Abstract: A metal purifying method having: a local heating step of heating an aluminum-based molten metal in a first region on a molten metal surface of the aluminum-based molten metal; and a local low pressure step of lowering the pressure in a second region on the molten metal surface to a pressure lower than the pressure in the first region. The second region is different from the first region. This allows a specific element to be vaporized from the second region to purify the aluminum-based molten metal. The specific element is one or more of Zn, Mg, or Pb having a saturated vapor pressure higher than that of Al. This is effective not only in a purifying method for removing a specific element from an aluminum-based molten metal but also in a method of recovering a specific element, which can be a resource, from an aluminum-based molten metal.

Abstract: Epigenomic states of genome DNA are altered at multiple sites to rapidly change traits by providing a fusion protein including a first region that defines a polypeptide capable of binding sequence-specifically to multiple sites on genome DNA and a second region that defines a polypeptide capable of regulating an epigenomic state.

Abstract: A holder has a protrusion which protrudes from a side surface at a side opposite in an axial direction with respect to a rolling element held in a pocket toward the side opposite in the axial direction. An oil supply hole which penetrates through the holder from the side surface to a surface at a side of the rolling element in the axial direction is formed in the holder. When the holder rotates, the protrusion guides oil into the oil supply hole, and the oil is introduced from the side surface of the holder to the surface on the side of the rolling element.

Abstract: A method of inducing genetic recombination, including: allowing a protein having DNA double-stranded cleavage activity to act in cells of a eukaryotic organism which is a polyploidy inherently possessed by a eukaryotic organism. In eukaryotic organisms, various genetic recombination generates new genome set composition. This is done to obtain a population of eukaryotic organisms that hold the modified genomic set.

Abstract: A non-contact power transmission device is configured with which a primary circuit that supplies power and a secondary circuit that supplies the power supplied from the primary circuit to a load are coupled via a transformer, the non-contact power transmission device capable of connecting a storage battery and an application using the primary circuit and the secondary circuit.

Abstract: A graphene nanostructure has a nanographene, a ? conjugated functional group bonded to the nanographene via a pyrazine skeleton, and at least one Br group and/or at least one CN group introduced into the ? conjugated functional group. A graphene nanostructure preferably has an average size of 1 nm or larger to 100 nm or smaller, a band gap of 0.01 eV or higher to 1.2 eV or lower, and/or a HOMO level of ?6.0 eV or higher to ?4.0 eV or lower. As the ? conjugated functional group into which the Br group(s) and/or the CN group(s) are/is introduced, a 4-bromobenzene group, a 4,5-dibromobenzene group, a 5-bromopyridine group, a 5-bromopyrazine group, a benzonitrile group, a phthalonitrile group, or a 2,3-dicyanopyrazine group is desirable.

Abstract: A model learning apparatus is configured to learn a model that shows a relationship between an input variable u input into a system and an output variable y output from the system. The model learning apparatus includes a storage that stores store a model used to learn a nonlinear equation of state for predicting the output variable y by using the input variable u; and a processor programmed to learn the equation of state by using the model and an input-output data set including a set of data of a steady-state value of the output variable y and data of the input variable u corresponding to the data of the steady-state value. The model is an equation of state including a bijective mapping ? that uses the output variable y as an input thereof.

Abstract: A carbon fiber wherein an average fiber diameter of a single fiber is in a range of 3 to 10 ?m, and an average value of an intensity ratio (D/G) of a D peak to a G peak in a Raman spectrum in a cross section perpendicular to a fiber axis direction of the single fiber is 0.90 or less in a region inside a circle having a diameter of 1 ?m and centered at a center of gravity of the cross section of the single fiber, and is 0.90 or less in a region up to 1 ?m inside from an outer periphery of the cross section of the single fiber, wherein the D peak is observed at around 1360 cm?1 and derived from a defect in a graphite structure and the G peak is observed at around 1590 cm?1 and derived from the graphite structure.

Abstract: A sensor delay time estimation device that includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire an observable required to estimate a vehicle state from a plurality of sensors that detect and output the observable, each of the plurality of sensors being different, and based on the observable for a fixed time interval acquired from each of the plurality of sensors, estimate a time delay from detection to acquisition of the observable for each of the plurality of sensors, and estimate a vehicle state for the fixed time interval.

Abstract: A power supply device includes a battery circuit module group in which a plurality of battery circuit modules are connected in series via their output terminals. The power supply device further includes a control circuit configured to: output, at intervals of a certain time, a gate signal for turning on and off a first switching element and a second switching element of each battery circuit module to the battery circuit modules in the battery circuit module group; and select one of the battery circuit modules that receives an input of the gate signal to output a predetermined voltage from the power supply device.

Abstract: An inertial navigation device that includes a processor that is configured to: assume a vertical velocity and a lateral velocity of a vehicle to be 0, and estimate a roll angle, a pitch angle and an azimuth angle, which are attitude angles of the vehicle, based on angular velocities and accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, a longitudinal velocity detected by a vehicle velocity sensor, and an initial value of the azimuth angle of the vehicle, and assume the vertical velocity of the vehicle to be 0, and estimate a current position of the vehicle based on the estimated attitude angles, the angular velocities and the accelerations detected by the inertial measurement device, the longitudinal velocity detected by the vehicle velocity sensor, a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor, and an initial value of a position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A power supply system including: a DC power trunk line; a demand-side device; a supply-side device that is configured to supply electric power and that is connected with the DC power trunk line to output a DC power to the demand-side device that is connected with the DC power trunk line to receive a DC power, and a calculator that is configured to: set a power-feeding voltage of the supply-side device on a supply side; set a power-receiving voltage of the demand-side device on a demand side; and regard a charge amount or a time integration of current value supplied from the supply-side device to the DC power trunk line, as well as a charge amount or a time integration of current value supplied from the DC power trunk line to the demand-side device, as an amount of power interchange.

Abstract: A surveillance performance (information expressing uncertainty of information relating to a potential risk area in a region that requires monitoring) and a tracking performance (information expressing the product of an importance level of a potential risk area and a coverage ratio (an overlap rate between potential risk areas and moving bodies)) are mutually analyzed, and plural moving bodies are allotted to either surveillance or tracking. Potential risk areas that require monitoring are determined such that the surveillance performance and the tracking performance respectively satisfy predetermined levels. The plural moving bodies are allocated to potential risk areas determined to be potential risk areas that require monitoring (simultaneous optimization). The respective moving bodies subject to simultaneous optimization start moving toward their allocated potential risk areas to monitor the potential risk areas.

Abstract: A carbon fiber precursor fiber bundle includes: acrylamide-based polymer fibers, wherein the carbon fiber precursor fiber bundle contains single fibers having a circular cross section in a proportion of 30 to 100%, wherein the circular cross section has a ratio of a major axis to a minor axis of 1.0 to 1.3 in a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the single fiber, and a fineness of the single fiber is 0.1 to 7 dtex.

Abstract: An object provides a power generation apparatus performing the purification of an Al alloy melt using scrap as raw material. A power generation apparatus includes: a container body with aluminum alloy melt and molten salt in a liquid junction with the aluminum alloy melt; an anode which is in contact with the aluminum alloy melt; and a cathode which is in contact with the molten salt. DC power is obtained from between the anode and the cathode by an anode reaction on the aluminum alloy melt side and a cathode reaction on the molten salt side. When the aluminum alloy melt and the molten salt are separated by a separator allowing ionic conduction between the aluminum alloy melt and molten salt, the power generation efficiency is enhanced. The amount of a reactant in the Al alloy melt is monitored by measuring the electrical quantity associated with the power generation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a sample plate for laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry, comprising: a hydrophilic thin film capable of absorbing a laser ray; and a water-repellent thin film comprising surface-hydrophobized nanoparticles and being stacked in a region other than a region to be a sample spot on a surface of the hydrophilic thin film, wherein a water contact angle of the water-repellent thin film is 120° or more.

Abstract: A noise filter may include: a first conductive line extending between an input and an output terminal portion, wherein the first conductive line includes an input-side conductive line extending between the input terminal portion and a branch portion, and an output-side conductive line extending between the output terminal portion and the branch portion; a second conductive line connected to the branch portion of the first conductive line, wherein a capacitor is on the second conductive line; and a magnetic body surrounding at least a part of a circumference of at least a part of the first conductive line, wherein the magnetic body is configured to magnetically couple the input-side and the output-side conductive lines such that at least an equivalent series inductance of the capacitor and a parasitic inductance of the second conductive line are reduced by a mutual inductance between the input-side conductive line and the output-side conductive line.

Abstract: A novel spot welding method for steel sheets and an aluminum alloy sheet, includes stacked sheet materials from a pair of opposing electrodes to join the sheet materials by resistance heating. The pair of opposing electrodes are in pressure contact with both outer surfaces of the sheet sets. The sheet sets include at least a first and second steel sheet, and an aluminum alloy sheet stacked in this order. A first energization step forms a molten pool between facing surfaces of the first and second steel sheets without melting the aluminum alloy sheet. A second energization step causes a melting reaction between facing surfaces of the second steel sheet and the aluminum alloy sheet. The first and second steel sheets are joined via a first nugget. The second steel sheet and the aluminum alloy sheet are joined via a second nugget including an intermetallic compound generated by the melting reaction.

Abstract: A model learning apparatus is configured to learn a model that shows a relationship between an input variable v input into a system and an output variable y output from the system. The model learning apparatus includes a storage that stores a model used to learn a nonlinear equation of state for predicting the output variable y by using the input variable v, and a processor programmed to learn the equation of state by using the model and an input-output data set including multiple sets of input variable data and output variable data with respect to the model. The model is an equation of state including a bijective mapping ? that uses the input variable v as an input thereof and a bijective mapping ? that uses the output variable y as an input thereof.

Abstract: A recycling method for aluminum alloy is capable of offering a recycled Al alloy (melt), in which the Fe concentration is efficiently reduced, while using Al alloy scrap and the like as raw materials. The method includes: a preparation step of preparing a first melt by melting an Fe.Mn-containing material that contains Fe and Mn and an Al alloy raw material; a crystallization step of holding the first melt at a separation temperature at which an Fe compound crystallizes; and an extraction step of extracting a second melt obtained by removing at least part of the Fe compound crystallized from the first melt. The Fe.Mn-containing material preferably has a mass ratio of Mn to Fe (Mn/Fe) of, for example, 2 or more.