Abstract: Provided is a nitride semiconductor device including a p-type region having a high concentration, and a method of manufacturing the same. The nitride semiconductor device includes a nitride crystal layer, and a p-type region provided in the nitride crystal layer. The p-type region includes Mg at a concentration in a range of 3×1018 cm?3 or greater and 1×1021 cm?3 or less, and at least either a group-13 element or an acceptor element at a concentration in a range of 3×1017 cm?3 or greater and 5×1021 cm?3 or less.

Abstract: A voice recognition device 10 includes: a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 11 that transforms an acoustic feature amount sequence of input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1 using a first model parameter group; a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 12 that transforms the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a second model parameter group; a phonological recognition unit 13 that generates a posterior probability sequence from the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice, the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1, and the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a third model parameter group; and a voice text transformation unit 14 that performs voice recognition based on the posterior probability sequence to output text of a voice recognition result.

Abstract: A current collector includes a resin layer, a conductive layer, a first intermediate layer that is positioned between the resin layer and the conductive layer and a second intermediate layer that is positioned between the first intermediate layer and the resin layer, the first intermediate layer includes a metal as a main component, and the second intermediate layer includes a metal oxide as a main component.

Abstract: Without dividing speech into a unit such as a word or a character, text corresponding to the speech is labeled. A speech distributed representation sequence converting unit 11 converts an acoustic feature sequence into a speech distributed representation. A symbol distributed representation converting unit 12 converts each symbol included in the symbol sequence corresponding to the acoustic feature sequence into a symbol distributed representation. A label estimation unit 13 estimates a label corresponding to the symbol from the fixed-length vector of the symbol generated using the speech distributed representation, the symbol distributed representation, and fixed-length vectors of previous and next symbols.

Abstract: A language model score calculation apparatus calculates a prediction probability of a word wi as a language model score of a language model based on a recurrent neural network. The language model score calculation apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute converting a word wi-1 that is observed immediately before the word wi into a word vector ?(wi-1); converting a speaker label ri-1 corresponding to the word wi-1 and a speaker label ri corresponding to the word wi into a speaker vector ?(ri-1) and a speaker vector ?(ri), respectively; calculating a word history vector si by using the word vector ?(wi-1), the speaker vector ?(ri-1), and a word history vector si-1 that is obtained when a prediction probability of the word wi-1 is calculated; and calculating a prediction probability of the word wi by using the word history vector si-1 and the speaker vector ?(ri).

Abstract: When a current-driven display device with an internal compensation method operates in a pause driving mode, a non-light emission period according to a light emission duty is provided in both a refresh frame period and a non-refresh frame period, and an on-bias applying period for applying on-bias to a drive transistor in a pixel circuit is provided in both the non-light emission periods. In the non-light emission period in the refresh frame period, an on-bias applying period is provided in a period from when data writing with threshold compensation is performed to when the light emission period starts. Thus, even when the light emission duty is low, the difference in the stress state of the drive transistor between the refresh frame period and the non-refresh frame period is reduced.

Abstract: An adhesive film for metal terminal, which is to be interposed between a metal terminal electrically connected to an electrode of a power storage device element and a power storage device packaging material for sealing the power storage device element, wherein the adhesive film for metal terminal includes a laminate including at least an acid-modified polyolefin layer for forming a metal terminal-facing surface and a polyolefin layer for forming a power storage device packaging material-facing surface, and a ratio of arithmetic surface roughness RaA (?m) of the metal terminal-facing surface of the acid-modified polyolefin layer to arithmetic surface roughness RaB (?m) of the power storage device packaging material-facing surface of the polyolefin layer satisfies the relationship: RaA/RaB>1.2.

Abstract: A control device controls sound of a plurality of speakers. The control device includes: a generation unit acquiring image data and generates display image data from the image data by using conversion processing using shape information indicating a shape of a display surface; a display controller displaying a display image on the display surface by using the display image data; a receiver causing a cursor to be superimposed and displayed on the display image and receives position designation related to the plurality of speakers on the display image from a user who has visually recognized the cursor; and an identification unit calculating a position of the cursor from the position designation by referring to a correspondence relationship between the image data before the conversion processing and the display image data after the conversion processing, and identifying the position of the cursor as a position related to the plurality of speakers.

Abstract: A resin tube is prepared. Further, a formation tool having a pressing surface and a projection that projects from the pressing surface and is insertable into the resin tube is prepared. The projection of the formation tool is inserted from an end of the resin tube into the resin tube. The pressing surface of the formation tool is pressed against an end surface of the resin tube. Thermal energy is applied to the end of the resin tube, whereby a shape of the pressing surface of the formation tool is transferred to the end surface of the resin tube, and the end of the resin tube is formed into a flange shape.

Abstract: A relay device includes: an upper port configured to receive an upper packet containing audio data of a plurality of channels; a plurality of lower ports configured to output lower packets containing audio data of one or a plurality of channels; and a generation unit configured to reconstruct the upper packet to generate the lower packets. The plurality of lower ports include a first lower port and a second lower port. The first lower port is a starting point of a first network. The second lower port is a starting point of a second network and does not share nodes with the first network. The generation unit deletes audio data of a channel to be reproduced in the second network from the audio data contained in the upper packet, to construct audio data to be contained in the lower packet to be outputted from the first lower port.

Abstract: A valve device includes a housing, a stationary disk, a drive device, a shaft and a rotor. The stationary disk is fixed at an inside of the housing and has at least one flow passage hole. The shaft is rotated about a central axis by the drive device. The rotor increases or decreases an opening degree of the at least one flow passage hole. The rotor includes: a drive disk that slides relative to the stationary disk; and a lever that is fixed to the drive disk and couples between the drive disk and the shaft. A torsion spring is placed between the shaft and the lever and urges the lever relative to the shaft in a circumferential direction around the central axis of the shaft. The shaft has a plurality of contact portions configured to contact the lever and respectively located at a plurality of locations.

Abstract: A sensor element includes an element body provided with a measurement-object gas flow section therein, a measurement electrode, a reference electrode, a reference-gas introduction section, and a heater that heats the element body. The reference-gas introduction section has a reference-gas introduction space that is open outward of the element body and that introduces a reference gas into the element body, and also has a porous reference-gas introduction layer that causes the reference gas to flow from the reference-gas introduction space to the reference electrode. The reference-gas introduction layer has a first porous region and a second porous region in a path segment serving as a reference-gas path between the reference-gas introduction space and the reference electrode. The second porous region has a low porosity region with a lower porosity than the first porous region and is disposed closer to the reference electrode relative to the first porous region.

Abstract: A detection method includes: obtaining periodically and repeatedly sensor values output from a capacitive sensor; determining whether the sensor values obtained exceed threshold Th1; calculating, as first difference value ?1X of each of target sensor values CX, a difference between target sensor value CX and sensor value CX+1 immediately before the target sensor value; calculating, as second difference value ?2X of each of target sensor values CX, a difference between (i) first difference value ?1X of target sensor value CX and (ii) first difference value ?1X+1 of sensor value CX+1 immediately before target sensor value CX; comparing each of second difference values ?2X calculated and threshold Th2, and selecting one sensor value CRet based on a result of the comparing; and outputting the one sensor value CRet selected.

Abstract: The nitride semiconductor device includes a field effect transistor formed in a gallium nitride layer. The field effect transistor includes: a gate insulator film formed on a side of a first principal face of the gallium nitride layer; a p type region being in contact with the gate insulator film; an n type region being in contact with the p type region in a direction parallel to an interface between the p type region and the gate insulator film; a first electrode being in contact with the n type region. The p type region includes a first region that is in contact with the gate insulator film and a second region that is in contact with the gate insulator film and lies in the first direction between the first region and the n type region. The second region has a higher concentration of p type impurities than the first region.

Abstract: A ball screw device has: a screw shaft rotationally moving during use, a nut having a protruding non-rotating side engaging portion at an end portion on one side in an axial direction, the nut linearly moving during use, balls arranged between a shaft-side and nut-side grooves, and a driving member fixed to the screw shaft having an arc-shaped rotating-side engaging groove portion into which the non-rotating side engaging portion can be inserted in the axial direction, and which can be engaged with the non-rotating side engaging portion in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: a process for deciding one item of content from a plurality of kinds of content; a process for playing back the decided content; a process for deciding a display pattern of an object associated with the content that is played back; and a process for displaying the object in the decided display pattern at least one of during playback of the content and in a state in which the content that is played back is decided.

Abstract: A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t?1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut?1 that includes an utterance word feature vector that precedes the t-th utterance word feature vector and a speaker vector that precedes the t-th speaker vector to generate a t-th utterance sequence information vector ut, where t is a natural number, and a tagging unit that determines a tag lt that represents a result of analyzing a t-th utterance from a model parameter set in advance and the t-th utterance sequence information vector ut.

Abstract: A contact member that comes into contact with a surface of a developer carrier has a volume resistivity of 1014 ohm·cm or less, and a developer satisfies the following conditions: a rotating member and the contact member have a resistance value of 1.0×104 ohms or less, and a first resistance value ranges from 1.0×105 ohms to 1.0×108 ohms as measured in a state where the rotating member is stopped and the developer is located between the rotating member and the contact member, and a second resistance value is in the range of the first resistance value and is 40% or more with respect to the first resistance value, as measured in a state where the rotating member is rotated at 200 mm/s with respect to the contact member and the developer is located between the rotating member and the contact member.

Abstract: A boss is shaped in a tubular form and is injection molded integrally with a housing that forms a flow passage. A ring member is press-fitted to an inner peripheral wall of the boss. A shaft placed on a radially inner side of the ring member is configured to be rotated about a central axis. A movable valve is coupled to a portion of the shaft and is configured to adjust a size of a cross-sectional area of a passage opening at the flow passage. Each of gate marks of the housing is a trace of a site of the housing where molten resin is injected at a time of injection molding of the housing. Each of ribs radially inwardly projects from the inner peripheral wall of the boss and is placed at a corresponding location of the boss which is between adjacent two of the gate marks.

Abstract: In a first aspect of the present invention, a manipulation method of an organism is provided which includes: forming a gas-liquid interface, in which a restoring force acts against minute interface movement, in a flow channel or at an end part of the flow channel, with the end part immersed in a liquid in which an organism is immersed; and manipulating the organism by using the gas-liquid interface.