Abstract: A myoregulin inhibitor such as an antisense oligonucleotide against myoregulin or an anti-myoregulin antibody is used as an active ingredient of a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for a muscle disease such as muscular dystrophy, inclusion body myositis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, disused muscular atrophy, and sarcopenia.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for a motor having a stator and a rotor, the drive apparatus including a current detection unit configured to detect, when the motor is rotating, each of multi-phase currents flowing through coils of the stator, and a control unit for controlling the motor by sensor-less control configured to convert the detected multi-phase currents into a d-axis current Id and a q-axis current Iq in a d-q coordinate system, calculate a phase error between an actual rotational position of the rotor and an imaginary rotational position thereof by comparing the d-axis current Id with a d-axis current command value Idref and comparing the q-axis current Iq with the d-axis current command value Idref, perform control so that the phase error gets closer to zero, and output voltage command values to a motor drive circuit.

Abstract: A drive apparatus for a motor having a stator and a rotor, the drive apparatus including a current detection unit configured to detect, when the motor is rotating, each of multi-phase currents flowing through coils of the stator, and a control unit for controlling the motor by sensor-less control configured to convert the detected multi-phase currents into a d-axis current Id and a q-axis current Iq in a d-q coordinate system, calculate a phase error between an actual rotational position of the rotor and an imaginary rotational position thereof by comparing the d-axis current Id with a d-axis current command value Idref and comparing the q-axis current Iq with the d-axis current command value Idref, perform control so that the phase error gets closer to zero, and output voltage command values to a motor drive circuit.

Abstract: An oil-pump motor drive apparatus includes a current detection unit for detecting each of multi-phase currents flowing through coils of a stator, a control unit for converting the detected multi-phase currents into a d-axis current Id and a q-axis current Iq, calculating a phase error between an actual rotational position of the rotor and an imaginary rotational position by comparing the d-axis current Id with a d-axis current command value Idref and comparing the q-axis current Iq with the d-axis current command value Idref, performing control so that the phase error gets closer to zero, and outputting voltage command values indicating voltages to be applied to respective phases of the brushless motor, to a motor drive circuit, in which the control unit sets the d-axis current command value Idref to a value larger than zero when the number of revolutions of the motor is smaller than a predetermined number.

Abstract: An oil-pump motor drive apparatus includes a current detection unit for detecting each of multi-phase currents flowing through coils of a stator, a control unit for converting the detected multi-phase currents into a d-axis current Id and a q-axis current Iq, calculating a phase error between an actual rotational position of the rotor and an imaginary rotational position by comparing the d-axis current Id with a d-axis current command value Idref and comparing the q-axis current Iq with the d-axis current command value Idref, performing control so that the phase error gets closer to zero, and outputting voltage command values indicating voltages to be applied to respective phases of the brushless motor, to a motor drive circuit, in which the control unit sets the d-axis current command value Idref to a value larger than zero when the number of revolutions of the motor is smaller than a predetermined number.

Abstract: A process removes metal impurities from an untreated chemical liquid, which includes a silylating agent. The process includes providing a strongly acidic cation-exchange resin in which a cation-exchange group is immobilized to a resin membrane or an integral structure of a particle-removing membrane and an ion exchange resin membrane in which a strongly acidic cation-exchange resin has been chemically introduced onto surfaces of pores in a porous resin. The wettability of the ion exchange resin membrane is thereafter improved by contacting the ion-exchange resin membrane with an organic solvent. The metal impurities are then removed from the untreated chemical liquid by passing the untreated chemical liquid through the ion-exchange resin membrane.

Abstract: A process for preparing a chemical liquid of a silylating agent that has a reduced metal impurity concentration, and a surface treatment method using a chemical liquid of a silylating agent obtained by the preparation process. The process includes reducing metal impurities contained in an untreated chemical liquid of a silylating agent using an ion-exchange resin membrane that has been brought into contact with an organic solvent in advance. A surface treatment method that hydrophobizes a substrate surface includes exposing, to the substrate surface, a chemical liquid of a silylating agent obtained by the above process for preparing a chemical liquid of a silylating agent.

Abstract: A method of forming a resist pattern, and a film including a metal-containing compound formed on the resist pattern while developing the resist pattern. The method uses an organic solvent developer liquid, in which a metal compound capable of generating a hydroxyl group upon hydrolysis is dissolved in an organic solvent that does not have a functional group that reacts with the metal compound.

Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit has: a first PN junction element; a second PN junction element having a higher forward direction voltage than the first PN junction element; a first differential amplifier inputting an anode of the first PN junction element and a first connection node between a first and a second resistor disposed in series between a first output of the first differential amplifier and a first potential, and generating a first output voltage at the first output; and a second differential amplifier inputting an anode of the second PN junction element and a second connection node between a fourth and a third resistor disposed in series between a second output of the second differential amplifier and the first output of the first differential amplifier, and generating a reference voltage at the second output. A resistance ratio between the third and the fourth resistors is variable.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes: a modulation unit which allows rectangular wave modulation to an angle of a polarization plane of probe light; a detector for detecting a change of the angle of the polarization plane of the probe light transmitted through a cell; and a differential circuit for obtaining a difference in light intensity between components separated by a polarization splitter. Thus, both a reduction of a light intensity noise of the probe light and a separation and reduction of a noise defined by an inverse of a frequency in a low frequency area can be achieved.

Abstract: A method of forming a resist pattern, and a film including a metal-containing compound formed on the resist pattern while developing the resist pattern. The method uses an organic solvent developer liquid, in which a metal compound capable of generating a hydroxyl group upon hydrolysis is dissolved in an organic solvent that does not have a functional group that reacts with the metal compound.

Abstract: A method of forming a resist pattern, comprising: a step of forming a resist film on a substrate using a resist composition containing a base component (A) which exhibits decreased solubility in an organic solvent under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure; a step of subjecting the resist film to exposure; a step of patterning the resist film by a negative-tone development using a developing solution containing the organic solvent to form a resist pattern; a step of applying a coating material to the resist pattern, thereby forming a coating film; a step of performing a thermal treatment at a temperature lower than the softening point of the resist pattern, thereby heat shrinking the coating film to narrow an interval between the resist pattern; and a step of removing the coating film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for polarizing a solid compound of interest via spin transfer from an optically-pumped alkali vapor. In one embodiment, the method provides a cell which contains a solid compound as well as pure alkali metal and some amount of buffer gas. The cell is heated to vaporize some of the pure alkali. Resonant laser light is passed through the cell to polarize the atomic vapor, a process known as “optical pumping.” Optical pumping can transfer order from photons to atoms, causing a buildup of vapor atoms in one angular momentum state. This vapor polarization is then transferred through the surface of the solid compound in order to polarize the nuclei in the bulk of the compound. This can produce nuclear polarizations in the sample many times larger than the limit set by thermal equilibrium. The method can be used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus or the like that avoids a region with zero sensitivity of an optical magnetometer and allows imaging by strong magnetic resonance when a common magnetic field is used as a bias field of an optical magnetometer and as a magnetostatic field to be applied to a sample. When a direction of a magnetostatic field application unit applying a magnetostatic field to a sample is a z direction, alkali metal cells of a plurality of scalar magnetometers are arranged so as not to overlap a region to be imaged in a z direction, and so as not to intersect the region to be imaged in an in-plane direction perpendicular to the z direction.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus or the like that avoids a region with zero sensitivity of an optical magnetometer and allows imaging by strong magnetic resonance when a common magnetic field is used as a bias field of an optical magnetometer and as a magnetostatic field to be applied to a sample. When a direction of a magnetostatic field application unit applying a magnetostatic field to a sample is a z direction, alkali metal cell of a scalar magnetometer is arranged so as not to overlap a region to be imaged in a z direction, and so as not to intersect the region to be imaged in an in-plane direction perpendicular to the z direction.

Abstract: An analog-to-digital (AD) converter device, includes: a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (DAC) including a reference capacitor group having capacitors which are weighted with a ratio, one terminal of each of the capacitors being coupled to a common signal line, the other terminal of each of the capacitors being coupled to one of reference power supplies via one of switches; a comparator to compare a voltage of the common signal line with a reference voltage; a successive approximation routine circuit to control the switches based on a comparison result of the comparator; an offset correction circuit to correct an offset of the comparator; and a DAC correction circuit to correct an error in a voltage change of the common signal line, the offset correction circuit and the DAC correction circuit performing a correction so that a residual offset of the comparator and a residual error of the capacitive DAC cancel.

Abstract: A method of forming a resist pattern, comprising: a step of forming a resist film on a substrate using a resist composition containing a base component (A) which exhibits decreased solubility in an organic solvent under action of acid and an acid-generator component (B) which generates acid upon exposure; a step of subjecting the resist film to exposure; a step of patterning the resist film by a negative-tone development using a developing solution containing the organic solvent to form a resist pattern; a step of applying a coating material to the resist pattern, thereby forming a coating film; a step of performing a thermal treatment at a temperature lower than the softening point of the resist pattern, thereby heat shrinking the coating film to narrow an interval between the resist pattern; and a step of removing the coating film.

Abstract: An application liquid capable of forming a dense silica-based coating film even when embedded into a fine groove, and a method for formation of a silica-based coating film using the application liquid are provided. An application liquid is used including (A) a siloxane polymer, and (B) a base generator represented by the following general formula (I): wherein, R1 and R2 are a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms and which may be the same or different; or one of R1 and R2 is a hydrogen atom and the other is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; when R1 and R2 are both a hydrocarbon group, these may bind to one another to form a ring structure; R3 is a linking group; and R4 is a condensed ring.

Abstract: A novel method for forming a pattern capable of decreasing the number of steps in a double patterning process, and a material for forming a coating film suitably used in the method for forming a pattern are provided. First resist film (2) is formed by applying a first chemically amplified resist composition on support (1), and thus formed film is selectively exposed, and developed to form multiple first resist patterns (3). Next, on the surface of the first resist patterns (3) are formed multiple coating patterns (5) by forming coating films (4) constituted with a water soluble resin film, respectively. Furthermore, a second chemically amplified resist composition is applied on the support (1) having the coating pattern (5) formed thereon to form second resist film (6), which is selectively exposed and developed to form multiple second resist patterns (7). Accordingly, a pattern including the coating patterns (5) and the second resist patterns (7) is formed on the support (1).

Abstract: An atomic magnetometer includes a cell containing an atomic group, a pump light source, a probe light source, a mirror, and a detector. The cell is disposed between the pump light source and the mirror and between the probe light source and the detector. A pump beam emitted from the pump light source is circularly polarized light. The pump beam passes through the cell and is reflected by the mirror and then passes through the cell again. The probe beam emitted from the probe light source is linearly polarized light. An optical path of the probe beam is parallel to the plane of incidence of the pump beam and is also parallel to the surface of the mirror. The optical path of the probe beam crosses the optical path of the pump beam in the cell. The probe beam which has passed through the cell enters the detector.