Abstract: A nitride semiconductor material having low lattice thermal conductivity and a heat flow switching element including the same are provided. The nitride semiconductor material according to the present invention is a metal nitride represented by M-Si—N—Te (where M represents at least one kind of transition metal element, and Te represents an arbitrary element), and has a thermal effusivity of less than 2000 Ws0.5/m2K. In particular, the M is at least one of Cr, Mn, Ni, Mo, and W. In addition, a heat flow switching element according to the present invention includes an N-type semiconductor layer 3, an insulator layer 4 formed on the N-type semiconductor layer, and a P-type semiconductor layer 5 formed on the insulator layer, wherein at least one of the N-type semiconductor layer and the P-type semiconductor layer is formed from the nitride semiconductor material described above.

Abstract: A time period required for analyzing a source code is reduced without reducing analysis accuracy in a source code analysis apparatus that analyzes a source code with a dynamic analysis method. An analysis processing unit extracts, from a post-change source code, an influence function to which an input is given by a change function. An analysis necessity determination processing unit determines whether or not the function is the analysis target function, based on a range of an input value input to the change function and a function included in the influence function. The analysis processing unit performs an analysis of the analysis target function, which is included in the change function and the influence function. An analysis result processing unit outputs an analysis result of the post-change source code, which includes an analysis result of the analysis target function.

Abstract: The aim is to detect a portion(s) that may include a latent defect(s) under the impact of a global variable in a source code. A method for analyzing a source code using one or a plurality of processors is provided. The method includes obtaining a defect pattern of a program, obtaining a source code of the program, extracting CRUD information associated with a global variable from the source code, identifying a latent defect from the CRUD information based on the defect pattern, and outputting a CRUD matrix containing information of the latent defect.

Abstract: Methods and hydrogels for preventing or reducing cellular adhesion and protein adsorption to a tissue (e.g. cardiac tissue) are disclosed. The hydrogels generally include at least three component polymers, a first polymer including an aminooxy group, a second polymer including a reactive oxo group, that are cross-linked by oxime bonds and a third polymer including a catechol group, that causes better retention on the cardiac tissue. The hydrogels are suitable for binding to and coating a tissue or cell. The hydrogels operate to reduce cellular adhesions and protein adsorption to the tissue or cell.

Abstract: A time period required for analyzing a source code is reduced without reducing analysis accuracy in a source code analysis apparatus that analyzes a source code with a dynamic analysis method. An analysis processing unit extracts, from a post-change source code, an influence function to which an input is given by a change function. An analysis necessity determination processing unit determines whether or not the function is the analysis target function, based on a range of an input value input to the change function and a function included in the influence function. The analysis processing unit performs an analysis of the analysis target function, which is included in the change function and the influence function. An analysis result processing unit outputs an analysis result of the post-change source code, which includes an analysis result of the analysis target function.

Abstract: Methods and hydrogels for preventing or reducing cellular adhesion and protein adsorption to a tissue (e.g. cardiac tissue) are disclosed. The hydrogels generally include at least three component polymers, a first polymer including an aminooxy group, a second polymer including a reactive oxo group, that are cross-linked by oxime bonds and a third polymer including a catechol group, that causes better retention on the cardiac tissue. The hydrogels are suitable for binding to and coating a tissue or cell. The hydrogels operate to reduce cellular adhesions and protein adsorption to the tissue or cell.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display portion, a storage portion, and a processing portion. The processing portion is configured to display an operation-process identifying information that indicates an operation process of a plurality of operation processes, and a figure information that represents a flow-path structure, on the display portion. The processing portion is configured to display a flow-path portion used as a flow path of the flow-path structure in an operation process indicated by the operation-process identifying information, on the display portion by using the figure information. The processing portion is configured to associate the flow-path portion with the operation-process identifying information and store the flow-path portion associated with the operation-process identifying information, in the storage portion, as flow-path setting information.

Abstract: A cylindrical body for an implant is capable of maintaining a high patency rate by achieving a good antithrombogenicity, a low swelling property and a low Young's modulus. A cylindrical body for an implant includes: a cylindrical substrate having an elongation rate in the longitudinal direction, as measured under a tensile load of 20 N, of from 5 to 100%; and a block copolymer composed of a polyalkylene glycol block(s) and a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block(s); wherein the ratio of the mass of the polyalkylene glycol with respect to the total mass of the block copolymer is 5 to 25%; and a film composed of the block copolymer has a Young's modulus of 200 MPa or less.

Abstract: An extent of decrease in analysis accuracy caused by splitting a source code can be reduced. An influence identifying unit identifies, for each of two functions included in a source code as a target, influence degrees exerted over analysis of the source code when the two target functions are each split into separate split codes, as analysis influence degrees between the two target functions, from an information amount passed between the two target functions. A splitting unit splits the source code into a plurality of split codes such that a sum of the analysis influence degrees between the functions each being split into the separate split codes decreases.

Abstract: A biodegradable block copolymer has high conformability and excellent degradability. The block copolymer including a polyalkylene glycol block and a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block, wherein the mass ratio of the polyalkylene glycol block with respect to the total mass is 10 to 60%; the carbonyl carbon has a carbon nuclear relaxation time T1? of not more than 20 ms; and the block copolymer satisfies Equation (1): ?=?1×?2>20 (1) ?1: crystallization rate of the polyalkylene glycol block; ?2: crystallization rate of a poly-A block, wherein A represents, among the repeat units contained in the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block, a repeat unit whose homopolymer composed of the same repeat units has a highest crystallization rate.

Abstract: Provided is a highly safe robot system. A robot system includes: an arm operation control unit that controls operations of an arm; and a storage unit that records hazardous part information related to at least any one of a grip unit of the arm and a work target gripped with the grip unit, and the arm operation control unit causes the arm to operate such that the hazardous direction of the hazardous part is different from a moving direction of the grip unit on the basis of the hazardous part information.

Abstract: An industrial robot having high operability for a user is provided. An industrial robot includes a manipulator, a controller which controls an operation of the manipulator, and a detection device attached to the manipulator and detecting a gesture input. The controller executes a process corresponding to the detected gesture input.

Abstract: An extent of decrease in analysis accuracy caused by splitting a source code can be reduced. An influence identifying unit identifies, for each of two functions included in a source code as a target, influence degrees exerted over analysis of the source code when the two target functions are each split into separate split codes, as analysis influence degrees between the two target functions, from an information amount passed between the two target functions. A splitting unit splits the source code into a plurality of split codes such that a sum of the analysis influence degrees between the functions each being split into the separate split codes decreases.

Abstract: An antithrombogenic metallic material includes a metallic material whose surface is coated with a coating material, the coating material containing: a phosphonic acid derivative or a catechol derivative; a polymer containing, as a constituent monomer, a compound selected from the group consisting of alkyleneimines, vinylamines, allylamines, lysine, protamine, and diallyldimethylammonium chloride; and an anionic compound containing a sulfur atom and having anticoagulant activity; the polymer being covalently bound to the phosphonic acid derivative or the catechol derivative, the phosphonic acid derivative or the catechol derivative being bound to the metallic material through a phosphonic acid group or a catechol group thereof, wherein the abundance ratio of nitrogen atoms to the abundance of total atoms as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) on the surface is 4.0 to 13.0 atomic percent.

Abstract: A treatment aiding device includes a flexible shaft; a filter; linear supporting members; an elastomer member composed of an elastomer in which a penetrating hole is formed, which elastomer member is arranged in the proximal side relative to the opening section of the filter such that the shaft penetrates the penetrating hole, wherein the outer diameter of the end face in which the penetrating hole is formed is larger than the outer diameter of the opening-section side of the filter when the filter is closed; and an outer tube in which a penetrating hole is formed, which outer tube is arranged in the proximal side relative to the opening section of the filter such that the shaft penetrates the penetrating hole in a state which allows movement of the shaft in the longitudinal direction; wherein the elastomer member is fixed in the distal side of the outer tube.

Abstract: A cleaning system encompasses a solution reservoir to reserve a pH-adjusted solution, a gas-filling path connected to a top of the solution reservoir, to send a CO2 gas in a hollow space of the solution reservoir, a CO2 gas-cylinder connected to the gas-filling path, a solution-sending path to send the pH-adjusted solution to a pipeline of a Device-to-be-Cleaned, a cleaning-solution introduction-path connected to the solution reservoir, to introduce an original cleaning solution to the solution reservoir, for generating the pH-adjusted solution, a stock-solution tank provided at an input side of the cleaning-solution introduction-path, configured to the original cleaning solution, and a filling-pressure adjuster provided in the gas-filling path and a solution-sending-pressure adjuster provided in the solution-sending path for adjusting a filling pressure of the CO2 gas-cylinder.

Abstract: Methods and hydrogels for preventing or reducing cellular adhesion and protein adsorption to a tissue (e.g. cardiac tissue) are disclosed. The hydrogels generally include at least two component polymers, a first polymer including an aminooxy group and a second polymer including a reactive oxo group, that are cross-linked by oxime bonds. The hydrogels are suitable for binding to and coating a tissue or cell. The hydrogels operate to reduce cellular adhesions and protein adsorption to the tissue or cell.

Abstract: Methods and hydrogels for preventing or reducing cellular adhesion and protein adsorption to a tissue (e.g. cardiac tissue) are disclosed. The hydrogels generally include at least three component polymers, a first polymer including an aminooxy group, a second polymer including a reactive oxo group, that are cross-linked by oxime bonds and a third polymer including a catechol group, that causes better retention on the cardiac tissue. The hydrogels are suitable for binding to and coating a tissue or cell. The hydrogels operate to reduce cellular adhesions and protein adsorption to the tissue or cell.

Abstract: There are provided a fluid-path tester and a fluid-path testing-method capable of performing classification of abnormal-modes into a problem in a system, a leakage in a dedicated tube, a problem of a failure in a suppression pressure, and the like, an analysis of the abnormal-modes, and the like in a simplified manner. PAPS valves are included, and an abnormality emulator inspecting an abnormal condition in a fluid path of a DUT by emulating characteristics of the fluid-circuit represented by each of a plurality of abnormal-modes having possibilities of occurring in the fluid path of the DUT through pressurization of a fluid pressure using a compressor-under-test and adjustment of the fluid pressure using the PAPS valves.

Abstract: An artificial blood vessel is composed of a cylindrical multiple-woven fabric structure allowing only a small amount of blood leakage and can achieve both antithrombogenicity and cellular affinity. The artificial blood vessel includes a cylindrical fabric structure in which a cylindrical fabric whose inside contacts blood is arranged, wherein the cylindrical fabric is a fabric prepared by interlacing a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns with each other into a cylindrical shape; the warp yarns and the weft yarns constituting the cylindrical fabric include a multifilament yarn having a single yarn fineness of not more than 0.50 dtex, and are bound to an antithrombogenic material; the antithrombogenic material forms an antithrombogenic material layer having a thickness of 1 to 600 nm inside the cylindrical fabric; and the water permeability under conditions where a pressure of 16 kPa is applied to the inner surface is less than 300 mL/cm2/min.