Abstract: A high-pressure pump has a metering valve and a valve stopper. The stopper has a regulation portion which an end surface of the valve is brought into contact with. An outer diameter of the regulation portion is equal to an outer diameter of the outer peripheral surface of the valve. A cylindrical sleeve is disposed around the regulation portion. When the end surface of the valve is in contact with the regulation portion, the sleeve covers a tapered surface of the valve.

Abstract: A posture control system for a hull includes a movable posture control plate. An outboard motor is attached to the hull and is movable with respect to the hull. A controller is configured or programmed to control movement of the posture control plate and movement of the outboard motor so as to control the posture of the hull.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and systems are provided for performing machine learning for an image classification task. The method includes overlaying, by a processor operatively coupled to one or more databases, a second image on a first image obtained from one or more training sets in the one or more databases, to form a mixed image, by averaging an intensity of each of a plurality of co-located pixel pairs in the first and the second image. The method also includes training, by the processor, a machine learning process configured for the image classification task using the mixed image to augment data used by the machine learning process for the image classification task.

Abstract: A tactile sensation providing apparatus, so as to reduce an influence by provision of a tactile sensation on detection of a position by a touch sensor, includes a touch sensor 11, a tactile sensation providing unit 12 disposed near the sensor 11 and configured to vibrate the sensor 11, a touch sensor control unit 20 configured to transmit a scanning signal to the sensor 11 and, by receiving the signal from the sensor 11, to detect the position of the contact to the sensor, signal lines 16, 18 configured to transmit the signal between the sensor 11 and the control unit 20, and a tactile sensation control unit 30 configured to, based on the position of the contact detected by the control unit 20, control the providing unit 12 to vibrate the sensor 11. The providing unit 12 is disposed avoiding overlapping with the lines 16, 18.

Abstract: A method performed during execution of a compilation process for a program having nested loops is provided. The method replaces multiple conditional branch instructions for a processor which uses a conditional branch instruction limited to only comparing a value of a general register with a value of a special register that holds a loop counter value. The method generates, in replacement of the multiple conditional branch instructions, the conditional branch instruction limited to only comparing the value of the general register with the value of the special register that holds the loop counter value for the inner-most loop. The method adds (i) a register initialization outside the nested loops and (ii) a register value adjustment to the inner-most loop. The method defines the value for the general register for the register initialization and conditions for the generated conditional branch instruction, responsive to requirements of the multiple conditional branch instructions.

Abstract: A marine vessel having a propeller that provides propulsive force to the marine vessel, and a course control system. The course control system includes a course changing mechanism that changes a course of the marine vessel, and a controller configured or programmed to detect a sudden movement of the marine vessel originating from broaching caused by a following wave of the marine vessel, and upon detecting the sudden movement of the marine vessel originating from the broaching, control a rotation rate of the propeller and/or cause the course changing mechanism to change the course of the marine vessel.

Abstract: A peptide having an effect of suppressing hepatic lipogenesis, where a peptide is one or two or more peptides selected from 11 dipeptides (Ala-Gly, His-Asn, His-Ser, His-Thr, His-Trp, Val-Met, Trp-Glu, Trp-Lys, Tyr-Lys, Tyr-Ser and Tyr-Tyr) and 25 tripeptides (Val-Ile-Leu, Gly-Ser-Leu, Val-Leu-Gln, His-Ala-Gln, Arg-Ala-Val, Lys-Leu-Gly, Ile-Val-Ile, Lys-Pro-Ile, Leu- Val-Ile, Leu-Arg-Asp, Gln-Glu-Glu, Ser-Gly-Glu, Arg-Trp-Phe, Asp-Phe-Phe, Asp-Val-Phe, Pro-Phe-Tyr, Phe-Ile-Arg, Asn-Gly-Arg, Ile-Ile-Pro, Ile-Asp-Arg, Ile-His-Arg, Ile-Asp-Arg, Asn-Arg-Val, Ser-Ser-Val and Val-Phe-Val), is provided. The peptide may be used in a food composition for suppressing hepatic lipogenesis and an agent for suppressing hepatic lipogenesis.

Abstract: A control device of a marine propulsion device, which has an engine and a propeller and is mounted on a hull. The control device includes a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium having program instructions stored thereon. The execution of the program instructions by the processor causes the control device to acquire a rotation speed of the engine or a rotation speed of the propeller, acquire a torque of the engine, acquire a speed of the hull, and determine whether a ventilation of the engine has occurred based on at least two among the acquired rotation speed, the acquired engine torque, and the acquired hull speed.

Abstract: A steering control apparatus for a marine vessel that is able to automatically reduce chine walk includes a processor to obtain behavior information on a hull, including one or more of a behavior relating to a shift of the hull in a roll direction, a shift of the hull in a yaw direction, a shift of the hull in crosswise direction, a steering load, and a helm operation load. When judging that one or more conditions to change a steering mode to a counter steering mode are satisfied, the processor changes the steering mode to the counter steering mode. In the counter steering mode, the processor controls steering of the marine vessel by performing counter steering so as to reduce at least some of one or more of the behaviors of the hull based on the obtained behavior information.

Abstract: A charge/discharge device includes an electrical energy storage device, an electric power receiver, an electric power generator, electric power outputters, and a controller. The electric power receiver receives a charging power from a charger for charging an electric vehicle.

Abstract: A method includes identifying a code portion that accesses a primitive value in a user-defined function included in a user program, converting the code portion and an argument in a manner to directly reference an internal data representation of the user program, and generating a code for calling the user-defined function converted by the conversion.

Abstract: Included are a communication quality requirement derivation unit that derives, for a specific service session between a server and a terminal, a communication quality requirement to be satisfied between the server and the terminal based on a requested quality of experience of the specific service session; a monitoring unit that monitors a communication quality of the specific service session between the server and the terminal; a determination unit that determines whether the communication quality of the specific service session satisfies the communication quality requirement derived for the specific service session; and a control unit that controls, when the communication quality of the specific service session does not satisfy the communication quality requirement derived for the specific service session, a communication route used for the specific service session between the server and the terminal so as to satisfy the communication quality requirement.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for multi-sample dropout in deep neural network training. A computer creates multiple dropout samples in a minibatch, starting from a dropout layer and ending at a loss function layer in a deep neural network. At the dropout layer in the deep neural network, the computer applies multiple random masks for respective ones of the multiple dropout samples. At a fully connected layer in the deep neural network, the computer applies a shared parameter for all of the multiple dropout samples. After the loss function layer in the deep neural network, the computer calculates a final loss value, by averaging loss values of the respective ones of the multiple dropout samples.

Abstract: A mixing technique is provided that can suppress degradation of non-priority sound and output more natural mixed sound, regardless of the size and quality of a playback device.

Abstract: A posture control system for a hull, and a marine vessel including the posture control system, allows crew members to fish more comfortably and includes a posture control tab attached to a stern of the hull to control a posture of the hull, a driver to drive the posture control tab, and a controller to control the driver. When it is determined that the hull has changed to a fishing mode, the controller causes the driver to raise the posture control tab to a predetermined position.

Abstract: A control system for posture control tabs of a marine vessel prevents posture control tabs from coming into contact with a foreign object. The posture control tabs are mounted on a stern to control a posture of a hull. Actuators actuate the respective posture control tabs. When it is judged that that the hull is being loaded onto a trailer or it is detected that the hull has entered a speed restriction zone, a controller controls the actuators to position the posture control tabs at retracted positions.

Abstract: A control system for a marine vessel that has a propulsion device including an engine. The control system has an opening angle adjustment device configured to adjust a throttle opening angle of the engine, and a controller including a computing device and a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions. The execution of the program instructions by the computing device causes the controller to judge whether or not a hull of the marine vessel has entered a planing state, set a predetermined mode in which the planing state is maintained, and upon determining that the predetermined mode is set and that the hull has entered the planing state, control the opening angle adjustment device to keep the hull in the planing state even when the hull has decelerated.

Abstract: A wire guide body includes: a vehicle body-side guide portion having a configuration in which a plurality of vehicle body-side link members are coupled so as to form a string and to be capable of being curved as seen in a plan view, the vehicle body-side guide portion being coupled to a vehicle body-side bracket; a door-side guide portion having a configuration in which a plurality of door-side link members are coupled so as to form a string and to be capable of being curved as seen in a plan view, the door-side guide portion being coupled to a door-side bracket; and a relay link member including a vehicle body-side coupling portion that is coupled to the vehicle body-side guide portion, and a door-side coupling portion that is disposed at a position lower than the vehicle body-side coupling portion and that is coupled to the door-side guide portion.

Abstract: An electro-conductive layer of an electrophotographic electro-conductive member has a matrix-domain structure. The matrix contains a first rubber. The domain contains a second rubber and electro-conductive particles. Where ? represents an average of ratios of the cross-sectional area of the electro-conductive particles contained in each of the domains to the cross-sectional area of each of the domains appearing on a cross-section of the electro-conductive layer in a thickness direction, and ? represents a standard deviation of the ratios, ?/? is 0 or more and 0.4 or less, and ? is 20% or more and 40% or less. At least eight of samples with a first cubic shape 9 ?m on a side, which are sampled at arbitrary nine positions on the electro-conductive layer, satisfy the specified condition.

Abstract: A computer executes a first determination procedure determining a first link which at least partially overlaps a disaster area representing a range reached by an influence of a predetermined disaster, among links constituting a network, a second determination procedure determining a second link which at least partially overlaps a road area representing a range of a road width of a predetermined road used to recover from the disaster, among the links constituting the network, a route search procedure searching for a plurality of routes from a start point node to an end point node constituting the network, a grouping procedure grouping the plurality of routes searched for by the route search procedure into groups depending on a first parameter value that is based on the first link included in the routes, a computing procedure computing, for each of the plurality of routes searched for by the route search procedure, a second parameter value that is based on the first link and the second link included in the rout