Abstract: A medium for water culture has a porous substance and photocatalyst particles formed of titanium-based compound particles that are supported on the porous substance, have absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and have an absorption peak at 2,700 cm?1 to 3,000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, in which a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group is bonded to the surface of each of the titanium-based compound particles through an oxygen atom.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data generating apparatus includes: an acquiring section that acquires element data generated by dividing a three-dimensional shape into first elements, the three-dimensional shape being modeled with a plurality of modeling materials having different resolutions, each first element corresponding to a resolution of a first modeling material among the plurality of modeling materials; a dividing section that divides the three-dimensional shape into second elements, each second element corresponding to a second modeling material having a resolution lower than the resolution of the first modeling material and having a size larger than the first element; and a generating section that generates three-dimensional shape data through setting modeling materials for the first and second elements, respectively, according to the number of the first elements covered by the second element.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit that calculates a hash value of an original image represented by electronic information to which an electronic signature is added in advance, and a storage unit that stores image information representing the original image and the hash value calculated by the calculation unit in association with the electronic information.

Abstract: Water purification particles have porous particles and photocatalyst particles formed of titanium-based compound particles that are supported on the porous particles, have absorption at a wavelength of 500 nm in a visible absorption spectrum, and have an absorption peak at 2,700 cm?1 to 3,000 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum, and a metal compound having a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group is bonded to the surface of each of the titanium-based compound particles through an oxygen atom.

Abstract: An information control apparatus includes a storage unit storing, for each user, results of use of respective functions of devices and a display control unit performing control so as to preferentially display a device to be used next among the devices based on a pattern group having patterns close to one another and including continuous function values when the pattern group is present in a case where the user-specific use result is represented by a function axis indicating a function value including the used function and a setting value thereof and a time axis indicating a time of use of the device.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a positioning portion provided upstream of a transfer portion in a transport direction of a recording medium. The positioning portion positions the medium using a leading end of the medium. Additionally included is a detector that is disposed downstream of the positioning portion in the transport direction, and that detects passage of the leading end of the medium; and a controller that controls a transport speed in a period from when the leading end of the medium passes through the detector to when the leading end of the medium passes through a target position situated downstream of the detector in the transport direction, in accordance with a time since transport of the medium is started from the positioning portion until the leading end of the medium passes through the detector.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: an apparatus main body; and a display mechanism that is provided to be displaceable with respect to the apparatus main body, is provided with an antenna used to perform communication with a mobile terminal, and is configured to display information. The apparatus main body is not located in a place where the display mechanism extends upwards and downwards the display mechanism in a state in which the display mechanism is displaced with respect to the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A document editing apparatus includes a receiver, a processor, and a bundling unit. The receiver is configured to receive an operation of bundling plural documents. The processor is configured to, when the receiver receives the operation of bundling during editing of a part of the plural documents, perform a process for bundling the plural documents. The bundling unit is configured to, when the editing of the part of the plural documents is completed, bring the plural documents into a state in which an editing result of the part of the plural documents is reflected and the plural documents are bundled, using a process result by the processor.

Abstract: A display information generation device includes a specifying section that specifies plural features that each device of plural devices has; and a generation section that generates display information for displaying a specific feature that at least one device other than each device does not have, among the plural features that each device has, in association with each device of the plural devices.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 5?-chloro-3-hydroxy-2?-methoxy-2-naphthanilide in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 1,000 ppm by mass or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding section; a transfer section that includes a transfer member, applies a transfer electric-field to a transfer region between the image holding section and the transfer member, and electrostatically transfers an image held by the image holding section onto a recording medium; a contact section that acts as an electrode to ground while being in contact with the recording medium when the recording medium passes through the transfer region; a first resistance detection section; a second resistance detection section; a comparison section that compares a first system resistance detected by the first resistance detection section with a second system resistance detected by the second resistance detection section; and a switching section that switches between constant voltage control and constant current control for the transfer electric-field produced by the transfer section depending on a result of comparison by the comparison section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an extraction unit that extracts a document on which reading is unsuccessfully completed in a surface unit in a case where a bundle of a plurality of documents including written information are optically read one by one in order; and a generation unit that generates a list of summary results in which a number indicating in what number the document including a surface is read from the bundle of documents is added to a record corresponding to the surface on which reading is unsuccessfully completed.

Abstract: A scoring apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquire an image that is read from a recording medium having an answer column, an instruction unit that provides an instruction to perform a determination on at least one of a correct answer and an incorrect answer from correct answer information related to the recording medium and answer information included in the image acquired by the acquisition unit, a receiving unit that receives determination end information indicating that the determination has ended and determination results on each answer column that has undergone the determination, a notification unit that performs a notification of the determination end information received by the receiving unit, and a controller that performs control to display, before the notification unit has performed the notification, the determination results on the answer column that has undergone the determination.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an execution unit that, when a specific execution instruction is received, which specifies that a manual sheet feed section via which a sheet is fed manually is included as a sheet feed source that feeds the sheet, under the condition that the sheet is present in the manual sheet feed section, executes specific printing; and a confirmation unit that, when the execution unit executes first specific printing according to a first specific execution instruction, then receives a second specific execution instruction from an operator different from an operator who has issued the first specific execution instruction, under the condition that the sheet is present in the manual sheet feed section, confirms with the different operator whether the sheet is allowed to be fed from the manual sheet feed section before the execution unit executes second specific printing according to the second specific execution instruction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing section that includes a container containing an electrostatic charge image developer including toner and a carrier and also includes a transporter, the transporter having a rotary shaft and helical blades on the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft with a phase shift therebetween, the helical blades having a break zone, a zone in which the helical blades are discontinuous along the axis of the rotary shaft; a transfer section; and a fixing section. The toner satisfies the following relations: (ln ?(T1)?ln ?(T2))/(T1?T2)??0.14; (ln ?(T2)?ln ?(T3))/(T2?T3)??0.15; and (ln ?(T1)?ln ?(T2))/(T1?T2)<(ln ?(T2)?ln ?(T3))/(T2?T3), where ?(T1) represents the viscosity of the toner at 60° C., ?(T2) represents the viscosity of the toner at 90° C., and ?(T3) represents the viscosity of the toner at 130° C.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control section that performs control of displaying plural files stored in a real storage area on a display area representing a virtual storage area; an association section that generates relevant data in which the plural files displayed in the display area are associated with each other; and a storage section that stores the relevant data in a referable location in a case where the display area is hidden.

Abstract: A sheet includes a first surface, a second surface, an adhesive portion, a fold-back portion, and a first area. The first surface extends in a first direction. The second surface is opposite to the first surface, and allows light to pass therethrough from the first surface to the second surface. the adhesive portion is a portion of the first surface to which an adhesive is applied, and is disposed at a first end portion of the sheet in the first direction. The fold-back portion is disposed on the first end portion. The first area is disposed on the adhesive portion between a first edge of the first end portion and the fold-back portion.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 ?m×0.5 ?m square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)?(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less.

Abstract: An electronic transaction device includes a transaction card reader, which reads information from a transaction card. A language identification component identifies a language preference of a user of the card, based on the information read from the card. A template selection component selects a language template, based on the identified language preference. A user interface generator uses the language template to generate a user interface for display to the user on an associated display device in the preferred language. A user is thus able to select a language for completing a transaction which is not dependent on a location of the electronic transaction device or the card issuer's location.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that performs control so that a portion including a specified character string, which is specified through an operation by a user, in a list linking plural character string groups belonging to plural groups is displayed in a display area, operator images are displayed to receive an operation performed by the user for selecting one or more groups out of the plural groups, and an index associated with the one or more selected groups is displayed among plural indexes that are associated with the plural groups and used for receiving an operation for selecting a specific character string included in the character string groups, and a specifier that specifies, as the specified character string, the specific character string selected through the operation for the displayed index.