Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a roadbed material from which less hexavalent chromium leaches out through use of a crushed product of a cementitious hardened body containing hexavalent chromium as a raw material. The method includes a carbonation treatment step of subjecting the crushed product of the cementitious hardened body to carbonation treatment with a carbon dioxide-containing gas having a temperature of 50° C. to 140° C. and a water content of 1.5% or more to obtain the roadbed material from which less hexavalent chromium leaches out than before the treatment. Preferably, the method includes, before the carbonation treatment step, a crushing step of crushing the cementitious hardened body to obtain a crushed product consisting of grains having a grain size of 100 mm or less at a ratio of 50 mass % or more and a grain size of 2.36 mm or less at a ratio of 1 mass % or more.

Abstract: An information processing device (40) according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an analysis unit (41) being a first data generation unit that generates objective score data, which indicates objective scores in time series, based on a plurality of pieces of objective data regarding a patient; a processing unit (42) being a second data generation unit that generates subjective score data, which indicates subjective scores in time series, based on a plurality of pieces of subjective data obtained from the patient; and a generation unit (44) being an image generation unit that generates a score image indicating the objective score data and the subjective score data.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g., a plant exhaust gas) simply, at low cost, and efficiently. The method of fixing carbon dioxide includes a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas into contact with powdery or grainy particles, which are each formed of a cementitious hardened body and each have a particle size of 40 mm or less, at a temperature of from 75° C. to 110° C. to fix carbon dioxide contained in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the powdery or grainy particles, wherein the relative humidity of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is adjusted in accordance with the particle size of the powdery or grainy particles and the state of adjustment of moisture content of the powdery or grainy particles before the contact step.

Abstract: Provided is an effective material age estimation device capable of appropriately taking relative humidity variation into consideration when estimating an effective material age. This effective material age estimation device comprises a temperature term calculation unit 13 for calculating a temperature term ?T dependent on the temperature of cast concrete, a humidity term calculation unit 14 for calculating a humidity term ?RH dependent on the relative humidity of the concrete, and an effective material age calculation unit 15 for calculating the effective material age of the concrete by summing products of the temperature term ?T, the humidity term, and a step time term ?ti. The humidity term ?RH is introduced, and the sum of the products is weighted using the term.

Abstract: A plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin with excellent balance of non-transfer properties, fogging resistance, flexibility, heat resistance, and cold resistance is provided. Specifically, a plasticizer for a vinyl chloride resin is a polyester made from a glycol having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 4 to 14 carbon atoms, and a monoalcohol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and/or a monocarboxylic acid having 2 to 21 carbon atoms, as reaction raw materials, in which the polyester has a number average molecular weight in a range of 500 to 6,000 and contains components with a molecular weight of 600 or less in a range of 0.5 to 3.0% by mass in terms of area ratio in gel permeation chromatography measurement.

Abstract: Provided are a sintered material having high corrosion resistance, a method of manufacturing the sintered material, a member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a method of manufacturing a member for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The sintered material according to an embodiment includes 50 mass% or more of yttrium oxyfluoride, has a relative density of 97.0% or more, and has a Vickers hardness of 5.0 GPa or more. The method of manufacturing a sintered material according to an embodiment includes forming a molded body including yttrium oxyfluoride powder having a particle size of 0.3 µm or less, and sintering the molded body under an atmospheric pressure at a temperature of 800° C. or less.

Abstract: A tire wear measuring device that detects wear of a tire based on a magnetic field from a magnetic object embedded in the tire includes magnetic sensors and a battery. The battery is capable of transmitting the magnetic field from the magnetic object, and has an outer edge from which the magnetic field from the magnetic object is emitted as an emission magnetic field. Each of the magnetic sensors is disposed in a position where the emission magnetic field is detectable by the sensor.

Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion having outboard and inboard tread edges and provided with three main grooves to axially divide the tread portion into four land regions including a widest outboard middle land region, wherein first inclined grooves (16) extend across the entire width of the outboard middle land region; second inclined grooves (17) extend from a crown main groove and are terminated within the outboard middle land region; fourth inclined grooves (19) are connected to the second inclined grooves (17) and to the first inclined grooves on an outboard shoulder main groove side; and an angle of the first inclined groove (16) and an angle of the second inclined groove (17) with respect to the tire circumferential direction are gradually increases from the crown main groove toward the outboard tread edge.

Abstract: A tire includes a pattern portion on a surface of a sidewall portion. The pattern portion includes an outer pattern and an inner pattern. The outer pattern includes a plurality of outer ridges disposed concentrically around a first point on a tire circumferential line on an outer side in a tire radial direction and extending toward a second point, on the tire circumferential line, which is different from the first point. The inner pattern includes a plurality of inner ridges disposed concentrically around the second point on an inner side in the tire radial direction and extending toward the first point. Each of the outer ridges connects with one of the inner ridges on the tire circumferential line.

Abstract: Provided is a plasticizer which can impart excellent heat resistance to a molded article of a vinyl chloride resin composition. Specifically, provided is a plasticizer for vinyl chloride resin, wherein the plasticizer is a polyester represented by the following formula (1) or (2), wherein, in the formulae (1) and (2), B11 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, B12 represents an aliphatic monocarboxylic acid residue having 7 to 20 carbon atoms, B21 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, B22 represents an aliphatic monoalcohol residue having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, G represents an alkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms or an oxyalkylene glycol residue having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, A represents an alkylenedicarboxylic acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and each of m and n represents the number of repeating units in parentheses.

Abstract: A member includes a base material structure and a surface layer on the base material structure. The surface layer includes a particle that includes Y—O—F. The base material structure includes interface layers in contact with the surface layer. The interface layers of the base material structure include fluorine.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include a vacuum chamber, an electrostatic chuck (ESC), a cooler, an RF plate, a casing, a base plate and a gas supplier. The ESC may be arranged in the vacuum chamber. The cooler may be configured to cool the ESC. The RF plate may be arranged under the cooler. The casing may be configured to support the cooler. The base plate may be opposite to the RF plate to form an inner space together with the casing. The gas supplier may supply a gas having a low dew point to the inner space. Thus, a generation of the dew condensation at the very low temperature may be prevented so that a damage caused by a short, which may be generated by the dew condensation, may also be prevented.

Abstract: In an optical coherence tomography apparatus that generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image, an image generation unit includes a correction processing unit that calculates an attenuation related value related to attenuation of signal intensity of the interference light of three R, G, and B colors in a first depth region and corrects the signal intensity of a second depth region deeper than the first depth region according to the attenuation related value to calculate a correction signal for the interference light and generates a full-color optical coherence tomographic image using the correction signals calculated for each of R, G, and B.

Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including an outboard tread edge, an inboard tread edge, four circumferential grooves between the outboard and inboard tread edges, five land portions divided by the four circumferential grooves, and lateral grooves extending from the inboard tread edge to the crown land portion and terminating within the crown land portion. The four circumferential grooves include an inboard shoulder circumferential groove, an inboard crown circumferential groove, and an outboard crown circumferential groove. The five land portions include an inboard shoulder land portion, an inboard middle land portion, and a crown land portion between the inboard and outboard crown circumferential grooves. The crown land portion is provided with at least one crown sipe extending from the inboard crown circumferential groove or the outboard crown circumferential groove and terminating within the crown land portion, and crosses the axially center position of the crown land portion.

Abstract: A sintered body, a method of fabricating the sintered body, a semiconductor fabricating device, and a method of fabricating the semiconductor fabricating device, the sintered body including 50 mass % or more of Y5O4F7, wherein the sintered body has a relative density of 97.0% or more and a Vickers hardness of 2.4 GPa or more.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g., a plant exhaust gas) simply, at low cost, and efficiently. The method of fixing carbon dioxide includes a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas into contact with powdery or grainy particles, which are each formed of a cementitious hardened body and each have a particle size of 40 mm or less, at a temperature of from 75° C. to 110° C. to fix carbon dioxide contained in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the powdery or grainy particles, wherein the relative humidity of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is adjusted in accordance with the particle size of the powdery or grainy particles and the state of adjustment of moisture content of the powdery or grainy particles before the contact step.

Abstract: Provided is a simple and low-cost method for efficiently fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g. a plant exhaust gas). The method of fixing carbon dioxide comprises a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas having a temperature of 350° C. or more into contact with a cementitious hardened body to fix carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the cementitious hardened body. The carbon dioxide-containing gas may be a gas that is free from being supplied with moisture before the contact step and during the contact step. One of examples of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is a plant exhaust gas.

Abstract: A wafer stage includes an electrostatic chuck (ESC) plate, an upper supporting plate, a lower supporting plate and a temperature controller. The ESC plate includes a first surface that supports a wafer. The upper supporting plate is bonded to a second surface of the ESC plate opposite to the first surface. The lower supporting plate overlaps the upper supporting plate. The temperature controller is disposed between the upper supporting plate and the lower supporting plate. The ESC plate includes ceramics. The upper supporting plate includes a composite material of aluminum or aluminum alloy and ceramics or carbon. The ESC plate and the upper supporting plate are directly bonded to each other by a room temperature solid bonding process. Thus, the wafer stage has sufficient strength to withstand pressure differences between a vacuum and atmospheric pressure, improved temperature response by minimizing heat capacity, and prevents warpage of the ESC plate.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate support chuck configured to support a substrate in the process chamber, the substrate support chuck including an upper cooling channel and a lower cooling channel that are symmetrically separated from each other, and a support chuck temperature controller configured to supply a first coolant to the upper cooling channel and to supply a second coolant to the lower cooling channel.

Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate chuck disposed in the process chamber, and a temperature controller. The substrate chuck is configured to receive a substrate, and includes a cooling channel through which a coolant flows. The temperature controller is configured to control a temperature of the coolant supplied to the cooling channel. The temperature controller includes a cooler configured to cool the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, a heater configured to heat the coolant supplied to the cooling channel, and a 3-way valve configured to regulate a first flow rate of the coolant passing through the cooler and a second flow rate of the coolant passing through the heater.