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A lighting device for lighting a solid-state light source includes: a DC power circuit unit for converting a power of an input DC power source using a switching element and flowing a current through a solid-state light source; and a control unit for performing a first switching control in which the switching element is turned on/off at a first high frequency and a second switching control in which an ON/OFF operation of the switching element is intermittently stopped at a second frequency lower than the first frequency of the first switching control. When the current flowing through the solid-state light source is changed, the second frequency is varied.

Method to prevent the effect of web application injection attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), which are major threats to the security of the Internet. Method using complementary character coding, a new approach to character level dynamic tainting, which allows efficient and precise taint propagation across the boundaries of server components, and also between servers and clients over HTTP. In this approach, each character has two encodings, which can be used to distinguish trusted and untrusted data. Small modifications to the lexical analyzers in components such as the application code interpreter, the database management system, and (optionally) the web browser allow them to become complement aware components, capable of using this alternative character coding scheme to enforce security policies aimed at preventing injection attacks, while continuing to function normally in other respects. This approach overcomes some weaknesses of previous dynamic tainting approaches by offering a precise protection against persistent cross-site scripting attacks, as taint information is maintained when data is passed to a database and later retrieved by the application program. The technique is effective on a group of vulnerable benchmarks and has low overhead.

There is provided a collective printed circuit board including a plurality of printed circuit boards each having a mounting unit on which a semiconductor element is mounted at an upper-surface central portion, and a frame having a plurality of through holes having sizes to surround the mounting portion. Upper-surface peripheral edge portions of the printed circuit boards and a through-hole peripheral portion of the frame are bonded to each other such that the mounting units are exposed from the through holes.

A frame relay device includes a table where an entry containing a combination of an MAC address and an IP address is registered to be used in the frame relay processing of a local device. Moreover, the frame relay device includes judgment means for searching the table by the transmission origin MAC address and the transmission origin IP address contained in the frame received and judging whether the combination of the transmission origin addresses is registered as a relay object in the layer 3. Furthermore, the frame relay device includes layer 3 relay processing means for performing layer 3 relay processing only for the frame which has been judged to contain the combination of the transmission origin addresses as a relay object.

An image processing apparatus and a personal information management program are provided in which each user is permitted to perform the processing of user's own personal information while preventing leakage of user's personal information without disturbing the use of the apparatus by an infinite number of users to any substantial extent. The apparatus includes a user authentication section that acquires ID information to identify each user from among a plurality of users, and performs user authentication based on the ID information; an operation mode setting section that can selectively set, as an operation mode that sets a work environment for operation inputs, between an personal operation mode to permit each user to operate individually and a public operation mode to permit an indefinite number of users to operate; and a mode switching section that, when a user is authenticated in the user authentication section, switches the operation mode from the public operation mode into the personal operation mode for the authenticated user.

A boost chopper circuit converts AC power to DC voltage and supplies the DC voltage to a load. The boost chopper circuit includes a switching element and a reactor. A controller ON/OFF controls the switching element based on a comparison result in an interval of the former half of a half cycle of the AC power between a detected input current by a input current detector and a current instruction value of a modeling waveform obtained by reducing a harmonic component of a predetermined order from the current waveform.

A method and apparatus for detecting RF field strength. A field strength reference generator develops a field strength reference current as a function of a field strength of a received RF signal; and a field strength quantizer develops a digital field-strength value indicative of the field strength reference current. In one embodiment, detected field strength is used to dynamically vary the impedance of a tank circuit whereby, over time, induced current is maximized.

Disclosed herein are methods of treating benign, pre-cancerous, or non-metastatic tumors using an anti-VEGF-specific antagonist. Also disclosed are methods of treating a subject at risk of developing benign, pre-cancerous, or non-metastatic tumors using an anti-VEGF-specific antagonist. Also disclosed are methods of treating or preventing recurrence of a tumor using an anti-VEGF-specific antagonist as well as use of VEGF-specific antagonists in neoadjuvant and adjuvant cancer therapy.

A method and apparatus for manufacturing thin RFID tags adapted to be mounted proximate an interfering substance, such as metal or liquid. Each tag comprises: a web substrate having a predetermined thickness; an antenna attached to the substrate; and an RFID integrated circuit connected to the antenna, the RFID integrated circuit comprising a tank circuit adapted to be tuned in response to an RF signal after the tag has been mounted proximate the interfering substance. In one embodiment, the tag is manufactured using roll-to-roll manufacturing technology.

In an ultra-wideband (“UWB”) network, a central location engine (“CLE”) coordinates operation of an anchor access point (“AP”), AP[0], and a plurality of non-anchor AP[x]s. A clock calibration packet (“CCP”) transmission method and related apparatus facilitate normalization of CCP time references reported to the CLE by all APs. Implementing a digital phase locked loop (“DPLL”) in the CLE facilitates clock normalization. Implementing a DPLL in at least the non-anchor AP[x]s facilitates local clock synchronization, and may improve network efficiency by reducing clock synchronization traffic.

Non-speculatively prefetched data is prevented from being discarded from a cache memory before being accessed. In a cache memory including a cache control unit for reading data from a main memory into the cache memory and registering the data in the cache memory upon reception of a fill request from a processor and for accessing the data in the cache memory upon reception of a memory instruction from the processor, a cache line of the cache memory includes a registration information storage unit for storing information indicating whether the registered data is written into the cache line in response to the fill request and whether the registered data is accessed by the memory instruction. The cache control unit sets information in the registration information storage unit for performing a prefetch based on the fill request and resets the information for accessing the cache line based on the memory instruction.

A wavelength variable filter (111) separates an input signal into a passing signal and an intermediate output signal. A wavelength variable filter (112) separates the intermediate output signal into a dropped signal and an extended output signal. An interleaver (120) separates the dropped signal into individual dropped channels. An intrerleaver (220A) multiplexes a plurality of addition channels into an added signal. A wavelength variable filter (212) multiplexes the added signal and an extended input signal to produce an intermediate input signal. A wavelength variable filter (211) multiplexes the passing signal and the intermediate input signal into an output signal. A wavelength setting portion (100) sets a wavelength of each wavelength variable filter in accordance with operation of an operator.

Query processing system and method by query transformation transform a user request query based on an original DB structure, destined to a DBMS of a DB with some columns encrypted, into a query based on an encrypted DB structure so that the DBMS processes the query. The query is processed irrespective of whether or not the query includes an encryption-related item, and query-processing performance is remarkably improved.

A sheet stacking apparatus has a stack tray which can move so that a sheet stack surface keeps a constant position from a discharge outlet and which is a finisher capable of using the stack tray by switching it. When stacking the maximum number of sheets to be stacked on the stack tray and preventing stacking of sheets on the stack tray up to the maximum number of sheets to be stacked and the number of sheets stacked on the stack tray reaches a predetermined number of sheets to be stacked which does not prevent up to the maximum number of sheets from being stacked on the stack tray, stacking of sheets on the stack tray is temporarily prohibited to stack sheets by switching to the stack tray. Thereby, all sheet stack trays can stack up to the maximum number of sheets to be stacked, decrease of the number of stacked sheets is prevented in the whole sheet stacking apparatus and the number of temporal interruptions of a job is decreased.

The present invention relates to the use of a growth hormone (GH) secretagogue, such as a ghrelin-like compound, for the preparation of a medicament for the prophylaxis or treatment of ghrelin deficiency, and/or undesirable symptoms associated therewith, in an individual at risk of acquiring partial or complete ghrelin deficiency resulting from a medical treatment and/or from a pathological condition. The present invention also relates to use of a secretagogue compound for the preparation of a medicament for the prophylaxis or treatment of one or more of: loss of fat mass, loss of lean body mass, weight loss, cachexia, loss of appetite, immunological dysfunction, malnutrition, disrupted sleep pattern, sleepiness, reduction in intestinal absorption and/or intestinal mobility problems in an individual suffering from, or at risk of suffering from, ghrelin deficiency. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of a secretagogue, such as a ghrelin-like compound, for the production of a medicament for preventing weight increase in an individual either: a) being converted from a hyperthyroidic state to euthyroid state, or b) in remission from being converted from a hyperthyroidic state to euthyroid state.

This invention is to provide a technology for preventing information from being leaked from a mobile phone. For this purpose, this invention includes: receiving a request for data to select a calling destination from a first mobile phone capable of executing voice communication and data communication; identifying calling destination candidates registered in a data storage in association with a user of the first mobile phone by identification information other than telephone numbers of the calling destination candidates; and transmitting data to specify and select anyone of the identified calling destination candidates by the identification information other than the telephone numbers of the calling destination candidates, to the first mobile phone. Because the telephone number of the client is not sent to the mobile phone, the leakage of the client information is prevented, even if the mobile phone is stolen.

A semiconductor memory device includes word lines stacked over a substrate having a plurality of memory block regions, select lines arranged over the word lines, vertical channel layers formed to penetrate through the select lines and the word lines and extending to the substrate, and a charge trap layer disposed between the word lines and the vertical channel layers, wherein the stacked word lines are separated by memory block groups that each include two or more memory block regions.

A DC to DC converter can include a reverse-blocking semiconductor switch that makes a synchronously rectifying MOSFET become parallel-connected with a capacitor that is connected to a power supply of a controller IC for a conventionally used synchronously rectifying circuit. The reverse-blocking semiconductor switch can be driven either by signals for adjusting a voltage of the capacitor within a permitted range of voltage of the power supply of the controller circuit, or by signals that are determined by a signal obtained from voltage across the MOSFET and the signals for adjusting a voltage of the capacitor within a permitted range of voltage of the power supply of the controller circuit.

A user information processor 2 comprises a function unit for sending a first authentication number to an authentication information processor 3 and a function unit for converting the first authentication number to a second authentication number using a conversion rule 4 in response to an access permission notification from the authentication information processor 3 and for using the second authentication number as a new first authentication number. The authentication information processor 3 comprises a function unit for making a check in response to the first authentication number, a function unit for sending the access permission notification to the user information processor if a user is authenticated as valid, and a function unit for converting the first authentication number to the second authentication number using the same conversion rule as the conversion rule 4 and for recording the second authentication number into a database 5 as a new first authentication number.

A appliance immersion tank system comprising: a generally rectangular tank adapted to immerse in a dielectric fluid a plurality of appliances, each in a respective appliance slot distributed vertically along, and extending transverse to, the long axis of the tank; a primary circulation facility adapted to circulate the dielectric fluid through the tank; a secondary fluid circulation facility adapted to extract heat from the dielectric fluid circulating in the primary circulation facility, and to dissipate to the environment the heat so extracted; and a control facility adapted to coordinate the operation of the primary and secondary fluid circulation facilities as a function of the temperature of the dielectric fluid in the tank. A plenum, positioned adjacent the bottom of the tank, is adapted to dispense the dielectric fluid substantially uniformly upwardly through each appliance slot. A weir, integrated horizontally into a long wall of the tank, is adapted to facilitate substantially uniform recovery of the dielectric fluid flowing through each appliance slot. All active and most passive components of both the primary and secondary fluid circulation facilities, and the control facility are fully redundant, and are adapted automatically to operate in a fail-soft mode.

A user data assignment apparatus and computer implemented techniques for assigning user data blocks to resources in a network for transmission of the user data in the network. According to one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a memory region comprising a selection module and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the memory region. The processing unit is configured to execute instructions from the selection module, the instructions including: a priority loop module configured to sequentially focus user data to be operated on to user data with a particular priority; a transport format combination iteration module configured to execute within the priority loop module and to iterate through a plurality of transport format combinations; and a transfer channel module configured to execute within the transport format combination iteration module and to compute transport occupancy information corresponding to assignments of user data to particular transport format combinations.

A thin film transistor, an array substrate and a method for fabricating the array substrate, and a display device are disclosed. The thin film transistor comprises a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, a semiconductor active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a protection layer provided on a base substrate, and comprises: a first transparent electrode provided between the source electrode and the semiconductor active layer, corresponding to the source electrode and in direct contact with the source electrode; a second transparent electrode provided between the drain electrode and the semiconductor active layer, corresponding to the drain electrode and in direct contact with the drain electrode, the first transparent electrode is in contact with the semiconductor active layer through a first via provided in the protection layer, the second transparent electrode is in contact with the semiconductor active layer through a second via provided in the protection layer.

The invention relates to a universal and greatly simplified method as well as a composition for isolating nucleic acids from different starting materials containing nucleic acids. The composition contains at least one buffer solution for proteolytically solubilizing biological samples, the buffer containing no chaotropic or antichaotropic component, at least one alcoholic component and/or a detergent, a solid phase, and a wash and elution buffer.