Abstract: An input/output control system of an information processing apparatus that includes a first storage area and a second storage area and carries out an input/output processing using a part or whole of the first storage area as a cache.

Abstract: A resource allocation system comprising: a resource state monitoring unit which measures a capacity and/or a usage of a computer resource(s) to be managed (referred to below as “managing resource(s)”) and an allocation adjustment unit which determines a new amount of allocating resource(s) by using at least one item of information among either of capacity and usage of the managing resource, complying a resource(s) amount demanded to be allocated (referred to below as “demanded resource amount”), wherein the determined resource amount is allocated in response to a request for the resource amount.

Abstract: A three-pole two-layer photo-rechargeable battery has a laminated two-layered structure that includes a solar battery cell, a storage cell, and a common electrode therebetween. The solar battery cell has a structure wherein a photo-electrode, which has a photo-sensitized dye and a semiconductor layer on a conductive substrate with optical transparency, counters via a first electrolytic solution a common electrode that has a catalyst layer on a conductive substrate. The storage cell has a structure wherein the common electrode, which has a first conductive polymer layer on a conductive substrate on a side opposite the catalyst layer, counters via a second electrolytic solution a storage cell counter electrode that has a second conductive polymer layer on a conductive substrate.

Abstract: To provide an electrochromic display device which includes a display electrode formed of a substrate having a transparent conductive film; a counter electrode formed of a substrate having a transparent conductive film; and a metal oxide layer which contains a metal oxide and is disposed on the display electrode, the metal oxide layer having an organic electrochromic compound attached, wherein the metal oxide is a long fibrous metal oxide.

Abstract: A gasifying agent supply path A from an axial flow compressor 21 which boosts pressure of a gasifying agent to a gasifying furnace 2 is branched, and a gasifying agent bypass path D having an escaping pressure adjusting valve 23 is provided. The flow quantity or pressure of the gasifying agent supplied to the gasifying furnace 2 from the gasifying agent supply path A can be adjusted according to the degree of opening of the adjusting valve 23 disposed in the gasifying agent bypass path D, whereby providing a control valve in the gasifying agent supply path A is no longer necessary. Thus, pressure loss at the gasifying agent supply path A can be suppressed, and the discharge pressure of the axial flow compressor 21 can be greatly reduced.

Abstract: The present invention aims to improve short circuit current density and photo-to-electron conversion efficiency without thickening the whole thickness of the device and increasing the number of manufacturing processes. A photovoltaic device comprises a light-transmittable base material 31, and a porous film 41b formed on the base material and adsorbing a dye. The porous film 41b adsorbing the dye 41d contains a titanium dioxide particle 41c containing aluminum oxide. The titanium dioxide particle 41c is a mixed particle of a first titanium dioxide particle doped with aluminum oxide and a second titanium dioxide particle not doped with aluminum oxide. The first titanium dioxide particle contains 70 to 95 wt. % anatase crystal, and a specific surface area by the BET method of the titanium dioxide particle 41c is 35 to 65 m2/g, and an adsorbing amount of oil of the titanium dioxide particle 41c measured by the method based on JIS K5101 is 55 to 75 ml/100 g.

Abstract: An inventive titanium dioxide particle has 70 to 95 wt % crystalline anatase, a BET specific surface area of 65 to 120 m2/g, and an oil absorption being 70 to 90 ml/100 g measured by the method according to JIS K5101, which particle exhibits uniformity, excellent preservability and dispersibility in an acidic aqueous solution. There is disclosed a photovoltaic device 10 which comprises a light-transmittable base material 11, and a porous film 21b formed on the base material 11, in which a dye is absorbed, and the porous film 21b having the dye absorbed thereon contains the inventive titanium dioxide particle.

Abstract: A video contents display system has a contents information display section that allows pieces of contents information on a plurality of recorded video contents to be displayed along a time axis on a screen, and a video contents display section that displays the plurality of video contents at a specified time on the time axis as motion pictures or still images.

Abstract: To provide an electrochromic display device which includes a display electrode formed of a substrate having a transparent conductive film; a counter electrode formed of a substrate having a transparent conductive film; and a metal oxide layer which contains a metal oxide and is disposed on the display electrode, the metal oxide layer having an organic electrochromic compound attached, wherein the metal oxide is a long fibrous metal oxide.

Abstract: A video distribution apparatus that distributes video data to a plurality of machines through a network, the video distribution apparatus includes a preprogramming record unit configured to record preprogramming information setting a time zone to distribute the video data to a first machine which is one of the plurality of machines, a control unit configured to determine whether or not the video data can be distributed to the first machine before the time zone set by the preprogramming information, and a communication unit configured to notify at least one of the plurality of machines that the video data can be distributed if the control unit determines that the video data cannot be distributed to the first machine.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a reception unit which receives packets, to each of which a time stamp is added, sequentially transmitted from a transmission apparatus, a buffer which stores packets received by the reception unit, a timer which counts time, a unit which determines an output timing at which each packet stored in the buffer is output from the buffer, based on a value of a time stamp corresponding to each packet received by the reception unit and a value of the timer, a unit configured to adjust the output timing to holds a given data amount of packets in the buffer, based on a relationship between a data amount of packets stored in the buffer and a given threshold value, a unit which detects a transmission rate of packets, and a unit configured to change the threshold value based on the detected value of the transmission rate.

Abstract: A transmitter capable of retransmitting an MPEG2-TS packet up to the reconstruction time limit and a receiver capable of requesting a retransmission of the packet up to the reconstruction time limit are provided by effectively using a waiting time of a packet to be reconstructed. The transmitting apparatus is provided with a timer portion 13 that shows a current time T in a wireless transmission, a time stamp adding portion 17 that adds a time stamp for specifying a time TS(N) for the packet N to be processed at a receiver side to the packet N, and a calculation portion 14 that calculates a packet transmission required time T_P during which the packet N is transmitted from a transmitter side and then received at the receiver side. In a case where a retransmission request of the packet N from the receiver side is issued, the time limit TL for the retransmitted packet to be received in time for the processing at the receiver side is calculated by the equation of TL(N)=TS(N)−T_P.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a gasified fuel gasified by partial oxidation of a liquid fuel which contains water and has decreased viscosity effected by using oxygen, in which a water-decreased gasified fuel is manufactured by heating the liquid fuel to a predetermined temperature to separate into a water layer and a fuel layer, and by partially oxidizing; by using oxygen, the fuel layer obtained by liquid-liquid separation at the stage just before gasification so that gasification is carried out. The separation into a water layer and a fuel layer can be accelerated by adding an emulsion breaker to the liquid fuel or by applying an electric field.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser element is made by forming a lower clad layer, an active layer and an upper clad layer sequentially one on top of another on a semiconductor substrate, forming an etching stop layer completely over the upper clad layer, forming a contact layer on the etching stop layer, and etching portions of the contact layer to form steps. The etching stop layer has a slower etching speed than the contact layer against the etching liquid used for forming the steps by etching portions of the contact layer. An upper electrode is formed on the contact layer and a lower electrode is formed on the bottom surface of the substrate. The steps provide areas in the active layer where a current will not flow through.

Abstract: A (meth)acryloxy-bearing alkoxysilane is isolated and purified to a high purity by distilling a reaction solution containing the (meth)acryloxy-bearing alkoxysilane in a thin-layer distillation device at a temperature of 90-160° C. and a vacuum of 1-15 mmHg. The resulting alkoxysilane product does not give rise to the quality problem that the product will gradually whiten during storage owing to contact with air. The occurrence of self-polymerization of the alkoxysilane is restrained.

Abstract: A (meth)acryloxy-bearing alkoxysilane is isolated and purified to a high purity by distilling a reaction solution containing the (meth)acryloxy-bearing alkoxysilane in a thin-layer distillation device at a temperature of 90-160° C. and a vacuum of 1-15 mmHg. The resulting alkoxysilane product does not give rise to the quality problem that the product will gradually whiten during storage owing to contact with air. The occurrence of self-polymerization of the alkoxysilane is restrained.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device has a semiconductor laser element placed inside a package on an electrically conductive submount such that one of the electrodes with one conduction type sandwiching its p-n junction is electrically connected to it. The submount is placed on a metallic heat sink, separated therefrom by a layer of an electrical insulator having a larger thermal conductivity than the submount. The other electrode of the laser element (of the opposite conduction type) is electrically connected to the heat sink, and one of externally extending lead pins is electrically connected to the submount. According to a preferred embodiment, the other electrode of the laser element is electrically connected instead to one of the lead pins and the submount is electrically connected instead to another of the lead pins.

Abstract: A pressurized fluidized bed combined electricity generation system for improving gas turbine output increases and prevention of surging is provided. This pressurized fluidized bed combined electricity generation system is a combined electricity generation system including a steam turbine; a pressurized fluidized bed boiler for generating steam for supply to the steam turbine by combusting air from an air supply system and fuel from a fuel supply system; a gas turbine driven by exhaust gas such as combustion gas from the pressurized fluidized bed boiler and air; and a compressor directly coupled to the gas turbine.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device has a semiconductor laser element placed inside a package on an electrically conductive submount such that one of the electrodes with one conduction type sandwiching its p-n junction is electrically connected to it. The submount is placed on a metallic heat sink, separated therefrom by a layer of an electrical insulator having a larger thermal conductivity than the submount. The other electrode of the laser element (of the opposite conduction type) is electrically connected to the heat sink, and one of externally extending lead pins is electrically connected to the submount. According to a preferred embodiment, the other electrode of the laser element is electrically connected instead to one of the lead pins and the submount is electrically connected instead to another of the lead pins.