There is provided a stimulus generation apparatus including a stimulus generation section which provides a stimulus for promoting fat burning for fat or a satiety center inside a body cavity. The method includes, for a unit of hardware operating on a block of threads, mapping a plurality of shared memory locations assigned to the unit to a tracking table. The second information processor includes an accepting unit to accept an operation by a user; a second communication unit to transmit operation information to the first information processor and receive the data information from the first information processor; and a received data storage unit to store the data information. The formation of a TFT over the joint portion can be avoided by the present arrangement, which leads to the formation of a display device with a negligible amount of display defects. The call center selects an agent, and initiates a watch for an arriving IPNT call from the browsing person. Moreover, a poisonous gas causing photographic-film fog is prevented from rising so that photographic properties are not damaged.