Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell that are capable of improving water release in a high current region, where a large amount of water is generated, without impairing water retention under low humidity conditions, and also capable of exhibiting high power generation performance and durability under high humidity conditions, and also reducing the production cost of the electrode catalyst layer. A membrane electrode assembly of the present embodiment includes a polymer electrolyte membrane, and a pair of electrode catalyst layers sandwiching the polymer electrolyte membrane. At least one of the pair of electrode catalyst layers contains catalyst-supporting particles having a hydrophobic coating, hydrophobic polymer fibers, and a polymer electrolyte.

Abstract: A steam-releasing pouch includes two laminated sheets forming an accommodation compartment that accommodates a content, a sealing portion that seals the two sheets to form an opening that opens part of the accommodation compartment, and a steam-releasing sealing portion formed in the sealing portion to open as pressure of the accommodation compartment increases in a state in which the opening is sealed. The steam-releasing sealing portion includes a first sealant layer having at least a first base layer that faces the accommodation compartment and a second base layer laminated with the first base layer and a second sealant layer having at least a third base layer that faces the accommodation compartment and a fourth base layer laminated with the third base layer. The first base layer and the third base layer are joined together.

Abstract: A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which improve drainage in a high current range where a large amount of water is produced, without hindering water retention under low humidification conditions, and exhibit high power generation performance and durability even under high humidification conditions. A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes a polyelectrolyte film, and two electrocatalyst layers sandwiching the polyelectrolyte film. At least one of the two electrocatalyst layers includes catalyst support particles with a hydrophobic coating, a polyelectrolyte, and a fibrous material having an average fiber diameter that is 10 nm or more and 300 nm or less. The fibrous material has a mass that is 0.2 times or more and 1.0 times or less the mass of the carrier in the catalyst support particles.

Abstract: This ultrasonic-wave vibration imparting device is configured so as to be attachable to a container that retains a beverage and that has a spout on an upper part thereof. The ultrasonic-wave vibration imparting device includes: an annular engagement part configured so as to engage with the upper part of the container; and an ultrasonic wave generating unit configured so as to be disposed at a position at which the unit comes into contact with a side surface of the container below the spout, as a result of the engagement between the container and the engagement part.

Abstract: A packaging body constituted by a sheet that includes a gas barrier laminate and a sealant; and contents that are accommodated in the packaging body and that contain a sulfur-containing amino acid. The gas barrier laminate comprises: a resin substrate; a first layer containing an inorganic oxide; a second layer containing a carboxylic acid polymer; and a third layer containing a polyvalent metal compound and a resin. The resin substrate, the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer are layered in this order from the outside to the inside of the packaging body. The thickness of the third layer is 0.1 ?m or more. The sulfur content of the second layer is 1.0 atm % or less.

Abstract: Provided is a tubular container capable of improving extractability of contents inside the container. The tubular container includes: a trunk portion having a tubular shape one end of which is closed, the trunk portion being formed by using a film member containing a resin material, and being capable of storing contents therein; and a spout portion attached to the other end of the trunk portion, and capable of closing the other end of the trunk portion. On a peripheral portion of the spout portion, the other end of the trunk portion is attached to a surface, of the spout portion, on a side opposite to the one end of the trunk portion.

Abstract: A gas barrier film including a substrate film containing a resin, and a gas barrier layer that has oxygen barrier properties and is in contact with at least one surface of the substrate film, a surface of the gas barrier layer has a flat portion, and a plurality of protrusions that protrude from the flat portion. The number of protrusions that satisfy the following formula (1) is 0 to 200 per mm2, and the number of protrusions that satisfy the following formula (2) is 20 or more per mm2; d×2?f(1); and 0.2?f<d×2(2), where d represents a thickness (?m) of the gas barrier layer, and f represents a height (?m) of each of the plurality of protrusions.

Abstract: A primary culture method in which cells contained in a tissue collected from a living body are primary cultured in vitro, in which the cells in the tissue collected from the living body are seeded and cultured on a top surface of a cell structure containing cells constituting a stroma and composed of a single layer or two or more cell layers laminated in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A display body includes a display surface including a plurality of display region groups. Each display region includes at least one reflection surface that is configured to reflect light incident on the display surface toward an area including a corresponding one of reflection directions that are associated with the respective display region groups. Each display region group is configured to form an image unique to the display region group in a corresponding one of the reflection directions through reflection of light on the reflection surfaces in the display region group. The display region groups are configured to form, in two adjacent ones of the reflection directions, different images that have a interrelation between each other.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate including a resin substrate, a first coating layer containing a carboxylic acid polymer; and a second coating layer containing a polyvalent metal compound and a resin, laminated in this order; a ratio of a thickness of the second coating layer to the first coating layer in the range of 1.0 or more and 4.0 or less; and the second coating layer satisfies at least one of the following: (condition 1) a haze of the second coating layer is 8% or less; (condition 2) a surface roughness Ra of the second coating layer is ½ or less of the thickness of the second coating layer; and (condition 3) the number of concave portions having a diameter of 1.5 ?m or more per unit area on a surface of the second coating layer opposite to the first coating layer is 2/0.01 mm2 or less.

Abstract: A glass core device with a wiring pattern on a first surface of a glass core and a wiring pattern on a second surface thereof being electrically connected via a wiring pattern embedded in TGVs formed in the glass core. In a state of being cut out by dicing, each glass core has a second surface and side faces which are continuously covered with an outer protective layer.

Abstract: A glass core, a multilayer circuit board, and a method of manufacturing a glass core that appropriately form copper wiring, and suppresses crack and the like, a glass core includes: a glass plate; a first metal layer provided on the glass plate; a first electrolytic copper plating layer provided on the first metal layer; a dielectric layer provided above the first electrolytic copper plating layer; a second metal layer provided on the dielectric layer; an electroless nickel plating layer provided on the second metal layer and having a phosphorus content of less than 5 mass %; and a second electrolytic copper plating layer provided on the electroless nickel plating layer.

Abstract: A method of detecting somatic mutations of tumor marker genes includes recovering a peripheral blood mononuclear cell layer from a blood sample collected from a subject and examining whether or not a nucleic acid derived from tumor marker genes having somatic mutations is detected from DNA included in the peripheral blood mononuclear cell layer.

Abstract: A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell, which improve drainage in a high current range where a large amount of water is produced, without hindering water retention under low humidification conditions, and exhibit high power generation performance and durability even under high humidification conditions. A fuel cell membrane electrode assembly according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes a polyelectrolyte film, and two electrocatalyst layers sandwiching the polyelectrolyte film. At least one of the two electrocatalyst layers includes catalyst support particles with a hydrophobic coating, a polyelectrolyte, and a fibrous material having an average fiber diameter that is 10 nm or more and 300 nm or less. The fibrous material has a mass that is 0.2 times or more and 1.0 times or less the mass of the carrier in the catalyst support particles.

Abstract: A method includes: sandwiching a plastic layer between a glass substrate and a metal plate made of an iron-nickel alloy and joining the metal plate to the glass substrate with the plastic layer in between; forming a mask portion including a plurality of mask holes from the metal plate; joining a surface of the mask portion that is opposite to a surface of the mask portion that is in contact with the plastic layer to a mask frame, which has a higher rigidity than the mask portion and is in a shape of a frame surrounding the mask holes of the mask portion; and peeling off the plastic layer and the glass substrate from the mask portion.

Abstract: A rolled metal sheet includes an obverse surface and a reverse surface that is a surface located opposite to the obverse surface. At least either one of the obverse surface and the reverse surface is a processing object. A method for manufacturing a metal mask substrate includes reducing a thickness of the rolled metal sheet to 10 ?m or less by etching the processing object by 3 ?m or more by use of an acidic etching liquid, and roughening the processing object so that the processing object becomes a resist formation surface that has a surface roughness Rz of 0.2 ?m or more, thereby obtaining a metal mask sheet.

Abstract: A method for filling an analytical device includes providing a plate having a detection space or spaces and ports communicating with the space(s), fitting, into one of the ports, an adapter having a reagent fixed on an inner wall of the adapter such that a first end of the adapter is fitted into the port, and delivering a sample solution into the detection space(s) through the adapter such that the sample solution and reagent fill the detection space(s). The plate includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a side wall such that the plate has the detection space(s) between the substrates and that the first substrate has the ports, the first and/or second substrates is formed of transparent material such that the detection space is observable from outside the plate, and the ports include a first port for delivering liquid-containing substance, and a second port for discharging the substance.

Abstract: A color correspondence information generating system includes an object database that stores correspondences between recognition information and color characteristic information about first objects recognized by the recognition information; an object recognition section that recognizes the first objects in the first image from the first image and the recognition information, and outputs image regions of the first objects in the first image and first color characteristic information; and a color correspondence information generation section that generates the color correspondence information using the color information and the first color characteristic information of pixels in the image regions. The color characteristic information and the recognition information have a one-to-one correspondence relation with each other, or the color characteristic information is the recognition information itself.

Abstract: A cell transplantation device for placing a cell group at a target region in at least one of an intradermal layer and a subcutaneous layer in a living body, including a device body including a protruding portion having an accommodating portion for accommodating a liquid composition including the cell group. The protruding portion has an opening that communicates with the accommodating portion, and the protruding portion penetrates a skin surface of the living body such that the opening of the protruding portion reaches the at least one of the intradermal layer and the subcutaneous layer and that the cell group accommodated in the accommodating portion is placed at the target region through the opening.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor array includes an insulating substrate and pixels each including a thin-film transistor, a pixel electrode, and a capacitor electrode, the pixels being formed in a matrix and located at positions where column wirings extending in a column direction intersect row wirings perpendicular to the column wirings and extending in a row direction. The thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a semiconductor pattern formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode. The pixel electrode includes two electrically conductive layers which are a lower layer electrode serving as a lower pixel electrode, and an upper layer electrode serving as an upper pixel electrode. The corresponding one of the column wirings is at a position which has no overlap with the capacitor electrode and the lower pixel electrode, and has an overlap with the upper pixel electrode, in the lamination direction.