Abstract: A manufacturing method includes loading a substrate into a chamber, the substrate including oxide semiconductor; configuring a temperature in the chamber to a first temperature; supplying an oxidizing gas into the chamber; lowering the temperature in the chamber from the first temperature; stopping supplying the oxidizing gas into the chamber after lowering the temperature; and unloading the substrate from the chamber after the temperature in the chamber reaches a second temperature lower than the first temperature.

Abstract: A mobile body control device includes: an observation trajectory acquisition unit that acquires, a trajectory along which the subject walks; a basic trajectory acquisition unit that acquires, a basic trajectory that matches the observation trajectory; a subject predicted trajectory acquisition unit that acquires a trajectory along which the subject walks after the current time point based on the specific basic trajectory; a prediction reliability calculation unit that calculates a prediction reliability based on uncertainty added along the subject predicted trajectory; a target trajectory acquisition unit that acquires, a trajectory formed by a target position of a mobile body set ahead of the subject in a traveling direction of the subject; and a control-command-sequence-generating unit that generates a control command sequence using an evaluation function that uses as input the subject predicted trajectory, prediction reliability, target trajectory, and a control trajectory.

Abstract: Convenience in operating an electronic apparatus is improved for the purpose of protection of the electronic apparatus in a state mounted to the electronic apparatus. Therefore, an electronic apparatus cover includes a cover portion that covers at least a part of a display surface of an electronic apparatus, the cover portion including an operation position specifying recess that makes it easy to specify an operation position and a base being a portion other than the operation position specifying recess, at least a part of a circumferential portion of the operation position specifying recess being an operated portion, the operated portion being thinner than the base, a contact operation for causing the electronic apparatus to execute a specific function being performed on the operated portion. When such an electronic apparatus cover is mounted to the electronic apparatus, convenience in operating the electronic apparatus can be improved while ensuring protection of the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: Convenience in operating an electronic apparatus is improved for the purpose of protection of the electronic apparatus in a state mounted to the electronic apparatus. Therefore, an electronic apparatus cover includes a cover portion that covers at least a part of a display surface of an electronic apparatus, the cover portion including an operation position specifying recess that makes it easy to specify an operation position and a base being a portion other than the operation position specifying recess, at least a part of a circumferential portion of the operation position specifying recess being an operated portion, the operated portion being thinner than the base, a contact operation for causing the electronic apparatus to execute a specific function being performed on the operated portion. When such an electronic apparatus cover is mounted to the electronic apparatus, convenience in operating the electronic apparatus can be improved while ensuring protection of the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: Establishment of human pluripotent stem cells having properties close to human ES cells with the genome of the patient per se that can circumvent immunological rejection of transplanted cells from cells derived from a postnatal human tissue are described. Human pluripotent stem cells can be induced by introducing three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and Klf 4, or three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and Klf 4 plus the c-Myc gene or a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor of undifferentiated stem cells present in various human postnatal tissues in which each gene of Tert, Nanog, Oct3/4 and Sox2 has not undergone epigenetic inactivation.

Abstract: Establishment of human pluripotent stem cells having properties close to human ES cells with the genome of the patient per se that can circumvent immunological rejection of transplanted cells from cells derived from a postnatal human tissue are described. Human pluripotent stem cells can be induced by introducing three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and Klf 4, or three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and Klf 4 plus the c-Myc gene or a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor of undifferentiated stem cells present in various human postnatal tissues in which each gene of Tert, Nanog, Oct3/4 and Sox2 has not undergone epigenetic inactivation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a suction cup, including: a suction cup body formed from gel and having at least one flat or convex face serving as a suction face; a shape retaining member provided on the suction cup body and having elasticity for restoring, when the suction cup body is deformed, the suction cup body so as to restore an original shape; and a center stem connected to the suction cup body and projecting from a portion of the suction cup body positioned remotely from a location of the suction cup body at which the suction face is provided in a direction intersecting with the center of the suction face.

Abstract: A speaker device includes a static part, a driving part and a vibrating body. The vibrating body includes a plurality of diaphragms supported by the static part. A vibration direction converter part is provided between a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm facing each other in a plurality of the diaphragms, and connects the first diaphragm with the second diaphragm such that the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm synchronously move toward and away from each other. A part of the vibration direction converter part disposed in the proximity of the static part is supported by the static part, and a part of the vibration direction converter part disposed in the proximity of the driving part is supported by the driving part.

Abstract: Described herein are multipotent stem cells, e.g., human and other mammalian pluripotent stem cells, and related methods.

Abstract: A speaker device includes a speaker unit and a cabinet on or in which the speaker unit is mounted. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm, a static part supporting the diaphragm vibratably in a vibration direction, and a driving part provided at the static part to vibrate the diaphragm in response to an audio signal. The driving part includes a magnetic circuit forming a magnetic gap, a voice coil vibrating in a direction different from the vibration direction of the diaphragm upon the inputted audio signal, and a rigid vibration direction converter part configured to convert the vibration direction of the voice coil and transmit the vibration to the diaphragm.

Abstract: A speaker device including a diaphragm, a static part vibratably supporting the diaphragm, and a driving part provided at the static part and vibrating the diaphragm upon an audio signal. The driving part includes a voice coil vibrating in a direction different from the diaphragm upon the audio signal inputted, a magnetic circuit including a magnetic gap in which the voice coil is arranged, a rigid vibration direction converter part obliquely disposed with respect to the vibration direction of the voice coil and the diaphragm, and connected with the voice coil and the diaphragm, and a holding part holding the voice coil at the static part. The holding part restricts the vibration of the voice coil in one axis direction.

Abstract: Herein disclosed a suction cup including: a suction cup body having at least one surface having a gel, the surface being a suction surface; and an elastically deformable spring element provided in or on the suction cup body, having a concave shape so as to make the suction surface have a concave shape, and energizing a central part of the suction surface away from a surface to be sucked in the condition where the suction surface is in suction contact with the surface to be sucked, wherein the spring element is formed from a material having a modulus of elasticity higher than those of natural rubber and synthetic rubbers.

Abstract: To establish human pluripotent stem cells having properties close to human ES cells comprising the genome of the patient per se that can circumvent immunological rejection of transplanted cells from cells derived from a postnatal human tissue. It was found that human pluripotent stem cells can be induced by introducing three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and KIf 4, or three genes of Oct3/4, Sox2 and KIf 4 plus the c-Myc gene or a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor to undifferentiated stem cells present in various human postnatal tissues in which each gene of Tert, Nanog, Oct3/4 and Sox2 has not undergone epigenetic inactivation.

Abstract: Herein disclosed a suction cup including: a suction cup body having at least one surface having a gel, the surface being a suction surface; and an elastically deformable spring element provided in or on the suction cup body, having a concave shape so as to make the suction surface have a concave shape, and energizing a central part of the suction surface away from a surface to be sucked in the condition where the suction surface is in suction contact with the surface to be sucked, wherein the spring element is formed from a material having a modulus of elasticity higher than those of natural rubber and synthetic rubbers.

Abstract: Herein disclosed a suction cup including: a suction cup body having at least one surface having a gel, the surface being a suction surface; and an elastically deformable spring element provided in or on the suction cup body, having a concave shape so as to make the suction surface have a concave shape, and energizing a central part of the suction surface away from a surface to be sucked in the condition where the suction surface is in suction contact with the surface to be sucked, wherein the spring element is formed from a material having a modulus of elasticity higher than those of natural rubber and synthetic rubbers.

Abstract: Described herein are multipotent stem cells, e.g., human and other mammalian pluripotent stem cells, and related methods.

Abstract: The present invention involves methods for identifying an agent that corrects a phenotype associated with a health condition or a predisposition for a health condition. The invention also involves methods for identifying a diagnostic cellular phenotype, determining the risk of a health condition in a subject, methods for reducing the risk of drug toxicity in a human subject, and methods for identifying a candidate gene that contributes to a human disease. The invention also discloses human induced pluripotent stem cell lines.

Abstract: Herein disclosed a suction cup device including: a case; a suction cup of which a surface on one side in the thickness direction thereof is a suction surface and a surface on the other side is a back surface; a displacement mechanism provided in the case and operative to support a central part in the radial direction of the back surface of the suction cup in such a manner that the central part can be displaced in the thickness direction; and a contact part which is provided in the case and which, when the suction surface makes suction contact with a surface to be sucked, can make contact with a part, on the outside of the suction contact part of the surface to be sucked, of the surface to be sucked, wherein the contact part includes a plurality of contact elements spaced from each other and making contact with a plurality of parts of said surface to be sucked which are spaced at intervals in the circumferential direction of the suction cup.

Abstract: Described herein are multipotent stem cells, e.g., human and other mammalian pluripotent stem cells, and related methods.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Gentiana plant named ‘Hakuryu’, characterized by its upright plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; moderately strong flowering stems; relatively short leaves; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and large white-colored flowers.