Abstract: To provide a technology for obtaining a probe carrier which is quality assured by an effective inspection program and an effective producing steps. Quality of a produced probe carrier is ensured by expanding test items in the processes from synthesis and purification of the probe to fixation thereof to a carrier.

Abstract: It is provided a nucleic acid labeling method that can reduce to a minimum the amount of a labeling substance used and can effectively incorporate the labeling substance into a product, a target nucleic acid to be detected. In the labeling of a target nucleic acid sequence in a product while it is amplified by PCR, at least one type from among four types of substrates A, T, C and G is chosen as a substrate to be labeled, the concentration of the chosen substrates is adjusted to be lower than that of the non-chosen substrates, and at least the labeled substrates are contained in the chosen substrates.

Abstract: An action recognition apparatus includes an input unit for inputting image data, a moving-object detection unit for detecting a moving object from the image data, a moving-object identification unit for identifying the detected moving object based on the image data, a state detection unit for detecting a state or an action of the moving object from the image data, and a learning unit for learning the detected state or action by associating the detected state or action with meaning information specific to the identified moving object.

Abstract: A hybrid formed of a probe nucleic acid immobilized onto a substrate and a sample nucleic acid, in which the target strand of the sample nucleic acid is longer than the probe nucleic acid, so that at least a 5? end portion of the target strand extends upstream the target sequence; a 3? end of the target strand is the same as a 3? end of the target sequence or extends downstream the target sequence by at least one base from the 3? end of the target sequence; and provided that when the number of bases of the extending 5? portion is designated as L1, and the number of bases of the extending 3? portion of the target strand is designated as L2, a value of L1/L2 falls within the range of 0 to 1.5 both inclusive. This hybrid is very stable so that useful for detecting a small amount of nucleic acid specifically with high sensitivity.

Abstract: An infectious etiologic agent detection probe set which detects an infectious etiologic agent gene, includes a plurality of kinds of probes including oligonucleotide having base sequences selected from each of a plurality of groups selected from a first group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 1 to 14 and complementary sequences thereof, a second group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 15 to 24 and complementary sequences thereof, a third group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 25 to 36 and complementary sequences thereof, a fourth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 37 to 47 and complementary sequences thereof, a fifth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 48 to 57 and complementary sequences thereof, a sixth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 58 to 68 and complementary sequences thereof, a seventh group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 69 to 77 and complementary sequences thereof, an eighth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos.

Abstract: A nucleic acid amplification method capable of preferentially amplifying a nucleic acid strand having a desired nucleotide sequence from a template nucleic acid molecule using a PCR amplification method, where the two primers flanking a base sequence region to be amplified are each designed so that they have different template-primer melting temperature (Tm) under PCR conditions.