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The present invention relates to trans-capsularly administering into a diseased joint a high specificity antagonist selected from the group consisting of: i) an inhibitor of a pro-inflammatory interleukin; ii) an inhibitor of TNF-α synthesis; iii) an inhibitor of membrane-bound TNF-α; iv) an inhibitor of a natural receptor of TNF-α; v) an inhibitor of NO synthase,

• • vi) an inhibitor of PLA₂ enzyme; vii) an anti-proliferative agent; viii) an anti-oxidant; ix) an apoptosis inhibitor selected from the group consisting of EPO mimetic peptides, EPO mimetibodies, IGF-I, IGF-II, and caspase inhibitors, and x) an inhibitor of MMPs; and xi) an inhibitor of p38 kinase.

The present invention relates to trans-capsularly administering into a diseased joint an inhibitor of p38 MAP kinase or a different therapeutic agent.

The present invention provides a multilayered bus system capable of performing transition to a power-saving mode reliably and rapidly. When a mode designation signal for designating the power-saving mode is outputted from a clock controller in response to mode setting information outputted from a CPU, respective arbiters respectively output response signals for prohibiting access to bus slaves to their corresponding bus masters. When the power-saving mode is designated by the mode designation signal, the response signal for prohibiting access is outputted from the arbiter, and an end signal indicating that the respective bus slaves do not perform data transfers for a predetermined period of time is outputted from a monitor, a control signal for stopping the supply of a system clock is outputted from the clock controller to a clock generator.

An adaptive equalizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an adaptive filter; and a control unit. The adaptive filter performs an adaptive equalization processing for an input signal modulated by a modulation method that produces a demodulated signal with constant amplitude characteristics so as to make an amplitude of an equalized output signal constant. The control unit controls stop and execution of the adaptive equalization processing of the adaptive filter in accordance with characteristics of at least one of the input signal and the output signal.

A motor control system uses an incremental encoder that provides a signal indicative of motor position. If an illegal state change is detected in the same sampling interval, an error event is recorded and an error counter is incremented. When the number of counts exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the motor is disabled so that appropriate corrective action can be taken.

A job processing system has first to third servers. The first server has a job generation program for generating jobs as requested. The second server has a storage device for storing attribute information on and a file for use in processing each job generated by the first server, a management table for managing job management information on each job by assigning a unique ID to each job, and a queue control program for registering job management information in the management table, referring to the management table, and registering the file for and attribute information on each job in the storage device. The third server has one or more job processing programs for processing jobs acquired from the second server, batch control program for acquiring jobs from the second server and issuing responses concerning the processed jobs, and a storage device for storing attribute information on and a file for each job acquired.

Pasteurizing fresh fruit comprising the steps of slicing whole fresh fruit; treating the fruit slices with an antioxidant; packing the fruit slices into a container suitable for microwaving; vacuum sealing the fruit slices in the container; microwaving the container after vacuum sealing to raise the temperature of the fruit slices; bathing the container with the fruit slices in a hot water bath following microwaving for a period sufficient to inhibit enzymatic activity and eliminated microbial contamination in the fresh fruit; and, bathing the container with the fruit slices in a cold water bath following bathing in the hot water bath to stabilize the fruit slices for storage; whereby the sliced and treated fruit is pasteurized and retained in a fresh condition within the container for an extended period of time without changes in color, texture and flavor to the fruit, and without the use of artificial preservatives.

The concentration of various contaminants in a plasma can be monitored during processing of a substrate such as a silicon wafer, in order to prevent an unacceptable amount of contamination from being deposited on the substrate. The radiation emitted from the plasma through a window in the processing chamber during processing can be detected and measured by a tool such as an optical emission spectrograph (OES) and the relative intensity of peaks in the spectrum corresponding to various contaminants can be analyzed in order to determine contaminant concentration. In one embodiment, the concentration of aluminum in a plasma is monitored during a plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process in order to ensure that the amount of aluminum in the produced device is lower than a maximum threshold amount.

A photoelectric converter includes a substrate, photoelectric converting elements formed in the substrate and each having a light-receiving surface, an antireflection film arranged above at least a part of the light-receiving surface of each photoelectric converting element, an element isolation region including an insulator, a plurality of transistors including read transistors configured to read electric charges of the photoelectric converting elements, an interlayer insulating film arranged above the photoelectric conversion elements and the read transistors, and contacts electrically connected to active regions of the transistors. The antireflection film is arranged above the element isolation region and the active region connected to each contact. The antireflection film serves as an etch stop film when the interlayer insulating film is etched.

A sheet finishing apparatus of the present invention includes a gate for conveying sheets of paper ejected from an image forming apparatus by switching to a first conveying path requiring post processing or to a second conveying path requiring no post processing and a manual introduction unit for post-processing the sheets of paper conveyed via the first conveying path by a processing mechanism and ejecting them to a first paper ejection tray and manually leading sheets of paper requiring post processing to the processing mechanism, and when the post process is executed in a manual mode, switches the gate to the second conveying path, and when sheets of paper are taken in from the image forming apparatus, ejects the sheets of paper to a second paper ejection tray via the second conveying path.

Apparatus and methods for the controlled preparation of a beverage from one or more beverage bags within a variety of containers and the quick and sanitary storage of the bag or bags once the beverage preparation has been completed. The apparatus may include a drinking aperture, an even retention structure profile, and a bag retention aperture that is openable such that at least a portion of the bag may be drawn within and thereby retained in a position elevated above the beverage so that the beverage can be consumed even with the apparatus in place on the container and the bag or bags retained within the apparatus. The apparatus also may include a depressed wall section sized and shaped such that, when a bag is secured by the bag retention aperture, the bag is prevented from blocking a drinking aperture even when the container is rotated for drinking.

A reception device and program for the reception device that uses a scalable video coding (SVC) method to ensure best-effort image data transmission even when stream-type data is transmitted through a transmission control protocol (TCP). The reception device includes a frame detecting unit configured to detect a base layer reception completed time point indicating a time at which a base layer of a frame to be reproduced is formed using the received image packet, a timer unit configured to detect an expiration of a timeout period beginning at the earliest from the base layer reception completed time point, and a reception completed packet processing unit configured to transmit a reception completed packet to the transmission device, the reception completed packet indicating that at least one transmitted image packet is not received after the expiration of the timeout period detected by the timer unit.

The method is for separation of lignin from original black liquor (BL_IN) and has the following phases in sequence. A first precipitation phase (PR1) for precipitation of lignin by a first acidification of the original black liquor by adding a first acid or mixture of acids (G_1a) followed by a first storage phase wherein precipitated lignin particles are allowed to increase in size, followed by a second precipitation phase (PR2) for precipitation of lignin by a further acidification of the original black liquor by adding a second acid or mixture of acids (G_1b). By retaining the acidified black liquor for at least 25 minutes in the storage phase are the precipitated lignin particles allowed to grow in size and the filterability is improved considerably.

A trained vector creating part 15 creates a characteristic of an unvoiced sound in advance as a trained vector V. Meanwhile, a threshold value THD for distinguishing a voice from a background sound is created based on a predictive residual power epsi of a sound which is created during a non-voice period. As a voice is actually uttered, an inner product computation part 18 calculates an inner product of a feature vector A of an input signal Sa and a trained vector V, and a first threshold value judging part 19 judges that it is a voice section when the inner product has a value which is equal to or larger than a predetermined value theta while a second threshold value judging part 21 judges that it is a voice section when the predictive residual power epsi of the input signal Sa is larger than a threshold value THD. As at least one of the first threshold value judging part 19 and the second threshold value judging part 21 judges that it is a voice section, a voice section determining part 300 finally judges that it is a voice section and cuts out an input signal Saf which are in units of frames and corresponds to this voice section as a voice Svc which is to be recognized.

In a wireless telecommunication system employing a time division multiple access (TDMA) system, a scheduler of a base station determines an allocation of a first frame and a second frame for a first data set to be transmitted to a terminal and a second data set to be transmitted thereto after the first data set. A generation unit generates scheduling information for notifying the terminal of the timing of transmitting the second data set on the basis of a relative number of frames for indicating the number of second frames relative to that of the first frame. An addition unit adds scheduling information generated by the generation unit to a control channel corresponding to the first data set and sends the result to the terminal.

A vehicle power-supply unit includes a high-voltage battery, a low-voltage battery having a lower voltage than the high-voltage battery, and an inlet, and is capable of connecting a feed connector of an external power source to the inlet and supplying electric power from the external power source to a charge target which is at least one of the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery. The power-supply unit includes: charge control means that controls charging of the charge target; and a battery voltage sensor that detects a voltage of the low-voltage battery. If a low-voltage battery voltage value VL becomes not higher than a charge abort threshold Vabort while connecting the feed connector to the inlet and supplying electric power from the external power source to the charge target, the charge control means stops supply of electric power from the external power source to the charge target.

The security of an IC card is improved by managing success and failure in authentication individually for each terminal program. An IC card includes a random number generation section, a source authentication section, and a process execution section. Upon receipt of a message of type “1”, the random number generation section generates a random number n, and stores it in a random number storage section by associating the random number n with a source included in the message. Upon receipt of a message of type “2” from the source and in a case where the random number n corresponding to the source is stored, the source authentication section collates a value m calculated from an authentication key held by the IC card and the random number n with a value m included in the message of type “2”. When both values agree, upon receipt of a message of type “3” from the source, the process execution section executes a process in accordance with a type of the message.

A system and method for the preservation of coconut products via dehydration and freezing are disclosed. Via the systems and methods described herein, coconuts can achieve a significantly longer shelf life, without degradation of the coconuts naturally-occurring beneficial aspects. One exemplary embodiment of the invention discloses a method for the preservation of a coconut by dehydrating the coconut in a blast cooler with a dehumidifier and a blower. The combination of the cool temperature and the dry airflow over the coconut, cause the coconut to dehydrate, decreasing the amount of water inside the coconut. With less water inside of the coconut, the coconut can then be frozen in a shock freezer, without cracking the coconut. The coconut is then defrosted at a specific temperature for a specific period of time, to ensure the coconut shell remains dry, thereby preventing mold and mildew on the exterior of the coconut.

A format that includes a BSSID of a transmitting station within a preamble of the frame is an HE format, and a format that does not include a BSSID within the preamble but includes a BSSID in a MAC header is a Non-HE format; and a wireless station in the BSS includes a control part which checks a format of a frame received at a predetermined receiver sensitivity or above, and continues demodulation of the received frame if the format is HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is consistent with its own BSS, and stops the demodulation of the received frame if the HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS.