Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body, a coil in the element body, a connection conductor in the element body, and an external electrode on the element body. The element body includes a principal surface arranged to constitute a mounting surface and an end surface positioned adjacent to the principal surface. The connection conductor includes one end connected to the coil and another end connected to the external electrode. The external electrode includes a sintered metal layer formed on the element body and a conductive resin layer formed on the sintered metal layer. The sintered metal layer includes a portion on the principal surface and a portion on the end surface. The portion on the principal surface has an average thickness smaller than an average thickness of the portion on the end surface.

Abstract: The purpose of this invention is to provide an anti-adhesion material having a high anti-adhesion effect, pertaining to an anti-adhesion material comprising a biocompatible sponge-like layered body having a sponge-like first layer and a sponge-like second layer both being at least partially crosslinked with a curing agent and comprising a low endotoxin monovalent metal salt of alginic acid. The monovalent metal salt of alginic acid in the first layer has a weight average molecular weight of 30000 to 300000. The monovalent metal salt of alginic acid in the second layer has a weight average molecular weight of 1000 to 200000. The weight average molecular weights are determined by GPC-MALS after a de-crosslinking treatment. The weight average molecular weight of the monovalent metal salt of alginic acid in the first layer is higher than the weight average molecular weight of the monovalent metal salt of alginic acid in the second layer.

Abstract: Provided is a valuable technology in the fields of agriculture and horticulture, such as a technology for controlling a parasitic plant. A parasitic plant is controlled by utilizing compounds that may have similar or opposite functions to a strigolactone, such as an amino acid derivative having a D ring.

Abstract: The cooling structure has a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet, and a flow path made of resin and connecting the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlet, in which a portion of a face configuring the flow path is open.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a solid-phase carrier on which an IgG-binding peptide is immobilized, the peptide being usable for IgG purification, having resistance to repeated washing with an alkaline solution after IgG purification, and having a high binding affinity for IgG. Specifically, the present invention relates to a solid-phase carrier on which an IgG-binding peptide is immobilized, wherein the two cysteine residues on the outside of the peptide are linked as shown in the following formula: (in the formula, the upper cysteine residue is on the N-terminal side of the peptide, and the lower cysteine residue is on the C-terminal side of the peptide).

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first layer, wherein the first layer comprises a scaffold structure forming an inner lumen along a length of the scaffold structure, and wherein the first layer comprises a bioresorbable material; a second layer on the first layer, wherein the second layer comprises a bioresorbable material configured to expand, wherein the second layer is positioned on the first layer such that ends of the first layer extend beyond ends of the second layer; and an expandable balloon located within a distal end of the inner lumen of the first layer.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a hollow outer covering material provided with a heat medium inlet and a heat medium outlet, and includes a first main surface, a second main surface at an opposite side from the first main surface, and a connecting part connecting the first main surface and the second main surface, the first main surface, the second main surface and the connecting part being formed by the outer covering material, wherein the heat exchanger is configured such that a thickness of the heat exchanger is changeable in response to inflow of a heat medium into the outer covering material.

Abstract: Grid computing processing is managed considering rate of amount of renewable energy-derived electric power in amount of electric power used for computation by computing device of vehicles, thereby contributing to utilization of renewable energy. Management server manages grid computing processing of causing computing devices mounted on a plurality of vehicles to process job data provided from client server. Controller of the management server acquires overall renewable energy rate information indicative of the rate of the amount of renewable energy-derived electric power in the amount of electric power consumption used for computation of the job data by all computing devices assigned to the job data, based on the amount of computations for a part of the job data to be processed by each of the computing devices and renewable energy rate information of each of the computing devices, and transmits the overall renewable energy rate information to the client server.

Abstract: A management device is used in a grid computing system, wherein a computational job constitutes a part of a project to be implemented by a client. The management device is configured to: store the content of the project, and a compensation rate set for the computational job of the project; acquire a computational amount of computational processing executed for the computational job by a computing device; calculate a first compensation value of a first compensation to be given to the user, according to the computational amount by the computing device; and acquire the degree of progress of the project, and when it is determined, based on the acquired degree of progress, that the project has been completed, calculate a second compensation value of a second compensation to be given to the user, according to the compensation rate.

Abstract: A management device used in a grid computing system is configured to execute compensation calculation processing of calculating a first compensation and a second compensation with respect to execution of a computational job by a computing device of a user, and stores evaluation values each set for a respective one of a plurality of computational jobs, wherein the compensation calculation processing includes: a first processing of calculating a first compensation value of the first compensation according to a computational amount of computational processing; and second processing of calculating and storing a second compensation value of the second compensation according to a relevant one of the evaluation values, wherein management device is configured to, in the first processing, calculate the first compensation value to have a larger value, as a cumulative value of the second compensation values which have been previously stored has a larger value.

Abstract: In prediction processing, the controller predicts a temporal change in a calculation capability available in grid computing processing of each of a plurality of arithmetic devices. In the request processing, in a case where the calculation capability of the arithmetic device predicted to be available in the grid computing processing on the basis of a result of the prediction processing is insufficient, the controller presents, to a user who owns another arithmetic device except for the arithmetic device predicted to be available in the grid computing processing among the plurality of arithmetic devices, request information for prompting provision of the calculation capability of the another arithmetic device to the grid computing processing.

Abstract: A management system includes a controller, and a memory unit that stores resource information related to a calculation resource mounted on each moving body and operation history information of each moving body. A controller performs extraction processing of referring to the resource information and the operation history information and extracting a target moving body for reinforcement of a calculation resource, guidance processing of transmitting guidance on the reinforcement of the calculation resource to an owner of the target moving body, and update processing of updating the resource information on the basis of update information when the update information is acquired.

Abstract: A calculation capability of grid computing using a calculation resource mounted on a moving body is promptly provided to a client. A management server configures a candidate of a moving body group forming a grid for executing grid computing as a grid candidate with reference to resource information and moving body information stored in a memory. The calculation resource information including a temporal change in a calculation capability is estimated for the configured grid candidate with reference to the resource information and the moving body information, and the estimated calculation resource information is stored in the memory together with data specifying a moving body configuring the grid candidate.

Abstract: In prediction processing, the controller predicts a temporal change in a calculation capability available in grid computing processing of each of a plurality of arithmetic devices. In selection processing, the controller allows a user to select a job for which the calculation capability of the arithmetic device owned by the user is desired to be provided from jobs introduced by a job list. In the matching processing, on the basis of a result of the prediction processing and a result of the selection processing, the controller allocates an arithmetic device that is available in the grid computing processing and is owned by the user to job data corresponding to the job selected by the user in the selection processing among the plurality of jobs.

Abstract: In job acceptance processing, a controller accepts job data requested for calculation by a client. In prediction processing, the controller predicts a temporal change in a calculation capability available in grid computing processing of each of a plurality of arithmetic devices. In matching processing, the controller allocates an arithmetic device that is available to the job data accepted in the job acceptance processing on the basis of a result of the prediction processing.

Abstract: A management apparatus as a traveling route setting apparatus acquires, during moving in a vehicle, position information about the vehicle, driver's driving state information, and feeling state related information relating to a feeling state of the driver or a passenger; sets an ? evaluation value obtained by evaluating each of a spot and a section in map data from the viewpoint of an influence of a factor other than human interaction on an experience, and a ? evaluation value obtained by evaluating each of the spot and the section from the viewpoint of an influence of human interaction on an experience, based on the position information, the driving state information, and the feeling state related information which are acquired from a plurality of the vehicles 1; and sets a proposed traveling route based on the ? and ? evaluation values set for at least the spot and section.

Abstract: Video editing equipment acquires videos captured by an in-vehicle camera and an outside camera during movement of a vehicle, acquires driving state information by a driver and emotional state-related information of the driver or a passenger during the movement of the vehicle, determines the first degree of action indicative of the influence of the element other than the interaction with the person on an experience of the driver or the passenger and the second degree of action indicative of the influence of the interaction with the person on the experience of the driver or the passenger based on the driving state information and the emotional state-related information, identifies plural highlight portions in the videos based on the first degree of action and the second degree of action, and edits the videos on the basis of the plural highlight portions.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for, in an environment including a plurality of vehicles of a plurality of users and a plurality of portable terminals of the plurality of users, associating the plurality of users based on position signals received from the plurality of vehicles and the plurality of portable terminals. In a first mode of operation the information processing apparatus allows for greetings to be exchanged between users when the vehicles are in a driving state. In another mode of operation, a list of users is exchanged between users when the vehicles are in a non-driving state.

Abstract: An experience acquisition support apparatus that supports acquisition of an experience through a vehicle includes circuitry that sets a destination and a travel route of the vehicle to be suggested to a first user. While the vehicle is operating in a trip mode in which the destination and the travel route are set, the circuitry notifies a first mobile terminal of the first user of a second user and sends information on the second user to the first mobile terminal such that the first user can interact with the second user having a second mobile terminal that is in the trip mode within a specified range around the first mobile terminal. The circuitry generates a video file, which can be browsed by the second user and the like, from videos captured by cameras of the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first layer, wherein the first layer comprises a scaffold structure forming an inner lumen along a length of the scaffold structure, and wherein the first layer comprises a bioresorbable material; a second layer on the first layer, wherein the second layer comprises a bioresorbable material configured to expand, wherein the second layer is positioned on the first layer such that ends of the first layer extend beyond ends of the second layer; and an expandable balloon located within a distal end of the inner lumen of the first layer.