Abstract: A passage direction detecting device includes: a detection processing unit that detects a passage direction in which a passage connected to an exit of a parking area of a vehicle extends and the vehicle has to travel after exiting from the parking area, based on a road surface marking provided on a road surface to illustrate the parking area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a culture vessel includes a rigid bottom part and a wall part. The wall part has a culture medium inlet and includes a deformable portion. The culture vessel allows the deformable portion to deform so as to change the capacity of the culture vessel when a pressure of the internal space of the culture vessel varies.

Abstract: There are suitability and unsuitability of a shape of a substrate used for cell culture, for each step in various cell culture protocols, and it has been difficult to continue providing a culture substrate shape suitable for each step. Provided is a cell culture system including: a culture sheet deformable by external force, to which a cell can adhere and be cultured; a die member configured to be pressed against the culture sheet to deform a shape of the culture sheet into a randomly-selected shape; an optical device configured to observe a state of the cell adhering onto the culture sheet; and a drive unit configured to move the die member, to change a randomly-selected portion of the culture sheet into a shape along the die member or release the culture sheet from deformation.

Abstract: Provided is a nucleic acid detection apparatus including: a distribution unit configured to distribute a sample and a detection reagent to a plurality of individual independent separated compartments, the sample containing a target nucleic acid, and the detection reagent containing an effector protein, crRNA to be bound to the target nucleic acid, and a reporter molecule; an activation unit configured to activate the effector protein through binding of the crRNA to the target nucleic acid; a fluorescence generation unit configured to modify the reporter molecule with the activated effector protein to generate fluorescence; a fluorescence detection unit configured to detect the fluorescence; and an identification unit configured to determine, based on a detection result obtained with the fluorescence detection unit, a fluorescence intensity of each of the individual independent separated compartments, and to identify each of the individual independent separated compartments having a fluorescence intensity exce

Abstract: Provided is a cell image analysis method which enables accurate grasping of a change point of a colony in cell culture. The cell image analysis method includes: a data acquisition step of acquiring cell image data generated in time series in the cell culture; a cell region extraction step of extracting cell regions from the cell image data; a data calculation step of calculating, for each of the cell regions, data about a size of the cell region; and a change point detection step of detecting, based on the data about the size of the cell region calculated in the data calculation step, the change point, which is timing of a change in a state of the colony.

Abstract: A detection method for a target nucleic acid comprising: a first step of contacting a target nucleic acid with a first guide RNA and a first Cas protein; a second step of contacting the target nucleic acid with a second guide RNA and a second Cas protein; and a third step of detecting a complex comprising the target nucleic acid, the first guide RNA, the first Cas protein, the second guid RNA, and the second Cas protein, wherein, in the complex, the first guide RNA and the first Cas protein are bound to the first base sequence, and the second guide RNA and the second Cas protein are bound to the second base sequence.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains a first index value which indicates a popularity degree of a blog containing one or a plurality of articles, obtains, for each of the plurality of articles contained in the blog, a second index value which indicates an accessibility to the article, and determines whether or not to compress the article contained in the blog based on the first index value and the second index value.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains an increasing tendency of a storage capacity utilized by a blog containing at least one article, sets, to the blog, a threshold for determining whether or not to compress at least a part of the article contained in the blog in accordance with the increasing tendency, determines whether or not the blog is to be compressed based on a total data amount of the at least one article contained in the blog and on the threshold, and determines whether or not to compress each of the at least one article contained in the blog in accordance with a degree of accessibility.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains a popularity degree index of a blog which contains at least one article, sets a threshold for determining whether or not to compress each blog in accordance with the popularity degree index for each blog, determines whether or not the blog is a blog to be compressed based on a total data amount of the at least one article contained in the blog and on the threshold, and determines an article to be compressed among the at least one article contained in the blog to be compressed. At least a part of the article contained in the blog to be compressed is to be compressed.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains a first index value which indicates a popularity degree of a blog containing one or a plurality of articles, obtains, for each of the plurality of articles contained in the blog, a second index value which indicates an accessibility to the article, and determines whether or not to compress the article contained in the blog based on the first index value and the second index value.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains an increasing tendency of a storage capacity utilized by a blog containing at least one article, sets, to the blog, a threshold for determining whether or not to compress at least a part of the article contained in the blog in accordance with the increasing tendency, determines whether or not the blog is to be compressed based on a total data amount of the at least one article contained in the blog and on the threshold, and determines whether or not to compress each of the at least one article contained in the blog in accordance with a degree of accessibility.

Abstract: An information processing device obtains a popularity degree index of a blog which contains at least one article, sets a threshold for determining whether or not to compress each blog in accordance with the popularity degree index for each blog, determines whether or not the blog is a blog to be compressed based on a total data amount of the at least one article contained in the blog and on the threshold, and determines an article to be compressed among the at least one article contained in the blog to be compressed. At least a part of the article contained in the blog to be compressed is to be compressed.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a web page data generating unit that generates web page data. The web page data causes the terminal device to execute an arrival determination process that determines whether a page-side reference position set as an end position in a forward scroll direction of a predetermined content part among the plurality of content parts has arrived at a screen-side reference position set at a browser screen side of the terminal device in association with scroll in a forward direction or not, and a display control process that slows a scroll following speed of a content part subsequent to the page-side reference position than a scroll following speed of a content part preceding the page-side reference position, and causes an additional content to appear in a space that is expanding between the page-side reference position and the preceding content part by the slowing.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a web page data generating unit that generates web page data. The web page data causes the terminal device to execute an arrival determination process that determines whether a page-side reference position set as an end position in a forward scroll direction of a predetermined content part among the plurality of content parts has arrived at a screen-side reference position set at a browser screen side of the terminal device in association with scroll in a forward direction or not, and a display control process that slows a scroll following speed of a content part subsequent to the page-side reference position than a scroll following speed of a content part preceding the page-side reference position, and causes an additional content to appear in a space that is expanding between the page-side reference position and the preceding content part by the slowing.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member whose adhesive force has relatively strong directional dependency. Specifically, provided is an adhesive member, which is configured to adhere to an adherend through an intersurface force, wherein when a strain energy release rate is defined as G1b and G2b and an adhesive energy is defined as ??1b and ??2b respectively, a horizontal section obtained by cutting the adhesive member parallel to an adhesive surface has an asymmetrized shape so that G1b/??1b?G2b/??2b is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member whose adhesive force has relatively strong directional dependency. Specifically, provided is an adhesive member, which is configured to adhere to an adherend through an intersurface force, wherein when a strain energy release rate is defined as G1a and G2a and an adhesive energy is defined as ??1a and ??2a respectively, at least one of an elastic modulus or a Poisson's ratio of the adhesive member is nonuniformized so that G1a/??1a?G2a/??2a is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive member whose adhesive force has relatively strong directional dependency. Specifically, provided is an adhesive member, which is configured to adhere to an adherend through an intersurface force, wherein when a strain energy release rate is defined as G1c and G2c and an adhesive energy is defined as ??1c and ??2c respectively, the ??1c and the ??2c differ from each other so that G1c/??1c?G2c/??2c is satisfied.

Abstract: A bonding member includes a protrusion that protrudes from a surface of a base and that has an end face adhering to a substrate with a surface force between the end face and the substrate. The protrusion has a varied modulus of elasticity and/or a varied Poisson's ratio so that G1a/??1a?G2a/??2a is satisfied, where G1a denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a first release portion of the protrusion when a force is exerted on the protrusion in a first direction parallel to the surface, ??1a denotes an adhesive energy at the first release portion, G2a denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a second release portion of the protrusion when a force having the same magnitude as the force exerted in the first direction is exerted on the protrusion in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and ??2a denotes an adhesive energy at the second release portion.

Abstract: A bonding member includes a base and a protrusion that protrudes from a surface of the base and that has an end face that adheres to a substrate with a surface force between the end face and the substrate. A cross section of the protrusion taken parallel to the surface has such an asymmetric shape that G1b/??1b?G2b/??2b is satisfied, where G1b denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a first release portion of the protrusion when a force is exerted in a first direction parallel to the surface, ??1b denotes an adhesive energy at the first release portion, G2b denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a second release portion of the protrusion when a force having the same magnitude as the force exerted in the first direction is exerted in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and ??2b denotes an adhesive energy at the second release portion.

Abstract: A bonding member includes a base and a protrusion that protrudes from a surface of the base and that has an end face adhering to a substrate with a surface force between the end face and the substrate. ??1c and ??2c differ from each other so as to satisfy G1c/??1c?G2c/??2c, where G1c denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a first release portion of the protrusion when a force is exerted in a first direction parallel to the surface, ??1c denotes an adhesive energy at the first release portion, G2c denotes a strain-energy-release rate at a second release portion of the protrusion when a force having the same magnitude as the force exerted in the first direction is exerted in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and ??2c denotes an adhesive energy at the second release portion.