Abstract: A steel sheet includes a sheet thickness center part and a first surface layer softened part and a second surface layer softened part respectively arranged at two sides of the sheet thickness center part, wherein the first surface layer softened part and second surface layer softened part have 10 ?m or more average thicknesses and have average Vickers hardnesses of 0.90 times or less of the average Vickers hardness of a sheet thickness ½ position, and the first surface layer softened part has an average Vickers hardness of 1.05 times or more the average Vickers hardness of the second surface layer softened part.

Abstract: A reading system includes an evaluation value acquirer and a determining processor. The evaluation value acquirer is configured to acquire, with regard to a reading device configured to perform wireless communication with an electronic tag attached to each of one or more items by using a radio wave as a medium to read item information on each of one or more items, an evaluation value about at least one of: the number of times; a time interval; or a frequency, of reading the item information for each of at the one or more items. The determining processor is configured to determine, for each of the one or more items, whether or not each of the one or more items is an object to be read based on a change in the evaluation value over time.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal apparatus including an operator that receives information indicating a position in a body of a subject from a user, in which biological information corresponding to the position received by the operator is output on the basis of biological information obtained by a plurality of sensors of which positions are substantially fixedly maintained with respect to the body of the subject.

Abstract: A reading system includes an evaluation value acquirer and a determining processor. The evaluation value acquirer is configured to acquire, with regard to a reading device configured to perform wireless communication with an electronic tag attached to each of one or more items by using a radio wave as a medium to read item information on each of one or more items, an evaluation value about at least one of: the number of times; a time interval; or a frequency, of reading the item information for each of at the one or more items. The determining processor is configured to determine, for each of the one or more items, whether or not each of the one or more items is an object to be read based on a change in the evaluation value over time.

Abstract: An information acquisition system includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and an antenna. The inner wall includes a reflective layer which reflects a radio wave. A reading space is located on an inner side of the reflective layer. Reading of tag information from an RF tag attached to an item is performed in the reading space. The outer wall is disposed on an opposite side of the inner wall from the reading space. The antenna is configured to output the radio wave toward the reading space in order to communicate with the RF tag. Between the inner wall and the outer wall, a peripheral space is provided. The reflective layer of the inner wall has a hole. The hole penetrates through the reflective layer in a thickness direction of the reflective layer.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic resin composition containing a (meth)acrylic polymer (P) and a phosphorus atom-containing compound (C), where the (meth)acrylic polymer (P) contains: (1) a repeating unit derived from methyl methacrylate at 19.95 to 84.95% by mass; (2) a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid ester (M) having an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms in a side chain at 15.0 to 80.0% by mass; and (3) a repeating unit derived from a monomer (B) having two or more vinyl groups at 0.05 to 0.40% by mass, and an amount of the phosphorus atom-containing compound (C) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the (meth)acrylic polymer (P) being 5.0 to 35 parts by mass or less.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a storage unit and a predictor. The storage unit stores area-based demand information on demand for sharing cars and operating rate information on an operating rate of the sharing cars in a first place. The predictor predicts revenue from sharing car rentals in a second place, different from the first place, based on demand information on the demand for the sharing cars in the first place, demand information on the demand for the sharing cars in the second place, and the operating rate information on the operating rate of the sharing cars in the first place.

Abstract: A shared vehicle management server includes: a use history management section configured to manage, per model of shared vehicles, as use history of at least one parking lot, a use start point where a user starts using a shared vehicle among the shared vehicles; a demand calculation section configured to calculate, based on the use history of the at least one parking lot, a demand for the shared vehicles per model of the shared vehicles in each of the at least one parking lot; and a vehicle allocation management section configured to manage allocation of the shared vehicles to each of the at least one parking lot per model of the shared vehicles, based on the demand for the shared vehicles per model of the shared vehicles, and manage, per region including the at least one parking lot, use and return of the shared vehicles.

Abstract: A server for a management system is provided. The server includes: a processor that receives a reservation for a shared car from a user's communication terminal via a communication network and determines whether a reservation time of the reserved shared car is greater than a threshold value; and a communication module that transmits a message for checking whether it is permitted to rent a parking area of the reserved shared car to a parking applicant while the user is using the reserved shared car to the user's communication terminal when the reservation time is greater than the threshold value.

Abstract: There are provided a novel aromatic compound which has excellent semiconductor properties in terms of carrier mobility, an organic semiconductor material and a thin film forming composition containing the compound, an organic thin film containing the compound, and an organic semiconductor device containing the thin film. The aromatic compound is represented by General Formula (1). In General Formula (1), R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a saturated fluorohydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an aryl group, or a styryl group that may have a substituent; m is an integer from 1 to 6; and A represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a saturated hydrocarbon-trisubstituted silyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a direct bond, or a di- to hexavalent linking group having an aromatic ring or a heterocyclic ring.

Abstract: Writing equipment includes a cylinder-shaped body having a lead and a lead tank, and an arch-shaped scale on which scale marks are printed, wherein the scale is coupled with the body detachably, and wherein the scale is formed with the particular angle, which is same as that of a curve of the cylinder-shaped body.

Abstract: A (meth)acrylic resin composition containing a (meth)acrylic polymer (P) and a phosphorus atom-containing compound (C), where the (meth)acrylic polymer (P) contains: (1) a repeating unit derived from methyl methacrylate at 19.95 to 84.95% by mass; (2) a repeating unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid ester (M) having an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms in a side chain at 15.0 to 80.0% by mass; and (3) a repeating unit derived from a monomer (B) having two or more vinyl groups at 0.05 to 0.40% by mass, and an amount of the phosphorus atom-containing compound (C) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the (meth)acrylic polymer (P) being 5.0 to 35 parts by mass or less.

Abstract: A photo-switching fluorescent protein of a type in which wavelengths for switching fluorescence on and off and wavelength for fluorescence excitation are all independent of one another is provided, which has an amino acid sequence in which at least an S208G mutation is introduced into SEQ ID NO: 1. The fluorescent protein may have an amino acid sequence in which at least three mutations, I47V, M153T, and S208G, are introduced into SEQ ID NO: 1. The fluorescent protein may have an amino acid sequence in which at least five mutations, I47V, T59S, M153T, S208G, and M233T, are introduced into SEQ ID NO: 1. The fluorescent protein may have an amino acid sequence in which at least six mutations, I47V, T59S, M69Q, M153T, S208G, and M233T, are introduced into SEQ ID NO: 1.

Abstract: A headphone includes a speaker casing and a headband. The speaker casing has a main speaker unit and a support member that supports the main speaker unit. The speaker casing is connected to the headband, and the headband is to be placed on a head of a user. The support member supports the main speaker unit with a main plane of the main speaker unit being positioned at an angle ranging from 10° to 30° inclusive with respect to a main plane of the support member, so that the main plane of the main speaker unit faces a side of an ear lobe of the user.

Abstract: An operational terminal device may include a control unit to control display on a display screen of at least one operation button to control a display control device, based on button information associated with the operation button and received from the display control device.

Abstract: A headphone includes a speaker casing and a headband. The speaker casing has a main speaker unit and a support member that supports the main speaker unit. The speaker casing is connected to the headband, and the headband is to be placed on a head of a user. The support member supports the main speaker unit with a main plane of the main speaker unit being positioned at an angle ranging from 10° to 30° inclusive with respect to a main plane of the support member, so that the main plane of the main speaker unit faces a side of an ear lobe of the user.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an electroacoustic filter (1), comprising an electrode (2) having a main layer (6) which consists of a metallic material comprising an alloy of copper and molybdenum. According to a second aspect, the present invention concerns a method of manufacturing an electroacoustic filter (1), comprising the steps of: providing a substrate (3), sputtering a metallic material comprising an alloy of copper and molybdenum onto the substrate (3), annealing the metallic material, and pattering the metallic material to form a main layer (6) of an electrode (2).

Abstract: In a conventional headphone set, there is a possibility that a headband cannot be put in a suitable position when an ear pad is snugly mounted on an ear. A headphone set of this disclosure includes speaker units which output a sound. The headphone set also includes: speaker housings which are brought into contact with a user; connecting portions which are connected to the speaker housings in a state where the speaker housings are movable in a forward and rearward direction of the user; and a headband which has connecting portions on end portions thereof and is mounted on a head of the user in directions toward a crown of the head of the user. Due to such a constitution, the headphone set can be used in a more stable manner.

Abstract: Provided is an image display device provided with an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an image capturing unit for capturing the image in a direction in which the image display unit displays the image on the image display unit, and a face detection unit for performing, at predetermined intervals, face detection processing for detecting a face included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the predetermined intervals are variable according to whether or not the face of a user is included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and when the position of the detected face does not change for a predetermined period of time in the face detection processing, the face detection unit does not detect the face as the face of the user.

Abstract: In a conventional headphone set, there is a possibility that a headband cannot be put in a suitable position when an ear pad is snugly mounted on an ear. A headphone set of this disclosure includes speaker units which output a sound. The headphone set also includes: speaker housings which are brought into contact with a user; connecting portions which are connected to the speaker housings in a state where the speaker housings are movable in a forward and rearward direction of the user; and a headband which has connecting portions on end portions thereof and is mounted on a head of the user in directions toward a crown of the head of the user. Due to such a constitution, the headphone set can be used in a more stable manner.