Abstract: The invention provides tetrahydronaphthyridine and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of inhibiting ROR? activity, reducing the amount of IL-17 in a subject, and treating immune disorders and inflammatory disorders using such tetrahydronaphthyridine and related compounds.

Abstract: An optical device (100) includes a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20), and an optical layer (30) interposed therebetween. The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (12), to which respectively different potentials can be applied. The optical layer (30) contains a medium (31P) and anisotropically-shaped particles (32) whose alignment direction changes in accordance with the direction of an electric field applied to the optical layer. The medium is a liquid crystal material. When no electric field is applied to the optical layer, the anisotropically-shaped particles are aligned substantially vertically with respect to the substrate plane.

Abstract: A drive device of a display panel includes a controller that controls operations of a scanning-control signal output circuit and a common-electrode voltage control circuit, wherein when the controller receives a changeover command that indicates changeover of a scanning order of a plurality of scanning signal lines, the controller controls an operation of the scanning-control signal output circuit so that a scanning order of the plurality of scanning signal lines is changed over between a normal order and a reverse order and controls an operation of the common-electrode voltage control circuit so that a voltage of the common electrode is changed over between a voltage determined in advance for normal-order scan and a voltage determined in advance for reverse-order scan, during a scanning order changeover period as a predetermined period after ending last scanning of a scanning signal line during a frame period in which the changeover command is received.

Abstract: According to this GaN-based HFET, resistivity ? of a semi-insulating film forming a gate insulating film is 3.9×109?cm. The value of this resistivity ? is a value derived when the current density is 6.25×10?4 (A/cm2). By inclusion of the gate insulating film by a semi-insulating film having a resistivity ?=3.9×109?cm, a withstand voltage of 1000 V can be obtained. Meanwhile, the withstand voltage abruptly drops as the resistivity of the gate insulating film exceeds 1 ×1011?cm, and the gate leak current increases when the resistivity of the gate insulating film drops below 1 ×107?cm.

Abstract: Provided are a terminal, a communication method, and an integrated circuit, enabling a base station and a terminal to efficiently communicate with each other in a communication system in which the base station and the terminal communicate with each other. A terminal performs communication with at least one base station, and includes means for performing first power correction on the transmit power of a sounding reference signal (SRS) on the basis of a first transmission power control (TPC) command, and means for performing second power correction on the transmit power of the SRS on the basis of a second TPC command.

Abstract: A method is provided for forming a sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure. The method provides sodium-containing particles (e.g., NASICON), dispersed in a liquid phase polymer, to form a polymer film with sodium-containing particles distributed in the polymer film. The liquid phase polymer is a result of dissolving the polymer in a solvent or melting the polymer in an extrusion process. In one aspect, the method forms a plurality of polymer film layers, where each polymer film layer includes sodium-containing particles. For example, the plurality of polymer film layers may form a stack having a top layer and a bottom layer, where with percentage of sodium-containing particles in the polymer film layers increasing from the bottom layer to the top layer. In another aspect, the sodium-containing particles are coated with a dopant. A sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure and a battery made using the sodium-containing particle electrolyte structure are also presented.

Abstract: There are provided a method of driving a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display device, and a portable device including the liquid crystal display device that can display an image where the occurrence of flicker is restrained when pause driving is performed. In a positive polarity pixel, a voltage of a counter electrode applied during a write period T1 is set to be higher than a counter voltage applied during a pause period T2 and is brought back to its original reference value immediately before starting the pause period T2. In this case, in the positive polarity pixel, the voltage applied to the liquid crystal layer decreases by an amount corresponding to the increase in the voltage of the counter electrode during the write period T1, compared to a negative polarity pixel, and thus, the change in luminance over time decreases.

Abstract: Variation in the electrical characteristics of transistors is minimized and reliability of the transistors is improved. A display device includes a pixel portion 104 and a driver circuit portion 106 outside the pixel portion. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor, a first insulating layer 122 which covers the pixel transistor and includes an inorganic material, a second insulating layer 124 which is over the first insulating layer and includes an organic material, and a third insulating layer 128 which is over the second insulating layer and includes an inorganic material. The driver circuit portion includes a driving transistor for supplying a signal to the pixel transistor, and the first insulating layer covering the driving transistor. The second insulating layer is not formed in the driver circuit portion.

Abstract: A control circuit is driven by a driving voltage (VOC) generated by a generator circuit, and outputs a control signal. A drive circuit is driven by a driving voltage (VOD) generated by another generator circuit, and turns a switching element inside a switching circuit on or off by supplying, to the switching circuit, a drive signal based on the control signal. During activation of a switching device, a voltage generation controller detects a voltage value of the output voltage (VOC) of the generator circuit, and allows activation of the other generator circuit after verifying that the detected voltage value is at or above a designated threshold.

Abstract: Materials are presented of the formula: Ax My Mizi O2?d, where A is sodium or a mixed alkali metal including sodium as a major constituent; x>0; M is a metal or germanium; y>0; Mi, for i=1, 2, 3 . . . n, is a transition metal or an alkali metal; zi?0 for each i=1, 2, 3 . . . n; 0<d?0.5; the values of x, y, zi and d are such as to maintain charge neutrality; and the values of x, y, zi and d are such that x+y+?zi>2?d. The formula includes compounds that are oxygen deficient. Further the oxidation states may or may not be integers i.e. they may be whole numbers or fractions or a combination of whole numbers and fractions and may be averaged over different crystallographic sites in the material. Such materials are useful, for example, as electrode materials in rechargeable battery applications. Also presented is a method of preparing a compound having the formula Ax My Mizi O2?d.

Abstract: An alkali-ion battery is provided with a transition metal cyanometallate (TMCM) sheet cathode and a non-alkaline metal anode. The fabrication method mixes TMCM powders, conductive additives, and a polytetrafluoroethylene binder with a solution containing water, forming a wet paste. The wet paste is formed into a free-standing sheet of cathode active material, which is laminated to a cathode current collector, forming a cathode electrode. The free-standing sheet of cathode active material has a thickness typically in the range of 100 microns to 2 millimeters. The cathode electrode is assembled with a non-alkaline metal anode electrode and an ion-permeable membrane interposed between the cathode electrode and anode electrode, forming an assembly. The assembly is dried at a temperature of greater than 100 degrees C. The dried assembly is then inserted into a container (case) and electrolyte is added. Thick anodes made from free-standing sheets of active material can be similarly formed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a layered structure. The semiconductor device includes a metallic layer of thickness 1-100 nm, with a thickness optimized to absorb light in a wavelength range of operation. The device further includes an adjacent semiconductor layer additionally adjacent to an ohmic electrical contact, wherein the interface between the metallic layer and the semiconductor layer is electrically rectifying and energy selective. The device further includes a reflective back surface positioned opposite to the semiconductor layer relative to incident light providing broadband reflection in the wavelength range of operation. The semiconductor layer includes a quantum well adjacent to the metallic layer, wherein the energy selectivity is provided by the quantum well allowing charge carrier tunneling from the metallic layer.

Abstract: Provided is a driving control unit (93) which performs control to switch high and low of correlation of code sequences output by driving signal generation units (4a to 4d) according to a detection distance which is a distance between a surface of a touch panel (2) and an object to be detected.

Abstract: A light-emitting device with high reliability is provided. A light-emitting device includes a substrate 101, an organic EL element 110 formed over the substrate, a counter substrate 102 which is disposed so as to face the substrate, a plurality of projection structures 102a which are formed on the counter substrate and face the organic EL element, and a thermal conductor 135a of a liquid, a solid, or the like, which is disposed between the substrate and the counter substrate. The plurality of projection structures and the organic EL element are each in contact with the thermal conductor.

Abstract: An audio signal playback device includes a conversion unit that performs discrete Fourier transform on each of 2 channel audio signals obtained from a multi-channel input audio signal, a correlation signal extraction unit that, disregarding a direct current component, extracts a correlation signal from the 2 channel audio signals that result from the discrete Fourier transform, and additionally pulls a correlation signal in a lower frequency than a predetermined frequency flow out of the correlation signal, and an output unit that allocates the pulled-out correlation signal to a virtual sound source in such a manner that a time difference in a sound output between adjacent speakers falls within a range of 2?x/c (where, ?x is a distance between the adjacent speakers, and c is the speed of sound), and outputs a result of the allocation from one portion or all portions of the speaker group.

Abstract: An arrangement of a cover-integrated touch panel is provided that ensures that sensor electrodes are properly connected with wiring lines. The touch panel includes: a transparent substrate; a light-shielding film on a portion of the substrate; a planarizing film over the substrate and the light-shielding film; a barrier film over the planarizing film; a sensor electrode on the barrier film; a terminal in a region that overlaps the light-shielding film; and a wiring line to electrically connect the sensor electrode with the terminal. The barrier film includes a first inorganic film adjacent to the planarizing film and a second inorganic film on the first inorganic film with a smaller refractive index than the first inorganic film.

Abstract: A set of adjustment pattern images includes first adjustment pattern images and second adjustment pattern images to be formed on a first side and a second side of a recording sheet, respectively, by an image forming apparatus. The set of adjustment pattern images is employed to adjust an image forming position by the image forming apparatus such that an image forming position of the first adjustment pattern images is aligned with an image forming position of the second adjustment pattern images. The set of adjustment pattern images includes at least two first adjustment pattern images that are spaced from each other and at least two second adjustment pattern images that are spaced from each other, and the first adjustment pattern images on the first side and the second adjustment pattern images on the second side are arranged alternately with each other.

Abstract: The instant invention relates to methods for the treatment of WEE1 kinase associated cancer by administering a WEE1 inhibitor, wherein the WEE1 inhibitor is WEE1-1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or WEE1-2 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In another embodiment, the invention relates to a method for treating a WEE1 kinase associated cancer patient, comprising administering a WEE1 inhibitor, wherein the cancer cells of said patient to be treated are characterized by low expression levels of PKMYT1.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can suppress, more than the prior art, lowering of display quality when low-frequency drive is being carried out. The liquid crystal display device is operated in a low frequency drive mode. A source driver applies a gradation voltage during write periods and an idle period voltage during an idle period to each source line. The value of the idle period voltage is, for example, an average value of a maximum gradation positive voltage, a maximum gradation negative voltage, a minimum gradation positive voltage, and a minimum gradation negative voltage. By making the voltage for each source line during the idle period be the idle period voltage, potential variations in the source lines when switching from the write periods to the idle period are smaller than the prior art.

Abstract: A terminal device that communicates with a base station apparatus includes a transmission unit that transmits a channel and/or a signal based on a maximum output power in a first cell group in a certain subframe. The maximum output power in the first cell group is a sum of a power that is determined based on uplink transmission in the first cell group in a certain subframe and a power that is allocated to the first cell group, of a residual power. The residual power is given by subtracting the power that is determined based on the uplink transmission in the first cell group in the certain subframe and a power for a second cell group from a sum of maximum output powers of the terminal device.