Abstract: A supply chain management system is configured to create supply chain network information including information on a directed graph representing a multi-tiered supply chain network including tiers upstream and downstream of the target enterprise, acquire risk information on the multi-tiered supply chain network, detect, in the directed graph, a risk occurrence node influenced by a risk and a node of the target enterprise influenced by a defect of product supply at the risk occurrence node, search for a substituting node candidate for the risk occurrence node in a node group including a node of an enterprise outside the directed graph based on an item of the risk occurrence node, and present information on a change plan of the multi-tiered supply chain network obtained by adding the substituting node candidate to the directed graph.

Abstract: A sourcing support system comprises: a weight calculation unit configured to calculate the name of the related parts group related to the target part when target part specifying information is input; calculate the name of the related parts group; and calculate the evaluation index weights of the evaluation indexes of the supply capacity; and a score calculation unit configured to calculate a name of a candidate supplier who can purchase the target part; calculate the evaluation index score of the evaluation index of supply capacity and the evaluation index of soundness for the calculated names of the candidate suppliers; calculate the sum of the products of the evaluation index weight and the evaluation index score, with respect to the evaluation index of supply capacity as a supply capacity score; calculate the sum of the evaluation index score S of the evaluation index of soundness as the soundness score.

Abstract: A rectifier and a vehicle AC generator that can suppress the cost, the rectification loss, and the leakage current from increasing are provided. A rectifier is configured in such a way that in each of n sets, one of a positive electrode side semiconductor device and a negative electrode side semiconductor device is a MOSFET, in such a way that in at least one of the n sets, the other one of the positive electrode side semiconductor device and the negative electrode side semiconductor device is a specific diode, and in such a way that the specific diode is a Schottky barrier diode or a MOS diode, which is a MOSFET whose drain terminal and gate terminal are short-circuited.

Abstract: A service providing system, an information processing system, a display control method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The service providing system stores in one or more memories, application settings information indicating settings of one or more setting items for each application, sets a setting item to be displayed on a setting screen for setting application to non-display, and in response to determination that the setting item set to non-display is included in the one or more setting items of the application settings information, switch a display setting of the setting item from non-display to display, to cause the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.

Abstract: A service providing system, an information processing system, a display control method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The service providing system stores in one or more memories, application settings information indicating settings of one or more setting items for each application, sets a setting item to be displayed on a setting screen for setting application to non-display, and in response to determination that the setting item set to non-display is included in the one or more setting items of the application settings information, switch a display setting of the setting item from non-display to display, to cause the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.

Abstract: An information processing system configured to communicate with an apparatus and an external server and to perform a series of processes specified by the apparatus is provided. The information processing system includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to identify a program that is executed in the external server based on the series of processes specified by the apparatus, and control the operational state of the external server in which the identified program is executed.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle), a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer having a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer, and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound includes a non-polar group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group. The third compound includes a charging group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle), a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer having a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer, and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound includes a non-polar group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group. The third compound includes a charging group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: A recording apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a moving image to a recording medium; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an input unit configured to accept a predetermined instruction; and a control unit configured to perform control such that, in a case where the predetermined instruction is accepted by the input unit during recording of a moving image by the recording unit, a moving image portion for which recording ended is automatically transferred to the external apparatus in accordance with ending of recording of a predetermined unit of the moving image.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle), a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer having a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer, and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound includes a non-polar group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group. The third compound includes a charging group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle) that includes a first functional group, and a first compound and a second compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer that includes a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer that contributes to dispersibility and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer including a second functional group having reactivity to the first functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound has a lower molecular weight than the first compound, includes a non-polar group and the second functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: An electrophoresis dispersion liquid includes first electrophoretic particle of a scattering system having an ionic group on a surface thereof; second electrophoretic particle of a coloring system having a polarization group on the surface thereof; and a dispersion medium. It is preferable that the ionic group is an acidic group, and further includes a ring structure that forms an acidic group and a salt. It is preferable that the polarization group is an organic group having a main skeleton, and a substituent bonded to the main skeleton.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle), a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer having a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer, and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound includes a non-polar group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group. The third compound includes a charging group and a second functional group and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: An electrophoretic particle includes a base particle (particle) that includes a first functional group, and a first compound and a second compound bonded to the base particle. The first compound is a polymer that includes a dispersion portion derived from a first monomer that contributes to dispersibility and a bonding portion derived from a second monomer including a second functional group having reactivity to the first functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the bonding portion. The second compound has a lower molecular weight than the first compound, includes a non-polar group and the second functional group, and is connected to the base particle at the second functional group.

Abstract: An electrophoresis dispersion liquid includes first electrophoretic particle of a scattering system having an ionic group on a surface thereof; second electrophoretic particle of a coloring system having a polarization group on the surface thereof; and a dispersion medium. It is preferable that the ionic group is an acidic group, and further includes a ring structure that forms an acidic group and a salt. It is preferable that the polarization group is an organic group having a main skeleton, and a substituent bonded to the main skeleton.

Abstract: An electrophotographic device member can be configured as a roll member 1, a blade member 2, a belt member 3 or the like, and a modified rubber elastic body 12 is used as a material for a portion including the surfaces of the respective members. The modified rubber elastic body 12 has a rubber elastic body 121 having rubber elasticity and a surface-treated layer 122 composed of a cured product of photocurable composition impregnated into the rubber elastic body 121 from the surface thereof. The photocurable composition is configured to include a (meth)acryl monomer, a photopolymerizable polymer having a silicone group and/or a fluorine-containing group and a (meth)acryloyl group in a molecule, and a photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: A recording apparatus comprises a recording unit configured to record a moving image to a recording medium; a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an input unit configured to accept a predetermined instruction; and a control unit configured to perform control such that, in a case where the predetermined instruction is accepted by the input unit during recording of a moving image by the recording unit, a moving image portion for which recording ended is automatically transferred to the external apparatus in accordance with ending of recording of a predetermined unit of the moving image.

Abstract: An electrophotographic device member can be configured as a roll member 1, a blade member 2, a belt member 3 or the like, and a modified rubber elastic body 12 is used as a material for a portion including the surfaces of the respective members. The modified rubber elastic body 12 has a rubber elastic body 121 having rubber elasticity and a surface-treated layer 122 composed of a cured product of photocurable composition impregnated into the rubber elastic body 121 from the surface thereof. The photocurable composition is configured to include a (meth)acryl monomer, a photopolymerizable polymer having a silicone group and/or a fluorine-containing group and a (meth)acryloyl group in a molecule, and a photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a dispersion medium includes bonding a siloxane compound to the surface of core particles by a precursor of the siloxane compound and the surface of the core particles being reacted in the dispersion medium, and removing the precursor not bonded to the core particles.

Abstract: A development roll for electrophotographic equipment includes a shaft body and a rubber elastic layer disposed on the outer circumference of the shaft body. The rubber elastic layer is composed of a crosslinked body of a composition containing a liquid or millable silicone rubber, a crosslinking agent, an electronically conductive agent, and an ionic liquid. The composition contains the ionic liquid in the amount in the range of 0.1 to 5.1 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total amount of the liquid or millable silicone rubber and the crosslinking agent.