Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition which contains an intestinal bacterium belonging to Bacteroidetes and having an inflammation reducing activity, or a substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity and which has at least one activity selected from an anti-inflammatory activity, an immunoregulation activity, an epithelial barrier restoring activity, an IL-10-inducing activity, and an IL-22-inducing activity, and to an ameliorating agent for an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or an infectious disease containing the intestinal bacterium and the substance derived from the intestinal bacterium and having an inflammation reducing activity.

Abstract: A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.

Abstract: Provided are a fibrous sheet having a stress relaxation rate defined by the following formula of less than or equal to 85%: stress relaxation rate [%]=(stress S5 at extension after five minutes/stress S0 at initial extension)×100 when a stress at extension immediately after extension in an in-plane first direction at 50% elongation is defined as a stress S0 (N/50 mm) at initial extension, and a stress at extension at a time of extending in the first direction at 50% elongation for five minutes is defined as a stress S5 (N/50 mm) at extension after five minutes, and a bandage including the fibrous sheet.

Abstract: A fiber including olefin-based resin, wherein temperatures of the olefin-based resin losing five percent by weight and the fiber losing five percent by weight have a difference of 20 degrees Celsius or below according to thermogravimetric measurements.

Abstract: Provided is a polyester binder fiber which contributes to produce a liber structure having a high strength. The polyester binder fiber may have a ?H of 30 J/g or less which is calculated as a difference between a melting endothermic amount ?Hm and a crystallization exothermic amount ?Hc in a temperature elevation phase as recorded by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve. The polyester binder fiber may have a ratio (a1:(a2+a3)) between a crystalline component fraction (a1) and a total amount of a constrained amorphous component fraction (a2) and an amorphous component fraction (a3) in the range of from 98.0:2.0 to 50.0:50.0 in which the crystalline component fraction (a1), the constrained amorphous component fraction (a2), and the amorphous component fraction (a3) are calculated from a spin-spin relaxation time T2 at 140° C. obtained by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Abstract: Provided are a stretchable non-woven fabric including crimped fibers, satisfying the following formula: (?65??55)/(?30??20)?2.5, when a stress ? (N/50 mm) at a strain ? of 20%, 30%, 55% and 65% in a stress-strain curve by a tensile test for at least one direction in a plane direction, is referred to as ?20, ?30, ?55 and ?65, respectively, and a bandage including the non-woven fabric. The non-woven fabric and the bandage lead small deterioration in stretching performance when used repeatedly, and can be excellent in repetition durability.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for efficiently producing a heparin-like substance without using an animal-derived tissue. The present invention relates to a method for producing a heparin-like substance and the like, the method comprising: (1) preparing a mammalian cell that produces a heparin-like substance, (2) preparing a recombinant cell in which a gene that encodes an extracellular domain of syndecan is introduced into the mammalian cell that produces a heparin-like substance and is prepared in step (1), and (3) culturing the recombinant cell prepared in step (2) in a medium and collecting the heparin-like substance from the resulting culture supernatant.

Abstract: Provided is a sea-island composite fiber having excellent spinnability and thermoplastic deformability. The sea-island composite fiber comprises an island component and a sea component having a lower melting point than that of the island component, wherein the fiber has an aspect ratio of from 2.0 to 5.0 in a fiber cross section; and the sea component has a sea component thickness of from 0.2 to 2.0 ?m, the sea component thickness being defined as a distance between an outer periphery of the fiber and an island component closest to the outer periphery on a minor axis of the fiber cross section.

Abstract: An oil control ring according the present disclosure includes a pair of side rails, and a spacer expander disposed between the pair of side rails. The spacer expander includes a plurality of sets and each set includes a lug part and a rail facing part. For each set, the lug part is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of either of the pair of the side rails, and the rail facing part is provided adjacent to the lug part and faces a side surface of either of the pair of the side rails. The lug part satisfies a following condition (1): W/H?1.5??(1) In condition (1), W indicates a width of the lug part at a position 0.05 mm away from a highest position of the lug part in a direction towards the rail facing part, and H indicates a height difference between a highest position of a region on the rail facing part adjacent to the lug part and the highest position of the lug part.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a polyester binder fiber having a low crystallization temperature and exhibiting improved adhesiveness and a fiber structure including the polyester binder fiber. The polyester binder fiber according to the present invention includes a polyester polymer and an amorphous polyether imide polymer in a proportion of 0.1 to 5.0 mass % (based on the mass of the polyester polymer), and the polyester binder fiber has a crystallization temperature measured by differential calorimetry in a range of 100° C. or higher and 250° C. or lower.

Abstract: An oil control ring according the present disclosure includes a pair of side rails, and a spacer expander disposed between the pair of side rails. The spacer expander includes a plurality of sets and each set includes a lug part and a rail facing part. For each set, the lug part is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of either of the pair of the side rails, and the rail facing part is provided adjacent to the lug part and faces a side surface of either of the pair of the side rails. The lug part satisfies a following condition (1): W/H?1.5 ??(1) In condition (1), W indicates a width of the lug part at a position 0.05 mm away from a highest position of the lug part in a direction towards the rail facing part, and H indicates a height difference between a highest position of a region on the rail facing part adjacent to the lug part and the highest position of the lug part.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes first and second photoelectric conversion elements, first and second counters, first and second reset units, an adder, and a detection unit. The first counter is configured to perform a counting operation to change a count value based on a signal input from the first photoelectric conversion element. The second counter is configured to perform a counting operation to change a count value based on a signal input from the second photoelectric conversion element. The count value of the first counter and the count value of the second counter are input to the adder. The detection unit is configured to detect an event that the count value of the first counter exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: Provided are a fibrous sheet having a stress relaxation rate defined by the following formula of less than or equal to 85%: stress relaxation rate [%]=(stress S5 at extension after five minutes/stress S0 at initial extension)×100 when a stress at extension immediately after extension in an in-plane first direction at 50% elongation is defined as a stress S0 (N/50 mm) at initial extension, and a stress at extension at a time of extending in the first direction at 50% elongation for five minutes is defined as a stress S5 (N/50 mm) at extension after five minutes, and a bandage including the fibrous sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer composite material which has a high proton spin polarization even though it is a polymer composite material containing carbon black. The present invention relates to a polymer composite material for 1H dynamic nuclear polarization experiments, containing carbon black, having a thickness of 0.8 mm or less, and being doped with a paramagnetic radical compound.

Abstract: A fiber including olefin-based resin, wherein temperatures of the olefin-based resin losing five percent by weight and the fiber losing five percent by weight have a difference of 20 degrees Celsius or below according to thermogravimetric measurements. The fiber can reduce the leaching of impurities with low molecular weight by controlling the deterioration of olefin-based resin when heated during its spinning process.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels each of which includes a photoelectric converter that generates charges by photoelectric conversion, a first transfer unit that transfers charges in the photoelectric converter to a first holding portion, a second transfer unit that transfers charges in the first holding portion to a second holding portion, an amplifier unit that outputs a signal based on charges held in the second holding portion, and a third transfer unit that transfers charges of the photoelectric converter to a drain portion; and a control unit that, in an exposure period in which signal charges are accumulated in the photoelectric converter, changes a potential barrier formed by the third transfer unit with respect to the signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric converter from a first level to a second level that is higher than the first level.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes pixels in a matrix and a readout circuit that reads signals from a pixel. Each pixel includes a first photoelectric converter, a second photoelectric converter arranged in a first direction relative to the first photoelectric converter, a third photoelectric converter arranged in a second direction relative to the first photoelectric converter, a fourth photoelectric converter arranged in the second direction relative to the second photoelectric converter and in the first direction relative to the third photoelectric converter, and a micro lens for all the photoelectric converters. The readout circuit reads charges from all the photoelectric converters by three readout operations and reads signals so as to be able to identify a signal based on charges generated by only one photoelectric converter. The readout circuit selects the one photoelectric converter from all the photoelectric converters.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus for capturing a moving image is provided. The apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion portion configured to generate charges in accordance with incident light in an exposure period, a generation unit configured to generate a pixel signal of each frame based on charges generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, and a control unit configured to change, in an exposure period for generating one frame, a conversion efficiency of converting the incident light to the photoelectric conversion portion into the pixel signal.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes first and second photoelectric conversion elements, first and second counters, first and second reset units, an adder, and a detection unit. The first counter is configured to perform a counting operation to change a count value based on a signal input from the first photoelectric conversion element. The second counter is configured to perform a counting operation to change a count value based on a signal input from the second photoelectric conversion element. The count value of the first counter and the count value of the second counter are input to the adder. The detection unit is configured to detect an event that the count value of the first counter exceeds a threshold value.