Abstract: A method of assessing a possibility of cancerization including culturing a cell structure including normal cells and having a vascular network structure in a presence of a biological specimen from a subject, and assessing a possibility of cancerization in the subject based on a state of vessels in the cell structure after the culturing. The biological specimen is a body fluid specimen from the subject, a cell extract of cells from the subject, or a culture supernatant of cells from the subject, and the possibility of cancerization is assessed as high in the subject when a number of cells forming the vessels in the cell structure is larger than a number of cells cultured in an absence of the body fluid specimen, or when the vascular network structure in the cell structure extends.

Abstract: A prism layer has an uneven surface that includes at least one display region. An interface layer is adjacent to the uneven surface. The interface layer has a difference in refractive index from the prism layer such that a refractive index of a side of an interface between the uneven surface and the interface layer at which the prism layer is located is higher than a refractive index of a side of the interface at which the light interference layer is located. The display region includes inclination elements. The inclination elements adjacent to each other in an array direction contact each other in a plan view facing a plane along which the prism layer expands. The inclination elements include first inclination elements among which the inclination angle increases by the even angles along the array direction.

Abstract: A method of separating a target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule from a sample including the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule and a non-target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, including (1) mixing the sample, a pyrrole-imidazole-containing polyamide (first PI polyamide) modified with a first linker molecule and capable of specifically binding to a sequence of the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, and a carrier a modified with a first ligand capable of specifically binding and/or adsorbing to the first linker molecule such that a mixed solution is produced, (2) forming a complex A by binding the carrier a to the first PI polyamide with which the target double-stranded nucleic acid molecule is bound in the mixed solution, and (3) separating the complex A from the mixed solution.

Abstract: A reflective display apparatus including a reflective display portion which is two-dimensionally divided into pixels each having subpixels and changes reflectance of each subpixel based on an image signal, and colored layers facing the reflective display portion and partially overlapping the pixels as viewed in a facing direction in which the colored layers face the reflective display portion. The colored layers include traversing colored layers that overlap more than one of the subpixels as viewed in the facing direction, and the colored layers are positioned such that at most one of the colored layers overlaps one of the subpixels as viewed in the facing direction.

Abstract: A method of producing a lid including a top plate and a side wall extending downward from a periphery of the top plate, using molds, the molds including a papermaking mold and a drying mold. The top plate is provided with an abutting part abutting against an edge of an opening of a container, while an undercut part to be fitted to a lower part of the edge is formed on the side wall so as to be located below the abutting part. The papermaking mold is provided with suction holes at a level corresponding to a level of the undercut part formed on an inner surface of the side wall. The side wall is suctioned using the suction holes when a molded article is at least in one of several states to form the undercut part in a convex shape on the inner surface of the side wall.

Abstract: A vapor deposition metal mask substrate includes a nickel-containing metal sheet including a obverse surface and a reverse surface, which is opposite to the obverse surface. At least one of the obverse surface and the reverse surface is a target surface for placing a resist layer. The target surface has a surface roughness Sa of less than or equal to 0.019 ?m. The target surface has a surface roughness Sz of less than or equal to 0.308 ?m.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a primary film layer; a transparent resin layer; and a surface protective layer, in this order; the surface protective layer is formed of a plurality of layers with a layer located on an outermost surface is a surface protective layer, and a layer underlying the surface protective layer is a second surface protective layer and includes one or more ionizing radiation-curable resins having an erosion rate E in a range of 0.10 ?m/g or more and 0.45 ?m/g or less, and one or more thermosetting resins having an erosion rate E in a range of 0.30 ?m/g or more and 0.6 ?m/g or less, the erosion rate E being measured by using polygonal alumina powder having an average particle size (D50) of 1.2 ?m, and a mass ratio between the ionizing radiation-curable resin and the thermosetting resin (ionizing radiation-curable resin/thermosetting resin) is 95/5 to 40/60.

Abstract: A light control device includes a first transparent coating substrate having a first bonding surface, a second transparent coating substrate having a second bonding surface, a light control sheet located between the first and second bonding surfaces, and a transparent adhesive layer that joins the first and second bonding surfaces together around the light control sheet. The light control sheet includes a first transparent electrode film, a second transparent electrode film, and a liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal composition that fills space between the first transparent electrode film and the second transparent electrode film. The light control sheet has a sheet edge face, and the transparent adhesive layer covers the sheet edge face and has a water absorption rate of 2% or less in accordance with a method of JIS K 7209:2000 A.

Abstract: A biomolecule analysis method may include preparing a reaction container comprising an array of a plurality of micropores in which a wash buffer is filled or preparing the reaction container and feeding the wash buffer into the reaction container including the array of the plurality of micropores. The method may include feeding a reaction reagent to detect a sample, into the plurality of micropores, the sample including a biomolecule. The method may include feeding a sealing solution to seal the plurality of micropores so that the plurality of micropores become a plurality of independent reaction chambers sealed from each other. The method may include causing an isothermal detection reaction in each of the plurality of the independent reaction containers. The method may include detecting a signal amplified by the isothermal detection reaction.

Abstract: A decorative sheet that includes at least a thermoplastic resin substrate layer, a transparent thermoplastic resin layer and a surface protective layer in this order. The surface protective layer is formed by laminating at least two layers. At least a second surface protective layer, which constitutes an outermost layer that is a layer located furthest from the transparent thermoplastic resin layer among layers constituting the surface protective layer contains an ionizing radiation-curable resin containing a multifunctional hexamethylene diisocyanate oligomer at a weight ratio of 60% or more. The arithmetic mean height of a profile curve measured from the second surface protective layer in accordance with JIS B 0601 is 15 ?m or more, and the maximum height of the profile curve is 38 ?m or more.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a light control layer sandwiched between first and second orientation layers and including a polymer network in which domains are dispersed and filled with a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal molecule and a dichroic dye, a pair of transparent electrodes sandwiching the orientation layers, and a polarizing layer positioned on an opposite side of the first orientation layer to the light control layer. The light control layer has a transmittance that increases upon application of a driving voltage to the pair of transparent electrodes. When the driving voltage is not applied between the transparent electrodes, the orientation layers orient the liquid crystal molecule and the dichroic dye horizontally to the orientation layers and orient an orient absorption ax of the dichroic dye to cross an absorption axis of the polarizing layer as viewed in a thickness direction of the light control layer.

Abstract: A method of producing a light control sheet includes forming a multilayer laminate in which a light control layer comprising a liquid crystal composition is sandwiched between a first transparent conductive layer formed on a first transparent support layer and a second transparent conductive layer formed on a second transparent support layer, and conducting laser irradiation to the multilayer laminate such that a laser beam penetrates one of the first and second transparent support layers located closer to a laser source than the first transparent conductive layer, and that an insulating portion is formed in the first transparent conductive layer.

Abstract: A dielectric layer comprising an embossed surface and a flat surface which is located at a side opposite to the embossed surface is provided. The plane that approximates the flat surface is the X-Y plane, and the normal direction to the X-Y plane is the Z direction. The embossed surface has inclined surfaces that are inclined with respect to the Z direction, and the inclined surfaces reflect incident light incident on the dielectric layer and emerge reflected light. The elevation angle, which is an angle between the inclined surface and the X-Y plane, is ?. The refractive index of the dielectric layer is n. These values satisfy Formula (1): sin ??(1/n)<sin 2?.

Abstract: A display that exhibits improved anti-counterfeiting effects. The display includes an uneven-structure-forming layer having an uneven structure on one surface and a reflecting layer that covers at least part of an unevenly structured surface. In the display, the uneven-structure-forming layer includes a first region group including a plurality of first regions, each first region including a flat part and a plurality of convexities or a plurality of concavities, the top surface of each of the convexities or the bottom surface of each of the concavities is substantially parallel to a surface of the flat part; distances between the centers of adjacent convexities or concavities are not equal; the convexities have a uniform height, or the concavities have a uniform depth; the first region group is formed, with the first regions arrayed inside at a regular pitch.

Abstract: A spout assembly includes a spout and a cap. The cap includes an inner ring having an outer peripheral surface provided with a first region with a first outer diameter and a second region with a second outer diameter. The spout includes a side wall having an inner peripheral surface provided with a first region having a first inner diameter and a second region having a second inner diameter. When the cap is threadably engaged with the spout, the first region of the inner ring is in close contact with the first region of the side wall of the spout throughout the circumference, and the second region of the inner ring is in close contact with the second region of the side wall of the spout throughout the circumference.

Abstract: A reaction container including a transparent base having a first surface having at least one region where recessed portions are formed and recessed from the first surface, and a cover member positioned such that the cover member forms a gap from the first surface inside the region and is welded to the transparent base outside the region. The cover member absorbs infrared light and transmits light having a wavelength within a range of visible light.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a glass base in which through holes are formed passing through both surfaces thereof; an insulating resin layer laminated on each of both surfaces of the glass base and including a copper plated layer formed therein; and a capacitor including a lower electrode formed on the copper plated layer, a dielectric layer laminated on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode laminated on the dielectric layer. In the electronic component, the upper electrode has a region that is parallel to the copper plated layer and is formed so as to be smaller than a region of the dielectric layer parallel to the surface of the copper plated layer or a region of the lower electrode parallel to the surface of the copper plated layer.

Abstract: A method of forming an undercut which is engageable with an edge, on a side wall of a cover intermediate body using a cover intermediate body and a secondary processing die. In the secondary processing die, a moving inner core has, on the outer surface thereof, a concave shape corresponding to a convex shape of the inner surface of the undercut. The moving inner core is made up of a plurality of core segments which are arranged along the circumferential direction. Each core segment is vertically movable along an inclined surface of a core. When the moving inner core is moved upward, the moving inner core transforms smaller than the inner diameter of the side wall of a cover. The slide core has, on the inner surface thereof, a convex shape corresponding to the concave shape of the undercut.