Abstract: In a measurement apparatus, a first pupil is capable of transmitting first light of a first wavelength band, and a second pupil is capable of transmitting second light of a second wavelength band. An imaging device includes a plurality of first pixels generating first pixel signals based on third light of a third wavelength band transmitted through a first optical filter that is capable of transmitting the third light. The imaging device further includes a plurality of second pixels generating second pixel signals based on fourth light of a fourth wavelength band transmitted through a second optical filter that is capable of transmitting the fourth light. A light source outputs illumination light including only fifth light of a fifth wavelength band and sixth light of a sixth wavelength band not overlapping the fifth wavelength band.

Abstract: A circuit board includes a board, circuitry provided on the board that supplies electric power to a motor, a positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion connected to a positive electrode terminal of the circuitry, and a negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion connected to a negative electrode terminal of the circuitry. The circuitry includes a first capacitor connected to the positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion, and a second capacitor connected to the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion. The first and second capacitors are connected in series between the positive-electrode-side and the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portions. The board includes a through hole, at least a portion of which is between at least two of the first capacitor, the second capacitor, the positive-electrode-side power source terminal portion, and the negative-electrode-side power source terminal portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reagent for determination of activated partial thromboplastin time, comprising: a phosphatidylcholine (PC); a phosphatidylserine (PS); and a phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), wherein a concentration ratio of the PS relative to the PC is not less than 0.16 and not more than 0.25, and a concentration of the PS is not less than 7 ?g/mL and not more than 13 ?g/mL.

Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger comprising a flat perforated heat transfer pipe having multiple refrigerant flow paths substantially parallel to each other, a fin provided with an insertion hole into which the flat perforated heat transfer pipe is to be inserted, and headers connected to ones of the refrigerant flow paths at both end portions in a width direction of the flat perforated heat transfer pipe, wherein the refrigerant flow paths are separated by at least four partition walls in the flat perforated heat transfer pipe, and are arranged in the width direction, the flat perforated heat transfer pipe is expanded and joined to the insertion hole, and ones of the refrigerant flow paths arranged at both end portions in the width direction have a greater width than those of other refrigerant flow paths.

Abstract: A microneedle device system includes a microneedle device having a sheet-like microneedle having a sheet in which one surface is a skin contact surface and the other surface is a rear surface, and in which a plurality of microneedles are formed substantially along a surface of the sheet, and in which the microneedles in the skin piercing region are raised from the skin contact surface so as to be capable of piercing skin if the sheet is bent in a thickness direction, an adhesive layer that is disposed on the sheet-like microneedle, and a liner that is attached to the adhesive layer so as to be releasable therefrom, and an auxiliary tool having a bending portion which bends the microneedle device in the thickness direction, and on which the microneedle device is mounted so as to be movable along the bending portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate including a first and a second regions; first wiring layers disposed in a first direction; a second wiring layer; a third wiring layer closer to the substrate than the first and the second wiring layers; a semiconductor film that penetrates the first and the second wiring layers, and is connected to the third wiring layer; and a gate insulating film disposed between the semiconductor film and the first wiring layers. The first wiring layers include first conductive films opposed to the semiconductor film in the first region, and first films in the second region. The second wiring layer includes a second conductive film opposed to the semiconductor film in the first region, and a second film in the second region. The second film is different from the first films.

Abstract: In a method of operating a measurement device, an image acquisition unit acquires a first image of a subject. A display control unit displays the first image or a second image regarding the first image on a display. A reading unit reads one or more pieces of reference information from a storage medium. The reference information represents two reference positions on the subject. The display control unit displays the one or more pieces of reference information on the display. A setting unit sets two reference positions on the first image or the second image after the first image or the second image is displayed on the display and the reference information is displayed on the display.

Abstract: An air-conditioner outdoor heat exchanger has a fin, multiple heat transfer pipes thermally connected to the fin, having a flat sectional shape, and configured such that refrigerant flows through header pipes connected to inlet and outlet sides of the heat transfer pipes. The refrigerant flows through the heat transfer pipes in parallel, and when the refrigerant returns from the outlet-side header pipe to the inlet-side header pipe through the heat transfer pipes, the refrigerant returns to the inlet-side header pipe through one of the heat transfer pipes adjacent to another one of the heat transfer pipes through which the refrigerant has flowed when flowing from the inlet-side header pipe to the outlet-side header pipe. At least two systems of refrigerant paths are formed, and the refrigerant flows back and forth in each system between the inlet-side header pipe and the outlet-side header pipe.

Abstract: A vehicle brake system, including: a brake operation member to be operated by a driver of a vehicle; a hydraulic brake device provided for one of a front wheel and a rear wheel and configured to generate a hydraulic braking force in accordance with an operation of the brake operation member, the hydraulic braking force depending on a pressure of a working fluid; and an electric brake device provided for the other of the front wheel and the rear wheel and configured to generate an electric braking force in accordance with the operation of the brake operation member, the electric braking force depending on a motion of an electric motor.

Abstract: An aloneness estimation device estimating whether a user acts alone includes an operation state information acquisition unit configured to acquire operation state information indicating the user's operation state of a terminal per position, a criteria setting unit configured to set criteria for use in estimation in accordance with a position related to the acquired operation state information, an estimation unit configured to estimate whether the user acts alone from the operation state information acquired by the operation state information acquisition unit based on the set criteria, and an output unit configured to output information in accordance with estimation.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory according to an embodiment includes first and second areas, an active region, a non-active region, a first stacked body, a plurality of first pillars, a first contact, a second stacked body, and a second contact. The active region includes part of each of the first and second areas. The non-active region includes part of each of the first and second areas. The second stacked body is in the non-active region. The second stacked body includes second insulators and second conductors which are alternately stacked. A second contact is in contact with a second conductor in a first interconnect layer and a second conductor in a second interconnect layer.

Abstract: A motor drive unit includes a case, a circuit board, a power connector, and a case connection portion connecting the circuit board and the case. The power connector includes a positive terminal and a negative terminal, and a positive line portion connected to the positive terminal and a substrate positive connection portion, and a negative line portion connected to the negative terminal and a substrate negative connection portion. A power circuit portion includes a common mode filter including first and second capacitors. A case connection portion includes an electrically conductive surrounding portion surrounding at least one of at least a portion of the positive line portion and at least a portion of the negative line portion, and a case connection line connected to a point between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and an electrically conductive portion of the case.

Abstract: Provided herein are ionic self-assembling peptides, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides, and methods of using and making the same.

Abstract: The fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a pressing member, a pressing rotator, and a heating unit. The pressing member includes a counter face that faces the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt. The counter face includes a curved portion that is concavely curved and an extended portion. The shape of the curved portion in a cross section orthogonal to the width direction of the fixing belt is configured to approach the center of the pressing rotator as it extends toward the downstream in the conveying direction. The extended portion is continuous with the curved portion and is provided at the downstream of the curved portion in the conveying direction of the recording medium. The shape of the extended portion in the cross section is configured to leave away from the center of the pressing rotator as it extends toward the downstream in the conveying direction.

Abstract: An applicator of one embodiment is for applying a sheet member to skin. The applicator includes: a body including a bottom plate configured to face the skin and a bending portion provided to the bottom plate; a cap being movable along a slide direction substantially orthogonal to the bottom plate; and an elastic member configured to extend along the slide direction between the body and the cap. The elastic member applies, to the cap, elastic force that acts in a direction away from the bottom plate, the cap being movable toward the bottom plate against the elastic force. The bending portion bends the sheet member that has advanced thereto in a pressed state in which the cap has been moved toward the bottom plate, thereby applying the sheet member to the skin.

Abstract: A brake system includes: brake cylinders; electromagnetic valve devices respectively corresponding to the brake cylinders and capable of individually controlling hydraulic pressures in the respective brake cylinders; pumps respectively connected to the brake cylinders; one pump motor driven in common with the pumps; and a brake-hydraulic-pressure controller that controls the electromagnetic valve devices and the one pump motor to control the hydraulic pressures in the respective brake cylinders.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked body, first, second, third, and fourth insulating bodies, first and second columnar portions. The stacked body includes a conductive layer and an insulating layer stacked alternately. The first, second, third and fourth insulating bodies, the first and second columnar portions are provided inside the stacked body. The second insulating body is at a position different from the first insulating body. The third insulating body is between the first and second insulating bodies. The fourth insulating body is between the first and second insulating bodies, and includes portions contacting the third insulating body and being separated from each other with the third insulating body interposed. The first columnar portion is between the first and fourth insulating bodies. The second columnar portion is between the second and fourth insulating bodies. The first and second columnar portions include a semiconductor layer.

Abstract: To provide a method for operating a blast furnace with which the combustion efficiency of a solid fuel, such as pulverized coal, is improved, thereby making it possible to improve productivity and reduce CO2 emissions. Pulverized coal and LNG are blown from an upstream lance configured by a double tube, and oxygen is blown from a downstream lance on the downstream side in a hot air blast direction, so that oxygen used for preceding combustion of the LNG is supplied from the downstream lance, and the pulverized coal whose temperature has been increased by the combustion of the LNG is combusted along with the supplied oxygen.

Abstract: Antiviral cationic polyamines were prepared by modifying polyethylenimines with N-acylating agents that introduce a side chain comprising one or more carbons and at least one alcohol hydroxy group. The cationic polyamines can have a linear or branched polyethylenimine backbone structure. Preferably, the cationic polyamines comprise pendant monosaccharide groups, which can be introduced via a cyclic carbonate comprising a pendant protected monosaccharide (e.g., mannose) group. The cationic polyamines can be active and selective against a broad spectrum of viruses at low concentrations, and are generally non-toxic.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the first electrode layer includes a first portion and a second portion thicker than the first portion. The second electrode layer includes a third portion and a fourth portion thicker than the third portion. The fourth portion is provided on a lower level side of the second portion. The fourth portion has a level difference in a staircase configuration between the fourth portion and the second portion. The fourth portion protrudes along a first direction further than an edge of the second portion. The third electrode layer is provided between the first electrode layer and the third portion. The third electrode layer has an edge receding further than the edge of the second portion of the first electrode layer. The receding is in a reverse direction of a protruding direction of the fourth portion of the second electrode layer.