Abstract: A plug electrode is subject to etch back to remain in a contact hole and expose a barrier metal on a top surface of an interlayer insulating film. The barrier metal is subject to etch back, exposing the top surface of the interlayer insulating film. Remaining element structures are formed. After lifetime is controlled by irradiation of helium or an electron beam, hydrogen annealing is performed. During the hydrogen annealing, the barrier metal is not present on the interlayer insulating film covering a gate electrode, enabling hydrogen atoms to reach a mesa part, whereby lattice defects generated in the mesa part by the irradiation of helium or an electron beam are recovered, recovering the gate threshold voltage. Thus, predetermined characteristics of a semiconductor device having a structure where a plug electrode is provided in a contact hole, via barrier metal are easily and stably obtained when lifetime control is performed.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is a computer carried by a first user who is arranged to get on an on-demand bus. The information processing apparatus includes a display device and a controller. The controller of the information processing apparatus creates an AR image by superimposing a first virtual image on a first real image obtained by photographing a first real scene at the position corresponding to the pick-up location for the first user in it. The first virtual image is a virtual image of a bus stop. Then, the controller causes the display apparatus to display the AR image thus created.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting layer containing a light-emitting substance and a first organic compound. The light-emitting substance is an organometallic complex containing a central metal and ligands. One of the ligands includes a skeleton formed by a ring A1 and a pyridine ring bonded to each other. The ring A1 represents an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring. The pyridine ring includes an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms and being substituted with deuterium. The first organic compound includes an electron-transport skeleton and first and second substituents that are bonded to the electron-transport skeleton. The electron-transport skeleton includes a heteroaromatic ring having two or more nitrogen atoms. The first substituent includes one or both of an aromatic ring and a heteroaromatic ring. The second substituent includes a skeleton having a hole-transport property.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes: a rotor core; a shaft that is hollow and that supports the rotor; and an end plate that is disposed on an end of the rotor in a rotational axis direction, and that forms a passage through which a refrigerant flows, between the end plate and the rotor core, in which the end plate includes a plurality of ribs that come into contact with the shaft, the passage includes a refrigerant entry portion that is provided between the plurality of ribs, and a refrigerant exit portion that communicatively connects the refrigerant entry portion to an outer peripheral surface of the end plate, the shaft has a refrigerant supply hole communicatively connecting the refrigerant entry portion to internal of the shaft, and a circumferential length of the refrigerant entry portion along an innermost diameter is larger than a circumferential length of the refrigerant supply hole.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a controller configured to execute: transmitting user information to one or more user apparatuses associated with one or more first users, the user information being information related to the one or more first users who intend to board a bus operated on demand from a first point set as a boarding and alighting point for the bus.

Abstract: A green phosphorescent light-emitting device with a long lifetime is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light-emitting layer includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a phosphorescent light-emitting substance. The first organic compound includes a heteroaromatic ring skeleton and an aromatic hydrocarbon group. The second organic compound includes a bicarbazole skeleton. The lowest triplet excited level of the first organic compound is derived from only the aromatic hydrocarbon group. The energy of the lowest triplet excited level of the second organic compound is higher than or equal to 2.20 eV and lower than or equal to 2.65 eV.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a somatic chimera by using a pluripotent cell genetically engineered not to differentiate into a predetermined type of cell. The present invention particularly provides a method for preventing a pluripotent cell from contributing to the brain and gonad in a somatic chimera animal.

Abstract: The present invention has found that chimeric animals suffer from noticeable inflammation after birth, though neither immune response nor inflammation in the fetal period of these animals has been reported hitherto. This is an unexpected finding since chimeric animals in the fetal period were exclusively analyzed in prior studies and thus it is deemed that immunotolerance has been theoretically established therein. The present invention provides a composition for suppressing immune response or inflammation in the fetal period of a born chimeric animal.

Abstract: According to the method of the present disclosure, first, an application for a reservation for at least one of a point and a time at which a first transportation service vehicle is to be stopped is received from a user. Next, an overlap is detected between the reservation and an operation schedule related to a stopping point and a stopping time of each of other transportation service vehicles operated in a region where the first transportation service vehicle is operated. Further, a priority between the first transportation service vehicle and a second transportation service vehicle having an operation schedule overlapping with the reservation among the other transportation service vehicles is determined based on at least a service type of each of the first transportation service vehicle and the second transportation service vehicle. Then, the user is notified of approval or disapproval of the reservation determined based on the priority.

Abstract: A communication control apparatus controls optical communication between a communication relay satellite and plural user satellites such that, when the communication relay satellite relays communication between the plural user satellites and other equipment, a sum of data rates/representing communication rates per unit time between the plural user satellites and the communication relay satellite is not greater than a limit value of a data rate between the communication relay satellite and the other equipment.

Abstract: The control device includes an information processing device and a communication device. The information processing device extracts a group of users from the plurality of users based on passenger information of the plurality of users, the group of users being a group of users whose relationship with each other is a predetermined personal relationship, transmits to information terminal devices carried by the users belonging to the group, via the communication device, first display information indicating a current position of the shared vehicle, and transmits, in a case where a protection target user for whom a predetermined privacy protection requirement is satisfied is included in the group, second display information that is processed to protect privacy of the protection target user, to an information terminal device carried by a user not belonging to the group, via the communication device.

Abstract: A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a face with a striking surface configured for striking a ball and a channel extending across a portion of the sole. The channel may be recessed from adjacent surfaces of the sole and have a depth of recession from the adjacent surfaces of the sole. A pair of ribs are positioned within the channel. The ribs may diverge away from one another and may have a first rib located in a toe portion of the channel and a second rib located in the heel portion of the channel.

Abstract: A novel organic compound that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1). Note that R1 to R4 each independently represent hydrogen (including deuterium), a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms; Ar1 is represented by General Formula (g1-1) below; Ar2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 10 to 30 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms; Ar3 is represented by General Formula (g1-2) below; ? represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires position information of a user terminal, and causes the user terminal to issue a first notification by audio or vibration in a case where a distance between a first point where a user of the user terminal is to get on board a vehicle provided for a predetermined service and the user terminal falls to or below a first distance, the first notification indicating that the first point is getting closer. The information processing apparatus causes the user terminal to issue a second notification by audio or vibration in a case where the distance between the first point and the user terminal falls to or below a second distance that is smaller than the first distance, the second notification indicating that the first point is getting closer.

Abstract: The crime prevention system executes evaluating whether or not a degree of safety of the passenger getting off the vehicle is equal to or higher than a predetermined level on a basis of a recognition result of the recognition sensor (at least one of a first recognition sensor and a second recognition sensor), in a case where the degree of safety is lower than the predetermined level, executing illumination control of irradiating a position of the passenger getting off the vehicle with illumination from the illumination device (at least a first illumination device) while the vehicle is kept stopped for a period set in accordance with the degree of safety, and terminating the illumination control in response to a predetermined termination condition being satisfied.

Abstract: A magneto-optical trap method including applying a magnetic field to an atom encapsulated in a vacuum vessel and having a nuclear spin of not less than 3/2 by using an anti-Helmholtz coil. Then generating a laser beam including a first laser beam detuned from a first resonance frequency when the atom transits from a total angular momentum quantum number F in a ground state to a total angular momentum quantum number F?=F+1 in an excited state, and a second laser beam detuned from a second resonance frequency when the atom transits from the total angular momentum quantum number F in the ground state to a total angular momentum quantum number F?=F?1 in the excited state.

Abstract: A power storage apparatus includes a power storage module, a temperature acquirer, a state-of-charge calculator, and a charge controller. The power storage module includes a plurality of batteries connected to each other. The temperature acquirer acquires a temperature of the power storage module. The state-of-charge calculator calculates a state of charge of the power storage module. The charge controller charges the power storage module with a current value that is set based on the acquired temperature and the calculated state of charge.

Abstract: A vehicle is operated in accordance with a second operation amount corresponding to a first operation amount of a remote operation member by an operator. A first maximum operation range is a maximum operation range of the remote operation member. A second maximum operation range is a maximum operation range of an operation member of the vehicle. When the first maximum operation range is smaller than the second maximum operation range, a correspondence relationship between the first and second operation amounts is adjusted such that the second operation amount becomes larger than the first operation amount. When the first maximum operation range is larger than the second maximum operation range, an operable range of the remote operation member is restricted or the correspondence relationship is adjusted such that the second operation amount becomes smaller than the first operation amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a chimeric animal using a primed pluripotent stem cell, a tissue stem cell, a progenitor cell, a somatic cell, or a germ cell. The method for producing a chimeric animal according to the present invention comprises introducing a mammal-derived cell into the embryo of a mammal, the cell being primed pluripotent stem cell, tissue stem cell, progenitor cell, somatic cell, or germ cell.

Abstract: A system includes an acquisition unit that acquires an operation amount or a duration count, and a switching unit that switches a driving state. The switching unit switches the driving state to the cooperative driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than an intervention threshold and less than a start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold during the autonomous driving state, switches the driving state to the autonomous driving state when the operation amount is less than the intervention threshold or the duration count is less than the first threshold during the cooperative driving state, and switches the driving state to the manual driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than the start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than the second threshold.