Abstract: A connection providing system for providing information for promoting connection between a plurality of users via a communication line includes a designation unit for designating a place where each of the plurality of users wants to obtain a connection with another user, a determination unit that determines, when information indicating a current location is transmitted from a user terminal operated by any one of the plurality of users, whether the current location matches with a location designated by any one of the plurality of users, and a notification unit that notifies, in a case where affirmative determination is made by the determination unit, the user terminal of the user who has designated the matching place of the current location and information on the user who operates the user terminal that has transmitted the information indicating the current location.

Abstract: A method for controlling the operation of a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle and in particular a vehicle drivable using muscle power and/or—in particular additionally—using motor power, an electric bicycle, e-bike, pedelec, or the like. In the method, it is checked whether a discharge condition for discharging an accumulator of the braking system is met. If the discharge condition is met, initially a controllable inlet valve in a primary circuit of the braking system is set into a partially closed state over a predefined duty cycle, in particular of 10%, and/or for a predefined time span and then an outlet valve of the accumulator is opened for a predefined time span—continuously or in intervals—so that brake fluid is discharged from the accumulator via the outlet valve, the primary circuit, and the inlet valve into a reservoir of a master cylinder of the primary circuit.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller. In response to detection of an operation on an operator, the controller causes sound emission of a syllable to start based on a parameter for a syllable start frame. In a case where the operation continues even after start of sound emission of a vowel based on a parameter for a vowel frame in a vowel section included in the syllable, the controller causes the sound emission of the vowel based on the parameter for the vowel frame to continue until the operation is released.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber testing apparatus and an optical fiber testing method capable of measuring distance dependency of inter-core crosstalk of a non-coupled multicore fiber at the time of the bidirectional transmission. An optical fiber testing apparatus (301) according to the present invention includes a measurement device (10) which inputs an optical pulse from one end (A) of a non-coupled multicore fiber (50) to one core of the non-coupled multicore fiber (50), and measures a first light intensity of backscattered light output from the one core at one end (A), and inputs a light pulse from one end (A) of the non-coupled multi-core fiber (50) to another core, and measures a second light intensity of the backscattered light output from the one core at one end (A); and a calculator (20) which calculates, from the first light intensity and the second light intensity, inter-core crosstalk distance dependency when bidirectional transmission is performed.

Abstract: Provided is an electro-absorption modulator that includes a substrate, a mesa structure, a first conductivity type electrode, and a second conductivity type electrode. The first conductivity type electrode includes a mesa-top electrode, a pad electrode, and a lead-out wire electrode. The mesa structure has a light input end, to which light is to be input from outside, and a light output end, which is on a side of the mesa structure that is opposite of the light input end. A connection position between a center position in a short-side direction of the lead-out wire electrode and the mesa-top electrode is closer to the light output end side in a long-side direction of the mesa-top electrode. The connection position is a position that is less than 50% from the light output end side with respect to a length in the long-side direction of the mesa-top electrode.

Abstract: A system obtains a measured temperature of a fixing unit that fixes an applied agent applied on a print medium to the print medium by heat and identifies a print job whose temperature to be set associated with a type of print media to be used is closest to the measured temperature among a plurality of print jobs that are saved in a first saving unit and are yet to be identified. The temperature to be set is a temperature associated with each type of printing medium as the temperature to be set in the fixing unit when fixing. In addition, a printing control unit executes printing of the plurality of print jobs so that among the plurality of print jobs, an identified first print job or a print job for which a same type of print medium as the first print job is to be used is processed first.

Abstract: Provided are a new pharmaceutical composition and a method for treating and/or preventing autism spectrum disorder, fragile X syndrome, and/or an autism spectrum disorder-like symptom. A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prevention of autism spectrum disorder, fragile X syndrome, and/or an autism spectrum disorder-like symptom, comprising buprenorphine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and/or morphine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: There is provided a control device, a control method, and a program that can prevent failure of an operation of a robot. The control device according to an aspect of the present technology includes a state transition determination section that controls an operation of a robot to perform a predetermined process before a task results in failure in a case where a state transition of the robot in performing the task follows a failure state transition that is preset as a state transition that results in the failure of the task. The present technology can be applied to a robot capable of autonomous operation.

Abstract: An onset length changing device includes at least one processor configured to: perform a process of advancing a first vocal generation start timing of a first vowel in a certain syllable including a first consonant and a second vocal generation start timing of a second vowel in a syllable including a second consonant that is different from the certain syllable, based on a parameter designated in response to one user operation; and not to change a vocal generation start timing of a vowel in a syllable without including a consonant.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that controls to advance a syllable corresponding to a voice to be sounded from a first syllable to a second syllable, which is a next syllable, in a case where an operation on an operation element is determined to be an operation of specifying a chord, and controls not to advance the syllable from the first syllable to the second syllable in a case where the operation on the operation element is determined not to be the operation of specifying the chord.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber testing device and an optical fiber testing method capable of acquiring both unidirectional crosstalk and bidirectional crosstalk of an uncoupled multicore fiber in a short time and with a little man-hour.

Abstract: A stator manufacturing device includes: an abutment member configured to form a bending start point in a lead wire segment coil among a plurality of segment coils inserted into a slot of a stator core, wherein the abutment member is configured to abut on a side surface of a projecting portion protruding from the slot of the lead wire segment coil from the outside in the radial direction of the stator core to form the bending start point; and a lead wire holding portion for holding the projecting portion of the lead wire segment coil, wherein the lead wire holding portion is configured to be movable along the radial direction and the axial direction of the stator core with respect to the abutment member.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier integrated laser includes a semiconductor laser oscillator portion that oscillates laser light having a wavelength included in a gain band and a semiconductor optical amplifier portion that amplifies laser light output from the semiconductor laser oscillator portion. The semiconductor laser oscillator portion and the semiconductor optical amplifier portion have one common p-i-n structure, the common p-i-n structure includes an active layer, a cladding layer provided apart from the active layer, and a common functional layer formed in the cladding layer, and the common functional layer includes a first portion that reflects light having a wavelength within the gain band in the semiconductor laser oscillator portion and a second portion that transmits light having a wavelength within the gain band in the semiconductor optical amplifier portion.

Abstract: A water intrusion prevention system for a roof top sensor module includes a bolt, a cap nut, gaskets, and a rib. The module is connected to a roof of an autonomous vehicle, and includes a shell defining an interior and a sensor arranged therein. A shaft of the bolt is inserted up through an opening in the roof, up through an opening in the shell, and up through an opening in the rib so that a top portion of the shaft is arranged in the interior. The top portion of the shaft and the cap nut are connected together in the interior, which connects the module to the roof. The cap nut and the gaskets together form a liquid-tight seal that prevents liquid/water in the interior of the shell from passing through the opening in the roof into an interior of the vehicle under the roof.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to develop a medicine for diseases related to glycosaminoglycan functions with less side effects. Provided is a glycosaminoglycan inhibitor or promoter that comprises lactoferrin or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor laser with which a high light output characteristic and reduction in occurrence of a lateral high-order mode can be achieved, the semiconductor laser includes a diffraction grating layer including first and second refractive index regions. A mesa structure includes a first region having a first width and a second region having a second width wider than the first width. The first region includes a diffraction grating region in which the first and second refractive index regions for use in reflecting a light beam having a Bragg wavelength are alternately arranged at the same period. The second region includes a diffraction grating region and a non-diffraction grating region. The diffraction grating region of the first region and the diffraction grating region of the second region form a resonator. A normalized coupling coefficient of the first region is larger than a normalized coupling coefficient of the second region.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming system including an object that is an element included in an image former that forms an image on a recording medium and that moves in a main scanning direction during an operation related to image formation based on a print job, a hardware processor that acquires position information of the object in the main scanning direction during the operation, and a reader that reads the image on the recording medium formed by the operations, in which the hardware processor determines a state of the object on a basis of the acquired position information and read image data read by the reader.

Abstract: An electronic musical instrument includes: a plurality of keys that include at least first keys corresponding to a first pitch range and second keys corresponding to a second pitch range; and at least one processor, configured to perform the following: in accordance with a key operation in the first pitch range, determining a syllable position contained in a phrase; and in accordance with a key operation in the second pitch rang, instructing a sound production of a digitally synthesized sound corresponding to the determined syllable position.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of preventing a sharp variation in current consumption in neural network processing is provided. A dummy circuit outputs dummy data to at least one or more of n number of MAC circuits and causes the at least one or more of n number of MAC circuits to perform a dummy calculation and to output dummy output data. An output-side DMA controller transfers pieces of normal output data from the n number of MAC circuits to a memory, by use of n number of channels, respectively, and does not transfer the dummy output data to the memory. In this semiconductor device, the at least one or more of n number of MAC circuits perform the dummy calculation in a period from a timing at which the output-side DMA controller ends data transfer to the memory to a timing at which the input-side DMA controller starts data transfer from the memory.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission line test apparatus and a test method capable of measuring a cumulative crosstalk of an optical transmission line in which a plurality of uncoupled multi-core fibers are connected in series from one end side with an OTDR. An optical transmission line test apparatus 301 according to the present invention measures a cumulative crosstalk of an optical transmission line 50 in which a plurality of uncoupled multi-core fibers 50-i are connected in series.