Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a quartz glass crucible 1 includes: a cylindrical crucible body 10 which has a bottom and is made of quartz glass; and a first crystallization-accelerator-containing coating film 13A which is formed on an inner surface 10a so as to cause an inner crystal layer composed of an aggregate of dome-shaped or columnar crystal grains to be formed on a surface-layer portion of the inner surface 10a of the crucible body 10 by heating during a step of pulling up the silicon single crystal by a Czochralski method. The quartz glass crucible is capable of withstanding a single crystal pull-up step undertaken for a very long period of time.

Abstract: A hydraulic power generation system is provided with a control unit which controls the power supply circuit to perform a normal operation of supplying power from the power system to a predetermined electric device provided at the water channel and an autonomous operation of supplying the power generated by the electric generator to the electric device. The control unit executes the autonomous operation when the power system fails.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate holding apparatus capable of appropnately holding a substrate. The substrate holding apparatus is suggested to hold a substrate including a portion to be plated that is exposed to a plating solution and an edge portion that is an area outside the portion to be plated. The substrate holding apparatus comprises a grasp module to come in contact with the edge portion of the substrate and thereby grasp the substrate, a suction module to attract the portion to be plated of the substrate by suction to hold the portion to be plated, and a protrusion provided at a position corresponding to the portion to be plated in the substrate, and protruding toward the substrate to be held by the substrate holding apparatus more than the suction module.

Abstract: A memory management method of a computer including a memory and a processor connected to the memory, the method includes, by the processor, executing an OS and executing a plurality of processes on the OS. The plurality of processes include a virtual storage device and an application. The processor provides the application with a physical area of the memory, which is managed by the OS, controls the virtual storage device to use a physical area of the memory, which is mounted on the computer, but is not managed by the OS, secures continuous physical areas from the physical area of the memory, which is managed by the OS, to be used by the virtual storage device, and performs DMA transfer between the virtual storage device and the application by using the secured continuous physical areas.

Abstract: A sensor includes a probe that acquires a blood light absorber concentration in a subject and a cuff that acquires a non-invasive blood pressure of the subject. In the sensor, the probe is configured to be attached to a first portion of a digit of the subject, and the cuff is configured to be attached to a second portion of the digit, the second portion being located on a periphery side with respect to the first portion.

Abstract: An electric power information acquisition unit is provided for acquiring power supply-and-demand information including electric power acceptable to an electric power system or information correlated with the electric power. A fluid information acquisition unit is provided for acquiring fluid information including information correlated with a physical quantity of a fluid flowing out of a channel. A controller is provided for controlling at least one of the physical quantity, the channel or electric power generated or electric power to be generated by a generator by using the fluid information so that the physical quantity becomes equal to a desired value, while controlling electric power to be supplied to the electric power system to the electric power acceptable to the electric power system or less, by using the power supply-and-demand information.

Abstract: A hydroelectric generation system includes a fluid machine disposed in a penstock or channel, a generator driven by the fluid machine, and a control unit configured to generate a predetermined torque in the generator. Fluid flows through the penstock or channel. The penstock or channel has a main path in which the fluid machine is disposed, and a detour disposed in parallel with the main path. The detour includes an on-off valve. The on-off valve is opened when not electrified, and closed when electrified.

Abstract: [Problems to be solved] Provided is a quartz glass crucible having high durability even at a high temperature during a single crystal pull-up step and capable of reducing a generation ratio of pinholes in a silicon single crystal. [Means to solve the problems] A quartz glass crucible 1 includes: a quartz glass crucible body 10 having a cylindrical side wall portion 10a, a curved bottom portion 10b, and a corner portion 10c which has a larger curvature than that of the bottom portion 10b and connects the side wall portion 10a and the bottom portion 10b to each other; and an inner-surface coating film 13A which contains a crystallization accelerator and is formed on an inner surface 10i of the quartz glass crucible body 10, in which the inner surface 10i of the quartz glass crucible body 10 is under compressive stress.

Abstract: An electric power information acquisition unit is provided for acquiring power supply-and-demand information including electric power acceptable to an electric power system or information correlated with the electric power. A fluid information acquisition unit is provided for acquiring fluid information including information correlated with a physical quantity of a fluid flowing out of a channel. A controller is provided for controlling at least one of the physical quantity, the channel or electric power generated or electric power to be generated by a generator by using the fluid information so that the physical quantity becomes equal to a desired value, while controlling electric power to be supplied to the electric power system to the electric power acceptable to the electric power system or less, by using the power supply-and-demand information.

Abstract: A fluid apparatus includes a hydraulic machine, a rotary electric machine connected to the hydraulic machine, and a power conversion controller that converts power from the rotary electric machine. A non-normal operation is performed in a warning state that differs from a normal state in which a normal operation is continued and an anomalous state in which operation is stopped to continue a stopped condition.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate processing system, including: a carrier transfer region in which a carrier that accommodates a substrate is transferred to a substrate processing apparatus, and a substrate transfer region in which the substrate accommodated in the carrier is transferred to a processing furnace, the substrate transfer region being partitioned from the carrier transfer region by a partition wall; a transfer port formed in the partition wall and through which the substrate is transferred between the carrier transfer region and the substrate transfer region; an opening/closing door configured to open and close the transfer port; and a pressure equalizing part configured to substantially equalize a pressure of the substrate transfer region and a pressure of a space surrounded by the carrier and the opening/closing door.

Abstract: To provide a plating apparatus that prevents or reduces a diversion of an electric field. According to one embodiment, a plating apparatus for performing a plating process on a substrate held onto a substrate holder is provided. The plating apparatus includes a plating tank configured to receive the substrate holder holding the substrate, a block member that extends to an inside of the plating tank from a wall surface of the inside of the plating tank, and is movable inside the plating tank, and a moving mechanism configured to move the block member toward the substrate holder disposed inside the plating tank.

Abstract: A hydroelectric generation system includes a fluid machine disposed in a penstock or channel, a generator driven by the fluid machine, and a control unit configured to generate a predetermined torque in the generator. Fluid flows through the penstock or channel. The penstock or channel has a main path in which the fluid machine is disposed, and a detour disposed in parallel with the main path. The detour includes an on-off valve. The on-off valve is opened when not electrified, and closed when electrified.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device capable of changing at least one of a plurality of parameters including a luminescence intensity, a color gamut, and an electro optical transfer function (EOTF); and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a plurality of images and a background image displayed around each of the plurality of images such that an appearance of the background image is visually identical between the plurality of images when the display device is caused to display the plurality of images.

Abstract: This invention encodes, using less memory, a wide-angle image obtained by performing image capturing a plurality of times. An apparatus includes a compositing unit that, each time an image capturing unit captures an image, crops a partial image of a predetermined region in the captured image, and composes the partial image with a composed image obtained from a previously captured image, an encoding unit that, when the composed image updated by the compositing unit has a pre-set size, encodes the image of the tile in the composed image, a releasing unit that releases an area used for the encoded tile in the memory, and a control unit that controls the compositing unit, the encoding unit, and the releasing unit so as to repeatedly perform operations until a pre-set condition is satisfied.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for killing tumor cells, having a few side effects. The present invention provides a method for killing tumor cells, comprising: (1) a step of allowing an immunotoxin formed by binding an antibody binding to ROBO1 or a fragment thereof to a cytotoxin to come into contact with tumor cells; (2) a step of allowing a photosensitizer that induces photochemical cytoplasmic internalization to come into contact with the tumor cells; and (3) a step of irradiating the tumor cells with a wave length that is effective for activating the sensitizer, so as to kill the cells.

Abstract: Provided are a quartz glass crucible capable of withstanding a single crystal pull-up step undertaken for a very long period of time, such as multi-pulling, and a manufacturing method thereof. A quartz glass crucible 1 includes: a cylindrical crucible body 10 which has a bottom and is made of quartz glass; and crystallization-accelerator-containing coating films 13A and 13B which are formed on surfaces of the crucible body 10 so as to cause crystallization-accelerator-enriched layers to be formed in the vicinity of the surfaces of the crucible body 10 by heating during a step of pulling up a silicon single crystal by a Czochralski method.

Abstract: Provided is a method for pulling up and growing, by the Czochralski method, a silicon monocrystal from a melt obtained by fusing a silicon raw material for crystals within a quartz crucible. When the inner wall of the quartz crucible is made of a synthetic quartz layer, a gel-like liquid including a devitrification accelerator, a thickening agent, and a solvent is applied to the bottom surface of the quartz crucible inner wall or to both the bottom surface and the lateral surface thereof prior to filling the silicon raw material for crystals into the quartz crucible, whereas when the inner wall of the quartz crucible is made of a natural quartz layer, the gel-like liquid is applied to both the bottom surface and the lateral surface of the inner wall of the quartz crucible prior to filling the silicon raw material for crystals into the quartz crucible.

Abstract: Terminals 40, 50 involving stationary-side retained portions 44, 54 are held in place by stationary housings, movable-side retained portions 42, 52 are held in place by a movable housing, and resilient portions 43, 53 are provided between said stationary-side retained portions 44, 54 and movable-side retained portions 42, 52. In the above-mentioned housing, in the terminal array direction, retaining fittings 60 are attached at locations outside said terminal array range, the above-mentioned retaining fittings 60 include mounting portions 61 fixedly attached to the housing and retaining portions 62 that clamp and hold the counterpart connector component. The retaining portions 62 of said retaining fittings 60 clamp and hold the above-mentioned counterpart connector component, thereby maintaining the locations of contact between the contact portions of the above-mentioned terminals 40, 50 and the above-mentioned counterpart connector component.

Abstract: An operation system includes a detector, an area designator, a selection item designator, and a display controller. The detector may be configured to detect an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel. The area designator may be configured to designate an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel. The selection item designator may be configured to designate an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated by the area designator. The display controller may be configured to control the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected by the detector.