Abstract: A load detection system includes: a first load sensor including a first element part in which capacitance changes in accordance with a load; a first detection circuit configured to perform charging and discharging of the first element part and acquire a voltage according to the capacitance at a detection timing in a charge period; a second load sensor including a second element part in which capacitance changes in accordance with a load; a second detection circuit configured to perform charging and discharging of the second element part and acquire a voltage according to the capacitance at a detection timing in a charge period; and a synchronization generation part configured to synchronize the charging of the first element part and the charging of the second element part.

Abstract: A load sensor includes: an electrically-conductive elastic body; an electrically-conductive member having a linear shape and disposed so as to cross the electrically-conductive elastic body; and a dielectric body disposed between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member. A width of the electrically-conductive elastic body in a longitudinal direction of the electrically-conductive member is changed such that a relationship between a load and a contact area between the electrically-conductive elastic body and the electrically-conductive member via the dielectric body becomes close to a linear relationship.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-tumor agent that exhibits a remarkably excellent anti-tumor effect. According to the present invention, there is provided an anti-tumor agent for curing cancer, the anti-tumor agent having a liposome which has an inner water phase and having an aqueous solution which is an outer water phase and disperses the liposome, in which the liposome encompasses topotecan or a salt thereof, a lipid constituting the liposome contains a lipid modified with polyethylene glycol, dihydrosphingomyelin, and cholesterol, the inner water phase contains an ammonium salt, and the topotecan or the salt thereof encompassed in the liposome is administered at a dose rate of 0.1 mg/m2 body surface area to 10 mg/m2 body surface area, in terms of topotecan per administration.

Abstract: A load sensor is configured to detect, as change in capacitance, change, in a contact area between an electrically-conductive elastic body and a dielectric body, that occurs due to a load applied to an upper face of the load sensor. In the load sensor, a plurality of sensor parts each configured to detect the load are disposed so as to be arranged in a plane direction, and a buffer part configured to suppress displacement of the upper face due to the load applied to a first sensor part from being propagated to a second sensor part adjacent to the first sensor part is disposed between the first sensor part and the second sensor part.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus is provided with: a plurality of power conversion circuits each provided with a transformer and supplying DC power to a common rechargeable battery; a control circuit configured to control the power conversion circuits; and a cooling device configured to cool the power conversion circuits. The cooling device is provided with at least one flow path for a coolant, the flow path being in thermal contact with the transformers of the power conversion circuits. When a load voltage of the rechargeable battery is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, the control circuit operates one power conversion circuit of the plurality of power conversion circuits, the one power conversion circuit provided with the transformer having a largest thermal contact area with the flow path, and stops operations of other power conversion circuits of the plurality of power conversion circuits.

Abstract: A polycarbonate resin composition for a thin optical component is provided, which has a high transmittance and a good hue and an excellent resistance to thermal discoloration, and a thin optical component is also provided. The polycarbonate resin composition for a thin optical component comprising, per 100 mass parts of a polycarbonate resin (A), 0.1 to 2 mass parts of a polyalkylene ether glycol compound (B) represented by general formula (1) and 0.005 to 0.5 mass parts of a phosphorus stabilizer (C).

Abstract: An afterglow property of cesium iodide:thallium (CsI:Tl), in which CsI is a host material and doped with thallium, is improved. It is possible to improve the afterglow property of a scintillator by doping a crystal material including CsI (cesium iodide), as a host material, and thallium (Tl), as a luminescent center, with bismuth (Bi).

Abstract: A polycarbonate resin composition for a thin optical component is provided, which has a high transmittance and a good hue and an excellent resistance to thermal discoloration, and a thin optical component is also provided. The polycarbonate resin composition for a thin optical component comprising, per 100 mass parts of a polycarbonate resin (A), 0.1 to 2 mass parts of a polyalkylene ether glycol compound (B) represented by general formula (1) and 0.005 to 0.5 mass parts of a phosphorus stabilizer (C).

Abstract: A catalyst and a catalyst packing schedule are designed so that a relation between the raw material conversion rate at which the yield of the objective product becomes maximum and the raw material conversion rate at which a high and low correlation between maximum temperature of the catalyst layer present closest to a reaction gas inlet side Zin and maximum temperature of the catalyst layer present closest to a reaction gas outlet side Zout is reversed satisfies a specific condition of 0.5?Cmax?Ccrs?5, in which Cmax: a raw material conversion rate at which yield of the objective products becomes maximum; and Ccrs: a raw material conversion rate at which, when maximum temperature of the catalyst layer Zin is regarded as Tin, maximum temperature of the catalyst layer Zout is regarded as Tout, and the raw material conversion rate is changed, a high and low correlation between Tin and Tout is reversed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing acrylic acid through vapor-phase contact oxidation of acrolein, wherein a reactor tube is divided into at least two catalyst layers, and catalysts having a higher activity are charged in the reactor tube sequentially toward an outlet port side from a material source gas inlet port side for a reaction therein to give acrylic acid, and wherein a catalyst activity-controlling method is a method comprising: a step of mixing a molybdenum-containing compound, a vanadium-containing compound, a copper-containing compound and an antimony-containing compound with water, then drying and calcining a resulting mixture, in which a catalytically-active element composition is kept constant but material source compounds are made to vary in type to give composite metal oxides having a different activity.

Abstract: An afterglow property of cesium iodide: thallium (CsI:Tl), in which CsI is a host material and doped with thallium, is improved. It is possible to improve the afterglow property of a scintillator by doping a crystal material including CsI (cesium iodide), as a host material, and thallium (Tl), as a luminescent center, with bismuth (Bi).

Abstract: A first rotary shaft and a second rotary are rotatable around a rotation axis. The second rotary shaft has a cylindrical supporting part that covers an end section of the first rotary shaft. A case supports the first and second rotary shafts. A first rolling bearing is disposed between the first rotary shaft and the case and rotatably supports the first rotary shaft. A second rolling bearing is disposed between the supporting part and the first rotary shaft and supports the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft such that they are rotatable relative to each other. A transmission part of the second rotary shaft transmits to the second rolling bearing a preload force that pushes the second rotary shaft to the first rotary shaft side. A load-receiving part of the case receives the preload force transmitted from the second rolling bearing to the first rolling bearing.

Abstract: There is provided a process for producing aerolein, acrylic acid, methacrolein, methacrylic acid in a safe and steady manner and in high yields, which avoids a phenomenon of occurrence of an abnormal reaction attributable to the fact that the temperature at a raw material gas outlet side becomes considerably higher than the temperature at a raw material gas inlet side, with regard to the temperature of a catalyst packed in a reaction tube at vapor-phase catalytic oxidation of propylene, isobutylene, or the like.

Abstract: An interlayer insulating film containing oxygen and carbon is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A groove is formed in the interlayer insulating film. An auxiliary film containing predetermined first and second metallic elements is formed on a bottom surface and a sidewall of the formed groove. Then, an interconnect body layer containing copper is formed to fill the groove. By performing a thermal treatment, a first barrier film containing a compound of the first metallic element and an oxygen element of the interlayer insulating film, and a second barrier film containing a compound of the second metallic element and carbon element of the interlayer insulating film are formed on the interlayer insulating film on the bottom surface and the sidewall of the groove.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing acrylic acid through vapor-phase contact oxidation of acrolein, wherein a reactor tube is divided into at least two catalyst layers, and catalysts having a higher activity are charged in the reactor tube sequentially toward an outlet port side from a material source gas inlet port side for a reaction therein to give acrylic acid, and wherein a catalyst activity-controlling method is a method comprising: a step of mixing a molybdenum-containing compound, a vanadium-containing compound, a copper-containing compound and an antimony-containing compound with water, then drying and calcining a resulting mixture, in which a catalytically-active element composition is kept constant but material source compounds are made to vary in type to give composite metal oxides having a different activity.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface serving as an element formation surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a through-via penetrating the semiconductor substrate; an insulating via coating film formed between a sidewall of the through-via and the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating protective film formed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The via coating film and the protective film are different insulating films from each other.

Abstract: A bird knocking-off rod of a bird knocking-off device is disposed outside a jet engine, in front of an air inlet of the jet engine and capable of rotating with a rotation area that is larger than an opening area of the air inlet of the jet engine. The rotary drive unit contains a rotary drive source and is capable of rotationally driving the bird knocking-off rod independently of rotation of the jet engine. Thus, bird strike against aircraft can be prevented.

Abstract: An interlayer insulating film containing oxygen and carbon is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A groove is formed in the interlayer insulating film. An auxiliary film containing predetermined first and second metallic elements is formed on a bottom surface and a sidewall of the formed groove. Then, an interconnect body layer containing copper is formed to fill the groove. By performing a thermal treatment, a first barrier film containing a compound of the first metallic element and an oxygen element of the interlayer insulating film, and a second barrier film containing a compound of the second metallic element and carbon element of the interlayer insulating film are formed on the interlayer insulating film on the bottom surface and the sidewall of the groove.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface serving as an element formation surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a through-via penetrating the semiconductor substrate; an insulating via coating film formed between a sidewall of the through-via and the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating protective film formed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The via coating film and the protective film are different insulating films from each other.

Abstract: A first rotary shaft and a second rotary are disposed such that they are rotatable around a rotation axis. The second rotary shaft has a cylindrical supporting part that covers the end section of the first rotary shaft. A case supports the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft. A first rolling bearing is disposed between the first rotary shaft and the case and supports the first rotary shaft such that it is rotatable. A second rolling bearing is disposed between the supporting part and the first rotary shaft and supports the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft such that they are rotatable relative to each other. A transmission part of the second rotary shaft transmits to the second rolling bearing a preload force that pushes the second rotary shaft to the first rotary shaft side. A load-receiving part of the case that receives the preload force transmitted from the second rolling bearing to the first rolling bearing.