Abstract: A therapeutic agent for intervertebral disc degeneration that contains LASCol obtained by enzymatically cleaving a terminus of collagen.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an acquisition processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. When image formation processing for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle is executed based on image data, the acquisition processing portion acquires a length of a non-ejection period in which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle, the non-ejection period being included in an execution period of the image formation processing. When the length of the non-ejection period acquired by the acquisition processing portion is less than a predetermined first threshold value, the restriction processing portion restricts abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality of the nozzle using the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, a count processing portion, and a detection processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The count processing portion counts a number of times that an electric signal output from the piezoelectric element and corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The detection processing portion detects a viscosity of the liquid contained in the pressure chamber, based on a count result of the count processing portion.

Abstract: A signal generation device includes a first signal generation portion and a second signal generation portion. The first signal generation portion, based on a reference signal that includes a plurality of rectangular single-wave signals, generates an original common signal in which the rise times of the two or more of the single-wave signals are extended so that they are different from each other, and the fall timing of one or more of the single-wave signals is shifted. The second signal generating portion generates a drive signal to be input to a piezoelectric element by extracting a rising edge of any one of the single-wave signals, the rise time of which is extended, from the original common signal amplified by the amplifying portion, maintaining a signal level changed by extracting the rising edge of the single-wave signal, and extracting a falling edge of a single-wave signal after the single-wave signal.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element, an output processing portion, and a determination processing portion. The nozzle ejects a liquid. The pressure chamber communicates with the nozzle and contains the liquid. The piezoelectric element changes a pressure in the pressure chamber in response to an input of a drive signal. The output processing portion causes the piezoelectric element to output a first electric signal corresponding to vibration generated in the pressure chamber in response to the input of the drive signal to the piezoelectric element. The determination processing portion determines whether or not the pressure chamber is in a filled state in which the pressure chamber is filled with the liquid, based on a frequency of the first electric signal output by the output processing portion.

Abstract: A smart farm platform is disclosed for determining recommended selling prices of agricultural products based on state information of the agricultural products and operation history information of a plant grower, among information received from the plant grower, and a terminal displays the recommended selling prices of agricultural products through a display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.

Abstract: Provided are a cell culture apparatus and a living cell concentration adjustment method. The cell culture apparatus includes: a first container that holds a cell suspension; a second container that holds a diluent diluting the cell suspension; a living cell concentration measurement device that individually determines whether a plurality of target cells in the cell suspension are alive or dead to measure a living cell concentration of the target cells in the cell suspension; a control device that holds and controls the living cell concentration and amount data of the cell suspension; a mixing unit that mixes the cell suspension and the diluent; and a culture container in which the diluted cell suspension is seeded to culture cells.

Abstract: Provided are a cell life-and-death determination method, a cell life-and-death determination device, and a cell life-and-death determination system. The cell life-and-death determination method includes: acquiring images of a cell captured in a plurality of focal planes including an in-focus plane of the cell in a direction opposite to a side on which the cell is irradiated with light; acquiring an image piece including a central portion and an outer peripheral portion of the cell from each of the images; connecting the image pieces in an order of an imaging direction of the focal plane to create a connected image for analysis; extracting a feature amount from the connected image for analysis; and determining whether the cell is alive or dead on the basis of the feature amount of the connected image for analysis and a predetermined range of the feature amount.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate that can be pre-trimmed and can eliminate the need for a post-processing step. A laminate includes a decorative layer, an adhesive layer, and a support layer laminated in this order. The support layer includes two or more kinds of materials having different melting points including a material having a relatively low melting point and a material having a relatively high melting point.

Abstract: There are provided an inspection image input unit that receives a gas distribution image as an input, the gas distribution image having a visualized presence region of a gas in a space and including an image portion in which a target is irradiated with light, and a reflection-component-reduced image generating unit that generates a reflection-component-reduced image in which an image component of reflected light in the image portion of the gas distribution image received by the inspection image input unit is reduced using an estimation model machine-learned using, as teacher data, a combination of a first image including an image portion in which a target is irradiated with light and a second image including an image portion in which the target is not irradiated with light, the second image being equivalent to the first image for elements other than the image portion.

Abstract: A method includes: recognizing a signal candidate position around a vehicle by using a sensor mounted on the vehicle, the signal candidate position being a position a traffic light is possibly present, the vehicle including a light configured in such a manner that a light distribution state of the light changes; and performing a first light control process of controlling the light in response to recognition of the signal candidate position, the first light control process including at least one of: increasing an intensity of light emitted to the signal candidate position to a value higher than before the recognition of the signal candidate position; or making the intensity of the light emitted to the signal candidate position higher than an intensity of light emitted to an area other than the signal candidate position.

Abstract: A stop line detection apparatus recognizes a boundary line of a lane on which the host vehicle travels, and detect a stop line at an intersection in front of the host vehicle. The apparatus sets an intersection area corresponding to the intersection in the road on which the host vehicle travels on the basis of a captured image by a front camera of the host vehicle, detects a crosswalk in the intersection area, a stop line search area setting unit configured to set a stop line search area extending from the crosswalk toward a front side in the lane on which the host vehicle travels, and performs stop line detection in the stop line search area. A depth of the stop line search area in an extending direction of a traveling lane is smaller than twice a depth of the crosswalk.

Abstract: An estimation device and an estimation method are capable of detecting whether or not gas is flowing in a distal-proximal direction from a viewpoint even in a case where gas monitoring is performed on the basis of only an image from one viewpoint. The gas migration estimation device includes: an image input unit that receives, as an input, a gas distribution moving image in which a presence range of gas leaked into a space is indicated as a gas region; and a gas migration estimation unit that estimates a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction corresponding to the gas distribution moving image received by the image acquisition unit, by using an estimation model that is machine-learned using a combination of a training gas distribution moving image and a migration state of gas in a distal-proximal direction in the training gas distribution moving image as training data.

Abstract: A cartridge adapter includes: a cartridge holder having a space that can accommodate therein a drug cartridge, the drug cartridge including a cylinder having a tubular internal space extending in a longitudinal direction, a gasket supported in the internal space so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and a drug held in the internal space; a piston that moves the gasket in the longitudinal direction in the internal space of the cylinder; a piston guide that movably supports the piston and connected to the cartridge holder; and a piston driving mechanism that drives the piston in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: This electrophoresis system includes an electrophoresis apparatus, an analysis apparatus, and a display unit. Then, in a case where at least one of an apparatus error that is an abnormality in the electrophoresis apparatus or an analysis error that is an abnormality in the analysis of a component of the object-to-be-measured is detected, the analysis apparatus is configured to display, on the display unit, an abnormality detection indication that allows identification of the type of the detected abnormality.

Abstract: This electrophoresis system includes an electrophoresis apparatus, an analysis apparatus, and a display unit. The analysis apparatus is configured to switch between a detailed display state in which a plurality of analysis result check displays including at least the gel image display are displayed in a result display area of the display unit and an enlarged display state in which only the gel image display among the plurality of analysis result check displays is enlarged and displayed in the result display area of the display unit.

Abstract: An electrophoresis system includes an electrophoresis device including a measurement unit that measures a measurement target separated by electrophoresis, and a current detection unit that detects a current flowing through the flow path. Moreover, the electrophoresis system is configured to display each of a time-series value of a measurement value of the measurement target measured by the measurement unit and a time-series value of a current detection value of the current detected by the current detection unit on a display unit during measurement of the measurement target.

Abstract: A pulley structure may be equipped with an outer rotating body, an inner rotating body, and a coil spring provided between the outer rotating body and the inner rotating body. The coil spring is configured so as to undergo torsional deformation in a diameter-expanding or a diameter-contracting direction, thereby engaging the outer rotating body and the inner rotating body and transmitting torque, and to undergo torsional deformation in the direction opposite the direction in which torque is transmitted, thereby entering a disengaged state in which the coil spring slides with the outer rotating body or the inner rotating body, thus interrupting the transmission of torque. The number of windings of the coil spring is in a range between [M-0.125] and M (both inclusive), where M is a natural number.

Abstract: A hemiplegic forearm function recovery training device includes a forearm mounting part (2) on which a forearm (S) is to be mounted. The forearm mounting part (2) includes a mounting body (20), an inner frame portion (2B), an outer frame portion (2A), and a control part. The mounting body (20) has a forearm fixing portion (22) on which the forearm (S) is mounted and a gripping mechanism (23) capable of being gripped by a hand of the forearm (S). The inner frame portion (2B) is fitted to the mounting body (20) and is rotatable around the forearm (S). The outer frame portion (2A) guides the inner frame portion (2B) in a rotation direction thereof. The control part performs a series of controls that repeatedly causes normal rotation, stop, reverse rotation, and stop of the inner frame portion (2B) while acquiring rotation angle information of the inner frame portion (2B).