Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide sulfide solid electrolytes having good processability at the time of manufacturing a battery and high ionic conductivity. The present invention relates to a sulfide solid electrolyte containing lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a diffraction peak A at 2?=25.2±0.5 deg and a diffraction peak B at 29.7±0.5 deg in powder X-ray diffraction using CuK? rays, and the half-value width of at least one peak obtained by separating the peaks observed in a range of 60 to 120 ppm in solid-state 31P-NMR measurements is 500 to 800 Hz.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a lactoferrin fusion protein, which is configured to retain the biological activities of natural lactoferrin, to have a significantly prolonged in vivo lifetime, and to be more clinically useful than natural and gene recombinant lactoferrin, as well as a method for preparation thereof, etc. The present invention provides a fusion protein formed with a protein or peptide comprising an FcRn-binding region and lactoferrin or a biologically active fragment or peptide of lactoferrin, which is represented by: (LF-s-Y)n or(Y-s-LF)n [wherein LF represents lactoferrin or a biologically active fragment or peptide of lactoferrin, Y represents the protein or peptide comprising an FcRn-binding region, s represents any amino acid sequence of 0 to 10 residues, and n represents an integer of 1 to 10], or a variant thereof.

Abstract: A dictionary learning device includes a calculation unit and a selection unit. Based on the feature vectors, multiple of teaching data are arranged in a feature space having, as variables, elements that constitute a feature vector in the teaching data. For each unlabeled data included in the multiple of teaching data the calculation unit calculates the importance of the unlabeled data based on the density of labeled data in the teaching data in a region having a size that has been set using that unlabeled data as a standard. Based on the information representing the closeness of an unlabeled data and a discrimination boundary based on a discrimination function serving as a basis for discriminating data, and information representing the importance from the calculation unit, the selection unit selects data to be labeled from among the multiple of unlabeled data.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte particles comprising lithium, phosphorus and sulfur, having a volume-based average particle size measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of 0.1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less, having a diffraction peak having 2? ranging from 29.0 to 31.0 deg in powder X-ray diffraction measurement using CuK? ray, and an intensity ratio (Ib/Ip) of a peak intensity Ip of the diffraction peak to a diffraction intensity Ib at a high angle-side low part of the diffraction peak is less than 0.09.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel imidazole compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having a melanocortin receptor agonistic activity, and medical use thereof. The present invention relates to an imidazole compound represented by general formula [I] [wherein: Ring A represents an optionally substituted aryl group or the like; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group, or the like; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or the like; and R3 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: An information processing device includes at least one memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: generate bases and first coefficient sets from first data; determine a second coefficient set based on the first coefficient sets; and synthesize second data by using the bases and the second coefficient set. The bases with each of the first coefficient sets represent a piece of the first data. The second coefficient set is different from the first coefficient sets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a noise suppression sheet 1 including a resin layer 2, a non-magnetic metal layer 3, and a metal magnetic layer 4 in this order.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lactoferrin fusion protein having high clinical utility and a production method therefor. The present invention further provides: a lactoferrin fusion protein that retains the biological activity of native lactoferrin while having a significantly extended in vivo life span, and that has more clinical utility than native lactoferrin and recombinant lactoferrin; and a production method therefor. With this fusion protein or a variant thereof, the ability of lactoferrin to bind iron is retained, and therefore at least the important biological activity of lactoferrin that is based on the iron-binding ability is retained. Additionally, this fusion protein or variant thereof has bioavailability and resistance to protease, and thus can exhibit biological activity in vivo over a long period. Furthermore, this fusion protein is not easily broken down by pepsin in the stomach.

Abstract: Provided is a threaded-hole inspection device having high inspection precision. An incomplete thread ridge portion of a gauge portion 5 of a thread gauge 1 is removed, a phase-positioning portion 8 for positioning a tip-side start point 7 of a complete thread ridge at a prescribed phase when the thread gauge 1 is mounted on a rotating-shaft portion 2 is provided to a fastening portion 6 of the thread gauge 1 that is to be fastened to the rotating-shaft portion 2, and a phase-positioning engaging portion 9 that is to engage with the phase-positioning portion 8 is provided to the rotating-shaft portion 2.

Abstract: An image processing method includes: performing, by an image processing system including an image processing apparatus and an information processing terminal that are able to communicate with each other, a first process that acquires process setting information, the process setting information being used by the image processing apparatus when the image processing apparatus performs a predetermined image process; performing, by the image processing system, a second process that acquires terminal setting information stored in the information processing terminal, the terminal setting information being to be used in the information processing terminal; performing, by the image processing system, a third process that generates guidance information pertaining to the process setting information on the basis of the process setting information and the terminal setting information; and displaying, by the image processing system, the guidance information.

Abstract: Provided are a composite material having direct current superposition characteristics, low iron loss, and high strength, a magnetic core for a magnetic component and a reactor, the magnetic core and the reactor including the composite material, a converter including the reactor, and a power conversion device including the converter. A composite material includes a soft magnetic powder, a filler, and a resin portion enclosing the soft magnetic powder and the filler dispersed therein, wherein the filler has rubber and an outer circumferential layer that covers a surface of the rubber and that contains an organic substance, and the resin portion contains a thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A method of providing a coating on a conductor. The coating has a first layer containing palladium and a second layer containing gold from the conductor side. The first layer has an inner layer on the conductor side and an outer layer arranged nearer to the second layer than the inner layer, and the outer layer has a higher phosphorus concentration than the inner layer.

Abstract: A carbon isotope analyzer 1 includes a carbon dioxide isotope generator 40 that includes a combustion unit that generates gas containing carbon dioxide isotope from carbon isotope, and a carbon dioxide isotope purifying unit; a spectrometer 10 including an optical resonator 11 having a pair of mirrors 12, and a photodetector 15 that determines the intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonator 11; and a light generator 20 including a light source 23, a first optical fiber 21 to transmit a light beam from the light source 23, a second optical fiber 22 for wavelength conversion, the second optical fiber 22 splitting from the first optical fiber 21 at a point and combining with the first optical fiber 21 at another point downstream of the splitting point, and a non-linear optical crystal 25 that generates light having the absorption wavelength of the carbon dioxide isotope on the basis of the difference in frequency between light beams transmitted through the optical crystal 25.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of manufacturing a green compact. The method includes a filling step of filling a compacting space with an insulated coated soft magnetic powder. The compacting space is defined by a die. The die has a through hole with which a part of the outer circumferential surface of the green compact is molded. The die also has a core rod with which another part of the outer circumferential surface of the green compact is molded, and a first punch disposed so as to cover one of opening portions of the through hole, the core rod being inserted and disposed in a space of the through hole. The method also includes a pressurizing step using the first punch and a second punch disposed so as to face the first punch. The method also includes a removing step.

Abstract: Provided is a sputtering target which can lower a heat treatment temperature for ordering a Fe—Pt magnetic phase and can suppress generation of particles during sputtering. The sputtering target is a nonmagnetic material-dispersed sputtering target containing Fe, Pt and Ge. The sputtering target includes at least one magnetic phase satisfying a composition represented by (Fe1-?Pt?)1-?Ge?, as expressed in an atomic ratio for Fe, Pt and Ge, in which ? and ? represent numbers meeting 0.35???0.55 and 0.05???0.2, respectively. The magnetic phase has a ratio (SGe30mass%/SGe) of 0.5 or less. The ratio (SGe30mass%/SGe) is an average area ratio of Ge-based alloy phases containing a Ge concentration of 30% by mass or more (SGe30mass%) to an area ratio of Ge (SGe) calculated from the entire composition of the sputtering target, in element mapping by EPMA of a polished surface obtained by polishing a cross section perpendicular to a sputtering surface of the sputtering target.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an extruder that includes: at least one screw that extends along an axial direction, the screw including a downstream end positioned downstream in a conveying direction of raw material that is conveyed along the axial direction in accordance with rotation of the screw; a housing that houses the screw; and at least one axial support that axially supports the downstream end of the screw, the axial support including at least one rectifier plate.

Abstract: Provided are a composite material having low iron loss, high saturation magnetization, and high strength, and a magnetic component and a reactor that include the composite material. A composite material contains a soft magnetic powder and a resin having the soft magnetic powder dispersed therein, the soft magnetic powder including a coarse powder having an average particle size D1 of not less than 50 ?m nor more than 500 ?m and a fine powder having an average particle size D2 of not less than 0.1 ?m but less than 30 wherein the soft magnetic powder is contained in an amount of not less than 60 vol % nor more than 80 vol % with respect to the composite material as a whole.

Abstract: A management system for a plant facility is disclosed. The system includes a first field device that measures a process value, a first control node that calculates a first control value based on the process value, a second field device that operates according to the first control value, and an application node that configures one or more parameters for calculating the first control value. The first control node compares the first control value with a second control value calculated by one of the first field device, a second control node, and the application node. When determining that the first and the second control value are identical, the first control node sets the first control value to the second field device.

Abstract: An image processing device according to one of the exemplary aspects of the present invention includes: inferring means for selecting, for each of local unknown patches including a target unknown patch, candidate patches from a plurality of input patches based on similarity to the local unknown patch, the local unknown patches being images generated from a part of an unknown image, the plurality of input patches being images generated from a plurality of input images, a subject ID (Identifier) being correlated with the input patches that are generated from an input image to which the subject ID is assigned in the plurality of input image; first score calculation means for calculating a score representing nearness of a candidate patch in the candidate patches to a local unknown patch in the local unknown patches; and patch replacement means for calculating a score summation for the subject ID by summing up scores of the candidate patches being correlated with a same subject ID in the candidate patches of the l

Abstract: Provided is a resin film, etc. not having the film strength thereof being easily degraded, even when an additive is used. Further, provided is a resin film, etc. having a lower reflectivity. A low refractive index layer (the resin film) comprises a binder. Further, the low refractive index layer comprises hollow particles distributed in the binder. Further, the low refractive index layer comprises a fluorine-containing polymer which is immiscible with the hollow particles. The fluorine-containing polymer which is immiscible with the hollow particles is mostly distributed on the surface of the low refractive index layer.