Abstract: To provide a polycarbodiimide copolymer and a modified polycarbodiimide copolymer each suitable for a curing agent that can allow a cured product of a carboxy group-containing resin composition to be improved in flexibility without any loss of water resistance, as well as a curing agent of a carboxy group-containing resin composition, and a carboxy group-containing resin composition. The present invention enables a cured product to be enhanced in water resistance due to introduction of a predetermined soft segment into a polycarbodiimide molecule, in use for a curing agent, and also enables a carboxy group-containing resin composition to be enhanced in storage stability due to modification with an aliphatic amine or an aromatic heterocyclic amine.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes pixels including a reflective region for display in a reflection mode and a transmissive region for display in a transmission mode. The liquid crystal display panel includes a liquid crystal layer including a nematic liquid crystal material having negative dielectric anisotropy and a chiral agent, a pixel electrode including a reflective conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer, a counter electrode, a light diffusing structure provided in common to the reflective region and the transmissive region, and a first vertical alignment film provided between the pixel electrode and the liquid crystal layer, and a second vertical alignment film provided between the counter electrode and the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: As an aspect of an embodiment, a crystal contains a metal oxide containing Ga and Mn and having a corundum structure.

Abstract: Under predetermined film depositing conditions, the raw material solution of the thermistor film is atomized or dropletized, the carrier gas is supplied to the obtained mist or droplet, the mist or droplet is conveyed to the substrate, and then the mist or droplet is thermally reacted on the substrate to deposit a film. A resultant thermistor thin film has a film thickness of 1 ?m or less, a film width of 5 mm or more, a thickness of 50 nm or more and 5 ?m or less, a thickness in the range of less than ±50 nm, a thickness of 5 mm or less, and/or a thickness of 50 nm or more and 5 ?m or less, and has a film surface roughness (Ra) of 0.1 ?m or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is manufactured at a low cost. In the liquid crystal display device, three sub-pixel electrodes are connected by inter-electrode connection portions to form one pixel electrode. One TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. A screen of a liquid crystal display panel is divided into n (n?2) of areas. Gate signal lines G of each divided area are scanned simultaneously one line at a time in each divided area. A backlight device emits light after completion of the scanning of each divided area.

Abstract: In a first aspect of a present inventive subject matter, a method of forming a film includes turning a raw material containing at least a first chemical element and a second chemical element into atomized droplets; carrying the atomized droplets containing at least the first chemical element and the second chemical element by use of a carrier gas onto an object; and causing a reaction of the atomized droplets to form a film containing at least the first chemical element and the second chemical element on the object. The first chemical element is selected from among elements of Group 14 and elements of Group 15 of the periodic table. The second chemical element is selected from among d-block elements, elements of Group 13 and elements of Group 14 of the periodic table and different from the first chemical element.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition containing a resin and a compound each having a structure specified by the present specification provides a cured film having excellent adhesiveness to copper wiring.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition containing a resin and a compound each having a structure specified by the present specification provides a cured film having excellent adhesiveness to copper wiring.

Abstract: A sample test automation system which is capable of reducing the workload of an operator and precisely carrying out necessary processes of each of samples without stagnation. In the sample test automation system, a sample tray 120 on which a plurality of samples 150 can be installed is prepared, an identifier for distinguishing the sample tray 120 is attached to the sample tray 120, a sample introducing unit 10 is provided with an identifier reading apparatus 111 which reads the identifier of the sample tray 120, and information about the samples 150 is switched based on the read identifier of the sample tray 120.

Abstract: To provide a wiring substrate, an electronic device, and an electronic module the size of which can be easily reduced and the strength of which can be maintained. A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate and an electrical wiring structure. The insulation substrate includes a recess section in one surface. A frame portion of the insulation substrate that forms a side surface which connects an opened surface and a bottom surface of the recess section to each other includes a first conductive portion having a plate shape in the frame portion.

Abstract: An advanced wireless communication system and method for use therein provides adaptive radio access using a plurality of configurable OFDM-based waveforms. The method comprises: receiving, at a UE and on a band-specific fixed system subband, one or more synchronisation signals; determining, at the UE, and according to the synchronisation signals, a base waveform numerology; and receiving, at the UE and according to the base waveform numerology, system information, wherein the system information defines parameters for a service or services.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device (100), each pixel row group is selected by a common scan signal voltage, each pixel row group including N pixel rows which adjoin one another in a column direction. Where two pixel rows which adjoin each other in a column direction and which are included in different pixel row groups are a first pixel row and a second pixel row, the first pixel row includes a pixel which has a pixel electrode (16) capacitively coupled with a gate bus line (12) which is associated with the second pixel row. When the first pixel row is included in the qth group, the second pixel row is included in the (q+1)th group. A scan signal voltage supplied to gate bus lines which are associated with the (q+1)th group switches from low to high before a scan signal voltage supplied to gate bus lines which are associated with the qth group switches from high to low.

Abstract: An array board 11b includes a gate line 19, a TFT 17, a pixel electrode 18, a display pixel PX, and a second interlayer insulation film 27. The TFT 17 includes a gate electrode 17a formed from a part of the gate line 19, a channel section 17d formed from an oxide semiconductor film 24, a source section 17b connected to one end of the channel section 17d, and a drain section 17c connected to another end of the channel section 17d and formed from the oxide semiconductor film 24 having resistance lower than the channel section 17d. The pixel electrode 18 is connected to the drain section 17c. The display pixel PX includes the TFT 17 and the pixel electrode 18. The second interlayer insulation film 27 has a second hole in a position overlapping the pixel electrode and the drain section 17c and not overlapping the gate electrode 17a.

Abstract: A right shock absorber and a left shock absorber are provided on outer sides of a left front wheel and a right front wheel that define a steering allowable space therebetween. At a lower portion of the right shock absorber, an outer edge of a right front fender is positioned farther radially outwards than an outer edge of the right front wheel, and a right guide wall that extends from the outer edge inwards is provided in an upper rear area to the left of the right front wheel. At a lower portion of the left shock absorber, an outer edge of a left front fender is positioned farther radially outwards than an outer edge of the left front wheel, and a left guide wall that extends from the outer edge inwards is provided in an upper rear area to the right of the left front wheel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes sub-pixel electrodes respectively provided to three sub-pixels, and an interelectrode connection portion that connects sub-pixel electrodes adjacent to each other among the sub-pixel electrodes. The interelectrode connection portion is provided in a position where boundaries of liquid crystal alignment directions of sub-pixels adjacent to each other are connected.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of pixels. The first substrate includes a first electrode provided in each of the pixels and a first horizontal alignment film that determines a pretilt orientation of a liquid crystal molecule. The second substrate includes a second electrode provided to face the first electrode and a second horizontal alignment film that determines the pretilt orientation of the liquid crystal molecule. Each of the first and second horizontal alignment films is a photoalignment film. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes an anchoring structure in each of the pixels.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of analyzing a user evaluation on a part of a content, and generating preference information capable of realizing satisfying content recommendation. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to generate a user evaluation on a chronologically-separated part of a media content, on the basis of sensor data on a user, the sensor data being acquired in relation to listening and viewing of the media content, and store media preference information including at least the generated user evaluation in a storage unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate, the first substrate including in the following order to a liquid crystal layer side: a first electrode, an insulating layer, and a second electrode provided with an aperture, the liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules homogeneously aligned in a no-voltage-applied state, the aperture having an outline including a first outline portion and a second outline portion which are at different directions to each other in each of pixels, the liquid crystal display panel further including a rib protruding to the liquid crystal layer side and disposed between the first outline portion and the second outline portion on one or both of a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the first substrate and a liquid crystal layer-side surface of the second substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a program, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method which are able to represent a demand-supply balance that reflects a characteristic of a transaction object, more accurately. The program causes a computer to function as a control unit that, on the basis of inputted transaction orders, controls a display regarding a distribution of the transaction orders in a transaction market, where the transaction orders include a provision order inputted by a provider who desires to provide a transaction object and a reception order inputted by a receiver who desires to receive the transaction object, and the control unit dynamically controls the display regarding the distribution on the basis of two or more elements including a desired transaction price related to each of the provision order and the reception order and including at least one or more characteristics of the transaction object.

Abstract: A polycarbodiimide compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein R1 and R3 each represent a residue of an organic compound having one isocyanate-reactive functional group but excluding the isocyanate-reactive functional group, and R1 and R3 may be the same as or different from each other; R2 comprises a group represented by the following formula (i), which is a divalent residue of 2,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate having isocyanate groups removed therefrom, and a group represented by the following formula (ii), which is a divalent residue of 4,4?-diphenylmethane diisocyanate having isocyanate groups removed therefrom; the proportion of the groups represented by the formula (i) relative to all the R2 groups in the polycarbodiimide compound is 30 to 70 mol %, and the proportion of the groups represented by the formula (ii) relative to all the R2 groups in the polycarbodiimide compound is 30 to 70 mol %; X1 and X2 each represent a group formed by the reaction of the organic compound and