Abstract: A bicycle hub assembly includes a hub shell including a braking surface. A coaster brake shoe is accommodated in the hub shell and cooperates with the braking surface to generate braking force. A motor is accommodated in the hub shell and configured to be controlled for at least changing or maintaining a gear ratio.

Abstract: A work site management system includes: a travel course data acquisition unit that acquires travel course data of an unmanned vehicle which includes course type data indicating a type of an intersection at a work site where the unmanned vehicle travels; and a turn signal control unit that determines whether to normally operate or non-normally operate a direction indicator of the unmanned vehicle based on the course type data.

Abstract: A data visualization apparatus includes a data obtaining unit that obtains, from a database, target data that is at least one of measurement data or a calculation result of calculation using the measurement data and also that obtains identification information of a user, an authorization unit that grants, based on the identification information of the user, authority to perform access processing that is at least one of processing of obtaining the measurement data from the database or processing of performing calculation using the measurement data in the database to a processing unit, and the processing unit that performs, based on the target data obtained by the authority via the data obtaining unit, processing of creating a confirmation screen including the measurement data or the calculation result and processing of causing a display to display the confirmation screen.

Abstract: A shovel includes a traveling body, a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body, an attachment attached to the turning body and including a boom, an arm, and a bucket, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to output a warning about the operation of at least one of the traveling body, the turning body, and the attachment when the shovel is on sloping ground or is likely to enter sloping ground. The hardware processor is configured to output the warning when the traveling body is traveling on the sloping ground in a downward direction or is likely to travel on the sloping ground in the downward direction. The warning alerts an operator to the tipping of the shovel in the downward direction of the sloping ground.

Abstract: A spinning method includes supporting a supported portion of a cylindrical work by a work supporting portion; pressing a first roller of a spinning head against a processed portion of the work while revolving the first roller; and performing a forming process that points a tube axis of the processed portion of the work in a given direction by pressing the first roller and a second roller in which a plane of revolution thereof is provided in a different position, in a rotational axis direction of a spindle of the spinning head, than a plane of revolution of the first roller, while revolving the first roller and the second roller, and moving the work supporting portion relative to the spinning head or moving the spinning head relative to the work supporting portion, while the first roller and the second roller work in cooperation with each other to retain the work.

Abstract: Provided is a double-row self-aligning roller bearing including: an inner ring; an outer ring having a spherical raceway surface; and rollers arranged in two rows and interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, wherein a ratio of a contact angle ?1 in one row to a contact angle ?2 in the other row falls within a range of 0.25??1/?2?0.5, and a ratio of distance B1 in a bearing width direction from an end face of the bearing on a side of the one of the rows to an intersection of two lines of action defining the contact angles of the two rows, relative to a distance B2 in the bearing width direction from an end face of the bearing on a side of the other of the rows to the intersection falls within a range of 0.5?B1/B2?0.6.

Abstract: A motor may include a rotor including a rotating shaft that protrudes to a first side in an axial direction; a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor; a resin sealing member that covers the stator; and a cover member that is disposed on the first side of the resin sealing member and supports the rotating shaft. The resin sealing member may include a resin sealing member side position regulating surface that makes contact in the axial direction with a cover member side position regulating surface provided on the cover member, and a resin sealing member side securing surface that faces, in the axial direction and with a gap, a cover member side securing surface provided on the cover member. At least a portion of the resin sealing member side securing surface is secured to the cover member side securing surface via an adhesive agent layer.

Abstract: A delivery management system configured to automatically order a delivery of an article based on an inventory status of the article in a storage room by using a computer is provided. The storage room is installed so that it penetrates an exterior wall of a house. The delivered article can be put into the storage room from the outside of the house, and the article put into the storage room can be taken out, in a living space of the house, from the storage room.

Abstract: A method of designing an internal structure of a foamed resin sound absorbing material includes: setting a microscopic structure model with a structure equivalent to the internal structure of the foamed resin sound absorbing material; calculating an acoustic characteristic by homogenization for each of a plurality of microscopic structure models, each being the microscopic structure model; identifying a relational expression between a Biot's parameter of the foamed resin sound absorbing material and the microscopic structure model; setting a target acoustic characteristic; identifying a Biot's parameter for achieving the target acoustic characteristic set, by Biot's modeling; and identifying a microscopic structure model corresponding to the Biot's parameter identified.

Abstract: A lid opening and closing device for a vehicle which includes a restriction member that can operate between a restriction position at which movement of a rod at the lid closed position is restricted and a restriction release position at which the restriction is released, an electric motor that operates for a predetermined time in response to a door switching between a locked state and an unlocked state for driving the restriction member, and a case that houses the restriction member and the electric motor, wherein at least the restriction release position of the restriction member is resiliently held by a holding mechanism. Thus, even when the restriction member stops at position halfway between the restriction release position and the restriction position, convenience is enhanced by carrying out an operation of locking the door by moving the rod to the lid closed position without requiring an unlocking operation.

Abstract: A mobile robot including an image pickup unit, further includes an accumulation unit configured to accumulate imaging data taken in the past, a reception unit configured to receive designation of a spatial area from a remote terminal, and a processing unit configured, when it is possible to shoot the spatial area received by the reception unit by the image pickup unit, to perform shooting and transmit obtained imaging data to the remote terminal, and when the shooting is impossible, to transmit imaging data including an image of the spatial area accumulated in the accumulation unit to the remote terminal and start a moving process in order to shoot the spatial area by the image pickup unit.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for introducing a protein into a plant, which is simple and extensively applicable to various types of plant cells and proteins. The above object is achieved by the present invention to provide a complex comprising a protein of interest to be introduced into a target plant cell and a carrier peptide, a method for introducing a protein of interest into a target plant cell using the complex, and a kit comprising a protein of interest to be introduced into a target plant cell and a carrier peptide.

Abstract: To provide a pump device configured such that the impeller can be prevented from being moved toward a case body by which a pump chamber is defined. An impeller is arranged in a pump chamber defined by a case body and an end wall portion of a motor. The impeller includes back blades protruding from a shroud toward the end wall portion of the motor. When the impeller is driven to circulate fluid through the pump chamber, a fluid is drawn out by the back blades from a clearance between the impeller and the end wall portion of the motor. Therefore, the impeller is moved by the negative pressure toward the end wall portion of the motor. The back blades function as a suction power generation mechanism configured to generate suction power sucking the impeller toward the end wall portion.

Abstract: A method for designing a protein capable of binding in a DNA base selective manner or DNA base sequence specific manner is provided. According to the present invention, it was revealed that, with a protein that can bind in a DNA base-selective manner or a DNA base sequence-specific manner, which contains one or more, preferably 2 to 30, more preferably 5 to 25, most preferably 9 to 15, of PPR motifs having a structure of the following formula 1 (wherein, in the formula 1, Helix A is a part that can form an ?-helix structure; X does not exist, or is a part consisting of 1 to 9 amino acids; Helix B is a part that can form an ?-helix structure; and L is a part consisting of 2 to 7 amino acids), and having a specific combination of amino acids corresponding to a DNA base or DNA base sequence as amino acids of three positions of No. 1 A.A., No. 4 A.A., in Helix A of the formula 1 and No. “ii” (-2) A.A. contained in L of the formula 1, the aforementioned object could be achieved.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technique for producing regulatory T cells specific to a desired antigen. Regulatory T cells specific to an antigen are produced by a method that includes: a step for identifying a T cell receptor (TCR) clone present in an effector T cell population specific to an antigen in an effector T cell donor; and a step for introducing all or part of the nucleic acid sequence of the TCR? gene and all or part of the nucleic acid sequence of the TCR? gene included in the clone into a regulatory T cell, said step comprising introducing the TCR? and the TCR? so as to be expressed in pairs.

Abstract: Provided is a use for a peptide in surface-treating a medical device or medical material to be used in contact with blood, with which it is possible to obtain a medical device or medical material that can achieve highly efficient vascular endothelialization through the use of a peptide uniquely binding to vascular endothelial cells. Also provided are: a peptide suitable for use in said surface treatment; a method for producing a medical device or medical material surfaced-treated with said peptide and to be used in contact with blood; and a surface treatment agent including said peptide, said agent to be used in surface-treating a medical device or medical material to be used in contact with blood. In the present invention, a medical device or medical material is surface-treated using a peptide that includes any one of ten specific amino acid sequences and uniquely binds to the surface of endothelial progenitor cells.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rare earth-sintered magnet in which a plurality of magnetic material particles are sintered. Surface magnetic flux density has a greatest value of 350 mT to 600 mT, the rare earth-sintered magnet has a thickness of 1.5 mm to 6 mm, a cross section of the rare earth-sintered magnet taken along a thickness direction is non-circular, and the cross section has an area in which axes of easy magnetization of the magnetic material particles has polar anisotropic orientation.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a conversion assistance program that causes at least one computer to execute a process, the process includes embedding an identifier that identifies a line position of a code line of a source code in the source code, in a form that does not affect a conversion result of a conversion tool that converts the source code; and generating relationship information that indicates whether or not there is a change from the code line of the source code to the code line of a post-conversion source code generated by converting a post-embedding source code, which is the source code after the identifier is embedded, using the conversion tool; an addition of the code line to the source code; or a deletion of the code line from the source code, based on the post-conversion source code and the source code.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.

Abstract: A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment including a boom and an arm, a boom cylinder configured to drive the boom, an arm cylinder configured to drive the arm, a hydraulic pump configured to supply hydraulic oil to the boom cylinder and the arm cylinder, an input device configured to receive an input from a user, and a control device configured to control the hydraulic pump. The boom is attached to the upper turning body, and the arm is attached to a tip of the boom. When a predetermined work mode for performing hoisting work involving use of the attachment is selected in response to the input received by the input device, the control device sets a standby flow rate of the hydraulic pump to be greater than when the predetermined work mode is not selected.