Abstract: A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair including a core part and a sheath part is provided. The core part contains a polyester-based resin composition containing a polyester-based resin, and the sheath part contains a polyamide-based resin composition containing a polyamide-based resin. The core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair has a core-to-sheath area ratio of core:sheath=2:8 to 8:2 and includes a hollow part, and the area of the hollow part constitutes 7% or more and 40% or less of the area of a fiber cross section. A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair that has a touch close to that of human hair and good voluminousness and curl setting property, and a hair ornament product including the same, and a method for producing the same are provided.

Abstract: A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair having a core-sheath structure including a core part and a sheath part is provided. Both the core part and the sheath part contain a bromine-based flame retardant and a flame retardant auxiliary. The core part includes a core part resin composition containing the bromine-based flame retardant and the flame retardant auxiliary in a total amount of 20 parts by weight or more and 40 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of a main component resin. The sheath part includes a sheath part resin composition containing the bromine-based flame retardant and the flame retardant auxiliary in a total amount of 10 parts by weight or more and 25 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of a main component resin.

Abstract: A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair including a core part and a sheath part is provided. The core part includes of a polyester-based resin composition that contains a polyester-based resin as a main component and the sheath part includes a polyamide-based resin composition that contains a polyamide-based resin as a main component. The core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair has a core-to-sheath area ratio of core:sheath=2:8 to 8:2 and a flat two-lobed cross sectional shape, and the polyamide-based resin composition has a melt viscosity of 140 Pa·s or less and contains a pigment. With this configuration, a core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair in which exposure of the core part is suppressed and that has a touch close to that of human hair and an improved combing property, a hair ornament product including the same, and a method for producing the same are provided.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element for detecting the spot size of incident light. The photoelectric conversion element includes a photoelectric conversion substrate having two principal surfaces, and comprises a first sensitive part and a second sensitive part that have mutually different photoelectric conversion characteristics. When a sensitive region appearing in the principal surface of the first sensitive part is defined as a first sensitive region, and a sensitive region appearing in the principal surface of the second sensitive part is defined as a second sensitive region, the first sensitive region is configured to receive at least a portion of light incident on a light-receiving surface and to decrease, proportionally to enlargement in an irradiation region of the principal surface irradiated with the incident light, the ratio of the first sensitive region to the second sensitive region in the irradiation region.

Abstract: An in-vivo indwelling instrument in which a stretch resistant member or a resin tip at a distal end part of a coil does not easily stray from the coil, a delivering system for the in-vivo indwelling instrument, and a method for producing the in-vivo indwelling instrument is disclosed. An in-vivo indwelling instrument includes: a coil that is formed by winding a wire; a resin tip connected to a distal end part of the coil; and a stretch resistant member that is provided in a lumen of the coil and is connected to the resin tip. The coil includes a gap portion, and a part of the resin tip exists in the gap portion.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition having good formability and low dielectric characteristics that have not been achieved by conventional liquid crystal polymer resin compositions, while maintaining excellent heat resistance and flame retardancy of liquid crystal polymers, and usable for information and communication devices used in a high frequency range is provided. A thermoplastic resin composition contains liquid crystal polymers (A) and a modified polyolefin (B) having a polar group. The liquid crystal polymer (A) contains a first liquid crystal polymer (a-1) that has a melting point of less than 300° C. and a second liquid crystal polymer (a-2) that has a melting point of 300° C. or more. It is preferable for the thermoplastic resin composition that the phase structure is a sea-island structure or a bicontinuous structure, and the second liquid crystal polymer (a-2) is contained at least in a sea phase or a continuous phase.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method capable of purifying a virus or a virus-like particle easily. The method for purifying a virus or a virus-like particle according to the present invention is characterized in comprising the step of contacting a liquid comprising the virus or the virus-like particle with a water-insoluble inorganic compound, wherein the water-insoluble inorganic compound comprises one or more elements selected from magnesium, calcium and aluminum.

Abstract: A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair includes a core part and a sheath part. The core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair has a flat two-lobed cross sectional shape or an elliptical cross sectional shape, and has a core-to-sheath area ratio of core:sheath=3:7 to 8:2 in a fiber cross section. The sheath part contains a polyamide-based resin composition containing a polyamide-based resin. The core part has a modified flat two-lobed cross sectional shape or a modified elliptical cross sectional shape including a pair of protrusions protruding from the center side toward the outer circumferential side along a minor axis direction of the fiber cross section. A core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair having a touch close to that of human hair, an excellent combing property, and a good curl setting property, a hair ornament product including the same, and a method for producing the same are provided.

Abstract: An expanded particle producing apparatus includes a vessel and a blade stirrer that is located inside the vessel. The blade stirrer comprises a stirrer base and an impeller blade that is attached to the stirrer base. A distance from the bottom of the vessel to the center of the stirrer base (L1) and a depth of the vessel (L2) have a ratio (L1/L2) of 0.01 to 0.2. L1 is measured in a depth direction parallel to L2, and a central axis of the blade stirrer coincides with a central axis of the vessel. The apparatus is configured to produce expanded particles.

Abstract: Provided is a production method capable of efficiently producing a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal. A method for producing reduced coenzyme Q10 crystals comprises warming a mixture of a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form I crystal and a reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal to 32° C. or higher, in the presence of 0.001 to 50 parts by weight of a solvent with respect to 100 parts by total weight of the crystals, so as to increase the content of the reduced coenzyme Q10 Form II crystal. The warming time may be 1 hour or more and less than 14 hours, and after the warming of the mixture in the presence of the solvent, drying may be performed at 45° C. or higher to remove the solvent.

Abstract: A method for modifying a plant includes coating a microparticle with at least one type of nucleic acid and/or at least one type of a protein, bombarding a shoot apex of a plant with the coated microparticle, growing the shoot apex bombarded with the coated microparticle to obtain a plant body, and selecting a modified plant body from the plant body. The shoot apex is selected from the group consisting of a shoot apex of an embryo of a fully mature seed, a shoot apex of a young bud, a shoot apex of a terminal bud or a lateral bud, and a shoot apex of an immature embryo.

Abstract: A Li ion conductor includes a garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L) containing Li, La, Zr, and O. The Li ion conductor has a diffraction peak at least one of at 2?=13.8° ±1° and at 2?=15.2° ±1° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKa rays. The Li ion conductor may have a metal-containing phase (K) different from the garnet-type composite metal oxide phase (L), and the metal-containing phase (K) contains a halogen element and Li.

Abstract: This catheter has: a shaft (2) that has a first end and a second end in the longitudinal direction thereof, has a lumen (3) extending in the longitudinal direction, and has formed therein a side hole (4) being in communication with the lumen (3); a protective tube (10) that is inserted in the side hole (4); a first electrode (20) that is disposed outside the shaft (2); and a wire (30) that is electrically connected to the first electrode (20), passes through the inside of the protective tube (10), and extends into the lumen (3) of the shaft (2).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce or eliminate a defect (e.g., a void) by achieving (i) a semipreg and a prepreg each of which allows a reduction in residual volatile component and (ii) methods for producing the semipreg and the prepreg, respectively, and consequently to achieve (iii) a fiber-reinforced composite material which has high heat resistance and superior mechanical strength and a (iv) a method for producing the fiber-reinforced composite material. The present invention attains the above object by providing, for example, a semipreg containing: powders of an imide oligomer; and reinforcement fibers, the imide oligomer being represented by a specific general formula (1).

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are to provide a new means of improving the productivity of a target protein. The present inventors have identified a novel protein consisting of the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 through an exhaustive analysis of the nucleotide sequence of chromosomal DNA of a yeast belonging to the genus Komagataella. Activation of a gene encoding the novel protein provides a cell having an improved productivity of a target protein.

Abstract: A resin composition containing (A) an organopolysiloxane having a glycidyloxy group, and (B) at least one selected from the group consisting of a triarylalkoxysilane, a diaryldialkoxysilane, a hydrolysate thereof and a partially hydrolyzed/condensed product thereof is provided. The resin composition may further contain (C) a ?-dicarbonyl compound. The resin composition may further contain (D) an organic compound having one or more of an epoxy group, an oxetanyl group and a vinyl ether group. The resin composition may be mixed with (E) an organoaluminum compound and/or organotitanium compound and be cured.

Abstract: Highly proliferative mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be useful for the large-scale and rapid production of a cell preparation, and a cell population may include the mesenchymal stem cells. A cell population may include mesenchymal stem cells derived from a fetal appendage, wherein, in the cell population, the proportion of CD105+ mesenchymal stem cells is 50% or more, the proportion of CD200+ mesenchymal stem cells is less than 10%, and the proportion of CD106+ mesenchymal stem cells is less than 5%.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a production method that enables PHA (e.g. PHA powder) to be produced with high productivity. The above is achieved by providing: a method for producing a polyhydroxyalkanoate, including the steps of (a) preparing an aqueous suspension that contains a polyhydroxyalkanoate and an alkylene oxide-based dispersing agent and has a pH of not more than 7 and (b) spray-drying the aqueous suspension prepared in the step (a); and the like.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element for detecting the spot size of incident light, including a photoelectric conversion substrate provided with two main surfaces, and multiple first sensitivity sections and second sensitivity sections arranged in a prescribed direction. When sensitivity regions on the respective main surfaces of the multiple first sensitivity sections are defined as first sensitivity regions, and sensitivity regions that appear on the main surfaces of the second sensitivity sections are defined as second sensitivity regions, each of the first sensitivity regions receives at least a part of light incident on the main surfaces, and has a pattern in which, in accordance with enlargement of an irradiation region irradiated with incident light on the main surface, the proportion of the first sensitivity regions in the irradiation region with respect to the first sensitivity regions other than those in the irradiation region and the second sensitivity regions is decreased.

Abstract: A light therapy diagnostic device comprising a shaft, and an optical waveguide disposed in a lumen of the shaft and being movable forward and backward in a longitudinal direction, wherein: the optical waveguide guides a first light and a second light; the shaft has a lateral emission window which allows the first light and the second light to be emitted toward a lateral direction and a distal emission window which allows the first light to be emitted toward a distal direction; a first mirror is provided on a distal end part of the optical waveguide and reflects the first light toward a lateral direction of the shaft; and a second mirror is provided on an inner surface of the shaft, located distal to a distal end of the lateral emission window, and reflects the first light reflected by the first mirror toward a distal direction of the shaft.