Abstract: A carbon material for catalyst support includes elongated carbon mesoporous structures containing graphene. The carbon mesoporous structures each have a major axis in a range of 50 nm to 200 nm and a minor axis in a range of 30 nm to 100 nm. Pore diameters and a cumulative pore volume determined through analysis of a nitrogen adsorption isotherm using a Dollimore-Heal method are respectively in a range of 1 nm to 20 nm and in a range of 1.5 cc/g to 2.5 cc/g.

Abstract: A cell number determination device, a charge and discharge control device, and a battery device with small circuit scale are provided. The cell number determination device includes: multiple differential amplifiers provided corresponding to multiple cells in a battery pack, of which the cell number is changeable, equipped with multiple cells connected in series; and multiple output circuits provided corresponding to the differential amplifiers. An input differential pair of the differential amplifiers includes a heteropolar gate NMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor.

Abstract: A flexographic printing raw plate comprising at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, an intermediate layer, and an infrared ablation layer sequentially stacked, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a hydrophilic resin (A) and a layered inorganic compound (B), and the intermediate layer has a film thickness of 2 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: An internal-combustion engine control device and a filter regeneration method according to the present invention are used for an internal-combustion engine fueled by gasoline and including a filter that traps particulate matter in exhaust gas. When regeneration of the filter is required, fuel cut control for temporarily stopping supply of fuel to the internal-combustion engine is performed to burn off the particulate matter trapped in the filter, and the fuel cut control is repeated while performing exhaust temperature control for increasing the temperature of the exhaust gas of the internal-combustion engine. This makes it possible to prevent particulate matter (PM) from remaining unburned in a filter regeneration process.

Abstract: An information processing system is provided. The information processing system includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute each of the following steps. A reading step reads a plurality of sequential sectional images of an object. A setting step sets, based on a pixel value of a pixel in a predetermined area included in the sequential sectional images and preset reference information, material information representing a material of the object for the predetermined area, the reference information being information where a pixel value and a material are associated with each other. A reconstruction step reconstructs the plurality of sequential sectional images including the predetermined area for which the material information is set and thereby generating three-dimensional data on the object.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing a ceramic article including a porous portion in which improvement in mechanical strength of a modeled article is achieved while high modeling accuracy is obtained, and a ceramic article. The method of manufacturing a ceramic article includes the steps of: (i) irradiating powder of a metal oxide containing aluminum oxide as a main component with an energy beam based on modeling data to melt and solidify or sinter the powder, to thereby form a modeled article including a porous portion; (ii) causing the modeled article formed in the step (i) to absorb a liquid containing a zirconium component; and (iii) heating the modeled article that has absorbed the liquid containing the zirconium component, wherein, in the absorbing step, the liquid is absorbed so that a ratio of the zirconium component in a metal component contained in the porous portion becomes 0.3 to 2.0 mol %.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion apparatus includes: a first demultiplexer wavelength-separating an optical signal having wavelengths of a first band wavelength-multiplexed into n drop signals acquired by wavelength-multiplexing optical signals of predetermined wavelengths and a through signal acquired by wavelength-multiplexing an optical signal of a wavelength being not a target of wavelength conversion; a second demultiplexer demultiplexing optical signals of the predetermined wavelengths included in the n drop signals into optical signals; n wavelength converters wavelength-converting first optical signals of wavelengths included in the optical signals into second optical signals of the second band; n first multiplexers multiplexing the wavelength-converted second optical signals, and outputting n third optical signals; and a multiplexing unit multiplexing and outputting the n third optical signals, an optical signal acquired by wavelength-multiplexing wavelengths of a second band previously wavelength-separated f

Abstract: An X-ray generating apparatus comprises a storage housing, an insulating housing arranged in the storage housing, an X-ray generating tube arranged at least partly in the insulating housing, and a plurality of electrical components arranged in the insulating housing. In the X-ray generating apparatus, the plurality of electrical components include a mold transformer, the mold transformer includes a core, an insulator covering the core, and a heat-dissipating path configured to move heat from the core to an external space of the insulator, and the heat-dissipating path includes a hole provided in the insulator to extend from the external space toward the core.

Abstract: The invention suppresses hysteresis. A relief valve switching between whether to discharge oil through movement of a valve body includes: a first spacing part, in which the valve body moves; a second space part, connected with the first space part and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first space part; an elastic body, connected with the valve body; a seal part, disposed in a circumferential direction of the valve body; and a third space part, formed in the first space part.

Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.

Abstract: A position inspection system includes a gripping unit that grips an object, a shooting unit that shoots an inspection image of the object gripped by the gripping unit, and a processor. The processor identifies a first rotational amount of the object from the proper position within a plane of the inspection image. The processor identifies, based on control information of the gripping unit, a correction angle between a direction in which a particular portion of the object is facing and a shooting direction of the inspection image. The processor identifies, based on the first rotational amount and the correction angle, a second rotational amount of the object from the proper position about the direction in which the particular portion of the object is facing.

Abstract: An information processing system is provided. The information processing system comprises at least one processor configured to execute a program so that each following step is executed. In a reconstruction step, a first volume data is reconstructed, the first volume data indicating at least a part of the subject based on a plurality of first serial tomographic images of the subject. The first volume data includes first contour data representing an exterior of the subject and internal data including the inside of the subject. In a conversion step, the first volume data is converted to second volume data based on reference contour data other than the first contour data, the second volume data includes a second contour data different from the first contour data and the internal data including the inside of the body of the subject including the first contour data and the internal data including the inside of the body of the subject.

Abstract: An organic compound is represented by the following formula (1). wherein X is 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-yl-10-oxide and Y is a protecting group.

Abstract: An ink provided contains water, gold nanorods, and at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of acetylene glycol-based surfactants with an HLB value of 15 or less and silicone surfactants with an HLB value of 15 or less. When the aspect ratio distribution of the gold nanorods contained in the ink is measured, the aspect ratio distribution has an average ? of 6.0 to 13.0 with a standard deviation o of 0.5 to 4.5.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition section and a stimulus controller. The acquisition section acquires visually-induced-motion-sickness information that includes at least one of information obtained by estimating a state of a visually induced motion sickness of a user who is viewing video content, or information obtained by predicting the state of the visually induced motion sickness. The stimulus controller controls provision of a stimulus to the user, on the basis of the visually-induced-motion-sickness information.

Abstract: A system for assisting in a disinfection action in a disinfection target area, the system includes a determination unit configured to acquire information about a determination result about whether the disinfection action has been performed in the disinfection target area, and a storage unit configured to store the determination result that the disinfection action has been performed in the disinfection target area, time information about the performed disinfection action, and location information about the performed disinfection action in association with each other.

Abstract: Provided are a powder for laser manufacturing which can be stably manufactured and from which a three-dimensional manufactured object ensuring a manufacturing accuracy can be obtained and a using method thereof. A powder for ceramic manufacturing for obtaining a manufactured object by repeatedly sintering or fusing and solidifying in sequence a powder in an irradiation portion with laser light, in which the powder includes a plurality of compositions, at least one composition of the compositions is an absorber that relatively strongly absorbs the laser light compared to other compositions, and at least a part of the absorber changes to a different composition that relatively weakly absorbs the laser light by irradiation with the laser light and a using method of a powder in which the powder is used.

Abstract: An optical analysis device that analyzes a sample by irradiating an optical cell containing the sample with light, and detecting light transmitted through the optical cell, the optical analysis device including: a first light source and a second light source each emitting light in a spectrum different from a spectrum of another; an optical element that reflects a part and transmits another part of incident light that has a first face on which the light from the first light source becomes incident and a second face on which the light from the second light source becomes incident; a first light output port provided on a light path of light emitted from the first light source and reflected on the first face, and light emitted from the second light source and transmitted through the second face; and a second light output port provided on a light path of light emitted from the first light source and transmitted through the first face.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing AlN whiskers includes reduced incorporation of metal particles, an AlN whisker body, AlN whiskers, a resin molded body, and a method for producing the resin molded body. The method for producing AlN whiskers includes heating an Al-containing material in a material accommodation unit to thereby generate Al gas; and introducing the Al gas into a reaction chamber through a communication portion while introducing nitrogen gas into the reaction chamber through a gas inlet port, to thereby grow AlN whiskers on the surface of an Al2O3 substrate placed in the reaction chamber.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging device capable of further suppressing color mixing between pixels. The imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion unit for each of pixels two-dimensionally arranged; a color filter provided for each of the pixels on the semiconductor substrate; an intermediate layer provided between the semiconductor substrate and the color filter; and a low refraction region provided between the pixels by separating at least the color filter and the intermediate layer for each of the pixels, the low refraction region having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the color filter.