Abstract: [Problem] The object of the present invention is to provide a static electricity distribution-visualizing material, a static electricity-visualizing film, a static electricity distribution-visualizing device, and a static electricity distribution-visualizing method, which can visualize a charged state to be seen with naked eyes so as to intuitively understand a static electricity distribution. [Solution] A static electricity distribution-visualizing material is manufactured so as to contain at least one of a fluorescent substance, a luminescent substance, an electroluminescent substance, a fractoluminescent substance, a photochromic substance, an afterglow substance, a photostimulated luminescent substance and a mechanoluminescent substance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reciprocal-flow-type nucleic acid amplification device comprising: heaters capable of forming a denaturation temperature zone and an extension/annealing temperature zone; a fluorescence detector capable of detecting movement of a sample solution between the two temperature zones; a pair of liquid delivery mechanisms that allow the sample solution to move between the two temperature zones and that are configured to be open to atmospheric pressure when liquid delivery stops; a substrate on which the chip for nucleic acid amplification according to claim 2 can be placed; and a control mechanism that controls driving of each liquid delivery mechanism by receiving an electrical signal from the fluorescence detector relating to movement of the sample solution from the control mechanism; the device being capable of performing real-time PCR by measuring fluorescence intensity for each thermal cycle.

Abstract: In the present disclosure, there is provided a permeability measurement jig including a first waveguide, wherein a signal line of the first waveguide comprises an excited magnetic part at one end side, and a magnetic field is generated at the excited magnetic part by an excitation signal, and a second waveguide, wherein a signal line of the second waveguide comprises a detection part at one end side, a detection signal is induced at the detection part due to an action of the magnetic field generated at the excited magnetic part to a measurement sample, and the detection part is placed on the excited magnetic part to face the excited magnetic part at a predetermined distance. A permeability measurement device having the permeability measurement jig and a permeability measurement method are disclosed.

Abstract: For an easy calibration using calibration particles, provided is a measuring device to capture images of target objects. An image analyzer acquires multiple images obtained at a predetermined time interval, (a) specifies the mean-square displacement of a bright point of a calibration particle based on the displacement of the bright point of the calibration particle in the multiple images in a calibration mode, and (b) specifies the mean-square displacement of a bright point of the target particle based on the displacement of the bright point of the target particle in the multiple images in a measurement mode. A particle size analyzer (c) derives the particle size of the target particle from the mean-square displacement of the bright point of the target particle based on the mean-square displacement of the bright point of the calibration particle and the particle size of the calibration particle in an analysis mode.

Abstract: In a power transmission mechanism 20, a line connecting a center shaft 21 of a reference gear member 40 and a first shaft 44 of a first planetary gear member 42 and a line connecting the center shaft 21 of the reference gear member 40 and a second shaft 47 of a second planetary gear member 45 form a specific angle ?. Rotation in one direction is prevented when a first carrier member 22 and a second carrier member 32 are relatively rotated in a direction to decrease the specific angle ?. Further, a rotation prevention release unit is provided to release a prevention state of the rotation when the first carrier member 22 and the second carrier member 32 are relatively rotated in a direction to increase the specific angle ?.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon compound from carbon dioxide, said method including: (a) a step of preparing an absorption-conversion catalyst that includes an oxide carrier, a first component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, and a second component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Co, Cu, and Ru; (b) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst and a carbon dioxide-including gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and causing the carbon dioxide to be stored in the absorption-conversion catalyst; and (c) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst that has the carbon dioxide stored therein and a reducing gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and obtaining the hydrocarbon compound.

Abstract: This light absorber 10 comprises a light absorbing layer 11 made of a resin which contains a light absorbing material. The light absorber is obtained by forming an optical confinement structure 12 in which a plurality of fine protrusions are formed on a surface 11a of the light absorber. The light absorber is configured such that luminous reflectance RSCI according to the Specular Components Included (SCI) method, which detects a total of specular reflected light and diffuse reflected light, does not exceed 0.20%.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound or the like useful as a luminescent molecule serving as a substrate for a human-derived protein. The compound according to the present invention is a compound represented by the following formula [I], or a salt thereof, or a hydrate or solvate thereof.

Abstract: A method for producing methyldichlorophosphane, the method including: allowing methane and phosphorus trichloride to react in the presence of an additive using a metal compound, or a metal compound carried on a carrier, or both thereof.

Abstract: Organically modified metal oxide nanoparticles containing two or more cores including a plurality of metal atoms and a plurality of oxygen atoms covalently bonded to the plurality of metal atoms; a first modifying group that is a ligand coordinated to each of the cores and selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic acid carboxylate, a sulfonic acid sulfonate, and a phosphonic acid phosphonate; and a second modifying group that is coordinated to each of the cores and is a ligand having a structure different from that of the first modifying group and/or an inorganic anion, in which organically modified metal oxide nanoparticles have a structure in which the cores are crosslinked through a coordinate bond by at least the first modifying group.

Abstract: A method for screening for a polypeptide that acts on a target protein, including (1) providing a polynucleotide library constituted of a plurality of expression vectors that can be expressed in a gram-negative bacterium, where the plurality of expression vectors each include a first polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide different from one another, a secretory signal sequence positioned upstream of the first polynucleotide, and a second polynucleotide encoding a target protein, (2) transforming a gram-negative bacterium with the expression vector to express the polypeptide in a periplasmic space and the target protein on an inner membrane surface, (3) contacting the polypeptide with the target protein in the periplasmic space, (4) allowing the gram-negative bacterium to form a spheroplast to measure activity of the polypeptide on the target protein by a patch clamp technique, and (5) identifying the polypeptide that acts on the target protein based on the measured activity.

Abstract: Provided are: a novel magnetic material having high magnetic stability, in particular, having an extremely high saturation magnetization; and a method for producing the same, wherein the magnetic material, due to having a higher saturation magnetization than ferrite magnetic materials and a higher electrical resistivity than existing metallic magnetic materials, resolves problems such as eddy current loss. According to the present invention, Co-ferrite nanoparticles obtained by wet synthesis are reduced in hydrogen and subjected to grain growth, and bcc- or fcc-(Fe, Co) phases and Co-enriched phases are nano-dispersed using phase separation via a disproportionation reaction to prepare a magnetic material powder. In addition, the magnetic material powder is sintered into a solid magnetic material.

Abstract: A microorganism of the present invention is Dirkmeia churashimaensis (NITE BP-03054), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03051), Papiliotrema flavescens (NITE BP-03052), or Apiotrichum porosum (NITE BP-03053).

Abstract: According to the present invention, a poultry cell knocked-in at an egg white protein gene, a knock-in method, a method for producing a knocked-in poultry cell and an egg or a poultry containing the knocked-in poultry cell may be provided.

Abstract: A stretchable raised electrode having a stretch property that can be used as a biological electrode for collecting biological signals while being pressed against a body is provided, and a method of manufacturing the stretchable raised electrode is provided. This raised electrode is a raised electrode formed by raising a surface of a sheet material having the stretch property. This raised electrode includes: a resin layer configured to be stretchable to follow the surface of the sheet material; and a plurality of conductive fibers each having an inserted portion, one end of which is inserted into the resin layer. The conductive fibers that are adjacent to one another are electrically in contact with one another at non-inserted portions into the resin layer, and the conductive fibers are formed in the resin layer so as to have such a density as causing an in-plane isotropic electric conductivity of an electrode region of the sheet material in which the conductive fibers are formed.

Abstract: A laser light profile measuring device of the present disclosure includes a reflection attenuation part reflecting and attenuating at least part of laser light incident from a first direction in a direction different from the first direction to generate measurement target laser light traveling in the first direction, a capture unit placed on one side of the reflection attenuation part in the first direction and which captures the measurement target laser light, a cooling body covering at least part of the reflection attenuation part and the capture unit in a circumferential direction with respect to the first direction, a refrigerant supply unit forcibly feeding a refrigerant toward the cooling body, and a rotation support part supporting the reflection attenuation part, the cooling body, and the refrigerant supply unit to be rotatable around a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A hydrophilic slippery treatment agent which allows for the formation of a coating having hydrophilicity concurrently with water droplet removability via drying at lower temperatures, a surface treatment method using the hydrophilic slippery treatment agent, a substrate having a hydrophilic slippery coating formed thereon by the surface treatment method, and a fin material for a heat exchanger having a hydrophilic slippery coating formed thereon by the surface treatment method are provided. The treatment agent contains an organosilicon compound with a specific structure including both a hydrophilic-chain-containing group and a hydrolyzable group, and a metal alkoxide.

Abstract: A superjunction semiconductor device having a termination structure portion surrounding an active region in a plan view. The device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first semiconductor layer provided on the semiconductor substrate; and a parallel pn structure and a channel stopper provided in the first semiconductor layer. The channel stopper surrounds the parallel pn structure in the plan view, and contacts the parallel pn structure in the termination structure portion. The parallel pn structure includes a plurality of first columns each having a first width and a plurality of second columns each having a second width that repeatedly alternate one another parallel to the main surface. In a region of the parallel pn structure contacting the channel stopper, a product of the second width and an impurity concentration of the second columns is less than a product of the first width and an impurity concentration of the first columns.

Abstract: A method for producing carbon monoxide, the method may comprise the steps of: (a) preparing an adsorption-conversion catalyst comprising a support, and an additive comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal and an alkali earth metal, supported on the support, and not substantially comprising Ni, Fe, Co, Cr, Cu, Ru, In, Rh, Pt, Au, and Pd elements; (b) bringing the adsorption-conversion catalyst into contact with a gas containing carbon dioxide to allow the adsorption-conversion catalyst to capture carbon dioxide; and (c) bringing the adsorption-conversion catalyst to which carbon dioxide is captured into contact with a reducing gas to produce carbon monoxide.

Abstract: Provided are a computer system and a control device, which are capable of reducing the necessity for reconfiguration according to the computation details in the circuit configuration of a quantum computer. The computer system includes an acquisition unit 122 that acquires computation details; a group of computation units including a plurality of computation units each configured to execute computation using quantum effects or thermal effects in a superconducting state; a selection unit 124 that selects a computation unit from the group of computation units based on the computation details; and an execution unit 212 that causes the computation unit selected by the selection unit to execute computation.