Abstract: A door control device includes: an electric motor control unit configured to drive, in response to a closing command for closing a door that is driven to be opened and closed by an electric motor, the electric motor; a door closed state detection unit configured to detect a closed state of the door; and a lock command output unit configured to output a lock command to lock a locking device of the door, upon the closed state being detected when a predetermined waiting time has passed after the electric motor was driven by the electric motor control unit in response to the closing command and the closed state was detected by the door closed state detection unit.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a first polarizer; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second polarizer, the liquid crystal molecules being aligned in a plane parallel to surfaces of the first polarizer and the second polarizer, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being disposed such that their absorption axes are perpendicular to each other, the liquid crystal display device including at least one first retardation layer whose principal refractive indexes satisfy a relationship nx=ny>nz or at least one second retardation layer whose principal refractive indexes satisfy a relationship nx=ny<nz between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal layer or between the second polarizer and the liquid crystal layer, the at least one first retardation layer and the at least one second retardation layer satisfying a predetermined relationship.

Abstract: The disclosure features methods for treating hypophosphatasia (HPP) in a patient (e.g., a child having HPP) exhibiting physical impairments, disability in activities of daily living (ADL), pain, and/or delayed motor development by administering a soluble alkaline phosphatase (sALP) to the patient.

Abstract: A pen-input surface material has a surface on which an input is to be performed with a pen. The surface has ten-point average roughness (Rzjis) ranging from 0.1 ?m to 6 ?m inclusive, an average space between asperities (RSm) ranging from 30 ?m to 500 ?m inclusive, and skewness (Rsk) of zero or higher.

Abstract: The disclosure features methods for treating hypophosphatasia (HPP) in a patient (e.g., adolescent or adult having HPP) exhibiting physical impairments or decreased walking ability by administering a soluble alkaline phosphatase (sALP) to the patient.

Abstract: A treatment agent for inhibiting substrate pattern collapse contains a polymer and a polar solvent. A treatment method of a substrate includes: applying the treatment agent onto a substrate having a pattern formed thereon; and drying the treatment agent applied onto the substrate. The polymer is preferably a hydrophilic polymer. In addition, the polymer preferably has at least one functional group selected from a hydroxy group, a carboxy group, an amide group, an amino group, a sulfo group and an aldehyde group. Furthermore, the polymer is preferably one selected from a vinyl polymer, a polysaccharide, a polyester, a polyether and a polyamide.

Abstract: An on-board unit includes a positioning section, a positioning result storage section, and a processing section. The positioning section is configured to output a positioning result showing a current position of a vehicle based on a positioning signal received from an artificial satellite. The positioning result storage section is configured to store the positioning result in relation to a time. The processing section is configured to detect a spoofing based on whether a movement of the vehicle satisfies a given condition, by using a past positioning result stored in the positioning result storage section and a current positioning result measured by the positioning section.

Abstract: An on-board unit is provided with a positioning section and a processing section. The positioning section is configured to output a first position data showing a current position of a vehicle based on a positioning signal received from an artificial satellite. The processing section is configured to acquire second position data showing a current position of the vehicle based on a radio signal which is different from the positioning signal, and to detect a spoofing based on a position shown by the first position data and a position shown by the second position data.

Abstract: An on-board unit includes a satellite information acquiring section and a processing section. The satellite information acquiring section is configured to output first time data showing current time based on a satellite signal received from an artificial satellite. The processing section is configured to acquire second time data showing current time based on a radio signal which is different from the satellite signal, and to detect a spoofing based on a difference of a time shown by the first time data and a time shown by the second time data.

Abstract: The present invention directed to instant-prepared fried noodle and aimed to reduce an amount of fats and oils therein and realize those with favorable texture and taste with the simple method without depending on any special device. Dough is prepared by adding 0.3-0.6 weight by percent in total of sodium carbonate and/or potassium carbonate to raw noodle flour like wheat flour, then adding edible acid substance thereto to adjust dough pH to 7.5-8.5, and kneading them with brine water. The dough so produced is rolled, cut, steamed, then seasoning solution or water is absorbed into noodle strings so made and the noodle strings are dried by frying them with oil of 130 ° C.-160° C. Thereby, an amount of fats and oils in the instant-prepared fried noodle bricks can be reduced without generating any scorching damage in the noodle strings.

Abstract: A composition includes a metal compound and a solvent. The metal compound includes: a plurality of metal atoms of titanium, tantalum, zirconium, tungsten or a combination thereof; oxygen atoms each crosslinking the metal atoms; and polydentate ligands each coordinating to the metal atom. An absolute molecular weight of the metal compound as determined by static light scattering is no less than 8,000 and no greater than 50,000. A pattern-forming method includes applying the composition on an upper face side of a substrate to form an inorganic film. A resist pattern is formed on an upper face side of the inorganic film. The inorganic film and the substrate are dry-etched, by each separate etching operation, using the resist pattern as a mask such that the substrate has a pattern.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to effectively suppress interference fringes which occur due to the difference in refractive index between a retardation layer and a pattern alignment layer while maintaining an alignment property in a retardation film, a retardation film includes a substrate, an alignment layer containing a photo-alignment material, and a retardation layer containing a liquid crystal compound, and the alignment layer contains 3.0-8.0 parts by mass (inclusive) of epoxy monomer with respect to 100 parts by mass of photo-alignment material.

Abstract: In the storage battery system, from the same temperature and the same voltage as both batteries a decrease per day of an open-circuit voltage of the lead-acid storage battery by a self-discharge is ?V1(V/day) and a decrease per day of an open-circuit voltage of the sub-battery by a self-discharge is ?V2(V/day), and a relation of ?V1??V2 is satisfied. The sub-battery is a nickel hydride storage battery.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor substrate has a surface on which an abrasion trace is formed, and a dopant diffusion region includes a portion extending in the direction at an angle within the range of ?5° to +5° with respect to the direction in which the abrasion trace extends.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a mobile terminal tester which can reduce the production cost from that of the conventional mobile terminal tester.

Abstract: There is provided an electric power supply device including an electric power supply portion that continuously supplies, to another device with which an agreement about electric power supply has been made, electric power agreed with the other device until one of a time at which the agreement becomes unnecessary and a time determined in advance, the electric power being supplied via a bus line formed by a pair of conductors, and an information communication portion that transmits and receives an information signal indicating information to and from the other device to which the electric power supply portion supplies the electric power, such that the information signal is superimposed on the electric power supplied from the electric power supply portion. The electric power supply portion determines whether to change the electric power to be supplied, in accordance with one of connection of a new device to the bus line and disconnection of the new device from the bus line.

Abstract: Whether a safety function unit having a safety function of a desired standard is correctly mounted in a safety device having a configuration in which a basic control function and safety function are separated is accurately determined. The safety device includes a controller and the safety function unit. The controller is provided with a unit which selects a category for identifying a safety function unit which should be connected, a unit which transmits a reference signal to the safety function unit, a unit which determined, based on a category identification signal returned from the safety function unit, whether or not the category of the connected safety function unit coincides with a selected category, and a unit which, in the event that the result of the determination is such that the category of the connected safety function unit and the selected category do not coincide, prohibits the output of a control signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sintered nickel positive electrode that has an expanded usable range to a low charging region by using nickel hydroxide having a particular crystal structure as a main component of a positive electrode active material. In the sintered nickel positive electrode of the invention, a nickel sintered substrate is filled, through a plurality of impregnation steps, with a positive electrode active material containing nickel hydroxide (?-Ni(OH)2) as a main component. In addition, the nickel hydroxide (?-Ni(OH)2) has an integrated intensity ratio of a peak intensity in a (001) face of 1.8 or more with respect to a peak intensity in a (100) face, where the peak intensities are determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, while an integrated intensity ratio of a peak intensity in a (001) face with respect to a peak intensity in a (100) face is about 1.5 in the related art. Using the nickel hydroxide having an integrated intensity ratio of the peak intensity in the (001) face of 1.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein the carbon atom denoted by * is in the R-configuration; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a hydroxyamino group, a nitro group, a cyano group, a sulfamoyl group, a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a C1-C6 alkylsulfanyl group, a C1-C6 alkylsulfinyl group or a C1-C6 alkylsulfonyl group; and A is a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.