Abstract: A sensor includes a piezoelectric film having a first and second main surfaces facing each other in a first direction, a first electrode on the first main surface, a second electrode on the second main surface, and a wiring portion. The first electrode and the second electrode overlap each other in the first direction and include a first portion overlapping the piezoelectric film and a second portion that does not overlap the piezoelectric film, the first portion and the second portion are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the wiring portion includes a wiring substrate overlapping the second portion in the first direction and having a third and a fourth main surface, a first conductor on the third main surface and electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second conductor on the fourth main surface and electrically connected to the second electrode.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an effective vaccine capable of preventing and treating congenital infection with CMV. The vaccine for preventing or treating congenital infection with cytomegalovirus (CMV) according to the present invention comprises a CMV envelope glycoprotein B (gB protein) antigen and a pentamer antigen.

Abstract: Provided herein are therapeutic and/or prophylactic compounds for mitochondrial or oxidative stress diseases such as cancer, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Machado-Joseph disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, Huntington disease, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, diseases related to aging, diabetes, alcoholic liver injury, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), and the like, wherein the compound is represented by formula (1), or reduced forms thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: A wheel load estimation device includes an obtaining unit obtaining angular velocities and angular accelerations of a rigid body including an element, accelerations of the rigid body in a front-rear direction and in a lateral direction, a weight of the element, and a position including a height of the element. The element fluctuates a center of gravity of the rigid body. A center-of-gravity inertia value calculation unit calculates information relevant to the center of gravity of the rigid body and an inertia value. A wheel load variation calculation unit calculates variation amounts of wheel loads that each act on a corresponding one of a plurality of wheels supporting the rigid body. A wheel load estimation unit estimates the wheel loads.

Abstract: A hot-water supply apparatus is configured to perform a heat storage operation of storing heat of a heat medium and a hot-water supply operation of supplying hot water to a hot-water demand side through use of the heat of the heat medium. The hot-water supply apparatus includes a heat medium circuit through which the heat medium circulates, a latent heat storage device having a latent heat storage material, the latent heat storage device being configured to store heat and reject heat through transfer of heat between the latent heat storage material and the heat medium, a heat medium heat storage device in which the heat medium is stored so that thermal stratification is formed, and a heating device configured to heat the heat medium. The heating device heats at least the heat medium flowing out from a lower portion of the heat medium heat storage device.

Abstract: Provided is a surface treatment device capable of performing surface treatment on a treatment surface of a substrate at low cost by reusing a mist of a treatment liquid introduced into a treatment chamber. The surface treatment device is a device for surface treatment of a substrate by causing a treatment liquid to adhere to the treatment surface of the substrate. The surface treatment device includes a mist generator that generates a mist of the treatment liquid; a treatment chamber that introduces the mist generated by the mist generator and causes the introduced mist to adhere to the treatment surface of the substrate; and a circulation path that circulates the mist discharged from the treatment chamber to the treatment chamber together with the mist generated by the mist generator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a member for fastening by joining a nut with a tubular joint portion extending from a main body formed with an internal thread to a panel with a mounting hole for the nut on an aluminum base material. The joint portion has a rotation-preventing portion with a concave and convex shaped outer peripheral surface and a guide portion extending from the rotation-preventing portion to one side. After the guide portion is inserted into the mounting hole, the nut is energized by electrodes in contact with both nut end surface sides. The nut then generates heat, and the periphery of the mounting hole is heated and softened. When the nut is pressurized with the electrodes, the rotation-preventing portion bites into the mounting hole, and the one end portion of the guide portion is swaged to become a retaining portion on one surface side of the panel.

Abstract: A method of producing a connected body, containing: disposing an adhesive film between a first electronic member having a first electronic electrode and a second electronic member having a second electrode; and pressure-bonding the second electronic member to the first electronic member via the adhesive film so that the second electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode; wherein the first electronic member has an indented surface, the first electrode is provided in a depressed portion of the indented surface, the second electrode has a substantially flat surface having an area larger than an area of the first electrode, the adhesive film contains: first conductive particles that are dendritic conductive particles; and second conductive particles containing a non-conductive core and a conductive layer provided on the core, and the second conductive particles have an average particle diameter of not less than a depth of the depressed portion.

Abstract: The control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure acquires movement condition data of a moving body, determines a movement mode according to the acquired movement condition data, selects one of a plurality of trained control models according to the result of determining the movement mode, derives a control command for the moving body by using the selected trained control model, and controls the operation of the moving body in accordance with the derived control command. Each trained control model is generated corresponding to the movement mode of the mobile body.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a modified CMV gB protein that can induce a group of antibodies including a high ratio of neutralizing antibodies that exhibit a high neutralizing activity against a CMV gB protein, in comparison with a wild type CMV gB, upon induction of immunity and that can be used in the prevention and/or treatment of CMV infection and a CMV vaccine comprising the modified CMV gB protein. The modified CMV gB protein according to the present invention is a modified CMV gB protein having an improved ability to induce body region-recognizing antibodies and comprising modification in a head region.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liposome composition containing a liposome having an excellent leakage rate of a nucleic acid analog anticancer agent, and a method for producing the same. According to the present invention, there are provided a liposome composition containing a liposome which (1) contains a nucleic acid analog anticancer agent and in which (2) a content ratio of a lysophospholipid contained in a lipid forming the liposome with respect to a total amount of phospholipids other than the lysophospholipid contained in the lipid forming the liposome is 0.01 mol % to 5 mol % and (3) a nucleic acid analog anticancer agent/lipid ratio is 2 mass % to 10 mass %, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: An image data collecting apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires position information of a plurality of mobile bodies on which a photographing device is mounted, and a selecting unit that acquires, for each mobile body, the position information acquired for the plurality of mobile bodies, information indicating photographing ranges of the photographing devices mounted on the plurality of mobile bodies, and position information of a predetermined object, and selects a mobile body on which a photographing device that outputs collection target image data is mounted from the plurality of mobile bodies on the basis of the acquired information; a transmitting unit that transmits a collection instruction for image data which is a photographing result of the photographing device mounted on the mobile body to the selected mobile body; and a receiving unit that receives the image data transmitted from the mobile body having received the collection instruction.

Abstract: This copper alloy contains greater than 10 mass ppm and less than 100 mass ppm of Mg, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, which comprise: 10 mass ppm or less of S, 10 mass ppm or less of P, 5 mass ppm or less of Se, 5 mass ppm or less of Te, 5 mass ppm or less of Sb, 5 mass ppm or less of Bi, and 5 mass ppm or less of As. The total amount of S, P, Se, Te, Sb, Bi, and As is 30 mass ppm or less. The mass ratio [Mg]/[S+P+Se+Te+Sb+Bi+As] is 0.6 to 50, an electrical conductivity is 97% IACS or greater. The half-softening temperature ratio TLD/TTD is greater than 0.95 and less than 1.08. The half-softening temperature TLD is 210° C. or higher.

Abstract: An electrical device is provided that includes a wiring level including a plurality of metal lines, and an dielectric filling a space between adjacent metal lines in the plurality of metal lines of the wiring level. The dielectric comprises an epoxy composition having a filler of magnetic fillers. The dielectric has a permeability that reduces crosstalk noise between the adjacent metal lines in the plurality of metal lines of the wiring level.

Abstract: Alignment and etch bias structures are provided that accomplish (I) a single alignment/monitor pattern for multiple layers, (II) the functions of precision alignment marks, course alignment marks, and characterization alignment/monitoring marks, (III) in-situ post fabrication characterization by at least two methods, optical and electrical (e.g., capacitance) with one pattern, and (IV) detects not only alignment/misalignment quality, but also layer over-etch precision, intra-wafer intra printed circuit board (PCB) distortion, and intra-layer dielectric characteristics.

Abstract: A combustion ash handling method of handling combustion ash discharged from a combustion furnace that combusts a petroleum-based fuel includes: separating the combustion ash into a heavy component and a light component by a dry-type separation technique; feeding the light component to the combustion furnace as a fuel; and recovering the heavy component. A metal such as vanadium is separated and extracted from the heavy component of the combustion ash.

Abstract: Interconnecting a first chip and a second chip includes mounting the first and second chips to a chip handler having an opening and at least one support surface. Each of the first chip and the second chip has a first surface including a first set of terminals and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first surface of the first chip and the first surface of the second chip mounted to the chip handler are supported by the at least one support surface of the chip handler. The first and second chips are placed on a chip support member with the chip handler from the second surfaces. A bridge member is inserted by a bridge handler through the opening of the chip handler to place the bridge member onto the first sets of terminals of the first and second chips that are exposed from the opening.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a processor configured to determine whether a reproposal condition for reproposing lane change control for a host vehicle to change lanes is satisfied, when a proposal of the lane change control is not accepted or when execution of the lane change control is interrupted after acceptance of the lane change control, and repropose execution of the lane change control to a driver of the host vehicle via a notification device provided for the host vehicle, when the reproposal condition is satisfied. The processor determines that the reproposal condition is satisfied, when a start condition for starting the lane change control is predicted to be satisfied.

Abstract: A metal base substrate of the present invention is a metal base substrate including a metal substrate, an insulating layer laminated on one surface of the metal substrate, and a circuit layer laminated on a surface of the insulating layer opposite to the metal substrate side, in which the circuit layer is made of a metal having a semi-softening temperature of 100° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower, the insulating layer contains a resin, and a relationship between a thickness t (?m) of the insulating layer and an elastic modulus E (GPa) of the insulating layer at 100° C. satisfies a following formula (1). 10<t/E . . .

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing deterioration in dark characteristics, and an electronic apparatus. The present invention is provided with: a photoelectric conversion section that performs photoelectric conversion; a charge retaining section that temporarily retains electric charge converted by the photoelectric conversion section; and a first trench formed in a semiconductor substrate between the photoelectric conversion section and the charge retaining section, the first trench being higher than the photoelectric conversion section in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate. Alternatively, the first trench is lower than the photoelectric conversion section and higher than the charge retaining section in the depth direction of the semiconductor substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor.