Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a carbon dioxide absorbent that can efficiently absorb, fix, and simply separate and recover carbon dioxide in the air. The present invention relates to an atmospheric carbon dioxide absorbent consisting of an amine selected from the group consisting of m-xylylene diamine, benzylamine, phenethylamine, p-methoxybenzylamine, and p-trifluoromethylbenzylamine, and water, and having the amine content of 1 to 50 wt % with respect to the total amount. The present invention also relates to a method for generating carbon dioxide which uses the aforementioned carbon dioxide absorbent and is simple and superior in energy efficiency.

Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: A noise generation cause identifying method and a noise generation cause identifying device are provided. A response correcting process corrects a sound signal obtained through a sound signal obtaining process based on obtained model information so that a frequency response of the obtained sound signal approaches a frequency response of a learning sound signal. A variable obtaining process obtains a variable output from a map by inputting the corrected sound signal to the map. A cause identifying process identifies a generation cause of a sound picked up by a microphone using the variable obtained through the variable obtaining process.

Abstract: A molten iron refining method having, an auxiliary material, and an oxidizing gas supplied through a top-blowing lance, to a cold iron source and molten pig iron that are contained/fed in a converter-type vessel, and molten iron is subjected to a refining process. A pre-charged cold iron source is charged into the converter-type vessel at an amount not larger than 0.15 times. A furnace-top-added cold iron source that's part or all of the cold iron source and added from a furnace top is fed during the refining process. A burner at a leading end of the top-blowing lance that spray holes through which a fuel and a combustion-supporting gas are ejected. During the refining process, a powdery auxiliary material processed into powder that's part of the auxiliary material is blown in, to pass through a flame formed by the burner.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of increasing skin pigmentation in a subject in need thereof using salt-inducible kinase (SIK) inhibitors, such as macrocyclic compounds of Formula (I), bicyclic urea compounds of Formula (II), (III), and (IV), and compounds of Formula (V), (VI), (VI-A), or (VII). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods, and uses that include or involve a compound described herein.

Abstract: A machine tool includes: a display; a tool configured to machine a workpiece; a spindle configured to rotate the tool or the workpiece; a sensor configured to detect a vibration frequency of the spindle or the tool; and a processor configured to control the machine tool. The processor is configured to: detect a chatter vibration in the spindle or the tool based on the vibration frequency; based on a frequency of the chatter vibration, a rotation speed of the spindle, and the number of cutting edges of the tool, calculate an order corresponding to the number of vibrations of the tool during a period of time until a current rotation angle of a first cutting edge of the tool reaches a current rotation angle of a second cutting edge of the tool; and present order information on the display, the order information indicating a magnitude of the calculated order.

Abstract: The seat management device includes a receiving unit for receiving a request regarding the characteristics of the seats of the mobile body in which the passengers can ride on each other, and a seat assigning unit for assigning a seat to the passengers for each region in the room of the mobile body on the basis of the request, to assign the passengers in which the request is common to the same region. The request is transmitted from a passenger terminal.

Abstract: In a physical distribution system, a delivery controller is configured to acquire package information; generate a delivery schedule; calculate tentative delivery time of a package estimated based on the delivery schedule; send a delivery confirmation request notification requesting confirmation of the tentative delivery time to a consignee linked to the package; receive a response to the delivery confirmation request notification; control the autonomous mobile robot based on the delivery schedule generated most recently; and when confirmed time confirmed by the consignee in the response to the delivery confirmation request notification is different from the tentative delivery time, update the delivery schedule in such a manner that delivery of the package is completed at the confirmed time.

Abstract: A health management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a weight of an occupant detected by a detector provided in a seat of a vehicle that transports the occupant or a value detectable using the weight as a characteristic value associated with a physical body of the occupant; and a display information generating unit configured to generate display information which is displayed on a display device which is visible to an occupant when the occupant sits on the seat based on the characteristic value, the display information varying according to a difference between the characteristic value detected at the timing at which the occupant sits on the seat and the characteristic value of the occupant detected in the past.

Abstract: A physical function inspection device includes a target person selection unit that selects a target person for physical function inspection from passengers of a vehicle, a behavior detection unit that detects the behavior of the target person when the vehicle is traveling, and an evaluation unit that evaluates the physical function of the target person based on the behavior of the target person.

Abstract: A control unit of a server includes: a delivery request receiving unit configured to receive a delivery request for a parcel from a terminal of a delivery requester that requests a delivery of the parcel; a movable body selection unit configured to select a movable body that delivers the parcel, based on an address of a receiver of the parcel and operation information about a plurality of movable bodies that is periodically operated for each route, the address of the receiver being included in the delivery request; and a carry-in instruction sending unit configured to send a carry-in instruction to the terminal, the carry-in instruction being an instruction to carry the parcel in the selected movable body.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an automated driving vehicle management system, a management method, an automated driving vehicle, and a program that are capable of appropriately managing the automated driving vehicle. The automated driving vehicle management system including: a map information storage unit that stores map information; an imaginary line management unit that manages an imaginary line imaginarily generated for a road included in the map information; and a communication unit that transmits imaginary line information about the imaginary line to a plurality of automated driving vehicles traveling along the imaginary line.

Abstract: A biodegradable resin composition containing a resin and a protein, the resin being contained in an amount of 40 to 99.9% by mass in the resin composition, the resin containing a polyester-based resin, the polyester-based resin having three or more structural units, at least one of the structural units being a succinic acid unit, an azelaic acid unit, a sebacic acid unit, or a brassylic acid unit. The biodegradable resin composition can increase the speed of biodegradation and the percentage of degradation of a polyester-based resin in the sea and has good moldability. A molded article of the biodegradable resin composition. A method of biodegrading a polyester-based resin, by biodegrading the polyester-based resin in sea water in the presence of a protein.

Abstract: It is possible to manage information on a city area in a centralized manner and reduce a processing load. A management system includes: information acquisition means that is provided in infrastructure of a predetermined city area and acquire information on the city area; service providing means sending instructions to respective mobile bodies for providing a plurality of different conveyance services, each of the mobile bodies including a sensor configured to detect the information on the city area and moving in the city area based on the information detected by the sensor, thereby providing each of the conveyance services; and instruction means for sending an instruction to the service providing means based on the information on the city area acquired by the information acquisition means.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives authentication information for authenticating a passenger in a vehicle, an authentication unit that authenticates a passenger based on the authentication information, an assessment unit that assesses whether the authenticated passenger is standing up, a measuring unit that measures a period of time during which it is assessed that the authenticated passenger is standing up as a period of time during which the passenger is actually standing up, a calculation unit that calculates points or digital currency used in a reward program such that the authenticated passenger who stands up for a longer period of time gets more points or a higher amount of digital currency, and a transmission unit that transmits the calculated points or digital currency to a storage unit. The storage unit is configured to store the points or the digital currency in association with the passenger.

Abstract: A skeleton recognition method includes: obtaining an integrated three-dimensional point cloud by integrating three-dimensional point clouds obtained by detecting a target person and a target object from a plurality of directions with a plurality of detection devices; and recognizing skeleton information of the target person by optimizing, based on the integrated three-dimensional point cloud and a three-dimensional model that represents the target person and the target object that is in contact with the target person, an objective function that represents matching between coordinates of the integrated three-dimensional point cloud and surface coordinates of the three-dimensional model and by obtaining a joint angle of the target person. The objective function is a first objective function that includes a function based on a distance between a hand end of the target person and the target object.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive motion data indicating motion of at least one user outside a vehicle that moves along a route including at least one road, and a controller configured to make a boarding determination of determining whether the at least one user will board the vehicle based on the motion data received by the communication unit and execute, upon determining in the boarding determination that the at least one user will board the vehicle, control for opening a door of the vehicle.

Abstract: To provide a degradation accelerator suitable for biodegradable resins and a method for producing the degradation accelerator. With the degradation accelerator, the biodegradation rate and biodegradability of biodegradable resins such as aliphatic polyester-based resins, aliphatic-aromatic polyester-based resins, and aliphatic oxycarboxylic acid-based resins can be increased and freely controlled. A degradation accelerator for biodegradable resins, the degradation accelerator comprising: cellulose; hemicellulose; and lignin, wherein the mass ratio of nitrogen to carbon in the degradation accelerator for biodegradable resins is 0.04 or more, and wherein the mass ratio of the content of the hemicellulose to the total content of the cellulose and the lignin is 0.2 or more.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring a vehicle dispatch request from a user, via a terminal device, acquiring movement information regarding an amount of movement of the user, deciding a boarding position at which the user is to board a vehicle, based on a current position of the user and the movement information, and deciding an operation plan of the vehicle such that the vehicle heads for the boarding position.