Abstract: To provide a photocatalyst decomposition apparatus that can supply a liquid phase containing a substance to be decomposed by a photocatalyst and that can perform decomposition of the substance more efficiently than in the related art. A photocatalyst decomposition system according to the invention includes: a gas phase generation apparatus configured to convert a liquid phase containing a decomposition object into a gas phase; and a photocatalyst member configured to come into contact with the gas phase to decompose the decomposition object by light from a light source. The photocatalyst member includes a base material formed of a porous material and a photocatalyst layer provided on a surface of the base material.

Abstract: An imaging device that generates, in a pixel, a potential higher than a potential to be supplied to the pixel is provided. The imaging device includes a pixel including a first circuit and a second circuit; the second circuit includes a photoelectric conversion device; the first circuit is electrically connected to the second circuit; the first circuit has a function of adding a first potential and a second potential to generate a third potential; and the second circuit has a function of generating data in the photoelectric conversion device to which the third potential is applied and has a function of outputting the data.

Abstract: Provided are a negative electrode that is for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a porous metal body as a current collector, contains a skeleton-forming agent highly infiltrated in the current collector so that it is less likely to suffer from structural degradation and provides improved cycle durability; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including such a negative electrode. The negative electrode for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a current collector including a porous metal body; a first negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a conductive aid, a binder, and a negative electrode active material including a silicon-based material; and a second negative electrode material disposed in pores of the porous metal body and including a skeleton-forming agent including a silicate having a siloxane bond.

Abstract: A test sample of a vulcanized rubber material is placed under a preset placement condition in a fixing frame in a test tank having a predetermined ozone concentration, and digital image data is acquired by capturing at a fixed point, over time, with at least one camera device, images of a surface of the test sample that has been placed in the test tank; and determining a change in a surface state of the test sample between a plurality of points in time by analyzing, with a computation device, the image data that has been acquired. Such evaluation method for evaluating ozone deterioration of a vulcanized rubber material can accurately determine a change over time in ozone deterioration while reducing working man-hours.

Abstract: A formed body incorporating a coil by using: a coil formed by winding a conductive wire, and a formed body incorporating the coil, the formed body being formed with a sealing material containing a resin and a magnetic material. The coil is formed by winding the conductive wire so that lead-out ends are positioned at an outer periphery of a wound portion. The formed body is formed so that surfaces of the coil are partially exposed on four side surfaces of the formed body which are parallel to a winding axis of the coil, and the area of a portion of the formed body outside the outer periphery of the wound portion is almost equal to or smaller than the area of a portion of the formed body inside an inner periphery of the wound portion of the coil.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus comprises a radiation detector including a plurality of pixels configured to convert radiation into electrical signals, one or more of the plurality of pixels being configured to operate as a detecting pixel for detecting irradiation amounts of the radiation. The radiation imaging apparatus reduces a frequency component relating to grid stripes produced by a scattering ray removing grid included in detection values for the irradiation amounts of the radiation obtained from the plurality of detecting pixels forming a detecting pixel group.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) generator device for supplying RF powers of different frequencies to multiple antennas disposed in a chamber is provided. The RF generator device includes a plurality of RF generators configured to supply the RF powers of the different frequencies to the multiple antennas, and a plurality of RF controllers configured to control the RF generators, respectively. Each of the RF controllers includes a fast Fourier transformer, and a filter. The fast Fourier transformer performs fast Fourier transform on a signal introduced as a reflected wave to decompose the signal into frequency components, and the filter removes waves having frequency components that are not outputted from the corresponding RF generator.

Abstract: One object of the present disclosure is to suppress or prevent a plating solution from entering a sealed space of a substrate holder and to detect entry of the plating solution promptly. There is provided a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate and cause the substrate to come into contact with a plating solution and to be plated.

Abstract: A hydrogenated block copolymer containing polymer blocks (A1) and (A2) each mainly containing an aromatic vinyl compound-derived structural unit and polymer blocks (B) and (C) each mainly containing a conjugated diene compound-derived structural unit, at least one of the polymer blocks (B) and (C) being present between the polymer blocks (A1) and (A2), the hydrogenated block copolymer having a total content of the polymer blocks (A1) and (A2) of 5 to 30% by mass, a 3,4-bond and 1,2-bond content in the polymer block (B) of 1 to 40% by mole, a 3,4-bond and 1,2-bond content in the polymer block (C) of 50 to 100% by mole, and a mass ratio [(C)/{(B)±(C)} of the polymer block (C) to the sum of the polymer blocks (B) and (C) of 26/100 to 63/100.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that processes a radiation image captured using a grid for scattered radiation reduction includes a conversion unit configured to convert a frequency spectrum of a signal of a fundamental wave of the grid into a frequency spectrum of an n-th harmonic where n is an integer greater than 1, and a reduction unit configured to acquire a reduction image obtained by reducing the n-th harmonic in the radiation image, using an intensity of the signal obtained by the conversion.

Abstract: An object to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a culture method for cells, which makes it possible to suppress oxygen deficiency of cells in a case where the cell is cultured at a high density, and a production method for a useful substance using the culture method for cells. According to the present invention, there is provided a culture method for cells, in which a relationship between a stirring power P/V per unit volume, a dissolved oxygen concentration CL0, and a viable cell density VCD satisfies a condition of Expression 1, in cell culture in which the viable cell density is 60×106 cells/mL or more. 0.0059×exp[0.0243×(P/V)]×CL0/VCD?1.10×10?17 ??Expression 1: In the expression, L0 indicates a dissolved oxygen concentration [mol/mL]; VCD indicates a viable cell density [cells/mL]; and P/V indicates a stirring power [W/m3] per unit volume, which is defined by a predetermined expression.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate such that the substrate is exposed to and is brought into contact with a plating solution to be plated.

Abstract: A resin composition containing a hydrogenated block copolymer (I) and a polypropylene-based resin (II), and a molded body and a tube obtained by using the resin composition. In the resin composition, the hydrogenated block copolymer (I) includes a polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B), the polymer block (B) includes a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene compound, an average of vinyl bond amounts in the whole polymer block (B) included in the resin composition is 50% by mole or more, and a D hardness of a sheet prepared through hot-press molding of the resin composition is less than 50.

Abstract: Provided are a plating apparatus and a plating method for preventing or mitigating electric field diversion irrespective of the physical or mechanical structure.

Abstract: A method for producing a product related to the specified technology includes adjusting the concentration of cells in a culture vessel to a value of from 3×107 cells/ml to 3×108 cells/ml; in a case in which the average diameter of single cells in the culture vessel is designated as A, adjusting the number proportion of cells having a single cell diameter of 1.4×A or greater in the culture vessel to 5% or less, and adjusting the number proportion of cells having a single cell diameter in the range of A±A/7 to 50% or more.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus that is able to perform radiography using a grid in which a radiation transmissive layer and a radiation absorption layer each having a strip shape and extending in a first direction are alternately arranged in a second direction, the radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel unit including a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of detection pixels, wherein the plurality of detection pixels includes a first detection pixel and a second detection pixel that are in a pair in the second direction, an output signal value of the first detection pixel is larger than an average value of output signal values of the plurality of imaging pixels and the plurality of detection pixels, and an output signal value of the second detection pixel is smaller than the average value.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus performing a processing of correcting a correction target pixel in a radiation image by using a radiation detector that includes a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels configured to detect a radiation are provided in a matrix, and that is configured to obtain the radiation image by alternately reading out a charge accumulated in a pixel in an odd column or a pixel in an even column in each row of the pixel region, the image processing apparatus comprising: a pixel determination unit configured to determine a reference pixel from among four pixels vertically and horizontally adjacent to the correction target pixel in the radiation image; and a pixel correcting unit configured to correct the correction target pixel in the radiation image using the reference pixel.

Abstract: There is provided a terminal device for displaying status information of a plurality of RF generators. On a display screen, numerical values of a specific item of the status information are displayed as figures having different lengths, and values of another item different from the specific item are displayed in at least one of color tones, patterns, or shapes of the figures, and when the specific item is a frequency and the another item is a phase, output powers of the plurality of RF generators are displayed as figures of bar graphs over the frequency, and phases of the RF generators are displayed in at least one of color tones, patterns, or shapes of the corresponding figures.

Abstract: Provided is an imaging processing apparatus including a first correcting unit configured to correct, in a case where a first pixel group continuing to a first defect pixel in an image includes a second defect pixel, a value of the second defect pixel by using values of a second pixel group continuing to the second defect pixel, and a second correcting unit configured to correct a value of the first defect pixel by using values of the first pixel group including a value corrected by the first correcting unit.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for plating a substrate as an object to be plated. The apparatus comprises an anode and a thief tunnel arranged to be located between the substrate and the anode when the substrate is placed to be opposed to the anode. The thief tunnel comprises a body placed away from the substrate and provided with an opening; a plurality of auxiliary electrodes provided in or to the body; and an ion exchange membrane configured to protect the auxiliary electrodes from a plating solution. The plurality of auxiliary electrodes are arranged along a circumference of the opening. At least one of the auxiliary electrodes is configured such that a voltage to be applied to the at least one of the auxiliary electrodes is controlled independently of a voltage to be applied to one or more auxiliary electrodes other than the at least one of the auxiliary electrodes.