Abstract: A communication control device comprises: a determination unit configured to determine whether a target has approached a mobile object based on information detected by a sensor mounted on the mobile object; and a communication control unit configured to control a communication unit that calls a call center based on a determination result by the determination unit, wherein the communication control unit causes transmission, to the call center, of first information relating to information detected at the mobile object while making a call connection to the call center, which is started in response to a call.

Abstract: An optical device, a method of detecting inclination of a three-dimensional object, and a method of detecting a line-of-sight. The optical device includes a light source configured to irradiate an object with light, a detector configured to detect a position of the light reflected by the object, and circuitry configured to output data of a degree of inclination of the object obtained based on the position of the light and a prescribed parameter, and change the prescribed parameter based on the position of the light. The above methods include irradiating an object with light, detecting a position of the light reflected by the object, outputting data of a degree of inclination of the object obtained based on the position of the light and a prescribed parameter, and changing the prescribed parameter based on the position of the light.

Abstract: A method of producing a sample collection apparatus, including steps of: attaching a holding member to a support of a nozzle unit such that, in slits provided with N edges (N?3), a collection range w of a sample tube is included within a range from a lower-limit position at a distance w/2 from a 1st edge toward an initial-position, to an upper-limit position at a distance w/2 from an Nth edge away from the initial position; loading the sample tube on the holding member; counting the number of pulses with which a pulse motor is driven to move a nozzle to the center of the collection range; identifying the signal corresponding to the last edge recognized by a photo-interrupter before the nozzle reaches the center of the collection range; and storing the number of pulses and the signal corresponding to the last edge in a storage device.

Abstract: A reporting device includes an emergency reporting section that sends, to a response system via a communication control section, first emergency information including at least one of no-occupant information indicating that no occupant is present in a moving body and autonomous driving mode setting information indicating that the moving body is set in an autonomous driving mode when recognizing that a shock has occurred in the moving body based on shock occurrence information while it is recognized by a driving mode recognizing section that the moving body is set in the autonomous driving mode and it is recognized by an occupant recognizing section that no occupant is present in the moving body.

Abstract: A communication control device comprises: a determination unit configured to determine whether a target has approached a mobile object based on information detected by a sensor mounted on the mobile object; and a communication control unit configured to control a communication unit that calls a call center based on a determination result by the determination unit, wherein the communication control unit causes transmission, to the call center, of first information relating to information detected at the mobile object while making a call connection to the call center, which is started in response to a call.

Abstract: A control device comprises: a first identification unit for identifying a position of a target located ahead of an advancing direction of a mobile object; a time calculating unit for calculating time for the object to reach the target position; a second identification unit for identifying the target position in a direction intersecting the advancing direction from an image captured by an image capturing unit installed in the object; a determination unit for determining whether a difference between a position of the object and the target position in the intersecting direction is within a predetermined range when the calculated time has become shorter than a predetermined threshold and it is determined the object position in the advancing direction has reached the position identified by the first identification unit; and a report control unit for performing report control when the determination unit determines the difference is within the range.

Abstract: There is provided a spring steel including predetermined chemical composition, in which ([Ti mass %]?3.43×[N mass %])/[S mass %]>4.0, and [Ni mass %]+[Cu mass %]<0.75 are satisfied, and an appearance frequency of MnS is less than 20% among inclusions having an equivalent circle diameter of 1 ?m or more which are observed at a ¼ position of a diameter from a surface.

Abstract: A fluororubber composition containing a ternary fluororubber polymer including vinylidene fluoride, perfluorovinyl ether and tetrafluoroethylene; a reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane; and hydrotalcite. The fluororubber composition does not substantially contain magnesium oxide and calcium hydroxide. The fluororubber composition contains 2 to 55 parts by weight of the reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the hydrotalcite relative to 100 parts by weight of the ternary fluororubber polymer.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for activating neurogenesis, use of the composition, and a method for preventing, improving, inhibiting the development of, and/or treating a disease or the like of the central nervous system and or the peripheral nervous system using the composition.

Abstract: A reporting device includes an emergency reporting section that sends, to a response system via a communication control section, first emergency information including at least one of no-occupant information indicating that no occupant is present in a moving body and autonomous driving mode setting information indicating that the moving body is set in an autonomous driving mode when recognizing that a shock has occurred in the moving body based on shock occurrence information while it is recognized by a driving mode recognizing section that the moving body is set in the autonomous driving mode and it is recognized by an occupant recognizing section that no occupant is present in the moving body.

Abstract: There is provided a hot rolled steel according to one aspect of the invention including, as a predetermined chemical composition: Bi: 0.0001 mass % to 0.0050 mass %, in which 90 area % or more of a metallographic structure is configured with a ferrite and a pearlite, and an average number density of Mn sulfides measured on a cross section parallel to a rolling direction having an aspect ratio of more than 10 and 30 or less which is extended along the rolling direction, is 50 pieces/mm2 to 200 pieces/mm2.

Abstract: It has been found that efficient screening for a compound having anticancer activity can be achieved by selecting a compound having activity to induce alternative autophagy using, as an index, formation of fluorescent bright spots due to aggregation of a lysosomal protein to which a fluorescent protein is attached in cells expressing the lysosomal protein.

Abstract: There is provided a hot forging steel including, by mass %, C: more than 0.30% and less than 0.60%, Si: 0.10% to 0.90%, Mn: 0.50% to 2.00%, S: 0.010% to 0.100%, Cr: 0.01% to 1.00%, Al: more than 0.005% and 0.100% or less, N: 0.0030% to 0.0200%, Bi: more than 0.0001% and 0.0050% or less, Ti: 0% or more and less than 0.040%, V: 0% to 0.30%, Ca: 0% to 0.0040%, Pb: 0% to 0.40%, and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which P and O in the impurities are respectively P: 0.050% or less and O: 0.0050% or less, an expression d+3?<20 is satisfied, and a presence density of MnS having an equivalent circle diameter of smaller than 2.0 ?m is 300 pieces/mm2 or more in a cross section parallel to a rolling direction of a steel.

Abstract: A steel for induction hardening according to an aspect includes, as a chemical composition, predetermined amounts of alloy elements and a remainder including Fe and impurities, in which Al×N is 0.000330 to 0.000825, Mn/S is 4.6 to 14.0, a machinability index M is 15.5 to 25.65, an area fraction of AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of more than 200 nm at a ¼ position of a diameter of the steel is 20% or less of an area fraction of all AlN having an equivalent circle diameter of 40 nm or more, and a number density of Mn sulfide-based inclusions having a maximum diameter of 0.3 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less at the ¼ position of the diameter is 100 pieces/mm2 or more and 2500 pieces/mm2 or less.

Abstract: A method for inducing programmed cell death in cancer cells and a pharmaceutical composition therefor are provided. Provided is a method for inducing programmed cell death in cancer cells, the method including enhancing production of nitric oxide in cancer cells. Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for inducing programmed cell death in cancer cells, the pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active component, a compound that enhances production of nitric oxide in cancer cells. Provided is use of a compound that enhances production of nitric oxide in cancer cells, in a method for preventing, improving, suppressing progression of, and/or treating cancers.

Abstract: A fluororubber composition containing a ternary fluororubber polymer including vinylidene fluoride, perfluorovinyl ether and tetrafluoroethylene; a reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane; and hydrotalcite. The fluororubber composition does not substantially contain magnesium oxide and calcium hydroxide. The fluororubber composition contains 2 to 55 parts by weight of the reaction product of silica-aluminum silicate with vinyl ethoxysilane and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the hydrotalcite relative to 100 parts by weight of the ternary fluororubber polymer.

Abstract: A communication system includes a storage device, a management device, a transfer device, a relay device, and a router. The management device is configured to communicate with the storage device. The transfer device is configured to communicate with the management device. The relay device is configured to communicate with the transfer device. The router is configured to communicate with the relay device and has one or more processors, and one or more memories. The one or more processors are also caused to obtain content corresponding to the second request from a memory having content stored thereon. The one or more processors are also caused to transmit, to the relay device, content corresponding to the second request through the communication channel established with the relay device.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for neovascular diseases, a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting an angiogenic growth factor, and use of these pharmaceutical compositions are provided. In one or more embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition contains as an active ingredient a low molecular weight compound that is able to suppress the expression of VEGF gene in cells or to reduce the production of VEGF protein from cells. In one or more embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition contains as an active ingredient a compound expressed by the following formula (I) or a prodrug thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for activating neurogenesis, use of the composition, and a method for preventing, improving, inhibiting the development of, and/or treating a disease or the like of the central nervous system and or the peripheral nervous system using the composition.

Abstract: There is a hot-rolled steel according to one aspect of the invention including predetermined chemical compositions including 0.0001 to 0.0050 mass % of Bi, in which 90 area % or more of a metallographic structure is configured with a ferrite and a pearlite, and an average number density of Mn sulfides extending along a rolling direction and having an aspect ratio exceeding 10 and equal to or smaller than 30, which is measured on a cross section parallel to the rolling direction, is 50 to 200 number/mm2.