Abstract: A positive electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes specific peaks in pyrolysis GC/MS measurement, and includes specific pore diameters and pore volumes in a pore distribution curve attained by a mercury intrusion method.

Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor is provided with an ultrasonic element that converts between an electrical signal and an ultrasonic vibration and an element accommodating case having a bottomed cylindrical shape and accommodating the ultrasonic element inside thereof. The element accommodating case includes a side plate portion formed in a cylindrical shape that surrounds a directional center axis, and a bottom plate portion that closes one end side of the side plate portion in an axial direction which is parallel to the directional center axis. The ultrasonic element is attached to the bottom plate portion. The bottom plate portion includes at least one protrusion. The protrusions vibrate together with the bottom plate portion when the bottom plate portion vibrates as an ultrasonic vibration.

Abstract: An electrode according to an embodiment contains an electrode mixture layer containing an active material and a conductive assistant. In a logarithmic differential pore volume distribution by a mercury intrusion method, the electrode mixture layer satisfies: a ratio P1/P2 within a range of 2 or more and less than 8, and a ratio S1/S2 within a range of 3 or more and less than 10. P1 is a value of a maximum logarithmic differential pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less. P2 is a value of a logarithmic differential pore volume of a pore diameter of 0.03 ?m. S1 is an integrated value in a pore diameter range of 0.1 ?m or more and 1 ?m or less. S2 is an integrated value in a pore diameter range of more than 0 ?m and less than 0.1 ?m.

Abstract: A brazing, monolayer, aluminum-alloy material has a chemical composition composed of Si: 1.5 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less, Fe: 0.05 mass % or more and 2.00 mass % or less, Mn: 0.1 mass % or more and 2.0 mass % or less, Mg: 0.005 mass % or more and 0.500 mass % or less, and Bi: 0.010 mass % or more and 0.500 mass % or less, the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities; and has a metallographic structure in which Mg—Bi-series compounds are dispersed in an Al matrix. The surface-area ratio of the above-mentioned Mg—Bi-series compounds in any arbitrary cross section is 0.05% or more.

Abstract: A verification system includes a server that includes a first processor configured to generate a hash value according to a first algorithm by using a public key associated with a user and a first message; and a terminal that includes a second processor configured to generate a collision generation value by a second algorithm based on the first message, a second message, and a private key that is paired with the public key so that the hash value is generated in a case where the collision generation value is input to the first algorithm together with the public key and the second message, and transmit the collision generation value and the second message to another terminal that is to be guaranteed that the second message has been provided by the user.

Abstract: A control method for a computer to execute a process includes accepting requests for adding a new public key to a public key group that includes a plurality of public keys aggregated in an aggregate public key used to verify validity of an aggregate signature obtained by aggregating a plurality of signatures; generating a different public key from the new public key, based on information generated from the new public key and the plurality of public keys included in the public key group; adding the new public key to the public key group; and updating the aggregate public key based on the generated different public key.

Abstract: A control method executed by a computer, including: when accepting execution instructions for a first task and a second task, adding an operation code that causes execution of an operation, to a processing program that corresponds to the first task, and generating a first program that includes the processing program and the operation code; encrypting a second program that corresponds to the second task to generate encrypted data, by using an operation result obtained based on the execution of the operation; and transmitting the first program and the encrypted data to a device that corresponds to the first task.

Abstract: A control method executed by a computer, the method including: detecting a risk to a first public key managed by a public key repository; performing update restriction of the first public key in response to the detection of the risk; authenticating an authenticator associated with the first public key; and releasing, in a case where the authentication of the authenticator succeeds, the update restriction.

Abstract: A control method implemented by a computer, the control method including: receiving, from a user, a usage instruction that instructs to use a first service; notifying first processing that provides the first service of identification information of a second service to which the user is logged in when the usage instruction is received; receiving a condition from the first processing according to the notification of the identification information; and instructing second processing that provides the second service to notify the first processing of information according to the condition.

Abstract: A verification method implemented by a computer, the verification method including: acquiring a transmission source of a transmitted target document and first signature pattern information that represents a feature of one or a plurality of signatures regarding the target document; extracting second signature pattern information associated with the acquired transmission source of the target document from a storage unit that stores signature pattern information that represents a feature of one or a plurality of signatures regarding a document acquired in the past in association with a transmission source of the document; and verifying reliability of the target document, based on a result of comparing the acquired first signature pattern information and the extracted second signature pattern information.

Abstract: A control method implemented by a computer, the control method including: receiving designation of data permitted to be accessed by a specific service, among data stored in a first storage; and in response to the receiving the designation of the data, outputting an instruction to store the designated data in a second storage isolated from the first storage.

Abstract: A generation method for a computer to execute a process includes acquiring data of a document that accepts input of signature by a plurality of users according to an attribute of the document; adding first information to the data, the first information indicating a plurality of areas in the document, the first information being used for specifying an order of requestee users of a procedure that involves the signature in a workflow regarding the document; and outputting the data of the document with the first information.

Abstract: A control method for a computer to execute a process includes detecting, by a first information processing device, a first data operation for a cloud service executed by an information processing system; notifying, by the first information processing device, a second information processing device of content of the first data operation; determining, by the second information processing device, to execute first processing on data that is a target of the first data operation based on the notified content of the first data operation; instructing, by the second information processing device, the first information processing device to execute the first processing; and executing, by the first information processing device, the first processing on the data when instructed to execute the first processing on the data.

Abstract: A control method implemented by a computer which is configured to be operated as a terminal apparatus, the control method including: transmitting, from the terminal apparatus to a first management server, a first request for transmission of a certificate of a first server, the first server being one of a plurality of servers, the first management server being configured to manage certificates for the plurality of servers; in response to the transmitting of the first request, receiving the certificate of the first server from the first management server; in response to the receiving of the certificate, determining a certificate authority by using information included in the received certificate, the certificate authority being a server from which the received certificate has been issued; and transmitting, from the terminal apparatus to the determined certificate authority, a second request for transmission of first address information on the first server.

Abstract: A signature control method implemented by a computer, the signature control method including: acquiring, by a processor circuit of the computer, a plurality of pieces of document information and signature information that corresponds to each piece of document information of the plurality of pieces of document information; generating, by the processor circuit of the computer, aggregate signature information obtained by aggregating the signature information that corresponds to the each piece of document information of the plurality of acquired pieces of document information on a basis of the plurality of acquired pieces of document information; and outputting, by the processor circuit of the computer, the generated aggregate signature information in association with aggregate public key information obtained by aggregating public key information that corresponds to the each piece of document information of the plurality of pieces of document information and the plurality of pieces of document information.

Abstract: A control method implemented by a computer, the method including: acquiring contract document data that includes a company name and a job title name of a person with an authority of a contract partner company; acquiring information that indicates a decision ability associated with the company name and the job title name included in the acquired contract document data, with reference to a storage unit that stores information that indicates a plurality of kinds of decision abilities for each job title of a company in association with the company name and the job title name; and presenting the acquired information that indicates the decision ability, in association with the acquired contract document data.

Abstract: A generation method implemented by a computer, the generation method including: acquiring, by a processor circuit of the computer, read information generated from a reading result that is a document image obtained by imaging a paper document; and generating, by the processor circuit, an electronic document with a signature image that includes the electronic document and the signature image by adding the signature image obtained by imaging a signature written or stamped on the paper document to an electronic document that corresponds to the acquired read information.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes lithium manganese composite oxide particles having a spinel crystal structure and lithium cobalt composite oxide particles. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing oxide. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a propionate ester. The battery satisfies 0.8?p/n?1.2 and 1?w/s?60. p denotes a capacity per unit area of the positive electrode. n denotes a capacity per unit area of the negative electrode. w denotes a content of the propionate ester in the nonaqueous electrolyte and is in a range of 10% by weight to 60% by weight. s denotes an average particle size of the lithium manganese composite oxide particles.

Abstract: A verification method implemented by a first system including a plurality of computers, the method includes: calculating a first hash value for an original document; calculating a second hash value for an original document by using the first hash value; calculating a first modified version's first hash value for the first modified version document; calculating a first modified version's second hash value that is a hash value obtained by combining the first modified version's first hash value and the original document's second hash value; in response to a second modified version document obtained by modifying the first modified version document, calculating a second modified version's first hash value for the second modified version document; and calculating a second modified version's second hash value that is a hash value obtained by combining the second modified version's first hash value and the first modified version's second hash value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material containing orthorhombic Na-containing niobium-titanium composite oxide particles represented by general formula (1) Li2+vNa2?yM1xTi6?y?zNbyM2zO14+?. In general formula (1), M1 is one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cs, K, Sr, Ba, and Ca, M2 is one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Zr, Al, Sn, V, Ta, Mo, W, Fe, Co, and Mn, 0?v<2, 0?x<2, 0<y<2, 0?z<3, and ?0.5???0.5. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains an Na component in a range of 10 ppm by mass to 3,000 ppm by mass.