Abstract: A measurement device including a hardware processor that: extracts a frame image at a time of deep inspiration from a plurality of frame images of a dynamic image obtained by performing radiation imaging of a dynamic state of a chest of a subject; and performs cardiothoracic ratio measurement to the extracted frame image at the time of deep inspiration.

Abstract: A fiber sizing agent includes: a vinyl ester resin (A) having an alkoxy polyoxyalkylene structure and a urethane bond; and an aqueous medium. The fiber sizing agent has excellent fiber sizing properties for various fibers such as glass fibers and carbon fibers. A molded article obtained from a molding material including the fiber sizing agent is excellent in various physical properties such as bending strength, compressive strength, and interlaminar shear strength, and thus can be used, for example, for an automobile member, an aircraft member, a windmill member, and an industrial member.

Abstract: A method for rinsing a compound semiconductor, the method including a step of rinsing a compound semiconductor at a temperature of 80 degrees centigrade or higher with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid of 50 wt % or less in purified water, the aqueous solution having a hydrogen ion concentration of pH 2 or less and an oxidation-reduction potential of 0.6 volts or higher, the compound semiconductor containing gallium as a constituent element, and the compound semiconductor having a surface of gallium nitride (GaN).

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous resin composition in which a vinyl ester resin and a urethane resin having an aromatic ring are dispersed in an aqueous medium, in which the vinyl ester resin is obtained by allowing at least one epoxy resin selected from the group consisting of a novolak type epoxy resin and a bisphenol type epoxy resin to react with a compound having an acid group and a polymerizable unsaturated group, and the urethane resin is obtained by allowing polyol containing polyol having an aromatic ring and polyol having a hydrophilic group to react with a polyisocyanate. A primer using the aqueous resin composition is able to considerably improve adhesiveness between a substrate and a cured coating film of an active energy ray curable composition, even when the substrate is a sparingly adhesive substrate.

Abstract: An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a future risk of lifestyle-related disease for a subject to be evaluated using a concentration value of an amino acid included in amino acid concentration data on the concentration value of the amino acid in blood collected from the subject.

Abstract: A method for rinsing a compound semiconductor, the method including a step of rinsing a compound semiconductor at a temperature of 80 degrees centigrade or higher with an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid of 50 wt % or less in purified water, the aqueous solution having a hydrogen ion concentration of pH 2 or less and an oxidation-reduction potential of 0.6 volts or higher, the compound semiconductor containing gallium as a constituent element, and the compound semiconductor having a surface of gallium nitride (GaN).

Abstract: Compositions, comprising one or more amino acids selected from the group consisting of tryptophan, methionine, phenylalanine, valine, leucine, histidine, lysine and threonine, and isoleucine at a content of not more than 1.5 wt % relative to the total amount of the nutrition composition, provide a more economical and effective nutrition composition for suppressing the growth of hemocytozoon such as malaria parasite and the like.

Abstract: A medical image displaying device includes an operation unit, a display, an acquirer, a temporal displaying controller and a recorder. The display displays a medical image of an object obtained by capturing the object. The acquirer acquires past lesion information on the object found in a past image of the object and recorded in connection with the past image. The temporal displaying controller to temporarily overlay the past lesion information acquired by the acquirer on the medical image. The recorder records the lesion information on the medical image without modification in response to a prescribed instruction from the operation unit to record the lesion information temporarily overlaid on the medical image without modification, and edits the lesion information to record as the lesion information on the medical image in response to another prescribed instruction from the operation unit to edit the lesion information.

Abstract: A medical image displaying device includes an acquirer, a sorter, an extraction unit, a coordination unit and a display controller. The acquirer acquires multiple groups of tomographic images of multiple examinations to be compared with each other from a storage that stores the multiple groups of tomographic images captured in multiple tomographic examinations of a subject . The sorter sorts the acquired groups of tomographic images captured in the examinations in the forward or reverse order along an imaging direction. The extraction unit extracts a subgroup of tomographic images containing a lesion region from each acquired group of the tomographic images captured in the examinations. The coordination unit coordinates the subgroups of the tomographic images captured in the multiple examinations. The display controller to sequentially display the tomographic images one by one captured in the examinations in the same display area on a display.

Abstract: Provided is an aqueous resin composition in which a vinyl ester resin and a urethane resin having an aromatic ring are dispersed in an aqueous medium, in which the vinyl ester resin is obtained by allowing at least one epoxy resin selected from the group consisting of a novolak type epoxy resin and a bisphenol type epoxy resin to react with a compound having an acid group and a polymerizable unsaturated group, and the urethane resin is obtained by allowing polyol containing polyol having an aromatic ring and polyol having a hydrophilic group to react with a polyisocyanate. A primer using the aqueous resin composition is able to considerably improve adhesiveness between a substrate and a cured coating film of an active energy ray curable composition, even when the substrate is a sparingly adhesive substrate.

Abstract: A method of evaluating lifestyle-related disease indicator includes (i) an obtaining step of obtaining amino acid concentration data on concentration values of amino acids in blood collected from a subject to be evaluated and (ii) an evaluating step of evaluating a state of an indicator of lifestyle-related disease for the subject using the concentration values of the amino acids of Gly and Tyr included in the amino acid concentration data of the subject obtained at the obtaining step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a food intake regulating agent which improves anorexia and overeating and is safe for ingestion for a long term. The present invention relates to a food intake regulating agent containing 3 kinds of amino acids: threonine, methionine and tryptophan, as active ingredients.

Abstract: A cationic polyurethane resin aqueous dispersion wherein a cationic polyurethane resin (B) including a structural unit (A) represented by the following general formula (I) is dispersed in aqueous medium, and the content of a cationic amino group of the structural unit (A) in the cationic polyurethane resin (B) is 0.005 to 1.5 equivalents/kg. (In the formula, R1 represents an alkylene group which may include an alicyclic structure, a residue of bivalent phenol or polyoxyalkylene group, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl group which may include an alicyclic structure, and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue of the quaternizing agent which is introduced by the quaternizing reaction, and X? represents an anionic counter ion.

Abstract: A cationic polyurethane resin aqueous dispersion wherein a cationic polyurethane resin (B) including a structural unit (A) represented by the following general formula (I) is dispersed in aqueous medium, and the content of a cationic amino group of the structural unit (A) in the cationic polyurethane resin (B) is 0.005 to 1.5 equivalents/kg. (In the formula, R1 represents an alkylene group which may include an alicyclic structure, a residue of bivalent phenol or polyoxyalkylene group, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl group which may include an alicyclic structure, and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue of the quaternizing agent which is introduced by the quaternizing reaction, and X? represents an anionic counter ion.

Abstract: A cationic polyurethane resin aqueous dispersion wherein a cationic polyurethane resin (B) including a structural unit (A) represented by the following general formula (I) is dispersed in aqueous medium, and the content of a cationic amino group of the structural unit (A) in the cationic polyurethane resin (B) is 0.005 to 1.5 equivalents/kg. (In the formula, R1, represents an alkylene group which may include an alicyclic structure, a residue of bivalent phenol or polyoxyalkylene group, R2 and R3 each independently represents an alkyl group which may include an alicyclic structure, and R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue of the quaternizing agent which is introduced by the quaternizing reaction, and X? represents an anionic counter ion.

Abstract: A normal line information estimation device for estimating normal line information of an object from an image of the object. The normal line information estimation device includes an illumination direction estimation section for estimating an illumination direction with respect to the object in the image from a luminance value of the image; a normal line information estimation section for estimating the normal line information of the object in the image based on the illumination direction; and a specular reflection component estimation section for estimating a specular reflection component of the image from the normal line information of the object and the illumination direction with respect to the object. The normal line information estimation section estimates the normal line information again from the image from which a specular reflection component has been removed in the specular reflection component section.

Abstract: A parameter estimation method for estimating a parameter by estimating maximum a posteriori probability for input data. Operation for the input data is expressed by an inner product for the input data and the inner product is replaced by a Kernel function. By using the calculation result of the kernel function, a parameter is estimated. The method includes a step (offline operation) for learning a correlation between a plurality of learning input data in which a parameter to be estimated is known and the parameter corresponding to each of the learning input data; and a step (online operation) for estimating the parameter for the estimating input data in which a parameter to be estimated is unknown, by using the learned correlation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a human detection device which detects a human contained in a moving picture, and includes the following: a spatiotemporal volume generation unit which generates a three-dimensional spatiotemporal image in which frame images that make up the moving picture in which a human has been filmed are arranged along a temporal axis; a spatiotemporal fragment extraction unit which extracts a real image spatiotemporal fragment, which is an image appearing in a cut plane or cut fragment when the three-dimensional spatiotemporal image is cut, from the generated three-dimensional spatiotemporal image; a human body region movement model spatiotemporal fragment output unit which generates and outputs, based on a human movement model which defines a characteristic of the movement of a human, a human body region movement spatiotemporal fragment, which is a spatiotemporal fragment obtained from a movement by the human movement model; a spatiotemporal fragment verification unit which verifies betwe

Abstract: A normal line information estimation device for estimating normal line information of an object from an image of the object. The normal line information estimation device includes an illumination direction estimation section for estimating an illumination direction with respect to the object in the image from a luminance value of the image; a normal line information estimation section for estimating the normal line information of the object in the image based on the illumination direction; and a specular reflection component estimation section for estimating a specular reflection component of the image from the normal line information of the object and the illumination direction with respect to the object. The normal line information estimation section estimates the normal line information again from the image from which a specular reflection component has been removed in the specular reflection component section.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous coating composition including: an aqueous dispersion of a cationic resin (A); a metal alkoxide or a condensation product thereof (B); and an acid catalyst (C), and an organic-inorganic composite coating film wherein particles of a cationic resin (A) are dispersed in a matrix of a metal oxide (B?).