Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for preventing or treating a fat-associated disease and/or inflammation. The present invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a fat-associated disease and/or inflammation, the agent comprising a Faecalibacterium bacterium or a processed product thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for preventing or treating small intestinal injury induced by an NSAID with a half-life of less than 14 hours and a proton pump inhibitor. The present invention provides an agent for preventing or treating small intestinal injury induced by a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug with a half-life of less than 14 hours and a proton pump inhibitor, and an agent for preventing or treating a fat-associated disease and/or inflammation accompanying the small intestinal injury, the agents comprising a Bifidobacterium bacterium or a processed product thereof.

Abstract: An object is to provide a Th1-increasing agent that can reduce constraints on storage conditions and feeding form and sufficiently increase Th1 at lower doses. A Th1-increasing agent containing a cellulose derivative as an active ingredient, the cellulose derivative having a degree of butyryl substitution of 0.3 or greater and 2.6 or less, and a total degree of substitution of 0.5 or greater and 2.8 or less.

Abstract: An optical inspection device 1A includes a light selection unit 30, a detection element 40, and a first image formation element 20. The light selection unit 30 has the plurality of wavelength selection regions 32 that selectively transmits or reflects the light rays L of mutually different wavelength regions. The detection element 40 detects scattering characteristic information of the light rays L having reached the light receiving surface 41 via the light selection unit 30. The first image formation element 20 causes scattered light scattered by a subject S to enter a light receiving surface 41 via the light selection unit 30. The plurality of wavelength selection regions 32 has different azimuth angles with respect to the optical axis Z of the first image formation element 20.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an optical device includes a light selection unit, an imaging element, and a deriving unit. The light selection unit splits an irradiated light beam into a plurality of spectral beams of different wavelength regions. The imaging element captures a subject irradiated with the spectral beams including beams of at least two different wavelengths to acquire a spectral image. The deriving unit derives a surface property or shape information of the subject from a specified result obtained by specifying, by the deriving unit, an irradiation region irradiated with each of the spectral beams on the subject based on a mixing ratio of the spectral beams and received light intensity of each of the spectral beams included in the spectral image.

Abstract: A container (1) includes: a first storage section (11) for storing a plurality of solid objects (200); a second storage section (12) provided so as to be capable of being in communication with the first storage section (11) through a predetermined communication opening (50) and also so as to be capable of being in communication with an outside space (300) through a predetermined extraction opening (100); a tray (20) having a receiving section (80) which receives one solid object (200) supplied from the first storage section (11) to the second storage section (12), the tray (20) also having a first wall section (91) capable of closing the communication opening (50), the tray (20) further having a second wall section (92) capable of closing the extraction opening (100), the tray (20) being stored in the second storage section (12); and a movement mechanism (17) for sliding the tray (20) within the second storage section (12) between a first position at which the communication opening (50) is open and the extrac

Abstract: A detection apparatus according to an embodiment includes a convergence member and a sensor. The convergence member comes into contact with a test object and has an elastic-modulus distribution in which an elastic modulus decreases as a distance from a center of the convergence member increases. The sensor is placed in an area including the center of the convergence member. The sensor detects, through the convergence member, an elastic wave generated from the test object.

Abstract: In a WBC system of the present disclosure, an LD bar array constituted by a plurality of LD bars is configured such that a main axis direction of an off-angle of at least one LD bar is reversed with respect to a main axis direction of an off-angle of the other LD bar. By doing so, even in the LD bar in which a wavelength distribution in a wafer exists, a difference between a designed lock wavelength and a gain peak wavelength can be kept within a range where an LD oscillation due to an external resonance is possible for all emitters in the LD bar, thereby an output in the WBC system can be maximized.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an agent for preventing or treating a fat-associated disease and/or inflammation. The present invention provides an agent for preventing or treating a fat-associated disease and/or inflammation, the agent comprising a Faecalibacterium bacterium or a processed product thereof.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical inspection apparatus includes a first illuminator, an image-forming optical system, a scattering light selector, and an imaging element. The first illuminator is configured to emit a first light beam. The first light beam reflected by an object is incident on the image-forming optical system. The scattering light selector is configured to emit passing light beams of at least two mutually different wavelength regions, at the same time as the first light beam passes, a wavelength spectrum of at least one of the passing light beams being different from a wavelength spectrum of the reflected first light beam. The passing light beams simultaneously form an image on the imaging element.

Abstract: A nozzle device includes three or more rail members, three or more slider members, three or more arm members, a nozzle portion, and a drive mechanism. The three or more rail members each includes rails parallel with each other. The three or more slider members are connected to the rail members to be movable along the rails, respectively. The three or more arm members are connected to the slider members, and movably and rotatably supported in the rail members through the slider members, respectively. The nozzle portion is rotatably connected to the three or more arm members to inject a material and emit an energy beam. The drive mechanism includes at least five actuators that set one of a relative position and a relative angle between each of combinations of two mutually connected elements among the rail members, the slider members, the arm members, and the nozzle portion.

Abstract: A nozzle includes an ejection section and an acceleration section. A powder is configured to be ejected from the ejection section. The acceleration section is configured to allow the powder to circle around and is configured to accelerate the powder in a peripheral direction of the powder that circles around so as to transport the powder to an opening.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical element includes a continuous gradient index distribution area, and a first medium. The continuous gradient index distribution area is configured to continuously attenuate gradient index from a center of the optical element in a radial direction. The first medium is at the center. The first medium includes an area where absolute value of imaginary part of a complex refractive index is greater than zero.

Abstract: According to one example, an optical element assembly includes a transparent rod, a mirror and a light emitting element. The rod transmits light of first wavelength region made incident on a first end of the rod and emits the light of the first wavelength region from a second end of the rod. The rod absorbs light of a second wavelength region falling out of the first wavelength region. The mirror is disposed on a side of the first end. The mirror transmits one of the light of the first and second wavelength regions, reflects the other. The light of the first and second wavelength regions are made incident on the first end of the rod. The light emitting element emits light of the second wavelength region made incident on the first end of the rod through the mirror.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical imaging apparatus includes a polarizer assembly, a polarization image sensor, and a lens assembly. The polarizer assembly is configured to acquire a first light ray of a first polarization component and a second light ray of a second polarization component which is different from the first polarization component, by using a light flux from an identical direction. The polarization image sensor is located in a position facing the polarizer assembly. The polarization image sensor is configured to acquire an image of the first polarization component and an image of the second polarization component at once or at the same time. The lens assembly includes a first lens configured to form the images on the polarization image sensor.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a laser processing device includes a light irradiation section, and an optical element. The optical element includes a first transparent member provided via a gap with a tip of the light irradiation section, and a second transparent member. The first transparent member includes a first surface opposed to the tip of the light irradiation section, and a second surface provided so as to be connected to the first surface. The second transparent member includes a flat surface and a convex surface, the flat surface being provided so as to be opposed to the second surface of the first transparent member, the light passed through the first transparent member passing through the convex surface. An optical axis of the laser beam passing through the first surface and an optical axis passing through the convex surface are different from each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a plurality of light emitting elements and a plurality of reflectors. The plurality of reflectors include at least one first reflector and at least one second reflector. The first reflector is provided corresponding to the first region at the center and is provided so that the corresponding light emitting element is positioned within a focal region in the vicinity of a focal point. The second reflector is provided corresponding to the second region, has an angular eccentricity so as to collect light on one region on the optical axis, and is provided so as to be positioned within a margin region in which one of the corresponding light emitting elements is provided at a position farther away than a second focal region in the vicinity of the focal point.

Abstract: A nozzle according to one embodiment has an inner surface and an outer surface, and is provided with a first passage through which an energy ray passes, and a second passage that is provided between the inner surface and the outer surface, and through which powder and fluid pass. The second passage includes a second open end on one end thereof in a first direction. A first surface that is one of the inner surface and the outer surface includes a first edge on one end thereof in the first direction. A second surface that is the other one of those includes a second edge on one end thereof in the first direction, and is distanced from the first edge toward the first direction. The fluid ejected from the second open end flows along the second surface, and separates at the second edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for inspecting object surface according to an embodiment includes: an imaging device including an imaging area; an optical source; and a group of optical devices including a mirror and a lens, and causing a reflected light other than a regular reflection light from an object to be reflected by a mirror surface of the mirror, and to form an image in the imaging area of the imaging device through the lens, the regular reflection light being caused by a light incident to a surface of the object from the optical source, wherein the optical source, the mirror, the lens, and the imaging device are arranged in such a manner that the regular reflection light is not incident to the imaging area of the imaging device through the mirror and the lens.

Abstract: A multi-view optical system includes an optical element. The optical element is configured to direct, in a predetermined direction, a first polarization component of a light beam coming from a first visual field, and a second polarization component, which is different from the first polarization component, of a light beam coming from a second visual field different from the first visual field.