpendicular magnetic recording film to a protective film side.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes at least a soft under layer, a perpendicular magnetic recording film and a protective film that are stacked on a nonmagnetic substrate. The nonmagnetic substrate is a disk of silicon having a diameter of 48 mm or less. A method for the production of the magnetic recording medium includes exerting a bias onto the silicon substrate when forming the protective film. A magnetic recording medium can be produced using the method. A magnetic recording and reproducing device can be produced using the magnetic recording medium and a magnetic head for recording and reproducing information in the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic head is a magnetic monopole head.

Abstract: A soft magnetic undercoat film, a first undercoat film, a second undercoat film, a perpendicular magnetic recording film, and a protective film are provided on a non-magnetic substrate, and the first undercoat film consists of Pt, Pd, or an alloy including at least one among these, and the second undercoat film consists of Ru or an Ru alloy.

Abstract: An exposure apparatus for exposure-transferring an image of a pattern projected through an optical system having a plurality of optical units L1 to L13 onto an object P, comprises a correcting device which corrects a position of at least one of a plurality of images to be projected onto the object P by the plurality of optical units L1 to L13 so that displacements of the optical units L1 to L13 are compensated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic recording medium which includes a substrate, an underlayer, and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and in which this perpendicular magnetic recording layer contains magnetic crystal grains and a matrix surrounding the magnetic crystal grains, and the matrix contains an element selected from Zn, Cd, Al, Ga, and In, and a component selected from P, As, Sb, S, Se, and Te.

Abstract: The magnetic recording medium of the present invention has a substrate, a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and a soft magnetic layer formed therebetween, having a thickness of less than 100 nm, the soft magnetic layer having a magnetic anisotropy in a surface direction, and product Bs·Hc, which is a production of a saturation magnetic flux density Bs and a coercive force Hc, of not less than 79 T·A/m (10 kG·Oe). By making the thickness of the soft magnetic layer into the above-mentioned range, the magnetic anisotropy in surface direction can be stabilized. magnetostatic energy can be increased sufficiently by making the Bs·Hc the above-mentioned range. Therefore, generating of the magnetic wall in the soft magnetic layer can be suppressed, the noise generating from the soft magnetic layer can be suppressed, and a high-density recording is enabled.