Abstract: Water-absorbent resin particles 10a, in which a rate of an amount of change in a water retention amount of physiological saline when irradiation with an ultraviolet ray is performed for 3 hours with respect to a water retention amount of physiological saline before irradiation with an ultraviolet ray is more than 0% and 30% or less.

Abstract: An absorber 10 containing water-absorbent resin particles 10a, in which a rate of an amount of change in a water retention amount of physiological saline of the water-absorbent resin particles 10a when the water-absorbent resin particles 10a are irradiated with an ultraviolet ray for 3 hours with respect to a water retention amount of the water-absorbent resin particles 10a of physiological saline before irradiation with an ultraviolet ray is more than 0% and 30% or less.

Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a first input port, a second input port, a first processor that processes an audio signal input to the first input port and that includes a first adjuster which adjusts acoustic characteristics of the audio signal, a second processor that processes an audio signal input to the second input port, and output ports having a first particular output port. In a first operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an effective state and each of an audio signal as processed by the first processor and an audio signal as processed by the second processor is output from one or more of the output ports. In a second operation mode, the first adjuster is set in an ineffective state and an audio signal as processed by the first processor is output from the first particular output port.

Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a bonding target member arranged on an upper side of a stage. The ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a control device that changes a control parameter associated with the driving of a bonding tool based on information related to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a sensor that detects vibration along a height direction in a bonding target member which vibrates by ultrasonic vibration. The ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a control device that changes control parameters associated with the driving of a bonding tool based on information related to the vibration along the height direction detected by the sensor.

Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a bonding target member arranged on an upper side of a stage. The ultrasonic bonding apparatus includes a control device that changes a control parameter associated with the driving of a bonding tool based on information related to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: Provided are a fried food having a favorable appearance and an improved coating texture, and a batter for producing the same. The batter for fried foods contains a flaky starch lump. The starch lump contains a pregelatinized starch, and the flaky starch lump has a thickness of 100 ?m to 1000 ?m.

Abstract: A laser chamber of a discharge-excitation-type gas laser apparatus may include a container which contains laser gas therein; a pair of discharge electrodes arranged in the container; a cross flow fan configured to supply the laser gas to a discharge space between the discharge electrodes, the cross flow fan including a rotation shaft with which the cross flow fan rotates in a predetermined rotation direction and a plurality of blades, each longitudinal direction of which is parallel to an axial direction of the rotation shaft; and a stabilizer arranged outside a rotation trajectory of the cross flow fan, and arranged such that a difference between a maximum position and a minimum position of an end portion in the rotation direction on a side opposite to the rotation direction is larger than 0 and is smaller than an interval of two blades adjacent to each other among the plurality of blades.

Abstract: The present invention provides a meat processing material that can be used to provide meat having a soft and juicy texture when cooked by heating and having an increased yield after cooking. Provided are a meat improving agent containing inulin and modified starch; a meat-improving liquid composition containing the meat improving agent; and a method of improving meat, including bringing the meat improving agent or the liquid composition into contact with meat.

Abstract: Provided are a fried food that has good adherence between a food ingredient and a coating material and has a favorable coating texture even after elapse of time after cooking, a dusting flour mix for fried food comprising inulin, an oil-and-fat-modified starch, and egg white powder, and a method for producing fried food includes adhering a coating material to a food ingredient having the dusting flour mix for fried food adhering thereto, and then frying the resulting ingredient.

Abstract: An ID switching device (10) includes an ID request unit (16) and an ID determination unit (17). The ID request unit (16) outputs an ID request (16a) that requests switching to a new ID. The ID determination unit (17) refers to rule information (12a) and history information (15a) when the ID request (16a) is outputted, and determines an ID that agrees with the rule information (12a), as the new ID. The rule information (12a) is information for determining the new ID. In the rule information (12a), a history condition that is a use history of the new ID is defined as a condition for determining the new ID. The history information (15a) is information having a plurality of history records in each of which an ID and a use history of the ID are associated.

Abstract: Disclosed is water-absorbent resin particles including: a crosslinked polymer having a monomer unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer including at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof, in which a proportion of (meth)acrylic acid and a salt thereof is 70 to 100 mol % with respect to a total amount of monomer units in the crosslinked polymer, an artificial urine permeation speed when the water-absorbent resin particles are swollen tenfold is 1.0 g/min or more and 35.0 g/min or less, a water retention capacity for a physiological saline solution is 32 to 60 g/g, and a contact angle measured in a test performed in the order of i) and ii) is 70 degrees or smaller.

Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including: a laminate that has an absorbent containing water-absorbent resin particles and a fibrous material, and a core wrap sandwiching the absorbent from upper and lower sides of the absorbent; a liquid-permeable sheet disposed on an upper surface of the laminate; and a liquid-impermeable sheet disposed on a surface on a side opposite to the liquid-permeable sheet of the laminate. The water-absorbent resin particles satisfy the following requirements (a) and (b). (a) A surface drying index of the absorbent article represented by the following formula is 45 or lower. Surface drying index=(moisture content index 1.5 minutes after liquid injection/moisture content index 1 minute after liquid injection)×100 (b) A water retention capacity of the water-absorbent resin particles for a physiological saline solution is 30 g/g or more.

Abstract: Water-absorbing resin particles, in which a light transmittance at a wavelength of 425 nm when the water-absorbing resin particles are swollen 30 times with a physiological saline solution is 20% or more, are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided are a fried food having a favorable appearance and an improved coating texture, and a batter for producing the same. The batter for fried foods contains a pregelatinized crosslinked starch. The pregelatinized crosslinked starch has a degree of pregelatinization of 65% or more, and a starch solution obtained by adding 1000 parts by mass of water to 100 parts by mass of the pregelatinized crosslinked starch has a viscosity of 500 mPa·s or less when the viscosity is measured with a rotary viscometer under conditions of a product temperature of 25° C. and 12 to 30 rpm.

Abstract: Water-absorbing resin particles, in which a value of non-pressurization DW after 30 seconds is 1.0 mL/g or more, and a contact angle measured in a test performed in the order of i) and ii) below is 90 degrees or smaller, are disclosed. i) A spherical liquid droplet, which corresponds to a diameter of 3.0±0.1 min, of a 25% by mass saline solution is added dropwise at 25° C. onto a surface of a layer formed from the water-absorbing resin particles to bring the water-absorbing resin particles into contact with the liquid droplet. ii) A contact angle of the liquid droplet is measured at a timing which is 30 seconds after the liquid droplet is brought into contact with the surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mitochondrial function-improving agent containing a lactic acid bacterium belonging to Lactobacillus farciminis or Pediococcus acidilactici, a culture of the lactic acid bacterium, or a culture supernatant of the lactic acid bacterium.

Abstract: In an image-recording device, a cartridge has a first chamber and an outlet. A mount body includes a tank, first and second sensors. The tank has an inlet, and a second chamber. The liquid in the first chamber flows into the second chamber via the outlet and the inlet. The first sensor outputs a first signal when a level of the liquid in the second chamber is higher than a first position, and outputs a second signal when the level is lower than the first position. The second sensor outputs a third signal when the level is higher than a second position higher than the first position, and outputs the fourth signal when the level is lower than the second position. A controller controls a notification device to issue a notification if a condition based on the first and second signals is satisfied.

Abstract: An information processing method includes storing, in a memory, a sound signal transmitted from the outside by using a first transmission method in which a bandwidth is guaranteed and timing is restricted, and processing, using a processor, the sound signal stored in the memory upon a predetermined data size of the sound signal being stored in the memory.

Abstract: A laser chamber apparatus may include a pipe, an inner electrode extending along a longitudinal direction of the pipe and disposed in a through hole in the pipe, an outer electrode including a contact plate extending along the longitudinal direction of the pipe and being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the pipe and a ladder section formed of bar members each having one end connected to the contact plate and juxtaposed along a longitudinal direction of the contact plate, and a leaf spring extending along the longitudinal direction of the pipe and configured to press the outer electrode against the pipe. The leaf spring may include leaf spring pieces separated by slits, and the leaf spring pieces may each include a bent section bent along the edge and are configured to press the bar members in a position shifted from the bent sections toward the edge.