Abstract: There is provided a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, containing a porous substrate, and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, in which the adhesive porous layer contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin A including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, and a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin B including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, a proportion of the hexafluoropropylene monomer unit in the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin A is more than 1.

Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, containing a porous substrate, and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, in which the adhesive porous layer contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, and the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin has an acid value of from 3.0 mgKOH/g to 20 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: Disclosed is a MIMO system including a transmitter and a receiver, in which an overall BER characteristic is improved. The transmitter (1) maps data, distributed among transmit antennas, onto an IQ plane to generate carrier symbols, and then, applies an inter-polarization interleave processing in a time direction to the carrier symbols between the transmit antennas, to generate OFDM signals. Receiving the OFDM signals, the receiver (2) demodulates the OFDM signals to generate complex baseband signals, and after that, applies a first deinterleave processing in a time direction to the complex baseband signals to generate time deinterleaved data. Further, the receiver (2) applies a MIMO separation processing to the time deinterleaved data to generate a plurality of sets of MIMO separated data and applies a second deinterleave processing between the receive antennas to the plurality of sets of MIMO separated data, so as to generate carrier symbols.

Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, the separator including: a porous substrate; and an adhesive porous layer provided on one or both sides of the porous substrate and including a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the adhesive porous layer would exhibit a ratio of an area intensity of a ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin to a sum of an area intensity of an ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin and the area intensity of the ?-phase-crystal-derived peak of the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin of from 10% to 100% when an x-ray diffraction spectrum is obtained by performing measurement by an x-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: There is provided a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, containing a porous substrate, and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, in which the adhesive porous layer contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin A including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, and a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin B including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, a proportion of the hexafluoropropylene monomer unit in the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin A is more than 1.

Abstract: A cooling device cooling an undersurface of a hot rolled steel sheet that is being transported on transport rolls after finish rolling of a hot rolling step includes: width divided cooling zones that are a plurality of cooling zones into which a whole cooling zone is divided in a sheet width direction; divided cooling sections that are a plurality of cooling zones into which each of the width divided cooling zones is divided in the rolling direction; a water nozzle spraying cooling water over each of undersurfaces of the divided cooling sections; a switching mechanism switching the cooling water between impinging and not impinging on the divided cooling sections; a width direction thermometer measuring a temperature distribution in the sheet width direction; and a controller controlling operation of the switching mechanism.

Abstract: A formed sheet product of a polymer composition comprising at least one protein selected from the group consisting of fibrinogen and thrombin and at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic polyester and a water-soluble polymer, and a laminated formed sheet product comprising a first polymer composition layer composed of fibrinogen and a water-soluble polymer and a second polymer composition layer composed of thrombin and an aliphatic polyester are provided. These formed products are applied onto a wound site and function as a hemostatic material.

Abstract: A microscope apparatus includes: an objective lens; an observation optical system that makes the specimen be irradiated with excitation light by the objective lens, and acquires image information of the specimen; a first stimulation optical system that includes a scanning section which scans stimulus light, makes the scanning section scan an irradiation position of the stimulus light and applies an optical stimulus to the specimen; a second stimulation optical system that includes an SLM arranged at a pupil conjugate position of the objective lens and capable of modulating a phase of the stimulus light, selectively switches the irradiation position of the stimulus light by the SLM and applies the optical stimulus to the specimen; and a light path selecting section that selects at least one of a light path of the first stimulation optical system and a light path of the second stimulation optical system.

Abstract: A liquid holding amount of a porous body of a liquid absorbing member for removing at least a portion of an aqueous liquid component from an image obtained by ink jet printing is controlled so as to reduce damage to the porous body while maintaining performance of removing attached matters from the porous body by using a cleaning member which abuts on the porous body and has an adhesive force.

Abstract: A formed sheet product of a polymer composition comprising at least one protein selected from the group consisting of fibrinogen and thrombin and at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic polyester and a water-soluble polymer, and a laminated formed sheet product comprising a first polymer composition layer composed of fibrinogen and a water-soluble polymer and a second polymer composition layer composed of thrombin and an aliphatic polyester are provided. These formed products are applied onto a wound site and function as a hemostatic material.

Abstract: There is provided a non-aqueous-secondary-battery separator formed of a composite membrane including: a porous base material containing a thermoplastic resin; and a heat-resistant porous layer provided on one or both surfaces of the porous base material and containing an organic binder and an inorganic filler, in which the tortuosity rate of the composite membrane is from 1.5 to 2.0.

Abstract: A method of diagnosing deterioration of an exhaust emission control catalyst is provided. The catalyst includes an HC (hydrocarbon) adsorbing part and an oxidation catalyst part. The method includes estimating that an HC discharge amount discharged from the HC adsorbing part is larger than a first value, detecting a parameter relating to a reaction heat of the exhaust emission control catalyst, and diagnosing that the exhaust emission control catalyst is deteriorated when the detected parameter indicates a temperature value lower than a predetermined threshold. The deterioration diagnosis is performed under a first condition that the HC discharge amount is estimated to be larger than the first value.

Abstract: Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, and a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that is an aggregate of resin particles and an inorganic filler, and that satisfies the following expression (1). In expression (1), Vf is a volume proportion (% by volume) of the inorganic filler in the heat resistant porous layer, and CPVC is a critical pigment volume concentration (% by volume) of the inorganic filler. Also provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that includes a resin and an filler, and that satisfies the following expression (2), and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on both sides of a stacked body of the porous substrate and the heat resistant porous layer, and that includes an adhesive resin.

Abstract: A wearable terminal device includes a display section configured to display a display image and a processing section. The processing section performs processing for displaying any one kind of information among information of a first information type to information of an N-th information type in respective display regions of first to M-th display regions obtained by dividing the display image, when the display image is switched from a first display image to a second display image, changes the size of at least an i-th display region among the first to M-th display regions, in the first display image, performs processing for displaying information of a j-th information type in the i-th display region at a first information verbosity, and, in the second display image, performs processing for displaying the information of the j-th information type in the i-th display region, the size of which is changed, at a second information verbosity different from the first information verbosity.

Abstract: Provided is a laser scanning microscope including a stage on which a sample is placed, an objective lens that is disposed below the stage and that focuses laser light from a light source onto the sample, a scanner that scans the laser light focused by the objective lens over the sample, a condenser lens disposed opposite the objective lens with the stage interposed therebetween, and a light blocking cover that is disposed in an optical path between the condenser lens and the stage and that blocks external light entering the objective lens or the condenser lens from above the sample via the stage.

Abstract: A separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, containing a porous substrate, and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, in which the adhesive porous layer contains a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin including a vinylidene fluoride monomer unit and a hexafluoropropylene monomer unit, and the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin has an acid value of from 3.0 mgKOH/g to 20 mgKOH/g.

Abstract: A sterile composition which comprises a protein and an aliphatic polyester containing the protein and is sterilized with radiation. In this sterile composition, the structure and function (activity) of the protein are retained.

Abstract: Provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, and a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that is an aggregate of resin particles and an inorganic filler, and that satisfies the following expression (1). In expression (1), Vf is a volume proportion (% by volume) of the inorganic filler in the heat resistant porous layer, and CPVC is a critical pigment volume concentration (% by volume) of the inorganic filler. Also provided is a separator for a non-aqueous secondary battery, including: a porous substrate, a heat resistant porous layer that is provided on one side or both sides of the porous substrate, that includes a resin and an filler, and that satisfies the following expression (2), and an adhesive porous layer that is provided on both sides of a stacked body of the porous substrate and the heat resistant porous layer, and that includes an adhesive resin.

Abstract: A separator includes a porous substrate, and a porous layer formed on one or both surfaces of the substrate and containing a polyvinylidene fluoride type resin and a filler, in which the filler content in the porous layer is from 30 to 80% by mass with respect to the total mass of the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin and the filler, and the polyvinylidene fluoride type resin is at least one resin selected from the following resin A and B: resin A: a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 350,000, and a content of HFP is more than 5% by mass but not more than 11% by mass; and resin B: a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 1,000,000, in which a content of HFP is more than 11% by mass but not more than 15% by mass.

Abstract: An observation apparatus and an observation method are provided. The observation apparatus includes a light source that emits illumination light used to observe a specimen to which a fluorescent substance that specifically binds to or is expressed in a stimulus target has been supplied, an illumination optical system that radiates the illumination light emitted from the light source 11 onto the specimen, a deflecting device that changes an area of the specimen to be irradiated with the illumination light, a wavelength selecting section that selects the wavelength of illumination light to be radiated onto the specimen, an observation optical system that collects light from the specimen, a detector that detects the light collected by the observation optical system, an image processing section that generates an image from the light detected by the detector, and a control section that controls these components.