Abstract: The plasma processing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a processing container, a stage, an upper electrode, a dielectric plate, and a waveguide. The stage is provided in the processing container. The dielectric plate is provided above the stage with a space in the processing container interposed therebetween. The upper electrode is provided above the dielectric plate. The waveguide has an end and guides high frequency waves in a VHF band or a UHF band. The end is arranged to face the space to radiate high frequency waves to the space. The dielectric plate includes a conductive film. The conductive film is provided on an upper surface of the dielectric plate. The upper surface faces the upper electrode. The conductive film is electrically connected to the upper electrode.

Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrator that includes a piezoelectric resonator, a substrate having opposite first and second principal surfaces, and an electrically conductive holding member holding the piezoelectric resonator on the first principal surface of the substrate such that the piezoelectric resonator is able to be excited. The electrically conductive holding member contains a first filler containing an electrically conductive material as a main component and a second filler containing an electrically insulating material as a main component and having a smaller Young's modulus than the first filler. In a plan view in a direction normal to the first principal surface of the substrate, the second filler is more densely disposed in an outer peripheral region of the electrically conductive holding member than in a central region of the electrically conductive holding member.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory storing a program, and one or more processors that, by executing the program, function as an obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to a posture of an imaging device that is imaging a region of a subject, and a determination unit configured to perform a determination, based on the information relating to the posture, regarding which region of the subject corresponds to the region imaged by the imaging device. The determination unit performs the determination based on the information relating to the posture obtained at a timing when a posture of the imaging device satisfies a predetermined condition.

Abstract: A method of pretreating a sample including biological particles, the method including a step of acquiring a fraction (1b) which passes through a sieve (A) having meshes of 250 to 1000 ?m and does not pass through a sieve (B) having meshes of 32 to 63 ?m by sieving a sample including biological particles as a detection target, and a step of adding a colloidal solution having a density of 1.10 to 2.45 g/cm3 to the fraction (1b), subjecting the resultant solution to centrifugation, and acquiring a supernatant fraction (S0) after the centrifugation.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric vibration element that includes preparing a piezoelectric substrate; providing a first electrode layer on a first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate; arranging a mask on a side of the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate, the mask including a center region and a peripheral region located along a periphery of the center region; and irradiating a radiation beam through the mask toward the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate such that a larger amount of the radiation beam passes through the peripheral region than the center region of the mask so as to remove a part of the first electrode layer to form a first excitation electrode that decreases in thickness from the center region to the peripheral region of the mask on the first main surface of the piezoelectric substrate.

Abstract: A quartz crystal resonator that includes an AT-cut quartz crystal blank that is plate-shaped and that is rectangular when viewed in a direction normal to a main surface thereof; and a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode disposed on the main surface and arranged in a short-side direction of the main surface. Long sides of the main surface are substantially parallel to a Z? axis of the quartz crystal blank. The short sides of the main surface are substantially parallel to an X axis of the quartz crystal blank. A frequency of a main vibration of the quartz crystal blank is in a range of 20.0 MHz to 60.0 MHz, and 0.050?P??0.0047×F+1.728, where P (mm) is a distance between the first outer electrode and the second outer electrode in the short-side direction, and F (MHz) is the frequency of the main vibration.

Abstract: Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film, the method being capable of forming a multilayer coating film having excellent chipping resistance, adhesion, and finished appearance. The method for forming a coating film uses a 3-coat and 1-bake system in which a three-layered multilayer coating film obtained by sequentially applying a first coloring paint (X), a second coloring paint (Y), and a clear coating paint (Z) onto an object to be coated is heated and cured at the same time, wherein the first coloring paint (X) and the second coloring paint (Y) contain a hydroxyl group-containing resin, and the clear coating paint (Z) contains a hydroxyl group-containing acrylic resin (a) and an aliphatic triisocyanate compound (b1) having a molecular weight within a specific range.

Abstract: A method for producing granules containing a core particle by using a general granulation method is provided. Granules containing a core particle produced by the method are provided. In addition, a pharmaceutical composition and preparation containing the granules containing the core particle are provided. The granulation method according to an embodiment of the present invention granulates by splaying granulation liquid having a mist diameter (D50) not more than the particle size (D50) of the core particle on a mixture containing a drug substance and a core particle. The granulation liquid may be water. The particle size of the core particle (D50) may be larger than the particle size (D50) of the drug substance.

Abstract: A compressor diffuser is disposed between cylindrical combustion chambers that are disposed around a rotational shaft to supply combustion gas to a turbine and a compressor that is rotatable about the rotational shaft to generate compressed air. The compressor diffuser includes one end connected to an outlet of the compressor; and another end connected to an air inlet of one of the combustion chambers. The one end defines an opening and has double arc portions curving about the rotational shaft, and the other end defines an opening shaped in conformance with the cylindrical shape of the one of the combustion chambers. The compressor diffuser is disposed continuously along an extending direction of the rotational shaft from the one end to the other end.

Abstract: The first server issues, in response to an issuance request, identification information that corresponds to a printing apparatus and is used for registration processing to use the printing apparatus from a messaging application, and manages first information of the printing apparatus and the identification information, and the second server manages the first information of the printing apparatus and second information of the messaging application and registers the second information of the messaging application so that the printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from the messaging application can be used if the identification information is determined to be valid by referring to information managed by the first server when the identification information is input via the messaging application, wherein the first server issues, for one printing apparatus, a different piece of identification information for each issuance request.

Abstract: A communication system that includes a server system, a voice terminal and a document reading apparatus. The document reading apparatus includes a reading unit configured to execute reading of a document, wherein recognition processing for recognizing a character written in the document is executed based on image data generated by the reading. Furthermore, the voice terminal comprises a receiving unit configured to receive a predetermined instruction by user's voice, and the server system comprises a processing unit configured to execute output processing for outputting the character recognized by the recognition processing by voice by the voice terminal based on receiving the predetermined instruction by the voice terminal.

Abstract: An optical member includes a transparent substrate containing at least one substance selected from glass, a glass ceramic, silicon, and sapphire, and having an infrared high-transmittance region in which an optical transmittance is 78% or more in a wavelength band of 700 nm to 1800 nm; and an optical interference film disposed on a main surface of the transparent substrate corresponding to the infrared high-transmittance region, wherein a transmittance of light, of the optical member, of at least one wavelength ?3 in the wavelength band of 700 nm to 1800 nm in a region of the optical member corresponding to the infrared high-transmittance region of the transparent substrate has a minimum value of 86.5% or more and has a difference between the minimum value and a maximum value of 9% or less in a range where an incidence angle is from 0 degrees to 60 degrees.

Abstract: The first server issues, in response to an issuance request, identification information that corresponds to a printing apparatus and is used for registration processing to use the printing apparatus from a messaging application, and manages first information of the printing apparatus and the identification information, and the second server manages the first information of the printing apparatus and second information of the messaging application and registers the second information of the messaging application so that the printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from the messaging application can be used if the identification information is determined to be valid by referring to information managed by the first server when the identification information is input via the messaging application, wherein the first server issues, for one printing apparatus, a different piece of identification information for each issuance request.

Abstract: A moving information analyzing system includes a camera, and a server that is connected to the camera. The camera captures an image of an object region, extracts moving information regarding a staying position or a passing position of a moving object included in a captured image of the object region, outputs a count line for counting the number of moving objects and a count result of the number of moving objects having passed the count line, related to the moving information, and transmits the captured image and the moving information to the server in a predetermined transmission cycle. The server acquires the captured image and the moving information, generates a moving information analysis image in which the moving information is superimposed on the captured image and to which the count line and the count result are added, and displays the moving information analysis image on a monitor.

Abstract: A sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine is provided comprising pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a hardened oil or stearic acid. The sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine may contain a hardened oil or stearic acid in an amount of 100% by mass to 500% by mass with respect to the content of the pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In addition, the sustained-release preparation containing pseudoephedrine may have a first part and a second part, the first part may contain the pseudoephedrine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and the first part or the second part may contain an optional active ingredient.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive element includes a reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction and including a ferromagnetic material containing Fe or Co, a recording layer having a variable magnetization direction and including a ferromagnetic material, and one non-magnetic layer that is formed between the reference layer and the recording layer and that contains oxygen. One of the reference layer and the recording layer contains Fe. The three layers are arranged so that a magnetization direction of the one of the reference layer and the recording layer becomes perpendicular to a layer surface by an interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at an interface between the one of the reference layer and the recording layer and the one non-magnetic layer resulting from the one of the reference layer and the recording layer having a predetermined thickness. The one of the reference layer and the recording layer has a bcc structure.

Abstract: An anhydrous dasatinib-containing preparation comprising an anhydrous dasatinib and a titanium oxide or colorant or antioxidant is provided. In one embodiment, the anhydrous dasatinib-containing preparation improves photostability upon storage. The weight ratio of the titanium oxide per the anhydrous dasatinib may be more than 0 and 2 or less, or the weight ratio of the colorant per the anhydrous dasatinib may be more than 0 and 1 or less, or the weight ratio of the antioxidant per the anhydrous dasatinib may be more than 0 and 0.5 or less.

Abstract: A deterioration diagnosis apparatus is for a mechanical apparatus including a power transmission mechanism that transmits power via a gear. The deterioration diagnosis apparatus includes: a storing unit that stores, in advance, a trend of change along with the operation of the mechanical apparatus, in consumption rate of an additive contained in lubricant used for the gear; and a determination unit that determines the period to be taken for the consumption rate of the additive to reach a predetermined value, based on the trend of change in the consumption rate of the additive.

Abstract: A moving information analyzing system includes a camera, and a server that is connected to the camera. The camera captures an image of an object region, extracts moving information regarding a staying position or a passing position of a moving object included in a captured image of the object region, outputs a count line for counting the number of moving objects and a count result of the number of moving objects having passed the count line, related to the moving information, and transmits the captured image and the moving information to the server in a predetermined transmission cycle. The server acquires the captured image and the moving information, generates a moving information analysis image in which the moving information is superimposed on the captured image and to which the count line and the count result are added, and displays the moving information analysis image on a monitor.

Abstract: An electronic component includes a metal cap including a first main-surface having a flat plate-like shape with a first main surface and an annular portion that has an annular shape and that surrounds the first main surface when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first main surface. The first main-surface and the annular portion forming a recess. A substrate is provided having a flat plate-like shape with a second main surface that hermetically seals the recess, a joining member that joins the cap and the substrate to each other, with an element accommodated in the recess. An outer peripheral surface of the annular portion has a band-shaped region between the first and second main surfaces in the direction perpendicular to the first main surface. A groove is formed in the band-shaped region that extends in a circumferential direction of the annular portion.