A seating unit that includes a linkage mechanism adapted to move the seating unit between closed, extended, reclined, and seat-lift positions is provided. The inventive device is characterized by a plurality of supports for receiving the items of food and a transport device that configures a closed transport cycle of the supports between the sections. Uses of the protein kinase and polynucleotide, especially in screening for new drugs. Therefore, a vicinity of the concentration measuring sensor is filled with an atmosphere of the sample gas so that a concentration of a measurement target substance contained in the sample gas is measured stably and accurately regardless of fluctuations in an ambient atmosphere of a measuring environment. The sound recording apparatus controls to replace a sound signal in a predetermined period after instructing driving of the driving unit with a signal calculated from a sound signal in the first period after the predetermined period, and to substantially equalize an amplification factor when driving of the driving unit is instructed and that in the first period.