Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes a combination acquisition unit and an evaluation unit. The combination acquisition unit acquires combination determination information from an indicator selection apparatus. The combination determination information determines a combination of a category variable being one of a plurality of indicators related to an evaluation target and at least one support variable each being the indicator different from the category variable. Further, a plurality of groups are determined based on a value of the category variable. Then, a statistic of the support variable is generated for each of the plurality of groups. The evaluation unit generates, for each of the support variables, evaluation information, for example, an evaluation value by using a value of the support variable of the evaluation target and the statistic of the support variable of the group to which the value of the category variable of the evaluation target belongs.

Abstract: A credit assistance system is configured to include an extraction unit and an output unit. The extraction unit extracts a second company, financial indicators of which at a second point in time coincide with financial indicators of a first company at a first point in time later than the second point in time under prescribed conditions. The output unit outputs actual data of the financial status of the second company after the second point in time.

Abstract: A weldment manufacturing method includes a recess forming step of forming recesses on a first target member and a second target member, the recesses delineating holes each of which spans across the first target member and the second target member and that are arranged along a boundary between the first target member and the second target member when the first and second target members that are the objects to be welded together are brought into abutment against each other; an abutting step of bringing the first and second target members into abutment against each other by aligning the recesses so that the recesses delineate the respective holes; and a welding step of placing filler material in the respective holes irradiating and scanning the filler material with the laser to cause the filler material to melt so as to fill the holes with the molten filler material.

Abstract: An indicator selection apparatus (10) includes an acquisition unit (110) and a selection unit (120). The acquisition unit (110) acquires information (hereinafter, described as category variable specification information) that specifies a category variable. The selection unit (120) selects a support variable from among the plurality of indicators described above for each category variable. Specifically, the selection unit (120) generates a first model by performing machine learning by using a combination (combination variable) of the category variable and the support variable as an explanatory variable and using an evaluation result of an evaluation target as an objective variable. Then, a first influence degree is generated for each of a plurality of the combination variables. The first influence degree indicates magnitude of an influence of the combination variable on accuracy of the first model. Then, the selection unit (120) selects a support variable by using the first influence degree.

Abstract: To provide a technique for performing company evaluation with a non-conventional new approach, the present invention provides a processing apparatus 10 including a grouping unit 11 that groups a plurality of reference targets, based on a financial indicator for a target period, a technical indicator relating to a change on a temporal axis of a financial indicator for the target period and earlier, and an expert indicator generated by processing a financial indicator for the target period according to a predetermined rule.

Abstract: To provide a technique for performing a company evaluation by a new unprecedented technique, the present invention provides an information provision apparatus 10 including: a reception unit 12 that receives an input that selects at least one from among a plurality of pieces of material information being a material for evaluating a target company; and an output unit 11 that outputs, when a plurality of pieces of the material information are selected, a screen that displays a plurality of selected pieces of the material information side by side.

Abstract: A cam cylinder is extended from a base member of a holder and is inserted into a guide cylinder secured to a main body. A lens mount including an optical system and a CCD is inserted into the cam cylinder. A guide pin is screwed on the lens mount through a guide groove of the guide cylinder and a cam groove of the cam cylinder. When the holder is rotated around the optical axis, the lens mount can move along the optical axis, so that a distance between the CCD and a film held by the holder is changed. As a result, by only rotating the holder, the magnification for displaying the image can be changed.

Abstract: A magnetic sheet control member, for use in a device for recording and reproduction using a magnetic head in sliding contact with a rotary flexible magnetic sheet, to guide the magnetic sheet to the magnetic head by a negative pressure, having upstream-side and downstream-side inclined surfaces disposed respectively at the upstream side and the downstream side with respect to the rotational direction of the magnetic sheet and inclined to become more distant from the free rotary surface plane of the magnetic sheet towards the downstream side, and stabilizing surfaces disposed respectively at the outer side and inner side with respect to the radial direction of the magnetic sheet to connect the upstream-side inclined surface and the downstream-side inclined surface, thereby obtaining a stable head contact over the entire recording area from the innermost side to the outermost side of the magnetic sheet.

Abstract: A double-side magnetic recording-reproducing apparatus, wherein a top magnetic head and a bottom magnetic head are respectively provided upwardly and downwardly of a magnetic recording medium to be rotated by a spindle motor, and magnetic recording on the both surfaces of the magnetic recording medium or magnetic reproducing therefrom is performed. An actuator for vertically moving the spindle motor and the magnetic recording medium, respectively, is provided, the side of the magnetic recording medium is vertically moved by the actuator, and the top magnetic head or the bottom magnetic head is selectively brought into contact with the top surface or the undersurface of the magnetic recording medium.