Abstract: To provide a cosmetic which is environmentally friendly and is excellent in all of spreadability on application, adhesion, hand feeling properties and transparency. A cosmetic including aliphatic polyester-based resin particles, wherein the aliphatic polyester-based resin particles have a volume-average particle diameter of 2 to 30 ?m, and a ratio of particles having a particle diameter of less than 1 ?m is 15% by volume or less and a ratio of particles having a particle diameter of more than 30 ?m is 6% by volume or less, is provided.

Abstract: To provide a cosmetic which is environmentally friendly and is excellent in all of spreadability on application, adhesion, hand feeling properties and transparency. A cosmetic including aliphatic polyester-based resin particles, wherein the aliphatic polyester-based resin particles have a volume-average particle diameter of 2 to 30 ?m, and a ratio of particles having a particle diameter of less than 1 ?m is 15% by volume or less and a ratio of particles having a particle diameter of more than 30 ?m is 6% by volume or less, is provided.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fiber treatment agent that is capable of forming on fibers a film that has excellent water resistance and excellent adhesion to a matrix resin. The present invention provides a fiber treatment agent comprising an aqueous medium, a water-insoluble polyamide dispersed in the aqueous medium, and a water-soluble polyamide that is present in an amount of 2 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the water-insoluble polyamide.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fiber treatment agent that is capable of forming on fibers a film that has excellent water resistance and excellent adhesion to a matrix resin. The present invention provides a fiber treatment agent comprising an aqueous medium, a water-insoluble polyamide dispersed in the aqueous medium, and a water-soluble polyamide that is present in an amount of 2 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the water-insoluble polyamide.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin particle having many recesses on the surface thereof, which has solvent resistance and heat resistance. More specifically, the present invention provides a resin particle having many recesses on the surface thereof which is obtained by using a seed particle, wherein a seed particle component in the resin particle has a crosslinked structure.

Abstract: An amplifier is capable of reducing the quantization error caused by conversion accuracy in an A/D converter circuit and, particularly, capable of improving the S/N ratio and distortion rate when an input audio signal is small. In an amplifier (1) using a voltage variable power supply (73) as a power supply to follow an input audio signal level (S1) to the amplifier (1) in order to increase or decrease the level of supply voltage supplied to a power amplifier stage (4), when the level of source power of the power amplifier stage (4) is changed, the voltage level of a reference voltage supplied to an A/D converter (62) of a negative feedback circuit is controlled.

Abstract: [Problem] The purpose is to provide an amplifier capable of reducing the quantization error caused by conversion accuracy in an A/D converter circuit and, particularly, capable of improving the S/N ratio and distortion rate when an input audio signal is small. [Solution] In an amplifier (1) using a voltage variable power supply (73) as a power supply to follow an input audio signal level (S1) to the amplifier (1) in order to increase or decrease the level of supply voltage supplied to a power amplifier stage (4), when the level of source power of the power amplifier stage (4) is changed, the voltage level of a reference voltage supplied to an A/D converter (62) of a negative feedback circuit is controlled.

Abstract: The present invantion provides a resin particle having many recesses on the surface thereof, which has solvent resistance and heat resistance. More specifically, the present invantion provides a resin particle having many recesses on the surface thereof which is obtained by using a seed particle, wherein a seed particle component in the resin particle has a crosslinked structure.

Abstract: A control device determines whether an image generated by merging several concurrently picked-up images has consistent image quality on a display device. If determined No, image quality parameters set in each image pickup device are so controlled as to make the image quality of the merged image consistent. Therefore, the merged image can assuredly have consistent image quality. Further, a signal processing device detects, based on positions of nodes and attributes of cameras, a connection indicating which node is connected to which camera and with what attribute. The signal processing device in advance stores every detectable connection and a plurality of image processing programs corresponding to each connection, and selects and carries out one of the image processing programs corresponding to the detected connection.

Abstract: A program preselecting apparatus is provided. An electronic program guide storing unit stores an electronic program guide made up of a plurality of sets of program information of a plurality of programs, each of the plurality of sets of program information including a time slot, channel number, and content information of a respective program. A preselection criteria storing unit stores a plurality of preselection criteria used for specifying programs to be preselected, each of the plurality of preselection criteria including at least one criterion item which specifies at least the content information. A searching unit searches, according to each of the plurality of preselection criteria, the electronic program guide for a program corresponding to each set of program information that satisfies the criterion items of the preselection criterion. An overlap judging unit judges whether there are programs whose time slots overlap among programs found as a result of the search by the searching unit.

Abstract: An user interface apparatus that receives a user operation of an electrical device and notifies the electrical device of the instruction to execute an action according to the user operation predicts at least one action, the execution of which is supposed to be desired by the user, provides a user interface for having the user designate one action out of the at least one action, and receives a designation by the user. When receiving the user designation, the user interface apparatus notifies the electrical device of the instruction to execute the action that has been designated by the user.

Abstract: A control device 3 determines whether an image generated by merging concurrently picked-up several images has consistent image quality on a display device 2. If determined No, image quality parameters set in each image pickup device 1 are so controlled as to make the image quality of the merged image consistent. Therefore, the merged image can assuredly have consistent image quality.