Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells from pluripotent stem cells, which method comprises the steps of: (i) performing adherent culture of pluripotent stem cells on an extracellular matrix in a medium containing a reagent(s) selected from the group consisting of BMP inhibitor, TGF? inhibitor, SHH signal-stimulating agent, FGF8, and GSK3? inhibitor; (ii) collecting Corin- and/or Lrtm1-positive cells from the cells obtained in Step (i) using a substance which binds to Corin and/or a substance which binds to Lrtm1; and (iii) performing suspension culture of the cells obtained in Step (ii) in a medium containing a neurotrophic factor.

Abstract: An electric discharge machining unit capable of stably supplying working fluid to the vicinity of a portion to be machined. The electric discharge machining unit includes a tool electrode, a housing, an electrode guide, and a working fluid supplying device. The housing includes a fitting hole having a tapered surface. A first supply path is formed in the housing. The electrode guide includes a tapered portion and an ejection opening formed on a lower surface. A first flow path is formed in the electrode guide. The tapered portion is configured to be fitted into the fitting hole to connect the first flow path to the first supply path. The working fluid supplied from the working fluid supplying device to the first supply path and the first flow path is ejected from the ejection opening.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate including a polyester as a main component, a base layer disposed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer. The kurtosis of the surface of the magnetic layer is 3.0 or more. The base layer and the magnetic layer each include a lubricant including a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester. In the lubricant, a ratio of the content of the fatty acid to the content of the fatty acid ester is less than 0.6.

Abstract: A magnetic recording tape having a plural-layer structure including at least a magnetic layer is provided. The tape has a total thickness of 5.6 ?m or smaller, and includes a plurality of indentations disposed in a surface of the magnetic layer. A value obtained by dividing a depth D1 of each indentation with a thickness D2 of the magnetic layer is 15% or greater. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of indentations formed therein, a plurality of the indentations each has a depth of 20% or greater of the thickness of the magnetic layer, and the number of the indentations is 55 or more per 6,400 ?m2 of a surface area of the magnetic layer.

Abstract: An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a positive and a negative electrode terminals; modules each including an assembled battery and a CMU, the assembled battery including cells, the CMU to detect a voltage and a temperature of the assembled battery; a main circuit for electrical connection between terminals of the modules and the positive and negative electrode terminals; a BMU to receive information about the voltage and the temperature from the respective CMU; a supply circuit to convert DC power from the main circuit and supply the converted power to the BMU; a breaker for interrupting the main circuit; and a circuit to block a current flowing through the main circuit in a direction of charging the modules, in response to a stop of a control signal from the BMU.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing dopaminergic neuron progenitor cells from pluripotent stem cells, which method comprises the steps of: (i) performing adherent culture of pluripotent stem cells on an extracellular matrix in a medium containing a reagent(s) selected from the group consisting of BMP inhibitor, TGF? inhibitor, SHH signal-stimulating agent, FGF8, and GSK3? inhibitor; (ii) collecting Corin- and/or Lrtm1-positive cells from the cells obtained in Step (i) using a substance which binds to Corin and/or a substance which binds to Lrtm1; and (iii) performing suspension culture of the cells obtained in Step (ii) in a medium containing a neurotrophic factor.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a search scenario acquisition unit and a search unit. The search scenario acquisition unit acquires a search scenario in which one or more search processes of searching for an image using an image feature based on a target image, which is an image of a search target, in a search condition are combined. The search unit searches for a matching image, which is an image to be searched, using a combination of the search processes represented by the search scenario and outputs search result information representing an area in the matching image detected through the search.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate including a polyester as a main component, a base layer disposed on the substrate, a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer, and a back layer disposed on a side of the substrate opposite to the base layer. A surface of the back layer opposite to the substrate has a kurtosis of 2.0 or more. On a surface of the magnetic layer, recesses having a depth of 20% or more of the average thickness of the magnetic layer are formed at a ratio of 10 or more and 200 or less per 1600 ?m2. A surface of the magnetic layer has arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.5 nm or less. The entire magnetic recording medium has a BET specific surface area of 3.5 m2/g or more in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate, a base layer disposed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer. The substrate includes a polyester as a main component. The average thickness of the base layer is 0.9 ?m or less. The base layer and the magnetic layer each include a lubricant. The magnetic layer has a surface having a large number of holes, and the arithmetic average roughness Ra of the surface is 2.5 nm or less. The BET specific surface area of the entire magnetic recording medium is 3.5 m2/g or more in a state where the lubricant has been removed from the magnetic recording medium and the magnetic recording medium has been dried. The squareness ratio in the perpendicular direction is 65% or more. The average thickness of the magnetic layer is 90 nm or less. The average thickness of the magnetic recording medium is 5.

Abstract: An object is to provide a magnetic recording medium having excellent traveling stability and a thin total thickness. The present technology provides a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including: a magnetic layer; an underlayer; a base layer; and a back layer, in which a surface on a side of the magnetic layer has a kurtosis of 3.0 or more, a surface on a side of the back layer has a kurtosis of 2.0 or more, the surface on the magnetic layer side has arithmetic average roughness Ra of 2.5 nm or less, the base layer includes a polyester as a main component, the magnetic recording medium has an average thickness tT of 5.6 ?m or less, the magnetic recording medium includes a lubricant, the lubricant includes a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester, and a mass ratio between the fatty acid and the fatty acid ester extracted with hexane satisfies fatty acid/fatty acid ester ?0.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium that can exhibit good traveling performance during use is provided. This magnetic recording medium is a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium, and includes a substrate including a polyester as a main component, a base layer disposed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed on the base layer. The kurtosis of the surface of the magnetic layer is 3.0 or more. The base layer and the magnetic layer each include a lubricant including a fatty acid and a fatty acid ester. In the lubricant, a ratio of the content of the fatty acid to the content of the fatty acid ester is less than 0.6.

Abstract: A video recording control device includes a data acquisition unit that acquires video data captured by a camera, a traffic guide information acquisition unit that acquires traffic guide information, a different vehicle information detection unit that recognizes a different vehicle from the video data and detects a position and a moving direction of the recognized different vehicle, a traffic guide information correspondence determination unit that associates traffic guide information with the different vehicle, based on the position and the moving direction of the different vehicle, an event detection unit that detects an event in which the different vehicle is involved, and a storage control unit that stores video data corresponding to a period including at least an event occurrence time, with inclusion of the traffic guide information determined by the traffic guide information correspondence determination unit as the traffic guide information that the different vehicle needs to obey.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thiophene derivatives represented by the following formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a salt thereof, which has TNF-? production suppressive activity and hematologic cancer cell proliferation inhibitory activity, and is useful for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and further, hematologic cancer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium according to the present technology includes: a base material; and a magnetic layer, in which the magnetic recording medium has a tape shape that is long in a longitudinal direction and short in a width direction, the magnetic layer includes a data band and a servo band, a data signal being written to the data band, the data band being long in the longitudinal direction, a servo signal being written to the servo data, the servo band being long in the longitudinal direction, the degree of perpendicular orientation of the magnetic layer being 65% or more, a full width at half maximum of an isolated waveform in a reproduced waveform of the servo signal is 195 nm or less, the magnetic layer has a thickness of 90 nm or less, and the base material has a thickness of 4.2 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inducing differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into neural precursor cells, comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cells in the presence of a small, molecule BMP inhibitor, and induced neural precursor cells prepared by this method.

Abstract: An electric discharge machining apparatus includes a tool electrode that performs electric discharge machining to a workpiece, a housing in which the tool electrode is inserted, a compressed gas supplying device for supplying compressed gas into a mist generating region which is provided between an inner wall of the housing and the tool electrode, a first flow path through which the compressed gas flows and connecting the compressed gas supplying device with the mist generating region, a pressurized working fluid supplying device for supplying pressurized working fluid into the mist generating region, and a second flow path through which the pressurized working fluid flows and connecting the pressurized working fluid supplying device with the mist generating region.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes one or more light emitting elements and a plurality of fluorescent materials, and emits a first light, a second light, and a third light, wherein the first light has a correlated color temperature between 1,500 K and 3,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the second light has a correlated color temperature between 3,500 K and 5,500 K and a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more, the third light has values of X and Y coordinates in the chromaticity diagram of the CIE1931 color system smaller than the values of X and Y coordinates at a color temperature of 5,500 K on the black body radiation locus, and a light having a correlated color temperature of 6,500 K has a color rendering index R9 of 50 or more and a melanopic ratio of 1.0 or more.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, what is provided is a rail including, by mass %: C: 0.75% to 1.20%; Si: 0.10% to 2.00%; Mn: 0.10% to 2.00%; Cr: 0.10% to 1.20%; V: 0.010% to 0.200%; N: 0.0030% to 0.0200%; P?0.0250%; S?0.0250%; Mo: 0% to 0.50%, Co: 0% to 1.00%; B: 0% to 0.0050%; Cu: 0% to 1.00%; Ni: 0% to 1.00%; Nb: 0% to 0.0500%; Ti: 0% to 0.0500%; Mg: 0% to 0.0200%; Ca: 0% to 0.0200%; REM: 0% to 0.0500%; Zr: 0% to 0.0200%; Al: 0% to 1.00%; and a remainder consisting of Fe and impurities, in which a structure ranging from an outer surface of a head portion as an origin to a depth of 25 mm includes 95% or greater of a pearlite structure by area ratio, the hardness of the structure is in a range of Hv 360 to 500, and in ferrite of the pearlite structure at a position at a depth of 25 mm from the outer surface of the head portion as the origin, the number density of a V nitride having a grain size of 0.5 to 4.0 nm and including Cr is in a range of 1.0×1017 to 5.0×1017 cm?3.

Abstract: A work content analyzing apparatus of the present embodiment includes a first database storing state information indicating a state of each of one or a plurality of workers in association with time information and identification information of the worker, an estimation unit estimating the work content executed by the worker on the basis of at least two pieces of state information associated with same time in the state information stored in the first database, a specification unit specifying work time spent for the estimated work content on the basis of the state information stored in the first database and the time information associated with the state information, and an analysis unit analyzing the work content on the basis of the estimated work content and the specified work time.

Abstract: An electric discharge machining apparatus includes a tool electrode that performs electric discharge machining to a workpiece, a tubular extended guide in which the tool electrode is inserted, a long nozzle in which the tool electrode is inserted with a tip protruded, and provided along an outer wall surface of the extended guide so as to provide mist generating space between the extended guide and the long nozzle, a compressed gas supplying device supplying compressed gas into the mist generating space, and a pressurized working fluid supplying device supplying pressurized working fluid into working fluid filling space between the tool electrode and the extended guide.