There is provided a metalceramic bonding article which ensures sufficient thermal shock resistance and has a substrate having a small outside dimension and which has both high reliability and compactness. Further disclosed is a multigene locus encoding all nine homologous 28-kDa protein genes of Ehrlichia canis. Over time, the data in the second format can be aggregated andor down sampled. These decisions made in extracting bits from a particular symbol are typically referred to as bit-soft decisions. The first wall element has a first connecting section that is located inside the inner space, and at the free end of this connecting section, an end section is to be folded back onto a second element that is adjacent to the first connecting section. The shearing die includes a pair of substrates, at least one of which has a hard film formed by an arc ion plating method and located at least on a region of a curved surface and on an adjacent region from the end part of the curved surface on the side facing to the surface of the sheet or plate material to 300 \u03bcm along the surface of the substrate.