Abstract: When there are no evaluation values from a user who has evaluated both contents X and Z, an indirect similarity calculation unit 32 of an arithmetic processing unit 30 of an information processing center 10a indirectly calculates the similarity between the contents X and Z using evaluation values of a content Y whose evaluation value is present from a user who has evaluated both the contents X and Y and whose evaluation value is present from a user who has evaluated both the contents Y and Z. A predicted evaluation value calculation unit 33 calculates a predicted evaluation value from a user who has not evaluated either of the contents X and Z using the similarity between the contents X and Z calculated by the indirect similarity calculation unit 32 and the evaluation values of the contents X and Z. Thus, it is possible to calculate the predicted evaluation values of the contents X and Z which are not directly calculable.

Abstract: A network system including a management device with both a status managing unit for collecting status information on a terminal status and a terminal instructing unit for transmitting a shift start message to the terminal to make transfer data to the server on the basis of the status information collected by the status managing unit. The terminal includes a determining unit for determining data transfer in response to the shift start message, a data transferring unit for transferring the data to the server when the determining unit determines the data transfer, a storage device control unit for erasing the data from a storage device after completion of data transfer, and a thin client shifting unit for causing the terminal to function as a thin client after erasure of data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a positive photosensitive composition containing a specific tetrafunctional silsesquioxane compound (A), a siloxane polymer (B) formed of multiple kinds of alkoxysilane compounds having different numbers of alkoxyl groups, a 1,2-quinone diazide compound (C), and a solvent (D) in order to provide a positive photosensitive composition useful for forming a film on which a pattern is formed, the film being excellent in high thermal resistance, high transparency, crack resistance, adhesiveness with a ground, and the like, and being obtained by performing development with an alkali aqueous solution.

Abstract: Disclosed are server operational expenses collecting method and apparatus for a server which transmits via the Internet an electronic program guide to a terminal apparatus operated by a user. The server generates customer analysis information on the basis of personal information of said user inputted from said terminal apparatus and program viewing log information about a program viewed by said user on said terminal apparatus. The server generates a second electronic program guide by reorganizing a first electronic program guide in accordance with the preference of said user on the basis of the generated customer analysis information. The server provides said generated customer analysis information to an advertiser who practices an advertising campaign to said terminal apparatus. The server, in response to the provision of said customer analysis information to said advertiser, collects the expenses, in a predetermined amount, for the provision of said customer analysis information from said advertiser.

Abstract: The invention also relates to novel genes primarily expressed in hematopoietic lineages, polypeptides encoded by the novel genes and truncations, analogs, homologs, and isoforms of the polypeptides; and, uses of the polypeptides and genes.