Abstract: The present invention provides a PPAR? activator containing a novel PPAR? agonist (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ?) as an active ingredient, and an exercise tolerance-improving agent containing the same as an active ingredient. The present invention is a PPAR? activator containing a guanidine derivative or a biguanidine derivative as an active ingredient, wherein the PPAR? activator activates transcriptional activity of PPAR?, and the guanidine derivative and the biguanidine derivative are capable of fitting within a PPAR? ligand binding pocket in a state where a guanidino group or a biguanidino group forms a hydrogen bond with amino acid residues corresponding to each of the 413th histidine, 287th histidine, 253rd threonine and the 437th tyrosine of human PPAR?, among amino acid residues constituting an interior surface of the ligand binding pocket; and is an exercise tolerance-improving agent containing the PPAR? activator as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A processing method for a workpiece, which includes a stacking step of stacking a sheet and a flat plate on a front side of the workpiece to form a stack, a thermocompression bonding step of thermocompression bonding the sheet to the workpiece while planarizing the sheet with the flat plate by heating the sheet and applying an external force to the stack, a holding step of holding the workpiece via the sheet by a holding table having a transparent portion, an alignment step of performing an alignment by imaging the workpiece through the transparent portion and the sheet, and a processing step of processing the workpiece by a processing unit.

Abstract: A parking assist system includes a server device and a parking assist device that is provided in a host vehicle to communicate with the server device, wherein the server device comprises a server storage portion that is configured to store parking lot information that is acquired when another vehicle different from the host vehicle is parked in a parking section of a parking lot. The parking assist device includes a parking lot information receiver that is configured to receive the parking lot information from the server device and a parking assist controller that is configured to control the host vehicle based on the obtained parking lot information to park the host vehicle in the parking section of the parking lot.

Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a chuck table including a plate-shaped holding component having a predetermined region transparent from one surface to the other surface, a processing unit that processes a workpiece, a first imaging unit disposed over the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the back surface side, and a second imaging unit disposed under the chuck table to acquire a normal image of the front surface side, a display device, and a control part that executes image processing of the normal image of either the back or front surface side to cause the normal image subjected to the image processing to be displayed on the display device in the state of being inverted in a predetermined direction in order to allow the orientation of the normal image of the back surface side to correspond with the orientation of the normal image of the front surface side.

Abstract: A drive device includes a housing in which a gas is sealed, wherein density of the gas is lower than density of air, a driven object housed inside the housing, a driver configured to drive the driven object, a current detector configured to detect a value of a current flowing into the driver, and a determinator configured to determine a concentration of the gas inside the housing based on the value of the current detected.

Abstract: An information providing device includes a memory configured to store estimated destinations on a map in association with scheduled activity venue names, and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a user's scheduled activity venue name from user's activity schedule information; read a user's estimated destination corresponding to the user's scheduled activity venue name from the memory; provide an in-vehicle device with information for presenting a route to the user's estimated destination; acquire information regarding a stay place from the in-vehicle device; and store the stay place, in the memory, as a new estimated destination in association with the user's scheduled activity venue name, when the user's estimated destination differs from the stay place.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a substrate holder disposed within the processing container and configured to hold a substrate thereon; a dielectric window disposed below the substrate holder; and a plurality of phased array antennas disposed below the dielectric window and configured to irradiate a plurality of electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: A shower plate includes a plate-shaped dielectric main body having gas holes, and a plurality of sealed areas formed in the dielectric main body. Each of the sealed areas has a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the dielectric main body. A volume density of the sealed areas at a central region of the dielectric main body is higher than a volume density of the sealed areas at a peripheral region of the dielectric main body.

Abstract: An adhesive composition contains (a) a resin consisting of (i) a block copolymer or (ii) 35% by weight or greater and less than 100% of the block copolymer and 65% by weight or less of a random copolymer, the block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 50,000 to 150,000, wherein the block copolymer is a diblock copolymer, a triblock copolymer, or a combination thereof, and includes a styrene group, both terminals of a main chain of the triblock copolymer are styrene groups; (b) a solvent which includes a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon, wherein an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive composition has a Young's modulus of 0.1 GPa or greater at 23° C., a storage modulus (G?) of 1.5×105 Pa or less at 220° C., and a loss factor (tan ?) of 1.3 or less at 220° C.; and (c) a thermal polymerization inhibitor.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes a gas injection unit having a shower plate provided with gas injection holes, and a plurality of partition regions through which gases are separately injected and which are defined by dividing an arrangement region of the gas injection holes into a plurality of concentric regions in a diametrical direction of the substrate. A supply amount of a raw material gas per unit time in a raw material gas supply period in a cycle of forming a monomolecular layer by supplying the raw material gas and a reactant gas multiple times, and per unit area of the shower plate, and/or a supply amount of the reactant gas per unit time in a reaction period of the raw material gas and the reactant gas in the cycle, and per unit area of the shower plate becomes different in at least two of the partition regions.

Abstract: An information providing device includes a memory configured to store estimated destinations on a map in association with scheduled activity venue names, and a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire a user's scheduled activity venue name from user's activity schedule information; read a user's estimated destination corresponding to the user's scheduled activity venue name from the memory; provide an in-vehicle device with information for presenting a route to the user's estimated destination; acquire information regarding a stay place from the in-vehicle device; and store the stay place, in the memory, as a new estimated destination in association with the user's scheduled activity venue name, when the user's estimated destination differs from the stay place.

Abstract: An information presentation device includes a communication unit configured to receive advertisement information associated with a destination estimated as a point to which a user travels, and a controller configured to present the advertisement information to the user before the user starts traveling. The controller is configured to restrict presentation of the advertisement information while the user is traveling more than before travel starts.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a storage unit storing map information divided into zones and used at least for screen display; a map drawing unit generating screen information using the map information; a difference detecting unit calculating, as a difference evaluation value, a magnitude of a difference in zone between the map information before update and the map information after update; and a map updating unit determining an order of updating the zones on a basis of a magnitude of the difference evaluation value to update, for each of the zones, the map information stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: A drive device includes a housing in which a gas is sealed, wherein density of the gas is lower than density of air, a driven object housed inside the housing, a driver configured to drive the driven object, a current detector configured to detect a value of a current flowing into the driver, and a determinator configured to determine a concentration of the gas inside the housing based on the value of the current detected.

Abstract: The present invention provides cell populations that are enriched for mesendoderm and mesoderm, and cell populations that are enriched for endoderm. In accordance with the present invention, a selectable marker gene has been recombinantly targeted to the brachyury locus to allow the isolation and characterization of cell populations that comprise brachyury positive mesendoderm and mesoderm cells. The cell populations of the invention are useful for generating cells for cell replacement therapy.

Abstract: A destination estimation apparatus according to the present invention includes: a storage unit that stores information about at least one stop location of a vehicle used by a user and information about at least one past plan of the user in association with each other; and a destination estimation unit that estimates a destination with respect to information about a future plan of the user, based on the information about one of the at least one stop location that is associated with the information about one of the at least one past plan stored in the storage unit that corresponds to the information about the future plan.

Abstract: A wafer has a plurality of projected dicing lines on a face side thereof, a plurality of devices formed in respective areas demarcated on the face side of the wafer by the projected dicing lines, a plurality of grooves defined in the projected dicing lines, and a molding resin laid on the devices and embedded in the grooves. An outer circumferential portion of the molding resin is removed, exposing the molding resin embedded in the grooves. The molding resin embedded in the grooves exposed on an outer circumferential portion of the wafer is detected, and a laser beam is focused at a transversely central point on the molding resin embedded in the grooves. The laser beam is applied to the molding resin along the grooves, thereby forming dividing grooves in the wafer to allow the wafer to be divided into individual devices.

Abstract: A method of producing a laminate including a substrate and a light-transmitting support plate that are laminated each other via an adhesive layer and a release layer that is altered through absorption of light, the method including coating a reactive polysilsesquioxane on a surface of the support plate, the surface being opposed to the substrate, and heating the reactive polysilsesquioxane to perform polymerization, thereby forming the release layer.

Abstract: An adhesive composition contains (a) a resin consisting of (i) a block copolymer or (ii) 35% by weight or greater and less than 100% of the block copolymer and 65% by weight or less of a random copolymer, the block copolymer having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 50,000 to 150,000, wherein the block copolymer is a diblock copolymer, a triblock copolymer, or a combination thereof, and includes a styrene group, both terminals of a main chain of the triblock copolymer are styrene groups; (b) a solvent which includes a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon, wherein an adhesive layer formed by using the adhesive composition has a Young's modulus of 0.1 GPa or greater at 23° C., a storage modulus (G?) of 1.5×105 Pa or less at 220° C., and a loss factor (tan ?) of 1.3 or less at 220° C.; and (c) a thermal polymerization inhibitor.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus and a map data management system are provided that can appropriately update a map. The in-vehicle apparatus 3 includes a storage unit 16 that stores parcel data PD constituted by a plurality of files in accordance with meshes of the map, and a control unit 10 that, when a vehicle 2 enters a single mesh of the map, updates the version of lower-level parcel files DPF corresponding to meshes at the periphery of the single mesh.