Abstract: Provided are a lipid and a composition that can effectively deliver an introduction compound such as a nucleic acid to a target cell, tissue, or the like in vivo.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Abstract: To provide a sealing material sheet for a solar-cell module that has high productivity, and can also suppress unevenness in thickness at the time of integration as a solar-cell module. There is provided a sealing material sheet 1 in which there are two inflection point temperatures that are temperatures only around which a change rate of the linear expansion coefficient locally increases, a first inflection point temperature at a low temperature side of two inflection point temperatures is within a range of 55° C. to 70° C., and a second inflection point at a high temperature side of the inflection point temperatures is within a range of 80° C. to 95° C.

Abstract: A semiconductor is disclosed that may include: a first drift region; a base region arranged on the first semiconductor layer; a source region arranged on the base region; a main electrode electrically connected to the source region; and a gate electrode structure that penetrates the source region and base region and reaches the first drift region, wherein the gate electrode structure comprises: a gate electrode; and an insulating material that insulates the gate electrode from the first drift region and the base region; and a field plate structure reaching the first drift region deeper than the gate electrode structure, wherein the field plate structure comprises: a field plate; a resistive part that electrically connects the main electrode to the field plate; and an insulating material that insulates the field plate and the resistive part section from the first drift region and the base region.

Abstract: A cover for covering an oral device that includes a first sheet member made of a first resin, and a second sheet member made of a second resin and facing the first sheet member, wherein when a first direction is a direction along a surface of the first sheet member and a second direction is a direction along the surface of the first sheet member and orthogonal to the first direction, the first sheet member and the second sheet member are joined to each other in a bag shape so as to define an opening at a first side in the first direction. A protruding portion protrudes from the second sheet member and past an outer edge of the first sheet member at the opening in the first direction.

Abstract: A product 1,3-butylene glycol, wherein, in an HPLC analysis under specific conditions after specific sample preparation, when a relative retention time of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine is regarded as 1.0, a sum area value of absorbance peaks that appear within a relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0 is 1000 or less, and wherein a dinitrophenylhydrazine derivative of a carbonyl compound having 4 to 6 carbon atoms is contained as a component that corresponds to the peaks that appear within the relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0.

Abstract: A moisture content measurement method that calculates moisture content of dehydrated sludge using a calibration curve for calculating the moisture content of the dehydrated sludge, the calibration curve being obtained by performing multivariate regression analysis after first-order differential processing or an offset correction is performed on absorbance for reflected light or reflectance for infrared rays from dehydrated sludge, the absorbance or the reflectance being obtained by measuring the dehydrated sludge using an infrared measurement apparatus provided with a light-receiving unit that can receive at least infrared rays reflected from a target object to be measured and a light source that has a plurality of infrared LEDs that can emit infrared rays having respectively different wavelengths or a light source having an infrared-region tungsten lamp or halogen lamp.

Abstract: There is provided an aqueous pigment dispersion that makes it possible to prepare an environmentally conscious aqueous inkjet ink in which a pigment is finely dispersed in a stable manner and at a high level and which is capable of recording an image having excellent durability, glossiness, color developability, and adhesiveness to various printing substrates. The aqueous pigment dispersion is an aqueous pigment dispersion containing a pigment, water, a water-soluble organic solvent, and a polymeric dispersant that disperses the pigment, wherein the polymeric dispersant is a polymer including a constitutional unit (i) derived from at least one of (meth)acrylic acid and itaconic acid, and a constituent unit (ii) derived from a (meth)acrylate derived from biological material, such as ethyl (meth)acrylate, having an acid value of 30 to 250 mgKOH/g, having a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 30,000, and having a polydispersity index (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) of 2.

Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to one or more embodiments may include a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region arranged on the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region arranged on the second semiconductor region, a first trench penetrating the second semiconductor region from the third semiconductor region and reaching the first semiconductor region, a first main electrode arranged on the second semiconductor region via a first insulating film, field electrodes arranged via second insulating films in a second trenches that are deeper than the first trench and reach the first semiconductor region. The first main electrode may be arranged between the field electrodes. The field electrodes may be arranged alternately, and the field electrodes that are alternately adjacent to each other may be arranged so that the field electrodes partially overlap with adjacent field electrodes in an alignment direction of the arranging field electrodes in a plan view.

Abstract: A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising a stack structure comprising a vertically alternating sequence of conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, the stack structure divided into block structures separated from one another by slot structures, strings of memory cells vertically extending through the block structures of the stack structure, the strings of memory cells individually comprising a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure, an additional stack structure vertically overlying the stack structure and comprising a vertical sequence of additional conductive structures and additional insulative structures arranged in additional tiers, first pillars extending through the additional stack structure and vertically overlying the strings of memory cells, each of the first pillars horizontally offset from a center of a corresponding string of memory cells, second pillars extending through the additional stack structure and vertically ove

Abstract: An optical transceiver includes: an optical transceiver circuit; a light source device to multiplex light rays emitted from light source elements having different wavelengths, and output multiplexed light; a demultiplexer to demultiplex the light output from the light source device into wavelengths to supply the wavelengths to the optical transceiver circuit; monitors to monitor the wavelengths at output ports of the demultiplexer, respectively; and a wavelength controller to control the wavelengths of the light source elements, based on monitoring results of the monitors, wherein the demultiplexer includes unit circuits in each of which three asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers having a predetermined arm length difference are cascaded in a tree shape, and each of the monitors is arranged at an output waveguide of an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer at an end of the cascaded tree, to be connected to the wavelength controller via a signal line.

Abstract: A computer obtains a chest X-ray image, detects boundary lines in the chest X-ray image using a model constructed through machine learning, sets a third lung area including at least one of a first lung area or a second lung area, extracts a vascular index indicating at least one of thickness or density of at least one pulmonary blood vessel present in an area included in the third lung area, determines whether the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state on a basis of the vascular index and a reference index based on indices extracted in advance from an area in chest X-ray images in a normal state corresponding to the area included in the third lung area, and outputs, if determining that the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state, information indicating a result of the determination.

Abstract: A product 1,3-butylene glycol, wherein, in an HPLC analysis under specific conditions after specific sample preparation, when a relative retention time of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine is regarded as 1.0, a sum area value of absorbance peaks that appear within a relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0 is 1000 or less, and wherein a dinitrophenylhydrazine derivative of a carbonyl compound having 4 to 6 carbon atoms is contained as a component that corresponds to the peaks that appear within the relative retention time range of 4.4 to 12.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel fused ring compound having urea structure that exhibits excellent NAMPT activating effect, and a method using the same for treating/preventing metabolic disorder, cardiovascular and kidney disease, mitochondrial disease, neurodegenerative disease, ocular disease, and muscle wasting disorder. The present invention provides a compound represented by following formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt: Formula (I) wherein A, B, R, R2 and R3 represent the same meanings as in the claims.

Abstract: A technique that prevents an unnecessary notification to a user. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute a control method including a reception step of receiving an event generated in a device, a setting step of setting a user who is a destination of a notification based on the event received in the reception step according to a type of the event received in the reception step, first information showing a group for each type of an event, and second information showing a group for each user, and a notification step of transmitting a notification based on the event received in the reception step to the user set in the setting step.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first chip stacked body including a plurality of first semiconductor chips stacked in a stacking direction, the first chip stacked body having a first surface and a second surface at respective ends on a first side and a second side in the stacking direction; a spacer extending in the stacking direction and positioned with respect to the first chip stacked body in a direction intersecting the stacking direction, the spacer having a third surface and a fourth surface at the respective ends on the first side and the second side in the stacking direction; a second semiconductor chip and a first resin layer provided across the second surface of the first chip stacked body and the fourth surface of the spacer, the first resin layer being positioned between the second semiconductor chip and each of the spacer and the first chip stacked body; and a second resin layer provided on the third surface of the spacer and having a thickness larger than a thickness of the first resin layer.

Abstract: A power receiver includes a pickup coil, a rectifier, a chopper, a controller that controls an on-duty cycle of a switching element in the chopper, a voltage detector that detects an output voltage, and a current detector that detects an output current. The controller controls the on-duty cycle of the switching element based on the output voltage and the output current to cause power less than or equal to a preset power to be supplied to an electric load.

Abstract: A technique that prevents an unnecessary notification to a user. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute a control method including a reception step of receiving an event generated in a device, a setting step of setting a user who is a destination of a notification based on the event received in the reception step according to a type of the event received in the reception step, first information showing a group for each type of an event, and second information showing a group for each user, and a notification step of transmitting a notification based on the event received in the reception step to the user set in the setting step.