MIM capacitors and thin film resistors are fabricated with at least one less lithographic step than the prior art methods. The recording layer is formed in a concavo-convex pattern, and concave portions of the concavo-convex pattern of the recording layer are filled with a non-magnetic material. The operations can further modify usage of a computing resource to process data to present the area in response to modification of the display quality of the area. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject andor monitoring device. The invention also relates to a filter device for fluids comprising a housing, which has an inlet for the fluid to be filtered and an outlet for the filtrate, and comprising two or more inventive filter elements that are interconnected via the respective connecting piece and the respective seat. If the temperature difference between the engine coolant temperature thw1 and a heater inlet coolant temperature thw2 occurring after the changeover valve opens is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the apparatus determines that the engine coolant temperature sensor is normal.