Abstract: A water-cooled motor includes: an annular stator having a central axis; and an annular housing surrounding the stator around the central axis and provided with a cooling channel within the housing, the housing includes: an annular non-magnetic metal pipe; and a casting member cast to envelop the metal pipe around the central axis, and the metal pipe is located inward of the cooling channel and located outward of an outer surface of the stator, in a radial direction of the stator.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes: an electrode formation unit that is brought into contact with an object to form an electrode; a detection unit that constitutes an electrode pair with the electrode; a measurement unit that measures a current flowing between the electrode and the detection unit; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of an abnormality related to bacteria attached to the object according to the current measured by the measurement unit.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a measurement apparatus capable of easily acquiring microbiota information regarding a specimen, and also provide a measurement method and a program.

Abstract: A measurement device according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a voltage applying part for applying a voltage between electrodes of a biosensor, the biosensor comprising a solid electrolyte and at least two electrodes, and being configured such that the solid electrolyte and the electrodes are in contact with each other; a detection part for measuring a current value flowing between the electrodes when the voltage is applied; and a computing part for providing information resulting from the microorganisms by comparing the current value with a reference value stored in advance in which a current value and at least one type of factor selected from the group consisting of the presence or absence of the biological particles, a proliferative state of the microorganisms, and the presence or absence of expression of pathogenicity of the microorganisms are defined.

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present technology to provide a diagnosing apparatus capable of providing, more accurately and simply, information for determining at least one item selected from the group consisting of a type of an illness that has developed in a subject, and a state of progress of the illness that has developed in the subject. Another object of the present technology is to provide an analysis method.

Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: An acrylic fiber for artificial hair includes an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing acrylonitrile, vinyl chloride and/or vinylidene chloride, and a sulfonic acid group-containing vinyl monomer; and an organic solvent that can dissolve the acrylic copolymer, where the organic solvent is present in an amount of 0.1 to 3% by mass with respect to the total mass of the acrylic fiber for artificial hair. The acrylic fiber for artificial hair has an average surface roughness of 5900 ?m2 or less in an area of 40 ?m long and 80 ?m wide of the side surface of the fiber.

Abstract: To provide a physical quantity sensor having excellent reliability by reducing the influence of a force applied from the outside. Disclosed is a physical quantity sensor, which has a weight or a movable electrode formed on a device substrate, and an outer peripheral section that is disposed to surround the weight or the movable electrode, said weight or movable electrode being displaceable in the rotation direction in a plane. When the weight or the movable electrode is displaced in the rotation direction in the plane, the physical quantity sensor is provided with a rotation space at the outer peripheral section of an end portion of the weight or the movable electrode, said end portion being in the direction viewed from the center position of the weight or the movable electrode.

Abstract: A service status management system includes a capturing unit to capture an image of the inside of a facility, an object registering unit register a service object, an object detecting unit to detect the service object registered in the object registering unit in the captured image, a time limit setting unit to set a time limit of a validity period that starts at a time point when the object detecting unit detected the service object for the first time, an image generating unit to generate an image that includes a time limit area capable of displaying a time limit information image and a facility image area displaying a facility image representing the state of the facility, the image being a notification image notifying the status of a service to an external terminal device, and a notification image transmitting unit to transmit the notification image to the terminal device.

Abstract: A monitoring system including: a true image generation unit that generates a true image by subjecting a current image that is a latest captured image to a privacy protection process, a false video storage unit that stores a video or a still image and be capable of extracting one frame of the video or the still image as a false image for determining whether or not a monitoring is being appropriately performed by a monitoring person, an image transmission unit that transmits a monitoring target image generated on a basis of the false image to a terminal device, and a notification determination unit that, upon receipt of information that a notification event has been discovered in the monitoring target image by a user of the terminal device, determines whether or not the monitoring target image notified of the discovery is an image generated on the basis of the false image.

Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an input device, a biosensor, a program, a computer-readable medium, and a mode setting method that enable errors in determining whether or not to set a mode of a control target device to be controlled to be reduced. An input device includes: a sensor signal acquisition unit configured to acquire a sensor signal; a waveform comparison unit configured to compare waveforms during two or more periods of the sensor signal; and a mode setting unit configured to, on the basis of a result of comparison by the waveform comparison unit, set a mode of a control target device to be controlled.

Abstract: A monitoring system including: a true image generation unit that generates a true image by subjecting a current image that is a latest captured image to a privacy protection process, a false video storage unit that stores a video or a still image and be capable of extracting one frame of the video or the still image as a false image for determining whether or not a monitoring is being appropriately performed by a monitoring person, an image transmission unit that transmits a monitoring target image generated on a basis of the false image to a terminal device, and a notification determination unit that, upon receipt of information that a notification event has been discovered in the monitoring target image by a user of the terminal device, determines whether or not the monitoring target image notified of the discovery is an image generated on the basis of the false image.

Abstract: Prior art technology has a problem in that when a plant is cultivated for a long period of time on a PVA film having its lower surface positioned in contact with a nutrient fluid, plant roots that have formed penetrate through the film. A plant cultivation system wherein the PVA film has an equilibrium degree of swelling in the range of from 125 to 250% as measured in water at 30° C. and has a loss tangent (tan ?) in the range of from 0.005 to 0.2 as measured in an equilibrium swollen state in water at 30° C., and a method for cultivating a plant by using this plant cultivation system. Plant cultivation can be performed for a long period of time while avoiding infection by bacteria and the like causative of plant diseases. Therefore, the present invention is useful in, e.g., agriculture and the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Abstract: A pulse wave measuring apparatus is provided, the pulse wave measuring apparatus including: a cardiac pulse waveform information acquiring unit that optically acquires cardiac pulse waveform information from a region of a living body; and a pulse wave feature amount calculating unit that calculates a pulse wave feature amount based on the pulse waveform information, wherein the pulse waveform information acquiring unit has a video input unit that receives an input of a video of the region of the living body, and the pulse waveform information acquiring unit outputs a window signal that includes first sample data from the pulse waveform information, and outputs, from the video, the window signal whose sampling rate is fixed to a predetermined rate based on a reference signal indicating time.

Abstract: An acrylic fiber for artificial hair includes an acrylic polymer and an organic solvent that can dissolve the acrylic polymer, wherein the acrylic polymer includes 29.5 to 79.5% by weight of acrylonitrile, 20 to 70% by weight of vinyl chloride and/or vinylidene chloride, and 0.5 to 5% by weight of a sulfonic acid-containing vinyl monomer with respect to a total weight of the acrylic polymer, and wherein a content of the organic solvent in the acrylic fiber is 0.1 to 3% by weight.

Abstract: A service status management system includes a capturing unit to capture an image of the inside of a facility, an object registering unit register a service object, an object detecting unit to detect the service object registered in the object registering unit in the captured image, a time limit setting unit to set a time limit of a validity period that starts at a time point when the object detecting unit detected the service object for the first time, an image generating unit to generate an image that includes a time limit area capable of displaying a time limit information image and a facility image area displaying a facility image representing the state of the facility, the image being a notification image notifying the status of a service to an external terminal device, and a notification image transmitting unit to transmit the notification image to the terminal device.

Abstract: An acrylic fiber for artificial hair includes an acrylic polymer, wherein the acrylic polymer includes 29.5 to 79.5% by mass of acrylonitrile, 20 to 70% by mass of vinyl chloride and/or vinylidene chloride, and 0.5 to 5% by mass of a vinyl monomer comprising a sulfonic acid group. The acrylic fiber for artificial hair includes 0.3 to 2% by mass of a good solvent for the acrylic polymer and 0.1 to 5% by mass of a compound comprising an epoxy group.

Abstract: This piston includes a piston main body made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, used in an internal combustion and a modified layer formed on a surface of a strength reinforced portion of the piston main body, having a surface made of aluminum oxide by plasma oxidation, to which compressive residual stress is applied.

Abstract: An ECU has a fuel pressure sensor that detects fuel pressure inside of a common rail. The ECU detects the fuel pressure at a predetermined frequency and calculates a drop amount of the fuel pressure in accordance with fuel injection by fuel injectors based on the detected fuel pressure. The ECU acquires a fluctuation amount of a fuel injection amount of each of the fuel injectors based on the drop amount of the fuel pressure and learns an injection characteristic of each of the fuel injectors, the injection characteristic indicating a correlation between the fuel injection amount and the fluctuation amount of the fuel injection. In a case in which a detection timing of the fuel pressure is within a fuel injection period of a predetermined fuel injector, the ECU disallows the learning of the injection characteristic using the fuel pressure detected in the fuel injection period.