Abstract: A layout design apparatus includes: a memory unit to store design data of a hierarchical layout of a multilayer circuit including a macro; a channel count calculation unit to calculate a channel count of channels available to lead wiring from a terminal of the macro to a wiring layer based on the design data stored in the memory unit; and a path calculation unit to calculate a path for leading wiring from a terminal of the macro to the wiring layer in ascending order of the channel count.

Abstract: A computer system of an embodiment includes a processor and a storage device for managing real file systems and a virtual file system virtualizing the real file systems to control relocation of a file in the virtual file system. Volumes different in access performance provided by a storage system are assigned to the real file systems belonging to tiers different in access performance. The storage device stores file usage state information representing usage states of files in the virtual file system and storage usage state information representing a usage state of the storage system. The processor generates control information associating characteristics of files with evaluation values of the tiers using the two pieces of information and determines an evaluation value for each of one or more relocation destination tier candidates of a first file in the virtual file system based a characteristic of the first file and the control information.

Abstract: Disclosed in an individual information determining method in which individual information of a subject is determined based on one or a plurality of pieces of biomolecule data collected from a surface of a body surface of the subject.

Abstract: A method for highly sensitive determination of a target substance by means of an aptamer includes: causing an aptamer capable of specific binding with a target substance to bind competitively with said target substance and a nucleic acid strand having a base sequence complementary to at least a portion of said target substance, detecting at least either of the physical change and the chemical change that results from said aptamer binding with said nucleic acid strand, and determining said target substance based on the result of detection.

Abstract: A method of designing a plasmonic crystal is provided. The method includes: determining an arrangement period of a plasmonic crystal formed on a metal surface at an interface between a dielectric and the metal in accordance with a dispersion relation of a surface plasmon polariton at the interface and a Bragg reflection condition of the surface plasmon polariton.

Abstract: A layout design apparatus includes: a memory unit to store design data of a hierarchical layout of a multilayer circuit including a macro; a channel count calculation unit to calculate a channel count of channels available to lead wiring from a terminal of the macro to a wiring layer based on the design data stored in the memory unit; and a path calculation unit to calculate a path for leading wiring from a terminal of the macro to the wiring layer in ascending order of the channel count.

Abstract: When an input indicating a position on a screen has been provided by a pointing device, coordinate values indicating the position are set as coordinate values of a starting point position. Subsequently, it is determined whether or not a state where the position on the screen is being continuously indicated by the pointing device has changed to a non-indicative state where the position on the screen is not indicated by the pointing device. As a result, when the state has changed to the non-indicative state, the coordinate values output from the pointing device before the change to the non-indicative state are set as coordinate values of an end point position, and a direction from the starting point position to the end point position is specified. Then, a virtual object is caused to move such that a moving direction of the virtual object is a direction different from the specified direction.

Abstract: A physiologically active substance collecting device, includes: a collecting section brought into contact with a body surface of a living organism to acquire a physiologically active substance from the body surface; and a liquid sending means for sending a solvent to the collecting section, the collecting section having an aperture at which the solvent flown by being sent from the liquid sending means contacts the body surface.

Abstract: A physiologically active substance collecting device, includes: a collecting section brought into contact with a body surface of a living organism to acquire a physiologically active substance from the body surface; and a liquid sending means for sending a solvent to the collecting section, the collecting section having an aperture at which the solvent flown by being sent from the liquid sending means contacts the body surface.

Abstract: A method for highly sensitive determination of a target substance by means of an aptamer includes: causing an aptamer capable of specific binding with a target substance to bind competitively with said target substance and a nucleic acid strand having a base sequence complementary to at least a portion of said target substance, detecting at least either of the physical change and the chemical change that results from said aptamer binding with said nucleic acid strand, and determining said target substance based on the result of detection.

Abstract: In a sensor device and a sensing method capable of simultaneously extracting plural pieces of information including information about the presence/absence, distribution, and so on, of targets, in case of measuring changes in nature of a detecting portion (11) upon coupling with targets (a and b), information about changes in quantities of the targets (a and b) with time is extracted in addition to information about the presence/absence, distribution, and so on, of the targets (a and b) from geometrical structures of the detecting portion (11), such as locations and/or shapes of bonding sites (A and B) for selectively coupling with the targets (a and b), respectively.

Abstract: A method of designing a plasmonic crystal is provided. The method includes: determining an arrangement period of a plasmonic crystal formed on a metal surface at an interface between a dielectric and the metal in accordance with a dispersion relation of a surface plasmon polariton at the interface and a Bragg reflection condition of the surface plasmon polariton.

Abstract: A biological information acquisition method for acquiring information on a living body on a basis of a quantified value of a physiologically active substance originated from the living body, includes a step of collecting the physiologically active substance from a body surface of the living body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a detecting nucleic acid strand including: a first nucleic acid strand having a first base sequence region capable of functioning as an aptamer, and a second nucleic acid strand having a second base sequence region, which is complementary to the first base sequence region and forms a complementary strand with the first base sequence region, wherein the detecting nucleic acid strand is designed such that, when a predetermined substance interacts with the first base sequence region, the complementary strand of the first and second base sequence regions dissociates into single strands.

Abstract: Information that individual elements (characteristic character strings) indicative of characteristics of a registered document appear in the registered document is stored in advance. When calculating similarity of the registered document, a query designated by a searcher is analyzed. The query is represented by a characteristic vector having the individual elements which take the relation between a plurality of words into consideration. Pieces of appearance information of the individual words contained in the query are counted. The counted appearance information is compared with a searching index to calculate similarity between documents.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting materials includes a database for storing detecting spectra of detecting materials, and a tera-hertz wave applying unit for applying tera-hertz waves having a plurality of different frequencies around a boundary between a light wave frequency and a radio wave frequency, to a predetermined position of an inspecting object. The apparatus includes an output wave receiving unit for receiving an output wave that is the tera-hertz wave having been applied to the inspecting object, and a determining unit for determining whether or not the output wave includes the detecting spectrum.

Abstract: A surface capable of detecting interaction between substances is provided. This surface has double-stranded DNA which forms the complimentary linkage with single-stranded DNA having one end thereof fixed to the surface, such that the double-stranded DNA dissociates into single-stranded DNA in response to the interaction. A sensor chip and a sensing device, which have the detecting surface as a constituent, and a method for detecting interaction between substances are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting materials includes a database for storing detecting spectra of detecting materials, and a tera-hertz wave applying unit for applying-tera-hertz waves having a plurality of different frequencies around a boundary between a light wave frequency and a radio wave frequency, to a predetermined position of an inspecting object. The apparatus includes an output wave receiving unit for receiving an output wave that is the tera-hertz wave having been applied to the inspecting object, and a determining unit for determining whether or not the output wave includes the detecting spectrum.

Abstract: Information that individual elements (characteristic character rings) indicative of characteristics of a registered document appear in the registered document is stored in advance. When calculating similarity of the registered document, a query designated by a searcher is analyzed. The query is represented by a characteristic vector having the individual elements which take the relation between a plurality of words into consideration. Pieces of appearance information of the individual words contained in the query are counted. The counted appearance information is compared with a searching index to calculate similarity between documents.

Abstract: In a sensor device and a sensing method capable of simultaneously extracting plural pieces of information including information about the presence/absence, distribution, and so on, of targets, in case of measuring changes in nature of a detecting portion (11) upon coupling with targets (a and b), information about changes in quantities of the targets (a and b) with time is extracted in addition to information about the presence/absence, distribution, and so on, of the targets (a and b) from geometrical structures of the detecting portion (11), such as locations and/or shapes of bonding sites (A and B) for selectively coupling with the targets (a and b), respectively.