Abstract: A server according to the present disclosure determines a vehicle dispatch schedule of a vehicle for delivery of a rental article to a user and/or for collection of a rental article rented out to a user from the user. The server includes a communication interface for acquiring, from a terminal apparatus used by the user, first information regarding the rental article, and at least one of second information regarding a rental date/time and a rental location and third information regarding a return date/time and a return location; and a controller for determining, according to the second information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for delivering the rental article indicated by the first information to the user by the vehicle, and/or for determining, according to the third information, a vehicle dispatch schedule for collecting the rental article rented out to the user from the user by the vehicle.

Abstract: An estimation device collects sensor data representing a change in a load along a time series as a change in a voltage value from a sensor that generates a voltage when a load applied to an area changes, and estimates a matter related to a measurement target passing through a predetermined area by using sensor data collected from the sensor installed in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A prediction method of performing heat source demand prediction in a space having a predetermined air conditioning control region, includes predicting a required heat quantity in the air conditioning control region by using a predetermined parameter related to a surrounding environment of the air conditioning control region and a setting value of an air conditioner set in the air conditioning control region as inputs, and predicting a heat source demand of the entire space from the predicted required heat quantity for each air conditioning control region.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a simple, mechanized analytical approach for resist quality control and early source investigation when a defect occurs. A resist quality control method includes the steps of: (1) pretreating a resist to obtain an analysis sample; (2) subjecting the analysis sample to an instrumental analysis to obtain an analysis result; (3) converting the analysis result into numerical data, followed by a multivariate analysis; and (4) performing a quality control based on an analytical result thus obtained.

Abstract: A composite material molding method is provided for forming a composite material. The molding includes disposing carbon fiber in a cavity inside an openable and closable mold, injecting resin into the cavity in a state in which a clamping pressure is exerted on the mold and curing the resin. When a threshold value of the pressure inside the cavity is set to a pressure that is lower than the clamping pressure and the resin is injected into the cavity while exerting an injection pressure that is equal to or greater than the clamping pressure on the resin until the pressure inside the cavity reaches the threshold value. Then, after the pressure inside the cavity has reached the threshold value, the inside of the cavity is suctioned.

Abstract: A composite material molding method is provided for forming a composite material. The molding includes disposing carbon fiber in a cavity inside an openable and closable mold, injecting resin into the cavity in a state in which a clamping pressure is exerted on the mold and curing the resin. When a threshold value of the pressure inside the cavity is set to a pressure that is lower than the clamping pressure and the resin is injected into the cavity while exerting an injection pressure that is equal to or greater than the clamping pressure on the resin until the pressure inside the cavity reaches the threshold value. Then, after the pressure inside the cavity has reached the threshold value, the inside of the cavity is suctioned.

Abstract: The objective to be solved by the present invention is to provide a novel ice crystallization inhibitor which is industrially useful, which can be efficiently and stably produced in a safe process suitable for a food production without difficulty and which has excellent functions and properties. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an antibody which specifically reacts with the ice crystallization inhibitor, and a composition, a food, a biological sample protectant and a cosmetic which contain the ice crystallization inhibitor. Furthermore, the objective of the present invention is to provide a peptide which gives an indication of a protein having an ice crystallization inhibitory activity. The ice crystallization inhibitor according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a seed protein derived from a plant belonging to genus Vigna in Leguminosae, an allied species thereof or an improved species thereof.

Abstract: The objective to be solved by the present invention is to provide an ice-crystallization inhibitor which has a practicable and excellent ice-crystallization inhibiting property and which can be efficiently and stably produced in a safe process suitable for food production. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an antibody which specifically reacts with the ice-crystallization inhibitor, and a composition, a food, a biological sample protectant and a cosmetic which contain the ice-crystallization inhibitor. Furthermore, the objective of the present invention is to provide a polysaccharide which is derived from a basidiomycete and which is used for inhibiting ice-crystallization of a liquid containing water, and a method for inhibiting ice-crystallization of a liquid containing water. The ice-crystallization inhibitor according to the present invention is characterized in being a polysaccharide derived from a basidiomycete.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an antifreeze protein which is capable of being efficiently produced on an industrial level at low cost and which is safe and has an excellent antifreezing activity for use on a practical level. Also, an objective of the present invention is to provide a polypeptide that corresponds to the active part of the antifreeze protein; a composition, a food, a biological sample protectant and a cosmetic containing the antifreeze protein or the polypeptide; and an antibody that specifically reacts with the antifreeze protein or the polypeptide. The antifreeze protein according to the present invention is characterized in being derived from a plant and having a specific amino acid sequence or being a plant seed protein.

Abstract: The objective to be solved by the present invention is to provide an ice-crystallization inhibitor which has a practicable and excellent ice-crystallization inhibiting property and which can be efficiently and stably produced in a safe process suitable for food production. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide an antibody which specifically reacts with the ice-crystallization inhibitor, and a composition, a food, a biological sample protectant and a cosmetic which contain the ice-crystallization inhibitor. Furthermore, the objective of the present invention is to provide a polysaccharide which is derived from a basidiomycete and which is used for inhibiting ice-crystallization of a liquid containing water, and a method for inhibiting ice-crystallization of a liquid containing water. The ice-crystallization inhibitor according to the present invention is characterized in being a polysaccharide derived from a basidiomycete.

Abstract: An objective to be achieved by the present invention is to provide an ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance which has an excellent ice-crystal growth inhibiting activity suitable for practical use and which can be produced easily, efficiently and economically in safe steps usable in food production. Another objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing the ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance, a polypeptide which is an active part of the ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance, as well as an ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance composition, a food, a biological sample protectant and a cosmetic each containing the ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance or the polypeptide. The ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance according to the present invention is characterized in that the ice-crystal growth inhibiting substance is derived from a plant, and has a molecular weight of 400 kDa or more as measured by gel filtration chromatography.

Abstract: An objective to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a method for producing a heat processed food which can be uniformly heated in a short time without causing “unevenness of heating” on microwave oven cooking. Another objective of the present invention is also to provide a heat professed food, use of an antifreeze protein in producing a heat processed food, a method for improving an effect of heating treatment on a heat professed food, and an agent for improving an effect of heating treatment. The method for producing a heat processed food according to the present invention is characterized in comprising the steps of adding an antifreeze protein to a food material or a food; and cooling the resulting mixture.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an antifreeze substance which is suitable for practical use and has excellent antifreeze activity in a safe process flow applicable to food production in a simple, efficient and inexpensive manner. The first method for producing a plant extract containing an antifreeze substance according to the present invention comprises the steps of drying a plant containing the antifreeze substance and extracting the antifreeze substance from the dried plant. The second method for producing a plant extract containing an antifreeze substance according to the present invention comprises the steps of extracting the antifreeze substance from a plant, and treating the obtained extract from the extracting step with an adsorbent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil/fat-containing composition for suppressing carcinogenesis, the composition including a solution produced by bringing a hydrophobic extract of licorice, which has been produced by bringing licorice into contact with an alcohol, into contact with an oil/fat. According to the present invention, there are provided an oil/fat-containing composition for prevention or treatment of the cancer, which can act through oral administration, and can be safely ingested on a day-to-day basis, pharmaceuticals and foods containing the oil/fat-containing composition.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a composition for prevention and/or amelioration of life-style related disease, and/or a composition for inhibition and/or amelioration of increase in body weight, comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of glabrene, glabridin, glabrol, 3?-hydroxy-4?-O-methylglabridin, 4?-O-methylglabridin and hyspaglabridin B as compounds having a PPAR ligand activity effective in amelioration of insulin resistance and in prevention and/or amelioration of life-style related diseases such as visceral fat obesity, type 2 diabetes, hyperlipemia and hypertension, which can be utilized in food and drink such as health food and health functional food (food for specified uses and food with nutrient function), pharmaceutical preparations, non-pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetics etc.

Abstract: (A) Applying a voltage between an electrically conductive grindstone (1) and a shaping electrode (4) for shaping the grindstone, generating a spark on a contact point by contacting the shaping electrode to the grindstone, thereby shaping the grindstone by the spark, and (B) simultaneously applying a voltage between the grindstone and a dressing electrode (2) for dressing the grindstone that is oppositely aligned to the grindstone without contact, supplying the electrically conductive grinding fluid between them, thereby dressing the grindstone by electrolytic dressing. According to these steps, highly efficient and simultaneous processing is achieved to provide a high precision profiling high quality mirror.

Abstract: A process of producing a multi-layered printed-coil substrate as a planar magnetic component for use as a transformer or a choke in a switched mode power supply circuit, etc. in which several types of printed-coil substrates having individually different coil patterns are prepared, some of them are selected depending upon the desired characteristics of planar magnetic component, and the selected substrates are layered to obtain a multi-layered printed-coil substrate. A printed-coil component, wherein pin terminals erected on insulating bases are inserted through through-holes formed in the printed-coil substrate having patterned coils in a single or several layers and pin terminals are soldered to the through-holes.

Abstract: A process of producing a multi-layered printed-coil substrate as a planar magnetic component for use as a transformer or a choke in a switched mode power supply circuit, etc. in which several types of printed-coil substrates having individually different coil patterns are prepared, some of them are selected depending upon the desired characteristics of planar magnetic component, and the selected substrates are layered to obtain a multi-layered printed-coil substrate. A printed-coil component, wherein pin terminals erected on insulating bases are inserted through through-holes formed in the printed-coil substrate having patterned coils in a single or several layers and pin terminals are soldered to the through-holes.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material for a medical care which provides a good silver color tone in a laser exposures a high sensitivity and an excellent rapid processing performance. The silver halide photographic material for a medical care comprises (A) a transparent support having the thickness of 150 .mu.m or more, and (B) a silver halide emulsion layer provided on the trasparent support, wherein silver halide grains in the silver halide emulsion layer, which contain those having a (100) face/(111) face ratio of 5 or more and those having a silver bromide-localized phase on the surface thereof, have an average grain size of not larger than 0.4 .mu.m in terms of a projected area circle-corresponding diameter, a silver chloride content of at least 90 mole %, and an iron compound of 10.sup.-5 mole or more per mole of silver halide.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material for laser exposure comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support,wherein said support or photographic constituent layers of said material contain an antihalation dye which exhibits a spectral absorption density of 0.4 or more before development with respect to the wavelength corresponding to the laser used and a spectral absorption density of 0.2 or more after development when the fluctuations of the average visual density excluding the support density and emulsion fog density are 0.02 or less.