Abstract: Various implementations include vehicle loudspeakers and related vehicle audio systems. In some particular implementations, a loudspeaker for a vehicle includes: a transducer to radiate sound into an interior space of the vehicle; and an assembly coupled to a rear side of the transducer, the assembly including an enclosure and a passive radiator, the assembly disposed such that acoustic energy radiated from the rear side of the transducer passes through the enclosure and excites the passive radiator, causing the passive radiator to radiate acoustic energy to a region outside of the interior space of the vehicle, where a resonant frequency of the transducer is dependent on at least one characteristic of the passive radiator, and a resonant frequency of the enclosure is dependent on at least one characteristic of the enclosure.

Abstract: Efficiency of prediction of a physical quantity increases in repeated simulation of an etching process with a change of parameters. An information processing device includes a base shape storage unit and a physical quantity prediction unit. The base shape storage unit of the information processing device stores a shape of a sample etched within a chamber as a base shape. On the other hand, the physical quantity prediction unit of the information processing device predicts a physical quantity within the chamber on the basis of a processing condition determined for the sample and associated with the physical quantity and the base shape.

Abstract: The invention provides an artificial sgRNA and a CRISPR/Cas9 system by combining the artificial sgRNA and Cas9. Activity of the sgRNA can be retained even when a nucleotide linker region for forming a single strand by linking the 3?-terminal of crRNA and the 5?-terminal of tracrRNA in sgRNA is substituted with an amino acid derivative linker, when the linker region existing between stem-loop 1 and stem-loop 2 of tracrRNA and/or the loop portion of stem-loop 2 are/is substituted with an amino acid derivative linker, or when an amino acid derivative linker is added/inserted into the vicinity of the 5?-terminal and/or the 3?-terminal of sgRNA. Stability in vivo can be improved by introducing one or more amino acid derivative linkers into the sgRNA.

Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body of a honeycomb structure includes a circumferential cell structure, a central cell structure and a boundary wall therebetween. On a surface orthogonal to the cells there are a circumferential reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the circumferential cell structure and existing outside a range of a distance from a centroid of the surface; and at least one of a first boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than the basic partition wall thickness and existing in a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the circumferential cell structure and a second boundary reinforcing region having the partition wall thicker than a basic partition wall thickness in the central cell structure and existing outside of a range of a distance from the centroid within a range of the central cell structure.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body which has porous partition walls disposed to surround a plurality of cells Among the partition walls surrounding one of the cells, each of the partition walls constituting two opposite sides of the cell sandwiched therebetween is provided with a projection which project to extend into the cell and which is continuously provided in a direction in which the cell extends, and the area S1 of one region of the cell divided by a virtual line that virtually connects distal ends of the two projections in a section of the honeycomb structure body, and the area S2 of the other region (S1?S2) of the cell satisfy 70%?S1/S2×100%.

Abstract: The honeycomb structure is equipped with a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face and serving as a through channel of a fluid and a circumferential wall placed to surround the circumference of the partition wall. The honeycomb structure body has, in a face orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells of the honeycomb structure body, a circumferential cell structure, a center cell structure, and a boundary wall placed at a boundary between the circumferential cell structure and the center cell structure and incomplete cells of 5% or more to 50% or less of the total number of the incomplete cells of the center cell structure is communicated with incomplete cells of the circumferential cell structure with each other.

Abstract: The invention provides a production method of a glycoside compound or a salt thereof, which includes subjecting a thioether compound and an alcohol compound to a coupling reaction in the presence of a halogenating agent, a desiccant and a Lewis acid, and then distillation in the presence of at least one kind of additive selected from a sulfur-containing antioxidant and a maleimide group-containing compound to give a thioether compound and a step of subjecting a glycoside compound and a thioether compound to a coupling reaction in the presence of a halogenating agent, a desiccant and a Lewis acid to give a glycoside compound. By this method, a phosphoramidite preferable for the production (synthesis) of a nucleic acid can be produced more efficiently at a high purity.

Abstract: A method for modifying sound in a motor vehicle that has an audio system. The audio system has at least one electro-acoustic transducer that creates sound from audio signals. An initial audio signal that represents a particular vehicle sound is provided, where the initial audio signal has a plurality of signal properties. A modified audio signal is then provided to the audio system, based on at least one current motor vehicle operating condition. The modified audio signal includes at least one modified signal property that differs from that of the initial audio signal. The at least one signal property is modified by a modification process that relates to a vehicle operating condition.

Abstract: Various implementations include vehicle loudspeakers and related vehicle audio systems. In some particular implementations, a loudspeaker for a vehicle includes: a transducer to radiate sound into an interior space of the vehicle; and an assembly coupled to a rear side of the transducer, the assembly including an enclosure and a passive radiator, the assembly disposed such that acoustic energy radiated from the rear side of the transducer passes through the enclosure and excites the passive radiator, causing the passive radiator to radiate acoustic energy to a region outside of the interior space of the vehicle, where a resonant frequency of the transducer is dependent on at least one characteristic of the passive radiator, and a resonant frequency of the enclosure is dependent on at least one characteristic of the enclosure.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls, wherein the partition walls have projecting portions, the sectional area SA and the sectional area SB satisfy a relation of Formula (1) mentioned below, the number NA of the projecting portions and the number NB of the projecting portions satisfy a relation of Formula (2) mentioned below, Formula (1): 1/3<(the sectional area SA/the sectional area SB)<3, and Formula (2): 0?(the number NB of the projecting portions/the number NA of the projecting portions)<1.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls, wherein the partition walls have projecting portions, in the cells of 10% or more of the plurality of cells, the projecting portions project into the cells, a tip curvature radius R of an apex of each of the projecting portions is from 0.01 to 0.1 mm, side surfaces of the projecting portions are inclined to the surfaces of the partition walls at an inclination angle of 40 to 70°, and a relation of 0.04?H/A?0.4 is satisfied.

Abstract: A method for modifying sound in a motor vehicle that has an audio system. The audio system has at least one electro-acoustic transducer that creates sound from audio signals. An initial audio signal that represents a particular vehicle sound is provided, where the initial audio signal has a plurality of signal properties. A modified audio signal is then provided to the audio system, based on at least one current motor vehicle operating condition. The modified audio signal includes at least one modified signal property that differs from that of the initial audio signal. The at least one signal property is modified by a modification process that relates to a vehicle operating condition.

Abstract: A method for modifying sound in a motor vehicle that has an audio system. The audio system has at least one electro-acoustic transducer that creates sound from audio signals. An initial audio signal that represents a particular vehicle sound is provided, where the initial audio signal has a plurality of signal properties. A modified audio signal is then provided to the audio system, based on at least one current motor vehicle operating condition. The modified audio signal includes at least one modified signal property that differs from that of the initial audio signal. The at least one signal property is modified by a modification process that relates to a vehicle operating condition.

Abstract: A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus (control apparatus 100), installed in a vehicle reducing a drive torque when the vehicle is at a halt, that includes vehicle holding control section 113 for performing vehicle holding control by holding a brake hydraulic pressure when the vehicle is at a halt. The vehicle holding control section 113 is configured to release the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure based on the accelerator operation of a driver when the vehicle is at a halt and, in the releasing of the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure, release the holding of the brake hydraulic pressure completely before the drive torque of the vehicle starts increasing.

Abstract: The invention provides a production method of a glycoside compound or a salt thereof, which includes subjecting a thioether compound and an alcohol compound to a coupling reaction in the presence of a halogenating agent, a desiccant and a Lewis acid, and then distillation in the presence of at least one kind of additive selected from a sulfur-containing antioxidant and a maleimide group-containing compound to give a thioether compound and a step of subjecting a glycoside compound and a thioether compound to a coupling reaction in the presence of a halogenating agent, a desiccant and a Lewis acid to give a glycoside compound. By this method, a phosphoramidite preferable for the production (synthesis) of a nucleic acid can be produced more efficiently at a high purity.

Abstract: A simulation method includes acquiring a processing condition for performing predetermined processing on a processing target with use of plasma, calculating a solid angle corresponding to a field-of-view region through which plasma space is viewable from a predetermined evaluation point in the predetermined evaluation point on a surface of the processing target based on the processing condition, and calculating an incident radical amount entering the evaluation point by a flux method with use of a function which takes a reaction probability between the solid angle and the evaluation point of a radical entering the evaluation point as an argument.

Abstract: A simulation method to cause an information processing device to calculate, including: reversely tracing a first flux incident on any position on a surface of a workpiece subject to processing treatment from the position; when the first flux strikes another position on the workpiece surface as a result of the reverse tracing of the first flux, calculating a second flux to be the first flux by scattering at the another position and reversely tracing the second flux from the another position; and, by repeating calculation and reverse tracing of flux, when the reversely traced flux no longer strikes the workpiece surface, carrying out comparison of the flux with an angular distribution of a flux incident on the workpiece, and when the current flux is within the angular distribution, obtaining an amount of flux having contributed to the scattering for a flux group from the first flux to the current flux.

Abstract: A state control apparatus including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a state index indicating a state of target feeling based on biological information corresponding to the target feeling which is feeling of a target to be guided, the biological information being detected from a guide target whose state of feeling is to be guided; and a state control unit configured to determine a feeling guiding medium to be used for guiding the state of the target feeling based on the acquired state index and pattern information which is associated with the feeling guiding medium for guiding the state of the target feeling and which indicates a pattern of temporal change of the state index so that the state of the target feeling becomes a predetermined set state, and control the state of the target feeling of the guide target by performing processing relating to the determined feeling guiding medium. The biological information includes information indicating a detection result of an enzyme.