Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus detecting presence or absence of abnormality of a vacuum pump derived from a product produced within a target vacuum pump, including: a determination unit configured to determine a normal variation range or a normal time variation behavior of a target state quantity which is a state quantity varying depending on a load of gas flowing into the vacuum pump, based on at least one of past target state quantities of the target vacuum pump or another vacuum pump; and a comparison unit configured to compare a current target state quantity of the target vacuum pump with the normal variation range or the normal time variation behavior and output the comparison result.

Abstract: In an indexable drill, a cutting insert having a cutting edge is detachably mounted on an insert mounting seat of a drill main body. The insert mounting seat has a bottom surface facing a tip side of a drill main body, and a wall surface extending to the tip side and facing a drill rotation direction. The cutting insert has a seating surface seated on the bottom surface toward a rear end side of the drill main body, a contact surface coming into contact with the wall surface toward a side opposite to the drill rotation direction, a projection portion projecting to the side opposite to the drill rotation direction on a tip side of the contact surface, and a mounting hole penetrating the seating surface from a tip flank.

Abstract: A recording medium recording a program causing a computer to execute processing includes: specifying a route related with a specific terminal based on a route search condition set at the specific terminal or a route search result with the route search condition, referring to location information on a shop or a facility in a storage device, specifying a first shop or a first facility around the route related with the specific terminal and a second shop or a second facility is not around the route related with the specific terminal, and allowing, in accordance with detection of a charge payment event corresponding to the specific terminal at the first shop or the first facility, a terminal corresponding to the first shop, a terminal corresponding to the first facility, the specific terminal, or a terminal associated with the specific terminal to output information on the second shop or the second facility.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, and a sensitivity marker for the SGLT2 inhibitor. The present invention provides a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, comprising measuring a biomarker in the biological sample of a subject, and determining the sensitivity of the subject to the SGLT2 inhibitor using the measured biomarker value as an indicator.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium records a portfolio presentation program for causing a computer to execute processes of: accepting answers to a questionnaire that includes a plurality of questions; analyzing the accepted answers and generating evaluation results of the answers in each of a plurality of evaluation axes; and when selection of one or more evaluation axes from the plurality of evaluation axes is accepted, referring to a storage unit that stores the evaluation axes and portfolios of financial assets in association with each other and presenting a portfolio of financial assets that corresponds to the accepted one or more evaluation axes.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording an information output program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: detecting that a user performs first buying in a first shop; referring to memory in which shop information and location information are stored in association with each other; specifying one or more second shops that is in a predetermined positional relationship with route information which is a result of a search to a destination received from a user terminal used by the user and that is located closer to the destination than the first shop; generating a first message that includes information indicative of a payment detail as a result of the first buying and information introducing the one or more second shops; and outputting the first message as a receipt to a terminal provided in the first shop or transmitting the first message to the user terminal.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a settlement program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: receiving, from an information processing terminal, a control signal that specifies, depending on a determination result about whether a product to be purchased corresponds to a specific product, a specific piece of balance management information to be used for a deduction transaction for the specific product, as a deduction transaction target to deduct an amount corresponding to the product to be purchased from among multiple pieces of balance management information; determining a piece of balance management information identified based on the received control signal, by referring to a storage which stores the multiple pieces of balance management information; and executing a deduction transaction for the amount corresponding to the product to be purchased, using the determined piece of balance management information.

Abstract: A system includes a processor receives a first input including first information indicating a recipient of an amount for a first electronic currency and an issuance request issuing the first electronic currency, or a second input including designation adding an amount for a second electronic currency to possession amount, outputs, when receiving the first input, a first screen requesting input of second information for a condition about whether to permit a grant of a premium of the first electronic currency, based on whether the first information corresponds to a first user of the issuance request or a second user, and outputs, when receiving the second input, a second screen requesting input of third information for a condition about whether to permit a grant of a premium of the second electronic currency to a terminal of a third user designating an addition of the amount and different from a fourth user.

Abstract: A recording medium recording a program causing a computer to execute processing includes: specifying a route related with a specific terminal based on a route search condition set at the specific terminal or a route search result with the route search condition, referring to location information on a shop or a facility in a storage device, specifying a first shop or a first facility around the route related with the specific terminal and a second shop or a second facility is not around the route related with the specific terminal, and allowing, in accordance with detection of a charge payment event corresponding to the specific terminal at the first shop or the first facility, a terminal corresponding to the first shop, a terminal corresponding to the first facility, the specific terminal, or a terminal associated with the specific terminal to output information on the second shop or the second facility.

Abstract: An information transmission method includes: detecting, by a computer, that at least part of a cash voucher associated with electronic information is used, identifying a first user who sets a right of the cash voucher associated with the electronic information to a second user, acquiring, when detecting creation or transmission of a message addressed to a first address used by the first user from a second address used by the second user, a use history of the cash voucher associated with the electronic information; and transmitting the acquired use history together with the message.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat dissipation unit for cross flow type cooling tower with which it is possible to prevent the emission of white vapor without lowering the cooling power of the cooling tower, and also without requiring troublesome routine operation. In order to accomplish the above object, the heat dissipation unit of the present invention comprises filling plates arranged vertically and parallel with each other so as to form spaces therebetween, each of the filling plates having uneven surfaces down which water to be cooled flows when water to be cooled is supplied onto the filling plates, and cowl members disposed between neighboring filling plates, each of the cowl members including a pair of side plate portions having upper ends and a roof portion connecting the upper ends of the side plate portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cross flow type cooling tower with which it is possible to prevent the emission of white vapor in cold weather with certainty. In order to accomplish the above object, the cooling tower of the present invention comprises: a heat dissipation unit having filling plates arranged vertically and parallel with each other so as to form dry air passages and moist air passages therebetween, each of the dry air passages and the moist air passages having inner surfaces; water supply means for supplying water to be cooled to the inner surfaces of the moist air passages for cooling the water by contact with air passing through the moist air passage; and water invasion stoppers provided at side ends of the filling plates for preventing the water flowing down the inner surfaces of the moist air passages from invading the dry air passages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat dissipation unit for cross flow type cooling tower with which it is possible to prevent the emission of white vapor without lowering the cooling power of the cooling tower, and also without requiring troublesome routine operation. In order to accomplish the above object, the heat dissipation unit of the present invention comprises filling plates arranged vertically and parallel with each other so as to form spaces therebetween, each of the filling plates having uneven surfaces down which water to be cooled flows when water to be cooled is supplied onto the filling plates, and cowl members disposed between neighboring filling plates, each of the cowl members including a pair of side plate portions having upper ends and a roof portion connecting the upper ends of the side plate portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color projector utilizing three liquid crystal display elements. The natural light is separated into illuminating rays of red, green and blue colors by a dichroic mirror, each of these illuminating rays being used to illuminate the corresponding one of the liquid crystal display elements. Each of the liquid crystal display elements is controlled by a desired image signal with respect to its transmittance at each pixel. After passed through the liquid crystal display elements, three kinds of colored illuminating rays are again synthesized by the other dichroic mirror to form a light beam which in turn is enlarged and projected by a projecting lens on a screen. By providing light source means including means for converting the natural light into the linearly polarized beam, the illuminating rays may have their polarizing angles coincide with each other without any loss of light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color projector utilizing three liquid crystal display elements. The natural light is separated into illuminating rays of red, green and blue colors by a dichroic mirror, each of these illuminating rays being used to illuminate the corresponding one of the liquid crystal display elements. Each of the liquid crystal display elements is controlled by a desired image signal with respect to its transmittance at each pixel. After passed through the liquid crystal display elements, three kinds of colored illuminating rays are again synthesized by the other dichroic mirror to form a light beam which in turn is enlarged and projected by a projecting lens on a screen. By providing light source means including means for converting the natural light into the linearly polarized beam, the illuminating rays may have their polarizing angles coincide with each other without any loss of light.

Abstract: A projection-type image display apparatus, in which a correction raster shape correction circuit is supplied with a sawtoothed-shaped voltage changing in level in accordance with a static convergence regulation voltage for correcting respective raster shapes displayed on the respective picture planes of a plurality of cathode-ray tubes, so that the convergence is not displaced at the peripheral portions of the picture screen at the time of regulating the static convergence.

Abstract: An alkyl-substituted hydrocarbon is prepared by alkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon having at least one hydrogen atom at an alpha-position in a side chain with an olefin in the presence of a solid base which is obtainable by heating an alumina, an alkali metal hydroxide and an alkali metal or an alumina containing at least 1.3% by weight of water and an alkali metal in an inert gas atmosphere at a specific temperature as a catalyst.

Abstract: A light valve is a planar member in which liquid crystals are hermetically sealed, and allows the transmission of light in an almost parallel direction and selectively scattering undesired light. On a rear surface of the light valve is disposed a light guide tube which contains a plurality of minute apertures. Alternatively, one of the substrates which constitute the light valve may be made of a fiber plate. The fiber plate has a structure in which short optical fibers are stacked. The light guide tube or the fiber plate converges a luminous flux emitted from the light valve to improve the contrast of an image. A projection display apparatus is constituted of a light source, a light valve, either a light guide tube or a fiber plate, a lens, and a projection lens. A luminous flux emitted from either the light guide tube or the fiber plate is incident on the pupil of the projection lens by way of the lens, and the projection lens casts this luminous flux onto a screen, thus forming a projected image.

Abstract: Any one material selected from (A) sec-butylbenzene substantially free from ethyl hydroperoxide, carboxylic acids and phenol, (B) sec-butylbenzene substantially free from styrenes and (C) sec-butylbenzene substantially free from methylbenzyl alcohol is oxidized to obtain sec-butylbenzene hydroperoxide, which is then decomposed to obtain phenol and methyl ethyl ketone.