1. An electronic dictionary device comprising:
a display module including a first and a second display screen;
a dictionary storage module which stores dictionary data that causes a plurality of entry words including compound words obtained by connecting a plurality of words to correspond to explanatory information on the entry words; and
a processor which implements processes comprising:
a common word list display process of retrieving entry words for compound words from the entry words in the dictionary data stored in the dictionary storage module, listing words common to the retrieved compound words, and displaying the listed words on the first display screen;
a compound word list display process of reading, from the dictionary data, entry words for compound words connecting with a word specified by a user operation in a list displayed by the common word list display process, and displaying the entry words for the compound words connecting with the word specified by the user operation in list form on the second display screen; and
an explanatory information display process of reading a corresponding piece of explanatory information from the dictionary data when a compound word has been specified according to a user operation in a compound word list displayed by the compound word list display process, and displaying the corresponding piece of explanatory information on the second display screen.
2. The electronic dictionary device of claim 1, wherein the first display screen and the second display screen comprise separate display devices.
3. The electronic dictionary device of claim 2, further comprising a character input module which inputs a search character;
wherein the processor further implements an entry word list display process of creating an entry word list based on the dictionary data when the character input module has input a search character and displaying the entry word list on the second display screen, and
wherein the common word list display process displays a list of common words on the first display screen when the entry word list display process displays an entry word list on the second display screen.
4. The electronic dictionary device of claim 3, wherein the processor, in the common word list display process:
specifies, one by one, entry words in the entry word list displayed by the entry word list display process, starting with a first word, and determines whether the specified entry word prefix-matches a next entry word; and
regards the specified word as a common word when the processor has determined that the specified entry word prefix-matches the next entry word, and enters the specified word.
5. The electronic dictionary device of claim 4, wherein the dictionary data comprises German-language dictionary data that stores entry words for German, and the common word is a prescriptive word of a compound word.
6. The electronic dictionary device of claim 5, wherein the electronic dictionary device is configured such that a first case associated with the first display screen and a keyboard and a second case associated with the second display screen are coupled with each other so as to be openable and closable.
7. A dictionary data display method of an electronic dictionary device which includes (i) a display module including a first and a second display screen, (ii) a dictionary storage module that stores dictionary data that causes a plurality of entry words including compound words obtained by connecting a plurality of words to correspond to explanatory information on the entry words, and (iii) a processor, the dictionary data display method being implemented by the processor, and the method comprising:
retrieving entry words for compound words from the entry words in the dictionary data stored in the dictionary storage module, listing words common to the retrieved compound words, and displaying the listed words on the first display screen;
reading, from the dictionary data, entry words for compound words connecting with a word specified by a user operation in a list displayed on the first display screen and displaying the entry words for the compound words connecting with the word specified by the user operation in list form on the second display screen; and
reading a corresponding piece of explanatory information from the dictionary data when a compound word has been specified according to a user operation in a compound word list displayed on the second display screen and displaying the corresponding piece of explanatory information on the second display screen.
8. The dictionary data display method of claim 7, wherein the first display screen and the second display screen comprise separate display devices.
9. The dictionary data display method of claim 8, further comprising:
accepting an input of a search character; and
creating an entry word list based on the dictionary data when a search character has been input and displaying the entry word list on the second display screen,
wherein the common word list display causes a list of common words to be displayed on the first display screen when the entry word list display has caused an entry word list to be displayed on the second display screen.
10. The dictionary data display method of claim 9, wherein the common word list display includes:
specifying, one by one, entry words in the entry word list displayed in the entry word list display, starting with a first word, and determining whether the specified entry word prefix-matches a next entry word, and
regarding the specified word as a common word when it has been determined that the specified entry word prefix-matches the next entry word, and entering the specified word.
11. The dictionary data display method of claim 10, wherein the dictionary data comprises German-language dictionary data that stores entry words for German, and the common word is a prescriptive word of a compound word.
12. A non-transitory recording medium having a program stored thereon that is executable by a processor of an electronic dictionary device to perform processing, the electronic dictionary device further comprising a display module including a first and a second display screen and a dictionary storage module that stores dictionary data that causes a plurality of entry words including compound words obtained by connecting a plurality of words to correspond to explanatory information on the entry words, and the program being executable to control the processor to:
retrieve entry words for compound words from the entry words in the dictionary data stored in the dictionary storage module, list words common to the retrieved compound words, and display the listed words on the first display screen;
read, from the dictionary data, entry words for compound words connecting with a word specified by a user operation in a list displayed on the first display screen and display the entry words for the compound words connecting with the word specified by the user operation in list form on the second display screen; and
read a corresponding piece of explanatory information from the dictionary data when a compound word has been specified according to a user operation in a compound word list displayed on the second display screen and display the corresponding piece of explanatory information on the second display screen.
13. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 12, wherein the first display screen and the second display screen comprise separate display devices.
14. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 13, wherein the program is executable to further control the computer to:
accept an input of a search character; and
create an entry word list based on the dictionary data when a search character has been input and display the entry word list on the second display screen, and
wherein the common word list display process causes a list of common words to be displayed on the first display screen when the entry word list display process has caused an entry word list to be displayed on the second display screen.
15. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 14, wherein the common word list display process includes:
specifying, one by one, entry words in the entry word list displayed in the entry word list display process, starting with a first word, and determining whether the specified entry word prefix-matches a next entry word, and
regarding the specified word as a common word when it has been determined that the specified entry word prefix-matches the next entry word, and entering the specified word.
16. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 15, wherein the dictionary data comprises German-language dictionary data that stores entry words for German, and the common word is a prescriptive word of a compound word.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An electrochemical sensor strip for detecting an analyte, comprising:
a base;
a first electrode on the base having at least one first layer on a first conductor, the first layer including a reagent layer comprising
at most 8 \u03bcgmm2 of a mediator, and
an enzyme system at a deposition density of at most 0.8 \u03bcgmm2;
a second electrode on the base;
a lid on the base; and
where the strip provides a determined concentration value having at least one of a stability bias of less than \xb110% after storage at 50\xb0 C. for 2 weeks when compared to a comparison strip stored at \u221220\xb0 C. for 2 weeks, a hematocrit bias of less than \xb110% for whole blood samples including from 20 to 60% hematocrit, and an intercept to slope ratio of at most 20 mgdL.
2. The strip of claim 1, where the second electrode also comprises the at least one first layer on a second conductor.
3. The strip of claim 1, where the average initial thickness of the reagent layer is less than 8 \u03bcm.
4. The strip of claim 1, where the reagent layer is formed at a deposition density of at most 0.2 \u03bcLmm2 from a reagent solution.
5. The strip of claim 1, where the reagent layer comprises a partially water soluble polymeric binder that forms a gel-like material on hydration.
6. The strip of claim 1, where the reagent layer comprises at most 1.3 Units of an enzyme system.
7. The strip of claim 1, where the reagent layer comprises at most 2 \u03bcgmm2 of the mediator.
8. The strip of claim 1, where the stability bias is less than \xb15% after storage at 50\xb0 C. for 2 weeks when compared to the comparison strip stored at \u221220\xb0 C. for 2 weeks.
9. The strip of claim 1, where the stability bias is less than \xb15% after storage at 50\xb0 C. for 4 weeks when compared to the comparison strip stored at \u221220\xb0 C. for 4 weeks.
10. The strip of claim 1, where the hematocrit bias is less than \xb15% for the whole blood samples including from 20 to 60% hematocrit.
11. The strip of claim 1, where the intercept to slope ratio is at most 10 mgdL.
12. The strip of claim 1, where the intercept to slope ratio is at most 1 mgdL.
13. The strip of claim 1, where the first and second electrodes are in substantially the same plane.
14. The strip of claim 1, where the electrodes are separated by greater than 200 \u03bcm.
15. The strip of claim 1, where the electrodes are separated from an upper portion of the lid by at least 100 \u03bcm.
16. The strip of claim 1, where the average initial thickness of the reagent layer is from 0.25 to 3 \u03bcm.
17. The strip of claim 1, where the reagent layer comprises a polymeric binder selected from the group consisting of poly(ethylene oxide), polyvinyl alcohol, hydroxyethylene cellulose, carboxy methyl cellulose, and combinations thereof.
18. The strip of claim 17, where the deposition density of the polymeric binder is at most 2 \u03bcgmm2 on the first conductor.
19. The strip of claim 1, where the second electrode further comprises a second layer on the second conductor.
20. The strip of claim 19, where the second layer comprises a reagent layer different in composition from the reagent layer of the first layer.
21. The strip of claim 1, where the mediator is a two electron transfer mediator.
22. The strip of claim 21, where the mediator has a redox potential at least 100 mV lower than ferricyanide.
23. The strip of claim 21, where the mediator is selected from the group consisting of 3 phenylimino-3H-phenothiazines, 3 phenylimino-3H phenoxazines, salts thereof, acids thereof, derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof.