Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and formed using a plurality of materials having average particle diameters different from each other, the plurality of materials including at least fullerene or a derivative thereof, and a particle diameter ratio, of a first material having a smallest average particle diameter among the plurality of materials with respect to a second material having a largest average particle diameter among the plurality of materials, is 0.6 or less.

Abstract: Provided a method including applying a Fourier Transform to an AC current waveform measured to perform conversion thereof to a frequency domain; adjusting entire phase components of frequency spectra obtained as a result of the Fourier Transform, such that a phase component of an AC power supply frequency becomes zero; and applying an inverse Fourier Transform to the frequency spectra with the entire phase components thereof adjusted to obtain a current waveform in a time domain.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and formed using a plurality of materials having average particle diameters different from each other, the plurality of materials including at least fullerene or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: A disclosed etching method includes (a) generating plasma of a processing gas in a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus. The plasma is generated in a state where a substrate is placed on a substrate support having a lower electrode in the chamber. The substrate has a film and a mask. The mask is provided on the film. The etching method further includes (b) etching the film by supplying ions from the plasma to the substrate by periodically applying a pulse of a voltage to a lower electrode. In the operation (b), a level of a voltage of the pulse is changed at least once such that an absolute value of a negative potential of the substrate has a tendency to increase according to progress of etching of the film.

Abstract: A maintenance monitoring apparatus includes: a maintenance management part that manages, based on a monitoring result of a current or power of a vending machine that provides a beverage by extracting the beverage from a raw material, whether an operation performed on the vending machine is a predetermined maintenance operation and whether the maintenance has been executed at an appropriate time interval and as many times as necessary; and a notification part that notifies that a maintenance has been executed or not.

Abstract: An optical detection type chemical sensor includes a light source, a detection element and a photodetector. The detection element is constituted of a laminate in which a multilayer film including a chemical detection layer, an optical interference layer, and a half mirror layer is formed on a transparent substrate. At least one of the layers includes a magnetic material. Light from the light source is applied to the detection element under the condition that the light enters inside of the detection element from the rear surface of the transparent substrate on which the laminate is not formed and multiple reflection occurring in the laminate intensifies the magneto-optical effect. A subject is detected by using the photodetector to detect a magneto-optical signal indicating a change in reflected light from the laminate resulting from a change in an optical property resulting from a reaction in the chemical detection layer.

Abstract: A simulation method is performed by a computer by using an agent disposed in a virtual space. The method includes: controlling the agent so that the agent behaves in the virtual space under influence of each of a plurality of signs disposed in the virtual space; and determining the influence of each of the plurality of signs on the agent in accordance with an attribute relating to a display mode of the sign and an attribute of the agent.

Abstract: Provided an apparatus configured to calculate a periodicity of the time series data using at least one of a periodogram of the time series data and an autocorrelation of the time series data; generate a plurality of subsequences from the time series data, a length of each subsequence set to the periodicity, calculate feature values of the plurality of subsequences, and categorize the plurality of subsequences, based on the features values thereof, into one or more groups; and execute analysis of the time series data, based on the categorization result.

Abstract: Provided an apparatus configured to calculate a periodicity of time series data, generate a plurality of subsequences, from the time series data, a length of each subsequence set to the periodicity, calculate feature values of the plurality of subsequences; categorize the plurality of subsequences, based on the feature values thereof, into one or more groups, find a periodicity of the subsequences belonging in common to one group, based on an occurrence order of the subsequences belonging in common to the one group and perform missing event detection by identifying the subsequence, occurrence of which is expected according to the periodicity of the subsequences belonging in common to the one group, but not found.

Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image capturing element including a semiconductor substrate and first and second photoelectric conversion parts configured to convert light into electric charge. The first and the second photoelectric conversion parts each have a laminated structure including an upper electrode, a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion film sandwiched between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, and an accumulation electrode facing the upper electrode through the photoelectric conversion film and an insulating film.

Abstract: Provided a method including applying a Fourier Transform to an AC current waveform measured to perform conversion thereof to a frequency domain; adjusting entire phase components of frequency spectra obtained as a result of the Fourier Transform, such that a phase component of an AC power supply frequency becomes zero; and applying an inverse Fourier Transform to the frequency spectra with the entire phase components thereof adjusted to obtain a current waveform in a time domain.

Abstract: An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate having an effective pixel region in which a plurality of pixels is disposed and a peripheral region provided around the effective pixel region; an organic photoelectric converter including a first electrode, a second electrode, a charge accumulation layer, and an organic photoelectric conversion layer, the first electrode being provided on a light receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of electrodes, the second electrode being opposed to the first electrode, the charge accumulation layer and the organic photoelectric conversion layer being stacked in this order between the first electrode and the second electrode and extending over the effective pixel region; and a first hydrogen-blocking layer that covers above the organic photoelectric conversion layer, a side surface of the organic photoelectric conversion layer, and a side surface of the charge accumulation layer.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and formed using a plurality of materials having average particle diameters different from each other, the plurality of materials including at least fullerene or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: A tire that includes a tread 4 having a plurality of land portions demarcated by circumferential grooves. Sipes are formed in at least one of the land portions to form a plurality of rods each surrounded by the sipes. Each rod has a bent portion between an outer surface of the rod and a root thereof. Each rod is bent so as to form an arc at the bent portion or each rod is bent so as to form a corner at the bent portion.

Abstract: A maintenance monitoring apparatus includes: a maintenance management part that manages, based on a monitoring result of a current or power of a vending machine that provides a beverage by extracting the beverage from a raw material, whether an operation performed on the vending machine is a predetermined maintenance operation and whether the maintenance has been executed at an appropriate time interval and as many times as necessary; and a notification part that notifies that a maintenance has been executed or not.

Abstract: A feature transformation apparatus includes at least a combination storage part that stores a combination with respect to a set of features, wherein data is approximately represented as a sum of the combination of the features; and a transformation part that transforms at least the combination so as not to change the sum of the combination of the set of features.

Abstract: An active vibration isolator including a movable stage provides good vibration isolation performance. An active vibration isolator includes: a stage moving under thrust to position a mounted object; a vibration isolation table supporting the stage; a servo valve imparting, to the vibration isolation table, a control force that reduces vibrations of the vibration isolation table; a position/thrust obtaining unit obtaining a position of the stage on a movement track and the thrust actually applied to the stage with movement of the stage; and a vibration control FF control unit performing feed-forward control of the servo valve, based on what is obtained by the position/thrust obtaining unit, to allow the servo valve to generate a control force commensurate with vibrations of the vibration isolation table caused by the movement of the stage.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process including, classifying a plurality of data items included in outputted data output by carrying out a simulation using a plurality of agents into a plurality of groups based on difference between model elements of data output sources of the respective data items in the agents, converting the data items included in a group having a plurality of data items out of the groups into a smaller number of data items than a number of data items included in the group based on a predetermined rule, and identifying a combination of the data items having an appearance tendency equal to or higher than a predetermined value in the outputted data resulting from the converting.

Abstract: A recording medium records a simulation program for causing a computer to execute a process including: arranging an agent, which has cognitive information and behaves in a virtual space based on the cognitive information, in the virtual space in which a plurality of guidance displays is set; when, with respect to each of the plurality of guidance displays, the agent enters within a first range of the respective guidance displays, and first guidance information corresponding to the first range is related with a destination of the agent, changing cognitive information up to the destination of the agent; and when, with respect to each of the plurality of guidance displays, the agent enters within a second range different from the first range, and second guidance information corresponding to the second range is related with the destination of the agent, changing cognitive information not directly related with the destination of the agent.

Abstract: A simulation method is performed by a computer by using an agent disposed in a virtual space. The method includes: controlling the agent so that the agent behaves in the virtual space under influence of each of a plurality of signs disposed in the virtual space; and determining the influence of each of the plurality of signs on the agent in accordance with an attribute relating to a display mode of the sign and an attribute of the agent.