Abstract: A computer-readable medium encoded with an instruction check program for making a computer to check a status of execution of an instruction by an I/O simulator that performs an operation simulation according to a structure of an I/O area of a microcomputer, the instruction check program when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method including obtaining specification information of the microcomputer describing an input and an output condition of a hardware resource in the I/O area, detecting a simulation of a reference instruction to the hardware resource executed by the I/O simulator, determining correctness of the reference instruction by comparing a content of the simulation of the reference instruction detected by the detecting with the input and output condition of the hardware resource included in the obtained specification information, and outputting an error signal when it is determined that the reference instruction is incorrect.

Abstract: The invention allows securing greater discharge pressure and flow rate at high revolutions of an engine in order to secure lubrication and cooling, while reducing discharge pressure and flow rate at low and medium revolutions of the engine in order to improve efficiency. The invention includes a housing; a relief valve; a valve passage; a main discharge flow channel; a main relief flow channel; an auxiliary relief flow channel; a solenoid valve mounted on the auxiliary relief flow channel; and a spring. The solenoid valve is controlled so as to switch between communication and shut-off between the auxiliary relief flow channel and the large-diameter passage section in accordance with an increase or decrease in engine revolutions, and oil in the large-diameter passage section is discharged when the shut-off is implemented.

Abstract: The invention has: a housing; a pump section formed of a drive gear unit and a driven gear unit; a main flow channel through which oil pressure is applied to the driven gear unit in a discharge volume reduction direction; a first branching flow channel through which oil pressure that assists oil pressure from the main flow channel is applied; a second branching flow channel through which oil pressure is applied to the driven gear unit in a discharge increase direction; a first flow channel control section; a second flow channel control section; and a spring that elastically urges the driven gear unit in a discharge increase direction. The first flow channel control section and the second flow channel control section can perform switching control in accordance with each increase or decrease of engine revolutions and in pressure.

Abstract: A display includes a first optical effect layer including a first interface part, the first interface part being provided with recesses or protrusions arranged two-dimensionally at the minimum center-to-center distance of 200 nm to 500 nm, each of the recesses or protrusions having a forward-tapered shape, a reflective material layer covering at least a part of the first interface part, and a second optical effect layer including, at a position of a first portion of the first interface part that is covered with the reflective material layer, a portion that faces the reflective material layer with the first optical effect layer interposed therebetween or faces the first optical effect layer with the reflective material layer interposed therebetween, the second optical effect layer containing at least one of a cholesteric liquid crystal, a pearl pigment and a multilayer interference film.

Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a negative electrode active material for an electric device which exhibits a well-balanced property of maintaining a high cycle property and attaining a high initial capacity. [Technical solution] The negative electrode active material for an electric device comprising an alloy having a composition formula SixZnyAlz (where each of x, y, and z represents amass percent value, satisfying (1) x+y+z=100, (2) 21?x<100, (3) 0<y<79, and (4) 0<z<79).

Abstract: [Problem] Provided is a negative electrode active material for an electric device which exhibits a well-balanced property of maintaining a high cycle property and attaining a high initial capacity. [Technical solution] The negative electrode active material for an electric device comprising an alloy having a composition formula SixTiyZnz (where each of x, y, and z represents amass percent value, satisfying (1) x+y+z=100, (2) 38?x<100, (3) 0<y<62, and (4) 0<z<62).

Abstract: In an AD converter-equipped temperature sensor circuit, at start of operation, a successive approximation type AD converter converts an analog voltage having temperature dependence received from a voltage generation circuit, to determine all bits of the converted digital signal. Thereafter, a power control circuit detects only a change in the outputs of comparators into which reference voltages upwardly and downwardly adjacent to the potential of the analog voltage are input, and shuts off power supply to any comparator other than the above comparators. Thus, in sensing of a steady, slow-changing signal like the analog voltage having temperature dependence using the AD converter, power consumption is reduced and the signal processing time is shortened without degrading the resolution of the AD converter.

Abstract: A printed circuit board unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a spacer. The second substrate is coupled to the first substrate via a solder material. The second substrate has different coefficient of thermal expansion from the first substrate. The spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer is formed of a thermally-expandable material and a thermosetting material. The thermosetting material has a curing temperature higher than a melting point of the solder material.

Abstract: A software development apparatus capable of mitigating troublesomeness involved in the development of software to be executed by a multi-core processor. A processor core identifier identifies one of processor cores with which software development information (project information, program development support information, debugging information, etc.) for developing software is associated. In accordance with the identification result, a display processor displays the association between the software development information and the corresponding processor core in a visually distinguishable manner.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal disposed between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate, a first electrode and second electrode which overlie the first transparent substrate and which are used to drive the liquid crystal, one or more layers overlying the first electrode, and one or more layers overlying the second electrode. The correlation between layers disposed between the first electrode and the liquid crystal agrees with the correlation between layers disposed between the second electrode and the liquid crystal.

Abstract: A midecamycin hyper producing strain having improved productivity of midecamycin which is a member of macrolide antibiotics, and a method for producing midecamycins using the strain are provided. The midecamycin producing actinomycetes comprises a midecamycin biosynthesis gene or a homologue thereof, wherein at least one module in a polyketide synthase gene of a midecamycin biosynthesis gene or partial sequences of the at least one module, is substituted so as to encode the corresponding amino acid sequences of the other module.

Abstract: A program section layout method capable of improving space efficiency of a cache memory. A grouping unit groups program sections into section groups so that the total size of the program sections composing each section group does not exceed cache memory size. A layout optimization unit optimizes the layout of section group storage regions by combining each section group and a program section that does not belong to any section groups or by combining section groups while keeping the ordering relations of the program sections composing each section group.

Abstract: A performance tuning method tune a running performance of a program, by managing a measuring condition that is set when the running performance of the program was measured under an arbitrary measuring environment and performance information of the program acquired as a result of the measurement, in a linkable manner with respect to candidates of a measuring environment of the next measurement that is different from the arbitrary measuring environment, automatically setting the measuring condition to be used to measure the running performance of the program using a measuring environment that is different from the arbitrary measuring environment, based on the information that is managed in the linkable manner, and tuning the running performance of the program depending on the performance information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for correcting an unbalance of a propeller shaft, specifically an unbalance correction device of a propeller shaft capable of securing a considerable amount of correction, reducing the generation of noise and the like, and preventing the adverse effect of welding heat caused by welding and fixing the balance weight from exerting on a vibration absorbing rubber member. The unbalance correction device of a propeller shaft is configured from a propeller shaft to which a damper is mounted, and a balance weight in which a primary weight plate part and an auxiliary weight plate part are formed continuously and integrally along a longitudinal direction, and a protruding piece is protrusively formed on a concave arced surface on a rear surface side of the primary weight plate part and from each corner part at four locations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a program control device for managing cache information and generating an optimum linker option to thereby improve use efficiency of a cache memory. A cache line information generating section is formed which, when a target program is loaded into a main memory, generates cache line information. Therefore, the cache line information having memory address information and symbolic information in a function of the target program in a cache line can be displayed with cache performance information. Accordingly, functions causing a cache conflict can be easily specified and rearranged by a linker option so as not to share the same cache line. As a result, the cache misses can be reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transformant prepared by introducing a ketoreductase gene involved in the biosynthesis of L-epivancosamine into an actinobacterium originally capable of producing daunorubicin. Also disclosed is a process of efficiently producing a non-natural daunorubicin derivative using the transformant. The transformant is capable of efficiently producing a non-natural daunorubicin derivative such as epidaunorubicin.

Abstract: Power consumption of an amplification circuit (11) for amplifying an inputted signal is switchable. A control circuit (12) switches the power consumption of the amplification circuit (11) such that data blank periods include an interval during which the power consumption of the amplification circuit (11) is smaller than during data periods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protein having saponin-decomposing activity, more specifically a protein which can decompose a glycoside having soyasapogenol B as an aglycone to produce soyasapogenol B, a polynucleotide encoding such a protein, and a method of producing soyasapogenol B on a large scale using the same. A protein according to the present invention are concerned with (a), (b) or (c), namely (a) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4, and 6; (b) a protein that has at least 50% homology to the protein comprising the amino acid sequence of the sequence described in (a) and having saponin-decomposing activity; or (c) a protein comprising a modified amino acid sequence of the sequence described in (a) that has one or more amino acid residues deleted, substituted, inserted, or added and having saponin-decomposing activity.

Abstract: Disclosed is an agent for digesting a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation, comprising as an active ingredient an enzyme exhibiting an activity of digesting a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation and having the following properties: (a) activity and substrate specificity: hydrolyzing a peptide bond of a protein highly resistant to denaturation and degradation; (b) molecular weight: 31,000 (determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using a homogeneous gel having a gel concentration of 12%); (c) isoelectric point: pI 9.3 (determined by polyacrylamide gel isoelectric focusing electrophoresis); (d) optimum pH: pH 9.0 to 10.0; and (e) optimum temperature for activity: 60 to 70° C.

Abstract: A phase adjusting circuit is provided that is capable of adjusting a delay time at a rise or fall of a driving signal for driving an inverter. A phase adjusting circuit is provided upstream of a driver circuit, and an output from a hysteresis comparator is input to the driver circuit through the phase adjusting circuit. The phase adjusting circuit delays at least either rise or fall of the signal input to the driver circuit to adjust any difference between the pulse width of the input signal input to the driver circuit and the pulse width of a signal output from a switching element of an inverter driven by the driver circuit.