Abstract: Incorporation of L-DOPA into a carrier in a form of a block copolymer (PEG-b-poly(3,4-hydroxy-protected L-DOPA)) significantly improves the retention of the agent in the blood, thus mitigating a shortcoming associated with L-DOPA in treating Parkinson's disease.

Abstract: A wave-activated power generation device is disclosed. The device includes a float configured to be capable of floating in the sea; a rotor configured to generate a rotational inertial mass effect; a power generator configured to generate power based on rotation of the rotor; a first elastic body; and a drive part configured to connect the rotor with the float via the first elastic body so as to rotate the rotor along with movement of the float.

Abstract: An image display device acquires positional information including a distance between at least one eye of an observer and an image display surface, and corrects, based on the acquired positional information, a relative positional relationship between slit areas and an image displayed on the image display surface, by using a width smaller than the width of one subpixel as a minimum correction unit.

Abstract: [Object] Provided is a method of producing a nerve bundle including efficiently extending axons of neural cells. [Solution] Neural cells are cultivated in the presence of feeder cells including at least one type of cells selected from vascular component cells and perivascular cells.

Abstract: Provided is a plant pathogen control agent that is used to control plant pathogens on plants and is a novel method for using cellulose nanofibers. The plant pathogen control agent is a plant pathogen control agent containing plant-derived cellulose nanofibers as active ingredient, in which a surface of a nanofiber-coated layer to be formed by sparging or spraying the plant pathogen control agent onto the foliage or the stems of the plants and then by drying the plant pathogen control agent has hydrophilicity. Examples of the cellulose nanofibers include a plant-derived nanofiber material selected from the group consisting of gramineous plants, broadleaf trees, and needleleaf trees. Examples of the plants to be an application target include cabbage plants, soybean plants, tomato plants, tobacco plants, or coffee tree seedlings. In addition, examples of the plant pathogens to be a control target include causative bacterium, rust fungi, or pathogenic fungi.

Abstract: The carbon nanotube assembled wire includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes oriented at a degree of orientation of 0.9 or more and 1 or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a carbon nanotube includes: a growing step of growing a carbon nanotube from a catalyst particle by supplying a carbon-containing gas to the catalyst particle in a suspended state; and a drawing step of drawing the carbon nanotube by applying a tensile force to the carbon nanotube in a suspended state.

Abstract: An upper limb motion support apparatus and an upper limb motion support system which are capable of significantly improving the enhancement of an operator's work efficiency and the reduction of their workload are proposed. A controller which causes an articulated arm and an end effector to perform three-dimensional motion according to the operator's intention based on a biological signal acquired by a biological signal detection unit causes the articulated arm and the end effector to perform cooperative motion in conjunction with the operator's upper limb motion by referring to content recognized by an upper limb motion recognition unit.

Abstract: In a networking system including a plurality of nodes connected with each other by a communication network, each node includes an abnormality discrimination unit configured, when a cumulative consumption current at the time of processing the data received from other node is out of a range (of current values estimated in advance based on an event at the other node, to discriminate the other node as an abnormal. By the networking system, the abnormality of the nodes on the network may be detected with a simple configuration.

Abstract: As an expert gives instructions to cause movements of their own hands transferred directly as tactile force sense while perceiving surrounding information of a collaborator on a real-time basis and watching the collaborator's line-of-sight end and movements of the collaborator's hands, the collaborator indirectly receives the instructions of the expert's manual skills, which are the expert's tacit knowledge, on a real-time basis while sharing realistic sensations with the expert who is at a remote location when the collaborator performs an act of working with their own hands.

Abstract: A technique to prevent a retrieving process of a conversion rule from taking a longer time is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for acquiring data relating to the onset of cerebral infarction, characterized in that the method includes determining the level of an antibody to DIDO1 protein or a portion thereof, and/or the level of an antibody to CPSF2 protein or a portion thereof, the antibody or antibodies being present in a body fluid sample collected from a living body. The invention also provides a kit for acquiring data for carrying out the method of the present invention. The invention can accurately discern signs linked to the onset of cerebral infarction.

Abstract: A phase imaging method and apparatus are provided, the phase imaging method including causing a quantum beam from a radiation source to be incident on a detector through a test object and at least one phase grating and obtaining a phase image of the test object, based on intensity distribution of a beam in a pixel constituting the detector. The intensity distribution of the beam at least includes information of absorption (a0), visibility (V), and phase (?). At least three adjacent pixels are assumed to have a substantially identical value for each of the absorption (a0), the visibility (V), and the phase (?) through variable approximation of an image. The absorption, the visibility, and the phase are obtained, based on at least one measurement image.

Abstract: A first drive unit, in a state where a top end of a tubular joint is interposed into a chest of a target person and is located at a lower heart part, pushes a diaphragm out from the top end of the tubular joint while pressing a gas into the diaphragm, and simultaneously causes the diaphragm to start flexing to cover and wrap the lower heart part, and then stops pressing the gas into the diaphragm at a time point where compression balloons are positioned at atriums and ventricles of a heart, respectively; and second drive units support a pumping function of the heart by alternately repeating an ejecting operation to fill each of the compression balloons with a fluid and cause each compression balloon to expand and an absorbing operation to cause each compression balloon to discharge the fluid and contract.

Abstract: A paramylon-based resin having a weight-average molecular weight of paramylon in a range of 70000 to 140000, and formed by substituting hydrogen atoms of hydroxy groups of a paramylon with a long-chain component being a linear saturated aliphatic acyl group having 14 or more carbon atoms and a short-chain component being an acyl group (acetyl group or/and propionyl group) having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, wherein a degree of substitution with the long-chain component (DSLo) and a degree of substitution with the short-chain component (DSSh) satisfy the following conditional expressions (1) and (2), Izod impact strength is 5.0 kJ/m2 or more, and an MFR (melt flow rate at 210° C. and under a load of 5 kg) is 2 g/10 min or more. To provide a paramylon-based resin excellent in mechanical characteristics and thermoplasticity. 2.2?DSLo+DSSh?2.

Abstract: A carbon nanotube composite assembled wire is a carbon nanotube composite assembled wire including a plurality of carbon nanotube composites, each of the plurality of carbon nanotube composites including one carbon nanotube and an amorphous carbon-containing layer that coats the carbon nanotube, the carbon nanotube having a D/G ratio of 0.1 or less, the D/G ratio being a ratio of a peak intensity of a D band to a peak intensity of a G band in Raman spectroscopic analysis with a wavelength of 532 nm, each of the plurality of carbon nanotube composites being fibrous and having a diameter of 0.1 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less, the plurality of carbon nanotube composites being oriented in a longitudinal direction of the carbon nanotube composite assembled wire.

Abstract: Proposed are a functional improvement evaluation apparatus and a nerve cell culture apparatus of model animals capable of performing feedback control, even to mammalian model animals, based on biosignals in the same manner has humans based on a relatively simple configuration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a carotenoid-containing composition for use in exercise therapy for improving cognitive function, particularly exercise therapy for hippocampal neurogenesis.

Abstract: A walking training system and walking training machine capable of remarkably enhancing the effect of improving an independent walking function are proposed. When a subject having a lower limb functional disorder performs walking training, the degree of dependency on upper limbs can be evaluated by enabling the subject to recognize transitional reductions of a load on a holding part(s) by feeding back the transitional reductions of the load as a sense to feel them.

Abstract: An artificial leg motion assisting apparatus and an artificial leg motion assisting method which are capable of transmitting knee joint motive power to a commercially-available trans-femoral prosthesis without making a wearer feel a sense of discomfort. When the artificial leg motion assisting apparatus is attached to the commercially-available trans-femoral prosthesis, a control unit controls a drive unit by a specified control method on the basis of mechanical impedance adjusted by an impedance adjustment unit and transmits output of the drive unit to a knee joint coupling.