Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition setting unit configured to set a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition setting unit being configured to set the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of information concerning an association relationship between information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration to the culture vess

Abstract: The information processing device includes: a cultivation information acquisition unit configured to acquire cultivation information of a cell; and a recommended condition generation unit configured to generate a recommended condition for detaching the cell from a to-be-processed vessel in which the cell is cultured, the cultivation information including information about the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition being a condition for detaching the cell by applying vibration to the to-be-processed vessel, the recommended condition generation unit being configured to generate the recommended condition based on the cultivation information, with use of a learned model, the learned model being learned with use of information about a cultivation condition and information about a detachment condition, the information about the cultivation condition including information about a culture vessel, the information about the detachment condition including information about a condition for applying vibration t

Abstract: An apparatus includes a developer container to and from which a replenishment container is attachable and detachable and which includes an accommodating portion and a replenishment port, a transfer portion configured to transfer a developer image on an image bearing member onto a recording material, a supporting tray including a supporting surface configured to support the recording material thereon, and a discharge portion configured to discharge the recording material, onto which the developer image has been transferred, on the supporting surface, wherein the supporting surface has an opening portion opening such that the replenishment port is exposed through the supporting surface, and wherein an opening/closing member configured to be movable between a closed position where the opening/closing member covers the replenishment port and serves as a part of the supporting surface and an open position where the replenishment port is exposed is provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer held by a Bernoulli chuck is reliably rotated. A wafer holding apparatus includes: a chuck for holding a semiconductor wafer; and a rotating mechanism for rotating the chuck. On a facing surface of the chuck facing the semiconductor wafer, a plurality of pads and a plurality of support parts are formed. The chuck holds the semiconductor wafer by jetting gas from each of the plurality of pads. The plurality of support parts is formed at positions each deviated from a center of the facing surface of the chuck. When the chuck holds the semiconductor wafer, the plurality of pads is not in contact with the semiconductor wafer while the plurality of support parts is in contact with a principal surface of the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: A sound collection apparatus includes a substantially spherical base on which at least a predetermined number of recess portions are provided in a surface thereof with a predetermined interval therebetween; and a predetermined number of microphones. The predetermined number is an integer of 2 or greater. The microphones are installed on an inner bottom surface side of the recess portions one by one. Intervals between sound collecting portions of adjacent microphones are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: Performance of an encoding process and a decoding process for a sound signal is enhanced. A representative value calculating part 110 calculates, for each frequency section by a plurality of samples fewer than the number of frequency samples of a sample sequence of a frequency domain signal corresponding to an input acoustic signal, from the sample sequence of the frequency domain signal, a representative value of the frequency section from sample values of samples included in the frequency section, for each of predetermined time sections. A signal companding part 120 obtains, for each of the predetermined time sections, a frequency domain sample sequence obtained by multiplying a weight according to a function value of the representative value by a companding function for which an inverse function can be defined and each of the samples corresponding to the representative value in the sample sequence of the frequency domain signal, as a sample sequence of a weighted frequency domain signal.

Abstract: A microphone array is a microphone array including two or more microphone holders 1. The two or more microphone holders 1 each hold one microphone. The two or more microphone holders 1 are separatable from each other. The two or more microphone holders 1 are combinable in two or more combination manners different from each other such that the two or more microphone holders 1 are each in contact with any one of the other microphone holders 1 and a distance between the two respective microphones held by two of the microphone holders 1 that are in contact with each other is a predetermined distance.

Abstract: Provided is a sound image reproduction device, sound image reproduction method, and sound image reproduction program that can support monaural sound sources and is capable of imparting directivity to virtual sound sources in a space.

Abstract: Performance of an encoding process and a decoding process for a sound signal is enhanced. A representative value calculating part 110 calculates, for each frequency section by a plurality of samples fewer than the number of frequency samples of a sample sequence of a frequency domain signal corresponding to an input acoustic signal, from the sample sequence of the frequency domain signal, a representative value of the frequency section from sample values of samples included in the frequency section, for each of predetermined time sections. A signal companding part 120 obtains, for each of the predetermined time sections, a frequency domain sample sequence obtained by multiplying a weight according to a function value of the representative value by a companding function for which an inverse function can be defined and each of the samples corresponding to the representative value in the sample sequence of the frequency domain signal, as a sample sequence of a weighted frequency domain signal.

Abstract: Provided is a sound collection apparatus, including: a substantially spherical base on which at least N recess portions are provided in a surface thereof with a predetermined interval therebetween; and N microphones. N is an integer of 2 or greater. The microphones are installed on an inner bottom surface side of the recess portions one by one. Intervals between sound collecting portions of adjacent microphones are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device 1 includes: a focal point position determination unit 12 that obtains a plurality of sets of initial focal point coordinates, coordinates of the virtual sound source, and a direction of directivity thereof, and for a pair of sets of initial focal point coordinates with different polarities among the plurality of sets of initial focal point coordinates, multiplies the sets of initial focal point coordinates by a rotation matrix based on the coordinates of the virtual sound source to thereby determine sets of focal point coordinates, the rotation matrix being specified from the direction of the directivity; a circular harmonic coefficient conversion unit 13 that calculates weights to be applied to multipoles including the sets of focal point coordinates from a circular harmonic coefficient; a filter coefficient computation unit 14 that, for each of the speakers in the speaker array, computes a weighted driving function to be applied to the speaker from the sets of focal poin

Abstract: Provided is a sound image reproduction device, sound image reproduction method, and sound image reproduction program that can support monaural sound sources and is capable of imparting directivity to virtual sound sources in a space.

Abstract: An acoustic signal processing device 1 includes: a focal point position determination unit 12 that obtains a plurality of sets of initial focal point coordinates, coordinates of the virtual sound source, and a direction of directivity thereof, and for a pair of sets of initial focal point coordinates with different polarities among the plurality of sets of initial focal point coordinates, multiplies the sets of initial focal point coordinates by a rotation matrix based on the coordinates of the virtual sound source to thereby determine sets of focal point coordinates, the rotation matrix being specified from the direction of the directivity; a circular harmonic coefficient conversion unit 13 that calculates weights to be applied to multipoles including the sets of focal point coordinates from a circular harmonic coefficient; a filter coefficient computation unit 14 that, for each of the speakers in the speaker array, computes a weighted driving function to be applied to the speaker from the sets of focal poin

Abstract: A loudspeaker system capable of simultaneously providing listeners with a listening environment not giving them a feeling of strangeness. The loudspeaker system (100) comprises drive motors (111 to 113, 121 to 123) for so driving at least first R-channel loudspeaker (101) that the current first listening position is substantially included in the perpendicularly bisecting plane of a line joining the intersecting point of the first R-channel speaker (101) and its directivity axis and the intersecting point of the second R-channel loudspeaker (120) and its directivity axis and so driving at least fourth L-channel loudspeaker (104) that the current second listening point is substantially included in the perpendicularly bisecting plane of the line joining the intersecting point of a third L-channel loudspeaker (103) and its directivity axis and the intersecting point of a fourth L-channel loudspeaker (104) and its directivity axis. The loudspeaker system (100) further comprises their motor driver section (130).

Abstract: The present invention provides a cell model system capable of sufficiently reproducing a series of tau lesions, and provides a screening method for a prophylactic or therapeutic drug for a neurodegenerative disease using phosphorylation, insolubilization or aggregation of tau, or neurite denaturation or cell death in the cell model as an index.

Abstract: A loudspeaker system capable of simultaneously providing listeners with a listening environment not giving them a feeling of strangeness. The loudspeaker system (100) comprises drive motors (111 to 113, 121 to 123) for so driving at least first R-channel loudspeaker (101) that the current first listening position is substantially included in the perpendicularly bisecting plane of a line joining the intersecting point of the first R-channel speaker (101) and its directivity axis and the intersecting point of the second R-channel loudspeaker (120) and its directivity axis and so driving at least fourth L-channel loudspeaker (104) that the current second listening point is substantially included in the perpendicularly bisecting plane of the line joining the intersecting point of a third L-channel loudspeaker (103) and its directivity axis and the intersecting point of a fourth L-channel loudspeaker (104) and its directivity axis. The loudspeaker system (100) further comprises their motor driver section (130).

Abstract: This invention provides a poultice, which can prevent both runover of a medicated layer and separation from a subject for which the poultice is applied, and a process for producing the poultice. A poultice (10) comprises a support (20) and a medicated layer (30) provided on the support (20) and formed of a medicine. The medicated layer (30) comprises edge parts (31) which are a part extended from the outer periphery inward by not more than 5 mm, and a central part (33) held between the edge parts (31). The mass of the medicine pet unit area of the whole medicated layer (30) is not more than 0.10 g/cm2, and the mass of the medicine per unit area in the edge parts (31) is not less than 70% of the mass of the medicine per unit area in the central part (33).

Abstract: A low-heat accumulating thermoplastic resin composition containing 100 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin [A] and 0.1 to 15 parts by mass of an inorganic pigment [B] having an infrared-reflecting property, and a molded product comprising the composition. The low-heat accumulating thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention is capable of providing a dark-colored molded product exhibiting a less heat accumulation as well as excellent weather resistance and impact resistance.

Abstract: The polypeptide of the present invention has an activity of binding specifically to the cis-element of Chondromodulin-I (ChM-I) gene promoter and promoting the transcription of the ChM-I gene. The polypeptide of the present invention is usable in screening for a compound that promotes or inhibits the activity of the polypeptide.