Abstract: A resin composition contains a preliminary reaction product (A) obtained by previously reacting a polyphenylene ether compound (a1) having a hydroxyl group in a molecule and an acid anhydride (a2) having an acid anhydride group in a molecule, and a curable resin (B) containing a reactive compound having an unsaturated double bond in a molecule, in which an equivalent ratio of the acid anhydride group in the acid anhydride (a2) to the hydroxyl group in the polyphenylene ether compound (a1) is 1.5 or less, and a content of the curable resin (B) is 20 to 85 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a sum of the preliminary reaction product (A) and the curable resin (B).

Abstract: A sliding nozzle apparatus, configured to allow a drive unit to be attached to and detached from a slide metal frame, efficiently transmits a driving force of the drive unit to the slide metal frame. The sliding nozzle apparatus comprises a connection component attached to a slide metal frame and configured for connection with a drive unit. The connection component is provided with an opening with respect to which the drive unit can be attached and detached. The connection component is configured to allow the opening to be switched between a first position where the opening faces in the same direction as an opening-closing direction of the slide metal frame, and a second position where the opening faces in the same direction as an attaching-detaching direction of the drive unit.

Abstract: According to the present embodiment, a discrimination apparatus includes a processor. The processor extracts a plurality of instructions from binary data. The processor generates a plurality of input data strings by padding with a fixed character on data strings of the instructions so that the data strings of the instructions each have a fixed length. The processor generates a feature vector of a program including the instructions or a classification result related to the program by using the input data strings and a trained convolutional neural network including a convolution layer that performs processing in units of the instructions.

Abstract: A data management apparatus manages a database that has a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data. The data management apparatus includes determining, when an update request to the database is accepted, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items, adding, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items, and setting a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine that has a particulate matter filter, a motor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the engine and the motor such that an intermittent operation of the engine is permitted and the hybrid vehicle travels with required power when a vehicle speed is lower than a first predetermined vehicle speed. The electronic control unit is configured to inhibit the intermittent operation of the engine when a deposition amount of particulate matters is equal to or greater than a first deposition amount and a state in which the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a second predetermined vehicle speed and is lower than the first predetermined vehicle speed is continued for a first predetermined time.

Abstract: A task of the invention is to provide an art that inhibits the hemorrhagic activity exhibited by sulfated glycosaminoglycans, as well as a material, a medical material, and a drug that use a sulfated glycosaminoglycan while being free of the hemorrhaging problems caused by sulfated glycosaminoglycans and that can exhibit an excellent therapeutic effect on biological tissues. The present invention relates to an inhibitor of the hemorrhagic activity originating from sulfated glycosaminoglycans, the inhibitor having a cationized chitosan as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine that has a particulate matter filter, a motor, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the engine and the motor such that an intermittent operation of the engine is permitted and the hybrid vehicle travels with required power when a vehicle speed is lower than a first predetermined vehicle speed. The electronic control unit is configured to inhibit the intermittent operation of the engine when a deposition amount of particulate matters is equal to or greater than a first deposition amount and a state in which the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a second predetermined vehicle speed and is lower than the first predetermined vehicle speed is continued for a first predetermined time.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including obtaining user account information, and displaying, in accordance with a first display mode or a second display mode, a thumbnail image of a play image or a play video image of a player associated with the user account information, the thumbnail image being obtained based on the user account information, the first display mode including displaying the thumbnail image associating with information indicating an opponent team of the player without displaying individual pitch results in one game, the second display mode including displaying the thumbnail image associating with information indicating at-bat results in one game, whether the displaying is in accordance with the first display mode or the second display mode being determined based on an attribute of the player.

Abstract: A task of the invention is to provide an art that inhibits the hemorrhagic activity exhibited by sulfated glycosaminoglycans, as well as a material, a medical material, and a drug that use a sulfated glycosaminoglycan while being free of the hemorrhaging problems caused by sulfated glycosaminoglycans and that can exhibit an excellent therapeutic effect on biological tissues. The present invention relates to an inhibitor of the hemorrhagic activity originating from sulfated glycosaminoglycans, the inhibitor having a cationized chitosan as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Provided is a biometric authentication system capable of preventing spoofing attacks even if leakage of key information and a registration conversion template occurs. A communication terminal device (300) calculates secret key information k? which is exclusive OR of key information k of the registration biological information and masked value c? which is randomly selected from a predetermined error correction code group, and calculates verified information c?? which is exclusive OR of sent information c? and value c?. A biometric authentication device (500) calculates exclusive OR of authentication biological information, information k?, and registration conversion template w, as information c?, wherein the template w is exclusive OR of information x, information k, and authentication parameter c randomly selected from the code group; and performs biometric authentication on the basis of a degree of matching between information c?? corresponding to information c?, and the parameter c.

Abstract: A data management apparatus manages a database that has a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data. The data management apparatus includes determining, when an update request to the database is accepted, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items, adding, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items, and setting a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set.

Abstract: Provided is a biometric authentication system capable of preventing spoofing attacks even if leakage of key information and a registration conversion template occurs. A communication terminal device (300) calculates secret key information k? which is exclusive OR of key information k of the registration biological information and masked value c? which is randomly selected from a predetermined error correction code group, and calculates verified information c?? which is exclusive OR of sent information c? and value c?. A biometric authentication device (500) calculates exclusive OR of authentication biological information, information k?, and registration conversion template w, as information c?, wherein the template w is exclusive OR of information x, information k, and authentication parameter c randomly selected from the code group; and performs biometric authentication on the basis of a degree of matching between information c?? corresponding to information c?, and the parameter c.

Abstract: Provided is a two-dimensional code structured in such a way that the identification function for each of multiple components constituting the two-dimensional code, which have been concatenated and encoded in the form of structured append, has been enhanced. In a set of multiple two-dimensional codes that have been encoded in the form of structured append, wherein the two-dimensional code comprises an information area, an illustration area, and a parity area, each two-dimensional code which is a component of the set of multiple two-dimensional codes is a two-dimensional code having the same graphical illustration drawn in the illustration area.

Abstract: In a PDP device, a technique capable of more efficiently performing address energy control according to contents of a display image (display data) to reduce the address energy. In the PDP device, as an address energy recovery circuit, a plurality of address energy control circuits (B1 to Bn) are provided corresponding to a plurality (n) of regions (H1 to Hn) into which a screen area (R) and a group of address electrodes are divided in a horizontal direction. For each of the regions (H) of which the address energy recovery circuits (B) are respectively in charge and for each of subfields, an address pulse switching load (Q) corresponding to that region (H) is determined, and then, according to the magnitude of the load (Q), the operation of the address energy recovery circuit (B) is ON/OFF-controlled.

Abstract: A plasma display panel has a front substrate (3) and a back substrate (2) arranged opposed to each other through a discharge space (4). On the back substrate, a fluorescent layer (5) is formed. On the front substrate, display electrodes are formed extending in a horizontal direction, a discharge cell area is demarcated corresponding to the display electrodes, and a plurality of shielding films (13) extending in the horizontal direction are moreover formed at each position which is among the display electrodes and within the discharge cell area. When the distance between the shielding films and the fluorescent layer is set to be D, the width L of a shielding film and the distance S between the shielding films satisfy 0.58?L?D and D?S?1.73D. This reduces the reflectance ratio of outdoor daylight to improve lighted room contrast.

Abstract: A therapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis, particularly a therapeutic agent for ameliorating an inflammatory symptom or bone deformity in rheumatoid arthritis, which comprises an antibody that binds to a hepatocyte growth factor receptor as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first and a second plate facing each other via a discharge space. On the first plate, a first and a second bus electrode are provided which extend in a first direction and are disposed at intervals. In a cell, a first and a second display electrode are provided and coupled to the first and the second bus electrode respectively, and facing each other. In addition, on a dielectric layer covering the first and the second bus electrode and the first and the second display electrode, a plurality of address electrodes are provided which are disposed at respective positions facing first barrier ribs. Then, a protective layer is formed directly on the address electrodes and the dielectric layer, covering a surface of the dielectric layer and the address electrodes, and being exposed to the discharge space of the cell.

Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to measure fluid flow rates are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a circulator to selectively circulate a fluid in a flowline, a generator thermally coupled to the flowline at a first location and controllable to form a heat wave in the fluid, a sensor thermally coupled to the flowline at a second location to measure a first value representative of the heat wave, a phase detector to determine a second value representative of a wavelength of the heat wave based on the first value, a frequency adjuster to control the generator to form the heat wave in the fluid at a first frequency, the first frequency selected so that the second value is substantially equal to a distance between the first and second locations, and a flow rate determiner to determine a flow rate of the fluid based on the first frequency.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes a first electrode from which sustain discharge occurs; a second electrode from which sustain discharge occur to the first electrode, a distance from the second electrode to the first electrode continuously varying in one discharge space; and a driving circuit which generates a sustain discharge pulse that rises in two stages, with an application time of a second-stage voltage being longer than an application time of a first-stage voltage, to apply the sustain discharge pulse between the first and second electrodes, thereby causing the sustain discharge.

Abstract: A plasma display driving method and apparatus that can reduce the occurrences of dropout, on a displayed image, caused by misaddress when the environment temperature becomes low. In the inventive plasma display, the environment temperature is determined, and during a charge adjustment interval, the ultimate voltage, which the drive waveform of a scan electrode voltage reaches at the end after continuously varying in the negative direction, is changed in accordance with the determined environment temperature in such a manner that if the environment temperature becomes lower, the ultimate voltage is directed in the positive direction.