Abstract: A device management apparatus includes a device configuration information holding unit, a subscriber information holding unit, a security policy holding unit, a module state holding unit, and a device diagnosis unit. The security policy holding unit holds a security policy set based on the configuration based on the configuration information or the subscriber information. The device diagnosis unit examines the security policy and the module state information to make a diagnosis of a configuration of the device.

Abstract: Problem to be Solved: There are provided a novel pathological model with an experimental animal which reproduces human nonalcoholic chronic hepatitis and/or liver fibrosis and/or cirrhosis progressed from fatty liver, a method for producing the same, and a method for utilizing the novel pathological model with an experimental animal. Solution: An in-vivo hypoxic state is formed in a fatty liver having model experimental animal, and a pathological model with an experimental animal, which keeps biochemical characteristics and/or histopathological characteristics of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, and/or cirrhosis is finally produced.

Abstract: A task management system in an operating system executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. The task management system includes an execution standby state changer configured to generate a verifier of a task from data stored in a task address space and to store the generated verifier in a verifier storage area, when the task is changed from an executed state to an execution standby state; and an executed state changer configured to generate a verifier of the task from the data stored in the task address space and to verify matching of the generated verifier with the verifier of the task stored in the verifier storage area, when the task is changed from the execution standby state to the executed state.

Abstract: A multitask execution system executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. The multitask execution system includes an encryption processor configured to generate a key stream unique to each task, by using key data, a task ID for identifying each task, and an output value, the number of the key data being smaller than the number of the plurality of tasks, the output value being output from a monotonic incremental counter when each task is generated, a value of the monotonic incremental counter configured to continue to be increased without being decreased, and to encrypt data stored in a protected area in a memory space for each task by using the generated key stream.

Abstract: Provided is a detection method employing a detection instrument having a plurality of wells at a surface thereof, the method including depositing a detection object, preferably in coexistence with a specific holding substance, onto the inner walls of the wells of the detection instrument; bringing a reaction solution into contact with the inner walls of the wells of the detection instrument on which the detection object has been deposited, the reaction solution containing a substance reactive with the detection object; and detecting a signal generated through this contact, to thereby evaluate the detection object. In this method, a liquid phase reaction can be efficiently performed in the detection instrument for carrying out a biological reaction (e.g., a microarray) so that samples contained in the wells are not mixed with one another, and that air bubbles are prevented from being generated in the wells.

Abstract: A method of detecting genes which comprises detecting gene polymorphisms in allergy-predisposition-related genes; i.e., interleukin 12 receptor IL-1 ?2 chain and ?1 chain genes, interleukin 18 receptor ? chain gene, interferon ? receptor 1 chain gene and interleukin 12.p40 subunit gene, to thereby detect allergic predisposition. Use of the present method enables contribution to the prevention of onset of allergic diseases and to the treatment of allergic diseases.

Abstract: A device management apparatus includes a device configuration information holding unit, a subscriber information holding unit, a security policy holding unit, a module state holding unit, and a device diagnosis unit. The security policy holding unit holds a security policy set based on the configuration based on the configuration information or the subscriber information. The device diagnosis unit examines the security policy and the module state information to make a diagnosis of a configuration of the device.

Abstract: A multitask execution system executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. The multitask execution system includes an encryption processor configured to generate a key stream unique to each task, by using key data, a task ID for identifying each task, ad an output value, the number of the key data being smaller than the number of the plurality of tasks, the output value being output from a monotonic incremental counter when each task is generated, a value of the monotonic incremental counter configured to continue to be increased without being decreased, and to encrypt data stored in a protected area in a memory space for each task by using the generated key stream.

Abstract: A task management system in an operating system executes a plurality of tasks in parallel. The task management system includes an execution standby state changer configured to generate a verifier of a task from data stored in a task address space and to store the generated verifier in a verifier storage area, when the task is changed from an executed state to an execution standby state; and an executed state changer configured to generate a verifier of the task from the data stored in the task address space and to verify matching of the generated verifier with the verifier of the task stored in the verifier storage area, when the task is changed from the execution standby state to the executed state.

Abstract: There are provided a) a detection board having numerous wells on a surface thereof, b) a detection set including the detection board and an element serving as well sealing means, and c) a method of using the detection set b), which includes injecting, into each of the wells of the detection board, an element for detecting a liquid phase reaction, sealing the element into the well with the well sealing means, and detecting the liquid phase reaction in the well. Thus, there is provided means for efficiently performing a liquid phase reaction on the board in a manner similar to that of an existing microarray technique.

Abstract: The invention provides a data distribution system and method which can control distribution of data in a network configuration wherein the number of servers used in an initial stage of data distribution is comparatively small but is increased in accordance with a situation so that clients can access impartially. The data distribution system includes a distribution server, a plurality of reception servers, and a plurality of clients. The distribution server includes a distribution control section including an order determination section for calculating an evaluation value between each of the reception servers and the clients based on a predetermined evaluation expression and determining an order of the reception servers to which data are to be transmitted in accordance with the evaluation values.

Abstract: A method of detecting a risk factor for the onset of arteriosclerosis in a subject on the basis of correlation of a gene mutation in the CETP gene (in particular, mutation at (1) guanine at the −69-position of the CETP gene; (2) the site encoding leucine at the 151-position of CETP encoded by the CETP gene; (3) the site encoding arginine at the 201-position and alanine at the 202-position of the same; or (4) the site encoding arginine at the 282-position of the same) with the risk for arteriosclerosis, thereby detecting arteriosclerosis.

Abstract: Risk factors for diabetic onset in a subject are detected by using a gene coding for CD38 protein, which is originally identified as a human lymphocyte surface marker, as a risk gene, and detecting mutations in the gene.

Abstract: Risk factors for diabetic onset in a subject are detected by using a gene coding for CD38 protein, which is originally identified as a human lymphocyte surface marker, as a risk gene, and detecting mutations in the gene.

Abstract: There is provided a method and system for providing services, in which front-ends are efficiently controlled on the basis of response times of services to cope with fluctuations in network traffic, and front-end application environment providers can charge front-end users for the use of front-ends on utilization basis.

Abstract: The invention provides a data distribution system and method which can control distribution of data in a network configuration wherein the number of servers used in an initial stage of data distribution is comparatively small but is increased in accordance with a situation so that clients can access impartially. The data distribution system includes a distribution server, a plurality of reception servers, and a plurality of clients. The distribution server includes a distribution control section including an order determination section for calculating an evaluation value between each of the reception servers and the clients based on a predetermined evaluation expression and determining an order of the reception servers to which data are to be transmitted in accordance with the evaluation values.

Abstract: In response to the designation of a rectangular partial region of an original picture to be reproduced, the designation of a rectangular partial region of the displayable picture at the reproduction end, and information corresponding relationship between the displayable picture and the original picture that an image of a certain region of the displayable picture and of the original picture are equivalent to each other, an instruction is generated for a reproduction operation to reuse part of the displayable picture, as it is reusable as part of the region at the reproduction end, and to reproduce from the original picture a region at the reproduction end in order to reproduce a part of the original picture in the displayable picture.