Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a particulate observation device using light scattering, which includes a means for determining the three-dimensional position of a particle, and can measure an accurate particle size or impart various properties of same. The present invention is characterized by including a position determination means which captures, with an optical microscope, an image of light scattered from particles in a dispersion medium to which laser light is emitted, and determines a three-dimensional position of each particle from the obtained two dimensional image, wherein the position determination obtains two-dimensional coordinates along the two-dimensional image from luminescent point positions of the particles, and determines the depth position along a coordinate axis vertical to the two-dimensional image from the diameters of diffraction fringes of the luminescent points.

Abstract: A spray ionization device is provided with: a first tube body having a first flow channel through which a first fluid can flow, and having, at one end thereof, a first outlet for spraying the first liquid; a second tube body having a second flow channel through which a second fluid can flow, and having, at one end thereof, a second outlet for spraying the second liquid; an outer tube that has a gas flow channel through which a gas can flow, the outer tube having, at one end thereof, a spray port that is covered with a porous member; and an electrode that is provided between the first flow channel, the second channel, and the first outlet or the second outlet and the porous member, the electrode allowing for a voltage to be applied to the first liquid and/or the second liquid by a power source.

Abstract: Provided is a neuronal function modulating agent effective for neuronal cell protection and exerts a neuronal function modulating effect through neuronal cell protection. The disclosed neuronal function modulating agent comprises malvidin-3,5-diglucoside as an active ingredient, the disclosed pharmaceutical composition comprises the neuronal function modulating agent, and the disclosed food composition comprises the neuronal function modulating agent.

Abstract: Provided is a grape pericarp extract that exhibits neuronal function modulating effects. The grape pericarp extract comprises 15 mg/g or more of malvidin-3,5-diglucoside in dry mass.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a surface of an optical window includes a first electrode that is provided inside the optical window and is covered with a dielectric material forming the optical window. A second electrode is provided around the optical window and is exposed on at least one surface of the optical window. A power supply is electrically coupled between the first electrode and the second electrode. The apparatus further includes a controller that controls the power supply so as to generate dielectric barrier discharge along the surface of the optical window by applying a high-frequency or pulsed voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound therapy system for treating a joint by providing a focused ultrasound wave to a bone surface as an affected part, and which has a temperature monitoring function for controlling irradiation intensity. The ultrasound therapy system includes a focused ultrasound wave providing unit provided on skin and configured to radiate the focused ultrasound wave to the affected part, and a temperature detecting unit configured to measure a temperature of the affected part. The temperature detecting unit includes an electromagnetic wave measuring unit configured to measure intensity of an electromagnetic wave radiated from the bone surface, and an analyzing unit configured to analyze change of the electromagnetic wave of the electromagnetic wave measuring unit to provide the temperature of the affected part.

Abstract: A haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control a physical quantity, and causes a person to feel a force which cannot exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.

Abstract: There is provided an item detection device that detects an item to be loaded and unloaded and includes an image acquisition unit acquiring a surrounding image obtained by capturing surroundings of the item detection device, an information image creation unit creating an information image, in which information related to a part to be loaded and unloaded in the item has been converted into an easily recognizable state, on the basis of the surrounding image, and a computing unit computing at least one of a position and a posture of the part to be loaded and unloaded on the basis of the information image.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes single-crystal particles of a TbCu7 type samarium-iron-nitrogen based alloy in an anisotropic magnet powder.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is that in samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder, a non-magnetic phase is formed on a surface of the samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet phase, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface is 3.5 nm or less.

Abstract: A reaction processor includes: a reaction processing vessel placing portion for placing a reaction processing vessel provided with a channel into which a sample is introduced; a temperature control system, which controls the temperature of the channel in order to heat the sample inside the channel; and a liquid feeding system, which controls the pressure inside the channel of the reaction processing vessel in order to move the sample inside the channel. The liquid feeding system maintains the pressure inside the channel to be higher than the atmospheric pressure in the surrounding of the reaction processing vessel, more preferably 1 atm or higher, during a reaction process of the sample.

Abstract: A laminate comprising a plastic substrate (A); a hardened organic polymer layer (B) provided on a surface of the plastic substrate (A) and having a storage elastic modulus of from 0.01 to 5 GPa and tan ? of from 0.1 to 2.0 at 25° C. which are measured at a temperature elevating rate of 2° C./min by a dynamic viscoelasticity test stipulated in JIS K 7244; an organic/inorganic composite layer (C) provided on a surface of the hardened organic polymer layer (B) and containing covalently bound organic polymer and metal oxide nanoparticles; and an inorganic layer (D) provided on a surface of the organic/inorganic composite layer (C) and comprising secondary particles of ceramic or metal.

Abstract: A method for decomposing and removing a pollutant includes: confining, in a small sealable container, a waste containing the pollutant to be processed and liquid for dilution together with gas containing oxygen or air; disposing the small sealable container in a processing chamber of a high-temperature and high-pressure processing device and keeping the small sealable container at an elevated temperature after the confining; and lowering a temperature in the processing chamber after the disposing. The disposing and the lowering are performed under a state where the small sealable container is pressurized from outside by increasing a pressure in the processing chamber.

Abstract: Provided are a stretchable humidity-sensitive composite material for a humidity sensor that can be applied to clothing as wearable device, and the humidity sensor. The humidity-sensitive composite material is characterized by containing a deliquescent inorganic compound in closed pores inside a base material made of a porous silicone resin. The humidity sensor is characterized in that a bulk made of a humidity-sensitive composite material containing a deliquescent inorganic compound in closed pores inside a base material made of a porous silicone resin is sandwiched between a pair of counter electrodes made of a moisture-permeable material.

Abstract: A method for producing methyldichlorophosphane, the method including: allowing methane and phosphorus trichloride to react in the presence of an additive using a metal compound, or a metal compound carried on a carrier, or both thereof.

Abstract: The output voltage of an MRAM is increased by means of an Fe(001)/MgO(001)/Fe(001) MTJ device, which is formed by microfabrication of a sample prepared as follows: A single-crystalline MgO (001) substrate is prepared. An epitaxial Fe(001) lower electrode (a first electrode) is grown on a MgO(001) seed layer at room temperature, followed by annealing under ultrahigh vacuum. A MgO(001) barrier layer is epitaxially formed on the Fe(001) lower electrode (the first electrode) at room temperature, using a MgO electron-beam evaporation. A Fe(001) upper electrode (a second electrode) is then formed on the MgO(001) barrier layer at room temperature. This is successively followed by the deposition of a Co layer on the Fe(001) upper electrode (the second electrode). The Co layer is provided so as to increase the coercive force of the upper electrode in order to realize an antiparallel magnetization alignment.

Abstract: A resin composition is provided that contains a urethane resin and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.

Abstract: The present invention, in an aspect, provides a resin composition that contains a vinyl polymer and a smectite with partially immobilized lithium.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force and the like can be continuously presented in the same direction, which cannot be presented by only the physical characteristic of a haptic sensation presentation device. In a haptic presentation device, the rotation velocity of at least one rotator in the haptic presentation device is controlled by a control device, and a vibration, a force or a torque as the physical characteristic is controlled, so that the user is made to conceive various haptic information of the vibration, force, torque or the like.

Abstract: A cell culture instrument configured to detach cells at a desired position and a cell processing method using the cell culture instrument. The cell culture instrument includes: a substrate; and a photoreactive layer having a photosolubility and a photothermal convertibility, wherein the photoreactive layer is laminated on the substrate, and the photoreactive layer includes a polymer having a photosolubility and a photothermal convertibility.