Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel area including a plurality of pixels each including an avalanche photodiode including an anode and a cathode. The plurality of pixels includes effective pixels that output a photon detection signal responsive to photo detection, dummy pixels that do not output the photon detection signal, and optical black pixels including a light shielding portion. The pixel area includes a first area including the effective pixels, a second area including the dummy pixels, and a third area including the optical black pixels. The second area includes a first portion in contact with an end of the pixel area and a second portion. The first portion, the first area, the second portion, and the third area are disposed in this order in a first direction. A width of the second portion is larger than a width of the first portion in the first direction.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods for expanding populations of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) or hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) using extracellular vesicles isolated from hematopoietic stem cells (HSC-derived EVs) or from HPCs (HPC-derived EVs). Also provided are methods of using the isolated HSC-derived EVs and/or HPC-derived EVs as well as the HSCs and HPCs generated by or exposed to the methods disclosed herein.

Abstract: A method for producing a stator includes: a segment coil insertion step of inserting a segment coil including a coil end part serving as a coil end portion into each of a plurality of slots of a stator core such that the coil end part protrudes from an end surface of the stator core in an axial direction to an outer side in the axial direction; and a bending step of bending each of a plurality of the coil end parts in a circumferential direction of the stator core up to a tip end portion of each of the plurality of coil end parts by relatively moving a bending jig with respect to the stator core in a direction along the circumferential direction with each of the plurality of coil end parts inserted into a recess of the bending jig, the recess extending along the coil end part.

Abstract: The method for producing a repair sheet includes: attaching a nonpolar resin plate to an appropriate position on a dummy vehicle body corresponding to a repair area including a coating film in need of repair; supplying the dummy vehicle body to a topcoat application line and forming a pigment layer on a nonpolar resin plate and a clear layer on a nonpolar resin plate under a condition equal to that for topcoat application to a vehicle body to be actually coated; and supplying the dummy vehicle body to a coating drying line and drying the nonpolar resin plate having the pigment layer and the nonpolar resin plate having the clear layer formed thereon under a condition equal to that for coating drying of the vehicle body to be actually coated.

Abstract: A retaining unit that retains a stack body in which piston rings are stacked in an axial direction, a cutting-out unit that delivers a piston ring at the tip end of the stack body from the stack body, and a detecting unit that detects a boundary between the piston rings that are adjacent to each other in the stack body are included, and the cutting-out unit includes a moving unit that moves a pushing-out unit and a restricting unit, and after inserting the pushing-out unit and the restricting unit into a dividing portion that is a boundary between the piston ring at the tip end and a piston ring that is adjacent to the piston ring at the tip end in the stack body, in a state in which movement of the piston ring that is adjacent to the piston ring at the tip end in a delivering direction in which the piston ring at the tip end is delivered is restricted by the restricting unit, the moving unit moves the pushing-out unit in the delivering direction, so that the piston ring at the tip end is separated from the s

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel area including a plurality of pixels each including an avalanche photodiode including an anode and a cathode. The plurality of pixels includes effective pixels that output a photon detection signal responsive to photo detection, dummy pixels that do not output the photon detection signal, and optical black pixels including a light shielding portion. The pixel area includes a first area including the effective pixels, a second area including the dummy pixels, and a third area including the optical black pixels. The second area includes a first portion in contact with an end of the pixel area and a second portion. The first portion, the first area, the second portion, and the third area are disposed in this order in a first direction. A width of the second portion is larger than a width of the first portion in the first direction.

Abstract: A transmission device according to the present technology includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a first shelf image captured at a first time for a product shelf on which a product is displayed, and a second shelf image captured for the product shelf at a second time after the first time, a region specification unit that specifies a difference region between the first shelf image and the second shelf image, a cut-out processing unit that cuts out a partial image from the second shelf image so that the difference region is included, and a transmission processing unit that transmits the first shelf image and the partial image to a reception device.

Abstract: To provide a liner which contains a polyamide resin, wherein the polyamide resin contains a diamine-derived structural unit and a dicarboxylic acid-derived structural unit; 50 mol % or more of the diamine-derived structural unit is derived from a xylylenediamine; a content of a toughness improver in a region up to 30% in a thickness direction from one surface of the liner is from 5 to 20 mass %; and a content of the toughness improver in a region up to 30% in a thickness direction from the other surface of the liner is 0.5 mass % or less.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer is not peeled off.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus configured to generate a script for registering information extracted from a document image and corresponding to a predetermined attribute into a cooperation service includes: a generation unit configured to generate a first prompt for generating a script based on a specification for registering the information into the cooperation service; and an output unit configured to output the script for registering the information into the cooperation service based on the script generated by a generative AI in response to input of the first prompt.

Abstract: A transport system includes: a transport path housing; a first magnetic force unit provided in the transport path housing; a transport vehicle that includes a second magnetic force unit provided so as to be able to face the first magnetic force unit and is able to travel along the transport path housing while being levitated by magnetic force acting between the first magnetic force unit and the second magnetic unit; a rail on which the transport vehicle lands to be able to travel, the rail being provided in the transport path housing; and at least one moving means for moving the transport vehicle in a landing state where the transport vehicle lands on the rail, to a position where the transport vehicle is be able to be levitated by the magnetic force.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a compound having H-PGDS inhibitory activity. The present invention relates to a compound of the formula [I]: wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A catheter balloon includes a first layer and a second layer disposed adjacent to each other in a thickness direction of the balloon, the first layer and the second layer are configured by different materials, and a rupture strength of the first layer and a rupture strength of the second layer are the same.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus generates a name using characters recognized in image data, assign the name to the image data, and store the image data; makes a request for approval by a user regarding the name, transmit the image data to an external apparatus after the image data is approved by the user, and deletes the image data; in a case where the image data has exceeded a predetermined storage period without the name being approved by the user, in a case where the name satisfies a predetermined condition, transmits the image data to the external apparatus before deleting the image data; and deletes the image data that has exceeded the predetermined storage period without the name being approved by the user.

Abstract: A stator manufacturing device includes: an abutment member configured to form a bending start point in a lead wire segment coil among a plurality of segment coils inserted into a slot of a stator core, wherein the abutment member is configured to abut on a side surface of a projecting portion protruding from the slot of the lead wire segment coil from the outside in the radial direction of the stator core to form the bending start point; and a lead wire holding portion for holding the projecting portion of the lead wire segment coil, wherein the lead wire holding portion is configured to be movable along the radial direction and the axial direction of the stator core with respect to the abutment member.

Abstract: An information processing method includes, by a processing unit, displaying, on a display unit, a diagram in which a flow path structure is expressed using a plurality of symbols representing components of a flow path, acquiring a designation of a symbol to be treated as a reference point among the plurality of symbols, calculating a range in which a fluid is allowed to flow from the reference point in the flow path structure using information regarding arrangement of the plurality of symbols and attribute information associated with each of the plurality of symbols, and editing the diagram to identify the range and displaying the edited diagram on the display unit.

Abstract: To provide a liner which contains a polyamide resin, wherein the polyamide resin contains a diamine-derived structural unit and a dicarboxylic acid-derived structural unit; 50 mol % or more of the diamine-derived structural unit is derived from a xylylenediamine; a content of a toughness improver in a region up to 30% in a thickness direction from one surface of the liner is from 5 to 20 mass %; and a content of the toughness improver in a region up to 30% in a thickness direction from the other surface of the liner is 0.5 mass % or less.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a data base configured to store, for a predetermined vehicle, a history of coating operation which is operation related to coating using a coating film containing an easily removable layer; and a controller configured to: acquire operation data representing details on the coating operation that is performed on the vehicle, and update the data base based on the operation data.

Abstract: An information processing method according to an embodiment includes the steps of: by a computer, estimating stress information regarding a type of stress of a user on the basis of biological information of the user measured in real time by a biological sensor; and specifying correlation information correlated with the stress information from behavior information related to a behavior history of the user and activity information related to a social activity history of the user depending on the stress information.