Abstract: An estimation system generates, from a value of a time series of an estimation object in a past period, a plurality of patterns of a transition of a value of the estimation object. Based on the plurality of generated patterns and a value of a time series of a factor in the past period, the estimation system specifies a dependency relationship between a transition pattern and a value of the factor and a transition pattern at a past (or future) time point and identifies a model in accordance with the specified dependency relationship. By inputting a value of a time series of the factor in a future period to the estimation model, the estimation system specifies a time series of a value in the future period of the estimation object using at least one transition pattern.

Abstract: A sensor unit includes: a sensor that is attached to a measurement target object becoming deformed in response to a swing taken with the measurement target object and that generates an output signal indicating a relationship between a physical quantity related to an amount of deformation of the measurement target object and a time; a feature value generation circuit that generates a feature value, the feature value being a parameter indicating a feature of the swing, on the basis of the output signal obtained by the sensor; and a communication unit that is attached to the measurement target object and that transmits the feature value to an external device by wireless communication or wired communication.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes an arithmetic circuit that performs an acquiring step of acquiring swing data indicating relationship between a physical quantity concerning an amount of deformation of an object to be measured and time, a determining step of determining whether the swing data indicates the physical quantity concerning the amount of deformation of the object to be measured, which occurs when the object to be measured is swung, to determine whether the swing data is to be deleted, and a deleting step of deleting the swing data if it is determined that the swing data does not indicate the physical quantity concerning the amount of deformation of the object to be measured, which occurs when the object to be measured is swung.

Abstract: An exposure method includes predicting a change in an optical characteristic of a projection optical system in exposing in which exposure processing is performed on a plurality of substrates via the projection optical system, adjusting the optical characteristic based on a prediction result of the predicting before the exposing, and performing the exposing after the adjusting, wherein, in the adjusting, the optical characteristic at a start of the exposing is adjusted in a direction different from a direction in which the optical characteristic changes, based on a change in the optical characteristic predicted in the predicting.

Abstract: A bio-electrode composition contains (A) an ionic polymer material. The component (A) is a polymer compound containing: a repeating unit-a having a structure selected from the group consisting of salts of ammonium, sodium, potassium, and silver formed with any of fluorosulfonic acid, fluorosulfonimide, and N-carbonyl-fluorosulfonamide; and a repeating unit-b having a side chain with a radical-polymerizable double bond in a structure selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylate, vinyl ether, and styrene. Thus, the present invention provides: a bio-electrode composition capable of forming a living body contact layer for a bio-electrode to enable signal collection immediately after attachment to skin and prevention of residue on the skin after peeling from the skin; a bio-electrode including a living body contact layer formed of the bio-electrode composition; and a method for manufacturing the bio-electrode.

Abstract: A resist composition comprising a polymer or polymer-bound photoacid generator is provided, the polymer comprising repeat units derived from a sulfonium or iodonium salt having a urethane, thiourethane or urea bond in a linker between a polymerizable unsaturated bond and a fluorosulfonic acid site. The resist composition has a high sensitivity and forms a pattern with improved LWR or CDU, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.

Abstract: A resist composition contains an acid generator which is a sulfonium or iodonium salt containing a sulfonic acid anion having a cyclic structure and a fluorosulfonic acid site which are linked by a linker. The resist composition has a high sensitivity and forms a pattern with improved LWR or CDU, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.

Abstract: A misfire determination apparatus for an internal combustion engine including a rotational speed detector detecting a rotational speed of an engine and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a misfire parameter having a correlation with a change amount of the rotational speed in a combustion stroke of each of a plurality of cylinders and increasing as an increase amount of the rotational speed is large based on the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed detector, and determining that a single-cylinder misfire has occurred when the misfire parameter is less than a first predetermined value, while determining that the single-cylinder misfire or a multi-cylinder misfire has occurred when the misfire parameter is less than a second predetermined value greater than the first predetermined value.

Abstract: A resist composition comprising a polymer is provided, the polymer comprising photo-decomposable repeat units derived from a sulfonium salt having a polymerizable unsaturated bond, a sulfonium cation site, and a link therebetween, the link having a urethane bond, thiourethane bond or urea bond. The resist composition has a high sensitivity and forms a pattern with improved LWR or CDU, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a plurality of roller pairs configured to place a plurality of substrates, respectively, wherein the substrates are arranged side by side in a horizontal direction with a predetermined interval, and rotate the plurality of substrates, respectively, in a circumferential direction; a first, second, and third circulation groove that are disposed along outer peripheral portions of each of the plurality of substrates; a chemical solution supplier configured to supply a chemical solution to the outer peripheral portions of the plurality of substrates through the first circulation groove; a rinse solution supplier configured to supply a rinse solution to the outer peripheral portions of the plurality of substrates through the second circulation groove; and a fluid supplier configured to supply a fluid for drying the rinse solution to the outer peripheral portions of the plurality of substrates through the third circulation groove.

Abstract: An information processing device (1) includes a registration information storage unit (112), an acquisition unit (122), a presentation unit (123), and a registration unit (124). The registration information storage unit (112) stores registration information related to an object to be a recognition target. The acquisition unit (122) acquires attribute information indicating a property of a new object to be a recognition target in accordance with a message of advice received from a user. The presentation unit (123) presents the attribute information acquired by the acquisition unit (122) to the user. In accordance with a registration instruction received from the user, the registration unit (124) associates attribute information with name information designated by the user, and registers the associated information in the registration information storage unit (112) as registration information.

Abstract: An object included in a low-resolution image can be recognized with a high degree of precision. An acquisition unit acquires, from a query image, an increased-resolution image, which is acquired by increasing the resolution of the query image, by performing pre-learned acquisition processing for increasing the resolution of an image. A feature extraction unit, using the increased-resolution image as input, extracts a feature vector of the increased-resolution image by performing pre-learned extraction processing for extracting a feature vector of an image. A recognition unit recognizes an object captured on the increased-resolution image on the basis of the feature vector of the increased-resolution image and outputs the recognized object as the object captured on the query image.

Abstract: A bio-electrode composition contains (A) a silicone bonded to an ionic polymer and having a structure containing a T unit shown by the following general formula (T1): (R0SiO3/2) (T1), the structure excluding a cage-like structure. In the formula, R0 represents a linking group to the ionic polymer. The ionic polymer is a polymer containing a repeating unit having a structure selected from the group consisting of salts of ammonium, lithium, sodium, potassium, and silver formed with any of fluorosulfonic acid, fluorosulfonimide, and N-carbonyl-fluorosulfonamide. Thus, the present invention provides a bio-electrode composition capable of forming a living body contact layer for a bio-electrode which is excellent in electric conductivity, biocompatibility, stretchability, and adhesion, soft, light-weight, and manufacturable at low cost, and which prevents significant reduction in the electric conductivity even when wetted with water or dried.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit (107) that controls a motion of an autonomous moving body (10), in which, when transmitting/receiving internal data related to the autonomous moving body, the motion control unit causes the autonomous moving body to express execution of the transmission/reception of the internal data by an action.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor unit including a first sensor portion that detects deformation of a measuring target object and a second sensor portion that detects deformation of the measuring target object, in which in a state in which the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion are attached to the measuring target object, the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion are fixed to the measuring target object such that the measuring target object is disposed between the first sensor portion and the second sensor portion in a first direction, and a physical property value of the first sensor portion and a physical property value of the second sensor portion are changed according to first deformation of the measuring target object.

Abstract: A ring support is attached to an inner wall surface of a chamber that houses a semiconductor wafer to support a susceptor. When the semiconductor wafer is placed on the susceptor, an inner space of the chamber is separated into an upper space and a lower space. Particles are likely to accumulate on a lower chamber window as a floor part of the chamber. However, since the upper space and the lower space are separated, the semiconductor wafer can be prevented from being contaminated by the particles flowing into the upper space and adhering to a surface of the semiconductor wafer even when the particles on the lower chamber window are blown up by irradiation with flash light.

Abstract: Provided are a composition capable of forming a cured product with excellent hardness, scratch resistance, chemical resistance, and flexibility; and a polyisocyanate compound that can be used as a curing agent for the composition. The polyisocyanate compound is represented by Formula (1), wherein R1 to R3 are identical or different and are a group represented by Formula (1a), wherein L1 and L2 are identical or different and represent an alkylene group having from 1 to 10 carbons, m represents a number of 0 or greater, L3 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having from 4 to 18 carbons, and X represents an isocyanate group or a blocked isocyanate group blocked with a blocking agent, where m is not simultaneously 0 for R1 to R3, and the bond with the wavy line bonds to a nitrogen atom in Formula (1). In addition, the composition contains a polyisocyanate compound and a polyacrylic polyol.

Abstract: An inertial measurement unit includes: a sensor unit having an inertial sensor; and a first holding unit holding the sensor unit. The first holding unit includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers coupling the sensor unit and the first substrate; a first elastic member and a second elastic member provided on both sides of the first substrate via opening parts; a first fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the first elastic member to the second substrate; and a second fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the second elastic member to the second substrate.

Abstract: A carbon fiber bundle that satisfies retaining a twist count of 2 turns/m or more when suspended with one end fixed and the other end free; having a single fiber diameter of 6.1 ?m or more and a heat loss rate at 450° C. of 0.15% or less, and formula (1) wherein Lc is crystallite size and ?002 is an orientation parameter of crystallites determined from bulk measurement of the entire fiber bundle: ?002>4.0×Lc+73.2 (1); and a carbon fiber bundle that satisfies: retaining a surface layer twist angle of 0.2° or more when suspended with one end fixed and the other end free; having a single fiber diameter of 6.1 ?m or more and a heat loss rate at 450° C. of 0.15% or less, and formula (1).

Abstract: To provide a curable composition capable of: forming a coating film having adhesion to a substrate surface; hardness; scratch resistance; and chemical resistance. The curable composition of the present disclosure contains a polyol compound (A) having an isocyanurate skeleton, an acrylic compound (B) containing a hydroxy group, and a polyisocyanate compound (C) having an isocyanurate skeleton and an isocyanate group besides the isocyanurate skeleton. The polyol compound (A) preferably contains a compound (a) represented by Formula (1) below. R1 to R3 in the formula are identical or different and are each a group represented by Formula (1a) below.