Abstract: An object is to provide a joining state detection film, a joining state detection device, and a joining state detection method, capable of detecting a joining state of a joining portion of two members from the outside. [Solution]A film containing a mechanoluminescent substance is formed on a surface, on a side opposite to a joining surface, of at least one member of two members that are joined at joining parts each having the joining surface, and physical stimulation is applied thereto.

Abstract: A gesture recognition apparatus by which a gesture for an interface operation is performed includes an image capturer that captures distance image data, a closest point detector that detects a closest point from the imaging apparatus, a gesture measurer that calculates an input switching border for switching ON and OFF of interface input, a gesture recognizer that determines whether the input is ON or OFF, and an interface controller that performs the interface control associated with the gesture if it is determined that the input has been turned on.

Abstract: A road vibration coefficient which defines a relation between vibration and a movement velocity of a vehicle during traveling is obtained. An information processing device includes: an acquisition section that acquires a measurement value which has been measured by a sensor provided in a vehicle while the vehicle is traveling on a road surface; a vibration feature quantity calculation section that calculates a vibration feature quantity Pv(t); and a road vibration coefficient calculation section that calculates a road vibration coefficient ?.

Abstract: A bacteriophage which consists of the nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or a nucleotide sequence having 90% or more identity thereto, as its genome, is capable of infecting and lysing a diabetes-inducible bacterium belonging to Fusimonas intestini,containing a cyclic single-stranded DNA.

Abstract: A microwave heating method using a microwave, including: controlling a frequency of the microwave, to form a single-mode standing wave; disposing an object to be heated in a magnetic field region where a strength of a magnetic field formed by the single-mode standing wave is uniform and maximum; and heating the object to be heated by magnetic heat generation by magnetic loss caused by an action of the magnetic field of the magnetic field region, and/or induction heating by an induced current generated in the object to be heated due to the magnetic field of the magnetic field region.

Abstract: A determination method according to the present application includes: (A) a step for measuring, at a plurality of frequencies, an S-parameter at the current probe location or in the current coaxial connector or waveguide connection state; (B) a step for calculating a coefficient matrix for fitting a prescribed function matrix to the measured S-parameter frequency properties; (C) a step for calculating a first local outlier factor on the basis of the calculated coefficient matrix; and (D) a determination step for determining, on the basis of the relationship between a threshold and the calculated first local outlier factor, whether a first state in which the probe is contacting the prescribed target, or a second state in which there is a connection failure between the coaxial connector or the waveguide and the prescribed target exists.

Abstract: A superconducting quantum circuit includes: a first resonator having a superconducting quantum interference device and a capacitor that forms a closed loop together with the superconducting quantum interference device; and a control line being connected to a first control port and magnetically coupled to the superconducting quantum interference device, wherein the control line includes at least a first line having a characteristic impedance that indicates a first impedance value, and a second line being provided closer to a portion magnetically coupled to the superconducting quantum interference device than the first line and having a characteristic impedance that indicates a second impedance value being different from the first impedance value.

Abstract: An industrial vehicle control device for controlling an industrial vehicle includes: a first signal acquisition unit that acquires a first signal; a second signal acquisition unit that acquires a second signal; a data processing unit that performs data processing based on time-series data of the first signal and the second signal; and a state estimation unit that estimates a state of the industrial vehicle by distinguishing results of the data processing.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a granulation adsorbent having high strength and in particular stability in water that ensures certain throughputs at low costs. The granulated adsorbent of the invention comprises a metal-cyano complex as an effective component, a flocculation precipitant for flocculation precipitation of the metal-cyano complex from slurry containing the metal-cyano complex, a binder, and a crosslinking agent. The granulated adsorbent is produced by a step of adding the flocculation precipitant to the metal-cyano complex slurry and then dehydrating the metal-cyano complex slurry to prepare a metal-cyano complex dehydrated cake, a step of heat drying the metal-cyano complex dehydrated cake to prepare a metal-cyano complex dried block, a step of pulverizing the metal-cyano complex dried block into metal-cyano complex powder, and a step of preparing a mixture containing the metal-cyano complex powder, binder and crosslinking agent, and then granulating using the mixture.

Abstract: A policy creation unit creates a plurality of policies each including a predetermined number of rules in which a condition for determining a state of an object is combined with an action in the state. An action determination unit determines, for each of the plurality of created policies, an action to be performed while a state of the object is changed from a first state to a second state in accordance with the policy. A policy evaluation unit determines, in accordance with a difference between a state between the first state and the second state and a desired state, the quality of the determined action and determines, for each of the plurality of policies, the quality of the policy based on the determined quality of the action. A policy selection unit selects the policy that is determined to have a high quality.

Abstract: An anomaly detection device includes processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores map data and association data. The map data defines a map. The map receives, as input data, manipulation value data and the image data of the vehicle, thereby outputting, as output data, a state ID corresponding to an anomaly state related to the vehicle. The association data associates an anomaly state related to the vehicle with the state ID. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire the manipulation value data, acquire the image data from a camera mounted in the vehicle, input, as the input data, the manipulation value data and the image data, to the map, thereby acquiring, as the output data, the state ID from the map, and identify the anomaly state related to the vehicle based on the state ID acquired from the map and the association data.

Abstract: The present invention enables simultaneous and stable expression of a plurality of foreign genes by using a stealthy RNA gene expression system that is a complex that does not activate the innate immune mechanism and is formed from an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, a single-strand RNA binding protein, and negative-sense single-strand RNAs including the following (1) to (8): (1) a target RNA sequence that codes for any protein or functional RNA; (2) an RNA sequence forming a noncoding region and derived from mRNA expressed in animal cells; (3) a transcription initiation signal sequence recognized by the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase; (4) a transcription termination signal sequence recognized by the polymerase; (5) an RNA sequence containing a replication origin recognized by the polymerase; (6) an RNA sequence that codes for the polymerase and of which codons are optimized for the species from which an introduction target cell is derived; (7) an RNA sequence that codes for a protein for regulating the activity o

Abstract: CO2 introduced into the ground reacts with water in the moisture present in the surroundings to convert to hydrocarbon, suppressing leakage of CO2 above ground. The method for producing hydrocarbon has an introduction step for introducing CO2 into a storage site in the ground where moisture and a catalytic metal are present, the pressure is 5 MPa or higher, and the temperature is 40° C. or higher, to bring the CO2 into a subcritical state or a supercritical state, and a synthesis step for reacting the water in the moisture with the subcritical or supercritical CO2 in the storage site to synthesize hydrocarbon. The storage site is preferably a site from 800 m to 1200 m below ground. The pressure of the storage site is preferably 8 MPa or higher.

Abstract: To provide: an atomizer that allows a sample liquid to be made into minute droplets stably and that inhibits clogging of an aerosol gas outlet by salting out or the like when atomizing a sample containing a high density matrix; a sample introduction unit that includes the atomizer; and an analysis device. An atomizer includes: a liquid supply tube that has a first channel in which a liquid can circulate and that has, on one end, an outlet to spray the liquid; and a gas supply tube that encloses the liquid supply tube with a gap therebetween, that has a second channel in which a gas can circulate, and that has, on one end, an outlet to spray the gas. The second channel is defined by the outer circumferential face of the liquid supply tube and the inner circumferential face of the gas supply tube and has a narrow portion upstream of the outlet.

Abstract: To provide a fluid composition and a refrigerant composition having flammability suppressed; and an air conditioner in which restrictions in order to inhibit combustion of the refrigerant composition are reduced and it is thereby possible to omit or simplify measures for inhibiting combustion of the refrigerant composition. The fluid composition is either a composition (I) comprising at least one component (A) selected from the group consisting of alkanes, halogenated alkanes and alkenes and at least one component (B) selected from halogenated alkenes, or a composition (II) (excluding the composition (I)) comprising two or more ingredients (B) selected from halogenated alkenes. The fluid composition has a combustion inhibiting effect as defined by ?100×{(measured maximum burning velocity)?(estimated maximum burning velocity)}/(estimated maximum burning velocity), of at least 10%.

Abstract: An authentication system is provided with: a first input unit and a second input unit into which authentication information can be input; a first computing unit which performs computation on the basis of the authentication information input into the first input unit and a communication counterpart-side authentication parameter registered in a communication counterpart; a second computing unit which performs computation on the basis of the authentication information input into the second input unit and a portable terminal-side authentication parameter registered in a portable terminal; and authentication units which, if the authentication information has been input into the first or the second input unit, perform authentication on the basis of the result of computation by corresponding computing unit and the portable terminal-side authentication parameter.

Abstract: There is provided a novel sophorolipid derivative having high water solubility and surface activity. A plurality of sophorolipid derivatives having a novel structure is isolated and purified from a cultured product of sophorolipid producing microorganism (Starmerella bombicola, etc.) (wherein, R1 to R3 are each independently hydrogen, a fatty acid ester having 2 to 22 carbon atoms, or the above SL group, provided that at least one of R1 to R3 is the SL group in which R are the same or different and each represent hydrogen or an acetyl group and Rn is a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group having 13 to 21 carbon atoms).

Abstract: A computing system capable of obtaining a calculation speed exceeding that of 16-bit floating point processing while maintaining accuracy of calculation results. A computing system includes a parameter server, a communication path and a worker. The parameter server has a storage unit that stores a parameter value of a training target model, and a first conversion unit that converts the parameter value into data represented by a floating point number with 10 bits or less. The communication path transmits the data transmitted and received between the parameter server and the worker. The worker has a processing unit that computes a product and a sum of the data. The parameter server further has a second conversion unit that converts the data with 10 bits or less received from the worker into an updating difference, and an updating unit that updates the parameter value on the basis of the updating difference.

Abstract: A uniformity output device for outputting a uniformity of particles in a slurry, in which an insoluble solid matter is mixed in liquid, includes: a pair of electrodes configured to apply AC voltage to the slurry; a measurement unit configured to measure impedance of the slurry on the basis of the response current flowing through the slurry when AC voltage with changing frequency is applied to the slurry; and a processing unit configured to determine the uniformity by executing a particle equivalent circuit analysis with a parallel circuit formed of a resistor and a capacitor as an element on the basis of the impedance measured by the measurement unit in accordance with the frequency.

Abstract: A control device for an industrial vehicle is a control device for an industrial vehicle for estimating a working state of the industrial vehicle, which includes a working state estimation unit that estimates the working state of the industrial vehicle, and the working state estimation unit receives operation information regarding an operation state with respect to the industrial vehicle and photographing information obtained by photographing a package, performs a determination as to whether or not a packing form of the package is in an abnormal state, and outputs the working state.