Abstract: A mining riser pipe is extended from above water toward a water bottom containing water bottom resources, and a lower portion of an insertion pipe connected to a lower portion of the mining riser pipe is inserted into the water bottom. A liquid is supplied into the insertion pipe and a rotation shaft extends axially inside both of pipes is rotated to rotate stirring blades attached to a lower portion of the rotation shaft inside the insertion pipe, thereby drilling and dissolving mud S inside the insertion pipe into a slurry form is raised to an upper portion of the insertion pipe by a stirring flow generated by the rotation of the stirring blades, and the raised mud is lifted above the water through the mining riser pipe by lifting force.

Abstract: An objective is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system in which the time taken by connection operations/authentication operations does not increase proportionally with the pattern length, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized. A terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system according to the present invention create n pieces of signal information (n-bit patterns) by sequentially shifting each bit of a single piece of received signal information (n-bit pattern) one bit at a time. Through the above, signal information time-shifted by one bit each is obtained. Thus, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized, one of the n pieces of signal information is a signal synchronized with the transmitting side. Thereafter, the signal synchronized with the transmitting side can be detected by a brute-force calculation with the patterns (ID information) in the list.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition containing a polymerizable component and used to form a resin layer in an imprint method including forming a reverse pattern of a pattern of a mold on a resin layer by using the mold having the pattern. The polymerizable component contains an organic sulfur compound. A viscosity of the photosensitive resin composition at 25° C. is less than 20 mPa·s.

Abstract: Provided is an application method including: a feeding step including feeding a viscous material to a discharge member; a temperature measurement step including measuring a temperature of the viscous material in a flow path through which the viscous material is fed to the discharge member; a pressurizing step including pressurizing the viscous material fed to the discharge member, based on the temperature measured in the temperature measurement step; and a discharge step including discharging, through the discharge member, the viscous material pressurized in the pressurizing step.

Abstract: An industrial two-layer fabric includes an upper surface side fabric constituted by upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts, one a lower surface side fabric constituted by lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts, the upper surface side warps include a warp binding yarn, wherein two adjacent upper surface side warps that includes a upper surface side warp that weaves only the upper surface side wefts and the warp binding yarn form a pair, the warp binding yarn of the pair passes below three of the adjacent upper surface side wefts where the warp binding yarn passes below the one of the lower surface side wefts, a ratio of the number of the upper surface side warps to the number of the lower surface side is 2:1.

Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement apparatus including: a first setting base capable of having set thereon a plurality of first storage portions arranged in a first direction; a second setting base capable of having set thereon a second storage portion, the second setting base being disposed in a second direction crossing the first direction with respect to the first setting base; a holding body configured to hold the first setting base and to hold the second setting base; a drive unit configured to move the holding body in the first direction; a dispenser configured to move along a movement axis thereof in the second direction, to suction a liquid in the second storage portion and dispense the liquid into each first storage portion; a measurement unit configured to measure a mixture dispensed in the first storage portion; and a movement stopping unit.

Abstract: A masterbatch is disclosed including a sulfide compound (A) and silica (B). The sulfide compound (A) is a chain or cyclic compound of repeating units represented by R—Sx??(I) where R represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; a linear, branched or cyclic (poly)oxyalkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; or a linear, branched or cyclic (poly)thioalkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms (wherein the alkylene group, the (poly)oxyalkylene group and the (poly)thioalkylene group are unsubstituted or have 1 or more optional substituents), and x represents an integer from 1 to 8. The number of the repeating units n is 1 to 400 and each of n repeating units is the same or different from each other. The silica (B) satisfies following conditions that: BET specific surface area is 0.1 to 200 m2/g and DBP oil absorption is 50 to 300 ml/100 g.

Abstract: An intraoral examination method for determining the state of periodontal disease is provided. The method is an intraoral examination method for measuring a signal intensity of a nucleic acid from an oral bacterial group present in an oral sample, calculating an abundance of the bacterial group from a measured value of the signal intensity, and determining the state of periodontal disease using the obtained calculated value as an index, wherein the abundance of the bacterial group shows a correlation between a bacterial load of a bacterial species that increases as a periodontal pocket value increases and a bacterial load of a bacterial species that decreases as a periodontal pocket value increases.

Abstract: A method for simply predicting the degree of inflammation of periodontal tissue such as an inflamed area (PISA or CAPRS value), and a device (e.g., a DNA chip) used for the method are provided. The method is a method for estimating a periodontal pocket inflammation area by detecting bacterial loads of two or more types of bacteria in saliva and using the obtained detection results as indexes, wherein bacteria to be detected include: a bacterium having a positive correlation between the bacterial load of the bacterium and the periodontal pocket inflammation area and a bacterium having a negative correlation between the bacterial load of the bacterium and the periodontal pocket inflammation area.

Abstract: Provided is an industrial two-layer fabric satisfying basic characteristics of a fabric. The industrial two-layer fabric pertaining to the present invention has at least a first structure and a second structure in the weave repeat thereof, the first structure being formed by a combination of two upper-surface-side warps and a single lower-surface-side warp, the second structure being formed by a single upper-surface-side warp and a single lower-surface-side warp, the first structure and the second structure being disposed adjacent to each other, the upper-surface-side warps in the first structure being formed by a warp binding yarn having the function of binding an upper-surface-side fabric and a lower-surface-side fabric, the combination of two upper-surface-side warps forming the first structure being disposed adjacent to each other and constituting a partial rib weave at the surface of the upper-surface-side fabric.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a fabric with a thinned thickness which exhibits excellent rigidity, good anti-extension property, good wear resistance, good hydration property and good surface smoothness property. The present invention includes one upper surface side fabric constituted by warps on the surface side and upper surface side wefts, one lower surface side fabric constituted by lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts, at least one warps on the surface side function as a warp binding yarn, two warps on the upper surface side are woven to form a pair on the upper surface side as the ribbed cord fabric, a ratio of the number of the warps on the upper surface side to that of the warps on the lower surface side is 2:1.

Abstract: A discharge device is equipped with a housing having a flow passage for enabling a coating material to flow and a plurality of discharge ports arrayed on a distal end surface of the housing in a width direction for discharging the coating material toward an object. The plurality of discharge ports are each formed in a non-perfect circular shape having a peripheral length being longer than an imaginary perfect circular shape which has the same area as the non-perfect circular shape. Further, a plurality of discharge flow passages are perpendicular to the discharge ports when viewed in a longitudinal sectional view, are the same shape as the discharge ports, and extend linearly.

Abstract: Provided is an additive for rubber that contains a sulfide composition, wherein the sulfide composition in the additive for rubber contains a sulfide compound having the repeating units shown by formula (1), the amount of repeating units (1) in which X=2 is at least 45 molar parts per 100 molar parts of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound, and the number n of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound is from 1 to 400, whereby an additive for rubber capable of imparting excellent heat resistance is provided. Also provided is a rubber composition that contains said additive for rubber. wherein X is 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: A masterbatch is disclosed including a sulfide compound (A) and filler (B). The sulfide compound (A) is a chain or cyclic compound of repeating units represented by ?R—Sx???(I) where R represents a linear, branched or cyclic alkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; a linear, branched or cyclic (poly)oxyalkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; or a linear, branched or cyclic (poly)thioalkylene group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms (wherein the alkylene group, the (poly)oxyalkylene group and the (poly)thioalkylene group are unsubstituted or have 1 or more optional substituents), and x represents an integer from 1 to 8. The filler (B) is at least one selected from the group consisting of carbon black, talc, clay, mica, sericite, diatomaceous earth, zinc white, and organic resin particles and satisfies following conditions that BET specific surface area is 0.1 to 200 m2/g and DBP oil absorption is 50 to 300 ml/100 g.

Abstract: Provided are a method with which it is possible to assess the state of periodontal disease and caries by a simple method, a method with which it is possible to assess the severity of periodontal disease, therapeutic effect, and risk of exacerbation by detection of intraoral bacteria, and the like. The present invention is an intraoral examination method that, for example, assesses the state of periodontal disease and/or caries by measuring the levels of bacteria present in an intraoral sample from an intraoral sample collected from a subject.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a coating vice which can reduce variation in the amount of discharge in the discharge nozzle group. A coating device 1 includes: a first supply unit 40 and a second supply unit 50 which can supply a viscous material N to the discharge nozzle group 10; and a control portion 100 which stops, at the timing at which a first time zone is switched to a second time zone, the supply in the first supply unit 40, which makes the second supply unit 50 start the supply of the viscous material N to the discharge nozzle group 10 at a second flow rate and which makes, in a second time zone, the first supply unit 40 start the preparation of the viscous material necessary in any one of a third time zone and the subsequent time zones.

Abstract: Provided is an additive for rubber that contains a sulfide composition, wherein the sulfide composition in the additive for rubber contains a sulfide compound having the repeating units shown by formula (1), the amount of repeating units (1) in which X=2 is at least 45 molar parts per 100 molar parts of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound, and the number n of repeating units (1) in the sulfide compound is from 1 to 400, whereby an additive for rubber capable of imparting excellent heat resistance is provided. Also provided is a rubber composition that contains said additive for rubber. wherein X is 1, 2 or 3.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a coating nozzle which has a plurality of discharge holes and which can reduce variations in the discharge of a coating material from the discharge holes. A coating nozzle (10) includes: a plurality of supply holes (40a to 40t) which are formed in a supply surface (35) so as to be aligned on a circle (D) with a first position (45) in the center; a plurality of discharge holes (50a to 50t) which are formed in a discharge surface (20) so as to be aligned on a straight line (L); and a plurality of communication hole paths (60a to 60t) which make the supply holes (40a to 40t) linearly communicate with the discharge holes (50a to 50t), respectively and in which the communication distances thereof are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: A discharge device is equipped with a housing having a flow passage for enabling a coating material to flow and a plurality of discharge ports arrayed on a distal end surface of the housing in a width direction for discharging the coating material toward an object. The plurality of discharge ports are each formed in a non-perfect circular shape having a peripheral length being longer than an imaginary perfect circular shape which has the same area as the non-perfect circular shape. Further, a plurality of discharge flow passages are perpendicular to the discharge ports when viewed in a longitudinal sectional view, are the same shape as the discharge ports, and extend linearly.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible pipe having excellent blister resistance in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment even though including a thick resin pipe. The flexible pipe includes a resin pipe having a thickness of greater than 5 mm. The resin pipe is formed from a resin having a CO2 permeability coefficient P(CO2) of 20×10?9 cm3·cm/cm2·s·cmHg or lower at 150° C., a CH4 permeability coefficient P(CH4) of 10×10?9 cm3·cm/cm2·s·cmHg or lower at 150° C., a ratio D(CO2)/S(CO2) between a CO2 diffusion coefficient D(CO2) and a CO2 solubility coefficient S(CO2) of 3×10?5 Pa·m2/s or higher at 150° C., and a ratio D(CH4)/S(CH4) between a CH4 diffusion coefficient D(CH4) and a CH4 solubility coefficient S(CH4) of higher than 15×10?5 Pa·m2/s at 150° C.