Abstract: To provide a foreign-object system which uses a plurality of radars, and which can detect a foreign object that is present on a runway or the like and which can suppress interference between radars. A foreign-object detection system including a first radar 11, a second radar 21 connected to the first radar via a network 33, and a signal source 31 for transmitting a synchronization signal to the first radar and the second radar via the network, said foreign-object detection system wherein interference generated due to a radar signal outputted from the second radar being reflected by a reflective body and inputted to the first radar is prevented by controlling a delay time that corresponds to |?1i??2j|, where ?1i is the time taken for the synchronization signal to be transmitted from the signal source to the first radar, and ?2j is the time taken for the synchronization signal to be transmitted from the signal source to the second radar.

Abstract: Provided are a carbon nanotube production device and production method capable of realizing high-temperature heating of a catalyst raw material in a floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) method, and improving the quality and yield of carbon nanotubes synthesized. A carbon nanotube production device 1 includes a synthesis furnace 2 for synthesizing carbon nanotubes; a catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 for supplying a catalyst raw material used to synthesize carbon nanotubes to the synthesis furnace 2; and a nozzle temperature adjusting unit 6 capable of setting a temperature of an inner portion 4 of the catalyst raw material supplying nozzle 3 higher than a temperature of a reaction field 5 of the synthesis furnace 2.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a cell culture substrate, which is suitable for the fabrication of an in vitro biological tissue model of a biological tissue having an air-liquid interface and which enables temporal and real-time observation under an optical microscope, and a method for manufacturing the same; and a biological tissue model fabricated by using the cell culture substrate and a method for fabricating the same. A cellulose derivative membrane that is light-permeable under a wet condition by an aqueous medium is made porous to thereby impart water absorption properties suitable for a culture substrate thereto. This porous cellulose derivative membrane is combined with polymer microfibers to give a transparent dual-layer substrate as a cell culture substrate. Further, cells are cultured at an air-liquid interface using the transparent dual-layer substrate to give an in vitro biological tissue model having characteristics similar to a biological tissue.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which is suitable for use as a material for forming electrodes for use in lithium ion secondary batteries, etc. and which makes it possible to heighten the rate characteristics of batteries. The electrode material is characterized by comprising a polymer having, in a side chain, a fluoflavin skeleton such as that shown by the formula and an inorganic active material, the polymer being contained in an amount of 1 mass % or less with respect to the solid components.

Abstract: The present invention provides an anion exchange resin which is capable of producing an electrolyte membrane with excellent chemical property, electrical property, and mechanical property, and an electrolyte membrane formed from the anion exchange resin. In an anion exchange resin of the present invention, a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (1); a hydrophobic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups which comprises a bisphenol residue represented by formula (2); and a hydrophilic unit, obtained by repeating divalent hydrophobic groups, which is composed of a plurality of aromatic rings connected to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group and/or via carbon-carbon bond, and which is connected to an anion exchange group via a divalent saturated hydrocarbon group with a carbon number of 2 or more, are connected to each other via carbon-carbon bond.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an underwater communication device and an underwater communication method that can be applied to mobile communication in water. An underwater communication device 10 includes: a transmitter 12 configured to transmit an electric signal; and a receiver 14 arranged away from the transmitter 12 via water and configured to receive the electric signal, in which the receiver 14 includes an field effect transistor 23 having a channel region 39 provided at a position in contact with the water, and a drive circuit 26 configured to generate a potential difference between a source region 31 and a drain region 33 of the field effect transistor 23.

Abstract: A sensor system includes a reader side resonant circuit (10) and a sensor side resonant circuit (20). The reader side resonant circuit (10) is an LCR parallel resonant circuit and a gain circuit. The sensor side resonant circuit (20) is an LCR parallel resonant circuit and a loss circuit having, as a resistance portion, a sensor element whose resistance value changes according to an object to be sensed. The reader side resonant circuit (10) and the sensor side resonant circuit (20) are wirelessly connected to each other through magnetic field resonant coupling to constitute a gain-loss coupling circuit, and the reader side resonant circuit (10) and the sensor side resonant circuit (20) are formed such that the gain-loss coupling circuit has parity-time symmetry.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive material that is capable of achieving a high-electric conductivity, long-term stability under an atmospheric environment, heat and humidity stabilities, as well as a conductive film and a solar cell using the same. The conductive material includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS acid). The element ratio (S/C ratio) of sulfur (S) to carbon (C) in the mixture may be from 0.001 to 0.1 in terms of the number of atoms. CNTs and PSS acid may make up a content percentage of 10 wt % or more in the mixture. These conductive films comprised of the conductive material 6 may have a weight per unit area of the CNTs in the range from 1 mg/m2 to 10000 mg/m2. The solar cell may include the conductive film 7, wherein the film is on the surface of a semiconductor.

Abstract: A satisfaction level calculation device (10) acquires environmental data detected by each of a plurality of environment sensors (20). The satisfaction level calculation device (10) sets each of a plurality of indexes about a space environment as a target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the environmental data acquired by measuring the target index, an individual satisfaction level, which is a satisfaction level of the target index. The satisfaction level calculation device (10) calculates, from the individual satisfaction level about each of the plurality of indexes, an overall satisfaction level, which is an overall satisfaction level about the space environment.

Abstract: A laser light source includes: a resonance unit with a light emitter; and an optical negative feedback unit. The resonance unit includes: a first waveguide; a first reflector to input the reflected light to the first waveguide; a second waveguide; a second reflector connected to the second waveguide; and a ring resonator between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The light from the first reflector is blocked from the ring resonator and partially transmitted to a first end of the first waveguide opposite to a second end connected to the light emitter and the first reflector. The optical negative feedback unit includes: a third waveguide to which the light transmitted to the first end of the first waveguide is inputted; and a third reflector connected to the third waveguide. The light from the third reflector is inputted to the first waveguide via the third waveguide.

Abstract: A semiconductor element bonding structure capable of strongly bonding a semiconductor element and an object to be bonded and relaxing thermal stress caused by a difference in thermal expansion, by interposing metal particles and Ni between the semiconductor element and the object to be bonded, the metal particles having a lower hardness than Ni and having a micro-sized particle diameter. A plurality of metal particles 5 (aluminum (Al), for example) having a lower hardness than nickel (Ni) and having a micro-sized particle diameter are interposed between a semiconductor chip 3 and a substrate 2 to be bonded to the semiconductor chip 3, and the metal particles 5 are fixedly bonded by the nickel (Ni). Optionally, aluminum (Al) or an aluminum alloy (Al alloy) is used as the metal particles 5, and aluminum (Al) or an aluminum alloy (Al alloy) is used on the surface of the semiconductor chip 3 and/or the surface of the substrate 2.

Abstract: The present invention is a medical treatment system using an information processing terminal and an information processing network, and a method using said system, wherein the objective of the invention is to provide: a system that performs optimal medical treatment to a patient on the basis of a diagnostic cross-sectional assessment and/or a disease-specific assessment, such that treatment using process-based CBT is possible; and a method using said system. Toward this end, this system (100) has: a block (10A1: diagnostic cross-sectional assessment part) having a function for, while using normal lifestyle date, assessing the degree to which a patient is adaptively behaving, or non-adaptively behaving, in response to psychosocial issue, lifestyle adaptation, stress, etc.

Abstract: A hardware trojan detection method is provided including an input and output updating step of updating input and output values of all logic cells by performing computations according to logical expressions of all logic cells included in a netlist to be verified and a detection step of performing hardware trojan detection based on a comparison result of the updated input and output values and a threshold.

Abstract: An impeller includes a hub having a circular plate shape with an axial line as a center, a shroud disposed to face the hub in a direction of the axial line, and a plurality of blades disposed with a space from each other in a circumferential direction between the hub and the shroud. A meridian plane shape of the impeller differs in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: A bonding method is capable of realizing high bonding strength and connection reliability even at a connection part in a high temperature area by means of simple operation low temperature bonding. The method includes a first step wherein, on at least one of the bonded surfaces of two materials to be bonded having a smooth surface, a thin film of noble metal with a volume diffusion coefficient greater than that of the base metal of the material to be bonded is formed using an atomic layer deposition method at a vacuum of 1.0 Pa or higher, a second step wherein a laminate is formed by overlapping the two materials to be bonded so that the bonded surfaces of the two materials are connected through the thin film, and a third step wherein the two materials to be bonded are bonded by holding the laminate at a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A polymer includes a repeating unit represented by at least one of Formula 1a or Formula 1b: wherein, in Formulae 1a or 1b, CY1 is a group represented by at least one of Formula 1-2 or Formula 1-4, CY2 is a group represented by Formula 1-3, and L1, L2, a1, and a2 are defined the same as in the specification, and in Formulae 1-2, Formula 1-3, or 1-4, X, Y, R1, R2, R11 to R14, b1, b2, R21, R22, b21, b22, Z1, Z2, c1, and c2 are defined the same as in the specification.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive material that is capable of achieving a high-electric conductivity, long-term stability under an atmospheric environment, heat and high humidity stabilities, as well as a conductive film and a solar cell using the same. The conductive material includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS acid). The element ratio (S/C ratio) of sulfur (S) to carbon (C) in the mixture may be from 0.001 to 0.1 in terms of the number of atoms. CNTs and PSS acid may make up a content percentage of 10 wt % or more in the mixture. These conductive films comprised of the conductive material 6 may have a weight per unit area of the CNTs in the range from 1 mg/m2 to 10000 mg/m2. The solar cell may include the conductive film 7, wherein the film is on the surface of a semiconductor.

Abstract: A method for generating carbon monoxide includes: a generation step of generating carbon monoxide by supplying carbon dioxide to a first material containing a first element included in elements of group 11 and a second element included in elements of groups 8 to 10, 12, and 13; and a reduction step of reducing the second element oxidized in the generation step by supplying hydrogen to a second material containing the oxidized second element and the first element. The generation step and the reduction step are repeated a plurality of times.

Abstract: A transgenic plant which exhibits a growth capacity which is enhanced compared to that of a host plant, and has a chimeric protein of a peptide containing an amino acid sequence derived from a motor domain of myosin XI of a donor plant 1, which is a plant species other than the host plant, and a peptide containing an amino acid sequence derived from a domain other than the motor domain of myosin XI of a donor plant 2, which is the host plant or a plant species other than the host plant, the transgenic plant being characterized in that the motor domain loop 2 region has EEPKQGGKGGGKSSFSSIG or EEPKQGGGKGGSKSSFSSIG, and in addition to these sequences, has an amino acid sequence in which one to six amino acids have been deleted, replaced or added.

Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which is suitable for use as a material for forming electrodes for use in lithium ion secondary batteries, etc. and which makes it possible to heighten the rate characteristics of batteries. The electrode material is characterized by comprising a polymer having, in a side chain, a fluoflavin skeleton such as that shown by the formula and an inorganic active material, the polymer being contained in an amount of 1 mass % or less with respect to the solid components.