Abstract: A determination device includes an irradiator, an extractor, an imager, and a determiner, The irradiator irradiates an object including a food or a plant with a light. The extractor extracts a predetermined fluorescence emission having a predetermined wavelength out of fluorescence emissions generated from a surface of the object irradiated with the light. The imager captures a fluorescence image indicating the predetermined fluorescence emission. The determiner determines a state of the object based on an index indicating a fluorescence intensity of the fluorescence image.

Abstract: A vehicle sun visor includes a hollow visor main body that includes a frame portion including an opening, a mirror that is attached to the frame portion to face the opening, and a mirror cover configured to slide relative to the visor main body between a closed position at which the mirror cover covers the mirror and an open position at which the mirror cover exposes the mirror. The vehicle sun visor further includes at least one of a first stopper portion that is disposed at a section of the frame portion on a leading side in an opening direction of the mirror cover and protrudes toward the mirror cover, or a second stopper portion that is disposed at an end portion of the mirror cover on a leading side in a closing direction of the mirror cover and protrudes toward the mirror.

Abstract: Provided is an environmental factor prediction device that includes a predictor and predicting means. The predictor uses, as explanatory variables: water quality data in a plurality of layers in water, the data including a value corresponding to a biochrome level or a bioluminescence level (e.g. chlorophyll concentration), water temperature, salt concentration, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and flow rate; and meteorological data including atmospheric temperature, precipitation and sunshine duration, and outputs an estimated value of each item of the explanatory variables at a unit time later, based on time series data of the explanatory variables. The predicting means predicts the water quality data up to an N unit time later by repeating prediction using the estimated value acquired by the predictor as input of the predictor again.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for analyzing a blood specimen, including the steps of: coagulating a blood specimen in the presence of an activating agent for fibrinolytic system to acquire a coagulation waveform; and acquiring information about fibrinolytic capacity of the blood specimen based on the acquired coagulation waveform.

Abstract: A data collection device includes a data collector configured to collect data from a device that outputs data, a time stamp adder configured to add a time stamp to the data collected by the data collector, a data storage configured to store the data to which the time stamp is added by the time stamp adder, a timing generator configured to generate a timing at which the data stored in the data storage is transmitted to a data server communicably connected via a first network, a request information acquirer configured to acquire request information for requesting transmission of the data, the request information being transmitted from the data server, and a data transmitter configured to transmit the data stored in the data storage to the data server based on the timing generated by the timing generator and in accordance with the request information acquired by the request information acquirer.

Abstract: A packaging container that can be easily disassembled is provided at low cost. The packaging container is formed by a laminate including a base layer being folded into a box shape and each end thereof being overlapped to be sealed with each other, the laminate having a fragile part formed thereon. The laminate further has, for example, a film layer, and includes, as a fragile part, a first scored part formed on a base layer and a second scored part formed on a film in a 2.0-mm-wide band area with the first scored part being a widthwise center.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for evaluating coagulability of a blood specimen obtained from a subject to whom a substance having a coagulation factor VIII-substituting activity is administered. The present invention also relates to a reagent for blood coagulation analysis, a reagent kit for blood coagulation analysis, and an apparatus for blood coagulation analysis. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an apparatus and computer program for evaluating coagulability of a blood specimen.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a cell having a scarless genome sequence wherein an exogenous nucleic acid sequence inserted into a targeted region in the genome is completely excised, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid sequence comprises a nucleic acid sequence homologous to a genome sequence in the targeted region at each end and one or more sequence-specific nuclease-recognizing site(s) between the two homologous nucleic acid sequences, and wherein the method comprises: (1) introducing the sequence-specific nuclease or a nucleic acid encoding the same into a host cell having a genome sequence into which the exogenous nucleic acid sequence is inserted; and (2) culturing the cell obtained in step (1), thereby causing double-strand break at the sequence-specific nuclease-recognizing site(s) and the subsequent microhomology-mediated end joining or single-strand annealing between the resulting broken ends that contain the homologous nucleic acid sequences to generate a cell having a scarles

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing a program causes a computer to execute a process that includes: identifying a start point of an acquisition-target period of a stock-trading history of a specific company based on at least one of a trend of a stock price of the company prior to a timing of a specific-information disclosure in the company and a timing of an information disclosure prior to the specific-information disclosure; acquiring the stock-trading history of the company within a period starting from the identified start point; and referring to a memory that stores trend information of a stock price of the company and a timing of information disclosure relating to the company, and selectively acquiring selling or buying transaction information of stocks of the company in accordance with a direction of fluctuations of the stock price of the company after the timing of the specific-information disclosure.

Abstract: A data collection device includes a data collector configured to collect data from a device that outputs data, a time stamp adder configured to add a time stamp to the data collected by the data collector, a data storage configured to store the data to which the time stamp is added by the time stamp adder, a timing generator configured to generate a timing at which the data stored in the data storage is transmitted to a data server communicably connected via a first network, a request information acquirer configured to acquire request information for requesting transmission of the data, the request information being transmitted from the data server, and a data transmitter configured to transmit the data stored in the data storage to the data server based on the timing generated by the timing generator and in accordance with the request information acquired by the request information acquirer.

Abstract: A packaging container that can be easily disassembled is provided at low cost. The packaging container is formed by a laminate including a base layer being folded into a box shape and each end thereof being overlapped to be sealed with each other, the laminate having a fragile part formed thereon. The laminate further has, for example, a film layer, and includes, as a fragile part, a first scored part formed on a base layer and a second scored part formed on a film in a 2.0-mm-wide band area with the first scored part being a widthwise center.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for evaluating coagulability of a blood specimen obtained from a subject to whom a substance having a coagulation factor VIII-substituting activity is administered. The present invention also relates to a reagent for blood coagulation analysis, a reagent kit for blood coagulation analysis, and an apparatus for blood coagulation analysis. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an apparatus and computer program for evaluating coagulability of a blood specimen.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the severity of hemophilia, the method including the steps of: coagulating a blood specimen to acquire a coagulation waveform; acquiring an average change rate of a coagulation rate from the coagulation waveform; and determining the severity of hemophilia in the blood specimen based on the average change rate of the coagulation rate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for analyzing a blood specimen, including the steps of: coagulating a blood specimen in the presence of an activating agent for fibrinolytic system to acquire a coagulation waveform; and acquiring information about fibrinolytic capacity of the blood specimen based on the acquired coagulation waveform.

Abstract: A channel information compressing apparatus of the present invention includes a DCT part that performs discrete cosine transform on channel information (CSI) representing the state of a communication channel, and an information compressor that compresses high frequency components of information included in discrete cosine transform data which is produced by way of discrete cosine transform, thus compressing information while maintaining a good accuracy of channel information.

Abstract: A radio terminal includes: a base station connection communication portion that performs base station connection communication with a base station; a communication quality determination portion that determines a communication quality of the base station connection communication to acquire a determination result of the communication quality; an inter-terminal communication control portion that decides a radio resource to be used for inter-terminal communication from radio resources that the base station uses, based on the determination result of the communication quality; and an inter-terminal communication portion that performs inter-terminal communication with another radio terminal, using the radio resource decided by the inter-terminal communication control portion.

Abstract: The digital photo frame (1) of the present invention includes: an image data storage section (21) which stores image data associated with identification information of a mobile communication device; a device identifying section (11) which detects the mobile communication device and identifies the identification information of the mobile communication device; and an image display control section (14) which controls, when the mobile communication device is detected, a display section to display image data which is associated with the identification information identified by the device identifying section (11) among image data stored in the image data storage section (21), by carrying out a display control which is different from that for other data. This configuration makes it possible to change a way to display plural pieces of data in accordance with whether or not a detectable mobile communication device is in the device detectable area.

Abstract: A wireless base station apparatus communicates with first terminal devices belonging to the present cell by means of IDMA.

Abstract: An interleaving apparatus includes an interleaver for concurrently sorting bits of input data according to the predetermined interleave pattern; a switch including an input terminal supplied with an input signal subject to an interleave process, an input terminal supplied with a signal output from the interleaver, an output terminal for outputting an output signal, representing the result of interleaving completed on the input signal, and an output terminal for outputting a signal input to the interleaver, thus switching connection between the input terminals and the output terminals; and a controller for controlling the switch to use the interleaver once or repeatedly use it multiple times in response to each of interleave patterns.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic steering control apparatus, including an autopilot, which enables a ship to turn around a desired fixed point as a turning center with a desired turning radius without being affected by an extraneous factor, such as a tidal current or the like. To achieve the object, a center position, a turning radius and a turning direction for turning are initially designated by the operator, a tangent to a turning circle at an intersection of a straight line from the turning center to a position of the ship and the turning circle, and a course of the ship is controlled to approach the tangent.