Abstract: A method for designing a protein capable of binding in an RNA base selective manner or RNA base sequence specific manner is provided.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device having a variable gain amplifier, a setting error of a gain associated with a crosstalk noise is reduced. A switch block included in the variable gain amplifier includes a plurality of switch transistors Mp1, Mp2, MN1, and Mn2, and can variably set the parallel number of the switches used for coupling by selecting a forward coupling state for coupling the common wirings CSP, CSN to output wirings OUTP, OUTN, respectively, or a cross coupling state for coupling to OUTN, OUTP, respectively. Output wirings OUTN, OUTP form an output wiring pair by extending in a X direction while crossing each other through an underlying wiring layer ML[x-1]. At least one of the common wirings CSP, CSN is located next to the output wiring pair in a Y direction.

Abstract: The objects of the present invention are to identify the amino acids that play a principal role for the PPR motif to act as a RNA binding unit, as well as to provide a technology that regulates the RNA binding property thereof. The present invention provides a method for altering the RNA binding property of a PPR protein having one or more, preferably 2 or more, and more preferably 2-14 PPR motifs that consist of a polypeptide with a length of 30-38 amino acids, comprising a step of substituting one or more of the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, and 12th amino acids in the one or more PPR motifs with a different amino acid.

Abstract: A ceramic circuit substrate having high bonding performance and excellent thermal cycling resistance properties, having a circuit pattern provided on a ceramic substrate with a braze material layer interposed therebetween, and a protruding portion formed by the braze material layer protruding from the outer edge of the circuit pattern, wherein: the braze material layer includes Ag, Cu, Ti, and Sn or In; and an Ag-rich phase is formed continuously for 300 ?m or more, towards the inside, from an outer edge of the protruding portion, along a bonding interface between the ceramic substrate and the circuit pattern, and has a bonding void ratio of 1.0% or less.

Abstract: A phase shifter capable of improving phase accuracy by a simple method is provided. The phase shifter includes a hybrid coupler circuit including inductors with mutual inductances, an amplifying circuit, an impedance matching circuit provided between the hybrid coupler circuit and the amplifying circuit. The impedance matching circuit includes a first resistance element connected to an output node of the hybrid coupler circuit, a capacitance element connected between the first resistance element and the ground line in series, another inductor connected in parallel with the first resistance element, and a second resistance element provided between the inductor and the ground line in series.

Abstract: A ceramic circuit substrate and power module with excellent heat cycle resistance characteristics, which is formed by bonding a ceramic substrate and a copper plate via a brazing material including Ag, Cu, and an active metal, wherein the bond void fraction is no greater than 1.0% and the diffusion distance of the Ag, which is a brazing material component, is 5-20 ?m. Also, a method for manufacturing a ceramic circuit substrate characterized in that the heating time in a temperature range 400-700° C. in a process for raising the temperature to a bonding temperature is 5-30 minutes and bonding is performed by maintaining the bonding temperature at 720-800° C. for 5-30 minutes.

Abstract: A self-driving vehicle includes a plurality of operation members for the driver to operate and a controller. The plurality of operation members includes a steering operation member, a brake operation member, and an accelerating operation member. The controller has, as control modes thereof, an automatic operation mode and a manual operation mode. The operation member that is predefined as a trigger for the shift from the automatic operation mode to the manual operation mode differs depending on states of the vehicle in the automatic operation mode. The self-driving vehicle enables the driver to shift the control mode from the automatic operation mode to the manual operation mode with a simple operation.

Abstract: Workpieces are disposed between a pair of side walls in a heat treatment chamber. A centrifugal fan is disposed to face the workpieces inside the heat treatment chamber, and sucks gas from the workpiece side and generates air current. In regions at the respective side wall sides relative to an intermediate position between the pair of side walls, an air current regulation unit regulates the air current so as to restrict flows of the air current from the centrifugal fan to the respective side wall sides when a rotary blade of the centrifugal fan rotates in regions in which outer circumferential edge portions of the rotating rotary blade separate from the respective side walls, and allows the flows in regions in which the outer circumferential edge portions of the rotating rotary blade approach the respective side walls.

Abstract: A heater is provided to heat a metallic workpiece as a heating treatment target. In a heat treatment chamber, the heater and the workpiece are disposed. A shielding member is disposed between the heater and the workpiece inside the heat treatment chamber, and provided to be capable of shielding radiation of radiation heat from the heater to the workpiece.

Abstract: A tube pump and a fluid delivery method, the tube pump including a plurality of pressing portions and a tube that delivers fluid. The pressing portions is spaced apart from each other in a rotational direction and provided for a rotation body turned by a drive unit and the tube is provided on an outer circumferential side of the rotation body. The tube pump includes a control unit that turns the rotation body opposite to a delivery direction until the rotation body reaches a predetermined angle so as to restore an area of the tube, pressed by the pressing portion on a most upstream side in the delivery direction, by an increase in pressure within the tube accompanied with a movement opposite to the delivery direction of the pressing portion adjacent to a downstream side in the delivery direction.

Abstract: A stabilizer is provided with a restriction ring connected to a torsion portion at a connection portion adjacent to a bush. The restriction ring has a body, a female portion, a male portion, and a welded portion. The female portion has gripping portions with a spacing therebetween decreasing in the direction away from a valley bottom portion. The male portion has a neck portion, an expansion portion, and a contraction portion. The welded portion covers at least the range of the contraction portion and the valley bottom portion and melts in the plate thickness direction from the outer peripheral surface.

Abstract: A dispersant attached polytetrafluoroethylene particle on whose surface a dispersant having a fluorine atom is attached has a content of perfluorooctanoic acid of from 0 ppb to 25 ppb with respect to the polytetrafluoroethylene particle, and a composition contains a polytetrafluoroethylene particle and a dispersant having a fluorine atom in which a content of perfluorooctanoic acid is from 0 ppb to 25 ppb with respect to the polytetrafluoroethylene particle.

Abstract: An evaporator which heats working fluid with high-temperature fluid to evaporate the working fluid includes: a working fluid channel arranged in a flow direction of the high temperature fluid and through which the working fluid flows; and a temperature sensor provided for the working fluid channel. A part of the working fluid channel is exposed to outside of a housing of the evaporator, and the temperature sensor is provided in the part of the working fluid channel exposed to the outside of the housing of the evaporator in a region other than an inlet of the working fluid channel into which the working fluid flows from the outside of the evaporator and other than an outlet of the working fluid channel through which the working fluid flows out of the evaporator. The output value of the temperature sensor is used to adjust the temperature of the working fluid.

Abstract: A state monitoring system for a rotating machine includes: a sensor head; a preamplifier; a main unit; and a temperature sensor The sensor head includes: an acceleration sensor configured to measure vibrations of the motor and output a vibration value; and a temperature sensor configured to measure a surface temperature of the motor and output a rotating machine surface temperature value. The main unit includes: a processor configured to compare a current vibration value with a determination threshold value and determine the state of the motor; a display unit configured to display the vibration value, the rotating machine surface temperature value, and the ambient temperature value; an output unit configured to output a determination result of the processor; and a communication unit configured to receive the determination threshold value from a host system and transmit the current vibration value and the determination result to the host system.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer formed on the conductive substrate and containing a polyurethane resin, metal oxide particles, a silane coupling agent, and a compound represented by General Formula (ID); and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer (where R1 to R8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an aromatic hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, an alkoxy group optionally having a substituent, an aryloxy group optionally having a substituent, a sulfo group optionally having a substituent, an amino group, an alkylamino group optionally having a substituent, or an arylamino group optionally having a substituent).

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] The object of the present invention is to develop a method of regulating a target RNA. [Solution] There is provided a fusion protein comprising a functional domain which improves the protein expression level from mRNA and a PPR protein which can bind to a target mRNA in an RNA base-selective or RNA base sequence-specific manner.

Abstract: A method for designing a protein capable of binding in an RNA base selective manner or RNA base sequence specific manner is provided.

Abstract: An exchangeable contact unit which can be attached to or detached from a main body of an inspection jig, includes: a flexible board which is provided with a contact part with respect to an object to be inspected; and a coaxial connector which is directly and electrically connected to the flexible board.

Abstract: A first step of propelling a transport ship from a low earth orbit or a geostationary transfer orbit to a targeted orbit or a destination with electric propulsion is provided.

Abstract: An exploration method includes: a step of exploring a natural resource on a satellite, a minor planet, or a planet; a step of acquiring the natural resource detected by the exploration; and a step of storing the acquired natural resource.