Abstract: Provided are an image bearing member; a charging member that charges the image bearing member; an exposure unit that exposes the image bearing member; a developing unit that develops an electrostatic latent image as a developer image by supplying a developer, charged to regular polarity, to the image bearing member; a transfer member that transfers the developer image to a transfer-receiving body; and a collecting member that collects a deposit on the image bearing member downstream of a transfer portion of the image bearing member at which the developer image is transferred to the transfer-receiving body by the transfer member, and upstream of a charging portion of the image bearing member charged by the charging member, in a rotation direction of the image bearing member. After transfer of the developer image to the transfer-receiving body, the developer remaining on the image bearing member is collected by the developing unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including a conversion element, and a shielding layer covering the conversion element, wherein the shielding layer is provided to cover at least a part of an aperture of the conversion element so that an aperture modulated transfer function (MTF) at a predetermined frequency of a signal obtained from the conversion element becomes less than or equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: A priority control apparatus includes: load information acquisition part which acquires communication load information per priority at relay apparatus that controls allocation of communication resources relative to individual communication depending on a priority that is set for the individual communication between two or more communication apparatuses; communication quality acquisition part which acquires communication quality as to control target communication; and priority control part which calculates a first priority, with which communication quality as to the control target communication can satisfy a predetermined condition, by using a mathematical model that indicates a relationship between a piece of communication load information before a priority as to the control target communication is set as the first priority and a communication quality when the priority as to the control target communication concerned is set as the first priority, and which sets the calculated first priority as the priority of

Abstract: The invention of the application is the invention regarding a semiconductor device and a method for driving the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, first to fifth switches, first to third capacitors, and a display element.

Abstract: This copper alloy has a composition containing Mg in an amount of 0.10 mass % or greater and 2.6 mass % or less, with a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, in which in a plastic deformation region of a stress-strain curve obtained in a low-speed tensile test at a strain rate of 1.0×10?6/s, an average value of a period of a strain of a saw edge-shaped curve is 0.01% or greater and 1.0% or less, an average value of a difference in level of stress of the saw edge-shaped curve is 0.1 MPa or greater and 2 MPa or less, and there are five or more saw edge-shaped curves with a period of strain of 0.01% or greater and 1.0% or less and a difference in the level of stress of 0.1 MPa or greater and 2 MPa or less.

Abstract: Provided is a shell composition that is formed with a water-insoluble powder such as starch and/or a water-soluble polymer such as dextrin as a base component, and with locust bean gum and/or xanthan gum as a gelling agent. This shell composition enables a novel shell composition which can favorably form a shell without using carrageenan, has favorable properties that enable the shell composition to substitute traditional shells that use a gelatin shell or carrageenan, and comprises a plant-derived base.

Abstract: Provided is a composition for the treatment of vascular disease, for the prevention of vascular disease, for the treatment of hypertension or for the prevention of hypertension, comprising caryophyllene.

Abstract: To improve adhesion between a plating film reducing contact electrical resistance and a copper alloy plate containing Mg. A copper alloy plate containing Mg of more than 1.2% by mass and 2% by mass or less and the balance Cu and inevitable impurities in a center portion in a plate thickness direction, in the copper alloy plate, a surface Mg concentration at a surface is 30% or less of a center Mg concentration at the center portion in the plate thickness direction, a surface layer portion having a depth from the surface to where a Mg concentration is 90% of the center Mg concentration is provided, and in the surface layer portion, the Mg concentration increases from the surface toward the center portion of the plate thickness direction with a concentration gradient of 0.2% by mass/?m or more and 50% by mass/?m or less.

Abstract: A document redacted part displaying system includes: a redaction target document determining part which determines a redaction target document which entails an inputted text; a trained model generation part which generates a trained model by training a model using one or more documents and labels that designates a redacted part(s) in the document(s) as training data; a redaction part prediction part which predicts and outputs a part(s) to be redacted in the redaction target document by the trained model; and a redacted part displaying part which displays the redacted part(s) in the redaction target document.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing belt, a steering roller, a pressure rotation member, and a control unit. The pressure rotation member forms a nip portion with the fixing belt to convey a recording material. In continuously performing fixing on recording materials, the control unit controls the steering roller such that a distance between a center position of the fixing belt when an operation to tilt the steering roller is performed for a first time after the center position is moved away from a center position of a moving range of the fixing belt and the center position of the moving range is smaller in a period after a last but one recording material before the pressure rotation member enters a separated state from the fixing belt passes through the nip portion than in a period before the recording material passes through the nip portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an autonomous traveling work machine that can accurately receive positioning signals from navigation satellites and autonomously travel without deviating from a traveling path, even in the case of an inclined slope. The autonomous traveling work machine includes a traveling machine body, a positioning receiver that receives positioning signals from navigation satellites, an autonomous traveling control device that performs control for autonomous traveling along traveling paths based on the positioning signals, an inclination detection unit that detects the inclination of the traveling machine body and outputs inclination angle information, an inclination angle determination unit that determines an inclination angle based on the inclination angle information, and a rotation control mechanism that rotates the positioning receiver with one or more degrees of freedom. The rotation control mechanism keeps the positioning receiver horizontal based on the inclination angle.

Abstract: Provided are a novel agent or composition and others. The agent or composition comprises caryophyllene and is used for at least one selected from the following (purposes) (1) to (3) : (1) promoting relaxation, prolonging a resting-state time, and/or prolonging a motionless time, (2) promoting sleep, and (3) preventing blood pressure elevation. The present invention also relates to a method for inhaling ?-caryophyllene simultaneously with smoking a tobacco product, characterized in that the tobacco product contains a ?-caryophyllene-containing seamless capsule in a tobacco filter, wherein the seamless capsule contains an essential oil containing ?-caryophyllene as an active ingredient. The applicants found that pulmonary inhalation of ?-caryophyllene by the above method allows ?-caryophyllene to be efficiently distributed throughout the body, leading to achievements of relaxing and sleep-inducing effects, etc.

Abstract: A heat dissipating paint composition for forming a heat dissipating coating is disclosed. The heat dissipating paint includes a prepolymer and a curing agent. The prepolymer includes a main chain containing an epoxy resin and a linear side chain bonded to the main chain and having 5 to 101 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing belt, a steering roller, a pressure rotation member, and a control unit. The pressure rotation member forms a nip portion with the fixing belt to convey a recording material. In continuously performing fixing on recording materials, the control unit controls the steering roller such that a distance between a center position of the fixing belt when an operation to tilt the steering roller is performed for a first time after the center position is moved away from a center position of a moving range of the fixing belt and the center position of the moving range is smaller in a period after a last but one recording material before the pressure rotation member enters a separated state from the fixing belt passes through the nip portion than in a period before the recording material passes through the nip portion.

Abstract: A metal oxide film-forming containing a tertiary alkyloxycarbonyl group-modified bisnaphthol fluorene compound represented by formula (1), a metal compound represented by formula L(R6)n1(O)n2, and a solvent.

Abstract: An energy-sensitive composition that yields a cured product with excellent crack resistance, a cured product of the composition, and a method of forming a cured product. The composition includes a polysilane and a thermal base generator, the thermal base generator including a compound represented by the following formula (b1), in which Rb1 and Rb2 each independently represents a halogen atom, a nitro group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkoxy group, n1 represents an integer of 0 or more and 4 or less, n2 represents an integer of 0 or more and 3 or less, Zq+ represents a counter cation composed of an organic cation or a metal cation, and q represents an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: To improve adhesion between a plating film reducing contact electrical resistance and a copper alloy plate containing Mg. A copper alloy plate containing Mg of more than 1.2% by mass and 2% by mass or less and the balance Cu and inevitable impurities in a center portion in a plate thickness direction, in the copper alloy plate, a surface Mg concentration at a surface is 30% or less of a center Mg concentration at the center portion in the plate thickness direction, a surface layer portion having a depth from the surface to where a Mg concentration is 90% of the center Mg concentration is provided, and in the surface layer portion, the Mg concentration increases from the surface toward the center portion of the plate thickness direction with a concentration gradient of 0.2% by mass/?m or more and 50% by mass/?m or less.

Abstract: An energy-sensitive composition that yields a cured product with excellent crack resistance, a cured product of the composition, and a method of forming a cured product. The energy-sensitive composition includes a polysilane and a thermal base generator, in which the thermal base generator includes a compound represented by the following formula (b1): in which Rb1 and Rb2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkoxy group, Rb3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; n1 and n2 each independently represent an integer of 0 or more and 4 or less; Zq+ represents a q-valent organic cation composed of a base having a pKa of greater than 15; and q represents an integer of 1 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a shell composition that is formed with a water-insoluble powder such as starch and/or a water-soluble polymer such as dextrin as a base component, and with locust bean gum and/or xanthan gum as a gelling agent. This shell composition enables a novel shell composition which can favorably form a shell without using carrageenan, has favorable properties that enable the shell composition to substitute traditional shells that use a gelatin shell or carrageenan, and comprises a plant-derived base.