Abstract: A cubic boron nitride sintered material comprises cubic boron nitride particles and a bonding material, wherein the bonding material comprises at least one first metallic element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, hafnium, tantalum, chromium, rhenium, molybdenum, and tungsten; cobalt; and aluminum; the cubic boron nitride sintered material has a first interface region sandwiched between an interface between the cubic boron nitride particles and the bonding material, and a first virtual line passing through a point 10 nm apart from the interface to the bonding material side; and when an element that is present at the highest concentration among the first metallic elements in the first interface region is defined as a first element, an atomic concentration of the first element in the first interface region is higher than an atomic concentration of the first element in the bonding material excluding the first interface region.

Abstract: An event monitoring system includes a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit holds an event message including a character string related to an event occurring in an information system and guide information including one or more guides. The guide includes a guide message including a predetermined character string, notified in response to the event, and information regarding a coping method for the event. The processor compares the event message and the guide, associates the guide with the event in a case where the guide further includes information for identifying a variable portion of the guide message and a portion other than the variable portion of the guide message coincides with a portion other than a portion corresponding to the variable portion in the event message, and receives an input of information indicating a correct answer of a guide to be associated with the event in a case where the guide does not include the information for identifying the variable portion.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a control unit configured to autonomously determine a resource to be used for transmission; a reception unit configured to execute an LBT (Listen before talk) before transmitting a signal by using the resource; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the signal to another communication device by using the resource in a case where the reception unit succeeds in the LBT, wherein the transmission unit determines transmission beamforming to be applied upon transmitting the signal, based on reception beamforming applied to the LBT by the reception unit.

Abstract: A dilator (30) insertable into a catheter (20) includes a tubular shaft part (40), and a tubular flexible part (50) located on a distal end side of the shaft part (40) and formed of a resin more flexible than the shaft part (40), and includes, in the shaft part (40) and/or the flexible part (50), a physical property inclined part (42) in which rigidity gradually decreases from a proximal end side toward a distal end side. The catheter assembly is capable of achieving both stable catheter insertability into a blood vessel and reduction in risk of blood vessel perforation.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a control unit configured to determine a priority to apply to a data signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information that indicates the determined priority, and the data signal to which the determined priority is applied, in autonomously selected resources, to another communication device.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermoelectric material are provided. The thermoelectric material includes a sintered body formed of p-type and n-type thermoelectric materials for the thermoelectric conversion element. The thermoelectric materials have a MgAgAs type crystal structure as a main phase. An area ratio of internal defects of the thermoelectric materials for one thermoelectric conversion element is 10% or less in terms of a total area ratio of defective portions in a scanning surface according to ultrasonic flaw detection in a thickness direction of the thermoelectric material. No defect having a length of 800 ?m or more is present at any vertex of chips of the thermoelectric materials.

Abstract: A cemented carbide including tungsten carbide grains and a binder phase, in which a total content of the tungsten carbide grains and the binder phase in the cemented carbide is no less than 80 vol %, a content of the binder phase in the cemented carbide is no less than 0.1 vol % and no more than 20 vol %, in a histogram showing distribution of orientation differences between adjacent pairs each consisting of two of the tungsten carbide grains adjacent to each other in the cemented carbide, a first peak is present in a class of the orientation differences of no less than 29.5° and less than 30.5°.

Abstract: A transmitter apparatus wherein a simple structure is used to successfully suppress the degradation of error rate performance that otherwise would be caused by fading or the like. There are included encoding parts that encode transport data; a mapping part that performs such a mapping that encoded data sequentially formed by the encoding parts are not successively included in the same symbol, thereby forming data symbols; and a symbol interleaver that interleaves the data symbols. In this way, a low computational complexity can be used to perform an interleaving process equivalent to a bit interleaving process to effectively improve the reception quality at a receiving end.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a cobalt-boron (CoB) layer for magnetic recording devices, memory devices, and storage devices. In one or more embodiments, the CoB layer is part of a spin-orbit torque (SOT) device. In one or more embodiments, the SOT device is part of an SOT based sensor, an SOT based writer, a memory device (such as a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) device), and/or a storage device (such as a hard disk drive (HDD) or a tape drive). In one embodiment, an SOT device includes a seed layer, and a cap layer spaced from the seed layer. The SOT device includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT) layer, and a nano layer (NL) between the seed layer and the cap layer. The SOT device includes a cobalt-boron (CoB) layer between the seed layer and the cap layer, and the CoB layer is ferromagnetic.

Abstract: A communication device has: a receiving unit configured to receive information from another communication device; a control unit configured to determine an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) based on the information; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal, to which the MCS is applied, in autonomously selected resources, to the another communication device.

Abstract: An air-permeable packaging material which includes a non-perforated polyolefin layer having a thickness of 3 ?m to 18 ?m and constituted of at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of polypropylene and polyethylene and a net-shaped reinforcing layer; a package which includes the air-permeable packaging material, the non-perforated polyolefin layer facing outward, and which contains an oxygen scavenger, a desiccant, a deodorant, an insect repellent, or a fragrance; and a method for producing the package.

Abstract: The air discharge device includes a duct defining: a main flow path through which an air flow passes; and a main hole opened in a flat shape to discharge the air flow as a working air flow toward a downstream from the main flow path. A throttle portion is provided in the duct to reduce a flow path height of the main flow path from an upstream of the air flow toward a downstream of the air flow. A plurality of partitions are arranged to divide the main flow path in a major direction into a pair of side flow paths and at least one center flow path. The plurality of partitions are disposed in the duct such that a flow path width of the center flow path is reduced from the upstream of the air flow toward the downstream of the air flow.

Abstract: A conventional biometric authentication system has been time-consuming and labor-intensive for users since the users are requested to re-register their biometric information. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a biometric authentication system includes an update value generation unit configured to generate an update value, a first update processing unit configured to update, using the update value, a template generated based on biometric information, and a second update processing unit configured to update, using the update value, a verification key generated along with the template based on the biometric information using the update value.

Abstract: An electrochemical storage diagnostic system is configured to perform an electrical test to measure energy storage device parameters. The diagnostic system includes a charge management controller, electrically coupled to a power multiplexer, a power converter circuit, and an isolated converter circuit. The charge management controller is programmed with instructions to identify a device under test, selected from at least one member of the plurality of energy storage devices to perform an electrical test. Then, adjust a charge in the secondary energy storage device to a target voltage through the power multiplexer by transferring energy between the secondary energy storage device and a support device, selected from at least one member of the plurality energy storage devices. After that, transfer electrical power through the power multiplexer and power converter circuit to the device under test in order to perform the electrical test. Finally, complete the electrical test.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to magnetoresistive (MR) devices. The MR device comprises a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer that increases exchange coupling field, and in turn, less magnetic noise of such devices. The MR device comprises a first ferromagnetic (FM1) layer and a second ferromagnetic (FM2) layer, in between which is an SAF spacer of RuAl alloy having a B2 crystalline structure which may grow epitaxial on BCC (110) or FCC (111) textures, meaning that the (110) or (111) plane is parallel to the surface of MR device substrate. Further, amorphous layers may be inserted into the device structure to reset the growth texture of the device to a (001), (110), or (111) texture in order to promote the growth of tunneling barrier layers or antiferromagnetic (AF) pinning layers.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a driving force adjusting device including a pair of electric motors (1) that drives left and right wheels (5) of a vehicle, a differential mechanism (3) that provides the left and right wheels (5) with a torque difference, and left and right drive shafts (4) that transmits driving force from the differential mechanism and to the left and right wheels (5), the driving force adjusting device having four elements and two degree of freedom. In this driving force adjusting device, inertia moments (JML,JMR) on paths from the pair of electric motors (1) to the left and right wheels (5) are set to values such that a resonance frequency (f) of the driving force adjusting device when the vehicle is turning comes to be larger than a yaw resonance frequency (fyaw) of the vehicle.

Abstract: The vehicle controller controls a vehicle. The vehicle includes a transmission and an internal combustion engine that has a variable valve actuation device. The vehicle controller includes an execution device. The execution device executes first and second gear ratio adjustment processes and first and second intake VVT adjustment processes. The first intake VVT adjustment process includes adjusting the intake valve timing such that the internal combustion engine is operated in an Atkinson cycle. The second intake VVT adjustment process includes setting the intake valve timing such that the closing timing of the intake valve is more advanced than in a case in which the first intake VVT adjustment process is executed.

Abstract: A transmission node includes: a reception unit configured to execute an LBT (Listen before talk) in a time interval immediately before transmitting a signal; a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal in a case where reception power is less than a threshold value in the time interval; and a control unit configured to, in a case where multiple signals are to be transmitted, change control related to the LBT for a signal to be transmitted for a first time and change control related to the LBT for a signal to be transmitted other than for the first time.

Abstract: Edge trimming is performed on a wafer while a cleaning liquid is supplied to the center of a face side of the wafer and the wafer is rotated to form a film of the cleaning liquid that covers the face side of the wafer. The film of the cleaning liquid prevents the face side of the wafer from being dried, lowering the probability that swarf will be introduced into devices on the face side of the wafer. In addition, the consumption of the cleaning liquid can be reduced compared with a step of performing edge trimming on the wafer while supplying a curtain of cleaning liquid to the entire face side of the wafer.

Abstract: A terminal comprises: a reception unit that receives a reference signal used for a purpose other than a measurement related to a radio resource management; and a control unit that performs the measurement related to the radio resource management using the reference signal.