Abstract: A porous membrane according to the present disclosure includes polytetrafluoroethylene as a main component, wherein a melting curve obtained in a first run of differential scanning calorimetry at a rate of temperature increase of 10° C./min has an endothermic peak in a range of 300° C. to 360° C., and a difference between an onset temperature and an endset temperature of the endothermic peak is 20° C. or less.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a central control device connected to a plurality of sub-devices each having an embedded computer. The central control device is configured to detect an anomality caused by a cyberattack, transmit a stop instruction to each of the sub-devices to stop an operation of the system, transmit a restart instruction to each of the sub-devices to restart each of the sub-devices by secure boot, transmit a diagnostic instruction to at least one sub-device to diagnose whether or not physical elements configuring the system are degraded and determine whether or not to resume the operation of the system based on a result of the restart executed in each of the sub-devices and a result of the diagnosis executed in the at least one sub-device.

Abstract: A cultivation and management device for fruit vegetable plants and fruit trees includes environment state information on an environment state of a fruit vegetable plant or a fruit tree to be cultivated, planned cultivation evaluation index information on a preplanned cultivation evaluation index of the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree, a calculation unit configured to determine and output a work including a shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree with respect to inputs of the environment state information and the planned cultivation evaluation index information with a learning model, and an output unit configured to output the work including the shape change work for the fruit vegetable plant or the fruit tree.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet device includes a tubular cryostat defining a central cavity therein, a first superconducting coil set and a second superconducting coil set disposed outside the central cavity and inside the tubular cryostat, and a power supply system being capable of controlling a magnitude of a first exciting current to the first superconducting coil set and a magnitude of a second exciting current to the second superconducting coil set independently of each other. The first superconducting coil set generates a magnetic field distribution, which is convex downward on an X axis and convex upward on a Y axis when the first exciting current is supplied, in the central cavity. The second superconducting coil set generates a magnetic field distribution, which is convex upward on the X axis and convex downward on the Y axis when the second exciting current is supplied, in the central cavity.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data protection apparatus includes a processor configured to execute an encryption process on log data including a data frame including a plurality of pieces of data generated along a time sequence. The processor is configured to encrypt each of the pieces of data with a corresponding encryption key among a first initial key and a first encryption keys generated in a forward direction to a time sequence of the pieces of data. The processor is configured to encrypt each of a plurality of pieces of data encrypted with the corresponding encryption key with a corresponding encryption key among a second initial key and a second encryption keys generated in a backward direction to a time sequence of the pieces of data.

Abstract: Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conversion units, and a second signal based on signal charge of multiple photoelectric conversion units. An imaging apparatus outputs signals based on the first signals and signals based on the second signals by reducing the number of signals based on the first signals as compared to the number of signals based on the second signals.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shaping device includes a plasticization unit configured to plasticize a material into a shaping material using a rotating screw; a drive unit configured to rotate the screw; a supply flow path through which the shaping material flows; a nozzle configured to discharge the shaping material; a discharge amount adjusting mechanism configured to switch between stop and restart of discharge of the shaping material from the nozzle by a valve portion provided in the supply flow path; a pressure measuring portion configured to measure a pressure of the shaping material in the supply flow path between the plasticization unit and the valve portion; and a control unit configured to adjust rotation of the screw by controlling the drive unit according to a measured value of the pressure which is measured.

Abstract: A method for producing tert-butyl alcohol, including (i) a step of feeding a raw material liquid including isobutylene and water, to a reactor having a cation exchange resin, and (ii) a step of producing a reaction product including tert-butyl alcohol, by hydration reaction of isobutylene in the reactor, in which, in step (ii), the average superficial linear velocity of the raw material liquid, as calculated in the following expression (I), is 5 m/hour or more, Average linear velocity of raw material liquid (m/hour)=Volume flow rate of raw material liquid (m3/hour)/Cross-sectional area of reactor (m2)??(I), and the volume of an aqueous phase (Vw) in a fluid (fluid A) to the total volume of the fluid A in the reactor is 4 to 12% by volume.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates an accurate index for the growth state of a plant without increasing a user load. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives an input of a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a plant cultivation area including a rectangular area in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular area, a conversion factor calculator that calculates conversion factors at positions in a depth direction in the captured image by determining a pixel count in a width direction of the rectangular area in the captured image input into the receiver at each position in the depth direction and dividing an actual width of the rectangular area by the determined pixel count, and an index calculator that calculates an index for a growth state of the plant by analyzing the captured image using the conversion factors at the positions calculated by the conversion factor calculator.

Abstract: An acquisition unit (30) acquires, for a work including a plurality of steps, a material feature quantity representing each material used in the task, and a video feature quantity extracted from each clip, which is a video of each step in which the task is captured. An updating unit (40) identifies an action for a material included in the clip based on the video feature quantity of each clip, and updates the material feature quantity of the identified material in accordance with the identified action. A generation unit (50) generates a sentence explaining a task procedure for each of the steps based on the updated material feature quantity, the specified action, and the video feature quantity.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus according to one or more embodiments may identify the classes of features included in object data using a plurality of discriminators that are respectively configured to discriminate the presence of features of classes different to each other; and determines that a first data portion, with respect to which discrimination is established by one of the plurality of discriminators, but discrimination is not established by the remaining discriminators, includes a feature of the particular class that is discriminated by the one discriminator, and determines that a second data portion, with respect to which discrimination is established by all of the discriminators including the one discriminator, does not include a feature of that particular class.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates an accurate index for the growth state of a plant without increasing a user load. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives an input of a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a plant cultivation area including a rectangular area in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular area, a conversion factor calculator that calculates conversion factors at positions in a depth direction in the captured image by determining a pixel count in a width direction of the rectangular area in the captured image input into the receiver at each position in the depth direction and dividing an actual width of the rectangular area by the determined pixel count, and an index calculator that calculates an index for a growth state of the plant by analyzing the captured image using the conversion factors at the positions calculated by the conversion factor calculator.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for producing an absorbent article comprising a fiber assembly layer of a cellulose acetate fiber, which can sufficiently apply a drug to the cellulose acetate fiber.

Abstract: A label generation method according to one aspect of the present invention prepares a first inference model trained on a first dataset obtained from a source domain, and a second inference model trained on a second dataset including second training data generated by adding a disturbance to first training data, and generates a third correct answer label for third training data, on the basis of a consensus of the prepared trained first inference model and second inference model.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates an index for a plant growth state with a neural network using fewer images to achieve training of the neural network. The apparatus includes first to N-th image analyzers (N?2) each analyzing a cultivation area image of a plant cultivation area with a neural network to calculate a state index indicating a growth state of the plant in the cultivation area and including the neural network trained using cultivation area images each having a predetermined growth index classified into a corresponding class of first to N-th growth index classes, and a selector receiving an input of a cultivation area image for which the state index is calculated and causing one of the first to N-th image analyzers trained using cultivation area images classified into the same growth index class as the input cultivation area image to analyze the input cultivation area image.

Abstract: A data generation device configured to generate data in machine learning for making a determination on an object includes an original data displaying unit configured to display, on a displaying unit, first original data on which data augmentation is to be performed, the first original data including the object; a parameter receiver configured to receive an input of a parameter related to the data augmentation; a generated data displaying unit configured to display, on the displaying unit, generated data generated by the data augmentation for something other than the object in the first original data on the basis of the parameter; and an adoptability receiver configured to receive whether or not to adopt the data augmentation based on the parameter. With the above configuration, it is possible to determine the parameter to be finally adopted while confirming the result of data generation based on the parameter designated by the user.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a method for producing an absorbent article comprising a fiber assembly layer of a cellulose acetate fiber, which can sufficiently apply a drug to the cellulose acetate fiber. [Solution] The present invention provides a method for producing an absorbent article, wherein the absorbent article comprises: a fiber assembly layer including a cellulose acetate fiber, and a member including a water absorbent fiber and directly disposed on the fiber assembly layer, the method comprises: a first step of opening a cellulose acetate tow and collecting a cellulose acetate fiber to form a fiber assembly layer; a second step of spreading a drug aqueous solution on the fiber assembly layer; and a third step of mounting the member on the surface where the drug aqueous solution has been spread of the fiber assembly layer, and the drug aqueous solution contains an antibacterial agent and/or a deodorizer, and a surfactant.

Abstract: A model generation apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention acquires a plurality of learning datasets each constituted by a first sample of a first time of predetermined data obtained in time series and feature information included in a second sample of the predetermined data of a future second time relative to the first time, and trains a prediction model, by machine learning, to predict feature information of the second time from the first sample of the first time, for each learning dataset. In the model generation apparatus, a rarity degree for is set each learning dataset, and, in the machine learning, the model generation apparatus trains more preponderantly on learning datasets having a higher rarity degree.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet device includes a superconducting coil disposed in a cryogenic environment; and a protection diode disposed in the cryogenic environment and connected to the superconducting coil, the protection diode being disposed such that a direction of a magnetic field generated by the superconducting coil on a pn junction surface of the protection diode forms an angle within about 30 degrees with respect to a normal line of the pn junction surface.

Abstract: A data generation method for generating data for domain generalization in machine learning includes performing, with a computer, augmentation using training data as raw data usable to train a machine learning model, and extracting, with the computer, a dataset including the raw data and data generated through the augmentation as a dataset for the domain generalization.