Abstract: A controller 3 includes: a force controller 36 that performs force control of moving a robot 1 in accordance with an operation force exerted on an operator 2 from a user U to apply a treatment to an object W and of moving the operator 2 in accordance with a reaction force exerted on the robot 1 from the object W; an estimator 37 that estimates a dynamic characteristic of the user U; and an adjuster 310 that adjusts a control parameter of the force control in accordance with the estimated dynamic characteristic of the user such that a frequency characteristic of the force control approaches a target frequency characteristic.

Abstract: An information acquisition support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of notifications related to an event; an analysis unit that analyzes the plurality of notifications on the basis of an analysis criterion; and an event state generation unit that generates event state information obtained by integrating information indicated by the plurality of notifications on the basis of an analysis result of the plurality of notifications and an information integration criterion, and thereby, the information acquisition support apparatus supports rapid and accurate grasping of a state of a site where an event is occurring.

Abstract: The present invention includes a memory and a processor configured to store, in a storage, a first digital twin in which at least one model defining at least one function of an entity at a given time, and at least one piece of second data that includes, as a constituent element, first data for realizing the function of the entity due to being input to the model are included, create at least one second digital twin by performing predetermined first computation using, as a computation target, at least one first digital twin stored in the storage, and execute computation for arranging the second digital twin in a sandbox for which a predetermined time axis has been set, and realizing a function of an entity indicated by the second digital twin in the sandbox in accordance with the time axis.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball from which stain such as mud or grass juice can be wiped off when the stain is adhered to the golf ball while the spin performance of the golf ball on approach shots is not substantially lowered. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film composed of at least one layer and formed on a surface of the golf ball body, wherein at least one layer of the paint film contains a polyurethane as a resin component, and the polyurethane has a structural unit derived from a polyether polycarbonate diol.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a novel golf ball having excellent spin performance on approach shots. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film composed of at least one layer and formed on a surface of the golf ball body, wherein at least one layer of the paint film contains a polyurethane as a resin component, the polyurethane is obtained by a reaction between a polyol composition containing a polyol and a polyisocyanate composition containing a polyisocyanate, and the polyol composition contains, as a polyol component, a urethane polyol having a structural unit derived from a polyether polycarbonate diol.

Abstract: An information acquisition support apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of notifications related to an event; an analysis unit that analyzes the plurality of notifications on the basis of an analysis criterion; and an event state generation unit that generates event state information obtained by integrating information indicated by the plurality of notifications on the basis of an analysis result of the plurality of notifications and an information integration criterion, and thereby, the information acquisition support apparatus supports rapid and accurate grasping of a state of a site where an event is occurring.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having an excellent control effect on a harmful arthropod.

Abstract: This command generation device generates a control command for a power conversion device which converts DC power outputted by a DC power supply device to AC power and supplies the same to a bus, and which converts AC power from the bus to DC power and supplies the same to the DC power supply device.

Abstract: A polymer film includes at least one type of polymer selected from the group consisting of a resin and rubber and fillers dispersed in the polymer; in which in a case where the polymer film is three-dimensionally analyzed with FIB-SEM, a film thickness of the polymer film is denoted by Tm, and a length of the filler in a film thickness direction of the polymer film is denoted by Lf, a proportion of the number of fillers having Lf/Tm of 0.01 or more and less than 1.0 to the number of all the fillers is more than 40% and less than 100%.

Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes an input unit and an approximator. Input information including an image in which a bone appears is input into the input unit. The approximator is configured to determine an estimation result related to bone density of the bone from the input information. The approximator includes a learned parameter to obtain the estimation result.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for reducing rewrite overhead in a sequential access storage system. The method may comprise writing a data set to a sequential access medium using a magnetic head, wherein the data set comprises a plurality of encoded data blocks, classifying each of the plurality of encoded data blocks on the sequential access medium into one of at least three classes of write quality, and rewriting the encoded data blocks in a rewrite area of the sequential access medium based at least in part on the write quality class. In some embodiments, the at least three classes of write quality may comprise a hard rewrite class for which rewrites are necessary to prevent data loss, a soft rewrite class for which rewrites are desirable but not necessary, and a no rewrite class for which no rewrite is needed or desired.

Abstract: An endless belt includes a layer containing a resin and electrically conductive particles. In the endless belt, a discharge starting voltage at which discharge starts when a voltage is applied to the layer and increased is 0.9 kV or more.

Abstract: A surface emitting device includes a semiconductor layer including a first crystal material, a reflection layer formed on the semiconductor layer, including a second crystal material of which a lattice constant or a crystal structure is different from the first crystal material, and having a mesa shape, and a light constriction region that is formed in a portion of the reflection layer and controls optical confinement.

Abstract: An air pollution control unit is configured to bring particle-containing gas and washing liquid into contact with each other to collect particles in the particle-containing gas. The air pollution control unit includes a gas washing column having a gas cleaning section in which the particle-containing gas and the washing liquid are brought into co-current contact with each other, a gas cooling column disposed downstream of the gas washing column along the gas flow and having a gas cooling section in which the particle-containing gas that has been cleaned (cleaned gas) and cooling liquid are brought into countercurrent contact with each other, and a gas communication path.

Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member consisting of an endless belt which consists of a layer containing a resin including at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyimide resin, a polyamide-imide resin, an aromatic polyether ether ketone resin, a polyphenylene sulfide resin, and a polyetherimide resin, conductive carbon particles, a silicone oil containing at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of dimethylpolysiloxane and organic group-substituted dimethylpolysiloxane or has the layer as an outermost layer, and in which an integral value of a statistical quantity L(r) represented by the following Equation (1) is 0 or more and 0.1 or less at an interparticle distance r of 0.05 ?m or more and 0.30 ?m or less in a spatial distribution of the conductive carbon particles existing in a 6.3 ?m×4.

Abstract: A robot system includes a robot body configured to perform a work, a robot controlling module configured to control operation of the robot body according to an operator command, a manipulator configured to send the operator command to the robot controlling module according to manipulation by an operator, a motivation information acquiring module configured to acquire motivation information for motivating the operator so that the operator increases an amount of work or a speed of work of the robot body, and a motivation information presenter configured to present to the operator the motivation information acquired by the motivation information acquiring module.

Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member consisting of an endless belt which consists of a layer containing a resin including at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyimide resin, a polyamide-imide resin, an aromatic polyether ether ketone resin, a polyphenylene sulfide resin, and a polyetherimide resin, conductive carbon particles, a silicone oil containing at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of dimethylpolysiloxane and organic group-substituted dimethylpolysiloxane or has the layer as an outermost layer, and in which an integral value of a statistical quantity L(r) represented by the following Equation (1) is 0 or more and 0.1 or less at an interparticle distance r of 0.05 ?m or more and 0.30 ?m or less in a spatial distribution of the conductive carbon particles existing in a 6.3 ?m×4.

Abstract: A polymer film includes at least one type of polymer selected from a resin and fillers dispersed in the polymer, in which an average maximum length of the fillers in a cross section of the polymer film taken in a thickness direction is 10 ?m or less, and density of the polymer film is 1.0 g/cm3 or more and 2.0 g/cm3 or less.

Abstract: A composition contains at least one or more thermal conductive fillers and a resin or rubber, in which the fillers have a shape factor SF1 of 120 or more and 400 or less and a shape factor SF2 of 140 or more and 325 or less.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus includes first and second belts stretched by a plurality of rollers, including first, second and third rollers, and forming a nip, a heater disposed inside the first belt. The first roller is disposed upstreammost among the plurality of rollers in a conveyance direction, the second roller is disposed downstream of an irradiation area of the first belt heated by the heater and the third roller is disposed between from the second roller to the first roller in a rotational direction of the first belt. A first temperature sensor detects a temperature of the irradiation area in an inner circumferential surface. A second temperature sensor detects a temperature of the first belt between from the second roller to the third roller in the rotational direction.