Abstract: An electronic control device 140 is mounted on an on-vehicle control system 10 that performs travel control of an automobile, and is communicatively connected to a plurality of control devices including a first control device (electronic control device 120) and a second control device (electronic control device 130). The electronic control device 140 includes an attack determination unit 145 that determines presence or absence of a security attack in each control device, and a redundant system execution determination unit 146 that determines whether to cause the second control device to execute a redundant function similar to or a part of the function performed by the first control device based on the result of determination by the attack determination unit 145.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a better intestine immunomodulator. The intestine immunomodulator of the present invention comprises bacterial cells or a bacterial component of a Lactobacillus paracasei K71 strain having an international deposit No.: FERM BP-11098 as an active ingredient. Preferably, the intestine immunomodulator is used to facilitate production of secretory immunoglobulin A or to activate natural killer cells.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a high-purity rice-protein composition with improved tongue feel and a melt-in-the-mouth quality, and a method for manufacturing the composition. The rice-protein composition comprises glutelin and prolamine, the protein content with respect to the solid content being at least 90%. Rice protein extracted by an alkaline solution from rice or rice flour is neutralized and coagulated at a temperature no lower than 40 80 DEG C., or is coagulated by adding a divalent metal ion and then neutralized, or glucono-delta-lactone is added and the solution is heated to gel the protein; by therein keeping the pH of the rice-protein composition no lower than 7.0 or no higher than 4.0, a rice-protein composition with extremely good dispersibility and tongue feel can be obtained. Further, by heating to at least 80 DEG C. after adjusting pH, a composition with high water absorbency is achieved.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a better intestine immunomodulator. The intestine immunomodulator of the present invention comprises bacterial cells or a bacterial component of a Lactobacillus paracasei K71 strain having an international deposit No.: FERM BP-11098 as an active ingredient. Preferably, the intestine immunomodulator is used to facilitate production of secretory immunoglobulin A or to activate natural killer cells.

Abstract: PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION To provide aqueous solutions of conophylline and/or conophyllidine; methods for purifying conophylline and/or conophyllidine from the aqueous solutions; methods for producing the aqueous solutions, water-soluble compositions containing conophylline and/or a conophyllidine useful for food compositions or pharmaceutical compositions or methods for preparing the same; as well as food compositions or pharmaceutical compositions containing the water-soluble compositions. MEANS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEMS It has been found that conophylline and/or conophyllidine can be efficiently extracted from a plant producing conophylline and/or conophyllidine with an acidic aqueous solution having a pH equal to or less than 4. The extract thus obtained, i.e., aqueous solution of conophylline, and/or conophyllidine is useful for production of, for instance, food compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, etc.

Abstract: A prescribed virtual person was created for allowing a real person (user) in the actual world to pretend to be the virtual person (virtual person) and act as the virtual person when acting on a network and registered in a database 12a of a financial institution 7 for enabling the user to make shopping or the like as the virtual person with an electronic certificate issued by the financial institution 7 for the virtual person when pretending to be the virtual person and acting on the network, and the address of the virtual person necessary as the destination of a purchased article was set to a nearby convenience store. When acting on the network as the virtual person, cookies are rendered easily acceptable as compared with the case of the real person.

Abstract: PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION To provide aqueous solutions of conophylline and/or conophyllidine; methods for purifying conophylline and/or conophyllidine from the aqueous solutions; methods for producing the aqueous solutions, water-soluble compositions containing conophylline and/or a conophyllidine useful for food compositions or pharmaceutical compositions or methods for preparing the same; as well as food compositions or pharmaceutical compositions containing the water-soluble compositions. MEANS OF SOLVING THE PROBLEMS It has been found that conophylline and/or conophyllidine can be efficiently extracted from a plant producing conophylline and/or conophyllidine with an acidic aqueous solution having a pH equal to or less than 4. The extract thus obtained, i.e., aqueous solution of conophylline, and/or conophyllidine is useful for production of, for instance, food compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, etc.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can further be thinned without deteriorating strengths of a lever and a base body. The slot-in type disk apparatus in which a base body 10 and a lid constitute a chassis sheath, a disk-insertion opening 11 into which a disk is directly inserted is formed in a front surface of the chassis sheath, wherein an opening 2 is formed in a portion of the base body 10, a plate which is thinner than the base body 10 is mounted to the opening 2, thereby forming a space which is recessed more than a surface of the base body 10 on the side of the lid, and a position above the space is a movement range of a lever which pulls in the disk.

Abstract: A prescribed virtual person was created for allowing a real person (user) in the actual world to pretend to be the virtual person (virtual person) and act as the virtual person when acting on a network and registered in a database 12a of a financial institution 7 for enabling the user to make shopping or the like as the virtual person with an electronic certificate issued by the financial institution 7 for the virtual person when pretending to be the virtual person and acting on the network, and the address of the virtual person necessary as the destination of a purchased article was set to a nearby convenience store. When acting on the network as the virtual person, cookies are rendered easily acceptable as compared with the case of the real person.

Abstract: In the method of the present invention, one of each pair of photons connected through entanglement is distributed to a transmitting station, relay stations and a receiving station. After the photons reach secure sites, such as the relay stations, a base for detecting photons is determined between adjacent sites, and then photons are detected in each site, which makes it possible to obtain a secret key used for secure information transmission between relay stations using bases coincide with each other every time. Also, in the present invention, a high-quality random number sequence serving as a secret key is automatically generated in a physical manner every time by detecting a superposition state of an entanglement and procedures corresponding to those in which a secret key itself is transmitted in a form of a quantum cryptogram are performed.

Abstract: A microscope includes a photon source which sequentially generates sets of quantum-mechanically entangled photons including at least two photons, a lens which focuses a set of photons, an actuator which varies a relative distance between a focal position of the lens and a specimen with a minute displacement, a detector detecting photons transmitted through or scattered by the specimen, and a counter counting coincidence detections of n-numbers of photons with the detector during a gating time which is set so that a rate that a number of photons detected during thereof belong to a single set of quantum-mechanically entangled photons exceeds a predetermined rate depending on the varied relative distance.

Abstract: According to each embodiment of the present invention, a phase-correlation can be generated between respective laser fields produced by a plurality of independent lasers. Specifically, based on a structure that first and second laser fields each having a mixed quantum state represented by a single-mode Glauber coherent state that a phase is completely indeterminate are mixed with each other and a quantum continuous measurement is performed by causing absorbers to individually cross two output quantum states, the phase-correlation can be generated between the first and second laser fields when absorption by the absorbers massively occurs in one of the two quantum states as a result of the quantum continuous measurement.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a quantum cash system and a quantum cash apparatus which can inhibit even forgery in which quantum verification information is transformed using inverse transformation data, thus improving security. In order to allow quantum cash to be validly used, a quantum cash holding apparatus outputs one of the inverse transformation data and then inhibits the output of the other inverse transformation data in a verification list. This prevents the outflow of the other inverse transformation data, required for the forgery of the quantum cash.

Abstract: According to an aspect of this invention, there is provided a public key encryption apparatus comprising a device generating a single photon, a device generating a random number, a storage device storing the random number as a private key, a device which transmits a single photon encoded by the private key composed of a basis set identifying value section and a bit value section, a device receiving the single photon, a device creating message information and an authenticator, a device encrypting the quantum state of the received single photon on the basis of the message information and authenticator and transmitting the single photon, a device decrypting the message information and authenticator from the received single photon according to the private key, and a device which invalidates the message information if the authenticator calculated from the decrypted message information is inconsistent with the decrypted authenticator.

Abstract: A microscope includes a photon source which sequentially generates sets of quantum-mechanically entangled photons including at least two photons, a lens which focuses a set of photons, an actuator which varies a relative distance between a focal position of the lens and a specimen with a minute displacement, a detector detecting photons transmitted through or scattered by the specimen, and a counter counting coincidence detections of n-numbers of photons with the detector during a gating time which is set so that a rate that a number of photons detected during thereof belong to a single set of quantum-mechanically entangled photons exceeds a predetermined rate depending on the varied relative distance.

Abstract: According to each embodiment of the present invention, a phase-correlation can be generated between respective laser fields produced by a plurality of independent lasers. Specifically, based on a structure that first and second laser fields each having a mixed quantum state represented by a single-mode Glauber coherent state that a phase is completely indeterminate are mixed with each other and a quantum continuous measurement is performed by causing absorbers to individually cross two output quantum states, the phase-correlation can be generated between the first and second laser fields when absorption by the absorbers massively occurs in one of the two quantum states as a result of the quantum continuous measurement.

Abstract: In the method of the present invention, one of each pair of photons connected through entanglement is distributed to a transmitting station, relay stations and a receiving station. After the photons reach secure sites, such as the relay stations, a base for detecting photons is determined between adjacent sites, and then photons are detected in each site, which makes it possible to obtain a secret key used for secure information transmission between relay stations using bases coincide with each other every time. Also, in the present invention, a high-quality random number sequence serving as a secret key is automatically generated in a physical manner every time by detecting a superposition state of an entanglement and procedures corresponding to those in which a secret key itself is transmitted in a form of a quantum cryptogram are performed.

Abstract: A prescribed virtual person was created for allowing a real person (user) in the actual world to pretend to be the virtual person (virtual person) and act as the virtual person when acting on a network and registered in a database 12a of a financial institution 7 for enabling the user to make shopping or the like as the virtual person with an electronic certificate issued by the financial institution 7 for the virtual person when pretending to be the virtual person and acting on the network, and the address of the virtual person necessary as the destination of a purchased article was set to a nearby convenience store. When acting on the network as the virtual person, cookies are rendered easily acceptable as compared with the case of the real person.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having aminopeptidase activity and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid sequences as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: A beam scanning antenna has the following structure: A primary radiator and a flat wave collector are disposed between metal plates, and input and output portions are provided on one of the metal plates. In the wave collector, a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes substantially parallel to one another in the direction of travel of electromagnetic waves is disposed on one principal surface of a substrate made of a material whose dielectric constant can be changed by an electrostatic field, and on the other principal surface, an counter electrode being strip-shaped or formed on a substantially entire area of the surface is disposed so as to be opposed to the strip-shaped electrodes.