Abstract: Provided is an environmental equipment control apparatus capable of immediately executing control for improving a physical and mental state of a user.

Abstract: Provided is an alkyl-modified carboxyl group-containing copolymer with which a neutralized viscous liquid can be prepared which has excellent dispersibility in water, has a viscosity that does not change greatly regardless of addition of an electrolyte, and has high transparency in the presence of an electrolyte. This alkyl-modified carboxyl group-containing copolymer contains: 100 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic acid; 1.5-4.5 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl ester, in which an alkyl group has 18-24 carbon atoms; and 0-0.1 parts by mass of a compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups, wherein the copolymer contains 1.5-4.5 parts by mass of a nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: A light-emitting element that contains a fluorescent compound, which has high efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which the proportion of delayed fluorescence to the total light emitted from the light-emitting element is higher than that in a conventional light-emitting element is provided. Emission efficiency of the light-emitting element containing a fluorescent compound can be improved by increasing the probability of TTA caused by an organic compound in an EL layer, converting energy of triplet excitons, which does not contribute to light emission, into energy of singlet excitons, and making the fluorescent compound emit light by energy transfer of the singlet excitons.

Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a method for producing 2-acetyl-4H,9H-naphtho[2,3-b]furan-4,9-dione that is suited to industrial production. The invention provides a method for producing 2-acetyl-4H,9H-naphtho[2,3-b]furan-4,9-dione by reacting 3-bromo-3-buten-2-one and 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone in the presence of a solvent, then obtaining crystals of 2-acetyl-4H,9H-naphtho[2,3-b]furan-4,9-dione by adding an alcohol-based solvent and/or water to the reaction system, and treating the crystals by using a specific adsorbent in the presence of a solvent.

Abstract: In one embodiment, provided are a method for analyzing at least one nucleic acid that can conveniently and highly accurately analyze even a very small number of analyte at least one nucleic acid. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for analyzing at least one nucleic acid, comprising: a library preparation step of preparing a library comprising at least one standard nucleic acid of specific copy number(s) and at least one analyte nucleic acid in a same system; a calibration curve data generation step of generating calibration curve data based on the copy number(s) of the at least one standard nucleic acid of specific copy number(s); and an analyte nucleic acid analysis step of identifying at least one nucleotide sequence of the analyte nucleic acid while identifying the number(s) of the at least one nucleotide sequence of the at least one analyte nucleic acid using the calibration curve data.

Abstract: A portable terminal device has enclosures with a movable portion, a display section that displays visible information showing an operation target area, and a touch sensor that detects a position on a display screen of the display section touched by a user's finger, or the like. A shape detection section detects a change in the shape of the enclosure; an input operation management section manages a position detected by the touch sensor and an operation target area of each of pieces of visible information displayed on the display section in an associated manner; and a display control section automatically makes a change to at least display positions of the respective pieces of visible information about the operation target displayed on the display section in accordance with a change in shape of the enclosure detected by the shape detection section.

Abstract: A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.

Abstract: The present invention enables a predetermined user and a customer of the predetermined user to be easily associated, and to engage in communication having a shared web page, without installing dedicated software or the like. A communication support device 1 generates, with a generating processor 13, a web page that is deployed on a mutually associated user terminal 2 and customer terminal 3, the web page having a shared web page that is shared by the user and the customer displayed within a predetermined display area. A transition history acquirer 14 acquires a transition history of the shared web pages from the mutually associated user terminal 2 and customer terminal 3, and on the basis of the transition history, when there is a transition of the shared web page on one of the mutually associated user terminal 2 or customer terminal 3, a synchronization processor 15 synchronizes the shared web page on the other terminal with a post-transition web page as a new shared web page.

Abstract: An object detection device is configured to: detect from an acquired image whether a predetermined part of an outer shape of an object in question shown in that image is hidden by another object shown in that image; and detect a position and/or size of the object in question based on a position of the part of the outer shape of the object in question hidden by the other object, when it is detected that the predetermined part of the outer shape of the object in question is hidden.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for: receiving inputs at a service provider server system from a controller over an internet connection; using the inputs in a processing system to produce data based thereon representing desired operations by a user of the controller; and transmitting the data from the service provider server system back over the internet connection.

Abstract: A task to be achieved by the present invention is to provide an ink which can form a printed image or the like having color fastness to water at a level where the image will not be removed from the recording medium even when, for example, washed with water, warm water, or the like. Further, another task to be achieved by the invention is to provide an ink which can form a printed image or the like which is unlikely to suffer from color fading even when, for example, washed by an ultrasonic cleaning method or the like that is used for cleaning a stain strongly deposited on clothes or the like. The present invention is directed to an ink containing a polymer (A) having a predetermined structure (a1).

Abstract: A fuel cell includes a first separator and a second separator. A second protrusion is formed on a first sealing portion of the first separator. A concave portion is formed in a second sealing portion of the second separator. When fuel cells are stacked together sequentially in the vertical direction without displacing relative to one another, the center of the second protrusion and the center of the concave portion are aligned with each other. Even if the fuel cells are displaced while being stacked together, the upper fuel cell in the vertical direction is moved to decrease the distance between the center of the second protrusion and the center of the corresponding concave portion.

Abstract: An organic compound has a benzonaphthofuran skeleton and is represented by General Formula (G1). In General Formula (G1), A represents a pyrene skeleton. In the case where the pyrene skeleton has a substituent, the substituent is a diarylamino group including two substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups each having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 7 to 10 carbon atoms. The two aryl groups of the diarylamino group may be the same or different.

Abstract: A proceedable direction detection apparatus includes a processor. The processor inputs an image acquired from an image capturing unit mounted on a vehicle into a classifier that is pre-trained to output a proceedable certainty degree indicating a proceedable probability of each relative bearing with respect to a predetermined direction relative to a vehicle based on a display status of a traffic signal in the image. The processor calculates, using the classifier, the proceedable certainty degree of each relative bearing based on the display status of the traffic signal in the image. The processor determines the direction in which the vehicle can proceed based on a proceedable certainty degree of each relative bearing.

Abstract: An image selection device includes a processor configured to: input, for each of a series of images acquired from a camera mounted on a vehicle, the image to a classifier to detect a region including an object represented on the image; track the detected object over the series of images; and select, when a period in which the detected object can be tracked is equal to or more than a predetermined period, and a size of a region including the detected object in any one image during the period in which the object can be tracked is equal to or more than a predetermined size threshold value, among the series of images, an image immediately before the period in which the object can be tracked, or an image in which the tracked object is not represented during the period in which the object can be tracked.

Abstract: A novel compound in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. The organic compound includes an anthracene skeleton, an arylene group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group including a carbazole skeleton. The anthracene skeleton and the substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group including the carbazole skeleton are bonded to each other through the arylene group. The anthracene skeleton includes an aryl group at the 2-position or the 3-position.

Abstract: An optical material of the present invention has a minimum transmittance value in a wavelength range of 445 nm to 470 nm of a transmittance curve measured at a thickness of 2 mm of the optical material.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I), wherein A? represents a halogen ion, a benzenesulfonate ion, an alkylsulfonate ion or the like, X represents a halogeno group or the like, a is an integer of 0 to 4, Y represents a C1-C8 alkyl group or the like, b is an integer of 0 to 5.

Abstract: An electric power tool has a brushless motor for driving a tip tool, and a motor case is at least partly covered by a motor housing made of aluminum alloy and exposed to an outside. A control board provided with a control circuit for controlling the rotation of the brushless motor is disposed adjacent to the motor housing. The brushless motor and a control board are cooled by cooling air generated by a fun, thereby enhancing the cooling characteristics of the motor control circuit.

Abstract: A bag-making and packaging machine has a film supply unit that supplies film to a bag-making and packaging unit. The film supply unit has holding mechanisms each having a shaft that holds a film roll, a holding mechanism support frame supporting the holding mechanisms, a moving mechanism that rotates the holding mechanism support frame to move each holding mechanism between a film roll setting position and a film supply position, a splicing mechanism splicing a trailing end portion of the film of the roll of one of the holding mechanisms and a leading end portion of the film of the roll of another one of the holding mechanisms, and a film drawing mechanism that rotates the shafts of the holding mechanisms to draw the film independently from the film rolls attached to the shafts of the holding mechanisms and changes the drawing speed of the film during bag-making and packaging.