Abstract: A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement.

Abstract: For example, in agricultural and horticultural crop production, pests, etc. still cause heavy damage, and there is a demand for the development of novel agricultural and horticultural insecticidal agents due to factors such as the emergence of pests resistant to existing drugs. The present invention has found that a compound represented by the general formula (1): wherein X and Y each represent an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Z represents a hydroxyl group or the like, R1 represents an alkoxycarbonyl group or the like, R2 represents a substituted phenyl group or the like, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, and R4 represents a substituted phenyl group or the like, or a salt thereof exhibits a high insecticidal effect on pests, etc. in the agricultural and horticultural field, and provides an agricultural and horticultural insecticidal agent comprising the same as an active ingredient and a method for using the same.

Abstract: A detection device includes a CPU and a memory. CPU sets a boundary point at which a melting curve is divided into a front region and a rear region, sets a start point and an end point, calculates an approximate straight line by a least squares method, and repeats setting processing of the approximate straight line. CPU sets a first straight line in the front region, sets a second straight line in the rear region, and detects, as a melting temperature, a temperature of a nucleic acid corresponding to an intersection between a melting curve and a line connecting intermediate values of absorbance of the nucleic acid at which a temperature of the nucleic acid is the same on the first straight line and the second straight line.

Abstract: An analysis apparatus according to this invention includes a measurer configured to measure a sample; a temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of the sample during measurement; a display configured to display information: and a controller configured to control a function of displaying an interface on the display as the information, wherein the interface includes the followings: a plurality of items including temperature and time, and a graphic schematic diagram representing a thermal cycle with time and visualizing the plurality of items on the thermal cycle.

Abstract: A collet replacement mechanism for replacing a collet of a pickup tool that is configured to pick up chip components by suction using the collet comprises an attachment configured to hold the collet on a bottom surface thereof, an attachment holder disposed at a lower part of the pickup tool and configured to hold an upper part of the attachment by magnetic force, and an attachment storage unit having a guide that is configured to latch the attachment to store the attachment, the attachment being detachable from the attachment holder in a state of being latched to the guide.

Abstract: A brushless motor includes a rotor, the rotor including magnets and a core member. The magnets are arranged around a rotating shaft and sequentially arrayed with N poles or S poles facing each other in a circumferential direction. The core member includes: an annular portion around the rotating shaft; an outer peripheral core part which supports the magnets on an outer peripheral side of the annular portion; and bridges which extend radially between the annular portion and the outer peripheral core part. Each of the bridges is positioned between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The bridges include one or more first bridges extending over a first range corresponding to a partial range of the core member along a direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: To provide a novel T-type calcium channel blocker. A compound represented by the following General Formula (I), a tautomer or a stereoisomer of the compound, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, or a solvate of the compound, the tautomer, the stereoisomer, or the salt is used as a T-type calcium channel blocker.

Abstract: Provided is an overtube assembly including an overtube having an adjustable length. The overtube assembly has the overtube and a mouthpiece. The overtube has a plurality of recesses (e.g., grooves) on the outer circumference thereof. The mouthpiece has a locking portion (e.g., a protrusion or ridge) that is locked to the recesses. The mouthpiece can move between a locking position at which the locking portion engages with the recess and an unlocking position at which the locking portion does not engage with the recess.

Abstract: An information processing program is for improving operability of a player when aiming at one of a plurality of non-player objects. The information processing program causes a computer to function as: a camera control unit that controls an imaging range or an imaging direction of a virtual camera in a virtual space, a display control unit that causes a display unit to display an image taken by the virtual camera, an action control unit that controls an action of a player object in the virtual space according to an operation to an operating unit, and a setting unit that sets any one of the plurality of non-player objects other than the player object as a target object to aim at. The setting unit is capable of setting one of the plurality of non-player objects arranged outside the imaging range of the virtual camera as the target object.

Abstract: A detachable multi-ring traction device is inserted into a body through a forceps channel of an endoscope. When a lesion mucosa in the body is resected through an operation performed outside the body, the detachable multi-ring traction device is configured to be fixed by a clip to the lesion mucosa and a normal mucosa in order to pull the lesion mucosa, the normal mucosa opposing the lesion mucosa. The detachable multi-ring traction device includes toroidal rings each including a core curve and a meridional disk, the rings being coupled to each other such that outer edges of two adjacent ones of the rings are in contact with each other and the rings are connected to each other in a diametrical direction of the core curves.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following General Formula (I), a tautomer or a stereoisomer of the compound, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof, is used as a voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel blocker: wherein A represents a 5-membered heteroaryl group or a fused ring of a 5-membered or 6-membered heterocyclic ring with a benzene ring or a pyridine ring, each of which may have a substituent; R represents a hydrogen atom or the like; B represents CR5(Q1) or NQ2, herein Q1 represents a benzimidazole group which may have a substituent, or the like; Q2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms which may have a substituent, a heteroaryl group which may have a substituent, or the like; R0, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 each represent a hydrogen atom or the like; and n and m each represent 0, 1, or 2.

Abstract: A medicament for treating or preventing pruritus is provided. For the medicament for treating or preventing pruritus, a compound having a blocking action on Cav3.2T-type calcium channels represented by General Formulas (I) to (VI), a tautomer of the compound, a stereoisomer of the compound, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof is used as an active ingredient.

Abstract: An information processing program is for improving operability of a player when aiming at one of a plurality of non-player objects. The information processing program causes a computer to function as: a camera control unit that controls an imaging range or an imaging direction of a virtual camera in a virtual space, a display control unit that causes a display unit to display an image taken by the virtual camera, an action control unit that controls an action of a player object in the virtual space according to an operation to an operating unit, and a setting unit that sets any one of the plurality of non-player objects other than the player object as a target object to aim at. The setting unit is capable of setting one of the plurality of non-player objects arranged outside the imaging range of the virtual camera as the target object.

Abstract: A compound represented by General Formula (I), a tautomer, a stereoisomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, or a solvate thereof is used as a voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel inhibitor, in the formula, A represents a benzene ring which may have a substituent or the like; B represents a hetero-fused ring consisting of a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring having one to three same or different heteroatoms selected from an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, and a nitrogen atom, and a carbon atom, as a ring-constituting atom, and a benzene ring, or the like, and the hetero-fused ring may have a substituent, and is bonded to a cyclopropyl group via a carbon atom constituting these rings; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like; R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other, and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like, or R2 and R3 together form CH2CH2 or the like; R4 represents a hydr

Abstract: A compound represented by General Formula (I), a tautomer, a stereoisomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound, or a solvate thereof is used as a voltage-dependent T-type calcium channel inhibitor, in the formula, A represents a benzene ring which may have a substituent or the like; B represents a hetero-fused ring consisting of a 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring having one to three same or different heteroatoms selected from an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, and a nitrogen atom, and a carbon atom, as a ring-constituting atom, and a benzene ring, or the like, and the hetero-fused ring may have a substituent, and is bonded to a cyclopropyl group via a carbon atom constituting these rings; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like; R2 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other, and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or the like, or R2 and R3 together form CH2CH2 or the like; R4 represents a hydr

Abstract: A motor with a speed reducer includes a motor (4) received in a motor housing (2), a speed reducer (5) received in the motor housing (2) and that is driven by receiving power from a motor shaft of the motor (4) and that reduces rotation of a rotor boss (43) and outputs the reduced rotation, and a drive shaft (7) received in the motor housing (2), connected to an output shaft (58) of the speed reducer (5) via a transmission belt (6) and that drives a driven body, wherein the rotor boss (43) and the output shaft (58) are disposed coaxially, and the output shaft (58) and the drive shaft (7) are disposed parallel in a radial direction.

Abstract: A relay device may include a plurality of communication circuits and a state control portion. The relay device may relay the data among a plurality of buses, each of which connecting one or more nodes. The plurality of communication circuits may perform transmission and reception of the data, and transition among a plurality of states including a transmission enabled state and a transmission disabled state. The plurality of communication circuits may be connected to the plurality of buses in one to one manner. The state control portion may cause a specific communication circuit to transition from the transmission enabled state to the transmission disabled state when a relay transition time has elapsed from an occurrence of predetermined event. The specific communication circuit may represent at least one of the plurality of communication circuits to which at least one of the plurality of buses connecting the specific node is connected.

Abstract: A brushless motor (18) which supplies currents to coils (U1, U2, V1, V2, W1, and W2) and rotates a rotor (27), the brushless motor comprising a control apparatus (37) which switches and selectively executes: first energization control to start energization to the coils (U1, U2, V1, V2, W1, and W2) at first timing, and to continue the energization for a first period to control the rotation number of the rotor (27); and second energization control to start energization to the coils (U1, U2, V1, V2, W1, and W2) at second timing advanced by an electric angle with respect to the first timing, and to continue the energization for a second period longer than the first period to control the rotation number of the rotor (27).

Abstract: In a 4-pole, 6-slot, 18-segment electric motor, one forward winding coil (91) and two reverse winding coils (92, 93) are wound on each tooth (12). When the forward winding coils are formed of coils corresponding to a U phase, a V phase, and a W phase and the reverse winding coils are formed of coils corresponding to a “?U” phase, a “?V” phase, and a “?W” phase, the coils, which correspond to a U phase, a “?W” phase, a “?W” phase, a V phase, a “?U” phase, a “?U” phase, a W phase, a “?V” phase, and a “?V” phase, are electrically connected in this order between the adjacent segments.

Abstract: In a brush holder accommodating part 26d of a gear housing 26, paired flat surface parts 26c and paired curved parts 26b are alternately disposed so as to be formed into an elliptical shape, one of the paired flat surface parts is formed with first heat sinks 26i, and two brushes 20 and 20 mounted on a brush holder unit 19 accommodated in the brush holder accommodating part 26d are disposed near the first heat sinks 26i.