Abstract: Provided are an inexpensive and safe moving object detection apparatus and moving object detection method that enable accurate detection of a moving object from an image sequence captured by a monocular camera at a high speed. A representative configuration of the moving object detection apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a horizon line detection unit that detects a horizon line in a frame image, an edge image generation unit that generates an edge image from a frame image, and a moving object detection unit that sets a detection box on a moving object, and the edge image generation unit extracts an edge image below a horizon line detected by the horizon line detection unit, and the moving object detection unit generates a foreground by combining the difference between the edge image below the horizon line and a background image of the edge image with the difference between a gray scale image and a background image of the gray scale image.

Abstract: Provided are an inexpensive and safe moving object detection apparatus and moving object detection method that enable accurate detection of a moving object from an image sequence captured by a monocular camera at a high speed. A representative configuration of the moving object detection apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a horizon line detection unit that detects a horizon line in a frame image, an edge image generation unit that generates an edge image from a frame image, and a moving object detection unit that sets a detection box on a moving object, and the edge image generation unit extracts an edge image below a horizon line detected by the horizon line detection unit, and the moving object detection unit generates a foreground by combining the difference between the edge image below the horizon line and a background image of the edge image with the difference between a gray scale image and a background image of the gray scale image.

Abstract: A composite material including a carbon-containing material and a non-stoichiometric titanium compound shown by a chemical formula of Li4+xTi5?xO12, where x is in a range of 0<x<0.30, the composite material including at least one composite particle that has a core portion including the non-stoichiometric titanium compound and a mixed layer formed on a surface of the core portion, the mixed layer including non-stoichiometric titanium compound and carbon, and having an atomic ratio of titanium and carbon in a range of Ti/C=1/50 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a novel method for preventing and/or treating hairy wart disease which is a hoof and leg disease of ungulates. The method is carried out by administering an isothiocyanic acid ester such as allyl isothiocyanate to a hoof of an ungulate. Examples of ungulates targeted for application of the present invention include cows such as dairy cows as well as sheep, pigs and horses.

Abstract: A composite material including a carbon-containing material and a non-stoichiometric titanium compound shown by a chemical formula of Li4+xTi5?xO12, where x is in a range of 0<x<0.30, the composite material including at least one composite particle that has a core portion including the non-stoichiometric titanium compound and a mixed layer formed on a surface of the core portion, the mixed layer including non-stoichiometric titanium compound and carbon, and having an atomic ratio of titanium and carbon in a range of Ti/C=1/50 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a novel method for preventing and/or treating hairy wart disease which is a hoof and leg disease of ungulates. The method is carried out by administering an isothiocyanic acid ester such as allyl isothiocyanate to a hoof of an ungulate. Examples of ungulates targeted for application of the present invention include cows such as dairy cows as well as sheep, pigs and horses.

Abstract: A novel means for accelerating the flowering time in Rosaceae fruit trees such as apples and pears is provided, by inoculating a viral RNA into a cotyledon of a Rosaceae fruit tree seedling immediately after rooting with a particle gun technique, wherein the viral RNA is concentrated from a proliferating host infected with a recombinant apple latent spherical virus (FT-ALSV) expressing an Arabidopsis FT gene.

Abstract: A separate excitation and high sensitive resonant type mass sensor is provided. The resonant type mass sensor 1 includes: an oscillator 3; an vibrator 2 placed on the oscillator 3; and a detecting unit 5 for detecting the resonant frequency of the vibrator 2, and is characterized in that the vibrator 2 and the oscillator 3 are not coupled mechanically and that the vibrator 2 is not mechanically coupled to any members. The vibration of the vibrator 2 is represented by a standing wave. The vibrator 2 includes a molecular recognition means for recognizing the molecules of a substance to be measured. The molecular recognition means may collect specific molecules by antigen-antibody reaction. The vibrator 2 may include at least a magnetizable part. To the magnetizable part, magnetic beads 26, to which an antibody or antigen is immobilized, may be adsorbed magnetically.

Abstract: A method for removing cauxin in cat urine and a material for removing cauxin are provided. The material for removing cauxin in cat urine comprises a polymer substrate on which surface a trifluoroketone derivative is immobilized via dithiol.

Abstract: The invention provides a flake graphite cast iron being highly strong and excellent in workability such as cutting performance, which is suitable for use, for example, in internal combustion engine parts and the like, and a production method thereof without using a misch metal. Specifically, the flake graphite cast iron according to the invention includes an A-type graphite with a uniformly and disorderly distributed existence form without directionality; and has a chemical composition containing 2.8 to 4.0 mass % of C, 1.2 to 3.0 mass % of Si, 1.1 to 3.0 mass % of Mn, 0.01 to 0.6 mass % of P, 0.01 to 0.30 mass % of S and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the ratio (Mn/S) of the Mn content to the S content is within a range of 3 to 300.

Abstract: A separate excitation and high sensitive resonant type mass sensor is provided. The resonant type mass sensor 1 includes: an oscillator 3; an vibrator 2 placed on the oscillator 3; and a detecting unit 5 for detecting the resonant frequency of the vibrator 2, and is characterized in that the vibrator 2 and the oscillator 3 are not coupled mechanically and that the vibrator 2 is not mechanically coupled to any members. The vibration of the vibrator 2 is represented by a standing wave. The vibrator 2 includes a molecular recognition means for recognizing the molecules of a substance to be measured. The molecular recognition means may collect specific molecules by antigen-antibody reaction. The vibrator 2 may include at least a magnetizable part. To the magnetizable part, magnetic beads 26, to which an antibody or antigen is immobilized, may be adsorbed magnetically.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a negative-electrode active material for lithium-ion secondary battery, negative-electrode active material which makes it possible for lithium-ion secondary batteries to exhibit higher capacities, and which makes it feasible to charge and discharge lithium-ion secondary batteries at a faster speed. In a production process according to the present invention, oxidized titanium fluoride is obtained by heating a mixed raw material, which includes a mixture of anatase-type TiO2 and hydrofluoric acid, at 70° C. or more (i.e., a heating step). This mixed raw material includes hydrogen fluoride in an amount exceeding 2 mol per the anatase-type TiO2 making 1 mol. When the oxidized titanium fluoride, which is obtained by this production process, is used as a negative-electrode active material of lithium-ion secondary battery, high-capacity and rapidly-chargeable/dischargeable lithium-ion secondary batteries are obtainable.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of diagnosing renal dysfunction in a cat by removing cauxin from cat urine and detecting a protein in the cat urine sample from which cauxin has been removed. Cauxin is removed from cat urine by bringing the cat urine into contact with a lectin or with an anti-cauxin antibody that specifically binds to cauxin. Cauxin may be removed using a column filled with a carrier that is bound to the lectin or to the anti-cauxin antibody. The lectin may be Lens culinaris lectin. Detection of the cat urinary protein from which cauxin has been removed is performed with a urine test strip.

Abstract: A large-scale sound system or communication system is numerically and stably identified. When an input signal is represented by the M(?N)-th order AR model, high-speed H? filtering can be performed with a computational complex 3N+O(M). A processing section determines the initial state of a recursive equation (S201), sets CUk according to an input uk (S205), determines a variable recursively (S207), updates a matrix GkN, calculates an auxiliary gain matrix KUkN (S209), divides it (S211), calculates a variable DkM and a backward prediction error ?m, k (S213), calculate a gain matrix Kk (S215), and updates a filter equation of a high-speed H? filter (S217). To reduce the computational complexity, Kk(:, 1)/(1+&ggr;f?2 Hk Kk (:, 1)) is directly used as the filter gain Ks, k.

Abstract: A method for diagnosing a kidney disease in a cat by detecting a cat urinary protein without being affected by cauxin, and a diagnostic agent therefor are provided. A method of detecting a urinary protein derived from renal dysfunction in a cat according to claim 1, wherein cauxin is removed from cat urine by bringing the cat urine into contact with a lectin or an anti-cauxin antibody that specifically binds to cauxin.

Abstract: The invention provides a flake graphite cast iron being highly strong and excellent in workability such as cutting performance, which is suitable for use, for example, in internal combustion engine parts and the like, and a production method thereof without using a misch metal. Specifically, the flake graphite cast iron according to the invention includes an A-type graphite with a uniformly and disorderly distributed existence form without directionality; and has a chemical composition containing 2.8 to 4.0 mass % of C, 1.2 to 3.0 mass % of Si, 1.1 to 3.0 mass % of Mn, 0.01 to 0.6 mass % of P, 0.01 to 0.30 mass % of S and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein the ratio (Mn/S) of the Mn content to the S content is within a range of 3 to 300.

Abstract: A method for diagnosing a kidney disease in a cat by detecting a cat urinary protein without being affected by cauxin, and a diagnostic agent therefor are provided. A method of detecting a urinary protein derived from renal dysfunction in a cat according to claim 1, wherein cauxin is removed from cat urine by bringing the cat urine into contact with a lectin or an anti-cauxin antibody that specifically binds to cauxin.

Abstract: Provided is a highly safe lithium-ion secondary battery with a gradual voltage decrease, high charge/discharge capacity, and ease of handling, in which explosion due to expansion, heat generation, ignition, and the like is prevented. A non-stoichiometric titanium compound represented by a chemical formula Li4+xTi5?xO12 (where 0<x<0.30), a non-stoichiometric titanium compound represented by a chemical formula Li4+xTi5?x?yNbyO12 (where 0<x<0.30, 0<y<0.20), and carbon-composite non-stoichiometric titanium compounds Li4+xTi5?xO12/C (where 0<x<0.30) and Li4+xTi5?x?yNbyO12/C (where 0<x<0.30, 0<y<0.20) obtained by applying a carbon composite-forming process thereto, an active material of negative electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery using the compound, and a lithium-ion secondary battery using the active material of negative electrode.

Abstract: A magnesium boride thin film having a B-rich composition represented by the general formula of MgBx (x=1 to 10) and a superconducting transition temperature of 10K or more has superior crystallinity and orientation and is used as a superconducting material. This thin film is formed by maintaining a film forming environment in a high vacuum atmosphere of 4×10?5 Pa or less, and simultaneously depositing Mg and B on a substrate maintained at a temperature of 200° C. or less so as to grow the film at a growth rate of 0.05 nm/sec or less. It is preferable to supply an Mg vapor and a B vapor into the film forming environment at an Mg/B molar ratio of 1/1 to 12/1.

Abstract: A photovoltaic ultraviolet sensor comprises a zinc oxide single crystal substrate. On the +c face of the zinc oxide single crystal substrate, an ultraviolet receiver is formed. The exemplary ultraviolet receiver includes a Schottky electrode which, when receiving ultraviolet rays, produces a voltage in cooperation with the zinc oxide single crystal substrate. The ultraviolet sensor does not have any sensitivity to the visible rays. The ultraviolet sensor has a relatively fast response of several microseconds.