Abstract: A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method that enables more accurate suggestions for improving both the health and beauty conditions of a user. A second acquisition unit 121 acquires the user's gut bacteria data. A score determination unit 122 determines a score that indicates the health level of the gut microbiome of the user on the basis of the gut bacteria data. A type determination unit 123 determines the type to which the user's gut flora applies, among a plurality of enterotypes, on the basis of the gut bacteria data. An information unit 125 informs suggestions for improving the user's health condition to the user on the basis of the user's score and type. The problem is solved thereby.

Abstract: A highly functional semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are connected to each other, and the second electrode and the third electrode are connected to each other. A first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer are stacked over the first semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is less likely to diffuse hydrogen than the second insulating layer. The second insulating layer contains oxide, the first semiconductor layer contains polycrystalline silicon, and the second semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide.

Abstract: An autonomous movement system according to an embodiment is an autonomous movement system for autonomous movement in a facility, the autonomous movement system changing a movement speed for the autonomous movement depending on a cooperation mode, a connection mode and a caution mode, the cooperation mode being a mode of moving while acquiring position information inside a first range in cooperation with a facility camera, the first range being a range that the facility camera photographs to generate image data, the facility camera being fixed in the facility, the connection mode being a mode of moving inside a second range and outside the first range, the second range being a range in which connection with an access point is performed by wireless communication, the access point being fixed in the facility, the caution mode being a mode of moving outside the first range and outside the second range.

Abstract: In order to accurately estimate a characteristic of a user, the characteristic causing a change in action of the user, an information processing apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition section (11) that acquires history information including information indicative of a history of a first action of a user and one or both of information indicative of a history of a second action of the user, the second action being different from the first action, and information indicative of a history of an environment around the user; a detection section (12) that detects a change in the first action with reference to the history information; and an estimation section (13) that estimates, with reference to the history information, a characteristic of the user, the characteristic causing the change.

Abstract: The present invention is a conductive polymer composition containing: (A) a polyaniline-based conductive polymer having at least one repeating unit of the formula (1); and (B) a hydrogencarbonate including a cation of the formula (2-1) or (2-2). Here, R1 to R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, an acidic group, a hydroxy group, a nitro group, a halogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group, a hydrocarbon group containing a hetero atom, or a hydrocarbon group partially substituted with a halogen atom. X represents a monovalent alkali metal selected from lithium, sodium, potassium, and cesium, R101 to R104 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an oxoalkyl group, an oxoalkenyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryloxoalkyl group. R101 and R102, R103 and R104, and R101, R102, and R104 optionally form a ring. This provides a conductive polymer composition that can form an antistatic film for electron beam resist writing.

Abstract: A polymer containing a structural unit including an aromatic hydroxy group bonded to a main chain, where the aromatic hydroxy group is protected by an acid-labile group represented by the following formula (ALU-1) and is deprotected by action of an acid to become alkali-soluble. This provides: a polymer that makes it possible to form a resist film with which it is possible to form a pattern having extremely high isolated space resolution, small LER, and excellent rectangularity, effects of development loading and residue defects being suppressed, and the pattern having etching resistance and suppressed pattern collapse in the produced resist pattern; a chemically amplified positive resist composition containing the polymer; a resist patterning process using the chemically amplified positive resist composition; and a mask blank including the chemically amplified positive resist composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a CeO2—ZrO2-based complex oxide having a sufficiently reduced particle size and a method for producing the CeO2—ZrO2-based complex oxide, and there are provided a complex oxide containing a zirconium element, a cerium element, and optionally another rare earth metal element, wherein D50 and D90 of the complex oxide measured by a laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution measurement method are 0.5 ?m or less and 1 ?m or less, respectively, and a method for producing the complex oxide.

Abstract: A chemically amplified positive resist composition is provided comprising a polymer comprising units containing a phenolic hydroxy group and units containing a phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group, in which a carbon atom neighboring the carbon atom to which the phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group is attached is substituted with a specific group. A resist pattern with a high resolution, reduced LER, rectangularity, minimized influence of develop loading, and few development residue defects can be formed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to form an image, transmit the image to a server that generates a processed image of the image by executing a designated image process on the image and is on an outside of a firewall, and, in a case where the image includes designation information designating the processed image to be transmitted to an instructed transmission destination via a fax line, request an alternative apparatus to fax-transmit the processed image to the transmission destination, the alternative apparatus being on an inside of the firewall together and having a fax function.

Abstract: A chemically amplified positive resist composition comprising (A) a base polymer, (B) a photoacid generator, and (C) a quencher is provided. The base polymer (A) contains a polymer comprising phenolic hydroxy group-containing units, aromatic ring-containing units, and units containing a phenolic hydroxy group protected with an acid labile group. The photoacid generator (B) and the quencher (C) are present in a weight ratio (B)/(C) of less than 3/1. The resist composition exhibits a very high isolated-space resolution and forms a pattern with reduced LER, rectangularity, minimized influences of develop loading and residue defects.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a cerium oxide (CeO2)-zirconium oxide (ZrO2)-aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-based complex oxide having an improved heat resistance and a method of producing the complex oxide, and the present invention provides a complex oxide containing a cerium element, a zirconium element, an aluminum element, and optionally a rare earth metal element other than a cerium element, wherein a specific surface area measured by a BET method after heat treatment in an air atmosphere at 1000° C. for 25 hours is 60 m2/g or more, and a method of producing the complex oxide.

Abstract: An information processing device includes at least one processor configured to: replace, if print data indicates that a figure which has a width extending in a direction intersecting with a reading direction of text to be drawn and which is disposed along the reading direction is superimposed on at least part of the text and if the figure is drawn with a color corresponding to a first predetermined color, the color of the figure by a spot color; and output the print data reflecting the color of the figure replaced by the spot color.

Abstract: Provided are a two-component curable composition and a cured product thereof, the two-component curable composition including: a liquid A that contains a compound (A) having one (meth)acrylate group in one molecule thereof, a compound (B) having two or more (meth)acrylate groups in one molecule thereof, a dispersant (D), a reducing agent (G), and a thermally conductive filler (E); and a liquid B that contains a polymerization initiator (C), a dispersant (D), a plasticizer (F), and a thermally conductive filler (E).

Abstract: A blister packaging machine manufactures a blister pack including a pocket portion formed in a container film of a belt-like shape and a cover film that closes the pocket portion. The blister packaging machine includes: a conveyor that conveys the container film; a preheater that preheats the container film conveyed by the conveyor; a pocket portion former that forms the pocket portion in the container film softened by the preheater; and a support belt that moves in synchronism with the container film conveyed by the conveyor while supporting a part of the container film other than the pocket portion or a part of the container film other than an area where the pocket portion is to be formed, in at least a location from the preheater to a position downstream of the pocket portion former.

Abstract: An optical scanning apparatus includes: a light source that emits light; a basic wavefront modulator that performs spatial light phase modulation on incident light on an optical path from the light source to an incident end surface of a fiber, to thereby generate light having a basic wavefront and emit the generated light, the light having the basic wavefront being to be incident on the incident end surface for obtaining, by light emitted from an emission end surface of the fiber, illumination light having a basic intensity distribution; and a two-dimensional intensity distribution control apparatus configured to change the basic intensity distribution by emitting light for causing light in which a phase distribution of the basic wavefront is controlled to be incident on the incident end surface of the fiber.

Abstract: A data processing method includes an input step S1 of inputting measurement data into a neural network, an estimation step S2 of generating estimation data from the measurement data, a restoration step S3 of generating restoration data from the estimation data, and a calculation step S4 of calculating a confidence level of the estimation data, based on the measurement data and the restoration data. The neural network is a trained model, the measurement data is data obtained by measuring light transmitted through an object, the estimation data is data of a three-dimensional optical characteristic of the object estimated from the measurement data, and the three-dimensional optical characteristic is a refractive index distribution or an absorptance distribution.

Abstract: The present invention is a sulfonium salt represented by the following formula (1), wherein “p” represents an integer of 1 to 3; R11 represents a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Rf represents a fluorine atom or a fluorine-atom-containing C1 to C6 group selected from alkyl, alkoxy, and sulfide; “q” represents an integer of 1 to 4; RALU represents an acid-labile group; “r” represents an integer of 1 to 4; R12 represents a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; “s” represents an integer of 0 to 4; “t” represents an integer of 0 to 2; Rf and —O—RALU are bonded to adjacent carbon atoms; and X? represents a non-nucleophilic counterion having no polymerizable group.

Abstract: An estimation system has a memory and a processor. The memory stores first wave front information and second wave front information. The first wave front information is information on the wave front that is obtained based on first illumination light that has passed through an object. The second wave front information is information on the wave front that is obtained based on second illumination light that has passed through the object. The wavelength at which the intensity of the second illumination light is highest is shorter than the wavelength at which the intensity of the first illumination light is highest. The processor performs an estimation process of estimating a three-dimensional optical property of the object. The three-dimensional optical property is a refractive index distribution or an absorbance distribution. The estimation process uses both the first wave front information and the second wave front information.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive polymer composition which has good filterability and good film formability of a flat film on an electron beam resist and can be suitably used for an antistatic film for electron beam resist writing, showing excellent antistatic property in the electron beam writing process due to the property of low volume resistivity (?·cm), and, reducing an effect on lithography by making an effect of an acid diffused from the film minimum, and further having excellent peelability by H2O or an alkaline developer after writing.