A female connector has female terminal fittings, female auxiliary housings for accommodating the female terminal fittings, and a female frame for accommodating the female auxiliary housings. A multi-functional vinyl benzene-based compound is reacted with an organic alkali metal compound to form a star shaped compound with multiple active sites. Each strand comprises hardware to support a different thread of a plurality of concurrently activateable threads in the processor. The light exposure of the first photoresist layer and its developing provides the first photoresist layer with an opening for electroplating the second pole tip of the second pole piece layer. The aluminum layer is then anodized to provide an aluminum oxide layer which has a porous surface. Requests to update the value of the property are propagated upstream via the upstream nodes and notifications of changes in the value of the property are propagated downstream via the downstream nodes.