Abstract: Provided is a porous body for capturing cancer cells, including a biocompatible inorganic material, the porous body for capturing cancer cells having biocompatibility and also having stability in a living body. The porous body for capturing cancer cells can be used for application related to cancer such as a treatment, a treatment assistance, a test, or a diagnosis.

Abstract: A strain detector 1 includes: a metal plate 4 that is fixed to a first end 210 of a first tube 21 and a second end 220 of a second tube 22 while the metal plate 4 straddles a weld 3 between the first end 210 and the second end 220, the first tube 21 and the second tube 22 forming part of a boiler tube 2; and an optical fiber 5 that is fixed to a top of the metal plate 4 and that extends in an axial direction (a first direction D1) of the first tube 21 and the second tube 22. In this manner, the metal plate 4 is fixed to the first tube 21 and the second tube 22 while straddling the weld 3, and the optical fiber 5 is fixed to the top of the metal plate 4, which enables the strain detector 1 to accurately detect a strain in the weld 3 of the boiler tube 2.

Abstract: A heat transfer tube includes: an outer tube; an inner tube inserted into the outer tube so as to be in close contact with the outer tube, to form a double tube with the outer tube; an insertion hole formed, between an outer circumferential surface of the outer tube and an inner circumferential surface of the inner tube, penetrating in a longitudinal direction of the outer tube and the inner tube; and an insertion tube inserted into the insertion hole The insertion tube allows an optical fiber to be inserted into the insertion tube to measure a surface temperature of the double tube.

Abstract: A precipitation-strengthened cast product welding repair method is a method of repairing a damaged portion of a precipitation-strengthened cast product. The method includes: forming a first weld layer on a surface of the damaged portion by micro tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding using a solid-solution-strengthened welding material having higher toughness than the cast product; and forming a second weld layer on the first weld layer by building up the second weld layer by laser welding using a dual multi-phase nanostructure intermetallic compound as a welding material and being higher in heat supply rate than the micro TIG welding.

Abstract: A precipitation-strengthened cast product welding repair method repairs a damaged portion of a precipitation-strengthened cast product. The method includes welding the damaged portion by micro tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding using a welding material containing a solid-solution-strengthened alloy and having higher toughness than the precipitation-strengthened cast product.

Abstract: Preparations comprising an enriched population of extracellular vesicles (nEVs) having a negatively charged surface, and that are CD81+ and CD9?, are provided. Improved processes and methods for producing an enriched population of nEVs from non-murine cells, especially human origin cells and/or tissues, are disclosed. Therapeutic methods for using the preparations, including for reducing brain inflammation and treatment of various pathologies associated with brain inflammation, such as by intravenous or intranasal administration, are also described. Methods and preparations for reducing brain inflammation associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are also disclosed. A method for treating a patient having suffered a mild traumatic injury (mTMI), or concussion, such as a sports-related head injury, is also disclosed. The nEVs are also demonstrated to reduce the expression level of IL-I? in brain tissue of an animal having had traumatic brain injury.

Abstract: Preparations comprising an enriched population of extracellular vesicles (nEVs) having a negatively charged surface, and that are CD81+ and CD9?, are provided. Improved processes and methods for producing an enriched population of nEVs from non-murine cells, especially human origin cells and/or tissues, are disclosed. Therapeutic methods for using the preparations, including for reducing brain inflammation and treatment of various pathologies associated with brain inflammation, such as by intravenous or intranasal administration, are also described. Methods and preparations for reducing brain inflammation associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are also disclosed. A method for treating a patient having suffered a mild traumatic injury (mTMI), or concussion, such as a sports-related head injury, is also disclosed. The nEVs are also demonstrated to reduce the expression level of IL-I? in brain tissue of an animal having had traumatic brain injury.

Abstract: A boiler tube reinforcement device reinforces a boiler tube including a first boiler tube, a second boiler tube, and a weld portion joining edges of the first boiler tube and the second boiler tube together. The boiler tube reinforcement device includes: a sheet-shaped first steel plate wrapped in a region including the weld portion of the boiler tube and reinforces the boiler tube, the first steel plate including a plurality of bending portions, the bending portions being formed along a longitudinal direction of the boiler tube at regular intervals along a circumferential direction of the boiler tube, wherein the first steel plate is wrapped in the region of the boiler tube.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is to precisely define a constant value used in the Monkman-Grant analysis, when estimating remaining life of a high-chromium steel pipe through which high-temperature and high-pressure fluid is allowed to flow. A remaining life estimation method according to the present disclosure is particularly characterized in that a step of obtaining a constant on an accelerated creep test is performed in which a constant indicative of the product of a strain rate and a rupture time in the Monkman-Grant analysis is obtained by multiplying a first coefficient to transform uniaxial rupture ductility into multiaxial rupture ductility, the uniaxial rupture ductility being obtained from a specimen of the high-chromium steel pipe, a second coefficient to amend consumed life of the specimen, and a third coefficient to amend a measured pressure into an assessment pressure.

Abstract: A method of predicting growth of a crack in a member includes memorizing, for each portion on the member, stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction obtained in the case that no crack is present, a relationship between depth of growing cracks and creep contribution, and a relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and m of the Paris's law, receiving from a user an indication of a certain portion on the member, acquiring the stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction for the certain portion, acquiring a creep contribution at the depth of a growing crack for the certain portion, from the relationship between depth of cracks and creep contribution memorized for the certain portion, and acquiring parameters C and m corresponding to the acquired creep contribution, from the relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and m of the Paris's law memorized for the certain portion.

Abstract: Preparations comprising an enriched population of extracellular vesicles (nEVs) having a negatively charged surface, and that are CD81+ and CD9?, are provided. Improved processes and methods for producing an enriched population of nEVs from non-murine cells, especially human origin cells and/or tissues, are disclosed. Therapeutic methods for using the preparations, including for reducing brain inflammation and treatment of various pathologies associated with brain inflammation, such as by intravenous or intranasal administration, are also described. Methods and preparations for reducing brain inflammation associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are also disclosed. A method for treating a patient having suffered a mild traumatic injury (mTMI), or concussion, such as a sports-related head injury, is also disclosed. The nEVs are also demonstrated to reduce the expression level of IL-I? in brain tissue of an animal having had traumatic brain injury.

Abstract: A boiler tube reinforcement device reinforces a boiler tube including a weld portion. The reinforcement device includes: a strip-shaped first steel plate that is wound and fixed by welding in a region including the weld portion of the boiler tube; a first reinforcement member in surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to one semi-circumference of the boiler tube in an outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate wound around the boiler tube; a second reinforcement member in surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to another semi-circumference of the boiler tube in the outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate wound around the boiler tube, wherein the second reinforcement member covers the outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate together with the first reinforcement member; and a coupling member that couples the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member together around the boiler tube.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes a reference member that is installed on a surface of a first metal member; a range finder that measures a distance to the reference member; and a mounting member to which the range finder is placed. The mounting member is installed on a surface of a second metal member coupled to the first metal member via a weld. One of the mounting member and the range finder includes first and second protruding parts. The other thereof includes first and second fitting holes into which the first and the second protruding parts are fit, respectively, such that the range finder is mounted to the mounting member, and first and second pressing members that press the first and second protruding parts from first and second directions toward inner side surfaces of the first and second fitting holes, respectively.

Abstract: A reinforcement device for a cylindrical pipe through which steam passes, the steam being obtained by heating water using combustion heat of a boiler, includes: a first reinforcement member that makes surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to one semi-circumference of the pipe, the first reinforcement member having a thickness that decreases toward both ends in a longitudinal direction of the pipe; a second reinforcement member that makes surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to another semi-circumference of the pipe, the second reinforcement member having a thickness that decreases toward both the ends in the longitudinal direction of the pipe; and a coupling member that couples the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member together around the pipe.

Abstract: A repair method for repairing a crack generated to a cast steel member due to a thermal stress includes removing a part of the cast steel member including the crack at a surface of the cast steel member to form a recess, fitting into the recess a first repair member that is made of a metal that is more flexible than the cast steel member and that is weldable to the cast steel member, and spot welding the first repair member to the cast steel member.

Abstract: A remaining service life evaluation method for evaluating a remaining service life of a metal pipe suffering from creep damage on a basis of a master curve that is prepared in advance that includes wrapping a steel strip around an outer peripheral face of the metal pipe under same conditions as those during an internal pressure creep test and evaluating a remaining service life of the metal pipe on a basis of a degree of deterioration of the steel strip.

Abstract: A repair method of a cast steel member having a crack formed on a surface of the cast steel member includes: forming a recess having a wedge-shaped cross section that widens in a depth direction of the cast steel member by cutting the cast steel member from the surface of the cast steel member to a predetermined depth so as to include the crack; pushing and embedding a repair member made of a metal material more flexible than the cast steel member into the recess formed in the recess forming; and diffusion-bonding the repair member to the cast steel member by heating a boundary between an exposed surface.

Abstract: A pipe-reinforcing implement with excellent workability during attachment to the piping is provided. The reinforcing implement 1 is to be arranged along an outer circumferential face Xb of a metal piping X, in a state surrounding the piping in a circumferential direction, in which creep may occur due to a high temperature and pressure fluid inside, and configured to reinforce creep strength of the piping, the reinforcing implement including a plurality of reinforcing members 11 arranged in the circumferential direction to be joined and a plurality of laminate members 12, 13, 14 overlaid in a radial direction of the piping to configure each of the reinforcing members.

Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is to precisely define a constant value used in the Monkman-Grant analysis, when estimating remaining life of a high-chromium steel pipe through which high-temperature and high-pressure fluid is allowed to flow. A remaining life estimation method according to the present disclosure is particularly characterized in that a step of obtaining a constant on an accelerated creep test is performed in which a constant indicative of the product of a strain rate and a rupture time in the Monkman-Grant analysis is obtained by multiplying a first coefficient to transform uniaxial rupture ductility into multiaxial rupture ductility, the uniaxial rupture ductility being obtained from a specimen of the high-chromium steel pipe, a second coefficient to amend consumed life of the specimen, and a third coefficient to amend a measured pressure into an assessment pressure.

Abstract: A distance measuring system includes: a reference member configured to be provided on a surface of a first pipe made of metal, the reference member serving as a reference for distance measurement; an attachment member provided on a surface of a second pipe, made of metal, connected with the first pipe through a weld; a distance sensor configured to be attached to the attachment member, to measure a distance to the reference member; and a measuring unit configured to measure the distance based on an output from the distance sensor.