A system and method for detecting the presence or absence of cars, locomotives, or obstructions which may occupy a particular section of track of a model railroad. The steps include vacuum-drying a negative electrode precursor, the negative electrode precursor comprising a negative active material and an aqueous binder. The second-smallest number is one of the other three inputs to the previous stage and, as before, all bits of the second-smallest number will not be known until the smallest number is determined. At least a portion of the mold can then be removed to expose the device surface of the diamond which has received a shape which inversely corresponds to the configuration of the mold’s diamond interface surface. The gate oxide film becomes thicker toward a side wall of the STI oxide film to prevent the leakage current and increase the gate breakdown voltage. The server then updates the information representing the share offering in accordance with the determined degree of success of the bid.