Abstract: In the case that an external skin agent that contains a specific component is to be applied to the skin of a right hand, a liquid that contains ultrafine bubbles is applied to the portion of the skin onto which the external skin agent is to be applied. The application of the liquid is performed prior to the external skin agent being applied, by spraying the liquid from an aerosol container having a spray actuator with a flow rate adjusting mechanism.

Abstract: A filter that can make a reflection delay of an initial stage coupling part correspond to a change in a passband due to a manufacturing error of a substrate or the like is realized. A filter according to an example embodiment includes: a substrate having a dielectric property; an initial stage coupling part formed on the substrate; and an interstage coupling part formed on the substrate. The initial stage coupling part is formed so that a reflection delay is decreased in accordance with an increase in a passband due to a manufacturing error of the substrate or the interstage coupling part, or so that the reflection delay is increased in accordance with a decrease in the passband.

Abstract: To improve the optical power supply efficiency, a power-over-fiber system includes a power sourcing equipment including a semiconductor laser that oscillates with electric power to output feed light, a powered device including a photoelectric conversion element that converts the feed light into electric power, a plurality of optical fiber cables that transmit the feed light, a measurer that measures a distance from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device, and a control device that controls the power sourcing equipment to output the feed light after compensating for an amount of attenuation of the feed light according to a transmission distance on the basis of the distance from the power sourcing equipment to the powered device measured by the measurer.

Abstract: A toner manufacturing method includes a first step of filtering toner particles obtained by a wet manufacturing method, a second step of squeezing the toner particles and making water pass through the toner particles, and a third step of squeezing the toner particles and ventilating compressed air through the toner particles, in which Condition (1) and Condition (2) are satisfied, Condition (1): a temperature T of the water passing through the toner particles in the second step satisfies “10° C.?T?35° C.”; and Condition (2): a squeezing pressure P1 in the second step and a squeezing pressure P2 in the third step satisfy “0.2 MPa?P1<P2?0.8 MPa”.

Abstract: A tracing circuit is integrated in a semiconductor device along with a microprocessor including an m-bit program counter, and externally outputs a tracing clock along with an n-bit tracing data (where 2?n?m). The tracing circuit, when the program counter remains unchanged, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a first output value; when the program counter is incremented, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a second output value; and when the program counter is loaded, synchronously with the tracing clock sets the tracing data to a third output value, and then suspends the state machine in the microprocessor and split-outputs, as the tracing data, the branch destination address or interrupt destination address loaded in the program counter.

Abstract: To provide a hair growth agent which is a topical agent that exhibits effect in terms of causing increase in hair shaft diameter and improving maximum hair shaft length and improving hair shaft elongation rate and new hair growth and increasing expression of genes contributing to hair growth in dermal papilla cells and promoting hair shaft growth at head hair, eyelashes, and/or eyebrows, a hair growth agent which is a topical agent is made to contain active ingredients in the form of palmitoyl dipeptide-5 diaminobutyloyl hydroxythreonine and palmitoyl dipeptide-5 diaminohydroxybutyrate.

Abstract: Sufficient data extension can be achieved even if the starting date/time and ending date/time of the learning execution data have been uniquely defined. Based on entire learning data that is a set of time-series data, wherein the entire learning data is a set of minimum constitution unit data, each of which is time-series data having a first time interval that is a time interval required for learning, wherein the time-series data having the first time interval is each assigned a first label that indicates a feature in a time series of the first interval; a generation unit (103) generates learning execution data that is a set of time-series data to be used in learning, by combining the minimum constitution unit data included in the entire learning data such that regularity of the first label in a time series of the entire learning data is maintained.

Abstract: A bio-related substance bonded to a branched and degradable polyethylene glycol derivative that is degraded in the cells represented by the following formula (A): wherein each symbol is as defined in the present specification, is provided by the present invention.

Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element having high luminous efficiency and to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device which consumes low power and is driven at low voltage, a carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) is provided. In the formula, ?1, ?2, ?3, and ?4 each represent an arylene group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; Ar1 and Ar2 each represent an aryl group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; R1 represents any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; and R2 represents any of an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group. In addition, l, m, and n are each independently 0 or 1.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes an area identification unit to identify an area for which an analysis is not required based on information of an image captured from a position of a movable object, a first time period calculation unit to identify a first time period that is a time period for the movable object to reach the identified area, a second time period calculation unit to calculate a second time period that is an arrival time period to reach a movement area of the movable object from a position in the identified area, a risk area setting unit to set, in the identified area, a risk area where an object approaching the movable object may be present based on the first time period and the second time period and on the identified area, and a transmission control unit to control transmission of risk area information.

Abstract: An encoder which transforms a current block to be encoded in an image to encode the current block includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry, using the memory: determines a plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms the current block using a transform basis included in the plurality of first transform basis candidates determined, when the current block has a first size; and determines one or more second transform basis candidates different from the plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms the current block using a transform basis included in the one or more second transform basis candidates determined, when the current block has a second size larger than the first size.

Abstract: A laminate 10 includes: a foamed polyurethane layer 11 obtained from a foamable polyurethane resin composition containing an active hydrogen group-containing tin ricinoleate and a phosphorus-containing solid flame retardant; and a coating layer 15 adhered to the foamed polyurethane layer 11 by a polyurethane hot melt adhesive 13 containing a polyurethane prepolymer (I) obtained by using a polyol component (A) and a polyisocyanate component (B) as raw materials, and a catalyst (II).

Abstract: A balanced homodyne detection optical circuit according to the present disclosure is a planar optical waveguide circuit in which a circuit made of an optical waveguide including a dielectric or a semiconductor is formed on a substrate, the balanced homodyne detection optical circuit including an input port of local oscillator light and an input port of measurement light (squeezed light (including excitation light)), wherein a wavelength demultiplexing circuit which demultiplexes only the measurement light is arranged immediately after the input port of measurement light, a 50% multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit is arranged which causes squeezed light having been demultiplexed by the wavelength demultiplexing circuit and the local oscillator light to respectively branch at a branching ratio of 50% and to interfere with each other, and two output ports are arranged to which two outputs from the 50% multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit are guided.

Abstract: An optically pumped magnetometer includes cells configured to form a first cell region and a second cell region on a measurement target, a pump laser, a probe laser, a first optical system configured to cause pump light to be incident on the first cell region, a second optical system configured to cause the pump light having passed through the first cell region to be incident on the second cell region, a third optical system configured to cause first probe light to be incident on the first cell region, a fourth optical system configured to cause second probe light to be incident on the second cell region, detection portions configured to detect the first probe light having passed through the first cell region and the second probe light having passed through the second cell region, and a deriving portion configured to derive an intensity of a magnetic field.

Abstract: A fuel cell ship includes a storage battery compartment installed with a storage battery that supplies, to a propulsion device, electric power different from electric power by a fuel cell. The storage battery compartment is provided between a deck and a ship bottom portion of a hull.

Abstract: An upper radiation thermometer is provided obliquely above a semiconductor wafer to be measured. The upper radiation thermometer includes a photovoltaic detector that produces an electromotive force when receiving light. The photovoltaic detector has both high-speed responsivity and good noise properties in a low-frequency range. The upper radiation thermometer does not require a mechanism for cooling because the photovoltaic detector is capable of obtaining sufficient sensitivity at room temperature without being cooled. There is no need to provide a light chopper and a differentiating circuit in the upper radiation thermometer. This allows the upper radiation thermometer to measure the front surface temperature of the semiconductor wafer with a simple configuration both during preheating by means of halogen lamps and during flash irradiation.

Abstract: Both of a high compression ratio and a high processing speed are achievable. In a data compression and decompression system that includes a parallel processing device performing a plurality of processes in parallel, the parallel processing device divides original data into a plurality of data by a predetermined unit. The parallel processing device performs coding processes on the plurality of data in parallel using a predetermined model to create a plurality of coded data. The parallel processing device creates compressed data of the original data from the plurality of coded data.

Abstract: An endoscope tubular connector includes: a connection joint including a through-hole; and a tubular portion that is formed of a material softer than the connection joint and that has one end arranged in the through-hole of the connection joint. The through-hole of the connection joint and a through-hole of the tubular portion are formed such that the through-holes are connected to each other, and an outer circumference of the tubular portion is arranged on an inner side with respect to an inner circumference of the connection joint.

Abstract: A dust core contains magnetic nanoparticles whose average particle size is 1 to 300 nm, and an aromatic compound that includes two or more functional groups of at least one type selected from a group consisting of a carboxy group and a hydroxy group.