Abstract: A bone-regeneration material comprising a biodegradable fiber produced using an electrospinning process, wherein the biodegradable fiber comprises 30 to 50 wt % of PLLGA resin and 70 to 50 wt % of ?-TCP fine particles substantially uniformly dispersed in the PLLGA resin without forming aggregates, wherein the ?-TCP fine particles are not chemically bonded to the PLLGA resin, and surroundings of the ?-TCP fine particles are covered by the PLLGA resin so that the ?-TCP fine particles are not separated from the biodegradable fiber during a formation of the fiber, and wherein the bone-regeneration material is sterilized by using radiation sterilization with gamma ray.

Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a router unit and a monitoring unit. The router unit includes an acquisition unit obtaining a packet encrypted with a first encryption key by a first communication device and sent from the first communication device, the monitoring unit includes a decryption unit decrypting the packet obtained by the acquisition unit with a first decryption key corresponding to the first encryption key and a recording unit recording information based on the decrypted packet, the router unit includes a transfer unit transmitting the encrypted packet to a second communication device, the router unit and the monitoring unit function as OPC UA application integrated within encrypted communications, are equipped with OPC UA server/client functionalities, capable of OPC UA encryption/decryption, and make an inquiry to an OPC UA server as a proxy for an OPC UA client.

Abstract: An object is to provide a crosslinked polyester resin that does not lose bond exchange activity even when immersed in water, an organic solvent, or the like and in which bond exchange is fast. Another object is to provide a polyester resin in which bond exchange is fast. A crosslinked polyester resin in which a polyester resin having a plurality of side chains each having a carboxy group and a plurality of side chains each having a tertiary amino group is crosslinked by an epoxy-based crosslinking agent having a plurality of epoxy groups.

Abstract: An excellent photosensitivity is exhibited by a protein including, at a position or positions corresponding to one or two or more positions selected from the group made of the following (1) to (3) in a first amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1: (1) positions 39, 94, 98, 102, 110, 113, 114, 162, 224, 225, 230, 231, and 235, (2) positions 53, 61, 68, 74, 76, 80, 130, 137, 194, 195, 198, 200, 204, 205, 209, 210, 253, and 254, and (3) positions 46, 83, 84, 87, 90, 91, 116, 117, 120, 124, 139, 142, 143, 146, 173, 214, 216, 217, 238, 242, and 245, an amino acid residue different from that in the first amino acid sequence, and that has channel activity.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a polyester resin that has a high degree of freedom in design and that can have excellent biodegradability even with an increased molecular weight. A polyester of the present invention contains a hydroxy group-containing dicarboxylic acid component and a diol component (excluding a hydroxy group-containing dicarboxylic acid component) as copolymerization components, wherein more than 50 mol % of an aliphatic diol component is contained in 100 mol % of the diol component, the polyester has a number average molecular weight of 3000 or higher, and the polyester has a total hydroxyl value of 1000 eq/ton or higher.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) suitably controls two inverters (10) connected to associated ends of open windings (8). The rotary electric machine control apparatus (1) performs target control involving: controlling a first one of the inverters (10), which is selected from a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by rectangular wave control; and controlling a second one of the inverters (10) by special pulse width modulation control that is one type of pulse width modulation control. The special pulse width modulation control is a control method to produce a switching pattern (Su2+) that is based on a difference between a switching pattern resulting from the pulse width modulation control and a switching pattern (Su1+) resulting from the rectangular wave control when a target voltage is to be generated in the open windings (8).

Abstract: A bone-regeneration material that contains calcium phosphate particles in a biodegradable fiber containing PLGA by using electrospinning. A PLGA resin is heated in a kneader to soften until the viscosity of the resin becomes 102 to 107 Pa·s. A powder of calcium phosphate fine particles is added and mixed with the softened PLGA resin, while the blade of the kneader rotates. The mixture is kneaded by applying thermal and mechanical energy to the mixture through the continuous rotation of the blade of the kneader in the heated state, and aggregations of the calcium phosphate fine particles are disintegrated to prepare a composite in which the calcium phosphate fine particles are dispersed in the PLGA resin. The composite is dissolved in a solvent to prepare a spinning solution. Electrospinning is performed on the spinning solution to manufacture biodegradable fibers having therein the calcium phosphate fine particles substantially uniformly dispersed.

Abstract: A method for producing a polycarbonate, including reacting a dihydroxy component with a fluorine-containing carbonate component in a presence of a condensation catalyst to obtain a prepolymer, and heating the prepolymer at a temperature lower than a melting temperature of the prepolymer and subjecting the prepolymer to a solid state polymerization while discharging a by-produced fluorine-containing alcohol outside a system,

Abstract: A method for producing a cotton-wool like material for bone regeneration using a wet spinning method. 50-80 wt % of calcium salt particles and 50-20 wt % of PDLLGA resin are put into a mixing vessel, dissolved in acetone, and stirred to produce a spinning solution with a resin concentration of 10-20 wt % in which said calcium salt particles are dispersed. The produced spinning solution is filled in a syringe, and the spinning solution filled in the syringe is injected into a collector container filled with poor solvent by extruding the spinning solution from the discharge port of an injection needle having a predetermined diameter. The spinning solution injected into the poor solvent is solidified into fibers by interdiffusion of desorption of organic solvent and penetration of poor solvent in the poor solvent solution. The fibers solidified in the poor solvent are deposited in a floating state in the collector vessel without fiber-to-fiber adhesion and collected in a cotton-wool like shape.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an agent for restoring a visual function or an agent for preventing the deterioration in a visual function, which has an excellent visual function restoring ability. The agent for regenerating a visual function or the agent for preventing the deterioration in a visual function according to the present invention contains, as an active ingredient, a chimeric protein having both an amino acid sequence for a microorganism-origin ion-transporting receptor rhodopsin and an amino acid sequence for an animal-origin G-protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin. The chimeric protein is preferably one in which an amino acid sequence for a cytoplasm-side second loop and/or a cytoplasm-side third loop in the amino acid sequence for the microorganism-origin ion-transporting receptor rhodopsin is substituted by an amino acid sequence for a cytoplasm-side second loop and/or a cytoplasm-side third loop in the G-protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin.

Abstract: Two inverters (10) provided at respective both ends of open-end windings (8) are appropriately controlled. As control regions (R) of a rotating electrical machine (80), a first speed region (VR1) and a second speed region (VR2) in which the rotational speed of the rotating electrical machine (80) is higher than in the first speed region (VR1) for the same torque are set, and in the second speed region (VR2), a rotating electrical machine control device (1) controls both inverters (10), a first inverter (11) and a second inverter (12), by mixed pulse width modulation control in which control is performed such that a plurality of pulses with different patterns are outputted during a first period (T1) which is a half cycle of electrical angle, and an inactive state continues during a second period (T2) which is the other half cycle.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte is composed primarily of a component expressed by a composition formula of Lia+dMbXcAeOf by using values a to f that are greater than 0, where M is an element serving as a trivalent cation, X is a halogen element, and A is a sulfur element or a phosphorus element, wherein 0.8c?(a+3b)?1.2c and 1.6f?(d+n×e)?2.4f are satisfied, where when A is a sulfur element, n is 4 or 6, and when A is a phosphorus element, n is 5.

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte which contains a composition expressed by 3LiOH·Li2SO4. The solid electrolyte has a lithium ion conductivity of 0.1×10?6 S/cm or more at 25° C. and an activation energy of 0.6 eV or more.

Abstract: A discussion support device acquires, via a communication network, a plurality of comments relating to a main topic of a discussion, extracts a plurality of ideas, a plurality of favorable points, a plurality of unfavorable points, and a plurality of issues from the acquired plurality of comments, identifies a topology between the extracted plurality of ideas, plurality of favorable points, plurality of unfavorable points, and plurality of issues, and creates a facilitation structure to realize the identified topology.

Abstract: A skill acquisition assistance method includes a first stimulus generating step of acquiring first and second tactile data indicating tactile senses corresponding to a first body part based on an action of the first body part during work time when first and second workers perform the same work and generating a first stimulus based on the first tactile data by a stimulus transmission section mounted on a second body part different from the first body part of the first worker and a second stimulus generating step of switching a stimulus generated by the stimulus transmission section to a second stimulus based on the second tactile data in conjunction with the action of the first body part of the first worker.

Abstract: In a first control state, it is determined which one of a first failure pattern (FP1) and a second failure pattern (FP2) is a failure pattern (FT), and in a second control state, it is determined which one of a first lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF1) and a second lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF2) is a lower-stage-side failure pattern (LF), and it is determined which one of a set of upper-stage-side arms of a first inverter (11), a set of lower-stage-side arms of the first inverter (12), a set of upper-stage-side arms of a second inverter (12), and a set of lower-stage-side arms of the second inverter (12) is failure-side arms, based on a result of the determination in the first control state and a result of the determination in the second control state.

Abstract: A communication device comprising: a wireless communication section configured to wirelessly receive a signal from another communication device; and a control section configured to estimate a reception time of the second signal based on the expanded signal matrix that minimizes the predetermined norm, wherein the control section executes the iterative calculation separately at a plurality of stages, sets a value of the regularization parameter used for the iterative calculation at or after a second stage of the plurality of stages to a value of the regularization parameter or more used for the iterative calculation at a previous stage, and changes the value of the regularization parameter based on a reception status of the second signal during the iterative calculation at or after the second stage.

Abstract: The present invention provides means capable of imparting high temporal stability to a hardening aid solution which serves as a raw material and capable of imparting high strength and high quality stability to a hardened body of the self-hardening material, in the hardened body of the self-hardening material that contains a ceramic powder containing Si element at least on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A silsesquioxane derivative that can further contribute to improving heat conductivity. The silsesquioxane derivative represented in the following formula forms a matrix having exceptional heat conductivity due to curing. [C5] [SiO4/2]s[R1—SiO3/2]t[R2—SiO3/2]u[H—SiO3/2]v[R32—SiO2/2]w[H,R42—SiO1/2]x[R53—SiO1/2]y??(1) [in the formula, R1 is a hydrosilylation-reactive organic group having a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and having 2 to 30 carbon atoms, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 5 to 10 carbon atoms and an aralkyl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, t, u, w and x are a positive number, and s, v and y are 0 or a positive number].

Abstract: A protein for visual color recognition and the like, the protein having a channel activity and including an amino acid residue different from the amino acid residue present in a first amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, at a position or positions corresponding to one or two or more selections from the group consisting of the following positions in the first amino acid sequence: positions 53, 83, 87, 117, 120, 124, 137, 139, 142, 143, 146, 150, 169, 173, 177, 198, 204, 216, 217, 218, 231, 238, 245, and 247.