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An index for an item in a computer implemented merchandising system is computed as a function of objective data, e.g., transaction data, and subjective data, e.g., customer satisfaction ratings or reviews. The index may be extended with other data, including revenue, returns, refunds, discontinuations, and interactive shopping data. The index may further be weighted using a variety of weight factors for different components of the subjective and objective data. A display of the index places customer satisfaction data in the context of transaction data. The index may be used to provide prospective customers with a more balanced picture of consumer satisfaction than can be provided from customer satisfaction data alone, including prospective purchase comparisons and desirability.

Provided is a storage system including: a storage medium including a plurality of physical storage areas having an upper limit number of rewrites, and a medium controller that controls I / O (input / output) of data to / from the plurality of physical storage areas; and a storage controller connected to the storage medium, wherein when any of the physical storage areas is not allocated to a write destination logical storage area among a plurality of logical storage areas, the medium controller allocates a vacant physical storage area among the plurality of physical storage areas to the write destination logical storage area and writes write target data to the allocated vacant physical storage area, and the plurality of logical storage areas includes an available logical area group determined based on a relationship between an available capacity of a logical storage capacity and a rewrite frequency of the plurality of physical storage areas.

The invention relates to a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or more, which excels in workability and cold brittleness resistance. The high-strength steel sheet contains 0.10% to 0.30% of C, 1.40% to 3.0% of Si, 0.5% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.1% or less of P, 0.05% or less of S, 0.005% to 0.20% of Al, 0.01% or less of N, 0.01% or less of O, as well as Fe and inevitable impurities. The steel sheet has: (i) a ferrite volume fraction of 5% to 35% and a bainitic ferrite and / or tempered martensite volume fraction of 60% or more; (ii) a MA constituent volume fraction of 6% or less (excluding 0%); and (iii) a retained austenite volume fraction of 5% or more.

A cutting insert of the present invention includes an upper surface; a lower surface; a side surface; a cutting edge which is located along an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and comprises a major cutting edge, a flat cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge located between the major cutting edge and the flat cutting edge; and a land part located along the cutting edge on the upper surface. The land part includes a minor cutting edge land portion located correspondingly to the minor cutting edge. The minor cutting edge land portion is inclined downward toward a central part of the upper surface. The present invention also provides a cutting tool including the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool.

A high tensile strength steel sheet excellent in processibility which can satisfy a strength, a total elongation, and stretch-flanging property (hole enlarging rate) at a further high level and comprises a matrix microstructure of tempered martensite or tempered bainite and, if necessary, ferrite, and a second phase of retained austenite, wherein (1) the steel comprising C: 0.10 to 0.6 mass %, Si: 1.0 mass % or smaller, Mu: 1.0 to 3 mass %, Al: 0.3 to 2.0 mass %, P: 0.02 mass % or smaller, S: 0.03 mass % or smaller, (2) a volume rate of retained austenite obtained by a saturated magnetization measuring method is 5 to 40% by area (whole field is 100%), and (3) a relationship of a carbon amount (C: weight %) in the steel, a volume rate (fγR) of retained austenite and a carbon concentration (CγR) of the retained austenite satisfies the equation: (fγR×CγR) / C≧50   (I)

To satisfactorily carry out balancing even when balancing control is suspended. It is selected according to a condition which of battery cell information (old state information) by the last balancing stored in a storage device and battery cell information (new state information) acquired during a start of this time is used, and the balancing control is performed.

A process for producing a rubber wet master batch contains at least a filler, a dispersing solvent and a rubber latex liquid as raw materials, comprising: a step (I) of, at the time of dispersing the filler into the dispersing solvent, adding at least one portion of the rubber latex liquid thereto, thereby preparing a slurry containing the filler to which rubber latex particles adhere; a step (II) of mixing the slurry with the rest of the rubber latex liquid, thereby preparing the rubber latex liquid containing the rubber-latex-particle-adhering filler; and a step (III) of solidifying and drying the rubber latex liquid containing the rubber-latex-particle-adhering filler.

A hair brush with an array of bristles (4). Each bristle extends from a base to a free end. Some or all of the bristles have relatively wide first portion, towards the base of the bristle, and a relatively narrow second portion, towards the free end of the bristle. The bristles are arranged in offset rows and centre lines of the rows are spaced apart such that at least part of the first portion of bristles in one row extends between adjacent bristles in an adjacent row and / or, when viewed perpendicular to the rows, the width of the first portion of the bristles in one row is, over part of their length, the same or greater than the space between adjacent bristles in an adjacent row so as to partially occlude the space between bristles in an adjacent row. The bristles are sized and arranged so that the first portion of the bristles serves to easily penetrate and divide hair between the bristles and the second portion of the bristles enables tension to be applied to the hair when hair flows between the bristles.

A refrigerating machine oil composition according to the invention comprises an alicyclic polycarboxylic acid ester compound obtained from the following compounds (a) to (c):(a) an alicyclic polycarboxylic acid having an alicyclic ring and two or more carboxyl groups, or its derivative, wherein at least two of the carboxyl groups are bonded to mutually adjacent carbon atoms on the alicyclic ring;(b) a compound with two or more hydroxyl groups or its derivative; and(c) a compound with one hydroxyl group or its derivative.It can be used together with HFC refrigerants and natural refrigerants such as carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons, to provide a satisfactory balance between all of the properties of lubricity, miscibility with refrigerants, heat and hydrolytic stability and electric insulating property.

This procedure uses a low carbon fuel with a FCC Catalyst Heater-Fuel Gas / Catalyst Combustion Chamber. The low carbon content fuel source will minimize CO2 emissions while satisfying unit heat balance. This will further reduce coke yield and CO2 emissions while improving energy efficiency.

The invention provides: an optical glass which comprises, in terms of % by mass on the basis of oxides, 13-27% of B2O3, 20-35% of La2O3, 5-25% of Gd2O3, 5-20% of ZnO, 0.5-3% of Li2O, 0.5-15% of Ta2O5 and 0.5-10% of WO3, wherein the value of (SiO2+B2O3) / (ZnO+Li2O), which is the mass ratio of the total content of SiO2 and B2O3 to the total content of ZnO and Li2O, is 1.35-1.65; and a lens comprising the optical glass.

Photographic elements are disclosed comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I: R1R2N—C(O)—(R)p—C(O)—NR3R4wherein R represents a hydrocarbon linking group; p=0 or 1; and each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represents an aromatic, cyclic, linear or branched chain hydrocarbon group, or R1 and R2 or R3 and R4 combine together to form a ring with the associated nitrogen atom to which they are attached; with the proviso (i) at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 comprises an aromatic, cyclic, secondary alkyl, or otherwise or branched hydrocarbon group, or (ii) at least R1 and R2 or R3 and R4 combine together to form a ring with the associated nitrogen atom. Photographic elements of the present invention upon exposure and photographic processing exhibit good activity and yield dye images that have unexpected and substantial improvements in the stability of the formed image dyes.

The present invention enhances the lubricating property of the sliding surfaces of a clamp nut and a collet, reduces a friction coefficient, prevents the occurrence of seizure, and enhances durability. Accordingly, it is possible to rotate the clamp nut and the collet without causing vibrations due to imbalance. Moreover, this invention provides a clamp nut that can maintain tool-mounting accuracy for a long period of time even in the case of high-speed rotation, and also provides a collet chuck including such clamp nut. Concerning the clamp nut which is mounted on a collet chuck body for holding tools in the collet and which clamps the collet chuck body and the collet together, at least a part of the clamp nut which comes in contact with the collet is made of oil-bearing metal.

A method of controlling an engine of a hybrid vehicle includes steps of calculating a maximum torque of an engine at which an engine lambda=1 is maintained; calculating a maximum dischargeable torque of a driving motor; and allowing an operation of the engine having the engine lambda<1 when a torque required by a driver is greater than a sum of the maximum torque of the engine at which the engine lambda=1 is maintained and the maximum dischargeable torque of the driving motor.

The present invention concerns an improved glass fiber reinforced polypropylene composition as well as articles formed from this composition, wherein the composition, comprises a) More than 15-wt % glass fibers, and b) a specific heterophasic polypropylene composition with an at least bimodal disperse phase.

A production process of an α-olefin polymerization catalyst, comprising the steps of (1) reducing a titanium compound represented by a defined formula with an organomagnesium compound in the presence of an Si—O bond-containing silicon compound, (2) contacting the resultant solid catalyst component precursor, a halogenating compound and an internal electron donor with one another, and (3) contacting the resultant solid catalyst component, an organoaluminum compound and a Si-containing external electron donor represented by a defined formula with one another; and a production process of an olefin polymer using the above catalyst.

A high tensile strength steel sheet excellent in processibility which can satisfy a strength, a total elongation, and stretch-flanging property (hole enlarging rate) at a further high level. and comprises a matrix microstructure of tempered martensite or tempered bainite and, if necessary, ferrite, and a second phase of retained austenite, wherein (1) the steel comprising C: 0.10 to 0.6 mass %, Si: 1.0 mass % or smaller, Mn: 1.0 to 3 ,mass %, Al: 0.3 to 2.0 mass %, P: 0.02 mass % or smaller, S: 0.03 mass % or smaller, (2) a volume rate of retained austenite obtained by a saturated magnetization measuring method is 5 to 40% by area (whole field is 100%), and (3) a relationship of a carbon amount (C: weight %) in the steel, a volume rate (fγR) of retained austenite and a carbon concentration (CγR) of the retained austenite satisfies the equation:(fγR×CγR) / C≧50 .   (I)

Provided are a novel organic electroluminescent device material and an organic electroluminescent device using the same. The organic electroluminescent device material includes a compound represented by the following formula (1). The organic electroluminescent device of the present invention includes a substrate, an anode, an organic layer, and a cathode, the anode, the organic layer, and the cathode being laminated on the substrate, in which the organic layer contains the organic electroluminescent device material. The organic electroluminescent device material is suitable as a host material for a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant. In the formula, L represents an aromatic group including at least one aromatic heterocyclic group, and Ar1 to Ar4 each represent an aromatic group.

Disclosed is a method for producing a water-developable photopolymer plate for letterpress printing comprising an exposure step, a development step and a post-exposure step wherein the photopolymer plate is brought into contact with a liquid containing a modified silicone compound and / or a fluorine compound during or after the exposure step.

There is provided a polyester coating composition having excellent action of preventing deposition of outdoor stain and stain caused by rainfall, being capable of extending a period of time (pot life) from the mixing to the coating, and comprising (A) a polyester resin, (B) one or more of fluorine-containing organosilicon compounds having a fluorine content of 5 to 30% by mass, (C) one or more of aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds having hydroxyl group and 1 to 10 carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atom may be substituted by fluorine atoms and / or one or more of alkoxy compounds having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, in which a part of hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atom may be substituted by fluorine atoms, and (D) an organic solvent.

An optical information recording / reproducing device is provided with a first light source 20a for emitting recording light 22a, a second light source 20b for emitting reproducing light 22b, an objective lens 6 for focusing the emitted lights from the both light sources 20a, 20b on an information recording medium including a recording region 3 capable of three-dimensional recording and photodetectors 19a, 19b for detecting reflected lights 7a′, 7b′ from the information recording medium, and records information on recording layers 1a to 1e utilizing a nonlinear absorption phenomenon. At the objective lens 6, an average rim intensity of the recording light 7a is lower than that of the reproducing light 7b.

Dual frequency control of first and second pairs of switches of a buck-boost regulator with pass through band is disclosed. In buck and boost modes respectively a first pair of the switches is operated at high frequency and a second pair of the switches is operated at low frequency. In pass through mode, both pairs of switches are operated at low frequency. Dual frequency control and operation of the pairs of switches enables current sharing between positive and negative power leads in buck, boost and pass-through modes.

Methods and systems are disclosed for managing a medical savings account that invests funds in investment accounts. A request is received for payment of a healthcare expense incurred by a party authorized for recovery under the medical savings account. A balance is drawn against a line of credit secured by one or more of the investment accounts. At least a portion of the healthcare expense is paid with funds obtained from the drawn balance. At least a portion of some of the investment accounts are liquidated in accordance with instructions provided by the party or by an owner of the medical savings account to satisfy the drawn balance of the line of credit.

To satisfactorily carry out balancing even when balancing control is suspended. It is selected according to a condition which of battery cell information (old state information) by the last balancing stored in a storage device and battery cell information (new state information) acquired during a start of this time is used, and the balancing control is performed.

A bisphenol-based resin obtained by a reaction of (a) a bisphenol-based compound, (b) at least one selected from the group consisting of aminobenzenesulfonic acids and aminobenzenesulfonic acid derivatives, and (c) at least one selected from the group consisting of formaldehyde and formaldehyde derivatives, wherein a content of a structural unit that is obtained by the reaction of the component (a), the component (b) and the component (c) and also has a benzoxazine ring is 15 mass % or less.

A tire includes a carcass, a belt structure, and a tread band. The belt structure includes at least two belt plies and at least one belt layer radially external to the belt plies. The at least one belt layer extends at least for an axial width of the at least two belt plies and includes at least one first elongated element and at least one second elongated element. The elongated elements form turns substantially oriented in a circumferential direction of the tire. The turns are alternately disposed along an axial development of the at least one belt layer. The at least one first elongated element is a hybrid cord including at least one high-elastic-modulus filament and at least one low-elastic-modulus filament that are twisted together. An elastic modulus of the at least one second elongated element is lower than an elastic modulus of the at least one first elongated element.

Photographic elements are disclosed comprising a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I:R1R2N—C(O)—(R)p—C(O)—NR3R4 wherein R represents a hydrocarbon linking group; p=0 or 1; and each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represents an aromatic, cyclic, linear or branched chain hydrocarbon group, or R1 and R2 or R3 and R4 combine together to form a ring with the associated nitrogen atom to which they are attached; with the proviso (i) at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 comprises an aromatic, cyclic, secondary alkyl, or otherwise or branched hydrocarbon group, or (ii) at least R1 and R2 or R3 and R4 combine together to form a ring with the associated nitrogen atom. Photographic elements of the present invention upon exposure and photographic processing exhibit good activity and yield dye images that have unexpected and substantial improvements in the stability of the formed image dyes.

An overhead advertising display system with translation movement over a rail includes means for moving at least one advertising sign along a rail track, at least one cart mounted in the rail track and pulled by a traveling cable located inside the rail track, and at least one tractor to drive said cable, communicating its movement through friction.