Abstract: A resource determination device according to a storage unit configured to store a model indicating a relationship of: a processing load of a virtual machine; a processing performance of the virtual machine; a resource operational status of a physical machine accommodating the virtual machine; and a resource operational status of the virtual machine, with respect to an amount of resources allocated to the virtual machine, and a calculation unit configured to calculate the amount of resources allocated to the virtual machine in a way such that a requirement for the processing performance of the virtual machine and a policy of the resource operational status of the virtual machine are each satisfied based on a monitoring result of the resource operational status of the physical machine accommodating the virtual machine, the processing load of the virtual machine, and the model stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An operation apparatus for outputting a request to a management apparatus which manages a Network Service (NS) constructed on a NetWork (NW) including a core NW serving as a virtualization area and an access NW serving as a non-virtualization area including: a storage unit configured to store new configuration information obtained by updating NW configuration information indicating an NW configuration including devices disposed on the NW due to a fault of the NS, a catalog which is a template of the NS, a record describing a lifecycle of the NS, and an order for requesting the management apparatus to control the NS; an optimal configuration determination unit configured to determine an optimal configuration of the NS based on the new configuration information, the catalog, the record, and the order; and an order generation unit configured to generate a change order for changing an NS configuration of the NS to the optimal configuration determined by the optimal configuration determination unit.

Abstract: A network management device according to an embodiment includes network property storage means for storing information representing network properties, information object storage means for storing an information object relating to a network configuration corresponding to information representing network properties stored in the network property storage means, network property acquisition means for acquiring, from the network property storage means, information representing network properties corresponding to an optional protocol layer, information object acquisition means for acquiring, from the information object storage means, the information object corresponding to information representing network properties acquired by the network property acquisition means, and display means for displaying the information object acquired by the information object acquisition means.

Abstract: A method is provided of producing a Lactuca plant seed including using a Megachile bee as pollination means, and providing the a Megachile bee a minor nectar plant to have preference in flower visiting, in addition to a pollen parent Lactuca plant and a seed parent Lactuca plant and to perform a crossing of a Lactuca plant using a plant species having the preference in flower visiting equivalent to or lower than that of the Lactuca plant. According to one embodiment, it is possible to produce a Lactuca hybrid plant seed more efficiently and economically than before while using a Megachile bee as pollination means.

Abstract: This invention provides a thermal bonding conjugate fiber having excellent compression resistance and nonwoven fabric using the same. Particularly, the nonwoven fabric retains bulkiness obtained under a light load even under a heavy load and reduces a decrease in bulkiness from under a light load to under a heavy load. The thermal bonding conjugate fiber has an eccentric core-sheath structure in which a first component including a polyester resin constitutes a core and a second component including a polyolefin resin having a melting point at least 15° C. lower than that of the polyester resin constitutes a sheath, and a shrinkage ratio of the conjugate fiber after a heat treatment of 120° C. is at least 20%. The nonwoven fabric is obtained by blending the thermal bonding conjugate fiber at a blend ratio of 10 to 60 wt % with one or more types of different thermal bonding fibers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility and a method for breeding the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility, wherein the Eustoma substantially lacks pollen production functions due to insufficient stamen or pollen formation, and a method for breeding the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility and a method for breeding the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility, wherein the Eustoma substantially lacks pollen production functions due to insufficient stamen or pollen formation, and a method for breeding the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal bonding conjugate fiber with excellent compression resistance and nonwoven fabric using the same. More specifically, the present invention provides a thermal bonding conjugate fiber and nonwoven fabric using the same, in which the bulkiness of the nonwoven fabric under a light load is retained well even under a heavy load, and the rate of decrease in bulkiness between under a light load and under a heavy load can be reduced. The thermal bonding conjugate fiber with thermal shrinkage properties has an eccentric core-sheath structure in which a first component comprising a polyester resin constitutes a core and a second component comprising a polyolefin resin having a melting point at least 15° C. lower than a melting point of the polyester resin constitutes a sheath, and a shrinkage ratio after a heat treatment of 120° C. is at least 20% when calculated by a predetermined measurement method.

Abstract: A cytoplasmic male sterile cybrid plant of the genus Lactuca, a progeny thereof, or a part thereof having a gene derived from the mitochondria of a plant of the genus Helianthus in its cytoplasm and methods of producing first filial generation seeds using such a cybrid plant.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is the provision of a cybrid plant of the genus Lactuca which is useful for producing a first filial generation seed, and a method for producing the same. The present invention is directed to a cybrid plant of the genus Lactuca, a progeny thereof, or a part thereof, comprising, in cytoplasm thereof, a gene derived from mitochondria of a plant of the genus Helianthus. The cybrid plant is preferably cytoplasmic male sterile. The present invention is also directed to a method for producing the cybrid plant of the genus Lactuca.

Abstract: A liquid impermeable sheet comprising a melt blown non woven fabric and an absorbent article using liquid impermeable sheet are provided. The melt blown non woven fabric comprises ultra fine fibers of thermoplastic polymer spun by a melt blowing method, and the fiber diameter is 10 &mgr;m or less. The melt blown non woven fabric satisfies the following Formulas (A): 2≦W/D2≦200 and (B): 0.05≦d≦0.2 where W is basis weight (g/m2), D is fiber diameter (&mgr;tm) and d is apparent density of the non woven fabric (g/cc), and thus, the fabric is excellent in feeling, flexibility and air permeability, while it keeps its liquid impermeability.

Abstract: A composite laminated sheet comprises a thermoplastic crystalline film and a non-woven fabric having a thermoplastic conjugated fiber comprising the low melting point component and the high melting point component, in which the difference in the melting point between the low melting point component and the high melting point component is not less than 10° C.; the difference in the melting point between the thermoplastic crystalline film and the low melting point component of the conjugated fiber is not more than 30° C.; and the temperature of the position corresponding to 10% of the area from the side of the melting starting point of the endothermic peak of an entire conjugated fiber evaluated by DSC is between the melting starting point and the melting completion point of the endothermic peak of the film evaluated by DSC.

Abstract: A laminated nonwoven fabric having a good texture, providing no rough touch, and having a high strength and a large delamination strength are provided. A nonwoven fabric of a multi-layer structure comprises (a) a composite spun bonded nonwoven fabric composed of a low melting point resin component and a high melting point resin component and (b) a composite melt blown extra-fine-fiber nonwoven fabric having a fiber diameter of 10 &mgr;m or less and being composed of a low melting point resin and a high melting point resin; both of the nonwoven fabrics are laminated, and the fibers in each of the nonwoven fabrics and both of the nonwoven fabrics are thermally fused. A method of manufacturing a nonwoven fabric having a multi-layer structure comprises laminating each of the nonwoven fabrics in a multi-layer structure and heating the laminate at a temperature higher than the thermal fusion temperature to cause thermal fusion of the both layers.

Abstract: A filament nonwoven fabric comprising thermoplastic fibers with a fineness of 0.1 to 10 d/f, having a basis weight of 5 to 35 g/m.sup.2, and having thermally press bonded portions, in which the conditions (A), (B), and (C) below are satisfied:(A) the area rate of the thermally press bonded portions being from 5 to 25%;(B) X.ltoreq.2.0 (mm)X: the average value of the distance between adjacent thermally press bonded portions in the mechanical direction of the nonwoven fabric;Y.ltoreq.2.5 (mm)Y: the average value of the distance between adjacent thermally press bonded portions in the direction perpendicular to the mechanical direction of the nonwoven fabric; and(C) the average value of the ratio between the maximum diameters of the thermally press bonded portions satisfying1.ltoreq.y/x.ltoreq.

Abstract: A filament non-woven fabric comprises thermally adhesive conjugated filaments comprising a first component that contains not less than 20 weight % of ethylene-acrylic ester-maleic anhydride copolymer and that is formed in at least a part of the filament surface in the longitudinal direction of the filament, and a second component that is a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a melting point higher than that of the first component. At least the first component contains an inorganic powder and the content of the inorganic powder is 500 to 50000 weight ppm with respect to filament. The present invention can provide the non-woven fabric comprising filaments which is excellent in the high adhesive property, low temperature adhesive property, adhesion property to other kinds of materials, hand feeling such as softness or touch etc., and uniformity. Furthermore, the operating efficiency such as the spinning property is desirable.

Abstract: An absorptive article containing a surface material comprising a combined non-woven fabric comprising at least two layers of a long fiber non-woven fabric and a short fiber non-woven fabric joined together and an absorbing body for retaining a body fluid is disclosed in which the short fiber non-woven fabric is composed of hot-melt-adhesive composite short fibers having at least two kinds of thermoplastic resin components of a high melting point component and low melting point component, and the hot-melt-adhesive composite short fibers are hot-melt-adhered together, the crossing angle of the short fibers at least preferably at least 45%, preferably at least 50% of the total contact points in the short fiber non-woven fabric are occupied by an angle of 60.degree. to 90.degree. in the analysis of the distribution of the crossing angle at the contact points of the fibers.

Abstract: A bulky and highly strong filament nonwoven fabric and method of manufacturing the filament nonwoven fabric which is made of conjugated filaments, whose intersections are melted and adhered, and which has a 15-35 cc/g specific volume and satisfies the following Formula (1) between strength and specific volume;Y.gtoreq.-1.25X+125 (1)wherein Y is a geometrical mean of vertical and horizontal strength per 5 cm wide and 1 g/cm.sup.2 nonwoven fabric ?unit: g/(g/m.sup.2 .multidot.5 cm!; Y=(MD.times.CD).sup.1/2 where MD is vertical strength ?unit: g/(g/m.sup.2 .multidot.5 cm! and CD is horizontal strength ?unit: g/(g/m.sup.2 .multidot.5 cm!; and X=specific volume of a nonwoven fabric ?unit: cc/g!; and wherein the conjugated filament is made of a low melting point polymer and a high melting point polymer with a difference in melting points of at least 15.degree. C., and has the low melting point polymer on at least one section of a filament surface and has crimps.

Abstract: A non-woven fabric having a high strength, a good bulkiness and a soft feeling, and hot-melt-adhesive conjugate fibers affording the non-woven fabric are provided, the above hot-melt-adhesive conjugate fibers being composed of conjugate fibers, of side-by-side type or sheath-and-core type, composed of a high melting component of a polypropylene or a polyester and a low melting component of a polyethylene, the polyethylene continuously forming at least one portion of the fiber surface in the direction of the fibers; hot-melt-adhesive conjugate fibers characterized in that the polyethylene has 0 to 1.5 methyl branch/1000 C in the molecular chain, a density of 0.950 to 0.965 g/cm 3 and a Q value (weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn)) of 4.5 or less, and the above hot-melt-adhered non-woven fabric being characterized by containing 20% by weight or more of the above hot-melt-adhesive conjugate fibers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated non-woven fabric of a multi-layer structure comprising a layer of a composite, spun bond non-woven fabric composed of long fibers containing a low melting point resin component and a high melting point resin component, and a layer of a non-woven fabric of melt-blow ultrafine mixed fibers comprising low melting point ultrafine fibers and high melting point ultrafine fibers both of the fibers have an average fiber diameter of 10 .mu.m or less, both of the layers are laminated, and fibers in each of the non-woven fabrics and both of the layers are heat-melt adhered with each other. The laminated non-woven fabric has a good hand feeling and a high peeling strength of adjacent layers, but has no rough feeling.

Abstract: A fiber bundle comprising a plurality of composite fibers spun out of a spinneret is blown against a working net conveyor by a drawing force of a high-speed air stream while the air stream is sucked and removed from below the net conveyor to deposit the fiber bundle on the net conveyor to form a web, and the web is then heat-treated to develop crimps and the fibers thermally adhere together at their points of contact, thereby obtaining a nonwoven fabric, wherein the air stream is blown against the web from below the net conveyor for a time before the heat-treatment, with an intensity sufficient to make the web to float in such a manner that the bottom face of the web rise above the net conveyor by 0.2 to 30 mm.