Abstract: A control apparatus includes a lever configured to be tilted, a first resistor extending in a first direction on a surface of a board, a first operatively connected member configured to rotate as the lever is tilted, and a first holder holding a first slider and sliding the first slider on the first resistor by moving in the first direction as the first operatively connected member rotates. The first drive transmitting portion includes a first protrusion integrated with the first holder and protruding in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a first engaging portion integrated with the first operatively connected member and including a pair of clamping pieces that clamps the first protrusion from opposite sides. The first protrusion includes a protruding portion having a third direction component perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction and protruding between the pair of clamping pieces.

Abstract: A tactile presentation device includes a movable part, a base, a guider, and one or more actuators. The movable part includes a first main surface and presents tactile to a user by being displaced in a predetermined one axial direction parallel to the first main surface. The base supports the movable part in a displaceable manner. The guider connects the base and the movable part, and regulates a displacement direction of the movable part in the one axial direction by sliding in the one axial direction. The actuator displaces the movable part in the one axial direction from one end side of the movable part in the one axial direction. When the number of actuators is one, the actuator is located on a symmetry axis of the movable part parallel to the one axial direction.

Abstract: A remote driving taxi system provides a mobility service using remote driving taxis that are driven by remote drivers. Management information indicates assignment states between the remote driving taxis and the remote drivers. The remote driving taxi system executes an assignment process based on the management information, in response to a request from a user. Specifically, the remote driving taxi system selects one of unassigned taxis to each of which the remote driver has not been assigned, as a first remote driving taxi that provides the service to the user. Further, the remote driving taxi system selects one of remote drivers each of which has not been assigned to the remote driving taxi, as a first remote driver that provides the service to the user. Then, the remote driving taxi system assigns the first remote driver to the first remote driving taxi.

Abstract: This invention provides an ink for inkjet printers with both properties; i.e., good visibility of printing dots after heating and high dissolution stability. The ink for inkjet printers of the invention comprises a color material, a solvent, and resin, wherein the color material comprises a first metal complex and a second metal complex comprising metal ions selected from among iron ions, manganese ions, copper ions, cobalt ions, and chromium ions and ligands bound thereto, and the ligands comprise diketone structures incorporated in the chemical structures thereof.

Abstract: A microscope system includes an eyepiece, an objective, a tube lens, an imaging apparatus, a projection apparatus that projects a projection image onto an image plane between the tube lens and the eyepiece on which an optical image is formed, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus manages microscope information including at least a first magnification at which an image of the sample is projected onto the image plane, a second magnification at which an image of the sample is projected onto the imaging apparatus, a third magnification at which an image of the projection apparatus is projected onto the image plane, and sizes of the imaging apparatus and the projection apparatus. The control apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates projection image data representing the projection image based on at least the microscope information.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for reagent storage. System may include one or more substrates comprising a partition. The partition may be configured to retain a first reagent separate from a second reagent. The partition may include a seal disposed between the first and second reagent. The seal may be configured to maintain the first reagent separate from the second reagent. The first and second reagent may be disposed in a first layer and a second layer, respectively, of frozen material. The first layer and second layer of frozen material may maintain the first reagent separate from the second reagent.

Abstract: A reading system reading a color density of a printed matter formed with an ink whose color density changes depending on a surrounding environment comprises a reading apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The printed matter comprises a first region (reference region) formed with the ink and a second region (sensor region) formed with the same ink for the first region. The first region is in a state of colored or decolored. A color density of the second region is different from that of the first region. The reading apparatus obtains an image including the first region and the second region. The information processing apparatus determines color information of the second region by using color information of the first region as a reference. The type of printed matters includes a circle type, a double-circle type, a dot type, a barcode type, a QR code type and the like.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for assessing system performance for in situ analyte detection. In some aspects, performance of an individual instrument can be assessed, or the performance of two or more instruments can be assessed and optionally compared. In some aspects, disclosed herein is a method comprising using rolling circle amplification products (RCPs) deposited on a cell-free and tissue-free quality control (QC) slide to assess performance of instrument workflow, where an instrument is used to decode signals associated with the RCPs on the QC slide. Quality metrics associated with the decoding (e.g., a percentage of RCPs successfully decoded to genes) can be used to qualify a system comprising the instrument and reagents for in situ analyte detection in cells or tissue samples, e.g., using in situ probe hybridization or in situ sequencing performed on the instrument.

Abstract: Disclosed are devices, methods, systems, media, and other implementations that include a method comprising accessing during execution of a process a memory element, determining whether data stored in the accessed memory element includes security data representative of locations that, if accessed, indicate a potential system violation condition, determining, in response to a determination that the accessed memory element includes the security data, whether execution of the process involves access of one or more memory locations in the accessed memory element containing the security data, and performing one or more remedial actions in response to a determination that the one or more memory locations in the memory element containing the security data are being accessed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for assessing performance of in situ analyte detection and/or platforms (e.g., methods, assays, workflows, and/or instruments for in situ analyte detection and/or sequencing). In some aspects, performance can be assessed for an individual platform, or the performance of two or more different platforms can be compared. In some aspects, assessing performance comprises a standardized in situ analyte detection workflow and analysis on a test biological sample comprising defined cell populations.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a refrigerant circuit that is formed by connecting an indoor unit to an outdoor unit, where the circuit is filled with a predetermined amount of a refrigerant. The conditioner includes an obtainer that regularly acquires an operating state quantity at a time of air conditioning operation, a storage that stores therein the quantity that is acquired, a model that estimates a refrigerant remaining amount in the circuit by using the quantity, a detector that detects one of a first quantity being an operating state quantity in a state in which the circuit meets a first condition and a second quantity being an operating state quantity in a state in which the circuit meets a second condition that is different from the first condition, and a controller that estimates the remaining refrigerant amount in the circuit by using the model and the detected quantity.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for analyzing biological samples involving active stripping of detectably labeled probes from hybridization complexes such as rolling circle amplification products (RCPs). In some embodiments, the present application provides a method wherein double-stranded hybridized complexes are dissociated by DNA helicases. In some embodiments, single-stranded binding proteins facilitate the dissociation and prevent hybridization of the dissociated strands.

Abstract: A microscope system comprising an eyepiece, an objective that guides light from a sample to the eyepiece, a tube lens that is disposed on a light path between the eyepiece and the objective and forms an optical image of the sample on the basis of light therefrom, a projection apparatus that projects a projection image including a first assistance image onto an image plane on which the optical image is formed, and a processor that performs processes. The processes include generating projection image data representing the projection image. The first assistance image is an image of the sample in which a region wider than an actual field of view corresponding to the optical image is seen, The first assistance image is projected onto a portion of the image plane that is close to an outer edge of the optical image.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a plurality of air conditioners; a server that is connected to each of the air conditioners via a communication network and that stores device information on each of the air conditioners; and a terminal that is connected to each of the air conditioners via the server. The server includes a classification unit that classifies the plurality of air conditioners into a plurality of groups based on the device information, and a notification unit that notifies the terminals of information related to a test run of each of the air conditioners that are classified into the groups. As a result, it is possible to reduce a work load of a maintenance worker in a distributed manner in an intermediate period by performing the test run of each of the air conditioners in a distributed manner.

Abstract: There is provided a tempered glass having an extremely small thickness, high strength, and high safety as compared to the related art. A plate-shaped or sheet-shaped tempered glass includes: a compression stress layer on a surface thereof; and a tensile stress layer on an inner side in a thickness direction of the glass with respect to the compression stress layer, and includes at least partially a thin portion having a thickness t1 and being bendable, the thickness t1 is 105 ?m or less, a depth DOC of the compression stress layer is 9.0 ?m or less, and CS/DOC?95 is satisfied.

Abstract: A fuel filter device includes a filter cloth and a skeletal structural member including an inner flange portion positioned inside the filter cloth and a connecting member including an outer flange portion positioned outside the filter cloth, wherein a peripheral edge portion of an opening of the filter cloth is clamped between the inner flange portion and the outer flange portion, the inner flange portion and the outer flange portion jointly defining a center hole and a center bore serving as a communication passage communicating inside of the filter cloth with outside of the filter cloth, and the inner flange portion is provided with a sealing rib to compress the filter cloth to ensure a sealing performance thereof, a welding rib to join the skeletal structural member and the connecting member with each other by welding, and a shifting preventing rib configured to restrict shifting of the filter cloth.

Abstract: An air conditioner has a refrigerant circuit filled with a predetermined amount of a refrigerant, the circuit being formed of an outdoor unit and an indoor unit connected to each other by refrigerant piping, the outdoor unit having a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an expansion valve, the indoor unit having an indoor heat exchanger. The conditioner has an estimation model that estimates an amount of remaining refrigerant remaining in the circuit by using at least rotation frequency of the compressor, refrigerant discharge temperature at the compressor, heat exchanger temperature, degree of opening of the expansion valve, and outside air temperature, of operation state quantities indicating operation states during operation. The indoor heat exchanger has a sensor that is provided at an indoor heat exchanger intermediate portion connecting a first indoor heat exchanger port and a second indoor heat exchanger port to each other.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a mold layer on a substrate, forming a hardmask layer on the mold layer such that a portion of the mold layer is exposed, and using the hardmask layer to perform on the mold layer a cryogenic etching process. The cryogenic etching process includes supplying a chamber with a process gas including first and second process gases, and generating a plasma from the process gas. Radicals of the first process gas etch the exposed portion of the mold layer. Ammonium salt is produced based on the radicals etching the exposed portion of the mold layer. The second process gas includes an R—OH compound. The R is hydrogen, a C1 to C5 alkyl group, a C2 to C6 alkenyl group, a C2 to C6 alkynyl group, or a phenyl group. The second process gas reduces a production rate of the ammonium salt.

Abstract: A radiation imaging system comprising a radiation imaging apparatus configured to detect radiation emitted from a radiation source, and a radiation control apparatus configured to control the radiation source is provided. The radiation imaging apparatus is configured to output dose information, which includes a dose of radiation entering the radiation imaging apparatus and a time at which the dose was detected, to the radiation control apparatus a plurality of times. The radiation control apparatus is configured to set the threshold dose based on a difference between a time included in the dose information from the radiation imaging apparatus and a time at which the radiation control apparatus received the dose information, and control the radiation source to stop radiation irradiation based on the threshold dose.

Abstract: To accurately detect a waveform of a high frequency power supplied to a sample stage or electrodes inside the sample stage and improve a yield and an operation efficiency, a plasma processing apparatus that processes a wafer to be processed placed on an upper surface of the sample stage disposed in a processing chamber disposed inside a vacuum container by using plasma formed in the processing chamber, includes: a high frequency power supply that forms the high frequency power supplied in a pulsed shape to the plasma or the wafer at a predetermined period during processing of the wafer; a determining device that a waveform of a voltage or a current from a value of the voltage or the current of the high frequency power detected at an interval longer than the period and determines whether the waveform is within a predetermined allowable range; and a notification device that notifies a user of a determination result of the determining device and a shape of the waveform.