A fastener cartridge assembly for an end effector of a surgical instrument can comprise a cartridge body, a deformable tube, and a fastener moveable between an initial position and a fired position. Whether the more than one non-contiguous sectors is protected is determined. The solution captures, for re-use, the systemic responses to a point of sale transaction and procedure for the purposes of automated testing of the transaction and procedure. In the image data, second image data is generated by setting a value based on the pixel value of the background pixel to the pixel value of the foreground pixel, and the second image data is encoded. In this manner a superconducting loop having superconducting weak links can be formed to comprise the SQUID device. In a support region that is a region of the revolving movement pathway of the movement member in which the transported items are supported by respective support members, the highest position of the support members decreases the closer the support members are to the downstream side of the direction in which the movement member revolves.