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An improved method for non-invasively measuring a concentration of a target analyte dissolved in a fluid flowing through a sample is presented. It includes directing a probe beam of electromagnetic radiation, consisting of time multiplexed components of different wavelengths, through the sample and measuring the difference of the absorption of the radiation at at least one wavelength pair at different sample states. During sample state changes, the amount of fluid containing the target analyte within the sample is changing, which varies the total amount of target analyte in the sample, as well as the absorption properties of the sample. The sample states are produced, for instance, by compressing and uncompressing the tissue sample. The accuracy of the presented method is enhanced by including continuous estimation of the amount of the fluid containing the target analyte within the sample, and measurement of the variations of the absorption at a wavelength at which the target analyte absorbs significantly. The method is particularly useful in measuring the concentration of a target analyte, such as glucose, in tissue containing blood. An apparatus for performing this method also is disclosed.

A technique for forming an organic polymer thin film on a surface of a substrate with high film formation efficiency and excellent reproducibility and stability is provided. When a vacuum deposition polymerization for forming an organic polymer thin film is performed on a surface of a substrate 12 repeatedly, in which a plurality of kinds of monomers evaporated in a plurality of evaporation source containers 32a, 32b in vacuum state are introduced into a deposition chamber 10 in a vacuum state and polymerized on a surface of the substrate 12 arranged in the deposition chamber 10, each of the monomers in a liquid form is present in the evaporation source containers 32a, 32b in a constant amount every time, at the beginning of the evaporation operation of monomers.

A respiratory mask is reduced in size to better fit patients with smaller faces by folding accordion folds of the mask. An adjustment member allows for selective folding of the accordion folds, thereby determining the size of the mask. The respiratory mask can thus be adjusted to fit both larger and smaller persons.

Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board with embedded capacitors therein and a process for manufacturing the printed circuit board. The embedded capacitors are formed by applying a photosensitive insulating resin to a printed circuit board inner layer, and applying a high dielectric polymer capacitor paste thereto. The process for manufacturing a printed circuit board with embedded capacitors therein comprises the steps of: i) laminating photoresist dry films to a copper clad FR-4, exposing to light and developing the dry films, and etching copper foils of the copper clad FR-4 to form bottom electrodes for forming capacitors; ii) applying a photosensitive insulating resin to the surfaces of the bottom electrodes, and exposing to light and developing to etch the photosensitive insulating resin; iii) applying a capacitor paste to the etched regions and curing the capacitor paste; iv) plating the upper regions of the cured capacitor paste and the photosensitive insulating resin using an electroless copper plating process to form copper foil layers for top electrodes; v) laminating photosensitive dry films to the copper foil layers for top electrodes, and exposing to light and developing the photosensitive dry films to etch regions of the dry films except for the copper foil layers where the top electrodes are to be formed; and vi) etching the regions of the dry films except for the copper foil layers where the top electrodes are to be formed, and the dry films formed on the top electrodes are removed so that the capacitor paste is discretely positioned between the top electrodes and the bottom electrodes to form discrete capacitors.

A CMP pad conditioner including: (a) a disk-shaped substrate having a working surface which is provided by one of its axially opposite end surfaces and which is to be brought into contact with the CMP pad; and (b) abrasive grains which are fixed to the working surface. The substrate includes a radially inner portion and a radially outer portion which is located radially outwardly of the radially inner portion. The working surface in the radially outer portion is inclined with respect to the working surface in the radially inner portion, such that a thickness of the radially outer portion as measured in an axial direction of the substrate is reduced as viewed in a direction away from an axis of the substrate toward a periphery of the substrate. A ratio of an outside diameter of the radially inner portion to an outside diameter of the substrate is 60-85%.