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An oxide or nitride film containing carbon and at least one of silicon and metal is formed by ALD conducting one or more process cycles, each process cycle including: feeding a first precursor in a pulse to adsorb the first precursor on a substrate; feeding a second precursor in a pulse to adsorb the second precursor on the substrate; and forming a monolayer constituting an oxide or nitride film containing carbon and at least one of silicon and metal on the substrate by undergoing ligand substitution reaction between first and second functional groups included in the first and second precursors adsorbed on the substrate. The ligand may be a halogen group, —NR₂, or —OR.

The invention is directed, in one embodiment, to systems and methods relating to managing rights associated with digital content.

A wipe-off unit is provided with a cleaning liquid ejection member in a manner to be positioned below a horizontal surface coincident with a nozzle surface and on a sheet feeding side relative to a pressing roller. A wiping sheet is fed from below to the pressing roller through a space between the pressing roller and the cleaning liquid ejection member, and a cleaning liquid is applied to a surface of the wiping sheet.

Method and apparatus for controlling acoustic treatment of a sample including a liquid. A processing volume in which the sample is acoustically treated may be controlled, e.g., by positioning a suitable element so as to reduce and/or eliminate a headspace at a sample/gas interface. An interaction between the acoustic energy and the sample may be controlled, e.g., by using an energy director positioned at least partially in the sample that helps to reduce splashing or other sample ejection that would otherwise occur.

Provided is a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency including a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance. In a light-emitting element including a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes, a delayed fluorescence component due to triplet-triplet annihilation accounts for 20% or more of light emitted from the EL layer, and the light has at least one emission spectrum peak in the blue wavelength range. The EL layer includes an organic compound in which an energy difference between the lowest singlet excited energy level and the lowest triplet excited energy level is 0.5 eV or more. The EL layer includes a benzo[a]anthracene compound.

A network device allows inbound connections from external addresses to a computer on a local network while forbidding output connections from the computer to that external address unless preceded by an inbound connection therefrom. In some embodiments, the computer is allowed to accept inbound connections from external addresses but is not permitted to initiate outbound connections to other computers in the local network unless preceded by an inbound connection. In some embodiments, a request from an external address is processed by the network device by transmitting network information for the computer to the external address and temporarily changes network rules to allow connections from the external address. In some embodiments, if the computer attempts a disallowed connection, the connection attempt is routed through a proxy server by providing network data for the proxy server to the computer.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing secure transactions between electronic devices and service providers. In one embodiment, an administration entity system may receive device order data from an electronic device, wherein the received device order data is indicative of an order for an item of value of a service provider system to be stored on the electronic device, transmit administration order data to the service provider system based on the received device order data, wherein the administration order data is indicative of the order for the item of value, receive service provider fulfillment data from the service provider system based on the transmitted administration order data, wherein the service provider fulfillment data includes the item of value, and transmit administration fulfillment data to the electronic device based on the received service provider fulfillment data, wherein the administration fulfillment data includes the item of value.

A platform segment for supporting a nozzle guide vane for a gas turbine is provided. The platform segment includes a gas passage surface arranged to be in contact with a streaming gas exhausted from a combustor, wherein the streaming gas streams along the gas passage surface in a streaming direction, a cooling surface, opposite to and thermally connected to the gas passage surface and arranged to be in contact with a cooling fluid, a wall protruding from the cooling surface and extending at least partially in the streaming direction, wherein the wall is arranged circumferentially between positions, at which adjacent guide vanes are to be provided, such that cooling fluid is channeled by the wall for cooling a downstream portion of the cooling surface, and a further wall protruding from the cooling surface and extending at least partially in the streaming direction.

A quantum interference device includes: gaseous alkali metal atoms; and a light source for causing a resonant light pair having different frequencies that keep a frequency difference equivalent to an energy difference between two ground states of the alkali metal atoms, the quantum interference device causing the alkali metal atoms and the resonant light pair to interact each other to cause an electromagnetically induced transparency phenomenon (EIT), wherein there are a plurality of the resonant light pairs, and center frequencies of the respective resonant light pairs are different from one another.

A fan structure is disclosed to include a fan holder holding a fan motor and a fan blade, a bottom cover frame, which has smoothly arched bottom wall, a horizontal mounting flange extending around the smoothly arched bottom wall and mounted in one frame sash of a light steel structure of a ceiling, a vertical connection flange connected to the top cover shell of the fan holder, a circular center opening corresponding to the fan blade, ventilation holes spaced around the circular center opening and a fence disposed above the circular center opening and surrounding the fan blade defining with the top cover shell of the fan holder a space for causing a gate effect during rotation of the fan blade, and a grille mounted in the circular center opening of the bottom cover shell for output of currents of air caused by the fan blade.

A bearing apparatus include a rotor having a flange portion, a foil bearing for supporting the rotor in a radial direction, and a magnetic bearing for supporting the rotor in an axial direction by an electromagnet, and a control portion for controlling electric current supplied to the electromagnet. The control portion controls such that a first electric current is supplied to the electromagnet so as to cause the electromagnet to attract the flange portion so as to support the rotor in the axial direction. The control portion also controls such that when the number of revolutions of the rotor is smaller than the number (R1) of revolutions at which the rotor floats off the foil bearing when supplying the first electric current to the electromagnet, a second electric current larger than the first electric current is supplied to the electromagnet.

In a dust removal apparatus, a front air nozzle unit emits air jets onto a region of a workpiece surface near a rotary brush along a linear front end edge of a hood covering an upper half portion of the rotary brush. Rear air nozzle unit emits air jets onto another region of the workpiece surface near the rotary brush along a linear rear end edge of the hood.

A game developer can “tag” an item in the game environment. When an animated character walks near the “tagged” item, the animation engine can cause the character's head to turn toward the item, and mathematically computes what needs to be done in order to make the action look real and normal. The tag can also be modified to elicit an emotional response from the character. For example, a tagged enemy can cause fear, while a tagged inanimate object may cause only indifference or indifferent interest.

The present invention provides a table for use in a plasma processing system that makes it possible to obtain a substrate processed with plasma, improved in within-substrate uniformity, and a plasma processing system comprising such a table. A table 2 for use in a plasma processing system 1 comprises an electrically conductive member serving as a lower electrode 21 for plasma formation, a lower dielectric layer 22 (first dielectric layer) formed on the electrically conductive member so that it covers the center of the upper surface of the electrically conductive member, serving to make a high-frequency electric field to be applied to plasma via a substrate uniform, and an upper dielectric layer 24 (second dielectric layer) having a relative dielectric constant of 100 or more, formed on the electrically conductive member so that it is in contact at least with the edge of the substrate, in order to prevent a high-frequency current that has propagated along the electrically conductive member face from leaking to the outside of the substrate (wafer W).

A fuel cell electrode catalyst includes: a noble-metal-supported catalyst including a carbon support and a noble metal supported on the carbon support; and a water-repellent material with which the noble-metal-supported catalyst is modified. The carbon support is mesoporous carbon in which a pore volume of pores having a pore size of 2 nm to 5 nm is 2.1 ml/g to 2.4 ml/g. An amount of the water-repellent material is 3% by weight to 7% by weight with respect to a total weight of the mesoporous carbon and the water-repellent material.

The invention provides a reaction apparatus capable of efficiently causing a reaction, and a fuel cell system and an electronic device that include such a reaction apparatus. A reaction apparatus (1) includes a reformer (4), a CO remover (5) and a connecting portion (6) that connects the reformer (4) and the remover (5). The reformer (4) has a reforming reaction chamber (31) and a reformer combustion chamber (30) that generates heat to be supplied to the reforming reaction chamber (31), which (30, 31) are adjacent to each other with a partition interposed therebetween. The CO remover (5) has a removing reaction chamber (35) and a remover combustion chamber (34) that generates heat to be supplied to the removing reaction chamber (35), which (34, 35) are adjacent to each other with a partition interposed therebetween. The reformer (4) and the CO remover (5) are arranged spaced apart from each other, at least one of which is configured by combining ceramic parts (11, 12) and a reformer lid member (15) and a remover lid member (16), and heaters (48, 49) are disposed so as to face the ceramic parts (11, 12).