Abstract: In an apparatus, a gas containing CH4 and CO2 is supplied from a first supply unit to a synthetic gas production unit which generates a synthetic gas containing CO and H2 while heating a first catalytic structure; the synthetic gas is supplied to a gas production unit which generates a lower olefin-containing gas including propylene while heating a second catalytic structure; and a detection unit detects propylene discharged from the gas production unit. The first catalytic structure includes first supports having a porous structure and a first metal fine particle that is present in first channels of the first supports. The second catalyst structure includes second supports having a porous structure and a second metal fine particle in the second supports. The second supports have a second channels, a portion of which have an average inner diameter of 0.95 nm or less.

Abstract: A vehicle design system allowing a user to obtain a favorite design for the coating of a vehicle. The vehicle design system that presents a design for the coating of a vehicle to a user includes a processing device including: a design registration unit having registered therein a plurality of pieces of design information on the vehicle; a designer registration unit having registered therein designer information for each of a plurality of designers creating a design of the vehicle; a design output unit that outputs to a display device registered design information; a design selection determination unit that determines whether the design information output to the display device has been selected by an input from an input device; and a designer output unit that, if it is determined that the design information has not been selected, outputs designer information registered in the designer registration unit to the display device.

Abstract: A pretreatment liquid for a fabric used for transfer textile printing, includes a solvent having an organic/inorganic value (I/O value) of 1.0 to 3.0, and has a surface tension of less than 38 mN/m at 25° C.

Abstract: A fabric treatment agent that is used in textile printing with a sublimable color material includes a color-material scavenging compound having an Rf value of 0.7 or less according to paper chromatography performed under following conditions. In Procedure 1, cellulose filter paper is impregnated with a 10% solution of the color-material scavenging compound and then dried to prepare a carrier. In Procedure 2, a 0.1% solution of a sublimable color material in tetrahydrofuran is spotted on the carrier and then dried to prepare a development sample. In Procedure 3, the development sample is developed using acetonitrile as a solvent for 3 minutes at 25° C. In Procedure 4, the Rf value is calculated by a following formula: R ? f = ( distance ? travelled ? by ? the ? sublimable ? color ? material ) ( distance ? travelled ? by ? acetonitrile ) .

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that includes a binder resin, wherein in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the toner, the storage elastic modulus of the toner at 70° C. is from 0.10 MPa to 3.00 MPa, and in nanoindentation measurement of the toner, the surface storage elastic modulus of the toner at 25° C. under 150 ?N of load is from 2.80 GPa to 4.50 GPa.

Abstract: A toner comprises a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a resin component, a shell coating the surface of the core particle, and a polyvalent metal. The resin component comprises a polyester resin, and the shell comprises an amino resin; in an electron image of a cross section of the toner acquired using a transmission electron microscope, a polyvalent metal content P(M) obtained by energy-dispersive x-ray analysis at the core/shell interface and in the vicinity of this interface is 0.0010 to 2.00 atomic %; and the surface storage elastic modulus of the toner at a load of 30 ?N at 25° C., according to nanoindentation measurement of the toner, is from 6.50 GPa to 12.00 GPa.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a core particle comprising a binder resin, and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the shell comprises an oxazoline group and a polyvalent metal, and in an electron image of a cross-section of the toner particle taken with a transmission electron microscope, the polyvalent metal has atomic concentration C(M) of 0.0010 to 0.5000 atomic % as measured by energy dispersive X-ray analysis of the shell.

Abstract: The toner includes a toner particle that comprising a core particle containing a resin component and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the resin component comprises more than 50.0 mass % of a polyester resin comprising a monomer unit that contains a heterocyclic group, and the shell comprises at least one resin selected from the group consisting of prescribed (meth)acrylic resins and melamine resins.

Abstract: A toner comprising a toner particle that includes a binder resin, wherein in dynamic viscoelasticity measurement of the toner, the storage elastic modulus of the toner at 70° C. is from 0.10 MPa to 3.00 MPa, and in nanoindentation measurement of the toner, the surface storage elastic modulus of the toner at 25° C. under 150 ?N of load is from 2.80 GPa to 4.50 GPa.

Abstract: A collimator module manufacturing method is provided. The method includes aligning a plurality of collimator plates arranged a predetermined distance apart in one direction, each of the collimator plates being substantially a rectangular solid, bonding a first bar-like member to upper edges of the collimator plates, the first bar-like member being radiolucent and extending from a first collimator plate at a first end to a second collimator plate at a second end in the direction of the collimator plate arrangement, and bonding a second bar-like member to the lower edges of the collimator plates, the second bar-like member being radiolucent and extending from the first collimator plate to the second collimator plate.

Abstract: A radiation detecting apparatus is provided. The radiation detecting apparatus includes a pair of rails extending in a channel direction, a plurality of collimator modules provided in the pair of rails and arranged in the channel direction, each collimator module having a plurality of collimator plates arranged in the channel direction, and a plurality of detector modules provided on a radiation outgoing side of the collimator modules and arranged in the channel direction, wherein each of the collimator modules has a pair of alignment pins extending along an irradiation direction, wherein the rails include a surface of placement for each collimator module, the surface of placement formed with one of concave holes and grooves in which first ends of the alignment pins are fitted, and wherein each of the detector modules has one of concave holes and through holes in which second ends of the alignment pins are fitted.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular door including a load transfer member. The load transfer member includes a transfer member body disposed in a wide-thickness portion in a door body, and a projection projecting downward from the transfer member body. The transfer member body has a lower region whose surface on a door-outer-panel side abuts on, or comes close to, the inner surface of the door outer panel, and an inclined region whose door-outer-panel side surface is inclined to come apart from the door outer panel and whose surface on a door-inner-panel side abuts on, or comes close to, the inner surface of the door inner panel. The thickness of the lower region and the inclined region in a door-thickness direction is set narrower than the width of an insertion portion between the door inner panel and a door beam.

Abstract: A radiation detecting apparatus is provided. The radiation detecting apparatus includes a pair of rails extending in a channel direction, a plurality of collimator modules provided in the pair of rails and arranged in the channel direction, each collimator module having a plurality of collimator plates arranged in the channel direction, and a plurality of detector modules provided on a radiation outgoing side of the collimator modules and arranged in the channel direction, wherein each of the collimator modules has a pair of alignment pins extending along an irradiation direction, wherein the rails include a surface of placement for each collimator module, the surface of placement formed with one of concave holes and grooves in which first ends of the alignment pins are fitted, and wherein each of the detector modules has one of concave holes and through holes in which second ends of the alignment pins are fitted.