Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a manufacturing method for an electronic device that is provided with an organic thin film functioning as a sealing film against moisture permeation in an electronic device such as an organic electroluminescence element. This manufacturing method for an electronic device is a manufacturing method for an electronic device that has at least an organic functional layer, an elution prevention film, and a sealing film in this order, said manufacturing method being characterized by having: a step in which, after coating is performed with a silicone resin, the result is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays to form the elution prevention film; and a step in which, after the elution prevention film is coated with a liquid mixture of a metal alkoxide and a fluoroalcohol, the result is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays to form the ultraviolet rays to form the sealing film.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to operate in first and second modes of which color gamut is different from each other, the image forming apparatus includes: an exposure unit configured to expose a photosensitive drum; a developing roller configured to form a toner image; a detection unit configured to detect density of the toner image transferred to an intermediate transfer member; and a controller configured to adjust the density based on a value of input image data. A dithering process for controller's controlling of the exposure unit is different depending on whether the operation is in the first mode or the second mode, and in at least a part of the input image data, the density of the toner image formed by the dithering process in the first mode is higher than the density of the toner image formed by the dithering process in the second mode.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element having improved luminous efficiency and stability under high-temperature storage. The present invention is an organic electroluminescent element that has an anode, a cathode, and at least one light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, and is characterized in that at least one of the light-emitting layers contains a ?-conjugated boron compound having a structure represented by general formula (1). (In general formula (1), X1 to X9 each independently represents —CR or a nitrogen atom, R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and Y1 to Y3 each independently represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom).

Abstract: Downtime relating to formation and detection of a detection image is reduced. An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to calculate a first conversion unit to convert a gradation of input image data so that density output for the input image data becomes a first density output characteristic based on a first detection result of the detection image detected by a density sensor in a first mode. The controller generates a second conversion unit to convert the gradation of the input image data so that the density output for the input image data becomes a second density output characteristic in a second mode based on the detection result in the first mode and correction information, and further updates the correction information based on a second detection result of the detection image detected by the density sensor in the second mode and the first detection result.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for efficiently producing a B cell population comprising B cells that recognize a specific antigen. According to the present invention, provided is a method for producing a B cell population, comprising: a step (c) of culturing a cell population comprising B cells together with a specific antigen in the absence of IL-21, in the absence of IL-4, and in the presence of a cytokine other than IL-21 and IL-4, while giving stimulation mediated by CD40 and a BAFF receptor to the cells; and a step (d) of culturing the cell population comprising B cells, while giving stimulation mediated by has to the cells, so as to obtain a B cell population comprising B cells that recognize the specific antigen.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element containing an organic layer interposed between an anode and a cathode, the organic layer containing at least one light emitting layer, wherein the at least one light emitting layer contains a ?-conjugated compound having an electron donor portion and an electron acceptor portion in the molecule; the ?-conjugated compound has a direction vector from an atom having a HOMO orbital in the electron donor portion to an electron cloud of the HOMO orbital, and a direction vector from an atom having a LUMO orbital in the electron acceptor portion to an electron cloud of the LUMO orbital, and the two direction vectors form an angle ? in the range of 90 to 180 degrees; and the ?-conjugated compound has a plurality of the electron donor portions or a plurality of the electron acceptor portions.

Abstract: A downtime relating to formation and detection of a detection image is reduced. An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to calculate a first conversion unit to convert a gradation of input image data so that density output for the input image data becomes a first density output characteristic based on a first detection result of the detection image detected by a density sensor in a first mode. The controller generates a second conversion unit to convert the gradation of the input image data so that the density output for the input image data becomes a second density output characteristic in a second mode based on the detection result in the first mode and correction information, and further updates the correction information based on a second detection result of the detection image detected by the density sensor in the second mode and the first detection result.

Abstract: There are provided a ?-conjugated boron compound, an electronic device containing an organic functional layer including the ?-conjugated boron compound, a method for producing a triarylborane, and a method for producing a triarylborane intermediate. In the ?-conjugated boron compound, a boron atom is bonded to three aromatic groups via three boron-carbon bonds. Bond distances of the three boron-carbon bonds are all 1.48 ? or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a normal image formation mode and a wide color gamut image formation mode in which an amount of a developer per unit area of a developer image of at least a color that differs from a prescribed color among a plurality of colors is increased as compared to the normal image formation mode, image data is generated such that an image portion formed in the prescribed color in an image formed on a recording material is formed solely by a developer image of the prescribed color in the normal image formation mode but formed by superimposing a developer image of a color that differs from the prescribed color on a developer image of the prescribed color or formed solely by a developer image of a different color in place of a developer image of the prescribed color in the wide color gamut image formation mode.

Abstract: An isomer-mixture metal complex composition that includes a plurality of atropisomers is described. This isomer-mixture metal complex composition is a metal complex composition which is a mixture of isomers each comprising a metal atom and a plurality of ligands, and is characterized by containing a plurality of atropisomers because at least one of the ligands has an aromatic ring as a substituent and the free rotation of the axis of the bonding between the aromatic ring and the ligand is inhibited by the formation of a complex of the metal atom with other ligand(s). An organic EL element using the isomer-mixture metal complex composition as a material for organic EL element is also described. Further, an illuminator and a display device which are obtained using the organic EL element are described.

Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent element containing an anode, a cathode, and an organic functional layer containing one or a plurality of light-emitting layers, the organic functional layer being interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the light-emitting layers contains a compound having two condensed aromatic rings bonded to each other with a linking group; and the condensed aromatic rings form a ?-? stacking structure in the molecule.

Abstract: A method for producing a transgenic cell, may include contacting, in vitro, (i) a virus comprising: a chimeric protein of an antibody-binding protein and a vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV-G) protein; and a foreign gene, with (ii) a target cell and an antibody specific to the target cell, and/or a target cell comprising a membrane antibody, to infect the target cell with the virus.

Abstract: A method for producing a ribosome display complex includes obtaining a ribosome complex including an unmodified polypeptide chain, an mRNA molecule and a ribosome by initiating translation of the mRNA molecule in a cell-free peptide synthesis system including the ribosome, and modifying the unmodified polypeptide chain by reacting a side chain reactive functional group in the unmodified polypeptide chain with a modifying reagent to produce a ribosome display complex including a modified polypeptide chain, the mRNA molecule and the ribosome. The unmodified polypeptide chain includes at least one reactive amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of a cysteine residue, a lysine residue, a histidine residue and a tryptophan residue. The at least one reactive amino acid residue includes the side chain reactive functional group, and the mRNA molecule includes a base sequence encoding an amino acid sequence of the polypeptide chain.

Abstract: A downtime relating to formation and detection of a detection image is reduced. An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to calculate a first conversion unit to convert a gradation of input image data so that density output for the input image data becomes a first density output characteristic based on a first detection result of the detection image detected by a density sensor in a first mode. The controller generates a second conversion unit to convert the gradation of the input image data so that the density output for the input image data becomes a second density output characteristic in the second mode based on the detection result in the first mode and correction information, and further updates the correction information based on a second detection result of the detection image detected by the density sensor in the second mode and the first detection result.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element material contains a n-conjugated boron compound having a structure represented by Formula (1), wherein, X1 and X2 each independently represent O, S, or N—Y1, Y1 represents an alkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon ring group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group, when there are a plurality of Y1s the plurality of Y1s may be the same or different, R1 to R9 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide: a luminescent thin film which has high luminous efficiency and a long emission life; and an organic electroluminescent element which uses this luminescent thin film and has improved stability during continuous driving. A luminescent thin film according to the present invention is characterized by containing a phosphorescent metal complex and a host compound which forms an exciplex together with the phosphorescent metal complex.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element having improved luminous efficiency and stability under high-temperature storage. The present invention is an organic electroluminescent element that has an anode, a cathode, and at least one light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, and is characterized in that at least one of the light-emitting layers contains a ?-conjugated boron compound having a structure represented by general formula (1). (In general formula (1), X1 to X9 each independently represents —CR or a nitrogen atom, R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and Y1 to Y3 each independently represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an iridium complex having improved luminous efficiency and emission lifetime, a method for producing the same, an organic electroluminescent element using the iridium complex, and a display device and a lighting device that include the organic electroluminescent element. The iridium complex is contained in at least one organic layer sandwiched between an anode and a cathode of an organic electroluminescent element, and has a coefficient of external influence of 0.73 ?2/MW or less as defined by the following definition equation: Coefficient of external influence (Svdw)=Van der Waals surface area [?2]/molecular weight (MW).

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device contains an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer containing at least one luminous layer. The organic layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. At least one luminous layer contains a ?-conjugated compound exhibiting no overlap between the electron density distributions of the HOMO and the LUMO in the molecule, such that electron transition between the HOMO and the LUMO occurs by a through-space interaction in the molecule. The ?-conjugated compound has a ?-conjugated aromatic ring at a moiety on which at least one of the HOMO and the LUMO is localized.

Abstract: A triazole compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (1.2): wherein Z represents a structure represented by the following Formula (1.2a), q is 2 or 3, and at least two structures Z bonded to the benzene ring of Formula (1.2) and are located in the ortho- or meta-position relative to each other: wherein R10 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an alkoxy group, p represents an integer of 1 to 5, and * represents a position at which the structure is bonded to the benzene ring.