Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having the basic structure shown by Formula (I) in which the indole ring and the pyrazolopyridine structure is bound through a substituent, a salt thereof or a solvate of either the compound or a salt of the compound, as well as a preventative agent or a therapeutic agent for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (Type 2 diabetes) or obesity containing such compound, salt or solvate as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A jig for metal plastic working for use in plastic working of a metal or alloy workpiece, in which a working surface is moved relative to the workpiece in contact with the workpiece. The working surface of the jig is smoothed so that an arithmetic mean surface roughness Ra is not more than 0.12 ?m, and so that no protrusion is observed that has a width of not less than 200 ?m and a height of not less than 10 ?m, which are calculated on a basis of a projection thereof along a working direction.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an n-type drift layer; a p-type blocking layer; a gate opening which penetrates through the blocking layer to the drift layer; an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer provided on an inner face of the gate opening; a gate electrode above the electron supply layer and covering the gate opening; a source opening penetrating through the electron supply layer and the electron transport layer to the blocking layer; a source electrode covering the source opening, the source electrode being connected to the electron supply layer, the electron transport layer, and the blocking layer; and a drain electrode on a side of the substrate opposite from a side on which the blocking layer is located. A bottom face of the gate electrode is closer to the drain electrode than a bottom face of the blocking layer is.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform brightness correction with an image area that satisfies a predetermined condition in a document image of a captured image of an installation area where a document is installed, as a processing target area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chloroprene copolymer latex, a chloroprene copolymer latex composition, a chloroprene copolymer rubber molded article, a dip-molded product, and a method for producing a chloroprene copolymer latex. The method for producing a chloroprene copolymer latex has a step of emulsion polymerizing 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene (A-1) and 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (A-2) in the presence of sulfur (A-3).

Abstract: A phosphor member has a phosphor body configured to absorb excitation light to thereby emit first fluorescent light including a first wavelength component and a second wavelength component having a wavelength shorter than a wavelength of the first wavelength component, and a filter configured to transmit the first wavelength component as light source light and reflect the second wavelength component towards the phosphor body as second excitation light.

Abstract: A light source unit includes a first light source for first light, a second light source for second light differing from the first light, a display device for performing a gradation control on the first light and the second light which are emitted in a time dividing fashion in corresponding gradation control periods to thereby form image light, and a processor configured to control a first dimming mode for adjusting a quantity of light of the first light source in the gradation control periods of the first light and the second light and a second dimming mode for adjusting the quantity of light of the first light source by performing a turn-off control in at least a partial period of the gradation control period of the first light and adjusting the quantity of light of the first light source in the gradation control period of the second light.

Abstract: This invention provides a nucleic acid that enables evaluation of various endocrine disrupting actions of a very small amount of endocrine disrupting chemicals with high sensitivity. Such nucleic acid comprises a total of 20 to 60 nucleotides comprising the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 and shows excellent responsiveness to various endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Abstract: According to the present embodiment, the first fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series. The first power converter is capable of controlling a first power to be generated by the first fuel cell group according to a first output current. The second fuel cell group is formed of a plurality of fuel cell stacks connected in series, the fuel cell stacks corresponding respectively to the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group. The second power converter is capable of controlling a second power to be generated by the second fuel cell group according to a second output current. Oxygen-containing gas is supplied through the first pipe to each of the fuel cell stacks in the first fuel cell group and each of the fuel cell stacks in the second fuel cell group.

Abstract: A thermoelectric element-containing package according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a thermoelectric conversion module including: a first substrate having first and second main surfaces; a second substrate having third and fourth main surfaces; and a plurality of thermoelectric elements that are sandwiched between the first and second substrates and arranged along the second main surface and the third main surface. The thermoelectric element-containing package further includes: a frame joined to the first and second substrates so as to form a hermetically sealed space surrounding the plurality of thermoelectric elements and disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a placement member that is disposed on the first main surface of the first substrate or the fourth main surface of the second substrate and to which an additional device is to be connected.

Abstract: A luminescent light emitting device includes a base, a luminescent material layer provided on the base, a heat dissipating rib provided on an outer circumferential side of the luminescent material layer in such a manner as to rise erect from the base, and a collective lens fixed to the heat dissipating rib to seal in the luminescent material layer.

Abstract: A projecting system includes an image projector that includes an optical source and that projects an image on a projected surface; and a processor. The processor obtains brightness information regarding brightness around the projected surface. The processor selects at least one item among a total luminous flux of the optical source, a color gamut of the image, and a size of the image. The processor adjusts the item that is selected based on the brightness information.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first electron transport layer above the substrate, a first electron supply layer above the first electron transport layer, a first nitride semiconductor layer above the first electron supply layer, a first opening passing through the first nitride semiconductor layer and the first electron supply layer and reaching the first electron transport layer, a second electron transport layer disposed above the first nitride semiconductor layer and along the inner surface of the first opening, a second electron supply layer disposed above the second electron transport layer and covering the first opening, a gate electrode disposed above the second electron supply layer and covering the first opening, a source electrode connected to the first nitride semiconductor layer and the second electron transport layer, and a drain electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chloroprene copolymer latex composition, a molded article of chloroprene copolymer rubber, or a dip-molded product, and the chloroprene copolymer latex composition includes a chloroprene copolymer (A) and a vulcanization accelerator (B). The chloroprene copolymer (A) includes monomer units derived from chloroprene and from 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene. The chloroprene copolymer latex composition includes a carbamate-based vulcanization accelerator and a thiazole-based vulcanization accelerator as the vulcanization accelerator (B). The chloroprene copolymer latex composition enables production of a molded article having high flexibility and high tensile strength without use of a vulcanization accelerator that is feared to have skin sensitization.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a chloroprene copolymer latex, a method for producing a chloroprene copolymer latex, a chloroprene copolymer latex composition, and a molded article or dipped product of a chloroprene copolymer rubber. The chloroprene copolymer latex is a latex of a chloroprene copolymer including monomer units derived from 2-chloro-1,3-butadiene (chloroprene) and monomer units derived from 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene, wherein the tetrahydrofuran insoluble content in the chloroprene copolymer is 20% by mass or less, and the proportion of the monomer units derived from 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene is 10 to 27 mol % in the chloroprene copolymer.

Abstract: A nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type provided above the first main surface; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type provided above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first opening which penetrates through the second nitride semiconductor layer to the first nitride semiconductor layer; an electron transport layer provided above the second nitride semiconductor layer and on an inner surface of the first opening; a gate electrode provided above the electron transport layer and covering the first opening; a source electrode connected to the second nitride semiconductor layer; a drain electrode provided on a second main surface-side of the substrate; and a high-resistance layer provided between the second nitride semiconductor layer and the electron transport layer in the first opening, the high-resistance layer including a nitride semiconductor.

Abstract: A sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer latex includes an emulsifier and a sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer obtained by modifying a chloroprene polymer (A) with sulfur (B), wherein the sulfur amount Y in the sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer and the z-average particle size X of the sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer satisfy formulae (1) to (3) (formula (1): 0.10<Y<0.60; formula (2): 120<X<320; and formula (3): Y<0.0025X?0.20), the total amount of a chloroprene monomer (A-1) and a monomer (A-2) copolymerizable with the chloroprene monomer which constitute the chloroprene polymer is 100 parts by mass, the amount of sulfur (B) contained in the sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer is Y parts by mass, and the z-average particle size of the sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer is X nm. The sulfur-modified chloroprene polymer latex composition can also include a metal oxide (C), a cross-linking accelerator (D), and an antioxidant (E).

Abstract: A field-effect transistor includes a substrate having conductivity and made of gallium nitride, a buffer layer provided on the substrate and made of C-doped GaN, a drift layer provided on the buffer layer and made of undoped GaN, and a channel layer provided on the drift layer, made of undoped AlGaN, and joined to the drift layer by heterojunction. A gate electrode is provided on the channel layer. A source electrode and a drain electrode are each provided in regions on both sides of the gate electrode on the channel layer.

Abstract: An isoprene-based polymer latex composition includes a chloroprene polymer latex (A) and an isoprene polymer latex (B), in which the chloroprene polymer has a z-average particle size of 180 nm or greater and smaller than 300 nm, and a tetrahydrofuran-insoluble fraction of 80 to 99% by mass; the chloroprene polymer latex (A) is (1) a copolymer latex of chloroprene (A-1) and 2,3-dichloro-1,3-butadiene (A-2-1), or (2) a copolymer latex of the above (A-1) and (A-2-1), and another monomer (A-2-2); and the copolymer is obtained by copolymerization in which the ratio of 2,3-dichloro-1,3-butadiene (A-2-1) is 5.0 to 30.0% by mass relative to the total amount of the monomer components chloroprene (A-1) and 2,3-dichloro-1,3-butadiene (A-2-1) of 100% by mass. The isoprene-based polymer latex composition's quality is maintained, and the properties after cross-linking of a molded product obtained by dipping a dipping former into the composition multiple times do not deteriorate.

Abstract: A phosphor member has a phosphor body configured to absorb excitation light to thereby emit first fluorescent light including a first wavelength component and a second wavelength component having a wavelength shorter than a wavelength of the first wavelength component, and a filter configured to transmit the first wavelength component as light source light and reflect the second wavelength component towards the phosphor body as second excitation light.