Abstract: A user apparatus performing communications with a base station in a mobile communication system which supports carrier aggregation is provided. The user apparatus includes a processing unit configured to receive from the base station an instruction for adding one or more sub cells associated with a specific secondary cell group; a management unit configured to, upon receiving the instruction, store information in which the specific secondary cell group is associated with the one or more sub cells; and a control unit configured to, in the case where a command for performing an operation for the specific secondary cell group is received from the base station, perform the operation for any one of the one or more sub cells based on the association.

Abstract: An optical waveguide substrate includes a substrate that includes a recess, a buffer layer disposed on a bottom surface and a wall surface of the recess, and an optical waveguide disposed inside the recess with the buffer layer interposed therebetween and having a cladding layer disposed on the buffer layer and a core layer disposed inside the cladding layer.

Abstract: A charged-particle beam system comprises: a charged-particle beam device containing a detection unit for detecting electrons generated by irradiating a sample with a charged-particle beam released from a charged particle source; and a signal detection unit in which a detection signal from the detection unit is input through a wiring. The signal detection unit comprises: a separation unit for separating into a rising signal and a falling signal the detection signal from the detection unit; a falling signal processing unit for at least eliminating ringing in the falling signal; and a combination unit generating and delivering a combined signal produced by combining the rising signal, which has been separated by the separation unit, with the falling signal wherefrom the ringing has been eliminated by the falling signal processing unit.

Abstract: An object is to improve the lamination strength and anti-blocking suitability of matters printed with an aqueous white inkjet ink composition containing titanium oxide, etc., on polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, nylon, and other resin films. As a means for achieving the object, an ink set is provided that includes a combination of: an aqueous primer composition containing an acrylic resin and/or vinyl acetate resin, and a calcium salt; and an aqueous white inkjet ink composition containing a polyester polyurethane resin emulsion with a rate of elongation of 500 to 1500% by 0.1 to 10.0 percent by mass in solids content in the aqueous white inkjet ink composition, a wax emulsion, and a titanium oxide.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory and a processor. The processor, coupled to the memory, is configured to: determine, for each task of a plurality of tasks executed in a distributed stream data processing platform, a log score based on an indication associated with easiness of occurrence of a failure; and output a log message for each task of the plurality of tasks at an output frequency based on a log score of each task and a log score of at least one of an upstream task located upstream of each task and a downstream task located downstream of each task.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a backup power source as a power source for a discharge controller that discharges electric charges of a capacitor, and an abnormal state in the backup power source or loads is not capable of being dealt with when power is supplied to loads from the backup power source, which makes an output voltage of the backup power source be in an abnormal state. In order to solve the problem, when an abnormality occurs in the backup power source or in loads and the abnormality is detected in power supply from the backup power source, a place where the abnormality occurs is specified. When the specified place where the abnormality occurs is a load, power supply to the load is stopped, thereby preventing the output voltage of the backup power source from being abnormal even when an abnormality occurs in part of power supply destinations.

Abstract: A medical image processing system that can accept commissions to perform 3D formation using a 3D forming apparatus includes a storage unit, a selection accepting unit, a part identifying unit, and a screen generating unit. The storage unit stores a medical image, and body part information representing a human body part in the medical image. The selection accepting unit accepts selection with regard to the medical image stored in the storage unit. The part identifying unit identifies the body part included in the medical image, using the body part information corresponding to the medical image regarding which the selection accepting unit has accepted selection. The screen generating unit generates a screen that can accept a commission to form a formed object of the body part identified by the part identifying unit.

Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting/receiving section that performs transmission and/or reception based on an Uplink-Downlink (UL-DL) configuration; and a control section that controls switching of the UL-DL configuration based on update information of the UL-DL configuration notified via a higher layer signaling, and the control section performs the switching at a timing that comes after a specific timing and satisfies a given condition. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when a UL-DL configuration is semi-statically configured to be changed in an RRC connected state, it is possible to reflect the change at an appropriate timing.

Abstract: A map information-providing system, a map information-providing method, and a map information-providing program which can provide map information while suppressing incongruity a recipient feels are provided. A navigation system (map information-providing system) includes a storage unit storing map information for navigation (first map information) and map information for autonomous driving (second map information) an updating period thereof is different from the map information for navigation with respect to at least a portion of a period of time, and a map information-providing unit which provides map information by combining the map information for navigation with the map information for autonomous driving in a case where the map information for autonomous driving had been updated based on newer information than the map information for navigation at a time of providing the map information.

Abstract: An antenna according to an aspect includes: a dielectric window having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface having an annular recessed surface and a flat surface surrounded by the recessed surface; a slot plate; a dielectric plate; a heat transfer member made of metal and having an upper surface and a lower surface opposing each other; a cooling jacket; and a heater, in which the upper surface includes a plurality of first regions and a second region, the cooling jacket is mounted on the plurality of first regions, the second region is recessed further toward the lower surface side than the plurality of first regions, the heater is mounted on the second region, and each of the plurality of first regions is provided at a position at least partially overlapping with the flat surface when viewed in a direction parallel to a central axis.

Abstract: Provided is a gas separation membrane that can be used continuously. The gas separation membrane comprises: a porous support membrane that contains an aromatic polyamide in which an aromatic ring has been replaced with a chloro group; and a separation functional layer that is disposed on the surface of the porous support membrane and contains a cross-linked polyamide obtained by polycondensation of a polyfunctional amine and a polyfunctional acid halide.

Abstract: A specific conductivity measurement method includes: performing first measurement to obtain a resonance frequency f1 that is outputted to a measuring device when the first and second dielectric flat plates each have a thickness t1, and an unloaded Qu1 that corresponds to the resonance frequency f1; performing second measurement to obtain a resonance frequency f2 that is outputted to the measuring device when the first and second dielectric flat plates each have a thickness t2 that is different from the thickness t1, and an unloaded Qu2 that corresponds to the resonance frequency f2; and calculating a specific conductivity ?r of the copper foil and the first and second conductor flat plates based on an arithmetic equation that includes the resonance frequency the unloaded Qu1, the resonance frequency f2, and the unloaded Qu2.

Abstract: A charged particle beam device includes a deflection unit that deflects a charged particle beam released from a charged particle source to irradiate a sample, a reflection plate that reflects secondary electrons generated from the sample, and a control unit that controls the deflection unit based on an image generated by detecting the secondary electrons reflected from the reflection plate. The deflection unit includes an electromagnetic deflection unit that electromagnetically scans with the charged particle beam by a magnetic field and an electrostatic deflection unit that electrostatically scans with the charged particle beam by an electric field. The control unit controls the electromagnetic deflection unit and the electrostatic deflection unit, superimposes an electromagnetic deflection vector generated by the electromagnetic scanning and an electrostatic deflection vector generated by the electrostatic scanning, and controls at least a trajectory of the charged particle beam.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound source direction estimation device and method, and a program that can reduce an operation amount for estimating a direction of a target sound source. A first estimation unit estimates a first horizontal angle that is a horizontal angle of a sound source direction from an input acoustic signal. A second estimation unit estimates a second horizontal angle that is the horizontal angle of the sound source direction and an elevation angle, with respect to the first horizontal angle, in a predetermined range near the first horizontal angle. The present technology can be applied, in a case where a voice is uttered from a surrounding sound source (for example, a person), to a device having a function of estimating the direction in which the voice is uttered.

Abstract: An optical measurement device includes a light source configured to output a terahertz wave and coaxial light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the terahertz wave, coaxially with the terahertz wave; an intensity modulation unit configured to perform intensity modulation of at least the terahertz wave of the terahertz wave and the coaxial light in a predetermined modulation frequency; and a light detection unit configured to synchronously detects each of the terahertz wave and the coaxial light which have acted on a measurement subject via the intensity modulation unit based on the modulation frequency.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recorded with an information processing program executable by a processor of an information processing apparatus, the information processing program causing the processor to perform operations including configuring an operation area on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, the operation area being associated with a payment target candidate user, determining a payment amount, based on an extent of an action in a user operation performed in the operation area, and transmitting information about a payment of the payment amount with respect to the payment target candidate user.

Abstract: An apparatus performs transmission and reception of messages via which a plurality of services coordinate with each other in a message control system. The apparatus integrates a plurality of messages into a first message, based on relationships between message transmission and message reception caused by the plurality of services, and transmits the first message to another information processing device in the message control system. The apparatus receives a second message integrated by another information processing device, and decompose the received second message into messages including a third message. The apparatus further integrates the decomposed third message and a fourth message into a fifth message, and transfers the integrated fifth message to another information processing device.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a voice input device and method, and a program that facilitate estimation of an utterance direction The voice input device includes: a fixed part disposed at a predetermined position; a movable part movable with respect to the fixed part; a microphone array attached to the fixed part; an utterance direction estimation unit configured to estimate an utterance direction on the basis of a voice from an utterer that is input from the microphone array; and a driving unit configured to drive the movable part according to the estimated utterance direction. The voice input device can be used by installation in, for example, a smart speaker, a voice agent, a robot, and the like.

Abstract: A manufacturing-state display system that displays a manufacturing status of a product manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing processes, the manufacturing-state display system includes: displaying a graph that indicates a time elapsed from start to end of each of the manufacturing processes based on information on start times and end times of the manufacturing processes, each of the manufacturing processes being segmented in order of execution of the manufacturing processes and time axes being aligned in an identical direction; receiving designation of an area that indicates manufacturing for any product in any manufacturing process on the graph displayed; and reproducing a captured image that corresponds to a start time to an end time of manufacturing for a specific product in a specific manufacturing process, specified by the area of which the designation has been received, among captured images with regard to the manufacturing processes.

Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first terminal that is inserted into a first through hole in a substrate; and a second terminal that is inserted into a second through hole in the substrate, wherein a length of the first terminal from a first end that is inserted into the first through hole to a second end is longer than a length of the second terminal from a third end that is inserted into the second through hole to a fourth end, and a cross sectional area of a portion of the first terminal positioned on a side of the second end with respect to a first joined portion is larger than a cross sectional area of a portion of the second terminal positioned on a side of the fourth end with respect to a second joined portion.