Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sample extracting unit, a trail information memory, a trail acquisition instructing unit, a trail accepting unit, and a trail determining unit. The sample extracting unit extracts samples from a population. The trail information memory stores information about trails. The trail acquisition instructing unit provides an instruction to acquire a trail for a sample extracted by the sample extracting unit. The trail accepting unit accepts trails. The trail determining unit determines, every time the trail accepting unit accepts a trail, whether the accepted trail is valid or invalid in accordance with the information stored in the trail information memory. If the trail determining unit determines that the accepted trail is invalid, the trail acquisition instructing unit provides again an instruction to acquire a trail.

Abstract: An optical element has a first surface, a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface, an optical surface, and a protruding part. The protruding part is held in a prescribed position by being in contact with a holding member. The protruding part comprises a first protruding part and a second protruding part. The first protruding part comprises a first contact part that is a convex circular arc shape on at least one longitudinal plane and partly comes into contact with the holding member. The second protruding part comprises a second contact part that is a convex circular arc shape on at least one longitudinal plane and partly comes into contact with the holding member.

Abstract: The optical element is a long optical element obtained by detaching a long main body part connected to a runner part via a gate part including an optical part from the gate part and chipping the detached main body, the optical part including at least a first optical surface to allow light to pass there through or to reflect light. The first optical surface has a curved surface that is curved on the short direction at least at the longitudinal end, while the first edge of the first optical surface side on the end surface of gate part side in the main body part is curved according to the curved surface example of the first optical surface. The boundary surface between the main body part and the gate part is formed so as to be narrower than the end surface of the gate part side of the main body part.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a power conversion device connected to a 3-phase AC power source, a first fuse positioned on a first phase of the source between the conversion device and the source, a second fuse positioned on a second phase of the source between the conversion device and the source, a first voltage detection device which detects first voltage between a third phase and the first phase of the source on the conversion device side with respect to the first fuse, a second voltage detection device which detects second voltage between the third and second phases of the source on the conversion device side with respect to the second fuse, and a status detection device connected to the first and second voltage devices such that the status device detects status of the first and second fuses based on comparison between detection result of the first and second voltage.

Abstract: An inverter system includes an inverter apparatus and a smoothing capacitor charging-power apparatus. The inverter apparatus includes a transformer and an inverter cell. The transformer includes primary windings and secondary windings. Each of the inverter cells includes a converter circuit, a smoothing capacitor, and an inverter circuit. The converter circuit is configured to convert an intermediate alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage. The smoothing capacitor is configured to smooth the direct-current voltage. The inverter circuit is configured to at least partially generate a phase voltage of a variable alternating-current voltage from the direct-current voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor. Electric power is to be supplied from a second power supply different from a first power supply to the smoothing capacitor charging-power apparatus.

Abstract: A power converting apparatus is provided. The power converting apparatus includes a power converter configured to output a voltage to a load, and a controller configured to output a PWM signal which is generated in response to a voltage command to the power converter. The power converter includes a plurality of switching elements driven based on the PWM signal. The controller is configured to generate the PWM signal such that a first period during which a zero voltage is outputted and a second period during which a non-zero voltage is outputted are adjusted according to the voltage command. The controller is allowed to output the PWM signal which is set such that one first period and one or more second periods exist within an updating cycle of the voltage command, to the power converter.

Abstract: The present invention provides yeast having increased resistance to freezing stress in which POG1 gene is inactivated, a method for producing such yeast, and a method for using such yeast in food production.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a functional material including a porous metal complex with nanoparticles included therein, the method including a configuration of adding more than one particle constituent raw material constituting the nanoparticles and a porous metal complex to a solvent, and then synthesizing nanoparticles included in the porous metal complex by heating to a desired temperature. In addition, provided is an electronic component including an electronic component element using a functional material including a porous metal complex with nanoparticles included therein.

Abstract: An optical element has a first surface, a second surface on the opposite side of the first surface, an optical surface, and a protruding part. The protruding part is held in a prescribed position by being in contact with a holding member. The protruding part comprises a first protruding part and a second protruding part, The first protruding part comprises a first contact part that is a convex circular arc shape on at least one longitudinal plane and partly comes into contact with the holding member. The second protruding part comprises a second contact part that is a convex circular arc shape on at least one longitudinal plane and partly comes into contact with the holding member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a playlist creation apparatus including a person specification section, a liking extraction section, a searching section, and a playlist creation section. The person specification section is adapted to specify a person captured in an image based on image data. Also, the liking extraction section is adapted to extract a liking of the person specified by said person specification section. The searching section is adapted to search, based on the liking extracted by said liking extraction section, for sound data of sound conforming to the liking. In addition, the a playlist creation section is adapted to create a playlist which defines a reproduction order of the sound data searched out by said searching section during displaying of the image based on the image data.

Abstract: In an electronic component, an active chip element and a passive chip element are respectively enclosed within first and second resin layers, which are separately disposed on upper and lower surfaces of a core substrate, respectively. The first resin layer includes a shielding metal film disposed on an upper surface thereof and a first via-hole conductor which connects the shielding metal film with a circuit pattern provided on the core substrate. The second resin layer includes an external-terminal electrode disposed on a lower surface thereof and a second via-hole conductor which connects the external-terminal electrode with a circuit pattern provided on the core substrate.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a sample extracting unit, a trail information memory, a trail acquisition instructing unit, a trail accepting unit, and a trail determining unit. The sample extracting unit extracts samples from a population. The trail information memory stores information about trails. The trail acquisition instructing unit provides an instruction to acquire a trail for a sample extracted by the sample extracting unit. The trail accepting unit accepts trails. The trail determining unit determines, every time the trail accepting unit accepts a trail, whether the accepted trail is valid or invalid in accordance with the information stored in the trail information memory. If the trail determining unit determines that the accepted trail is invalid, the trail acquisition instructing unit provides again an instruction to acquire a trail.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a material composition for a bulk-heterojunction-type organic photoelectric conversion layer having high photoelectric conversion efficiency and durability through formation of a stable phase-separated structure by drying in a short time with high productivity and to provide an organic photoelectric conversion element, a method of producing the organic photoelectric conversion element, and a solar cell. The material composition for an organic photoelectric conversion layer contains at least a p-type conjugated polymer semiconductor material being a copolymer having a main chain including an electron-donating group and an electron-withdrawing group, an n-type organic semiconductor material having electron acceptability, and a solvent. The solvent is represented by a general formula (1).

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an article sales data processing apparatus includes a list display control unit, a selection unit, an editing acceptance unit, and an update unit. The list display control unit causes a list of articles sold in one transaction to be displayed in the details area. The selection unit accepts selection of an article, of the articles displayed in the details area. The editing acceptance unit causes the display unit to display an editing screen for the sales data of the article selected by the selection unit, and accepts editing of the sales data. When the sales data displayed in the editing screen is edited, the update unit updates the sales data of the article selected by the selection unit, of the sales data of each article stored in the transaction storage unit, to the edited data.

Abstract: Provided are a resinous reflecting optical element that achieves high mirror surface precision by mitigating the warping effects associated with contraction during resin hardening and suppressing the distortion of a mirror surface that results from resistance to mold release, and a scanning optical device that uses said reflecting optical element.

Abstract: While viewing and listening to AV data, other AV data is converted and transferred to a reproducing terminal. A recorder has two decoding parts as a decoding unit of AV data on a recording medium. AV data which was decoded in one of the decoding parts is supplied to a monitor device. When there is a transfer request for AV data, in accordance with a schedule which is formulated based on a transfer request list and a programmed picture recording list, AV data in the transfer request list is decoded in the other one of the decoding parts, encoded in an encoding part, converted into new AV data, and recorded in the recording medium. When a connection to the reproducing terminal is detected, the new AV data on the recording medium is transferred to the reproducing terminal. Since it has two decoding parts, it is possible to convert other AV data into new AV data while viewing and listening to AV data on the monitor device.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a device information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on other devices connected via a network, and a setting file creation unit configured to, on the basis of the information on the other devices acquired by the device information acquisition unit, create a setting file by causing the information processing device to describe in the setting file information on content that is managed by the information processing device, the setting file being adapted to be forwarded to the other devices. The setting file creation unit describes in the setting file an order in which the setting file is to be forwarded.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which is able to produce L-cysteine and has been modified to increase the activity of the protein encoded by the dsbA gene. This bacterium is cultured in a medium, and L-cysteine, L-cystine, a derivative or precursor thereof or a mixture thereof can be collected from the medium.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a playlist creation apparatus including a person specification section, a liking extraction section, a searching section, and a playlist creation section. The person specification section is adapted to specify a person captured in an image based on image data. Also, the liking extraction section is adapted to extract a liking of the person specified by said person specification section. The searching section is adapted to search, based on the liking extracted by said liking extraction section, for sound data of sound conforming to the liking. In addition, the a playlist creation section is adapted to create a playlist which defines a reproduction order of the sound data searched out by said searching section during displaying of the image based on the image data.

Abstract: L-Cysteine, L-cystine, a derivative or precursor thereof, or a mixture thereof is produced by culturing a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, which has L-cysteine-producing ability and has been modified so that the activity of a protein encoded by a tolC gene, for example, a protein defined in the following (a) or (b), is increased in a medium, and by collecting L-cysteine, L-cystine, a derivative or precursor thereof, or a mixture thereof from the medium: (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, (b) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, but wherein one or several amino acid residues are substituted, deleted, inserted or added, increase of which activity in the bacterium improves the ability of the bacterium to produce L-cysteine.