Abstract: An array board 11b includes a gate line 19, a TFT 17, a pixel electrode 18, a display pixel PX, and a second interlayer insulation film 27. The TFT 17 includes a gate electrode 17a formed from a part of the gate line 19, a channel section 17d formed from an oxide semiconductor film 24, a source section 17b connected to one end of the channel section 17d, and a drain section 17c connected to another end of the channel section 17d and formed from the oxide semiconductor film 24 having resistance lower than the channel section 17d. The pixel electrode 18 is connected to the drain section 17c. The display pixel PX includes the TFT 17 and the pixel electrode 18. The second interlayer insulation film 27 has a second hole in a position overlapping the pixel electrode and the drain section 17c and not overlapping the gate electrode 17a.

Abstract: A right shock absorber and a left shock absorber are provided on outer sides of a left front wheel and a right front wheel that define a steering allowable space therebetween. At a lower portion of the right shock absorber, an outer edge of a right front fender is positioned farther radially outwards than an outer edge of the right front wheel, and a right guide wall that extends from the outer edge inwards is provided in an upper rear area to the left of the right front wheel. At a lower portion of the left shock absorber, an outer edge of a left front fender is positioned farther radially outwards than an outer edge of the left front wheel, and a left guide wall that extends from the outer edge inwards is provided in an upper rear area to the right of the left front wheel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of pixels. The first substrate includes a first electrode provided in each of the pixels and a first horizontal alignment film that determines a pretilt orientation of a liquid crystal molecule. The second substrate includes a second electrode provided to face the first electrode and a second horizontal alignment film that determines the pretilt orientation of the liquid crystal molecule. Each of the first and second horizontal alignment films is a photoalignment film. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes an anchoring structure in each of the pixels.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of analyzing a user evaluation on a part of a content, and generating preference information capable of realizing satisfying content recommendation. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate a user evaluation on a chronologically-separated part of a media content, on the basis of sensor data on a user, the sensor data being acquired in relation to listening and viewing of the media content, and store media preference information including at least the generated user evaluation in a storage unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate, the first substrate including in the following order to a liquid crystal layer side: a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode provided with an aperture, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules homogeneously aligned in a no-voltage-applied state, the aperture having an outline including a first outline portion and a second outline portion which are at different directions to each other in each of pixels, the liquid crystal display panel further including a rib protruding to the liquid crystal layer side and disposed between the first outline portion and the second outline portion on one or both of a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the second substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method which are able to represent a demand-supply balance that reflects a characteristic of a transaction object, more accurately. The program causes a computer to function as a control unit that, on the basis of inputted transaction orders, controls a display regarding a distribution of the transaction orders in a transaction market, where the transaction orders include a provision order inputted by a provider who desires to provide a transaction object and a reception order inputted by a receiver who desires to receive the transaction object, and the control unit dynamically controls the display regarding the distribution on the basis of two or more elements including a desired transaction price related to each of the provision order and the reception order and including at least one or more characteristics of the transaction object.

Abstract: A polycarbodiimide compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R3 each represent a residue of an organic compound having one isocyanate-reactive functional group but excluding the isocyanate-reactive functional group, and R1 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other; R2 comprises a group represented by the following formula (i), which is a divalent residue of 2,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate having isocyanate groups removed therefrom, and a group represented by the following formula (ii), which is a divalent residue of 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate having isocyanate groups removed therefrom; the proportion of the groups represented by the formula (i) relative to all the R2 groups in the polycarbodiimide compound is 30 to 70 mol %, and the proportion of the groups represented by the formula (ii) relative to all the R2 groups in the polycarbodiimide compound is 30 to 70 mol %; X1 and X2 each represent a group formed by the reaction of the organic compound and

Abstract: Under predetermined film depositing conditions, the raw material solution of the thermistor film is atomized or dropletized, the carrier gas is supplied to the obtained mist or droplet, the mist or droplet is conveyed to the substrate, and then the mist or droplet is thermally reacted on the substrate to deposit a film. A resultant thermistor thin film has a film thickness of 1 ?m or less, a film width of 5 mm or more, a thickness of 50 nm or more and 5 ?m or less, a thickness in the range of less than ±50 nm, a thickness of 5 mm or less, and/or a thickness of 50 nm or more and 5 ?m or less, and has a film surface roughness (Ra) of 0.1 ?m or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a storage section configured to store a setting indicating one of a first condition for permitting start of an application both in a login state and in a logout state and a second condition for permitting start of the application only in the login state; a receiving section configured to receive an instruction to start the application; and a control section configured to start the application if the first condition is set for the application or start the application on condition that the image forming apparatus is in the login state if the second condition is set for the application in response to a start instruction in a logout state.

Abstract: A device for unstopping a stopped specimen vessel that contains a liquid specimen such as blood is equipped with a mechanism which sucks and captures particles floating around the opening of the specimen vessel and prevents contamination of the specimen. The unstopping device grips a vessel and the stopper of the opening of the vessel, and removes the stopper from the opening of the vessel by changing the relative distance between the vessel-gripping mechanism and the unstopping mechanism. The unstopping device is equipped with: suction holes for sucking therethrough the gas which is present around the opening and contains liquid or solid particles; a pipeline which is connected to the suction holes and through which the sucked gas and particles are led downstream; a suction device connected to the pipeline; and a spirally flexed pipeline part disposed between the pipeline and the suction device.

Abstract: [Object] To plan asset management with an awareness of the occurrence of each event. [Solution] An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that creates an asset management plan for each event on the basis of event information including a goal sum and an achievement time for every event.

Abstract: The modified polycarbodiimide compound of the present invention is obtained by modifying a polycarbodiimide compound derived from a diisocyanate compound with at least one aliphatic amine selected from the group consisting of diethylamine, methylisopropylamine, tert-butylethylamine, di-sec-butylamine, dicyclohexylamine, 2-methylpiperidine and 2,6-dimethylpiperidine. The curing agent of the present invention comprises the modified polycarbodiimide compound of the present invention. The thermosetting resin composition of the present invention comprises a carboxyl group-containing resin having a carboxyl group in a molecule or an epoxy resin having two or more epoxy groups in one molecule, and the curing agent of the present invention.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.

Abstract: A system for automatic ordering of products comprises a receiver to receive stock parameters including a number of products sold till a point in time, an expiration duration for usage of products, or a number of products available in an inventory at the time. The system also includes a stock analyzer to determine a stock-out probability factor based on the number of products sold and estimated short term sales, determine a disposal probability factor based on the number of products sold, the expiration duration and estimated long term sales, ascertain a risk balance factor indicative of a ratio of the disposal probability factor to the stock-out probability factor, determine a number of products to replenish the inventory, based on the stock-out probability factor, the disposal probability factor, and the risk balance factor, and place a purchase order to a vendor for acquiring the number of products for replenishing the inventory.

Abstract: To provide a polycarbodiimide copolymer and a modified polycarbodiimide copolymer each suitable for a curing agent that can allow a cured product of a carboxy group-containing resin composition to be improved in flexibility without any loss of water resistance, as well as a curing agent of a carboxy group-containing resin composition, and a carboxy group-containing resin composition. The present invention enables a cured product to be enhanced in water resistance due to introduction of a predetermined soft segment into a polycarbodiimide molecule, in use for a curing agent, and also enables a carboxy group-containing resin composition to be enhanced in storage stability due to modification with an aliphatic amine or an aromatic heterocyclic amine.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device performs displaying by field sequential driving. The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of scanning lines; and a plurality of signal lines including a plurality of pairs of signal lines, each pair of signal line being connected to one pixel column. Under field sequential driving, within one field period of emitting any of a plurality of color rays, there is an overlap between: a first period in which a first scanning line group included among the plurality of scanning lines are scanned and one of the pair of signal lines is used to perform signal writes; and a second period in which a second scanning line group included among the plurality of scanning lines are scanned, and another one of the pair of signal lines is used to perform signal writes.

Abstract: The modified polycarbodiimide compound of the present invention is obtained by modifying a polycarbodiimide compound derived from a diisocyanate compound with an aromatic heterocyclic compound having endocyclic secondary amine nitrogen. The curing agent of the present invention comprises the modified polycarbodiimide compound of the present invention. Thus, a modified polycarbodiimide compound that allows amine dissociation to start at a low temperature as compared with a modified polycarbodiimide compound obtained by modifying a polycarbodiimide compound derived from a diisocyanate compound with diisopropylamine, and a curing agent comprising the modified polycarbodiimide compound can be provided.

Abstract: A method for an application development environment provides a development environment of an application. The method for the application development environment receives an installation request of the application. The method permits installation of a development application, when it is determined that the application is the development application. The method prohibits installation of a distribution application, when it is determined that the application is the distribution application.