Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a water-soluble polymer with high production efficiency, and a method for producing a water-absorbing resin having excellent water absorption performance. The present invention relates to a method for producing a water-soluble polymer, comprising: (a1) reducing the molecular weight of a starch to obtain a partially degraded starch; and (a2) introducing an ionic functional group into the partially degraded starch obtained in the step (a1).

Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first pixel, a second pixel, and a spectroscopic section. The first pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion section that selectively receives first wavelength light included in a first wavelength band and performs photoelectric conversion of the first wavelength light. The second pixel includes a second photoelectric conversion section that selectively receives second wavelength light included in a second wavelength band and performs photoelectric conversion of the second wavelength band. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel. The spectroscopic section includes a structure having a size less than or equal to a wavelength of incident light, and is provided on a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel. The spectroscopic section separates the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light from the incident light.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin having an array of reinforcing fibers oriented in one direction, the device making it possible, with a comparatively simple configuration, to connect earlier and later reinforcing fibers to each other when switching the reinforcing fibers, is provided. The device having an array of reinforcing fibers oriented in one direction according to the present invention comprises: an impregnation unit that impregnates reinforcing fibers with a resin; and a switching device that, when the reinforcing fibers to be impregnated are changed to new fibers, connects the newly fed reinforcing fibers to the previously fed reinforcing fibers. When switching the reinforcing fibers, the device connects the new reinforcing fiber to the preceding reinforcing fiber by forming a bonded body in which the preceding reinforcing fibers and the new reinforcing fibers are bonded by fusing a melted second resin in a form of a thin film.

Abstract: The present application provides an apparatus that is for producing a fiber-reinforced resin having reinforcement fibers aligned in one direction and that is capable of, with a relatively simple configuration, connecting a preceding reinforcement fiber and a subsequent reinforcement fiber when switching between the reinforcement fibers. An apparatus according to the present invention is for producing a fiber-reinforced resin having reinforcement fibers aligned in one direction, and comprises: an impregnation part which impregnates a reinforcement fiber with a resin; and a switching device which performs switching of reinforcement fibers on the upstream side of the impregnation part, from a preceding reinforcement fiber to a new reinforcement fiber. During the switching operation, the switching device forms a fabric using the preceding reinforcement fiber and the new reinforcement fiber as warp and other fibers as weft so as to connect the new reinforcement fiber with the preceding reinforcement fiber.

Abstract: An image analysis device including: an input interface to acquire image data indicating a captured image of a site in which a plurality of operators performs a plurality of tasks; a controller to generate, based on the image data, task history information indicating the tasks performed in the site by respective operators; and a storage to store the task history information, the controller successively recognizes the tasks and positions of the operators, based on the image data at each time in the site; and detects crossing caused between a plurality of trajectories each including successive positions for each of the operators; generates the task history information associating tasks recognized at each time with the respective operators, based on the trajectories, when the crossing is not detected; and associates the recognized tasks with the respective operators, based on the recognized tasks and past task history information, when the crossing is detected.

Abstract: The present invention addressed the problem of providing a molded body which has a high performance of reducing energy caused by the application of a load, and which is obtained from a fiber-reinforced resin containing reinforcing fibers arranged while aligned in one direction. To solve the problem, the present invention relates to a molded body, including a reinforced layer formed by layering fiber-reinforced resin layers containing a plurality of reinforcing fibers arranged while aligned in one direction and a matrix resin impregnated with the reinforcing fibers. In the molded body, the reinforced layer has a plurality of alignment shifted layers, which are fiber-reinforced resin layers in which the shift angle, i.e., the angle formed by the reinforcing fibers with respect to the longitudinal direction of the reinforced layer, is 25° to 65° or ?65° to ?25°.

Abstract: A urea resin composition capable of providing a polyurea foam exhibiting excellent flame retardancy and shape retention during combustion, capable of suppressing deterioration over time in a wet-heat environment, exhibiting excellent adhesion to an adherend during coating, being hardly cracked even if flame contact occurs, and hardly allowing carbonization to proceed to a deep portion of the foam. A urea resin composition comprising a polyisocyanate compound (A), a polyamine compound (B), a trimerization catalyst, a foaming agent, a foam stabilizer, and a flame retardant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are: a unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet that includes a thermoplastic resin and reinforcing fibers, the reinforcing fibers being drawn in the lengthwise direction, the sheet including a fiber-reinforced layer including at least 40% by volume of the reinforcing fibers, and a resin layer that is 0% or more and less than 5% by volume of the reinforcing fibers; a laminated panel and structural material including the unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet; and a method for manufacturing the unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin sheet in which the reinforcing fibers are impregnated with the thermoplastic resin so that the tensile strength of the reinforcing fibers is in the range of 800 cN to 2,000 cN.

Abstract: Provided is a thin film-shaped fiber-reinforced resin that can sufficiently increase the impact resistance of a coated resin molded body while suppressing the reduction in bending elastic modulus of the resin molded body. The thin film-shaped fiber-reinforced resin includes a plurality of reinforcing fibers that are arranged in a single direction alignment, and a matrix resin with which the reinforcing fibers are impregnated. The matrix resin includes a thermoplastic plastic and a thermoplastic elastomer. The content of the thermoplastic elastomer with respect to the total of the thermoplastic plastic mass and the thermoplastic elastomer mass is 5-40 mass %.

Abstract: A moving object detection system detecting moving objects based on a captured image comprising: cameras capturing images to generate image data; image recognition circuitries each performing image recognition on the image data generated by each camera to detect a moving object in a captured image indicated by the image data; and an information management apparatus managing image data supplied from each camera to a corresponding image recognition circuitry. The information management apparatus includes a communication interface performing data communication with the cameras and the image recognition circuitries, and a controller managing congestion information on the number of moving objects localized within a range of a captured image indicated by image data for each camera, and controlling the communication interface to supply the image data generated by the cameras to each image recognition circuitry, distributing the image data according to the congestion information.

Abstract: An information provision device includes a miRNA divergence value calculation unit 12 that calculates miRNA divergence values from each of the miRNA measurement values in a user miRNA profile and each of the corresponding optimum miRNA values in an optimum miRNA profile, an individual miRNA score calculation unit 13 that calculates individual miRNA scores from each of miRNA importance values of a disease as an object of score calculation listed in a miRNA importance table and each of the miRNA divergence values, and a determination result data generation unit 15 that generates and outputs determination result data based on the individual miRNA scores.

Abstract: It selects learning data that is effective for learning a learning model. An identification information assignment device comprising: a processor; and memory, wherein, using the memory, the processor: acquiring a plurality of image data; selecting a part of the plurality of image data as learning data; assigning identification information to the selected image data by using a learning model which is recorded in the memory; and updating the learning model by using the selected image data to which the identification information is assigned, wherein identification information is assigned to a rest of the plurality of image data by using the updated learning model, the rest of the plurality of image data being different from the selected image data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resin composition which has excellent handleability and which provides a cured product having excellent toughness and heat resistance. The present invention relates to a thermosetting resin composition including an allyl compound (A) containing at least two or more allyl groups and one or more benzene rings in a molecule, a maleimide compound (B) containing at least two or more maleimide groups in a molecule, a thiol compound (C) containing at least two or more thiol groups in a molecule, and a cyclic compound (D) containing at least two or more hydroxyl groups in a molecule.

Abstract: A test planning device builds up a boiler model data by using a plurality of input parameters of the boiler classified into a plurality of parameter groups. The apparatus selects one of the plurality of parameter groups as a parameter group subjected to learning, presents test conditions in which an input parameter thereof is defined as a variable, and an input parameter of a parameter group not subjected to learning is defined as a fixed value. The device modifies the model data on the basis of the result of comparison between an actual process value and a virtual process value using the present test conditions, selects a new parameter groups subjected to learning, and presents new test conditions which use the input parameter of the test conditions in which the input parameter of the previous parameter group subjected to learning is optimal, as the fixed value.

Abstract: The prediction device includes a storage storing measure implementation information representative of an effect of the measured on a first target, and a control circuit predicting an effect of the measures on a second target having no measure implemented therein based on the measure implementation information; the control circuit constructs a first graph made up of a plurality of nodes including at least one first node associated with the first target and at least one second node associated with the second target, and a plurality of links connecting the nodes based on a similarity between the nodes; and based on the measure implementation information, the control circuit determines a degree of the effect of the measures on the first node and propagates the degree of the effect of the measures on the second node by using the first node as a base point in the first graph.

Abstract: A model generating device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires demand information indicative of the number of sales of a product in a shop for a past predetermined period and external information relevant to the number of sales of the product; and a controller that generates a forecasting model for calculating a forecast value of demand for the product based on the demand information and the external information, wherein the controller includes a simulator that simulates the number of displayed pieces of the product based on the demand information and the forecast value and a forecasting model generator that generates the forecasting model based on the external information and the number of displayed pieces of the product and calculates the forecast value by using the forecasting model.

Abstract: A sewage treatment system, includes a solid-liquid separating apparatus having a first filtering medium packed layer packed with a predetermined filtering medium, configured to separate sewage to be treated into solid components and filtered water by passing the sewage through the first filtering medium packed layer upward, and configured to reversely wash the first filtering medium packed layer by passing the filtered water through the first filtering medium packed layer downward at a predetermining timing; and a trickling filter installed on a latter stage of the solid-liquid separating apparatus, having a second filtering medium packed layer packed with a filtering medium attached with microorganisms, and configured to allow the filtered water to fall into the second filtering medium packed layer by trickling the filtered water onto an upper part of the second filtering medium packed layer to flow out treated water acquired by biotreating the filtered water by the microorganisms.

Abstract: A simulation results evaluation device applies plural numbers of virtual input parameters (VIPs) of a simulation test of the power generation facility to model data showing virtual behaviors of the power generation facility. The device calculates each of virtual process values (VPVs) with respect to each of the VIPs and a score obtained by multiplying the VPV by a coefficient of a positive value when the VPV is included in a predetermined target range, the coefficient being set for each of the VPVs, the coefficient being assigned such that as a deviation from a predetermined target becomes greater, the value of the coefficient becomes smaller, or a coefficient of a negative value when the VPV is included within a permissible range provided adjacently to the predetermined target range. The device extracts a simulation test condition that satisfies a predetermined evaluation condition based on the calculated score.

Abstract: This invention relates to a preparation for a polyurethane foam and a polymer polyol preparation for a polyurethane foam, each of which exhibits high coloration and discoloration inhibition properties over a long period of time when stored, and to a composition for a polyurethane foam, which is excellent in storage stability and is preferable as a resin premix. The composition comprises (i) at least one polyol, (ii) a compound having a P?N bond, (iii) an antioxidant having a hydroxyphenyl group, (iv) at least an acid and/or its salt, (v) a catalyst for polyurethane foam production and (vi) a blowing agent.

Abstract: The filtration system of the present invention comprises first and second filtration tanks. The first filtration tank has a first floating filter media layer, a first upper screen with a first aperture ratio, a first inlet, a first backwash water supply source, and a first backwash water outlet means. The second filtration tank has a second floating filter media layer, a second upper screen with a second aperture ratio, a second inlet, an inflow blocking mechanism capable of blocking inflow of water to be treated through the second inlet, a second backwash water supply source, and a second backwash water outlet means. The first aperture ratio is smaller than the second aperture ratio.