Abstract: A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client.

Abstract: Provided is a solid state imaging device including: a pixel array in which pixels are disposed on a matrix; an iris authenticator that extracts iris information to be used in an iris authentication process, from image data obtained from the pixel array through photoelectric conversion; and an imaging condition controller that performs control to set an imaging condition in obtaining the image data for the iris authentication process, by using information obtained in a process of extracting the iris information.

Abstract: A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client.

Abstract: The electrical contact material includes a base material, a coating layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the coating layer. The base material contains Cu. The coating layer includes an undercoat layer, a first layer, and a second layer that are provided in that order from the base material side. The undercoat layer contains Ni. The first layer contains Ni, Zn, Cu, and Sn. The second layer contains Sn. The oxide layer is constituted by an oxide containing Zn, Cu, and Sn. The undercoat layer has a thickness larger than 0.5 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is an electrical contact material that can suppress an increase in contact resistance even if contact pressure with a counterpart material is small. An electrical contact material that includes a base material made of metal, a metal layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the metal layer. The metal layer is made of metal that contains zinc, copper, and tin, the oxide layer is made of an oxide that contains zinc, copper, and tin, and beneath the oxide layer, a ratio of the atomic concentration of copper to the atomic concentration of tin is less than 1.4.

Abstract: Disclosed is method using a composition is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.

Abstract: Methods for determining a disease condition of a subject of a species are provided that comprises obtaining a dataset of fragment methylation patterns determined by methylation sequencing of nucleic acid from a biological sample of the subject. A fragment methylation pattern comprises the methylation state of each CpG site in the fragment. A patch including a channel comprising parameters for the methylation status of respective CpG sites in a set of CpG sites in a reference genome represented by the patch is constructed by populating, for each respective fragment in the plurality of fragments that aligns to the set of CpG sites, an instance of all or a portion of the plurality of parameters based on the methylation pattern of the respective fragment. Application of the patch to a patch convolutional neural network determines the disease condition of the subject.

Abstract: A method for deleting obsolete files from a file system is provided. The method includes receiving a request to delete a reference to a first target file of a plurality of target files stored in a file system, the first target file having a first target file name. A first reference file whose file name includes the first target file name is identified. The first reference file is deleted from the file system. The method further includes determining whether the file system includes at least one reference file, distinct from the first reference file, whose file name includes the first target file name. In accordance with a determination that the file system does not include the at least one reference file, the first target file is deleted from the file system.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to create, under a first folder associated with a cloud system used by the information processing apparatus, a second folder set to perform operations provided by the cloud system, and is configured to perform control to perform the operations provided by the cloud system set in the second folder if a document is registered in the second folder.

Abstract: A method for deleting obsolete files from a file system is provided. The method includes receiving a request to delete a reference to a first target file of a plurality of target files stored in a file system, the first target file having a first target file name. A first reference file whose file name includes the first target file name is identified. The first reference file is deleted from the file system. The method further includes determining whether the file system includes at least one reference file, distinct from the first reference file, whose file name includes the first target file name. In accordance with a determination that the file system does not include the at least one reference file, the first target file is deleted from the file system.

Abstract: A circuit module includes a wiring board on which are provided a ground plane, a signal line, and a conductive pattern for connection to an outer conductor of a coaxial cable including an inner conductor and the outer conductor. A common-mode choke coil is mounted on the wiring board such that one of coils of the common-mode choke coil connects the ground plane and the conductive pattern and that the other coil is inserted in the signal line. A communication element is mounted on the wiring board and includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The first signal terminal is connected to the common-mode choke coil via the signal line, and the second signal terminal is connected to the ground plane. A first capacitor is inserted in series in the signal line between the common-mode choke coil and the first signal terminal.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to create, under a first folder associated with a cloud system used by the information processing apparatus, a second folder set to perform operations provided by the cloud system, and is configured to perform control to perform the operations provided by the cloud system set in the second folder if a document is registered in the second folder.

Abstract: A medical composition for reducing the rate of new-onset diabetes caused by administration of a statin or for inhibiting an increase in blood glucose level by administration of a statin, the composition containing at least one ingredient selected from the group consisting of icosapentaenoic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof as an inactive ingredient.

Abstract: The electrical contact material includes a base material, a coating layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the coating layer. The base material contains Cu. The coating layer includes an undercoat layer, a first layer, and a second layer that are provided in that order from the base material side. The undercoat layer contains Ni. The first layer contains Ni, Zn, Cu, and Sn. The second layer contains Sn. The oxide layer is constituted by an oxide containing Zn, Cu, and Sn. The undercoat layer has a thickness larger than 0.5 ?m.

Abstract: The electrical contact material includes a base material, a coating layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the coating layer. The base material contains Cu. The coating layer contains Zn, Cu, and Sn. The oxide layer is constituted by an oxide containing Zn, Cu, and Sn. When a spherical indenter with a radius of 1 mm is linearly slid against the oxide layer with an applied load of 1 N, a sliding speed of 100 ?m/sec, a stroke of 50 ?m, and 10 reciprocation cycles, the largest contact resistance measured after the first to 10th reciprocation cycles is not larger than 5 m?.

Abstract: Provided is an electrical contact material that can suppress an increase in contact resistance even if contact pressure with a counterpart material is small. An electrical contact material that includes a base material made of metal, a metal layer provided on a surface of the base material, and an oxide layer provided on a surface of the metal layer. The metal layer is made of metal that contains zinc, copper, and tin, the oxide layer is made of an oxide that contains zinc, copper, and tin, and beneath the oxide layer, a ratio of the atomic concentration of copper to the atomic concentration of tin is less than 1.4.

Abstract: A direct-current superimposing circuit includes differential signal lines, capacitors, a common mode choke coil, a winding-type coil component, and a DC power supply which are disposed at a circuit board. The winding-type coil component includes a core, two pairs of terminal electrodes, and two windings (a first winding and a second winding). On the end surface of a flange portion, the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs and the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs are placed to face each other across the winding center of a winding core. The winding start and winding end of the first winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs. The winding start and winding end of the second winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs.

Abstract: A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client.

Abstract: A method of accessing data includes storing a table that includes a plurality of tablets corresponding to distinct non-overlapping table portions. Respective pluralities of tablet access objects and application objects are stored in a plurality of servers. A distinct application object and distinct tablet are associated with each tablet access object. Each application object corresponds to a distinct instantiation of an application associated with the table. The tablet access objects and associated application objects are redistributed among the servers in accordance with a first load-balancing criterion. A first request directed to a respective tablet is received from a client. In response, the tablet access object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform a data access operation on the respective tablet, and the application object associated with the respective tablet is used to perform an additional computational operation to produce a result to be returned to the client.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition which is useful for preventing the occurrence of a cardiovascular event, particularly a composition which is expected to show a prophylactic effect on a cardiovascular event occurring in a hypercholesterolemia patient despite providing the patient with a treatment with HMG-CoA RI or a cardiovascular event occurring in a multiple risk patient.