Abstract: An index value assignment device comprises: a selection unit that prompts a user to select, from a sentence, one or more words that the user feels to have a same degree of a predetermined index value with respect to one or more first words for which the index value is known; a validation unit that validates the selection result by the user on a basis of the index value of a second word for which the index value is known from among the one or more words included in the selection result; and a determination unit that determines the index value with respect to a third word for which the index value is unknown from among the one or more words selected by the user, on a basis of the index value of the first word according to the selection result for which the selection result is determined to be valid. Consequently, the efficiency of assigning word familiarity is increased.

Abstract: A protector includes a cover that is attachable to a casing formed with an opening through which the medium passes from an outside for storing the medium in an internal storage space or feeding the medium from the internal storage space to the outside, and that covers the opening when attached to the casing; and an attaching portion that extends so as to face toward a side surface of the casing from an end of the cover, and includes a fitting portion that fits with a fitting portion formed on the side surface of the casing.

Abstract: A protector includes a cover that is attachable to a casing formed with an opening through which the medium passes from an outside for storing the medium in an internal storage space or feeding the medium from the internal storage space to the outside, and that covers the opening when attached to the casing; and an attaching portion that extends so as to face toward a side surface of the casing from an end of the cover, and includes a fitting portion that fits with a fitting portion formed on the side surface of the casing.

Abstract: To enhance the functionality of an automated cash transaction machine. An automated cash transaction machine 1 is disposed with a currency bill deposit/withdrawal unit 16 that accepts currency bills from outside, a discriminating unit 18 that discriminates the authenticity of the currency bills and also reads their serial numbers, and a receipt issuing slot 8 and an operation display unit 6 that present, to a customer for each deposit transaction, the serial number of a currency bill judged to be a fake bill by the discriminating unit 18.

Abstract: To enhance the functionality of an automated cash transaction machine. An automated cash transaction machine 1 is disposed with a currency bill deposit/withdrawal unit 16 that accepts currency bills from outside, a discriminating unit 18 that discriminates the authenticity of the currency bills and also reads their serial numbers, and a receipt issuing slot 8 and an operation display unit 6 that present, to a customer for each deposit transaction, the serial number of a currency bill judged to be a fake bill by the discriminating unit 18.

Abstract: A data processing device is provided between a cash processing terminal cluster in a local network and an external network outside the local network. The data processing device includes a data acquisition section that acquires, in the local network, serial numbers obtained from banknotes read by a cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal cluster, a storage controller that stores the serial numbers in a storage section, a condition acquisition section that acquires conditions of decommissioned note serial number, and a serial number notification section that acquires a serial number satisfying the conditions from the storage section and provides notification of the serial number to any of cash processing terminal configuring the cash processing terminal cluster or to a cash processing terminal in a local network different to the local network.

Abstract: There is disclosed water soluble algin fibers and such fibers which have antibiotics immobilized thereto. The water soluble algin fibers are produced by extruding an aqueous dope which contains water soluble algin therein into a large quantity of a hydrophilic organic solvent exemplified by acetone. The water soluble algin fibers which have antibiotics immobilized thereto are produced in the same manner by using a dope containing antibiotics.

Abstract: There is disclosed water soluble algin fibers and such fibers which have antibiotics immobilized thereto. The water soluble algin fibers are produced by extruding an aqueous dope which contains water soluble algin therein into a large quantity of a hydrophilic organic nonsolvent exemplified by acetone. The water soluble algin fibers which have antibiotics immobilized thereto are produced in the same manner by using a dope containing antibiotics.

Abstract: The invention provides a fibrous binder capable of exhibiting a bonding ability in a dry condition for fibers having no self-adhesiveness in paper making but capable of imparting the paper made by use of the same with disintegrability into discrete fibers in a wet condition so that the paper is disposable in water. The fibrous binder is prepared by wet-spinning of an aqueous dope containing a water-soluble salt, e.g. sodium salt, of alginic acid and an alkyleneglycol ester of alginic acid in a specified proportion into a coagulation bath containing a water-soluble salt of certain metals, e.g. calcium, of which the ions are replaceable with the sodium ions of the water-soluble salt of alginic acid to convert the acid into a water-insoluble salt so as to form a water-insoluble gel in a fibrous form of a blend composed of the water-insoluble metal salt of alginic acid and the alkyleneglycol ester of alginic acid.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel method for making paper of regenerated chious fibers without the use of any binder materials. By virtue of the inherent physiological inertness of the chitinous fibers and the absence of any binder materials, the paper obtained by the inventive method is advantageously used in medical treatment in contact with living body tissues. The principle of the method is that the chitinous fibers prepared by a wet spinning process are never brought into a dry condition or always kept wet with water down to the step of sheet making so that the self-bonding power of the fibers by the hydrogen bonding is never decreased and a chitinous paper with sufficient strengths can be prepared without a binder material. Alternatively, once dried chitinous fibers can be treated with a hydrogen-bond forming agent, e.g. urea, so that the sheet making is equally successful without the use of a binder material.

Abstract: Kapok fibers enjoy a low specific gravity, water repellency and a high oil-adsorbing capacity. When they are used as an adsorbent of oils and brought into contact with oils floating on or suspended in water, they provide effective adsorption of the oils.