Abstract: Provided is a balloon for a balloon catheter that is easy to insert in a body cavity, has good pushability, and can easily incise a stenosis. A balloon for a balloon catheter, having a balloon body (20), the balloon body (20) having a protrusion part (60) that projects outwardly in the radial direction y from its outer surface in the straight tubular part (23) and the proximal tapered part (22), wherein a ratio W1/H1 of a height H1 of the protrusion part (60) and a width W1 of the protrusion part (60) in the straight tubular part (23) is greater than a ratio W2/H2 of a height H2 of the protrusion part (60) and a width W2 of the protrusion part (60) in the proximal tapered part (22).

Abstract: To improve precision in decision in a technique for deciding an activity area of a target user, based on information of another person, the present invention provides a processing apparatus 10 including: a determination unit 11 that determines one or a plurality of reference users having a predetermined relationship with a target user whose activity area in a target period is to be estimated, based on post information posted on social media by each user within a search period being set based on the target period; an estimation unit 12 that estimates an activity area of the reference user in the target period; and a decision unit 13 that decides an activity area of the target user in the target period, based on an activity area of the reference user in the target period.

Abstract: A memory system includes a semiconductor memory that includes a cell unit having a plurality of memory cells, and a control circuit for controlling the plurality of memory cells, and a memory controller configured to control the semiconductor memory. The control circuit is configured to execute a data read operation on the cell unit by using one or more read voltages, acquire first data by the data read operation, generate second data with a data size smaller than the first data, based on the first data, and transmit the second data to the memory controller. The memory controller is configured to determine, based on the second data, whether or not to rewrite the page data written in the cell unit.

Abstract: Provided is a balloon for a balloon catheter that can incise a stenosis obliquely or incise a stenosis widely in the deflated state. A balloon for a balloon catheter having a balloon body (20) and a protrusion part (60) having a tip part (61), and satisfying the following (1) and/or (2): (1) the tip part (61) of the distal tapered part (24) is located on a first direction (C1) side and not on a second direction (C2) side in the circumferential direction of the balloon body (20) with respect to a straight line (Ld) in the deflated state; (2) the tip part (61) of the proximal tapered part (22) is located on a first direction (C1) side and not on a second direction (C2) side in the circumferential direction of the balloon body (20) with respect to a straight line (Lp) in the deflated state.

Abstract: An observation streamlining apparatus includes one or more computers each including a memory and a processor configured to discriminate between an observation-necessary time slot and an observation-unnecessary time slot with an intervention measure including at least a time when a predetermined intervention is performed on a user as an input, the observation-necessary time slot indicating a time slot when a user's action or state needs to be observed, and the observation-unnecessary time slot indicating a time slot when the user's action or state does not need to be observed; and execute predetermined processing for observing the user's action or state when the observation-necessary time slot arrives.

Abstract: A length of a sub seal of a door weather strip is sized and dimensioned in a manner that a distance is longer than a length with a glass run coupling to an outer-cabin side of a flange of a frame and the door weather strip coupling to an inner-cabin side of a door with a clip. The distance is between part of a lower part of a top end of the sub seal of the door weather strip in contact with an inclined surface of an upper side wall of the glass run and part of an upper surface of a top end of a lip of the glass run. The length is of a perpendicular line that extends between the sub seal and an inclined plate of the frame passing through the part of the upper surface of the top end of the lip.

Abstract: An operation control module executes, for each of a plurality of base station system groups, operation control corresponding to a degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the base station system group, with respect to a follower base station system included in the base station system group. A removal module removes, in accordance with a fact that a magnitude of a deviation of a ratio of the degree of operation of a follower base station system included in one of the base station system groups with respect to the degree of operation of a leader base station system included in the base station system group from a given reference ratio has satisfied a predetermined condition, the follower base station system from the base station system group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a balloon for a balloon catheter that can prevent kinking or buckling of the balloon and elongation of the balloon in the longitudinal direction. A balloon (2) for a balloon catheter has a balloon body (20); the balloon body (20) has an inflating part (20e), a distal sleeve part (25), and a proximal sleeve part (21); the distal sleeve part (25) has a fixed part (25f) fixed to the shaft (3); the balloon (2) has a reinforcing part (60) disposed on an inner surface of the distal sleeve part (25) at a part of a circumferential direction of the distal sleeve part (25); the reinforcing part (60) is located proximal to a distal end of the fixed part (25f); and the balloon (2) does not have the reinforcing part (60) on an inner surface of the proximal sleeve part (21).

Abstract: Disclosed is a balloon for a balloon catheter that can be easily folded to facilitate insertion into and through a body cavity and prevent elongation of the balloon in the longitudinal axis direction. A balloon satisfies at least one of: (I) a distal tapered part (24) has a first part (610) having an inner protrusion part (61) and a second part (620) not having the inner protrusion part (61), and the distal tapered part (24) has an outer protrusion part (62) in the entire extent of the second part (620); and (II) a proximal tapered part (22) has a first part (610) having an inner protrusion part (61) and a second part (620) not having the inner protrusion part (61), and the proximal tapered part (22) has an outer protrusion part (62) in the entire extent of the second part (620).

Abstract: A gas chromatograph includes an oven that has a first heater device and a second heater device. The first heater device and the second heater device are connected in series when a voltage of a power supply is a first voltage, and are connected in parallel when the voltage of the power supply is a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage. A power controller includes a first control device that controls ON/OFF of supply of power to the series-connected first heater device and second heater device or ON/OFF of supply of power to the parallel-connected first heater device, and a second control device that controls ON/OFF of supply of power to the parallel-connected second heater device. A controller adjusts a duty ratio of supply of power to the parallel-connected first heater device and second heater device by controlling the first control device and the second control device when the voltage of the power supply is the second voltage.

Abstract: Provided are a control system and a control method which are capable of reducing a monitoring load at a time when operation control for base station systems is executed. An exceptional monitoring module (38) monitors an operation state of a representative base station system of a plurality of base station systems included in a base station system group associated with an operation tendency of base station systems. An operation control module (40) executes operation control in accordance with the operation state of the representative base station system, for at least one base station system which includes a base station system different from the representative base station system, and is included in the base station system group.

Abstract: An optimization method according to one embodiment which is executed by a computer, the method including: an input procedure of inputting an acceptance probability function indicating a probability that each participant participating in a crowdsourcing market will accept a price, and a matching value indicating a value when each resource in the crowdsourcing market is allocated to each participant; a formulation procedure of formulating a first optimization problem for determining an optimal price that maximizes a profit of a provider of the crowdsourcing market using the acceptance probability function and the matching value; and an optimization procedure of calculating the optimal price by solving the first optimization problem according to a feature of the acceptance probability function.

Abstract: A glass run includes a trim strip 40 attached to a side of an upper glass run 24 facing outside of the passenger compartment. A trim strip holding member 50 having a front engagement portion 52 that engages with the trim strip 40 is fixed at a front side of the upper glass run 24. The trim strip holding member 50 is made of a rigid material.

Abstract: An optimization method according to an embodiment is executed by a computer, the method including: receiving a participation probability function of each of groups participating in a two-sided market, the two-sided market including a first side and a second side, a total number of participants included in the group, a maximum number of participants on the second side with whom the participants can perform a transaction, a set of combinations of groups that can perform a transaction between the two sides, formulating, using the participation probability function, the total number, the maximum number, and the set of combinations, a first optimization problem for determining an optimal price for a participation fee that maximizes a profit of an intermediary of the two-sided market and a number of transactions between the participants, and calculating the optimal price by solving the first optimization problem according to a characteristic of the participation probability function.

Abstract: Provided is an analysis device capable of reducing vibration and noise generated by a stepping motor due to countermeasure for step-out of the stepping motor. A drive unit is controlled such that a set value of driving torque of the stepping motor increases stepwise in a plurality of steps each time the step-out of the stepping motor is detected by the step-out detection unit.

Abstract: A value function and a policy of entropy-regularized reinforcement learning in a case where a state transition function and a reward function vary with time can be estimated by causing a computer to perform an input procedure in which a state transition probability and a reward function that vary with time are input and an estimation procedure in which an optimal value function and an optimal policy of entropy-regularized reinforcement learning are estimated by a backward induction algorithm based on the state transition probability and the reward function.

Abstract: An estimation apparatus according to one embodiment is an estimation method for estimating a parameter of a model for obtaining a state transition probability used in model-based reinforcement learning and causes a computer to perform: an input procedure in which first data indicating a state transition history in a situation where an action of the model-based reinforcement learning is not performed and second data indicating, when an action prompting a transition to a predetermined state is performed, a degree of accepting the transition to the predetermined state are input; and an estimation procedure in which a parameter of the model is estimated by using the first data and the second data.

Abstract: An observation streamlining apparatus includes one or more computers each including a mempry and a processor configured to discriminate between an observation-necessary time slot and an observation-unnecessary time slot with an intervention measure including at least a time when a predetermined intervention is performed on a user as an input, the observation-necessary time slot indicating a time slot when a user’s action or state needs to be observed, and the observation-unnecessary time slot indicating a time slot when the user’s action or state does not need to be observed; and execute predetermined processing for observing the user’s action or state when the observation-necessary time slot arrives.

Abstract: The present disclosure enables vehicle dispatch in consideration of individual differences of each orderer for a price and a required time by a computer executing an input procedure to input parameters for a distance matrix relating to a distance between a taxi and an orderer giving a taxi dispatch order, a travel distance for an order, an opportunity cost parameter for a taxi driver, and an acceptance probability function of the orderer, and a calculation procedure to calculate a price and a required time to be presented to the orderer by solving an optimization problem formulated using the parameters.

Abstract: Markov chain parameters can be accurately estimated using transition data whose observation interval is not constant. Assuming that transition intervals of a Markov chain defined from a set of states are steps, input data that is transition data including the number of transitions between states in a set of transitions between states is received, and a parameter relating to a model regarding the number of steps representing a probability that a transition of a predetermined number of steps occurs from each state and a parameter relating to a model regarding a transition probability representing a probability that a one-step transition occurs from each state, the models being models for the number of transitions between the states of the input data, are estimated such that an objective function including a term for a generation probability of the input data given by the model regarding the number of steps and the model regarding the transition probability is optimized.