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.

Abstract: A communication device comprising: a wireless communication section; and a control section configured to correlate a first signal with a second signal from another communication device at a designated interval, convert a data matrix including an array of a plurality of correlation computation results into a format including a matrix product of an expanded modal matrix and an expanded signal matrix, estimate the expanded signal matrix that minimizes a predetermined norm, and estimate reception time of the second signal on a basis of the expanded signal matrix that minimizes the predetermined norm.

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 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: An elastic body of this disclosure contains magnetized magnetic powder dispersed in an elastic member, and generates an induced current in a circuit by undergoing an elastic deformation to cause a change in magnetic flux density. The elastic member is an elastomeric foam.

Abstract: An electric power steering device including a column actuator disposed on a column side of the intermediate shaft and outputting a column assist torque; a rack actuator disposed on a rack side of the intermediate shaft and outputting a rack assist torque; a column torque sensor coaxially disposed with the steering shaft and detecting a column torsion torque; a rack torque sensor coaxially disposed with the intermediate shaft and detecting a rack torsion torque; and a calculator calculating instruction values of the column assist torque and the rack assist torque based on the torsion torques.

Abstract: A controller performs a first process of scanning a cylindrical irradiation region including a focused spot of laser light emitted from a laser light emitter to machine a flank face side of a workpiece to manufacture a cutting tool having a plurality of cutting edges arranged in line. In the first process, the controller scans the cylindrical irradiation region along a scanning path that has periodicity and changes a machining depth to form the plurality of cutting edges. The controller further performs a second process of scanning the cylindrical irradiation region including the focused spot of the laser light emitted in a direction different from an irradiation direction of the laser light in the first process to machine a rake face side of the workpiece.