Abstract: A global cache for SQL sections and methods of accessing the cache. The global cache being at the database level and being accessible to all agents of all applications. The global cache having a static and a dynamic portion. The static portion containing section entries having both section information and section data. The dynamic portion having two sub-portions, a statement portion and a dependency portion. The dependency portion containing multiple SQL statements, multiple compilation environments for each SQL statement and multiple variations within each compilation environment. The dependency portion of the dynamic portion containing a plurality of lists of object types. Each object type having its own list, the list containing data on which variations are dependant on each object.

Abstract: Product data information to be stored in a product database is defined by setting essential items necessary to define products with respect to their essential parts, and setting optional items necessary to define optional products deriving from standards product defined by their essential items. A product definition section produces product data information on standard products based on the set essential items, and produces product data information on optional products based on the set optional items. This product data information is transferred from an electronic shop client to an electronic mall server to be stored into the product database through a product registering section.

Abstract: Offering many ideas and new insights about how to share the joy of music with very young children, this book introduces, explains, and clarifies new techniques, terminology, and concepts through definition and example. It provides song examples, as part of a collection on age-appropriate materials for teachers, as well as sketches, plans and specifications for preparing different types of learning centers. A special "Things to Do" section is included in each chapter, and there are various hands-on resources available throughout the text emphasizing the child's need to explore and to become involved in decision-making play. This book is a wonderful model for educators presenting effective music techniques while focusing on a child-centered approach to learning.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the automatic insertion of hypertext links into a passage or document of encoded text is disclosed. A program, resident on a personal computer, for example, receives and parses input text in HTML format. In a first part of the processing, label strings identifying each paragraph number are located in the read in document. These are converted into an unambiguous format. Next, the text is re-read, with the paragraphs/section headers masked off, to locate text strings within the body of the text which cross-reference the section headers, or term definitions, or external links. These are also placed in an unambiguous format. Finally, the cross-references are matched up as far as possible with section/paragraph headers and the original HTML text is marked up automatically with hyperlinks, using the unambiguous section labels and cross-references as HTML anchors and destinations.

Abstract: There is provided an online program-updating system which is capable of updating contents of a program without interrupting any services provided by the system. A management information storage section stores management information including operative status flags each indicative of the operative status of a corresponding program module and information of a version number associated with the corresponding program module. A program execution section updates operative status flags based on the operative statuses of the program modules. A version number check section makes a comparison between the version number of each program module of a revised program and that of each program module of the existing program in response to a download request, and determines that an update of the program is required, if the version number of the program module of the revised program is newer. An operative status determination section checks on the operative status flag associated with each program module in the existing program, and determines that the update of the program is permitted, if the program module is an “inactive” operative status. A program transfer section executes download of a program module the update of which is determined to be required and at the same time permitted.

Abstract: The dictionary management apparatus of the present invention updates each dictionary included in a plurality of language processing system. A request section requests download of dictionary data for a dictionary server according to a user's request or a predetermined condition. The dictionary server stores the dictionary data to be supplied to the language processing system. An update section updates the dictionary of the plurality of language processing system according to the dictionary data downloaded from the dictionary server. A collection section collects a user dictionary data updated in the dictionary of at least one language processing system. An upload section sends the user dictionary data collected by the collection section to the dictionary server as upload data.

Abstract: A method for saving sections of a document (10) to random access memory without overwriting previously saved sections is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of selecting a first section (18) of the document at a first location in the document. The first section is copied to a clipboard (30). A second section (19) of the document at a second location in the document is selected and copied to the clipboard (30) wherein the second section (19) does not overwrite said first section on the clipboard. These saved sections are subsequently pasted to other locations in the document or to other documents.

Abstract: In the case where received e-mail data can not be printed, e-mail control section 33 transfers the received e-mail data to another information terminal device. And facsimile control section 34 instructs facsimile section 27 to print an error message including sender information and an attached file format. And indication control section 35 starts up indication section 29.

Abstract: Abstract The Calendar’ contains descriptions of a selection of the calendars of the world and their history. There are introductory chapters on the nature of calendars, their astronomical background, and the history of writing and counting. There are also Chapters on the Week and on the history of Calendar reform. There is a section on methods of converting dates in one calendar to dates in another which are suitable for implementation on a hand calculator or computer; these include a discussion of the calculation of the date of Easter. The book is intended for the general reader rather than for the specialist but contains much material not otherwise easily accessible. There is an extensive bibliography.

Abstract: A service provider registers information of some documents, including an identifier of each document and a bibliographic item constituting the document content, in a storage section in a database section and determines classifications to which these documents should belong to further register identifiers of these documents to the classification items in the storage section. A calculation section calculates a distinction quantity of each classification item by consulting the bibliographic item of the classified document in the database section. Another calculation section calculates a distinction quantity of an unclassified document in the database section, and a decision section determines and classifies a classification item to which the unclassified document should belong based on a result of the calculation and the distinction quantity of each classification item. A collection section periodically collects a new document or an updated document from the network environment, and a classification information extraction section registers classification in the database in accordance with the classification item specification written in the document.

Abstract: A read section reads an image. A feature extraction section extracts feature information of a finger, of a person to be authenticated, which is to be collated. The feature information of the finger of the person, which is to be collated, extracted by the feature extraction section is stored in a storage section in advance. A collation section collates feature information of the finger of the person, which is to be collated, extracted by the feature extraction section again, with the feature information read out from the storage section. A control section controls the input operation of the read section on the basis of the collation result obtained by the collation section.

Abstract: A technique related to a data backup for a computer. There are provided a selection section, an archive file creation section, and a backup processing section. The selection section selects data files satisfying given conditions from among data files stored in a first storage section. The archive file creation section creates N (N is a natural number) archive files by grouping the plurality of data files selected by the selection section and which repeats the archive file creation processing M (M is a natural number) times. The backup processing section stores the archive files created by the archive file creation section into a second storage section. The technique enables efficient copying of a data file in a short period of time.

Abstract: Part 1: Learning the letter sounds learning letter formation reading (blending) identifying the sounds in words tricky words. Part 2: Photocopiable material photocopy section 1 -learning the letter sounds learning letter formation photocopy section 2 - sounds sheets photocopy section 3 flash card sheets photocopy section 4 - sound book sheets blending photocopy section 5 - word box sheets photocopy section 6 - string joining photocopy section 7 - matching letters, words and pictures photocopy section 8 - sentence sticking photocopy section 9 - letter cue pictures photocopy section 10 - reading games identifying the sounds in words photocopy section 11 - missing sounds sheets photocopy section 12 - homework writing sheets tricky words photocopy section 13 - tricky word sheets alternative spellings of vowels photocopy section 14 - sounds sheets for alternative spellings of vowels, flash cards for alternative spellings of vowels, matching letters, words and pictures for alternative spellings of vowels.

Abstract: A picture search device of the present invention includes: a storage section; a display section; a position input section; and a control section for controlling the storage section, the display section and the position input section. The storage section contains a plurality of pictures respectively provided with labels which are assigned in accordance with a predetermined rule. The position input section detects input information from a user so as to provide a control signal to the control section in response to the input information. The control section displays a scroll bar including a slider in a predetermined area in the display section, determines a position along the scroll bar at which the slider is to be displayed based on the control signal, displays the slider at the position in the display section, determines one of the plurality of labels corresponding to the position as a first label, identifies one of the pictures having the first label as a user-focused picture, identifies one of the pictures having a second label, different from the first label, as a reference picture, displays the reference picture in the display section, and displays the user-focused picture in a display mode different from a display mode of the reference picture.

Abstract: A system and a method for navigating within a display having one or more display sections are disclosed. A section from the one or more display sections is selected. In response to the selection, a navigational symbol is displayed on a border of the selected section, the symbol corresponding to a direction in which a highlight may be moved. In one embodiment, the highlight is moved in the corresponding direction in response to the selection of the symbol. In another embodiment, the symbol indicates an availability of an adjacent section in the corresponding direction.

Abstract: A calendaring and journal device is disclosed which is configured to enable the organized and compartmentalized recordation and annotation of appointments and notes within a structure which is designed to save paper while still giving an expanded capability for note-taking. The calendaring and journal device of the present invention is also structured to provide quick and easy access to the information annotated in any week and to enable the selective movement of information from one section to another without having to re-enter notes or information.

Abstract: A computerized document processing apparatus for creating an abstract includes document storage for storing a computerized document, keyword storage for storing keywords, an abstract creation section for creating an abstract by extracting at least a character string containing a keyword stored in the keyword storage section from the computerized document stored in the document storage section, a document modification section for modifying the computerized document to link the keyword in the computerized document with the same keyword in the abstract, and a display section for displaying the abstract and the modified document that is linked with the abstract. The modified document is displayed when the linked keyword in the abstract is selected.

Abstract: A web browser section provided in a scanner comprises a management table for relating URLs and setup values to each other and managing them and a URL interpretation section. A URL entered from a web browser installed in an information terminal is converted into a setup value by the URL interpretation section. The setup value is set in a drive control section through a setting section, whereby an image is read under a desired read condition.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an audio sign adapted to provide an aural message once the sign is tactilely actuated. The invention typically includes a graphical information section, a tactile information section, and a self contained audio section configured to provide aural information once tactilely actuated.

Abstract: This new book covers the section of the Endeavour's journey up the East Coast of Australia. It is written in diary format and is illustrated with contemporary paintings and engravings.

Abstract: Preface Table of Works Represented, with Abbreviations Used Evidence, Proof, and Facts: Introductory Essay 1. The Concept of Evidence and the Law of Evidence SECTION 1: WHAT IS EVIDENCE? Bentham, Rationale Schum, Foundations SECTION 2: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE Thayer, Preliminary Treatise Holdsworth, History Twining, Rethinking Evidence SECTION 3: ARE EXCLUSIONARY RULES OF EVIDENCE NEEDED? Bentham, Rationale Stephen, Report SECTION 4: THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING THE LAW OF EVIDENCE: OPTIMISTIC RATIONALISM Twining, Theories 2. Logic and Rhetoric SECTION 1: LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE REASONING, AND THE SYLLOGISM Aristotle, Topics Aristotle, Prior Analytics Mill, System SECTION 2: REJECTION OF THE SYLLOGISM AS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD Bacon, Novum Organum Hume, Enquiry Schum, Foundations SECTION 3: LOGIC, INDUCTIVE REASONING, AND INFERENCES FROM EVIDENCE Schmidt, The Influence of the Legal Paradigm on the Development of Logic Mill, System SECTION 4: LOGICAL FALLACIES Mill, System SECTION 5: DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric Plato, Gorgias Plato, Phaedrus 3. Judicial Reasoning About Facts SECTION 1: RELEVANCE Stephen, Digest US Federal Rule of Evidence 401 Bentham, Rationale Schum, Foundations Keynes, Treatise SECTION 2: DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE Bentham, Rationale SECTION 3: THE PROCESS OF JUDICIAL REASONING Thayer, Preliminary Treatise Wigmore, Science SECTION 4: PROBATIVE VALUE AND WEIGHT Bentham, Rationale Keynes, Treatise SECTION 5: GENERALIZATIONS Hume, Enquiry Bentham, Rationale Mill, System 4. Causation SECTION 1: PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR THEORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT Aristotle, Physics Locke, Essay Hume, Treatise Hume, Enquiry Mill, System SECTION 2: CAUSE AND EFFECT AS BASIS FOR INFERENCE FROM EVIDENCE Hart and Honore, Causation Schum, Foundations SECTION 3: LEGAL APPLICATIONS OF CAUSATION Hart and Honore, Causation 5. The Standard of Proof SECTION 1: RELATIONSHIP OF INDUCTIVE REASONING TO STANDARDS OF PROOF Cohen, The Probable and the Provable SECTION 2: PROOF BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE Rhesa Shipping Co SA v. Edmunds (The Popi M) T.N.T. Management Pty. Ltd. v. Brooks Cohen, The Probable and the Provable SECTION 3: PROOF BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT Shapiro, Beyond Reasonable Doubt Cohen, The Probable and the Provable SECTION 4: DECISION THEORY IN RELATION TO STANDARDS OF PROOF Kaplan, Decision Theory and the Factfinding Process Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal Process 6. Theories of Probability SECTION 1: PROBABILITY THEORIES GENERALLY Locke, Essay Hume, Treatise Bentham, Rationale Keynes, Treatise SECTION 2: PROBABILITY APPLIED TO HUMAN CONDUCT AND CREDIBILITY Keynes, Treatise Eggleston, Evidence, Proof, and Probability SECTION 3: THE PRINCIPLE OF INDIFFERENCE Cohen, Introduction 7. Probability: Issues of Mathematics SECTION 1: MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY CALCULUS Mill, System Schum, Foundations Cohen, Introduction SECTION 2: REVISION OF PROBABILITY ESTIMATES IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE: BAYES' RULE Schum, Foundations Bayes, Essay SECTION 3: MATHEMATICS IN THE COURTROOM People v. Collins R v. Adams (No. 2) 8. Probability: Mathematical and Non-Mathematical Models SECTION 1: MON-MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY MODELS Mill, System Keynes, Treatise Cohen, Introduction Cohen, The Probable and the Provable SECTION 2: PASCAL OR BACON? THE GREAT DEBATE Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal Process Kaye, The Laws of Probability and the Laws of the Land 9. Alternative Epistemologies of Evidence SECTION 1: CHANCE AND ACAUSAL CONNECTIONS Aristotle, Physics Mill, System SECTION 2: THE OLDER MODES OF PROOF Holdsworth, History Hammurabi, Code Manu, Laws Supakar, The Law of Evidence in Ancient India SECTION 3: A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE Harmon, Etchings on Glass APPENDIX 1: INFERENCE NETWORKS AND THE CHARTING OF EVIDENCE Wigmore, The Problem of Proof APPENDIX 2: SOME COMMONLY USED HYPOTHETICALS Index

Abstract: List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of contents Section 1: The patient Section 2: Restorations and their environment Section 3: Clinical management techniques Section 4: Fixed and removable prosthodontics - the replacement of missing teeth Section 5: Problems Bibliography Index.

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an information display device where a user with a terminal collects merchandise data in lots of sales shops based on desired data. SOLUTION: First data from a 1st data supply means 100 and second data from a 2nd data supply means 110 are fed to an information processing terminal 120. A user using the terminal, 120 uses a filtering section 125 to extract and store required data from the 1st data received by the terminal 120. Then a communication section 126 receives the 2nd data from the 2nd data supply means 110 based on control by a control section 128. The terminal 120 enters information to identify the location of the terminal by a user entry 129 and stores the information to a storage section 127 according to the control by a control section 128. A video signal of a prescribed configuration is generated and displayed on a display device 131 based on data from the storage section 127 under the control of the control section 128. COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO

Abstract: Abstract The Brhadaranyaka Upanisad constitutes the concluding section of the voluminous Satapatha Brahmana of the White Yajurveda. Its name, The Great Āraiyaka-Upanisad, indicates its character as both an Āraiyaka and an Upanisad. The text has been preserved in two recensions, the Madhyandina and the Kānva; in both, the BU forms the final sections of the Śatapatha. The two recensions present basically the same text, although there are differences in some significant readings and in the arrangement of individual sections. This edition and translation follows the Kanva recension. The variant readings of the Madhyandina recension are given in the notes.

Abstract: With this issue, Educational Policy begins a Viewpoints section in which, from time to time, short discussion or opinion pieces will appear These will not be research articles but will rather expre...

Abstract: Following a process or handling apparatus, in particular following a drying turret (11), (cigarette) packs (10) are transported along a horizontal conveying section. The latter has a checking section (30). In the region of this checking section, the cameras (48, 49) check the packs (10) for correct formation. In the region of the checking section (30), the packs (10) are transported, or retained by intermediate belts (31, 32), such that the cameras (48, 49) can sense a sub-region of the packs (10) in optimum fashion in each case.

Abstract: SECTION 1:ELEMENTARY 1. Johnny's playing football 2. Who, where, when? 3. Getting up 4. I can't hear you 5. I've got exams 6. What a crazy day! SECTION 2: PRE-INTERMEDIATE 7. Space invader 8. Dream of a pizza 9. Blue train 10. Happier than the birds 11. I'd like to 12. I was walking SECTION 3: INTERMEDIATE 13. If you're lonely 14. Dangerous romance 15. Josephine 16. Sweet things 17. In trouble again 18. I've been waiting

Abstract: To provide an on-line character recognition system which can recognize hand-written character patterns correctly by normalizing inclination of input character patterns without additional burden to the user, an on-line character recognition system comprises; a pen-based input device which outputs inclination angle information of its stylus pen together with pattern data, a slant angle detector for obtaining a slant angle of the stylus pen representing an angle of vertical projection of the stylus pen, a slant angle register for storing a standard slant angle, a slant compensation section for outputting compensated data set by compensating the pattern data making use of the slant angle and the standard slant angle, and a character recognition section for recognizing a character from the compensated data set.