Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, an image former, and a reading device. The conveyor conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The image former forms an adjustment pattern on one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor. The reading device downstream from the image former in the conveyance direction reads the adjustment pattern on the one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor to generate read data. The adjustment pattern includes a first line segment and a second line segment that extend in directions different from each other and each are inclined with respect to the conveyance direction.

Abstract: An application distribution device includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions.

Abstract: An unevenness correction data generation device suppressing the appearance of color unevenness when turning on R, G and B together includes a pattern generation unit causing red, green and blue images, in which display panel subpixels are turned on at the same gray level, to be displayed, a monochrome camera, a control unit generating first red, green and blue luminance correction data based on shooting data of the monochrome camera, a pattern generation unit causing the display panel to display a white image by causing red, green and blue images corrected with the respective luminance correction data to be displayed simultaneously, a color camera shooting the white image in color, and a control unit generating color correction data for correcting color unevenness based on shooting data of the color camera and generates unevenness correction data based on the red, green and blue luminance correction data and the color correction data.

Abstract: Biomarkers for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases and methods for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases using the biomarkers are provided. A method for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases comprising measuring one or more biomarkers for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases selected from the following (a), (b), and (c) in a biological sample simultaneously or separately: (a) a biomarker for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases consisting of an intact protein of apolipoprotein A1 comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1 or a partial peptide thereof; (b) a biomarker for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases consisting of an intact protein of transthyretin comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2 or a partial peptide thereof; and (c) a biomarker for detecting cognitive dysfunction diseases consisting of an intact protein of complement C3 comprising the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:3 or a partial peptide thereof.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance section that conveys a recording medium along a conveyance path. The image forming apparatus includes a floating detector including a light projector and a light receiver and that detects floating of the recording medium based on a light reception result by the light receiver of light emitted from the light projector and passing above the conveyance path. The image forming apparatus includes a temperature detector that detects a temperature in an optical path of the light. The image forming apparatus includes a variable mechanism that changes an emission direction of the light from the light projector. The image forming apparatus includes circuitry to control an operation of the variable mechanism based on the temperature detected by the temperature detector.

Abstract: Sensor combinations that are effective for failure sign diagnosis are automatically generated in consideration of hidden relationships between sensor data. The present invention includes: a time shift data generation unit 106 that processes sensor data acquired from an instrument and generates the processed sensor data; and a sensor combinations/pre-processing condition generation unit 112 that generates sensor combinations on the basis of correlation coefficients between the sensor data and the processed sensor data, and generates, as a preprocessing condition, a processing condition that increases a correlation coefficient between sensors for each sensor combination, in which the failure sign diagnosis of the instrument is performed on the basis of a change in the relationship between the sensor data included in the sensor combination and the processed sensor data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, an image former, and a reading device. The conveyor conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The image former forms an adjustment pattern on one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor. The reading device downstream from the image former in the conveyance direction reads the adjustment pattern on the one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor to generate read data. The adjustment pattern includes a first line segment and a second line segment that extend in directions different from each other and each are inclined with respect to the conveyance direction.

Abstract: Methods are provided that detect cognitive impairment including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease by using a protein or its partial peptide that differs in presence or absence. Novel biomarkers are also provided for cognitive impairment and non-psychiatric disease, as well as methods for detecting cognitive impairment using such biomarkers. Specifically, a biomarker for diagnosis is provided that comprises a protein fragment or peptide of not less than 5 amino acid residues arising from at least one protein or peptide selected from the group of proteins consisting of an amino acid sequence expressed by SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, or 20 and selected from the group of partial peptide in these proteins consisting of an amino acid sequence expressed by SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, or 21.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein involve facilitating a recommendation of materials to users, which can involve determining, from a job profile, a job experience level of a user for a job type and equipment type combination; determining, for each material in a database of materials, the job experience level associated with the each material based on an access log to the each material by one or more users and content of the each material to generate a material profile for each of the job experience level; and generating a recommendation of materials from the database for the user based on the determined job experience level of the user and the job experience level associated with the each material.

Abstract: A combustor includes: a housing having an annular shape of which one end side is open and of which the other end side is closed; at least one introduction portion that introduces a fuel and an oxidizing gas into the housing to generate a tubular flow; and an ignition unit that ignites the fuel introduced into the housing. The ignition unit includes a discharge electrode and a ground electrode. A space that the fuel and the oxidizing gas reach is provided between the discharge electrode and the ground electrode.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a reader and a controller. The reader acquires a document image formed on a sheet. The controller acquires an area image in a designated area designated in the document image acquired by the reader, performs a character recognition process and a code recognition process on the area image, and in response to the character recognition process not recognizing a character, employs a code recognition result by a code recognition process performed on the area image as a recognition result of the area image.

Abstract: A condition monitoring system which collects operation data from a machine and monitors a condition of the machine includes: a storage unit that stores information indicating components of a first machine for which a model for a sensor data analysis has been created and components of a second machine for which the model is newly created, information indicating a correspondence relationship between the components of the first machine and the components of the second machine, and information relating to the model; a model creation unit that creates model candidates of the second machine from the model similar to the second machine by using the information stored in the storage unit, and creating information relating to a model candidate selected via an input unit out of the model candidates as the model of the second machine; and a display unit that displays the model candidates.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories storing program instructions, which, when being executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to generate a print image to be printed on a sheet of paper and a position correcting mark for front and back side registration having a brightness lower than a minimum brightness of the print image; control printing of the print image and the position correcting mark on a first side of the sheet of paper; control reading the print image and the position correcting mark from the first side and control generating of read image data; and detect, from the read image data, the position correcting mark on the first side using a brightness difference.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container configured to contain a developer, a developing carrying member configured to carry and feed the developer to a developing position, and a regulating member configured to regulate an amount of the developer carried by the developer carrying member, wherein the developer carrying member includes a magnet provided non-rotatably and stationarily inside the developer carrying member, and wherein the developer carrying member is provided with information regarding magnetic flux density of the magnet.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for detecting cognitive disfunction diseases including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease using a protein and a peptide of the protein different in the presence level in subjects having a normal cognitive function and patients suffering from cognitive disfunction diseases and a biomarker for detecting cognitive disfunction diseases including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease containing the protein and the peptide.

Abstract: A reforming device is provided with: a reformer in which an ammonia gas is burnt by air to generate heat to reform the ammonia gas utilizing the generated heat; a supply pipe through which a gas comprising the ammonia gas and air to be fed to the reformer flows; a gas inlet which is arranged in the supply pipe and through which the ammonia gas and air are introduced into the inside of the supply pipe in such a manner that a tubular flow can be generated; an igniter which can ignite the ammonia gas introduced into the inside of the supply pipe through the gas inlet; and an ammonia gas inlet which is arranged in the supply pipe on a side closer to the reformer than the gas inlet and through which the ammonia gas is introduced into the inside of the supply pipe.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an adhesive composition that contains a polyester resin (A), wherein the polyester resin (A) contains a structural unit derived from at least one compound (a1) selected from the group consisting of a dimer acid compound and a dimer diol, and a structural unit derived from an aromatic compound (a2).

Abstract: The present invention has an object of shortening the process time and reducing use of a poor solvent for solidifying a carrier (Tag)-peptide component, by removing impurities without conducting solid-liquid separation (condensation, solid-liquid separation and drying operation) of a Tag-peptide component, in an Fmoc method using a Tag for liquid phase peptide synthesis.

Abstract: Sensor combinations that are effective for failure sign diagnosis are automatically generated in consideration of hidden relationships between sensor data. The present invention includes: a time shift data generation unit 106 that processes sensor data acquired from an instrument and generates the processed sensor data; and a sensor combinations/pre-processing condition generation unit 112 that generates sensor combinations on the basis of correlation coefficients between the sensor data and the processed sensor data, and generates, as a preprocessing condition, a processing condition that increases a correlation coefficient between sensors for each sensor combination, in which the failure sign diagnosis of the instrument is performed on the basis of a change in the relationship between the sensor data included in the sensor combination and the processed sensor data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified hydrogenated product of a block copolymer having a polymer block (A) containing a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound, and a polymer block (B) containing a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, a method of producing the modified hydrogenated product, and a resin composition containing the modified hydrogenated product. The modified hydrogenated product has one or more functional groups selected from an alkoxysilyl group, a carboxy group, an amino group, a hydroxy group, an epoxy group, and an acid anhydride-derived group, and satisfies the following conditions. Condition (1): after stay at 330° C. for 30 min under nitrogen atmosphere, a weight change rate is ?5.5% or more. Condition (2): the peak top intensity of tan ? measured in accordance with JIS K7244-10 (2005), under conditions including a strain amount of 0.1%, a frequency of 1 Hz, a measurement temperature of ?70 to 120° C., and a temperature rise rate of 3° C.