Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring an image in which a cell structure having a stained vascular network structure is imaged, applying a wavelet transform to the image such that a contour image in which contours of the vascular network structure are extracted is generated, and repeatedly excluding object pixels from object boundaries recognized in the contour image such that a skeleton image in which skeletons having a line width of a predetermined number of pixels are extracted is generated.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a primary film layer and a surface protection layer disposed on one surface of the primary film layer, wherein the surface protection layer includes on a surface thereof a ridged portion protruding in a shape of a ridge and thus has an uneven shape formed on the surface, the uneven shape of the surface protection layer has a ratio RSm/Ra in a range of 10 or more and 300 or less, the surface protection layer contains an ionizing radiation-curable resin as a main material, the ionizing radiation-curable resin contains as a main component an acrylic resin having a repeating structure, the acrylic resin has a dipentaerythritol structure, the repeating structure is one of structures of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and ?-caprolactone, and a number of repeating units of the repeating structure is 12 or more.

Abstract: A gas barrier film includes a base material containing a polyethylene as a main resin component and an inorganic oxide layer formed on a first surface side of the base material. The birefringence ?N of the first surface calculated based on measurement by a parallel Nicol rotation method is 0 or more and 0.007 or less, and the proportion of the polyethylene in the entire gas barrier film is 90 mass % or more.

Abstract: A quantum dot having a narrow fluorescence half-width and a high fluorescence quantum yield has a core-shell structure including a core formed from ZnSe or ZnSeTe, and a shell that covers the core and is formed from ZnS, wherein a particle diameter of the quantum dot is 5 nm or more and 20 nm or less, and wherein a surface of the core-shell structure is modified with a zinc halide. The quantum dot has a fluorescence quantum yield of 75% or more and a fluorescence half-width of 25 nm or less. The fluorescence lifetime can be made 50 ns or less.

Abstract: An infrared cut-off filter, including a cyanine dye and a copolymer. The cyanine dye includes tris(pentafluoroethyl) trifluorophosphate and a cation having a polymethine and a nitrogen-containing heterocycle at each end of the polymethine. The copolymer includes a first repeating unit from a first monomer and a second repeating unit from a second monomer different from the first monomer. The first monomer includes a phenolic hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a filter for a solid-state imaging element, including forming a color filter on a semiconductor substrate, forming an etching stopper layer on the semiconductor substrate and the color filter, forming an infrared cut precursor layer on the etching stopper layer, forming a resist pattern that covers a portion on the color filter in the infrared cut precursor layer, and forming an infrared cut filter by dry etching the infrared cut precursor layer using the resist pattern. The dry etching of the infrared cut precursor layer is conducted at an etching rate different from an etching rate of the etching stopper layer.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate including: a substrate layer which contains a polyolefin resin; a metal oxide-containing layer which contains a metal oxide; and an overcoat layer which contains a polyvinyl alcohol resin, the overcoat layer having a surface, the overcoat layer having a surface which has a softening temperature of 100 to 170° C., as measured by local thermal analysis.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate including a gas barrier layer and a sealing layer laminated on a substrate in this order, wherein the gas barrier layer is a layer formed by applying and heat-drying a coating solution containing a water-soluble polymer and at least one of a metal alkoxide represented by a general formula M(OR1)n(where M is a metal element, R1 is an alkyl group, and n is the oxidation number of the metal element) and a hydrolyzate of the metal alkoxide, a content of the water-soluble polymer is 50 wt % or more relative to a total mass of a solid content in the coating solution, a total content of the metal alkoxide and the hydrolyzate thereof is 5 to 50 wt % relative to the total mass of the solid content in the coating solution, and the sealing layer contains an aqueous heat seal varnish.

Abstract: A terminal resin film of at least seven layers, with at least a layer A, a layer B, a layer C, and a layer D, and a structure being layer A, the layer B, the layer A, and the layer C or the layer D; or, the structure being layer A, the layer B, and the layer A, and Layer A: A layer formed from a resin composition including an acid-modified polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 2.0 to 50 g/10 mins; Layer B: A layer formed from a resin composition including a polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 0.05 g/10 mins or more and less than 2.0 g/10 mins; Layer C: A layer formed from a resin composition including an unmodified polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 0.05 to 50 g/10 mins; and, Layer D: An adhesive layer including a resin having a cross-linked structure.

Abstract: High gas barrier properties can be achieved without requiring strict control for preventing entry of moisture. A coating liquid for producing a gas barrier laminate contains a carboxy group-containing polymer, polyvalent metal-containing particles, a surfactant, and an organic solvent. In the coating liquid, the carboxy group-containing polymer has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or less.

Abstract: A flexible wiring board includes an insulating layer having a support surface extending in a first direction; a first sheet adhesive terminal positioned on the support surface; and a second sheet adhesive terminal positioned on the support surface. The shape of the first sheet adhesive terminal and the shape of the second sheet adhesive terminal are point-symmetric about a point on a straight fold line on which straight guide lines extending in the first direction lie.

Abstract: A laminated film in which curl is suppressed when the film is heat-sealed with a material different from that of a substrate, the substrate is made of polyethylene terephthalate; and a sealant laminated on one side of the substrate and being to be sealed with a dissimilar material that is a material different from that of the substrate, wherein, when a laminate including a 100 mm×100 mm square of a portion of the laminated film and an 80 mm×80 mm square of the dissimilar material is placed on a flat surface so that the dissimilar material faces down, the portion of the laminated film including a portion of the substrate and a portion of the sealant, the dissimilar material being heat-sealed on a central portion of the portion of the sealant, each corner of the dissimilar material has a rise height of 20 mm or less.

Abstract: A laminate including a first base material layer, a second base material layer, and a sealant layer in this order, wherein all three layers include a polyolefin film; the polyolefin film of the first base material layer or the second base material layer includes an inorganic oxide layer on at least one surface thereof; and each of the first base material layer, the second base material layer, and the sealant layer has a heat shrinkage rate, in a travel direction after heating at 120° C. for 15 minutes, which satisfies the following inequalities: heat shrinkage rate of the second base material layer?5% (Inequality 1); heat shrinkage rate of the second base material layer?heat shrinkage rate of the first base material layer (Inequality 2); and, heat shrinkage rate of the second base material layer?heat shrinkage rate of the sealant layer (Inequality 3).

Abstract: A range imaging device includes a light source unit that emits light pulses to a measurement space; a light-receiving unit including a photoelectric conversion element that generates charge according to light incident from the space, a pixel circuit including charge storage units in which the charge is integrated in a frame cycle, and a pixel drive circuit that performs switching operation of transfer transistors to distribute the charge to the storage units for integration at integration timing synchronizing with emission of the pulses; and a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between object in the space and the light-receiving unit based on charge determined by a first charge integrated in each storage unit. The calculation unit calculates the distance by subtracting a second charge from each first charge, the second charge being noise charge as an integrated charge other than the charge distributed and integrated by the switching operation.

Abstract: To provide Cd-free chalcopyrite-based quantum dots with a narrow fluorescence FWHM and a high fluorescence quantum yield. The quantum dots of the present invention contain AgInxGa1?xSySe1?y or ZnAgInxGa1?xSySe1?y (where 0?x<1 and 0?y?1) and exhibit fluorescence properties including a fluorescence FWHM of less than or equal to 45 nm and a fluorescence quantum yield of greater than or equal to 35% in the green wavelength range to the red wavelength range.

Abstract: Provided is a display device containing quantum dots. A display device includes a display area. The display area has a light emitting device in which a first electrode, a layer between the first electrode and an emitting layer, the emitting layer, a layer between the emitting layer and a second electrode, and the second electrode are stacked in this order on a substrate. The emitting layer is formed of an inorganic layer containing quantum dots, and the light emitting device is a top emission device. A thin film transistor connected to the light emitting device is preferably an n-ch TFT.

Abstract: An object is to provide an electrode catalyst layer, a membrane electrode assembly, and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell that can suppress decrease in durability of the membrane electrode assembly and decrease in power generation performance of the polymer electrolyte fuel cell by suppressing crack generation in the electrode catalyst layer. An electrode catalyst layer according to one aspect of the present invention is an electrode catalyst layer including at least: a catalytic substance; aggregates of polymer electrolytes; and polymer electrolyte fibers. In the electrode catalyst layer, an amount of phosphorus and an amount of platinum defined via elemental analysis by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) satisfy a following equation (1) 0<P/Pt?3.0??Equation (1).

Abstract: A resin film for a terminal which includes at least three layers, which define a first outer surface and a second outer surface of the resin film, the first outer surface being opposed to the second outer surface; a first adhesive layer which is one of the three layers and is arranged to form the first outer surface of the resin film; a second adhesive layer which is one of the three layers and is arranged to form the second outer surface of the resin film; and an insulating layer which is arranged between the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer contains first polypropylene and second polypropylene. The first polypropylene has a long-chain branched structure. The second polypropylene has no long-chain branched structure and has a melting point of 80° C. to 155° C.

Abstract: A wiring board includes a first wiring layer disposed on the first adhesion layer; and a second wiring layer disposed on the second adhesion layer, wherein a proportion of copper remaining in the first wiring layer is represented by C=B/A (%), where A is a total area of the first wiring layer, B is an area of copper in the first wiring layer, and C is a remaining copper ratio C defined as the proportion of copper remaining in the first wiring layer, and wherein when the remaining copper ratio C is set to 70 to 100%, the first adhesion layer is comprised of at least one material having a first predetermined Young's modulus, and the first wiring layer is comprised of at least one material having a second predetermined Young's modulus, the first predetermined Young's modulus being 0.1 to 0.85 times the second predetermined Young's modulus.

Abstract: A method for detecting a target molecule of a structure body, including contacting a dispersion liquid including a structure body with a well array including wells such that the structure body is introduced into the wells, bringing a sealing solution into contact with the well array such that the structure body is sealed in at least one of the wells, extracting a content of the structure body in the well, detecting a surface target molecule present on a surface of the structure body in the well, and detecting an internal target molecule present inside the structure body in the well.