Abstract: There is disclosed herein methods, uses and systems for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment or prevention of a disease or condition comprising cartilage degeneration in a subject that is in need thereof. The methods comprise the use, inhibition or measurement of at least one of miR-181 a-5p and miR-4454, in the subject.

Abstract: Provided is a silicone foam sheet that expresses excellent bubble removability, that has satisfactory adhesiveness with an adherend and satisfactory sealability, that maintains the expression of these effects even when its thickness is reduced, that preferably expresses a stable modulus of elasticity over a region from a low-temperature region to a high-temperature region, and that suppresses both of its compression set in the low-temperature region and its compression set in the high-temperature region to low levels. Also provided is a method of producing such silicone foam sheet. The silicone foam sheet comprises an open-cell structure having a thickness of from 10 ?m to 3,000 ?m, wherein wherein an open-cell ratio is 90% or more, an average cell diameter of the silicone foam sheet is from 1 ?m to 50 ?m, and 90% or more of all cells therein has a cell diameter of 80 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a dump truck that includes an engine (1) and an ECU (7) controlling the engine (1) and that performs a predetermined operation after arriving at a destination. The ECU (7) is configured to makes larger an engine power suppression amount on a route leading the dump truck to the destination as a work waiting time that is a prediction time elapsing from an arrival of the dump truck at the destination to a start of the operation by the dump truck is longer and as an engine load of the dump truck is lower.

Abstract: A manufacturing system 10 is configured to include a driving device 4 configured to drive a manufacturing machine 5 in a step pertaining to product manufacture in a predetermined production management system, the driving device 4 driving the manufacturing machine 5 in the step in response to predetermined information obtained related to a state of the step.

Abstract: A combustion system for ships operated at low cost is provided. A combustion system 1 for ships includes an internal combustion engine 20 that burns fuel, an exhaust line L2 through which exhaust gas flows, the exhaust gas being generated through combustion of the fuel in the internal combustion engine 20, an exhaust heat recovery device 40 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that recovers exhaust heat from the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine 20, and a denitration device 50 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that removes nitrogen oxide from the exhaust gas using a denitration catalyst. The denitration device 50 is disposed downstream from the exhaust heat recovery device 40 in the exhaust line L2. The denitration catalyst contains 43 wt % or more of vanadium pentoxide and has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more.

Abstract: In a regenerative braking device of a dump truck comprising an engine, a first generator and a second generator driven by the engine, at least one travel motor driven by generated electric power of the first generator and at least one fan motor to which generated electric power of the second generator is inputted via a first rectifier circuit, the regenerative braking device comprises: a resistive element to which regenerating electric power from the at least one travel motor in regenerative braking is supplied and which is cooled by at least one fan driven by the at least one fan motor and converts electric energy into heat energy and dissipates heat; and a DC/DC converter that inputs a part of the regenerating electric power which is supplied to the resistive element to an output line of the first rectifier circuit via a second rectifier circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging device in which, in phase difference pixels that do not include a light blocking layer for forming a phase difference, the phase difference detection characteristics can be made uniform regardless of the image height. Provided is a solid state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix configuration. Part of the pixels in the pixel array unit include a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element configured to receive and photoelectrically convert incident light. A center position of a light receiving characteristic distribution of the first photoelectric conversion element and a center position of a light receiving characteristic distribution of the second photoelectric conversion element are configured so as to be the same between a central portion and a peripheral portion of the pixel array unit.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of laminated photoelectric conversion sections; a reading section configured of a semiconductor region formed inside a semiconductor substrate and reading electric charge that has been subjected to photoelectric conversion in the photoelectric conversion sections; a charge accumulation section accumulating the electric charge read by the reading section; and a light shielding structure shielding, from light, a portion other than the reading section and the photoelectric conversion sections.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a memory that stores, characters in a game, a plurality of slots into which action reservations for the characters are to be registered, an action sequence for each of the slots, and effects, a display, a receiver that receives a request of an action reservation for a first character, and a processor that outputs, to the memory, the request when the processor determines the first character is in an active state in which the character is allowed to register the action reservation. The memory registers the first character in an earliest slot in the action sequence among the slots in which no other characters have been registered. The processor causes the first character to execute an action associated with the slot according to the action sequence. The effect associated with the first character is applied to the executed action.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprises: a resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group; a photosensitive acid generator; a compound having at least one selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring, a heterocycle and an alicycle, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a methylol group and an alkoxyalkyl group; an aliphatic compound having two or more functional groups being at least one selected from the group consisting of an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group, a glycidyloxy group, an oxetanyl alkyl ether group, a vinyl ether group and a hydroxyl group; and a compound having at least one skeleton selected from the group consisting of an anthracene skeleton, a phenanthrene skeleton, a pyrene skeleton, a perylene skeleton, a carbazole skeleton, a phenothiazine skeleton, a xanthone skeleton, a thioxanthone skeleton, an acridine skeleton, a phenylpyrazoline skeleton, a distyrylbenzene skeleton and a distyrylpyridine skeleton, or a benzophenone compound.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition comprises: a resin having a phenolic hydroxyl group; a photosensitive acid generator; a compound having at least one selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring, a heterocycle and an alicycle, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a methylol group and an alkoxyalkyl group; and an aliphatic compound having two or more functional groups, the functional groups being at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group, a glycidyloxy group, an oxetanyl alkyl ether group, a vinyl ether group and a hydroxyl group, wherein the photosensitive acid generator is a sulfonium salt containing an anion having at least one skeleton selected from the group consisting of a tetraphenylborate skeleton, an alkylsulfonate skeleton having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a phenylsulfonate skeleton and a 10-camphorsulfonate skeleton.

Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a semiconductor stacked body, a light transmissive conductive film disposed on the semiconductor stacked body, the light transmissive conductive film including a plurality of through holes, insulation films disposed in the plurality of through holes, the plurality of through holes being disposed on the semiconductor stacked body; and a pad electrode disposed on the light transmissive conductive film and the insulation films.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid medication dispensing machine that can remove a liquid medication from one end of a supply pipe with higher reliability. The liquid medication dispensing machine includes a plurality of supply nozzles located at equal intervals through which liquid medications flow from a plurality of liquid medication bottles containing the liquid medications, respectively, to a prescription bottle. The plurality of supply nozzles are moved sequentially to a supply position where a supply nozzle faces an upper opening of the prescription bottle. The liquid medication dispensing machine further includes a cleaning unit that removes the liquid medication adhering to the supply nozzle. The supply nozzles are moved sequentially to a cleaning position where the cleaning unit removes the liquid medication from the supply nozzle. The cleaning position is provided at a position away from the supply position by a distance smaller than a spacing between the supply nozzles.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ferrite material magnetic body part and a Cu conductive part, the ferrite containing 20 to 48% trivalent Fe in terms of Fe2O3 and divalent Ni. The ferrite can contain Mn so that it is less than 50% of the total of Fe and Mn in terms of Mn2O3 and Fe2O3. The magnetic and conductive parts are co-fired at a pressure not exceeding the equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu2O thereby ensuring insulating performance and favorable electrical characteristics.

Abstract: A laminated coil component includes a magnetic body part made of a Ni—Zn-based ferrite material and a coil conductor containing Cu as a main component, which is wound into a coil shape, and the coil conductor is embedded in the magnetic body part to form a component base. The component base is divided into a first region near the coil conductor and a second region other than the first region. The grain size ratio of the average crystal grain size of the magnetic body part in the first region to the average crystal grain size of the magnetic body part in the second region is 0.85 or less. The molar content of CuO in the ferrite raw material is set to 6 mol % or less, and firing is performed in a reducing atmosphere in which the oxygen partial pressure is an equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu2O or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a release control agent for producing a release agent composition that has sufficient releasability from a silicone-based adhesive agent and that exhibits excellent releasability even when pressure is applied to a cured product; a silicone release agent composition containing such a release control agent; a release sheet having a cured layer formed from the cured product of the silicone release agent composition; and a laminated body having the release sheet and an adhesive layer. The present invention includes a release control agent containing from 15 to 29 mol % of a fluorine atom-containing organic group in each molecule, and an organopolysiloxane having no hydrosilylation reactive group; a silicone release agent composition containing such a release control agent; a release sheet; and a laminated body.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ferrite material magnetic body part and a Cu conductive part, the ferrite containing 20 to 48% trivalent Fe in terms of Fe2O3 and divalent Ni. The ferrite can contain Mn so that it is less than 50% of the total of Fe and Mn in terms of Mn2O3 and Fe2O3. The magnetic and conductive parts are co-fired at a pressure not exceeding the equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu2O thereby ensuring insulating performance and favorable electrical characteristics.

Abstract: In order to provide a calculation method for reproducing solar cell characteristics with high accuracy by using data of a short-circuit current, an open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point of a solar cell in a temperature and a solar radiation intensity in a standard state, parameter values for determining characteristics in the standard state are calculated by using data of the short-circuit current, the open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point of the solar cell in the temperature and the solar radiation intensity in the standard state. Next, temperature coefficients of the open-circuit voltage and the reverse saturation current are calculated by using the calculated parameters, and a short-circuit current, an open-circuit voltage and the maximum power operation point at a given temperature are calculated.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a ferrite material magnetic body part and a Cu conductive part, the ferrite containing 20 to 48% trivalent Fe in terms of Fe2O3 and divalent Ni. The ferrite can contain Mn so that it is less than 50% of the total of Fe and Mn in terms of Mn2O3 and Fe2O3. The magnetic and conductive parts are co-fired at a pressure not exceeding the equilibrium oxygen partial pressure of Cu—Cu2O thereby ensuring insulating performance and favorable electrical characteristics.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging device and an electronic apparatus in which, in phase difference pixels that do not include a light blocking layer for forming a phase difference, the phase difference detection characteristics can be made uniform regardless of the image height. Provided is a solid state imaging device including a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix configuration. Part of the pixels in the pixel array unit include a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element configured to receive and photoelectrically convert incident light. A center position of a light receiving characteristic distribution of the first photoelectric conversion element and a center position of a light receiving characteristic distribution of the second photoelectric conversion element are configured so as to be the same between a central portion and a peripheral portion of the pixel array unit.