Abstract: Expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles capable of providing a foamed molded product which has excellent surface quality and with which a residue hardly remains after burning are provided. The expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles contain a base resin and a blowing agent. The base resin includes, as constitutional units, a specific amount of a methyl methacrylate unit, a specific amount of an acrylic ester unit, and a specific amount of a constitutional unit derived from a crosslinking agent. The expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles have a volume-average particle size of 0.30 mm to 0.50 mm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fragrance or flavor composition comprising a fragrance or flavor component acting on at least one olfactory receptor polypeptide selected from the group consisting of (a) OR2C1 and OR4Q3, and (b) polypeptides which comprise an amino acid sequence sharing an identity of at least 80% with the amino acid sequence of any of the polypeptides in (a) and which are responsive to at least one offensive odor-causing substance selected from the group consisting of trans-2-nonenal, trans-2-octenal, 1-octen-3-one, 1,5-octadien-3-one, 1-octen-3-ol and 1,5-octadien-3-ol to suppress the response intensity of the olfactory receptor polypeptide(s) to at least one of the offensive odor-causing substances, and also relates to a product comprising this fragrance or flavor composition and a method for suppressing offensive odors.

Abstract: A catalyst for decomposition of hydrocarbons that is hard to cause deterioration of catalytic properties and suitable for producing hydrogen in a highly efficient manner for a long period is provided. The catalyst for the decomposition of hydrocarbons includes a nickel-containing layer exposed on a support layer selected from the group consisting of iron, cast iron, steel, copper, nickel, copper alloy, and iron nickel alloy. The catalyst for decomposition of hydrocarbons is produced by contacting a raw material of the catalyst with methane gas at an elevated temperature of 800° C. for 4 to 72 hours with an average residence time beyond 14 minutes. The catalyst further includes an interlayer comprising copper between the support layer and the nickel-containing layer, or the support layer is copper or copper alloy.

Abstract: An FSS unit element includes: multiple conductors extending outward from the central portion of the FSS unit element; and at least one circuit element connected to the multiple conductors at the central portion of the FSS unit element, and disposed with fewer than the number of the multiple conductors.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a position of a substrate, includes: acquiring primary positional data indicating the positions of the edge portions (S31); acquiring secondary positional data indicating the positions of the edge portions after a stage has been moved (S33); calculating, using the primary positional data and the secondary positional data, difference amounts between the positions of the edge portions before the stage has been moved and the positions of the edge portions after the stage has been moved; and calculating an optical magnification ratio of each of the edge portions from each of the difference amounts and an amount of movement of the stage and correcting each of the positions of the edge portions of the primary positional data based on the calculated optical magnification ratio of each of the edge portions, thereby acquiring corrected positional data (S34).

Abstract: An evaluation system for a work machine includes a work implement, a support unit for the work implement, a cylinder that causes the work implement to move with respect to the support unit, and an evaluation unit that evaluates a degree of fatigue of the support unit based on an axial force of the cylinder.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising a region extraction unit configured to perform region extraction processing of extracting a region from an input image acquired based on a radiographed image, wherein the region extraction unit comprises: a reduction unit configured to perform reduction processing for the input image to generate a reduced image; an inference unit configured to perform inference processing of, using the reduced image as an input, outputting an inferred image obtained by inferring the region in the reduced image; an enlargement unit configured to perform enlargement processing for the inferred image to generate an enlarged image; and a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing of extracting the region from the enlarged image based on a feature of a shape of the region.

Abstract: A machine learning apparatus for extracting a region from an input image, comprises: an inference unit configured to output the region by inference processing for the input image; and an augmentation unit configured to, in learning when learning of the inference unit is performed based on training data, perform data augmentation by increasing the number of input images constituting the training data, wherein the augmentation unit performs the data augmentation such that a region where image information held by the input image is defective is not included.

Abstract: An ultrasonic inspection device according to an embodiment includes: an ultrasonic transducer which includes at least one oscillator group having a plurality of oscillators in a plurality of regions, each region disposing at least one oscillator; a selector which selects at least one region having one or more of the oscillators to be driven from among the plurality of regions; and a driver which individually drives one or more of the oscillators of the at least one region being selected.

Abstract: A multilayer ultrasonic transducer of an embodiment includes: a plurality of stacked oscillators; external electrodes disposed on outer exposed surfaces of two oscillators disposed in the outermost layers out of the plurality of oscillators; and a plurality of internal electrodes each disposed between two of the plurality of oscillators. There are provided electrode regions in which the plurality of internal electrodes are arranged such that the number of layers of the internal electrodes in a direction in which the oscillators are stacked gradiently increases from an inner region toward an outer peripheral region of the plurality of oscillators, and ultrasonic waves emitted from the plurality of oscillators are focused toward at least the inner region.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus configured to extract an irradiation field from an image obtained through radiation imaging, comprises: an inference unit configured to obtain an irradiation field candidate in the image based on inference processing; a contour extracting unit configured to extract a contour of the irradiation field based on contour extraction processing performed on the irradiation field candidate; and a field extracting unit configured to extract the irradiation field based on the contour.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus configured to extract an irradiation field from an image obtained through radiation imaging, comprises: an inference unit configured to obtain an irradiation field candidate in the image based on inference processing; a contour extracting unit configured to extract a contour of the irradiation field based on contour extraction processing performed on the irradiation field candidate; and a field extracting unit configured to extract the irradiation field based on the contour.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fragrance composition containing a fragrance component which suppresses response strength of at least one olfactory receptor polypeptide, which is selected from the group consisting of OR2L3 and polypeptides that comprise an amino acid sequence having at least 80% identity to an amino acid sequence of OR2L3 and are responsive to an unpleasant odor-causing substance, to the unpleasant odor-causing substance. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an unpleasant odor masking composition containing, as active components, at least one antagonist against an olfactory receptor OR2L3 and a specific component among fragrances which do not exert the effect of suppressing the response of OR2L3, is provided. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, unpleasantness caused by at least one unpleasant odor selected from the group consisting of fecal odor, body odor, tobacco odor, breath odor and musty odor can be reduced.

Abstract: Expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles having a narrow particle size distribution, a good yield, and excellent expandability and formability are provided. The expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles include a base resin containing, as constitutional units, a certain amount of a methyl methacrylate unit and a certain amount of acrylic ester unit, and a blowing agent. The expandable methyl methacrylate resin particles have an average particle diameter of 0.6 mm to 1.0 mm and a particle diameter variation coefficient of not more than 20%.

Abstract: A sonic device in an embodiment includes a sonic transducer unit and a sonic propagation unit. The sonic transducer unit performs at least one of transmitting and receiving a sonic wave, and has a sonic function surface to configure at least one of a wave transmitting surface and a wave receiving surface. The sonic propagation unit includes: a substrate having a pair of electrodes; an electroadhesive element expressing body including a resin crosslinked body arranged on the substrate, and particles dispersed in the resin crosslinked body; and a power supply to apply voltage to the pair of electrodes. The sonic propagation unit is provided on the sonic function surface of the sonic transducer unit, and the electroadhesive element expressing body in the sonic propagation unit comes into contact with a test object.

Abstract: An electromagnetic field probe includes one continuous conductor line having terminals at both ends of the one continuous conductor line and including 2N (N is an integer greater than or equal to 3) conductors radially extending from a point near the center of the electromagnetic field probe, the one continuous conductor line being not short-circuited in the middle and being formed by connecting an end portion of a conductor included in the 2N conductors to an end portion of another conductor included in the 2N conductors, and two conductors included in the 2N conductors are disposed at positions at which the two conductors face each other with the point near the center present between the two conductors, and end portions of the two conductors close to the point near the center are connected to each other.

Abstract: To provide a vascular sap measurement sensor in which a flow channel that receives incoming flow of vascular sap is unlikely to be blocked by tissues of a plant. A vascular sap measurement sensor 1 includes: a trapping probe 20 for trapping vascular sap; and a support 10 that supports the trapping probe 20. A trapping flow channel 21 that receives incoming flow of the vascular sap is formed in the trapping probe 20. The trapping flow channel 21 has an inlet opening 24 formed on a side surface of the trapping probe 20. This makes it unlikely that the trapping flow channel 21 will be blocked by tissues of a plant when sticking the trapping probe 20 into the plant.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a sensor includes a first element part. The first element part includes a first member and a first element. The first member is tubular and extends along a first direction. The first member includes a first opening and a second opening. A direction from the second opening toward the first opening is along the first direction. The first element includes a vibratile first membrane, and a first supporter supporting the first membrane. The second opening is between the first opening and the first membrane in the first direction.

Abstract: A display apparatus (101) includes an input unit (220); a communication unit (250); a display unit (210); and a control unit (240) including a display content setting unit (244), a layout setting unit (245) for setting a screen layout, and a screen generation unit (246) for generating a display screen based on the display content, the screen layout, and information acquired via the communication unit (250) and concerning the PLC. The display content setting unit (244) displays a candidate list of a display item based on at least one of: network configuration information (231) of equipments (103) and a PLC (102) which is created in advance, an equipment information file (232), and device allocation information (233) of the equipments (103) and the PLC (102), to the display unit, and sets display content based on input information coming from the input unit (220).

Abstract: In one embodiment, a permanent magnet includes a composition expressed by RpFeqMrCusCo100-p-q-r-s (R is a rare-earth element, M is at least one element selected from Zr, Ti, and Hf, 10?p?13.5 at %, 28?q?40 at %, 0.88?r?7.2 at %, and 3.5?s?13.5 at %), and a metallic structure including a cell phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase, and a cell wall phase. A Fe concentration (C1) in the cell phase is in a range from 28 at % to 45 at %, and a difference (C1?C2) between the Fe concentration (C1) in the cell phase and a Fe concentration (C2) in the cell wall phase is larger than 10 at %.