Abstract: Provided are a communication system, an abnormality detection device and an abnormality detection method that detects abnormality concerning communication such as information forged by utilizing a difference in timings of sampling between multiple communication devices. For the system configuration where ECUs transmit and receive information through a common communication line, abnormality detection related to communication is performed by a monitoring device connected to the communication line. Each ECU receives information by sampling once at a predetermined timing during a transmission period of one-bit information. The ECUs may also be allowed to perform sampling at different timings.

Abstract: Provided is a microparticle separation system capable of continuously separating microparticles from a solution in a short period of time in which microparticles having different particle diameters are mixed, without the need to use antibodies or the like. The microparticle separation system comprises a microparticle separation chip; a thin plate for a sample liquid; a thin plate for a sheath liquid; and suctioning means and/or a suctioning device for suctioning the sheath liquid; and the microparticle separation chip comprises a single capture site for capturing to-be-captured microparticles being formed using the at least three pillars having one end provided on the substrate and the other end open upward.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a radical generator which can produce radicals at higher density. [Means for Solution] The radical generator includes a supply tube 10 made of SUS, a hollow cylindrical plasma-generating tube 11 which is connected to the supply tube 10 and which is made of pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN). A first cylindrical CCP electrode 13 and a second cylindrical CCP electrode 30 are disposed outside the plasma-generating tube 11. A coil 12 is provided so as to wind about the outer circumference of the plasma-generating tube 11 at the downstream end of the first CCP electrode 13. A thin connecting tube 23 extending from the bottom of the plasma-generating tube 11 is inserted into the supply tube 10.

Abstract: A medicament for preventing or treating heart failure containing an antagonist of the corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 2 as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A virtual plane obtained by a locus when a tangent line, which passes through a tool distal end edge, of a virtual circle formed when a tool distal end edge of a cutting edge is rotated in a tool circumferential direction is moved parallel to a tool axial line is a reference plane, an angle (ARt) at which a cross line of the reference plane and the cutting edge virtual plane, is inclined with respect to the tool axial line projected onto the reference plane, is in a range of ?30 degrees to ?60 degrees, an angle (RR) at which a cutting edge tangent line which passes through the tool distal end edge and extends outward in a tool radial direction, is inclined with respect to a predetermined tool radial direction, which passes through the tool distal end edge, is in a range of ?30 degrees to ?75 degrees.

Abstract: A method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles is provided. The method includes heating primary semiconductor nanoparticles and a salt of an element M1 in a solvent at a temperature set in a range of 100° C. to 300° C. The primary semiconductor nanoparticles contain the element M1, an element M2, optionally an element M3, and an element Z, and have an average particle size of 50 nm or less. The element M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu, and Au. The element M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The element M3 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zn and Cd. The element Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, and Te.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorescent probe including a carrier molecule, a fluorescent dye a bound to the carrier molecule, and a fluorescent dye b bound to the carrier molecule in which the excitation wavelengths of the fluorescent dyes a and b are different, and FRET does not occur between the fluorescent dyes a and b. The present invention also relates to a method for detecting fluorescence that includes a step of labeling target cells with the fluorescent probe, and a step of irradiating the target cells labeled with the fluorescent probe with excitation light and observing the fluorescence from the fluorescent probe.

Abstract: A method of producing thermoplastic resin composite material in which a main base material containing thermoplastic resin and a sheet-like shaped auxiliary base material are integrally molded and are made into composite material. The production method includes the steps of: heating the auxiliary base material (step S1); disposing the heated auxiliary base material in a mold (step S2); disposing the main base material in the mold via the auxiliary base material (step S3); closing the mold, and pressing together and integrally molding the auxiliary base material and the main base material (step S4); and taking out the integrally-molded thermoplastic resin composite material from the mold.

Abstract: Electrodeless plasma is supplied to a space between a cathode and an anode such that a resistivity in the space is reduced. The electrodeless plasma is accelerated with Lorentz force induced by a radial direction magnetic field component and an axial direction magnetic field component that are generated in the space, and current in the space.

Abstract: A non-humidified proton-conductive membrane according to the present invention includes a polymer and a proton-conductive substance. The polymer includes a glassy or crystalline first site having a glass-transition temperature or melting temperature higher than the service temperature of the proton-conductive membrane and a second site capable of forming a noncovalent bond. The proton-conductive substance includes a proton-releasing/binding site capable of noncovalently binding to the second site of the polymer and a proton coordination site capable of coordinating to protons, the proton-releasing/binding site and the proton coordination site being included in different molecules that interact with each other or being included in the same molecule. A proton-conductive mixed phase that includes the second site to which the proton-releasing/binding site of the proton-conductive substance is bound and the proton-conductive substance is lower than the service temperature of the proton-conductive membrane.

Abstract: An end mill machining apparatus, a CAM apparatus, an NC program, and a machining method which suppress regenerative self-excited vibration and mode-coupling self-excited vibration. An end mill machining apparatus includes an end mill, and a control section for controlling the end mill. The ratio of the protrusion length of the end mill to the diameter of the end mill falls within a range of 5 to 50. The end mill is a variable pitch, uniform helix type or a variable helix type. The control section controls the end mill such that the contact angle between the end mill and a workpiece M1 during machining becomes equal to or smaller than a critical contact angle ?lim.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a control device design method for a control device that determines a manipulation amount of a control object having a dead time by feedback control so as to bring a control amount of the control object closer to a target value. The method according to the present invention includes a step of designing a feedback loop that computes a correction amount for the manipulation amount using a plurality of controllers including a prediction model of the control object, a step of deriving the same number of delay elements as the plurality of controllers from a dead time element of the prediction model, and a step of allocating the plurality of controllers associated with the delay elements to a plurality of arithmetic units so that the computation of the feedback loop is performed by parallel computation by the plurality of arithmetic units that operate in parallel.

Abstract: A rotating tool includes a tool body which rotates around an axial line, four or more chip discharge grooves which are formed on an outer periphery of the tool body with gaps therebetween in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of cutting inserts which are arranged in multiple stages along the chip discharge grooves. In a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the axial line, when a center angle formed between a pair of virtual straight lines which connects each of the cutting edges of the cutting inserts disposed in a pair of chip discharge grooves adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction and the axial line to each other is defined as an angle, a plurality of angles formed around the axial line include one maximum angle (?max), one minimum angle (?min), and two or more angles other than the angle (?max) and the angle (?min).

Abstract: A method of producing semiconductor nanoparticles is provided. The method includes heating primary semiconductor nanoparticles and a salt of an element M1 in a solvent at a temperature set in a range of 100° C. to 300° C. The primary semiconductor nanoparticles contain the element M1, an element M2, optionally an element M3, and an element Z, and have an average particle size of 50 nm or less. The element M1 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Cu, and Au. The element M2 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, and Tl. The element M3 is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zn and Cd. The element Z is at least one element selected from the group consisting of S, Se, and Te.

Abstract: In a PESI ion source, a solvent supply unit (8) is placed above the liver (101), which is the object of measurement, and by moving a probe (6) up and down such that the tip of the probe (6) passes through the solvent supply unit (8) and is inserted into the liver (101), a sample is captured by the tip of said probe. The solvent supply unit (8) includes a container unit comprising a liquid-blocking upper film body (81) stretched over the bottom surface opening of a cylindrical body (80), and a liquid-blocking lower film body (82) which is stretched out approximately in parallel with the upper film body (81) with a spacer interposed therebetween; the container unit houses a solvent (84). Because the tip of the probe (6) passes through the solvent (84) during the up-and-down movement of the probe (6), sufficient solvent adheres to the sample and when a high voltage is applied to the probe (6), components in the sample are favorably ionized.

Abstract: Electrons excited by irradiation of a visible light to a sample is at an energy level lower than a vacuum level, thus photoelectrons are not emitted from the sample and energy of excited electrons cannot be measured. The visible light is irradiated to the sample through a mesh electrode. A surface film for reducing the vacuum level is formed on a surface of the sample. With the surface film being formed, photoelectrons are obtained by the visible light, and these photoelectrons are accelerated by the mesh electrode toward a photoelectron spectrometer. Ultraviolet light may be irradiated to the sample and metal having same potential therewith. In this case, the mesh electrode is set at a retracted position to prohibit interaction of the mesh electrode and the ultraviolet light. A difference between the valence band and the Fermi level of the sample can be measured.

Abstract: A noncovalent soft elastomer includes a binary block copolymer composed of an A block and a B block and a solvent, wherein the B block has a noncovalent-bonding functional group, and the solvent is a nonvolatile liquid which has a property of dissolving the B block but not dissolving the A block and which forms a functional group capable of noncovalent-bonding of the B block.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for increasing the photosynthesis and yield/growth of plants, and a transgenic plant which is used in the method.

Abstract: In the case of a OXC device having a route & select-type configuration of the conventional technique, when the port number is 20, then the entire device requires 120 WSSs having a 1×9 configuration. In the case of a route & select-type OXC device having ports more than 20 ports, a large amount of expensive WSSs is required. Thus, such a device is impractical from the viewpoint of cost. Thus, the expansion depending on an increase of traffic at nodes was impossible, flexible scalability could not be provided, and a reasonable network operation from the viewpoint of economy was difficult. According to the OXC device of this disclosure, regardless of the input port number and the output port number of the device, WSSs having a smaller scale than the conventional technique are used and the WSSs are internally-connected from a viewpoint different from that of the conventional technique, thus providing the device having a significantly-reduced cost.

Abstract: A ruthenium compound exhibits large negative thermal expansion. The ruthenium oxide is represented by the formula (1) Ca2?xRxRu1?yMyO4+z (wherein R represents at least one element selected from among alkaline earth metals and rare earth elements; M represents at least one element selected from among Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Ga; and the following relations are satisfied: 0?x<0.2, 0?y<0.3, and ?1<z<?0.02).