Abstract: An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.

Abstract: Provided are a sentence proofreading assistance apparatus, a sentence proofreading assistance method, and a sentence proofreading assistance program for assisting in sentence proofreading when creating a picture book. The sentence proofreading assistance apparatus includes a requirement input unit that receives information on a development level of a target person and information on a purpose of creating a picture book, an acquisition unit that acquires a check content and a rule corresponding to both pieces of information received by the requirement input unit, a sentence analysis unit that analyzes, when receiving a sentence of a picture book to be proofread, the sentence of the picture book, and a proofreading information output unit that checks an analysis result by the sentence analysis unit in accordance with the check content and outputs proofreading information based on the rule for proofreading the sentence.

Abstract: A relation visualizing apparatus to an embodiment includes a memory; and a processor configured to: receive, as an input, dialog content data representing a content on which two or more persons have had a dialog with respect to predetermined two or more topic items and generate a graph, composed of nodes and edges, by using the topic items as the nodes and utterer IDs identifying persons having given utterance to two topic items different from each other as the edges, the edges connecting nodes corresponding to the two topic items; and display the generated graph.

Abstract: An utterance imaging device reduces a cognitive load on utterance details by including an extraction unit configured to extract some character strings from character strings recognized as sounds from an utterance, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image based on the some character strings, and an output unit configured to output the image to a position corresponding to a speaker related to the utterance.

Abstract: An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.

Abstract: Using conventional synthesis methods, when an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof is synthesized from a hydroxycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction using a catalyst, the yield has been low. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a catalyst capable of synthesizing unsaturated carboxylic acids or derivatives thereof by a dehydration reaction that produces a high yield. The synthetic catalyst comprises an apatite compound containing an alkali metal in a crystal structure thereof, and the invention further includes methods for synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof. The methods comprise contacting the aforementioned synthetic catalyst with the hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, so as to synthesize the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a catalyst, which solves a problem in that when an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof has been conventionally synthesized from a hydroxycarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction using a catalyst, the yield has been low, and which is capable of synthesizing the unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof at a high yield, and also to provide a synthetic method capable of synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof at a high yield.

Abstract: An appropriate catalyst is found for synthesis of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof using as a raw material compound a hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof that can easily be synthesized from a polysaccharide such as biomass-derived cellulose, and an efficient method for synthesizing the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or the derivative thereof is provided. This method is a method for synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, wherein an apatite compound is used as a catalyst to synthesize the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or the derivative thereof from a biomass-derived hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction.

Abstract: An appropriate catalyst is found for synthesis of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof using as a raw material compound a hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof that can easily be synthesized from a polysaccharide such as biomass-derived cellulose, and an efficient method for synthesizing the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or the derivative thereof is provided. This method is a method for synthesizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof, wherein an apatite compound is used as a catalyst to synthesize the unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or the derivative thereof from a biomass-derived hydroxycarboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof by a dehydration reaction.