Abstract: A golfer classification method in which, in order to classify a golfer based on his/her swing behavior, a first head speed HS1 of a short iron when the golfer hits a golf ball with the short iron is measured; a second head speed HS2 and a blow angle of a long iron when the golfer hits a golf ball with the long iron are measured; the head speed ratio HS2/HS1 is calculated; by comparing the blow angle with a first threshold, the golfer is classified into a down blow group or a non down blow group; and by comparing the head speed ratio HS2/HS1 with a second threshold, the golfer classified into the down blow group is further classified into a first down blow group or a second down blow group. A golf club selection method in which, for the golfer classified by the golfer classification method, a suitable golf club is selected.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to achieve a more effective image in slow motion. An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image sensor that outputs image data at a first frame rate and an image processor. The image processor: (i) generates motion image data having a second frame rate that is 1/N of the first frame rate, based on the image data having the first frame rate output from the image sensor, for frames not provided with a given instruction, (ii) generates motion image data having the first frame rate based on the image data having the first frame rate output from the image sensor, for frames provided with a given instruction and (iii) processes the generated motion image data having the first frame rate and the generated motion image data having the second frame rate as a series of motion image data.

Abstract: Regardless of the measurement conditions, the degradation of the image quality due to a vibrational error magnetic field, which is generated by the vibration of the mechanical structure of an MRI apparatus, is reduced. In order to do so, error magnetic field image data indicating an error magnetic field distribution is acquired on the basis of an echo signal measured using a pulse sequence having a test gradient magnetic field, a parameter value of a damped vibration function showing a vibrational error magnetic field is calculated using the error magnetic field image data, and a correction magnetic field is calculated on the basis of the calculated parameter value of the damped vibration function showing the vibrational error magnetic field.

Abstract: In a lower-side-columnar-conductor installing process, a first columnar sub-conductor (2), a second columnar sub-conductor (3), and a first main columnar conductor (1) are set up individually, and the first main columnar conductor (1) is disposed between the first columnar sub-conductor (2) and the second columnar sub-conductor (3). In a U-shaped-conductor fastening process, the upper-side end portion of the first columnar sub-conductor (2) is arranged facing one end of a U-shaped conductor (7) bent in a U-shape, the upper-side end portion of the second columnar sub-conductor (3) is arranged facing the other end of the U-shaped conductor (7), and the center portion of the U-shaped conductor (7) is fastened to the tip portion of a second main columnar conductor (4).

Abstract: A device of an example is a portable information processing device performing settlement processing concerning purchase of a merchandise article or a right in cooperation with a given server, comprising: a non-contact communication unit performing non-contact communication with a data storage medium; a data acquisition unit acquiring data stored in the data storage medium, through the non-contact communication unit as a part of the settlement processing; a settlement processing unit performing settlement based on the data acquired by the data acquisition unit, in cooperation with the server, as a part of the settlement processing; a detection unit detecting at least one of attitude, movement, and a placement state of the own device; and a restriction unit acquiring a detection result from the detection unit and then, when the detection result does not satisfy a given condition, restricting performing of at least a part of the settlement processing.

Abstract: An example system includes: a data storage medium including a storage unit storing data concerning settlement and a non-contact communication unit performing non-contact communication; a server device performing settlement processing concerning a merchandise article sold and purchased, based on data stored in the data storage medium; and a plurality of information processing devices including a non-contact communication unit performing non-contact communication with the data storage medium, a data acquisition unit acquiring data stored in the storage unit of the data storage medium through the non-contact communication unit and a settlement processing unit performing settlement processing with the server device based on data acquired by the data acquisition unit. The plurality of information processing devices include a stationary information processing device and a portable information processing device.

Abstract: An object is to correct a magnetic field caused by an eddy current, which is generated due to application of a gradient magnetic field, not only in the application direction of the gradient magnetic field but also in a direction different from the application direction of the gradient magnetic field. In the present invention, in order to achieve this object, a compensation magnetic field which compensates for an eddy current magnetic field generated in each of an application direction of a test gradient magnetic field and a direction different from the application direction in each direction is calculated using the test gradient magnetic field. When generating an arbitrary gradient magnetic field, a compensation magnetic field which compensates for an eddy current magnetic field according to application of an arbitrary gradient magnetic field on the basis of the measured eddy current magnetic field in each direction is generated together with the arbitrary gradient magnetic field.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for securing a large examination space in a tunnel type MRI device without inviting increase of manufacturing cost and without significantly reducing irradiation efficiency or uniformity of the irradiation intensity distribution in an imaging region. Between rungs of a partially cylindrical RF coil, which coil corresponds to a cylindrical RF coil of which part is removed, there are disposed half-loops generating magnetic fields, which are synthesized with magnetic fields generated by loops constituted by adjacent rungs of the partially cylindrical RF coil and rings connecting the rungs to generate a circularly polarized or elliptically polarized magnetic field. Further, high-frequency signals of the same reference frequency having a desired amplitude ratio and phase difference are supplied to the partially cylindrical RF coils and half-loops.

Abstract: In a lower-side-columnar-conductor installing process, a first main columnar conductor (2), a second columnar sub-conductor (3), and a first main columnar conductor (1) are set up individually, and the first main columnar conductor (1) is disposed between the first main columnar conductor (2) and the second columnar sub-conductor (3). In a U-shaped-conductor fastening process, the upper-side end portion of the first columnar sub-conductor (2) is arranged facing one end of a U-shaped conductor (7) bent in a U-shape, the upper-side end portion of the second columnar sub-conductor (3) is arranged facing the other end of the U-shaped conductor (7), and the center portion of the U-shaped conductor (7) is fastened to the tip portion of a second main columnar conductor (4).

Abstract: A mass flow controller with high accuracy flow rate output control is disclosed. In the mass flow controller, relation data that indicates a corresponding relation between a flow rate of a reference gas and a CF value of a sample gas is stored, a target flow rate is converted into a reference gas flow rate by the use of a predetermined CF value, a sample gas flow rate is calculated from the converted reference gas flow rate and a CF value corresponding to the reference gas flow rate, the sample gas flow rate is compared with the target flow rate, and the CF value that is used for conversion of the reference gas flow rate or calculation of the sample gas flow rate is updated by the use of the corresponding relation based on the error between the sample gas flow rate and the target flow rate.

Abstract: An example system includes: a sales server for performing sales processing pertaining to sales of a commodity; a settlement server for performing settlement processing pertaining to a commodity sold by the sales server in the sales processing; and a user terminal device having a communication unit configured to communicate with the sales server and with the settlement server via a network and an operation acceptance unit configured to accept operation pertaining to purchase of the commodity.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for securing a comfortable examination space in a tunnel type MRI apparatus without increasing the manufacturing cost of the MRI apparatus and sacrificing performance thereof. In an RF coil provided with a hollow-shaped outer conductive element and a strip-shaped conductive element disposed along the outer conductive element in the axial direction, meander lines constituting the strip-shaped conductive element are disposed at uneven distances from the outer conductive element to secure an internal space. In order to obtain uniform sensitivity at the center of the RF coil, the strip-shaped conductive element is constituted with N of connected meander lines, and length of the strip-shaped conductive element is adjusted so that, in the strip-shaped conductive element resonating at resonance frequency of the antenna, nodes are formed in a number of (M+1)×N?1, wherein M is 0 or a natural number of 1 or larger.

Abstract: When imaging is performed by executing a pulse sequence on an MRI apparatus, silencing is realized with securing sufficient application amount of crusher without extending the application time thereof. In the pulse sequence carried by the MRI apparatus, at least one gradient magnetic field pulse included in the pulse sequence has a waveform synthesized from two or more base waves shifting along the time axis direction (synthesized waveform), and the base waves have a smoothly changing waveform convex upward. The pulse of the synthesized waveform is generated from one or more trapezoidal or triangular base pulses by a waveform conversion part of a computer of the MRI apparatus or an external computer.

Abstract: In the magnetic resonance imaging device, the distance between the first and second coils is different in the circumferential direction and has a first region (A1) (?=0, ?) and a second region (A2) (?=?/2) narrower than the first region (A1). In the first coil, wiring patterns (17a, 17b) on the side of a zero-plane (F0) passing through the center of the first coil and perpendicular to the axis direction (z-axis direction) meander in the circumferential direction such that the wiring patterns (17a, 17b) depart from the zero-plane (F0) in the first region (A1) and approach the zero-plane (F0) in the second region (A2). This provides a gradient magnetic field coil capable of configuring wiring patterns without using a loop coil that does not pass through the z-axis.

Abstract: The present disclosure aims to achieve a more effective image in slow motion. An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image sensor that outputs image data at a first frame rate and an image processor. The image processor: (i) generates motion image data having a second frame rate that is 1/N of the first frame rate, based on the image data having the first frame rate output from the image sensor, for frames not provided with a given instruction, (ii) generates motion image data having the first frame rate based on the image data having the first frame rate output from the image sensor, for frames provided with a given instruction and (iii) processes the generated motion image data having the first frame rate and the generated motion image data having the second frame rate as a series of motion image data.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring nuclear thermal hydraulic stability of a nuclear reactor, contains: a calculation unit configured to calculate a stability index of a nuclear thermal hydraulic phenomenon based on nuclear instrumentation signals, the signals being outputted by a plurality of nuclear instrumentation detectors placed at regular intervals in a reactor core; a simulation unit configured to simulate the nuclear thermal hydraulic phenomenon based on a physical model by using information on an operating state of the nuclear reactor as an input condition; a limit value updating unit configured to update a limit value of the nuclear thermal hydraulic phenomenon based on a result of the simulation; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the stability index and the limit value, whether or not to activate a power oscillation suppressing device.

Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable information processing program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus having a wireless communication function. The information processing program causes the computer to function as position data obtaining means for obtaining position data indicating a position of the information processing apparatus, data transmission and reception means for transmitting the position data obtained by the position data obtaining means to another information processing apparatus within coverage through wireless communication and receiving position data obtained by position data obtaining means of another information processing apparatus through wireless communication, and processing performing means for performing predetermined information processing based on the position data received from another information processing apparatus through the data transmission and reception means.

Abstract: Provided is a technology which is able to detect an object with high accuracy. A signal processing apparatus 1 includes a generating unit 2 and a detecting unit 3. The generating unit 2 includes a function of generating, as a transmitting signal, a modulation wave whose frequency changes non-repetitively. The detecting unit 3 includes a function of fetching the transmitting signal and a receiving signal which is received by a receiving means that can receive a reflection signal generated when the transmitting signal is reflected by an object. The detecting unit 3 includes a function of detecting at least one of presence of the object, distance to the object, and moving speed of the object, based on correlation between the receiving signal and the transmitting signal.

Abstract: A shaft full length is defined as Ls and a distance between a tip end of the shaft and a center of gravity G of the shaft is defined as Lg. In a shaft 6, Lg/Ls is 0.54 or greater and 0.65 or less. A shaft weight Ws is 50 g or greater and 85 g or less. The shaft 6 has at least three bias layer pairs. One bias layer pair of the three bias layer pairs is a pitch-containing bias layer pair having a pitch based carbon fiber. Two bias layer pairs of the three bias layer pairs are PAN-containing bias layer pairs having a PAN based carbon fiber. Preferably, the PAN-containing bias layer pairs are located outside and inside the pitch-containing bias layer pair.

Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus includes an antenna controller and a target-side data transceiver. Before data communication is performed with an information processing apparatus via an antenna of the communication terminal apparatus, the antenna controller changes at least one of a resistive component of the antenna, voltage to be applied to the antenna, and current to be applied to the antenna, thereby changing a state of the antenna to cause a change in a magnetic field that results from the change in the state of the antenna and can be sensed by the information processing apparatus. After the antenna controller has changed the state of the antenna, the target-side data transceiver performs the data communication with the information processing apparatus.