In an electric power steering device equipped with an anti-theft function, a steering shaft is surrounded by a coil inside a sensor housing of a torque sensor. At least the intensities directly emitted from laser light sources, or values of optical modulation data for modulating the laser beams corresponding to the image data are varied. The method comprises contacting a neural cell with a molecule that disrupts the biological activity of a granulin molecule. The configuration of the non-CAP hybrid device can be determined based, at least in part, on a communication link performance measurement between the CAP and the non-CAP hybrid device.