Abstract: A data storage unit of a data editing apparatus stores both a base indicating a data attribute and a data value in association with each other as data to be edited. A code acquisition unit acquires a user code, which is a code described in a first program language for describing data editing details by intensive notation and which describes editing details for the data to be edited that are based on the base. A code generation unit generates, in accordance with a predetermined correspondence relationship between a second program language for describing data editing details by extensive notation and the first program language, an execution code described in the second program language based on the user code. An editing processing unit edits the data to be edited in accordance with the execution code.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a zinc ferrite film includes forming a zinc ferrite film on a base material by having a reaction liquid, which contains metal ions including only bivalent iron ions and bivalent zinc ions, contact an oxidation liquid, which contains an oxidant that oxidizes the metal ions, in the presence of a pH adjuster. The pH adjuster includes a carbonate of ammonium and an alkali metal salt of mono-carboxylic acid.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element having an improved response speed by using a liquid crystal compound having a high K33, while neither improving nor deteriorating all the characteristics as a liquid crystal display element. The liquid crystal display element 10 of the present invention has a first substrate 15, a second substrate 15?, and a liquid crystal composition layer 5 interposed between the first substrate 15 and the second substrate 15?, wherein at least one of the first substrate 15 and the second substrate 15? has an electrode that controls the liquid crystal composition layer 5 and the bend elastic constant K33 of at least one kind of liquid crystal compounds in the liquid crystal composition constituting the liquid crystal composition layer 5 is 20 pN or more.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment includes a light source; a first substrate on which a first alignment layer is formed; a second substrate on which a second alignment layer is formed; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second alignment layers; and an electrode layer on one of the first and second substrates, the electrode layer applying an electric field to liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer along a direction parallel to the first and second substrates, wherein when the electric field is applied, the liquid crystal molecules are twistedly arranged from the second alignment layer to the first alignment layer.

Abstract: A small-sized frequency-variable terahertz oscillator has a successive and large frequency-sweeping width even at a room temperature. The frequency-variable terahertz oscillator includes a slot antenna, a resonant tunneling diode and a varactor diode arranged parallel to each other along the slot antenna. The frequency-variable terahertz oscillator oscillates in a terahertz frequency range when the resonant tunneling diode and the varactor diode are separately applied with a direct voltage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicide alloy film that is formed on a substrate containing Si, the silicide alloy film including a metal M1 having a work function of 4.6 eV or more and 5.7 eV or less, a metal M2 having a work function of 2.5 eV or less and 4.0 eV or more, and Si, the silicide alloy film having a work function of 4.3 eV or more and 4.9 eV or less. Here, the metal M1 is preferably Pt, Pd, Mo, Ir, W or Ru, and the metal M2 is preferably Hf, La, Er, Ho, Er, Eu, Pr or Sm. The silicide alloy film according to the present invention is a thin-film which has excellent heat-resistance and favorable electrical property.

Abstract: An image processing unit has an image acquisition part, a correlation determination part, a reference image generation part, and an interpolation image generation part. The image acquisition part acquires an original image. The correlation determination unit determines whether the correlation of an image component of a primary reference band with image components of respective bands other than the primary reference band is either high correlation or low correlation. The reference image generation part interpolates missing pixels in the image component of the primary reference band by switching the interpolation method based on the correlation determination result obtained by the correlation determination part. The interpolation image generation part interpolates, using the correlation determination result and the primary reference image, missing pixels in at least some of the image component of the primary reference band.

Abstract: A C12A7 electride thin film fabrication method includes a step of forming an amorphous C12A7 electride thin film on a substrate by vapor deposition under an atmosphere with an oxygen partial pressure of less than 0.1 Pa using a target made of a crystalline C12A7 electride having an electron density within a range of 2.0×1018 cm?3 to 2.3×1021 cm?3.

Abstract: A photo-alignment material in which an alignment film can be formed parallel to a vibration direction of light and a tilt angle of the alignment film is easily controlled and a photo-alignment method using the photo-alignment material are provided. A photo-alignment material of the present invention contains a photo-responsive substance having a threshold value of responding light intensity.

Abstract: An electroplating method according to an embodiment is a electroplating method of generating a metal film on a cathode surface by setting a negative potential to a cathode of an anode and the cathode provided in a reaction bath, including mixing and accommodating a plating solution containing at least plated metal ions, an electrolyte, and a surface active agent and a supercritical fluid in the reaction bath and applying a current in a concentration of the supercritical fluid and a cathode current density in which a polarization resistance obtained from a cathode polarization curve while the plated metal ions are reduced is larger than before the supercritical fluid is mixed.

Abstract: To provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material which does not include Ge and which has excellent electrochemical stability and high lithium ion conductivity. A sulfide solid electrolyte, including a sulfide-based solid electrolyte represented by the composition formula: Li4-4z-x[SnySi1-y]1+z-xPxS4 (where 0.5?x?0.6, y=0.2, and 0?z??0.2), wherein the sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak at position 2?=29.58°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? radiation and does not have a peak at position 2?=27.33°±0.50° in X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? radiation, or when the sulfide solid electrolyte has a peak at the position 2?=27.33°±0.50°, the value of IB/IA is less than 0.50 (where IA is the diffraction intensity of the 2?=29.58°±0.50° peak and IB is the diffraction intensity of the 2?=27.33°±0.50° peak).

Abstract: The problem addressed by the present invention is to develop a pharmaceutical having therapeutic efficacy against epirubicin-resistant tumors. The present invention provides a micelle having an anti-cancer agent disposed inside the core of the micelle formed by an epirubicin-conjugated copolymer.

Abstract: A thin film of metal oxide includes zinc (Zn); tin (Sn); silicon (Si); and oxygen (O). In terms of oxide, based on 100 mol % of total of oxides of the thin film, SnO2 is greater than 15 mol % but less than or equal to 95 mol %.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample. The methods include contacting said sample, in the presence of a polymerase and an endonuclease, with a sequence conversion oligonucleotide having locked nucleic acids at select positions sufficient to decrease non-specific background signal amplification. Also disclosed are methods for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample in which said sample is contacted, in the presence of a polymerase and an endonuclease, with a sequence conversion oligonucleotide and a signal amplifier oligonucleotide, both having locked nucleic acids at select positions sufficient to decrease non-specific background signal amplification. The disclosure also provides compositions and kits comprising such sequence conversion and signal amplifier oligonucleotides.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for identifying a physiologically active protein translated from an ORF other than mORF present on mRNA. The object can be solved by a method for identifying a physiologically active protein, wherein an ORF which encodes a protein having a physiological activity, other than a main open reading frame (ORF) is identified in eukaryotic mRNA, comprising the steps of: (1) introducing an expression vector incorporating a candidate ORF to cells, and culturing the introduced cells, (2) detecting a protein bound to a candidate protein by immunoprecipitating the candidate protein translated from the candidate ORF, from the cultured cells, (3) determining a candidate protein in which another protein bound to the candidate protein is detected as a physiologically active protein.

Abstract: Provided are an sp2 carbon-containing composition that is highly conductive and that excels in the stability of conductivity over time, a method of manufacturing the sp2 carbon-containing composition, and a method of peeling graphite to obtain a graphene-containing composition. Further provided are a graphene quantum dot-containing composition and a method of manufacturing the graphene quantum dot-containing composition that provides an improvement in the productivity and the manufacturing cost. A method of manufacturing an sp2 carbon-containing composition according to the present disclosure includes a contact step of bringing a two-coordinate boron cation salt into contact with an sp2 carbon. Preferable examples of the two-coordinate boron cation include one expressed by the following formula (1).

Abstract: A method for distinguishing prostate cancer from prostatic hypertrophy using the method for analyzing PSA and an analysis kit of PSA are provided. An object of the present invention can be solved by being brought into contact a lectin having an affinity for ?-N-acetylgalactosamine residues with a sample possibly containing PSA, to determine an amount of PSA having an affinity for the lectin. A method for distinguishing prostate cancer from prostatic hypertrophy can be provided by this method.

Abstract: 1) A fused gene including a nucleic acid sequence which affects the biosynthesis or accumulation of neutral lipid and a phosphorus deficiency-responsive expression control sequence which is operably linked to the nucleic acid sequence and controls the expression of the nucleic acid sequence, 2) a transgenic plant which contains the fused gene, 3) a method for manufacturing vegetable fat or oil, including a cultivation step of cultivating the transgenic plant, and 4) a method for manufacturing vegetable fat or oil in which the cultivation step is a step of cultivating the transgenic plant in a phosphorus-deficient state are provided.

Abstract: There is provided an optical wavelength conversion element with a good temporal stability and such a high optical wavelength conversion efficiency that the element is viable even under sunlight or similar, low intensity light. Owing to these properties, the element is suited for use in solar cells, photocatalysts, photocatalytic hydrogen and oxygen generating devices, photon upconversion filters, and like articles. The optical wavelength conversion element is visually homogeneous and transparent and produced by dissolving and/or dispersing in an ionic liquid (C) a combination of organic photosensitizing molecules (A) and organic light-emitting molecules (B) that exhibits triplet-triplet annihilation.

Abstract: A catalyst is provided which is used for continuously synthesizing ammonia using a gas containing hydrogen and nitrogen as a raw material, wherein a transition metal which exhibits catalytic activity is supported by a support, and the support is a two-dimensional electride or a precursor thereof. The two-dimensional electride or the precursor thereof is a metal nitride represented by MxNyHz (M represents one or two or more of Group II metals selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, and x, y and z are in ranges of 1?x?11, 1?y?8, and 0?z?4 respectively, in which x is an integer, and y and z are not limited to an integer) or M3N2 (M is the same as above), or a metal carbide selected from the group consisting of Y2C, Sc2C, Gd2C, Tb2C, Dy2C, Ho2C and Er2C.