Abstract: The present invention provides a thermally decomposable binder that achieves a reduced residual carbon after sintering, and that can be subjected to a dewaxing treatment at a relatively low temperature in a non-oxidative atmosphere. More specifically, the present invention provides an aliphatic polycarbonate that has a structure obtained by neutralizing a Brønsted acid with an organic onium salt in a side chain.

Abstract: The present disclosure is a heat radiator for an aircraft which cools a heat source installed in the aircraft, which includes a heat radiating part in which a contact surface comes into contact with a main flow, the contact surface being formed with a concave portion or a convex portion in which a surface thereof directed upstream in a flow direction of the main flow is curved in a plan view.

Abstract: Provided are a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that is suited to the pathogenic mechanism of ROP and a method of testing for ROP. The therapeutic or prophylactic agent for ROP uses at least one substance from the group consisting of inhibitors against tryptase derived from mast cells and/or mast cell stabilizers as an active ingredient. The testing method for ROP includes detecting a marker substance that can be released by degranulation of mast cells in a biological sample originating from a patient and determining the presence or absence of ROP on the basis of the detected amount of the marker.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat sink that includes a plurality of first heat radiating fins and a plurality of second heat radiating fins, and a compressor as a blower that causes cooling air to flow from an inlet toward an outlet of a cooling passage of the heat sink. The cooling device includes in a flow direction of the cooling air that passes via the heat sink a mist supplier arranged upstream of the heat sink and that supplies mist M to the cooling passage of the heat sink.

Abstract: A method for producing a seed of a plant resistant to seedling diseases is provided which includes contacting a non-pathogenic microbe corresponding to a seed-borne pathogen with a flower part of a host plant around the flowering time and collecting a seed of the host plant colonized by the non-pathogenic microbe obtained thereafter, and a method for controlling seedling diseases using the seed.

Abstract: A driving assistance control device includes an active pedal configured to control a driving and braking force of a vehicle, an electronic control unit configured to detect a potential risk area in which an obstacle entering a scheduled traveling route of the vehicle is likely to be present, and determine a reference speed at which contact between the vehicle and the obstacle can be avoided even when the obstacle enters the scheduled traveling route of the vehicle from the detected potential risk area based on a positional relationship between the vehicle and the potential risk area, and a force feedback unit configured to apply an assistance reaction force in a direction in which the amount of manipulation is reduced, to the active pedal when a current speed of the vehicle exceeds the reference speed.

Abstract: A high withstand voltage Schottky barrier diode includes a first layer that includes a first Ga2O3-based single crystal including a first Group IV element and Cl at a concentration of not more than 5×1016 cm?3 and that has an effective donor concentration of not less than 1×1013 and not more than 6.0×1017 cm?3, a second layer that includes a second Ga2O3-based single crystal including a second Group IV element and that has a higher effective donor concentration than the first layer and is laminated on the first layer, an anode electrode formed on the first layer, and a cathode electrode formed on the second layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for producing a GaN crystal, the method including growing GaN from vapor phase on a semi-polar or non-polar GaN surface using GaCl3 and NH3 as raw materials. Provided herein is an invention of a method for producing a GaN crystal, including the steps of: (i) preparing a GaN seed crystal having a non-polar or semi-polar surface whose normal direction forms an angle of 85° or more and less than 170° with a [0001] direction of the GaN seed crystal; and (ii) growing GaN from vapor phase on a surface including the non-polar or semi-polar surface of the GaN seed crystal using GaCl3 and NH3 as raw materials.

Abstract: A photoinduced carrier lifetime measurement device includes light sources that respectively apply light that differs in wavelength and generates photoinduced carriers to a semiconductor substrate, a microwave generation section that generates microwaves that are applied to the semiconductor substrate, a detection section that detects the intensity of the microwaves that have passed through the semiconductor substrate, and a calculation section that calculates the effective carrier lifetime corresponding to the wavelength of each light based on the intensity of the microwaves detected when applying each light, and calculates the bulk carrier lifetime and a surface recombination velocity of the semiconductor substrate based on the effective carrier lifetime calculated corresponding to the wavelength of each light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to vitamin D3 derivatives of the following formula, wherein each symbol has the same meaning as defined herein, and pharmaceutical or medical use thereof for treating metabolic disease, liver disease, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer in a patient in need thereof.

Abstract: To provide a technique whereby, in cultivating a crop, factors relating to differentiation into flower buds and leaf buds, sprouting, flowering and fruiting, growth of young shoots, etc., are regulated. For example, the invention addresses the problem of regulating the growth of a crop so that leaf buds sprout in tandem and with the sprouting of flower buds and flowering and fruiting are repeated under fresh foliage. [Solution] A plant cultivation method which comprises environmentally stimulating a plant to regulate differentiation into flower buds and/or differentiation into leaf buds. In a typical embodiment, the plant is help in an environment at a temperature of 16-40° C. at a photoperiod of 8-13 hours immediately after harvesting fruits. As another environmental stimulus, the plant is held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 3-7° C. As still another environmental stimulus, the plant as held in, for example, an environment at a temperature of 16-23° C. at a photoperiod of 8-11 hours.

Abstract: A high withstand voltage Schottky barrier diode includes a first layer that includes a first Ga2O3-based single crystal including a first Group IV element and Cl at a concentration of not more than 5×1016 cm?3 and that has an effective donor concentration of not less than 1×1013 and not more than 6.0×1017 cm?3, a second layer that includes a second Ga2O3-based single crystal including a second Group IV element and that has a higher effective donor concentration than the first layer and is laminated on the first layer, an anode electrode formed on the first layer, and a cathode electrode formed on the second layer.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes: a storage apparatus configured to store a steering modification point of a vehicle and a vehicle speed target point of the vehicle that are associated with map information; and an electronic control unit configured to: detect a position of the vehicle; detect a travel direction of the vehicle; calculate a lane travel distance, the position of the vehicle, and the travel direction of the vehicle; generate, lane travel map data, a target direction of the vehicle, and a target vehicle speed of the vehicle, on the basis of the map information, the steering modification point, the vehicle speed target point, the position of the vehicle, and the travel direction of the vehicle; and output a control signal to control the vehicle on the basis of the position of the vehicle, the lane travel distance of the vehicle, and the lane travel map data.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a Group III element nitride crystal by growing it on a plane on the ?c-plane side as a crystal growth plane. The present invention is a method for producing a Group III element nitride crystal, including a vapor phase growth step of growing a Group III element nitride crystal 12 on a crystal growth plane of a Group III element nitride seed crystal 11 by vapor deposition. The vapor phase growth step is a step of causing a Group III metal, an oxidant, and a nitrogen-containing gas to react with one another to grow the Group III element nitride crystal 12 or includes: a reduced product gas generation step of causing a Group III element oxide and a reducing gas to react with each other to generate a gas of a reduced product of the Group III element oxide; and a crystal generation step of causing the gas of the reduced product and a nitrogen-containing gas to react with each other to generate the Group III element nitride crystal 12.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid transport pipe. A first unit channel in which a channel cross-sectional area continuously decreases toward a downstream side and a second unit channel in which a channel cross-sectional area continuously increases toward the downstream side are alternately combined. A ratio A (=L/{[Smax]1/2-[Smin]1/2}) is set within a range in which a drag reduction rate RD becomes a positive value. The fluid transport pipe includes: a first opening formed in a channel wall of the first unit channel; a second opening formed in a channel wall of the second unit channel; and a bypass channel that allows by-passing of a flow from the first unit channel to the second unit channel through the openings.

Abstract: A road marking recognition device recognizes a road marking from an image acquired by imaging a road surface of a road on which a vehicle is traveling. The road marking recognition device includes: a storage unit configured to store a plurality of templates each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of plurality of feature portions of a road marking as a recognition target and between which a relative positional relationship is known; and a recognition unit configured to detect a second feature portion corresponding to a second template among the plurality of templates when the first feature portion is detected from the image.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat sink that includes a plurality of first heat radiating fins and a plurality of second heat radiating fins, and a compressor as a blower that causes cooling air to flow from an inlet toward an outlet of a cooling passage of the heat sink. The cooling device includes in a flow direction of the cooling air that passes via the heat sink a mist supplier arranged upstream of the heat sink and that supplies mist M to the cooling passage of the heat sink.

Abstract: A thermally decomposable binder containing an aliphatic polycarbonate resin containing a constituting unit represented by the formula (1): wherein each of R1, R2 and R3, which may be identical or different, is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and n is 1 or 2. The thermally decomposable binder and the fine inorganic particle-dispersed paste composition, each containing an aliphatic polycarbonate resin of the present invention can be used in general molded articles, optical materials such as films, fibers, optical fibers, and optical disks, thermally decomposable materials such as ceramic binders, and lost foam casting, medicinal materials such as drug capsules, additives for biodegradable resins, main components for biodegradable resins, and the like.

Abstract: The invention provides highly transparent single crystalline AlN layers as device substrates for light emitting diodes in order to improve the output and operational degradation of light emitting devices. The highly transparent single crystalline AlN layers have a refractive index in the a-axis direction in the range of 2.250 to 2.400 and an absorption coefficient less than or equal to 15 cm-1 at a wavelength of 265 nm. The invention also provides a method for growing highly transparent single crystalline AlN layers, the method including the steps of maintaining the amount of Al contained in wall deposits formed in a flow channel of a reactor at a level lower than or equal to 30% of the total amount of aluminum fed into the reactor, and maintaining the wall temperature in the flow channel at less than or equal to 1200° C.

Abstract: A driving assistance control device for a vehicle includes: a moving object detection sensor configured to detect a moving object moving along a roadside in a traveling direction of the vehicle; a driving operation detection sensor configured to detect a driving operation of a driver; an actuator; and an Electronic Control Unit configured to perform automatic steering control of the vehicle by the actuator to avoid the moving object based on a detection result of the moving object, the Electronic Control Unit being configured to start the automatic steering control based on a driving steering of the driver after the moving object is detected.