Abstract: The present invention provides a toner that can maintain excellent transferability even when a transfer bias is low. The toner includes a toner particle that includes a toner base particle and a plurality of convex portions X existing on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the convex portion X contains an organic silicon polymer; when a cross-section of the toner is observed with a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), and the convex portions X comprise a plurality of convex portions Y each having a convex height H of 40 nm or higher, a number ratio P (H/w) of the a number of the convex portions Y2 in which a ratio (H/w) of the convex height H to the convex width w is 0.33 or larger and 0.80 or smaller is 70% by number or more with respect to a total number of the convex portions Y.

Abstract: A biogas-utilizing methanation system includes: a solid oxide fuel cell using a to-be-treated gas as a fuel gas; a hydrogen production device capable of producing hydrogen by using power of a renewable energy power generation device; and a methanation device capable of methanating carbon dioxide in the system with the hydrogen produced by the hydrogen production device. The carbon dioxide in the system can be stored in a storage device on the basis of the supply amount of the to-be-treated gas or the power of the renewable energy power generation device.

Abstract: A sound processing apparatus includes: a conversion unit that samples predetermined audio data with a first quantization bit rate and a second quantization bit rate greater than the first quantization bit rate and outputs the respective results as first digital audio data and second digital audio data; a frequency analysis unit that performs frequency analysis on each output from the conversion unit; and a determination unit that performs predetermined determination processing on the basis of analysis results by the frequency analysis unit.

Abstract: A sound processing apparatus includes: a conversion unit that samples predetermined audio data with a first quantization bit rate and a second quantization bit rate greater than the first quantization bit rate and outputs the respective results as first digital audio data and second digital audio data; a frequency analysis unit that performs frequency analysis on each output from the conversion unit; and a determination unit that performs predetermined determination processing on the basis of analysis results by the frequency analysis unit.