Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a substrate holding step of holding a substrate at a holding position surrounded by a cylindrical guard, a processing liquid supplying step of supplying a processed surface of the substrate with a processing liquid with which the processed surface of the substrate is processed while rotating the substrate held at the holding position about a rotation axis passing through a central portion of the substrate, an image acquiring step of acquiring an image of the processed surface of the substrate and an image of an inner wall surface of the guard while supplying the processing liquid to the processed surface of the substrate, and a detecting step of monitoring luminance values of the images obtained in the image acquiring step, and detecting a processing end time point at which processing of the processed surface of the substrate with the processing liquid is ended.

Abstract: Provided is a novel polyoxyalkylene compound which contains, at a molecular chain terminal, at least one reactive silicon-containing group represented by formula (1) per molecule and which has a main chain that is a polyoxyalkylene polymer. Also provided are: a process for producing the novel polyoxyalkylene compound; a room-temperature-curable composition which includes the compound as a main component and can contain any of various crosslinking agents; a sealing material; and an article. (In formula (1), R1 and R2 are each a monovalent hydrocarbon group, a hydrogen atom, or a triorganosiloxy group; n is 2 or larger; m is 1 or larger; and the broken line is a linking bond).

Abstract: An electrostatic atomizing apparatus includes an air flow path, a humidifier, and electrode section, and a control unit. The air flow path has an air intake port and an air exhaust port. The humidifier includes a portion of the air flow path and humidifies air taken in through the air intake port. The electrode section includes a portion of the air flow path and produces charged particulate water by causing water in the air humidified by the humidifier to condense on an electrode and applying voltage to the electrode. A flow rate of the air in the air flow path is regulated in accordance with at least one of humidity and temperature of the air taken in through the air intake port.

Abstract: A refrigerant circuit for a refrigeration apparatus with a thermal storage, which is using CO2 as refrigerant, includes: at least one compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, an expansion device, and a thermal storage, including a thermal storage material, which is preferably a phase changing material from the group: organic PCMs like bio-based, paraffin, carbohydrate or lipid derived, or water. The refrigerant circuit further includes: a first fluid communication pipe communicating between a fluid side of the heat-source-side heat exchanger and one side of the thermal storage, and a second fluid communication pipe communicating between the expansion device and the other side of the thermal storage.

Abstract: When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotational holding member that rotates a substrate around a predetermined rotational axis while holding the substrate, a liquid supply member that supplies a liquid to the substrate held by the rotational holding member, and a resin-made tubular guard that surrounds the substrate held by the rotational holding member. The tubular guard has an inner peripheral surface and an uneven portion disposed at the inner peripheral surface. The uneven portion has a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of protruding portions placed between the recessed portions adjacent to each other. The recessed portion has a width smaller than a diameter of a liquid droplet scattering from the substrate held by the rotational holding member and a depth in which the liquid droplet does not come into contact with a bottom portion of the recessed portion in a state in which the liquid droplet is in contact with the protruding portions.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a suctioning unit for suctioning a processing liquid existing inside a processing liquid pipe that communicates with a discharge port, and a controller. In the suctioning step, the controller executes a suctioning step of suctioning the processing liquid existing inside the processing liquid pipe by the suctioning unit. The controller selectively executes a first suctioning step of retracting a leading end surface of the processing liquid and disposing the leading end surface of the processing liquid after suctioning in a preliminarily set standby position inside the processing liquid pipe, and a second suctioning step of retracting the leading end surface of the processing liquid further back than the standby position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus. All treating units are each arranged such that a treatment chamber, a chemical piping space, and an exhaust chamber are located side by side along a transportation space, the chemical piping space is located on a first side of the treatment chamber, and the exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber when seen from the transportation space. The exhaust chamber faces the chemical piping space across the treatment chamber, leading to prevention of obstruction of a passage for passing a pipe, configured to supply a chemical to a substrate held by a holding rotator, by an exhaust pipe. Moreover, a single type of treating units is enough for the substrate treating apparatus instead of two types of treating units currently used. This results in sharing of components by all the treating units.

Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to enable playback of media data corresponding to a sensibility effect set in advance.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes an indexer block and a processing block adjacent to the indexer block in a lateral direction of the indexer block. A plurality of processing block layers are stacked in an up-down direction in the processing block. The indexer block includes a container holding portion and a first transfer robot that transfers a substrate between the substrate container held by the container holding portion and the processing block. Each of the processing block layers includes a plurality of processing units, a substrate placing portion, a dummy-substrate housing portion, and a second transfer robot that transfers a substrate between the substrate placing portion and the plurality of processing units and that transfers a dummy substrate between the dummy-substrate housing portion and the plurality of processing units.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a system having a function of, in a case where there is ambiguity of being incapable of specifying an entity or content referred to by a noun or a noun equivalent expression in utterance exchanged in a communication system via a computer network, searching for accurate meaning or information serving as a clue to understand the meaning using only information regarding an utterance sentence or an utterer as a clue, instead of a response to a question sentence created by a user, and presenting a result to the user.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ingredient-stuffed soft candy that provides both of the texture of an ingredient felt during eating and the feeling of integration between the ingredient and a soft candy dough, and the shape retainability of the soft candy and to provide a soft candy that can provide a natural juicy feeling coming from the ingredient. The ingredient-stuffed soft candy includes an ingredient, a center dough containing the ingredient, and an outer-layer dough covering the center dough, in which the ingredient has a hardness of 1050 g or less at normal temperature, and the hardness of the center dough at normal temperature is relatively lower than the hardness of the outer-layer dough at normal temperature.

Abstract: A two-component type room temperature fast-curing organopolysiloxane composition which is a room temperature curing organopolysiloxane composition of a two-component and dealcohol type and which comprises, as curing agents, a first agent containing a hydrolyzable organosilane compound represented by formula (3) and/or a partially hydrolyzed condensation product thereof and a second agent containing a curing catalyst. This composition has particularly excellent fast-curing properties and deep-curing properties and provides a cured product having both high storage stability and high durability. (R6 represents an unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-20 carbon atoms; R7 represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms or an unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl group having 3-20 carbon atoms; and a is from 1 to 3.

Abstract: A display device includes an organic EL element layer, a liquid crystal element layer disposed on top of the organic EL element layer, and a polarizing plate disposed at a side of the liquid crystal element layer that faces an observer. The liquid crystal element layer includes two transparent substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the two transparent substrates. The liquid crystal element layer is configured to be able to, by applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer, cause a substantially quarter-wavelength retardation in light passing through the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A plurality of pixel electrodes are provided in a display region. A plurality of pixel transistors corresponding to the plurality of pixel electrodes in a one-to-one manner are provided in a region outside the display region. Each of the pixel transistors is connected to the corresponding pixel electrode by a pixel wiring line. An input pad group, to which a drive signal group for driving the plurality of pixel transistors is input, is provided on a TFT substrate. Here, of a region on the TFT substrate, the plurality of pixel transistors are provided only in a region other than a region between the input pad group and the display region.

Abstract: A substrate inspection apparatus configured to inspect a substrate by using an image of a surface of the substrate includes a holder configured to hold the substrate; a first light source unit configured to emit visible light to the substrate; a second light source unit configured to emit ultraviolet light to the substrate; a first imaging sensor configured to perform capturing of a visible light image of the substrate by receiving reflected light from the substrate; a second imaging sensor configured to perform capturing of an ultraviolet light image of the substrate by receiving reflected light or scattered light from the substrate; and a controller configured to acquire the visible light image from the first imaging sensor and the ultraviolet light image from the second imaging sensor. The visible light image and the ultraviolet light image are images obtained by imaging a common region of the substrate.

Abstract: An objective of the present disclosure is to allow a situation in a conversation of a user to be recognized as a context and allow an item appropriate for the situation to be presented. An information recommendation device according to the present disclosure includes a context extraction module 24 that extracts, from the conversation of the user, a keyword representing a topic, a similarity determination module 31 that refers to a knowledge base 13 storing recommended items linked to communication contexts each including the keyword to extract the recommended items and the communication contexts that are linked to the extracted keyword and selects, from among the extracted communication contexts, the communication context similar to the topic, and an information search module 32 that acquires, from the knowledge base 13, the recommended item linked to the selected communication context.

Abstract: This thermally conductive silicone composition contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of a diorganopolysiloxane which has a hydroxyl group or hydrolyzable group at both terminals of the molecular chain thereof; (B) 150-600 parts by mass of a hydrolyzable organopolysiloxane which has a specific hydrolyzable silyl group; (C) 0.1-100 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent component; (D) 1,500-6,500 parts by mass of zinc oxide particles which have an average particle diameter of 0.1-2 µm and in which, among the particles, the content of coarse grains having a particle diameter of 10 µm or more is 1 vol% or less relative to the total amount of component (D), as measured by the laser diffraction particle size distribution method; (E) 0.01-30 parts by mass of an adhesion promoter; and (F) 0.01-20 parts by mass of a pH indicator, wherein the thermal conductivity at 25° C. as measured by the hot disk method is 0.5 W/mK or more.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a data communication system, a computing apparatus, a data communication method, and a program, which are capable of highly reliable data transfer with low latency between computing apparatuses. The present disclosure achieves a highly reliable communication path by directly connecting computing apparatuses via an optical path and transmitting data through the optical path. Further, the present disclosure uses the optical path to achieve RDAM over wavelength transmission in which existing RDMA-enabled protocol stacks such as InfiniBand and TCP/IP/Ether are eliminated. The present disclosure eliminates the protocol stacks, enabling transfer with lower latency than in a case of “simply performing RDMA transmission over the wavelength path”.

Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry that obtains first X-ray images, a second X-ray image taken later than the first X-ray images, first biological information to a periodic movement of a subject at the times of taking the first X-ray images and second biological information to a periodic movement of the subject at the time of taking the second X-ray image; detects a characteristic position to a first device from each of the first X-ray images; associates the characteristic position with a time phase in the first biological information, based on the first X-ray images and first biological information; and displays device information to the first device superimposed on the second X-ray image, by using a result of the associating and time phase in the second biological information.