Abstract: A perfusion state detection method includes: driving a liquid feeding pump configured to supply a liquid via a liquid feeding conduit inserted into a living body; driving a suction pump configured to discharge the liquid via a suction conduit inserted into the living body; obtaining a distance, on a plane indicating a relation between any two values of a drive output to the suction pump, a flow rate of the liquid flowing through the conduit, and a pressure in the conduit, between a coordinate on the plane of the two values in a perfusion state at normal time of the conduit and a coordinate on the plane of the two values actually measured; detecting abnormality of the perfusion state of the conduit based on whether the distance exceeds a threshold; and controlling a flow of the liquid in the conduit based on a detection result of the perfusion state.

Abstract: A stopper for continuous casting that is intended to prevent adhesion of inclusions to the vicinity of a fitting part of a stopper, and to prevent a nose region of the stopper from cracking or peeling off due to insufficient strength. The stopper for continuous casting includes a gas flow cavity in a vertically-extending central part thereof. In at least part of a vertical section of a nose periphery region of the stopper, a porous refractory material having a gas permeability is arranged on the side of an outer peripheral surface of the nose periphery region. A refractory material having higher strength than that of the porous refractory material is arranged on the side of an inner peripheral surface of the nose periphery region.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a base component, a first external electrode, a second external electrode, and a protective layer. The base component includes ceramic layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked on one another and includes a first surface, a second surface, a first end face, a second end face, a first side surface, and a second side surface. The internal electrode layers are exposed on the first and second side surfaces and on the first or second end face. Each of the first and second external electrodes extends to at least one of the first or second surface from the first or second end face and includes first and second terminal side surfaces. The protective layer contains a ceramic material and covers the first and second side surfaces, and the first and second terminal side surfaces of each of the first and second external electrodes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the communication processes in a wireless communication system based on short TTIs. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, there provide a method for communication by a base station. The method comprise: receiving, from a user equipment, an uplink demodulation reference signal, DMRS, in an uplink transmission time interval, TTI, of an uplink subframe, which supports two or more uplink TTIs. At least one uplink TTI supported by the uplink subframe is configured to only transmit uplink control information and/or uplink data without any uplink DMRS. In the other aspects of the present disclosure, there also provides methods for communication by a user equipment and corresponding apparatuses.

Abstract: An information processing device performs: acquiring a face similarity indicating a similarity between a face of a first person and a face of a second person; acquiring a voice similarity indicating a similarity between a voice of the first person and a voice of the second person; calculating an integrated similarity by integrating the face similarity and the voice similarity, and determining the integrated similarity as a final similarity when the face similarity falls within an integrated range including a threshold which is used to determine whether the first person and the second person are identical to each other, and calculating the face similarity as a final similarity when the face similarity is out of the integrated range; and outputting the final similarity.

Abstract: A washing apparatus includes: a housing; a holding part that holds a substrate arranged in the housing; a washing nozzle that supplies a washing liquid to the substrate held by the holding part; a gas nozzle that ejects a gas toward a ceiling of the housing; and a control part that controls the gas nozzle.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure including the following components is provided. A first capacitor structure includes first, second, and third electrode layers and first and second dielectric layers. The second electrode layer is disposed on the first electrode layer. The top-view pattern of the second electrode layer partially overlaps the top-view pattern of the first electrode layer to have a first overlapping region. The third electrode layer is disposed on the second electrode layer. The top-view pattern of the third electrode layer partially overlaps the top-view pattern of the second electrode layer to have a second overlapping region. The first overlapping region and the second overlapping region have the same top-view area. The first dielectric layer is disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed between the second electrode layer and the third electrode layer.

Abstract: A lighting and monitoring module is disclosed herein. The lighting and monitoring module includes a module body including a front surface and a back surface, the module body defining a space between the front surface and the back surface, a connector disposed within the space defined by the module body, a light disposed within the space defined by the module body, the light coupled to the connector, a first component disposed within the space defined by the module body, the first component coupled to the connector, and a second component disposed within the space defined by the module body, the second component coupled to the connector.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating device including: a battery configured to supply power; a heating body configured to heat an aerosol generating article; and an amplifier electrically connected to the battery and the heating body, wherein the amplifier is configured to amplify a power signal supplied from the battery using at least two switching elements to generate a first amplification signal, and eliminate a modulation frequency component and a harmonics component from the generated first amplification signal to generate a second amplification signal, and transmit the generated second amplification signal to the heating body, wherein each of the at least two switching elements has a capacitance of 5 nC or less or a resistance value of 15 m? or less. In addition, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.

Abstract: Provided are parameter configuration and parameter receiving methods and apparatuses, and a storage medium. The parameter configuration method includes: configuring reference pilot sequence parameters, and determining, according to the reference pilot sequence parameters, an initial value of a reference pilot pseudo-random sequence corresponding to each reference pilot group among M reference pilot groups, where the initial value of the reference pilot pseudo-random sequence is used for generating a pilot pseudo-random sequence of a corresponding reference pilot group, M is a positive integer, and each reference pilot group corresponds to at least one reference pilot port.

Abstract: A user equipment, communication system, and communication method thereof are provided. The communication method for a user equipment includes receiving system information from a communication system and determining whether to send an attach request message to the communication system according to the system information. The system information indicates whether Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem or Circuit Switch Fallback is supported or includes at least one field about Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem or Circuit Switch Fallback.

Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body, a fixed body, and a gimbal mechanism. The gimbal mechanism includes a flat plate portion on an opposite subject side with respect to the movable body, two fixed body-side arm portions extending from base end portions to tip end portions in a first intersecting direction, and two movable body-side arm portions extending from base end portions to tip end portions in a second intersecting direction, the fixed body-side arm portions and the movable body-side arm portions are inclined with respect to the flat plate portion as viewed from the intersecting directions, and an inclination direction of the fixed body-side arm portions and an inclination direction of the movable body-side arm portions are opposite to each other as viewed from the intersecting directions.

Abstract: The present disclosures provides an electronic device that includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting units disposed on the substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on the plurality of light emitting units, and an anti-reflection layer disposed on the first conductive layer and overlapped with the plurality of light emitting units. The first conductive layer includes a plurality of first openings. In a top view of the electronic device, at least a portion of the plurality of first openings expose at least a portion of the plurality of light emitting units respectively.

Abstract: A method of displaying an image includes displaying an initial pattern image representing two or more control points to be used for shape correction of a projection image of a projector, receiving a first operation of moving a first control point as one of the two or more control points from a first position to a second position, displaying a first image representing the first control point before the movement at the first position when the first operation is received, and displaying a second image representing the first control point after the movement at the second position when the first operation is received.

Abstract: An imaging element includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels configured to output a signal based on photoelectrically converted electric charge, a second substrate having a conversion unit configured to convert a first signal output from at least a first pixel among the plurality of pixels and a second signal output from the first pixel after the first signal into a digital signal, and a third substrate having a calculation unit configured to perform a calculation of an evaluation value based on the first signal converted into a digital signal by the conversion unit and generation of an image signal based on the first signal converted into a digital signal by the conversion unit and the second signal converted into a digital signal by the conversion unit.

Abstract: Provided is a vulcanized rubber composition with excellent on-ice performance without degrading other performances such as wear resistance. In order to solve the above problem, the vulcanized rubber composition of the present disclosure is a vulcanized rubber composition obtainable by vulcanizing a rubber composition comprising a rubber component and a resin component, wherein the rubber component contains an isoprene skeleton rubber and at least one selected from a styrene-butadiene rubber and a butadiene rubber, the resin component has a softening point higher than 110° C. and a polystyrene-equivalent weight-average molecular weight of 200 to 1600 g/mol, and having a plurality of pores.

Abstract: Silica particles have a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 GHz and satisfy the requirements (i), (ii) and (iii): (i) an average primary particles diameter of 5 nm to 120 nm; (ii) a ratio of a specific surface area by water vapor adsorption (SH2O) to a specific surface area by nitrogen adsorption (SN2 i.e., (SH2O/SN2) of 0.6 or less; and (iii) a total silanol group content of 5% or less as determined by the following Formula (1): total silanol group content (%)=(Q2×2/4+Q3×1/4+Q4×0/4) . . . Formula (1) [in Formula (1), each of Q2, Q3 and Q4 is the proportion (%) of the peak areas derived from silicon atom structures], and a silica dispersion.

Abstract: An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage elements connected to switches that are controllable to switch between plural switch configurations. In one configuration, the switches forms an arrangement of charge storage elements in which at least one charge storage element is charged using the magnetic storage element through the network input or output port. In another, the switches form an arrangement of charge storage elements in which an element discharges using the magnetic storage element through one of the input port and output port of the switching network.

Abstract: A patient transport apparatus including a base frame, an intermediate frame to provide support to a patient, an apparatus energy storage unit, an apparatus user interface, and an apparatus controller. The patient transport apparatus also includes a powered device having a module to perform a powered function, a device energy storage unit, a device user interface, a device interface adapted to cooperate with the apparatus interface to facilitate power transfer from the apparatus energy storage unit to the device energy storage unit, and a device controller. The device controller includes a power module configured to determine a charging level for the device energy storage unit based on a current state of the apparatus energy storage unit, and to draw power from the apparatus energy storage unit via the apparatus interface and across the device interface to charge the device energy storage unit at the charging level.

Abstract: A method database (6) that stores existing methods that are analysis method used in analyses performed in the past, a new method creator (12) that is configured to display a new method edit screen to display a method edit window on a display (4), and to create a new method based on a condition parameter set in the method edit window, and a similar method search part (14) that is configured to search for an existing method similar to the new method being created from the existing methods stored in the method database (6) as a similar method while the new method edit screen is displayed.