Abstract: A microfluidic device including a substrate having at least one droplet holder formed thereon, and a cover member facing the substrate with a space between the cover member and the substrate, and having a flow path formed in the space and connected to the droplet holder. The flow path has a height of more than 0 ?m and 30 ?m or less.

Abstract: A scintillator panel 10 includes a substrate 11 having a substrate main surface 11a, a substrate rear surface 11b, and a substrate side surface 11c; and a scintillator layer 12 having a scintillator rear surface 12b formed of a plurality of columnar crystals, a scintillator main surface 12a, and a scintillator side surface 12c. The substrate side surface 11c and the scintillator side surface 12c are substantially flush with each other. In the substrate 11, an angle A1 between the substrate rear surface 11b and the substrate side surface 11c is smaller than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the substrate and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer and including cesium iodide as a main component. According to this scintillator panel, moisture resistance can be improved by providing the barrier layer between the substrate and the scintillator layer.

Abstract: A microfluidic device includes: a base plate allowing an electromagnetic wave to pass therethrough and having no autofluorescence; a microwell array formed on the base plate and including a wall layer in which a plurality of through-holes are formed in a thickness direction; and a lid member disposed opposite to the base plate in a state of being separated from the wall layer, wherein microwells are formed by the base plate and the through-holes formed in the wall layer, and wherein the wall layer is formed of a material containing a colored component that absorbs an electromagnetic wave of a predetermined wavelength.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate having a substrate main surface, a substrate rear surface, and a substrate side surface; and a scintillator layer having a scintillator rear surface formed of a plurality of columnar crystals, a scintillator main surface, and a scintillator side surface. The substrate side surface and the scintillator side surface are substantially flush with each other. In the substrate, an angle between the substrate rear surface and the substrate side surface is smaller than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the substrate and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer and including cesium iodide as a main component. According to this scintillator panel, moisture resistance can be improved by providing the barrier layer between the substrate and the scintillator layer.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate, a resin protective layer formed on the substrate and made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the resin protective layer and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer and including cesium iodide with thallium added thereto as a main component. According to this scintillator panel, moisture resistance can be improved due to the barrier layer provided therein.

Abstract: A charged particle beam irradiation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an optical column; a stage; a mount supporting the stage; a chamber provided on the mount and supporting the optical column; a detector configured to detect movement of the stage; actuator units each including a curved plate, a piezoelectric element, and a connector connected configured to transmit a first force generated by a change of the curvature of the curved plate to the mount; and an actuator control circuit configured to control the voltage applied to the piezoelectric element of each of the actuator units based on movement information, so that the first force is transmitted from the actuator units to the mount against a second force acting on the mount due to the movement of the stage.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate, a resin protective layer formed on the substrate and made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the resin protective layer and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer and including cesium iodide with thallium added thereto as a main component. According to this scintillator panel, moisture resistance can be improved due to the barrier layer provided therein.

Abstract: In order to accurately identify a target object, a signal processor is provided, which includes an extracting module configured to extract, from echo sample sequences, a plurality of samples caused by the target object as a partial sample sequence, a characteristic amount calculating module configured to calculate a characteristic of the partial sample sequence as a characteristic amount, a memory configured to store a plurality of type-based data that are data as comparison targets of the characteristic amount and correspond to types from which the target object is identified, and an identifying module configured to compare the characteristic amount with each of the plurality of type-based data and, based on the comparison result, identify the target object corresponding to the partial sample sequence for which the characteristic amount is calculated.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a prediction program that causes a computer to execute a process including receiving input data to be predicted, generating a tree structure data based on a plurality of pieces of rule information each indicated by an association of a combination of attribute values of a plurality of attributes with a label according to a predetermined order condition for the plurality of attributes, the tree structure data being obtained by aggregating the plurality of pieces of rule information, the tree structure data including an attribute value as a branch, and determining a degree of contribution to make a determination result on a predetermined value of a predetermined attribute reach a predetermined label based on a likelihood of obtaining a value of the predetermined label as the determination result, when the attribute value of the predetermined attribute is determined to be the predetermined value.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a predicting program that causes a computer to execute: receiving input data to be subjected to prediction; and generating, from training data sets each having explanatory variables and an objective variable, a prediction result, by using a hypothesis set and respective weights of hypotheses included in the hypothesis set, the hypotheses each being formed of a combination of the explanatory variables, classifying any of the training data sets and satisfying a specific condition, the weights being learnt based on whether each of the hypotheses holds true for each of the training data sets. The generating includes determining a value of a variable included in a pseudo-Boolean function such that a probability satisfies a predetermined standard, the probability being a probability that the prediction result satisfies the specific condition, the pseudo-Boolean function including variables corresponding to the explanatory variables.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a prediction program that causes a computer to execute a process including obtaining a machine learning model trained by using training data, the machine learning model predicting presence or absence of purchase actions or predetermined actions of users corresponding to feature information on the users, the training data including feature information on users and information indicating the presence or the absence of the purchase actions of commercial products or the predetermined actions, receiving input of a budget amount in an entry field displayed on a display in association with a user group including users including a common feature in the feature information, and displaying, in association with the budget amount on the display, feature information on the users included in the user group corresponding to the entry field.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a charged particle beam apparatus includes a stage; a chamber; an emission source of the charged particle beam; an electronic optical system configured to emit the charged particle beam; an optical column including the emission source and the electronic optical system; a charged particle detector configured to detect a position of the charged particle beam; a first actuator configured to provide a frequency vibration to the stage based on a first excitation signal; a second actuator configured to provide a frequency vibration to the optical column based on a second excitation signal; a third actuator configured to provide a frequency vibration to the chamber based on a third excitation signal; and a controller configured to generate the first to third excitation signals.

Abstract: An optional array in a memory includes an array having blocks each including an address word and a data word, and a boundary that is a position where a ratio between the numbers of unwritten blocks in M area and written blocks in W area is an integer ratio. The controlling process includes when a second write for writing a special value in a written block in the second area is invoked, executing a shrink process of shifting the boundary to shrink the first area; in a case where the first adjacent block at the boundary is a written block, storing an address of the first adjacent block and of a first link destination block forming a link with the write destination block in address words of the first link destination block and of the first adjacent block respectively to form a link.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate having a substrate main surface, a substrate rear surface, and a substrate side surface; and a scintillator layer having a scintillator rear surface formed of a plurality of columnar crystals, a scintillator main surface, and a scintillator side surface. The substrate side surface and the scintillator side surface are substantially flush with each other. In the substrate, an angle between the substrate rear surface and the substrate side surface is smaller than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein an allocation program that causes a computer to execute a process including: performing, by using a part of data including an objective variable and one or more explanatory variables corresponding to the objective variable as training data, training of a model that predicts the objective variable from the explanatory variables of the data; classifying test data obtained by excluding the training data from the data into a group according to a classification condition regarding at least a part of the explanatory variables of the data; predicting the objective variable from the explanatory variables of the test data using the trained model for each of groups by which classification has been performed at the classifying; and calculating a predetermined resource amount to be allocated to each of the groups based on the objective variable for each of the groups predicted at the predicting.

Abstract: A scintillator panel includes a substrate having a substrate main surface, a substrate rear surface, and a substrate side surface; a scintillator layer having a scintillator rear surface formed of a plurality of columnar crystals, a scintillator main surface, and a scintillator side surface; and a protective film covering the scintillator side surface of the scintillator layer. The substrate side surface partially has a coarsened region. The scintillator side surface has a coarse surface including an uneven structure. The protective film closely adheres to the scintillator side surface such that the coarse surfaces are covered.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein an extraction program that causes a computer to execute a process including: generating a plurality of combinations of conditions relating to a plurality of item values included in data; calculating an index value that indicates a degree of cooccurrence between a specified response variable and each of the plurality of combinations, by using a machine learning model that estimates a response variable from the plurality of item values, the machine learning model having been trained by using the data; and extracting a specific combination from among the plurality of combinations based on any one of the condition and the index value.

Abstract: A server inputs behavior information of a target to a trained machine learning model that learn a plurality of association relations obtained by associating combinations of behaviors generated from a plurality of behaviors included in a plurality of training data items with likelihoods indicating certainties that the combinations of the behaviors are in a specific state, the trained machine learning having been trained by using the plurality of training data items obtained by associating combinations of behaviors of persons corresponding to the specific state. The server specifies a difference between the combination of the behaviors in each of the plurality of association relations and the behavior information of the target based on output results of the trained machine learning model, and determines an additional behavior for causing the target to transit to the specific state based on the likelihood the difference.