A POS platform includes a substantially closed housing adapted to be seated on top of an associated cash drawer, with a first opening that is sized to receive the PC. The invention also provides a therapeutic method for preventing or treating a pathological condition in a mammal wherein c-jun activation is implicated and inhibition of its activation is desired comprising administering to a mammal in need of such therapy, an effective amount of a substance that inhibits the activity of JAK-3. The vehicles also have a second air conditioning system adapted to condition at least air in the sleeper compartment. The HLR searches out the second subscriber switchboard station, and transmits information thereon to the first subscriber switchboard station, which establishes a route for the packet data communication between the transmitting and receiving mobile radio terminals. The outer case contracts after it is formed and is press-contact with the cylindrical section so that a gap is hardly generated. The invention also relates to consumable products obtained from potatoes by the methods of the present invention.