Abstract: A protein-containing oil-and-fat emulsion composition for producing an emulsified food is provided. The composition includes 1 to 70 mass % of a protein, 30 to 99 mass % of an oil and fat, and 0 to 40 mass % of a carbohydrate, based on the total amount of the protein, the oil and fat, and the carbohydrate being 100 mass %. 50 mass % or greater of the protein is derived from a denatured protein material satisfying both a) and b): a) an area ratio of 2000 Da or greater and less than 20000 Da is 45 to 90% in a measurement result of molecular weight distribution; and b) an aqueous solution containing the denatured protein material and having a crude protein concentration of 0.1% remains unturbid when 250 mM guanidinium hydrochloride is added to the aqueous solution, but the aqueous solution becomes turbid when 2M ammonium sulphate is added to the aqueous solution.

Abstract: A puncture needle includes a shaft part, a needle tip part disposed at a tip of the shaft part, and a plurality of processed parts that are arranged on an outer peripheral part of the shaft part along a length direction of the shaft part and form a geometric progression with a geometric ratio of 2 in which arrangement intervals gradually decrease toward the needle tip part, in which a distance between a reference point which is located on a needle tip part side from a first processed part closest to the needle tip part among the plurality of processed parts and is located at a predetermined distance from the needle tip part and the first processed part is equal to an arrangement interval between the first processed part and a second processed part which is second closest to the needle tip part.

Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.

Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a posture sensor detects whether an orientation of a monitor is a vertically long posture or a laterally long posture, and a display control unit displays an ultrasound image on a display screen on the basis of the orientation of the monitor. A hidden region detection unit detects whether or not a hidden region that is not displayed on the display screen is present in the ultrasound image, and a blood vessel detection unit detects a blood vessel in the ultrasound image. Then, in a case where it is detected that the hidden region is present and it is detected that the blood vessel is present in the hidden region, an orientation suggestion unit suggests to change the orientation of the monitor. Accordingly, in a case where blood vessel puncture is performed, an appropriate orientation of the monitor for observing the blood vessel in the ultrasound image is suggested to the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for automated ultrasound credentialing are described. In some embodiments, a credentialing system for issuing a sonographer credential to a sonography candidate includes an ultrasound probe coupled to a computing device and configured to generate ultrasound data. The computing device is configured to generate, based on the ultrasound data and as part of an automated review, an ultrasound examination score. The computing device is configured to transfer, based on the ultrasound examination score, the sonography candidate from the automated review to a manual review by a reviewer.

Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to smoothly and appropriately perform an examination. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a blood vessel using the ultrasound probe; a blood vessel detection unit that detects the blood vessel from the ultrasound image; an examination site discrimination unit that discriminates an examination site; an examination mode setting unit that sets an examination mode corresponding to the discriminated examination site; a compression detection unit that detects a compression motion on a body surface of a subject by the ultrasound probe; a compression motion determination unit that determines whether or not the detected compression motion is proper for the set examination mode; and a notification unit that notifies a user of a determination result by the compression motion determination unit.

Abstract: The ultrasonography apparatus includes at least one processor, in which the processor acquires, from a detector that detects a posture of a palm of a subject in capturing an ultrasound image, information representing a posture of the palm at a first time point as a first detection result, acquires information representing a posture of the palm at a second time point, which is after the first time point and is a time point during capturing of the ultrasound image, as a second detection result, derives a difference between the posture of the palm at the first time point and the posture of the palm at the second time point based on the first detection result and the second detection result, and performs notification in a case in which the derived difference is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to heat a recording material at a use position, an opening and closing member, and a drawer unit. In a state where the fixing device is at the use position, part of the fixing device is located in a space for the drawer unit to pass through when moved from a first inner position to a first outer position so that movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is restricted. The fixing device is retracted from the use position to a retracted position so that the movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is allowed. Part of the fixing device at the retracted position is at a position higher than a position of an upper cover portion of the opening and closing member at a closed position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. When image formation on a recording material is performed, the drawer unit is at a first apparatus main body inner position and the transfer device is at a second apparatus main body inner position. In this drawer unit state, (a) a part of the transfer device is disposed downstream of the drawer unit in a moving direction in which the drawer unit moves from the first inner position to a first apparatus main body outer position, and (b) in a vertical direction, an area where the part of the transfer device is positioned overlaps, at least in part, with an area where the drawer unit is positioned. The transfer device includes a cleaning member to clean the belt and is accommodated in the part of the transfer device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end, a fixing device to heat the recording material, an opening and closing member, a drawer unit having a first photosensitive drum, and a transfer device. When being moved from a first inner position inside the apparatus main body to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body through the main body opening, the drawer unit is to be moved in a moving direction intersecting with a rotation axis of the first photosensitive drum, and is to be moved away from the second end. When being moved from a second inner position inside the apparatus main body to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, the transfer device is moved away from the second end.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. The drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. The drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. The transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. The belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. The transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.

Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width.

Abstract: A cell culture container includes: an insert member having a membrane on which a cell is seeded, the insert member defining a first inner space that functions as an anaerobic chamber; a container having an attachment/detachment portion to and from which the insert member is attachable and detachable, the container defining a second inner space that functions as an aerobic chamber; a sealing member that closes an opening of the aerobic chamber between the attachment/detachment portion and the insert member with the insert member being attached to the attachment/detachment portion; and a transfer mechanism that transfers force to the sealing member. The sealing member closes the opening in response to an input of the force from the transfer mechanism.

Abstract: A device for controlling a storage battery system is provided. The device includes: a state information calculator configured to calculate state information on each of batteries of a plurality of storage battery modules; a conversion efficiency characteristics calculator configured to calculate a power conversion efficiency of each of DC/DC converters of the plurality of storage battery modules; and a storage battery module selector configured to select one or a plurality of storage battery modules to be used while the storage battery system is charged or discharged and to determine a charge power or a discharge power of each of the selected storage battery modules, based on the state information of the batteries and the power conversion efficiencies of the DC/DC converters.

Abstract: In order to improve the safety and reliability of services provided by a computer, this authentication device is equipped with a transmission unit and a determination unit. The transmission unit transmits a challenge to a terminal device where the challenge is presented to a user to be authenticated, said challenge being information serving as the basis on which the user inputs information to be used for authentication processing. At this time, the transmission unit transmits a plurality of different challenges to the terminal device. The determination unit determines not only whether or not a response input to the terminal device by the user in response to each challenge is correct, but also whether or not time information regarding the challenge and the response thereto satisfies a condition regarding the response.

Abstract: A radiography system includes a radiography apparatus, a distance measurement device, and a processor. The processor generates subject posture information indicating a posture of a subject based on distance measurement information generated by the distance measurement device, generates positional relationship estimation information indicating a position, a posture, and/or an orientation of the subject with respect to the radiography apparatus by using the subject posture information and apparatus posture information indicating a posture of the radiography apparatus, and performs notification control of giving notification about capturing of the radiation image and/or imaging apparatus control with respect to the radiography apparatus based on the positional relationship estimation information.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes an ultrasound diagnostic device that creates test images of an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel, a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a database that sequentially stores the test images created by the ultrasound diagnostic device. The workstation includes an input unit for allowing a user to input various kinds of information, a display unit, a workstation control unit that retrieves test images in past tests for the patient as past images from the test images stored in the database to make the display unit display the past images stored in the database as thumbnails, after a current image that is a test image of a current test are created for the patient by the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a test report creation unit that automatically creates a test report on the basis of the current image, and at least one past image selected by the user via the input unit from the past images displayed as the thumbnails on the display unit.

Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, a blood vessel extraction unit extracts a short-axis image of a blood vessel from an ultrasound image, an emphasis display unit displays in an emphasized manner the short-axis image of the blood vessel in the ultrasound image displayed on a monitor, and a movement amount detection unit detects a movement amount of the ultrasound image between adjacent frames on the basis of the ultrasound image. In a case where the movement amount is equal to or greater than a first threshold value after the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit is started, the apparatus control unit stops the emphasis display of the short-axis image of the blood vessel by the emphasis display unit.

Abstract: In order to improve the safety and reliability of services provided by a computer, an authentication device (1) equipped with a transmission unit (15) and a determination unit (16) is provided. The transmission unit (15) transmits a challenge to a terminal device (7) where the challenge is presented to a user (8) to be authenticated, the challenge being information serving as the basis on which the user inputs information to be used for authentication processing. At this time, the transmission unit (15) transmits a plurality of different challenges to the terminal device (7). The determination unit (16) determines not only whether or not a response input to the terminal device (7) by the user (8) in response to each challenge is correct, but also whether or not time information regarding the challenge and the response thereto satisfies a condition regarding the response.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor that controls a mammography apparatus that irradiates a breast with radiation to capture a radiographic image of the breast such that the radiation with either first energy or second energy higher than the first energy is emitted at each of irradiation positions having different irradiation angles while a radiation source is being moved to capture low-energy projection images with the first energy and high-energy projection images with the second energy, an irradiation time for which the radiation with the second energy is emitted is longer than an irradiation time for which the radiation with the first energy is emitted, and a focus size of the radiation source in a case in which the radiation with the first energy is emitted is larger than a focus size of the radiation source in a case in which the radiation with the second energy is emitted.