A thermal transfer image-receiving sheet is provided which, when a protective layer is formed by thermal transfer on an image formed of a chelated dye, can provide excellent adhesion of the protective layer onto the image and can realize good image quality. The system includes a source of nitric oxide and an elongate tubular member for insertion into a nose including at least one orifice thereon. The first dummy sampling cell alternately performs with the first sampling cell the current mode sampling operation based on current input to the input terminal in response to the first dummy sampling clock signal and is alternately reset with the first sampling cell in response to the first sampling clock signal. A power mode pin is connected to the power mode pin control circuit for providing an output indicative of the power mode output signal received from the state machine. Then processing of a similarity analysis request using a configurable similarity algorithm is executed; this processing can be done on the client, proxy or server side. The processing modules carry out information processing using one or more data processing engines.