Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire route data indicating a route to a destination, and adjust, according to the route indicated by the route data, a fee for an advertisement promoting a place different from the destination, the advertisement being presented, to a user who is to be delivered to the destination using a vehicle, together with a recommendation to stop off at the place using the vehicle.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus configured to present, to a user outside a vehicle for delivering another user to a destination, a proposal to take the user to a place different from the destination by stopping off at the place using the vehicle together with an advertisement promoting the place, and a controller configured to determine, upon receipt by the communication interface of acceptance data indicating acceptance of the proposal, a location at which the user is to be picked up using the vehicle with reference to positional data indicating a position of the user.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to determine whether a user who travels in a vehicle has stopped off at a place different from a destination, with reference to positional data indicating a position of the user, the user having accepted a recommendation to stop off at the place using the vehicle, the recommendation being presented together with an advertisement promoting the place.

Abstract: The information providing apparatus includes a controller configured to: acquire information that indicates a first point at which a reserving party, who is a user who is to reserve a vehicle operated within a geographical range that includes a plurality of regions, desires to board the vehicle, and information that indicates a second point at which the reserving party desires to alight the vehicle; obtain, based on a service route evaluation result obtained for a service route of the vehicle per combination of a first region including a departure point of the service route and a second region including an arrival point of the service route, among the plurality of regions, an evaluation value for a travel route along which the reserving party is to travel using the vehicle from the first point to the second point; and provide the obtained evaluation value to the reserving party.

Abstract: A vehicle lane change assist apparatus of the invention executes a lane change assist control for moving an own vehicle to a target next lane when an execution of the lane change assist control is requested by a driver of the own vehicle, and a lane change execution condition is satisfied. The lane change execution condition is a condition that the own vehicle does not contact the one or more recognized cubic objects while the own vehicle is caused to move to the target next lane by the lane change assist control. The vehicle lane change assist apparatus determines that the lane change execution condition is not satisfied when one or more non-existent cubic objects are recognized as the one or more recognized cubic objects.

Abstract: A control unit of an autonomous vehicle, which is a moving object of the present disclosure, acquires a video of the outside of the autonomous vehicle to be displayed on a window display on an inner wall surface of the autonomous vehicle, and superimposes, on the acquired video, an image corresponding to a location of the autonomous vehicle to display on the window display.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire time slot data indicating a reserved time slot at a place that provides a service, and positional data indicating a position of a user who has reserved the time slot indicated by the time slot data, and determine whether to take the user to the place using a vehicle according to a remaining time until the time slot indicated by the time slot data, and the position indicated by the positional data.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to: extract, from a plurality of users, users with a common point of interest as users to be boarded together to a vehicle, based on first information which indicates a point of interest for each of the plurality of users; and calculate a driving route for the vehicle to travel sequentially through candidate boarding sites for the extracted users to arrive at the common point of interest for the extracted users as indicated by the first information, the candidate boarding sites being indicated by second information which indicates a candidate for a boarding site for each of the plurality of users.

Abstract: An autonomous driving vehicle that is a mobile unit according to this disclosure is a mobile unit configured to transport a user to a facility that provides services or commercial products and, at the same time, configured to perform an advertising activity for the services or the commercial products of the facility. The mobile unit includes a control unit configured to acquire data for providing a promotion in the mobile unit and is configured to provide a promotion in the mobile unit based on the acquired data. The promotion is related to the services and the commercial products at the facility.

Abstract: Disclosed is a molded article including a modified fibroin and a water resistance-imparting material. The modified fibroin and the water resistance-imparting material may be covalently bonded.

Abstract: An apparatus for executing an application on a virtual machine, directed to setting a font size of a font in detail, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a font size specified by the application operating on the virtual machine and font setting data including a font size conversion rule, and a control unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a font with a font size based on the specified font size and the font setting data.

Abstract: The control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire time slot data indicating an available time slot at a place that provides a service, and generate announcement data announcing a proposal to take a user to the place using a vehicle should the user reserve the time slot indicated by the time slot data, and a communication interface configured to transmit the announcement data generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus configured to present content of data to the user.

Abstract: An apparatus for executing an application on a virtual machine, directed to setting a font size of a font in detail, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a font size specified by the application operating on the virtual machine and font setting data including a font size conversion rule, and a control unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a font with a font size based on the specified font size and the font setting data.

Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: a mounting table provided with amounting surface on which a plate-shaped sample is mounted; an annular focus ring; and a cooling element for cooling the focus ring, in which the mounting table has a holding portion provided to surround the mounting surface, and the holding portion includes an annular groove surrounding the mounting surface, and a through-hole that is open on a bottom surface of the groove, wherein a tubular insulator has been inserted into the through-hole, the holding portion has upper surfaces, which are located on both sides of the groove in a width direction, as holding surfaces that are in contact with the focus ring and hold the focus ring, wherein the holding surface satisfies the following conditions (i) to (iii); (i) surface roughness is 0.05 ?m or less, (ii) a flatness is 20 ?m or less, and (iii) the holding surface does not have a recess having a depth of 1.0 ?m or more and extending in a direction intersecting the holding surface.

Abstract: In a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a negative electrode includes covered graphite particles in each of which a surface of a graphite particle is covered with amorphous carbon, styrene-butadiene rubber, and at least one of carboxymethyl cellulose and a salt of carboxymethyl cellulose. The amorphous carbon included in each of the covered graphite particles includes an amorphous carbon layer formed of a first amorphous carbon and amorphous carbon particles formed of a second amorphous carbon. The second amorphous carbon has a higher electrical conductivity than the first amorphous carbon, the amorphous carbon particles have a BET specific surface area of 37 to 47 m2/g, the styrene-butadiene rubber has an average primary particle size of 150 to 210 nm, and at least one of the carboxymethyl cellulose and the salt of carboxymethyl cellulose has a weight average molecular weight of 3.7×105 to 4.3×105.

Abstract: A lane change assist apparatus comprises a standby operation device provided on a turn signal lever. The standby operation device outputs a state change request when the standby operation device is operated. The lane change assist apparatus changes its state from a non-standby state to a standby state in response to receiving the state change request. The lane change assist apparatus executes a lane change assist control when a state thereof has been changed to the standby state and receives the lane change assist request.

Abstract: Provided is a SiC sintered body which contains nitrogen atoms, wherein a ratio Rmax/Rave of a maximum volume resistivity Rmax of the sintered body to an average volume resistivity Rave of the sintered body is 1.5 or lower; a ratio Rmin/Rave of a minimum volume resistivity Rmin of the sintered body to the average volume resistivity Rave is 0.7 or higher; and a relative density of the sintered body is 98% or higher.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for predicting the effectiveness of an angiogenesis inhibitor in a subject suffering from a tumor. Provided is a method comprising a step of testing for the presence or absence of an a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN in a sample of tumor tissue from the subject. By using the presence or absence of or a mutation or loss of expression of B-Raf and PTEN as an indicator, this method enables the antitumor effectiveness of the angiogenesis inhibitor to be predicted without administering the angiogenesis inhibitor to the subject.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a negative electrode which includes a negative electrode core and a negative electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the negative electrode core. In this secondary battery, the negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material which contains graphite having a crystalline size of 10 nm or more and an interlayer distance d002 of 0.3356 to 0.3360 nm and a rubber-based binding material having an average primary particle diameter of 120 to 250 nm, the negative electrode active material has a pore capacity of 0.5 ml/g or less at a pore diameter of 0.2 to 1 ?m measured by a mercury porosimeter, and the rate of the average primary particle diameter of the rubber-based binding material to the pore capacity of the negative electrode active material is 1.15 to 1.70 g/m2.

Abstract: An upper limit is set on the number of socket objects that can be generated by a virtual machine. If the upper limit is exceeded when a socket object is to be generated, garbage collection is executed. In garbage collection, a socket object is closed, and a resource that has been used by the socket is released.