Abstract: To provide an industrially and environmentally more preferable nonflammable liquid composition having a fluorine compound reduced, as compared to previously known nonflammable liquid compositions. A liquid composition is used, which includes a flammable liquid and a fluoroiodoalkane represented by the following formula (1): (in the formula, X each independently represents H or F, and n represents an integer of from 0 to 5), and which is characterized in that the total amount of the above-mentioned flammable liquid and the above-mentioned fluoroiodoalkane is from 95 to 100 wt % of the entire amount of the above-mentioned liquid composition.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a P-type thermoelectric conversion layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a first joining layer, and a second joining layer. The P-type thermoelectric conversion layer includes a thermoelectric conversion material containing Mg and at least one selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi. The first metal layer and the second metal layer each include Cu or a Cu alloy. The first joining layer and the second joining layer each include Al or an Al alloy containing Mg.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material of the present disclosure is a p-type thermoelectric conversion material which includes an alloy containing Mg and Bi as a main phase and which contains carbon. The thermoelectric conversion material includes, for example, a Mg3(Sb,Bi)2-based alloy as the main phase. An atomic percentage of Bi included in the main phase is greater than or equal to an atomic percentage of Sb included in the main phase. The thermoelectric conversion material satisfies, for example, 0.01 at %?CC?1.2 at %, where CC represents a content ratio of carbon in the thermoelectric conversion material.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a p-type thermoelectric conversion layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a first bonding layer, and a second bonding layer. The thermoelectric conversion layer is composed of a p-type thermoelectric conversion material containing a Mg3(Sb,Bi)2-based alloy as a main phase and containing carbon. At least one of the first bonding layer or the second bonding layer contains Al and Si.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an autonomous moving object and an information processing method that make it possible to improve the ability in expression of the autonomous moving object. The autonomous moving object is an autonomous moving object that operates autonomously, and includes a light emission section that changes a color and brightness of a surface of the autonomous moving object, and a motion controlling section that controls a light emission pattern that is a pattern of the color and brightness of the light emission section, on the basis of a state of the autonomous moving object. The present technology can be applied, for example, to an autonomously movable robot that imitates a creature.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a P-type thermoelectric conversion layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a first joining layer, and a second joining layer. The P-type thermoelectric conversion layer includes a thermoelectric conversion material containing Mg and at least one selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi. The first metal layer and the second metal layer each include Cu or a Cu alloy. The first joining layer and the second joining layer each include Al or an Al alloy containing Mg.

Abstract: The zoom speed of a zoom function is detected by a zoom lever detection circuit. A sensed image is displayed on a monitor, and a desired partial region in that sensed image is designated using a region designation lever. A compression circuit compresses the designated region and a non-designated region using different characteristics. A region detector controls the designated region on the basis of the detected zoom speed. In another arrangement, enlargement/reduction zoom operation by a zoom function is executed by a zoom lever. A sensed image is displayed on a monitor, and a desired partial region in that sensed image is designated using a region designation lever. A compression circuit compresses the designated region and a non-designated region using different characteristics. A region detector controls the designated region on the basis of the zoom operation.

Abstract: The zoom speed of a zoom function is detected by a zoom lever detection circuit. A sensed image is displayed on a monitor, and a desired partial region in that sensed image is designated using a region designation lever. A compression circuit compresses the designated region and a non-designated region using different characteristics. A region detector controls the designated region on the basis of the detected zoom speed.

Abstract: A multi-frequency quadrature modulated signal is divided into a plurality of frequency bands. Each frequency band component is estimated as to variation in phase due to multi-path phasing, using its guard interval waveform so as to compensate the variation.

Abstract: A rotary drum assembly is arranged so that upper and lower drums can rotate about a central shaft with respect to each other via a dynamic-pressure bearing. In the rotary drum assembly, the central shaft is press-fitted into the rotary upper drum, a sleeve which is formed so that the central shaft can be rotatably fitted thereinto is supported by the fixed lower drum, and a dynamic-pressure generating groove is formed in either one of the central shaft and the sleeve, whereby a dynamic-pressure bearing is formed between the central shaft and the sleeve.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on or from a tape includes a rotary drum unit having a rotary drum which has at least one head and a fixed drum which is arranged to rotatably support the rotary drum, and a loading member arranged to wrap the tape around the outer circumferential surfaces of the rotary drum and the fixed drum. The rotary drum unit is arranged such that, at a tape wrapping start point where the tape begins to be wrapped around the rotary drum, an upper end part of the rotary drum is located between an upper edge of the tape at the tape wrapping start point and an end part of a recording track formed as an effective signal recording area on the tape.

Abstract: A video signal recording/reproducing device has at least a frequency modulating unit which FM modulates information to be recorded on an optical disk memory, a laser driving pulse generating unit for generating a laser driving pulse derived from the frequency-modulated signal generated by the frequency modulating unit and for modifying the duty factor of the laser driving pulse in accordance with the linear velocity of the optical disk memory where recording is taking place; and a recording unit for controlling the laser power during recording to an optimum value in accordance with the linear velocity of the optical disk memory where recording is taking place. This arrangement enables reduction of the minimal length of recording bits resulting in reproduced signals of a level sufficient for obtaining reproduced images of a fine quality addition enables increase of the recording capacity of the optical disk memory.

Abstract: An enzyme sensor comprising an enzyme acting specifically on a substrate and a transducer for converting the quantitative change of a substance or heat which is produced or consumed during an enzyme reaction to an electrical signal, wherein the enzyme is glucokinase is disclosed. By the enzyme sensor of the present invention, an accurate determination of an amount of glucose in a sample is possible as well as an accurate determination of adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP). A response time of the sensor is almost constant after a long-term use and a decrease of the detecting ratio is very small.

Abstract: A laser emission material containing a solid laser active medium dispersed in a melt molded product matrix of a zeolite.

Abstract: Disclosed is an enzyme sensor for determining a concentration of glutamate comprising an immobilize enzyme acting specifically to a substrate and a transducer for converting the quantitative change of a substance or heat which is produced or consumed during an enzyme reaction to an electrical signal, wherein the enzyme is glutamine synthetase and the transducer is the pH glass electrode or ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET). The enzyme sensor can be miniaturized and can accurately determine a concentration of glutamate even when it is low.