Abstract: A brain activity estimation device includes a brain activity estimation portion. The brain activity estimation portion includes a blood-circulation-amount calculating unit and an estimation unit. The blood-circulation-amount calculating unit is configured to calculate time-series blood-circulation-amount data on a facial surface of a human based on RGB data of photographed image data on the facial surface acquired in time series. The RGB data is obtained by conducting RGB processing on the photographed image data. The RGB processing includes decomposing the photographed image data into three color components composed of an R component, a G component and a B component. The estimation unit is configured to estimate brain activity of the human based on a plurality of decomposition components obtained by decomposing the blood-circulation-amount data by singular value decomposition, principal component analysis, or independent component analysis.

Abstract: A magnetic measuring device includes: a determination part configured to identify four maximum inclination points in an average value in a visual field of a light detection magnetic resonance spectrum and configured to determined a degree of decrease in relative fluorescence intensity and a microwave frequency at each of the maximum inclination points; a setting part configured to set a reference decrease degree of the relative fluorescence intensity in a predetermined area and configured to set operating point frequency initial values at four points at which the reference decrease degree is achieved, near the microwave frequencies at the respective maximum inclination points; a frequency update part configured to update operating point frequencies at the four points; and a frequency correction part configured to input the updated operating point frequencies to a microwave oscillator as corrected operating point frequencies.

Abstract: This invention provides a novel carrier for enzyme immobilization and an immobilized enzyme. The carrier for enzyme immobilization according to an embodiment comprises a porous material and cellulose that has an amino group-containing substituent at an anomeric position and is immobilized on the porous material. The immobilized enzyme contains the carrier for enzyme immobilization and an enzyme immobilization on the cellulose. The carrier for enzyme immobilization is obtained by adding an acid to an aqueous solution in which cellulose having an amino group-containing substituent at an anomeric position is dissolved in an aqueous alkaline solution to deposit the cellulose in the presence of a porous material. The immobilized enzyme is obtained by immobilizing an enzyme on the cellulose.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technology for enabling prevention of deterioration of characteristics of an oxide semiconductor device. The oxide semiconductor device includes an n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer, a p-type oxide semiconductor layer, and an oxide layer. The p-type oxide semiconductor layer is disposed above the n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer, contains an element different from gallium as a main component, and has p-type conductivity. The oxide layer is disposed between the n-type gallium oxide epitaxial layer and the p-type oxide semiconductor layer, and is made of a material different from gallium oxide and different at least partly from a material of the p-type oxide semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a catalyst with which it is possible to obtain a supported metal ammonia synthesis catalyst, in which there are restrictions in terms of producing method and producing facility, and particularly large restrictions for industrial-scale producing, in a more simple manner and so that the obtained catalyst has a high activity. This method for manufacturing an ammonia synthesis catalyst includes: a first step for preparing 12CaO.7Al2O3 having a specific surface area of 5 m2/g or above; a second step for supporting a ruthenium compound on the 12CaO.7Al2O3; and a third step for performing a reduction process on the 12CaO.7Al2O3 supporting the ruthenium compound, obtained in the second step. This invention is characterized in that the reduction process is performed until the average particle diameter of the ruthenium after the reduction process has increased by at least 15% in relation to the average particle diameter of the ruthenium before the reduction process.

Abstract: An n-type semiconductor layer has a single-crystal structure and is made of a wide-gap semiconducting material. A p-type semiconductor layer is provided on the n-type semiconductor layer and made of a material different from the aforementioned wide-gap semiconducting material, and has either a microcrystalline structure or an amorphous structure. An electrode is provided on at least one of the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A titanium aluminide alloy material for hot forging has a chemical composition including, by atom, aluminum of 38.0% or greater and 39.9% or less, niobium of 3.0% or greater and 5.0% or less, vanadium of 3.0% or greater and 4.0% or less, carbon of 0.05% or greater and 0.15% or less, and titanium and an inevitable impurity as a residue.

Abstract: A titanium aluminide alloy material for hot forging has a chemical composition including, by atom, aluminum of 43.0% or greater and 45.0% or less, niobium of 4.0% or greater and 6.0% or less, chromium of 1.5% or greater and 3.5% or less, and titanium and an inevitable impurity as a residue.

Abstract: An atomic beam is irradiated with a first laser beam, a second laser beam, and a third laser beam. The first laser beam and the third laser beam each have a wavelength corresponding to a transition between a ground state and a first excited state. The second laser beam has a wavelength corresponding to a transition between the ground state and a second excited state. First, atoms each having a smaller velocity component than a predetermined velocity in a direction orthogonal to the traveling direction of the atomic beam are changed from the ground state to the first excited state by the first laser beam. Subsequently, a momentum is provided for individual atoms in the ground state by the second laser beam, which removes the atoms from the atomic beam. Finally, atoms in the first excited state are returned from the first excited state to the ground state by the third laser beam.

Abstract: An electrode active material for a nonaqueous secondary battery comprising: an alkali metal-transition metal composite oxide particles, a hole-doped graphene with an anion. The electrode active material for a nonaqueous secondary battery may be manufactured by a method which includes obtaining a hole-doped graphene by bringing a graphene raw material into contact with a two-coordinate boron cation, and bringing the hole-doped graphene into contact with an alkali metal-transition metal composite oxide particle.

Abstract: An image processing system, which estimates a position and a pose of a camera and performs three-dimensional reconstruction processing of an object having a cylindrical shape by using a photographed image acquired by photographing an inside of the object with the camera, includes a processor. The processor estimates a first center axis of the cylindrical shape by using a group of three-dimensional points obtained by reconstructing, in a three-dimensional space, a group of feature points extracted from the photographed image. In addition, the processor performs bundle adjustment for correcting the position and the pose of the camera and the coordinates of the group of three-dimensional points by using a condition for minimizing a total sum of differences between a radius of the cylindrical shape and respective distances from the first center axis to individual three-dimensional points that constitute the group of three-dimensional points.

Abstract: Provided are an atomic layer sheet that contains boron and oxygen as framework elements, is networked by nonequilibrium couplings having boron-boron bonds, and has a molar ratio of oxygen to boron (oxygen/boron) of less than 1.5, a laminated sheet containing a plurality of such atomic layer sheets and metal ions between ones of the sheets, and a thermotropic liquid crystal and a lyotropic liquid crystal containing these. In addition, there is provided a method for manufacturing an atomic layer sheet and/or a laminated sheet containing boron and oxygen, the method including: adding MBH4, where M represents an alkali metal ion, into a solvent containing an organic solvent in an inert gas atmosphere to prepare a solution; and exposing the solution to an atmosphere containing oxygen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of temperature-influence members, a first-point temperature acquisition unit, a second-point temperature estimation unit, and a controller. The plurality of temperature-influence members have influence on a temperature of a recording medium on which an image is formed. The first-point temperature acquisition unit is configured to detect or estimate a temperature of the recording medium at a first point. The second-point temperature estimation unit is configured to estimate a temperature of the recording medium at a second point, based on a detection result of at least one of a temperature of the recording medium at a point different from the second point and a temperature of a member or atmosphere. The controller is configured to control the plurality of temperature-influence members, based on an acquisition result from the first-point temperature acquisition unit and an estimation result from the second-point temperature estimation unit.

Abstract: This chopper circuit 1 performs voltage conversion between a first DC voltage at a first external connection terminal and a second DC voltage at a second external connection terminal and is provided with: a first switch portion 11 having the first external connection terminal; a second switch portion 12 connected in series with the first switch portion 11 so that the conducting direction during ON-time matches that of the first switch portion 11 and having the second external connection terminal on the opposite side to the side where the first switch portion 11 is connected; one or a plurality of semiconductor power converters 13 cascade-connected to each other, which are provided on a wire branched from the wire for connecting the first switch portion 11 and the second switch portion 12; and an inductor 14 connected in series with the semiconductor power converters 13 on the wire branched from the wire for connecting the first switch portion 11 and the second switch portion 12.

Abstract: As a method for producing enterocytes derived from pluripotent stem cells and having functions corresponding to those of actual enterocytes, a method for producing enterocytes using an enterocyte differentiation medium containing a GSK3 inhibitor, and at least one selected from the group consisting of an activator of a hepatocyte growth factor receptor, an adrenal cortex hormone, calcitriol, and dimethyl sulfoxide is provided.

Abstract: Provided is a sulfide solid electrolyte material which has a composition that does not contain Ge, while having a smaller Li content than conventional sulfide solid electrolyte materials, and which has both lithium ion conductivity and chemical stability at the same time. A sulfide solid electrolyte which has a crystal structure represented by composition formula (Li3.45+??4?Sn?)(Si0.36Sn0.09)(P0.55??Si?)S4 (wherein ??0.67, ??0.33 and 0.43<?+? (provided that 0.23<??0.4 when ?=0.2 and 0.13<??0.4 when ?=0.3 may be excluded)), or a crystal structure represented by composition formula Li7+?Si?P1??S6 (wherein 0.1??<0.3).

Abstract: A microorganism having at least one SPX gene encoding SPX protein responsive to phosphorus deficiency, and characterized in that a function of the SPX protein is decreased or lost by introducing gene mutation into the SPX gene.

Abstract: With the object of efficiently producing an oxidation product, the present invention provides a method for producing an oxidation product by oxidizing a raw material compound in the presence of oxygen, wherein the raw material compound is oxidized in the presence of manganese dioxide having a crystal structure of ?-type.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a ligand that contains a plurality of groups represented by formula (1) and is capable of multivalently binding to a glutamine transporter expressed in excess in a cancer cell compared to a normal cell.

Abstract: Provided is an antibody or antibody fragment labeled with a fluorescent dye having the following properties (1) and (2): (1) the fluorescent dye is quenched in the absence of an antigen and the quenching of the fluorescent dye is cancelled in the presence of an antigen; and (2) the fluorescent dye is contained in a compound binding to an amino acid residue in the antibody or antibody fragment.