Abstract: It is provided a packet transfer apparatus comprising: a packet reception part; a packet transmission part; a packet generation part for generating an own-apparatus-originated packet serving as a packet for instructing a predetermined operation and outputting the own-apparatus-originated packet; a packet search part for determining a content of flow control and searching for an output circuit; a search memory for storing the content of the flow control and information for identifying the output circuit outputting the packet; and a packet transfer processing part. The packet reception part determines whether the received packet is the own-apparatus-originated packet; and outputs a self-origination flag indicating a result of the determining and header information of the received packet to the packet search part. The packet search part determines the content of the flow control for the received packet by referring to the search memory based on the self-origination flag and the header information.

Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving efficiency and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a network apparatus for transferring packets, including a transfer part for transferring received packets to a given destination, and a determining part for obtaining traffic volume of the packets to be transferred. The determining part determines periodicity of changes to the traffic volume, predicts traffic volume after a predetermined period of time with use of the determined periodicity, and controls transfer performance of the transfer part based on a result of the traffic volume prediction.

Abstract: Provided are composition and/or methods useful in preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI.

Abstract: In a packet relay apparatus or bandwidth policing apparatus, when the bandwidth of a flow having a function to respond to a congestion notification surpasses a first threshold, a congestion notification is given to rewrite a value representing the congestion state of the network out of the packet headers of the packet received by the apparatus. The packet is dropped if the bandwidth of the flow surpasses a second threshold higher than the first threshold. One of the following, including packet drop, rewriting the value representing the priority level in the network out of the packet headers and altering the priority level in the apparatus is imposed on the packet when the bandwidth of the flows surpasses a second threshold higher than the first threshold.

Abstract: Aptamers that bind IL-6 are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising IL-6 aptamers are provided, as well as methods of treating conditions using the aptamers are also provided.

Abstract: Provided are composition and/or methods useful in preventing onset and/or recurrence of cardiovascular events, especially in patients who have escaped the unstable period after cardiovascular angioplasty or in hyperlipidemia patients who have been treated with HMG-CoA RI.

Abstract: A solder powder having an average particle diameter of, for example, 0.05 ?m or more and less than 3 ?m is obtained by a method of producing a solder powder, including the steps of: putting solid or liquid metal, a non-aqueous solvent, and crushing balls having a diameter of 0.05 mm to 5 mm into a container to obtain a mixture; heating the mixture to 150° C. or higher and stirring the mixture; separating the crushing balls from the mixture after the stirring to obtain a mixture of the solder powder and the non-aqueous solvent; and performing solid-liquid separation on the mixture of the solder powder and the non-aqueous solvent to obtain a solder powder.

Abstract: Polynucleotides which are novel causative genes for cancer are elucidated, and a detection method of the polynucleotides or polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides, and a kit and a primer set for detection are provided, based on the knowledge gained by the elucidation. In the detection method, a fusion gene comprising part of an SDC4, CD74, EZR, SLC34A2, LRIG3, or TPM3 gene and part of a ROS1 gene, or a fusion protein encoded by the fusion gene is detected. The primer set or the detection kit comprises a sense primer designed based on a portion encoding SDC4, CD74, EZR, SLC34A2, LRIG3, or TPM3 and an antisense primer designed based on a portion encoding ROS1.

Abstract: A microscope system includes an acquisition unit that obtains a specimen image acquired by capturing the specimen stained by an element identification dye that visualizes a predetermined cell constituent element and a molecule target dye that visualizes a predetermined target molecule by using a microscope; a dye amount unit that obtains dye amounts of the element identification dye and the molecule target dye that stain corresponding positions on the specimen for each pixel of the image; an element area identification unit that identifies an area of the cell constituent element based on the dye amount of the element identification dye; a condition setting unit that sets the presence or absence of the predetermined target molecule on the cell constituent element as a condition; and an extraction unit that extracts an area of a target portion that satisfies the condition based on the dye amount of the molecule target dye.

Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of terminals and a server that relays packet data transmitted and received between a first terminal and a second terminal among the plurality of terminals. The server includes a connection establishment message processing unit configured to transmit a first SYN ACK message that is a response message to a first SYN message transmitted from the first terminal for establishing a TCP connection upon receiving the first SYN message from the first terminal, and an option information notifying unit configured to transmit a first TCP option information notifying message that includes first TCP option information included in the first SYN message from the first terminal and first communication destination information to indicate the second terminal as a destination of communication.

Abstract: It is provided a relay apparatus, comprising: a plurality of ports coupled to a network; a Layer 2 processing module for relaying, via the network, a frame comprising a Layer 2 header and a Layer 2 data segment, the Layer 2 data segment comprising a Layer 3 header and a Layer 3 data segment; and an output unit, wherein the module updates a value of a particular field of the Layer 3 header, uses a first characteristic value related to the Layer 3 header, which is stored in a given field, and a pre-update value and post-update value of the particular field to compute a second characteristic value related to the Layer 3 header, and updates the value of the given field from the first characteristic value to the second characteristic value, and wherein the output unit outputs the updated frame as an output destination of the updated frame.

Abstract: It is provided a packet transfer apparatus comprising: a packet reception part; a packet transmission part; a packet generation part for generating an own-apparatus-originated packet serving as a packet for instructing a predetermined operation and outputting the own-apparatus-originated packet; a packet search part for determining a content of flow control and searching for an output circuit; a search memory for storing the content of the flow control and information for identifying the output circuit outputting the packet; and a packet transfer processing part. The packet reception part determines whether the received packet is the own-apparatus-originated packet; and outputs a self-origination flag indicating a result of the determining and header information of the received packet to the packet search part. The packet search part determines the content of the flow control for the received packet by referring to the search memory based on the self-origination flag and the header information.

Abstract: A packet relay device has a packet receiving unit, a switch, a packet sending unit, an associative memory, and a packet search unit. The packet search unit has action registers which hold information specifying an action to be executed, holds address range information including consecutive address ranges of the associative memory and the action registers in association with each other, and registers a plurality of flow entries at a plurality of addresses in the same address range. The flow entries have conditions identifying the flows associated with the same action. The device inputs header information of the packets into the associative memory, determines the action to be executed in accordance with information read out from the action register corresponding to the address range including an address output from the associative memory, and executes the determined action.

Abstract: A limit switch having a housing having a box, an attachment hold made in a side surface of the box, having a cylindrical bearing section, a rotating shaft rotatably inserted through the cylindrical bearing section, a cam unit provided in a leading end portion of the rotating shaft, and an operation lever provided in the other end portion of the rotating shaft. Rotational action of the operation lever is converted into vertical action by the cam unit in the box. A contact of a switch main body accommodated in and fixed to the housing is opened and closed. An outer diameter of the cam unit is smaller than an inner diameter of the attachment hole.

Abstract: Aptamers that bind IL-6 are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising IL-6 aptamers are provided, as well as methods of treating conditions using the aptamers are also provided.

Abstract: A network relay device includes a packet buffer for temporarily storing a received packet, and a packet buffer control section for changing an effective buffer number depending on the received amount of packet. When a traffic amount is small, the packet buffer control section reduces the power consumption by stopping the feeding of power or the supply of clock to a part of the packet buffers. The network relay device further includes plural table memories storing a table for deciding the transfer destination of packet, and a table memory control section for changing an effective table number according to a required number of table entries. When the required table entry number is small, the table memory control section reduces the power consumption by stopping the feeding of power or the supply of clock to a part of the table memories.

Abstract: To prevent the switching time influences power saving efficiency and packet loss prevention performance, it is provided a network apparatus for transferring packets, including a transfer part for transferring received packets to a given destination, and a determining part for obtaining traffic volume of the packets to be transferred. The determining part determines periodicity of changes to the traffic volume, predicts traffic volume after a predetermined period of time with use of the determined periodicity, and controls transfer performance of the transfer part based on a result of the traffic volume prediction.

Abstract: When a delay between a packet relay device and a receiving terminal increases, congestion notifications are delayed, and communication quality declines. When a flow is assessed to be in a congestion state, a packet delay device overwrites, within a packet header of an acknowledgement packet for the flow which is received thereafter from a receiving terminal, a field which denotes a network congestion state with a value which denotes that a congestion state is in effect, and transmits same as an acknowledgement packet. It is thus possible to issue a congestion notification over a path from the packet relay device to the receiving terminal, eliminating a congestion notification path from the packet relay device to the receiving terminal and from the receiving terminal to the packet relay device, facilitating avoiding a decline in communication quality even if the delay between the packet relay device and the receiving terminal increases.

Abstract: In a client terminal of a communication system, a cipher session establishing section establishes a cipher session use connection between the client terminal as a source client terminal and a relay server by transmitting/receiving a cipher session establishment message between the source client terminal and the relay server, and notifies header information contained in a cipher session header to the relay server. A shared key managing section holds a client shared key with a destination client terminal, A data enciphering section performs encipherment of a data and/or MAC (Message Authentication Code) calculation of the data by using the client shared key and to output the performing result as a client cipher data. A message producing section produces a data communication message including a cipher data field in which the client cipher data is inserted and a non-cipher data field in which the cipher session header containing the header information is inserted.