Abstract: In a crawler type work machine, when switching from a pivot turning mode to a straight travel mode or a slow turning mode, a controller is configured to maintain a rotation speed of the turning motor until after a first timing at which the inside steering clutch begins partial engagement.

Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left wheel, a right wheel, left and right bearings, left and right axle, left arm, right arm, and lean mechanism. The left arm supports the left wheel from inside in a vehicle width direction. The right arm supports the right wheel from inside in the vehicle width direction. The lean mechanism causes the left wheel and the right wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the left wheel. The single bearing is inserted into a hub hole of the right wheel.

Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake caliper and a brake disc. The brake caliper is attached to the lean mechanism and has a brake pad. The brake disc is attached to the lower arm of the upper arm and the lower arm that is farther from the brake pad in the front view, has a contact portion that generates braking force by being pressed by the brake pad.

Abstract: A leaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a left front wheel, a right front wheel, a lean mechanism, and a lean brake mechanism. The lean mechanism causes the left front wheel and the right front wheel to lean about a front-rear direction as a rotation center when the vehicle body leans about the front-rear direction as a rotation center. The lean brake mechanism brakes a leaning operation of the lean mechanism. The lean brake mechanism includes a brake disc and brake pads. The brake disc is attached to an upper arm or a lower arm. The brake pads, which are attached such that their position relative to the brake disc changes in the leaning operation, produce a frictional force against the brake disc in the leaning operation.

Abstract: An aggregate of carbon-based fine structures in which a plurality of carbon-based fine structures are collected, wherein respective carbon-based fine structures are oriented in the same direction. The above aggregate of carbon-based fine structures is an aggregate of a plurality of carbon-based fine structures in a state they are pulled by one another with strong interaction, and has such a length that allows the improvement of the handeability and workability thereof.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for forming a catalyst layer for carbon nanostructure growth, which can eliminate the influence of water in a liquid for catalyst layer formation, can grow homogeneous and highly oriented carbon nanostructures over the whole area of a substrate and can realize mass production of the carbon nanostructures, and a liquid for catalyst layer formation for use in the method, and a process for producing carbon nanostructures using the catalyst layer formed by the method. The catalyst layer for use in the production of CNTs is formed by preparing a catalyst metal salt solution of a catalyst metal-containing metal compound (a catalyst metal salt) dispersed or dissolved in a solvent having an ample wettability towards the substrate and coating the catalyst metal salt solution onto the substrate to a form a thin film. The thin film is then heat treated to form a catalyst layer.

Abstract: A noise figure deriving device is provided to precisely obtain the noise figure (NF) of a receiver. The noise figure deriving device includes a first NF deriving unit that derives a first noise figure, which is a noise figure when a predetermined receiver-side pin pin1R is connected to a receiver, based on a ratio Y of one power to the other power of two types of reference noise. The noise figure deriving device also includes a second NF deriving unit that derives a second noise figure, which is a noise figure when receiver-side pins pin2R, pin3R, and pin4R are connected to the receiver, based on an inter-measurement-device-side-terminal difference and the first noise figure. The inter-measurement-device-side-terminal difference is a difference between the first noise figure and the second noise figure.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a gene amplification method, wherein the method can amplify both methylated and unmethylated nucleic acids present in a biological sample, and further regulate the amplification ratio of the methylated and/or unmethylated nucleic acid as needed. Such objects can be solved by an amplification method using a nonspecific primer which can hybridize both with methylated and unmethylated nucleic acids and a specific primer which specifically hybridizes with either methylated or unmethylated nucleic acid, and further by an amplification method which can change the amplification ratio of methylated or unmethylated nucleic acid by changing the mixing rate of these primers.

Abstract: An aggregate of carbon-based fine structures in which a plurality of carbon-based fine structures are collected, wherein respective carbon-based fine structures are oriented in the same direction. The above aggregate of carbon-based fine structures is an aggregate of a plurality of carbon-based fine structures in a state they are pulled by one another with strong interaction, and has such a length that allows the improvement of the handeability and workability thereof.

Abstract: It is intended to highly efficiently produce a high-density brush shaped carbon nanostructure useful in the production of CNT assembly, such as rope-shaped CNTs, and provide a catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure that enables the production. The catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure is one comprising a substrate (32), an aggregation suppressive layer (34) superimposed on a surface thereof and a catalyst layer superimposed on the aggregation suppressive layer (34). The catalyst layer is a catalyst particle layer (44) consisting of metallic catalyst particles (42) composed mainly of a catalytic metal. The metallic catalyst particles (42) have an average particle diameter, D, satisfying the relationship 0.5 nm?D?80 nm, and individual particles of the metallic catalyst particles (42) have a diameter, d, falling within the range of the above average particle diameter (D).

Abstract: Developed is high-efficiency synthesis method and apparatus capable of promoting the initial growth of carbon nanostructure by eliminating the initial fluctuation time and rising time in raw gas flow quantity.-A high-efficiency synthesis method of carbon nanostructure according to the present invention is a high-efficiency synthesis method of carbon nanostructure, the method comprising: bringing raw material gas and a catalyst into contact with each other under reactive conditions so as to produce a carbon nanostructure, wherein: the initiation of contact of the raw material gas with the catalyst is carried out instantaneously. Reaction conditions such as temperature and raw material gas concentration are set so as to meet those for catalyst growth, and under the reaction conditions, the initiation of contact of raw material gas G with catalyst 6 is carried out instantaneously.

Abstract: An aggregate of carbon-based fine structures in which a plurality of carbon-based fine structures are collected, wherein respective carbon-based fine structures are oriented in the same direction. The above aggregate of carbon-based fine structures is an aggregate of a plurality of carbon-based fine structures in a state they are pulled by one another with strong interaction, and has such a length that allows the improvement of the handleability and workability thereof.

Abstract: Use of a CAT25 mononucleotide marker in a novel tetraplex PCR for the detection of MSH6-defective colorectal cancers (CRCs) is described herein. The tetraplex PCR of the present invention offers a facile, robust, less expensive (compared to the original pentaplex assay), highly sensitive, and specific assay for the identification of microsatellite instability (MSI) in CRCs.

Abstract: A test for connecting a transmitter and a receiver of a device under test with each other is carried out by a measurement device. The measurement device 100 connected to a device under test 200 including a transmission unit 202 and a reception unit 204 includes an input port 102 connected to the transmission unit 202, an output port 104 connected to the reception unit 204, signal output units 132, 134 that output an output signal, electric power measurement units 145, 155 that measure the electric power of an input signal, a connection unit (coupler 110, switches 120-128) that can connect the input port to the output port 104 and/or the electric power measurement units 145, 155, and can connect the output port 104 to the input port 102 and/or the signal output units 132, 134, and electric power adjustment units 183, 185 that adjust the electric power of an output port signal output from the output port 104 if the input port 102 and the output port 104 are connected with each other.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy for die castings that has superior castability and corrosion resistance. The amounts of Mn, Fe and Cu contained in the aluminum alloy components for die castings were determined to have a considerable effect on the corrosion resistance of the aluminum alloy. Therefore, the aluminum alloy for die castings of the present invention contains 9.0 to 12.0% by weight of Si, 0.20 to 0.80% by weight of Mg, and 0.7 to 1.1% by weight of Mn+Fe, the Mn/Fe ratio is 1.5 or more, the amount of Cu as impurity is controlled to 0.5% by weight or less, and the remainder is composed of aluminum and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for continuously synthesizing oriented carbon nanotubes, with which oriented carbon nanotubes can be stably synthesized in large quantities, is presented. The method and apparatus for continuously synthesizing oriented carbon nanotubes comprise: a coating and drying step in which a catalyst liquid is applied and dried to form a catalyst layer on a substrate surface; a catalyst substrate formation step in which the catalyst layer is heated to form a catalyst substrate having a catalyst particle layer on the substrate surface; a synthesis step in which a raw material gas heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a synthesis temperature for the oriented carbon nanotubes is brought into contact with the surface of the catalyst substrate to synthesize oriented carbon nanotubes; and a collection step in which the oriented carbon nanotubes are collected.

Abstract: It is intended to highly efficiently produce a high-density brush shaped carbon nanostructure useful in the production of CNT assembly, such as rope-shaped CNTs, and provide a catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure that enables the production. The catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure is one comprising a substrate (32), an aggregation suppressive layer (34) superimposed on a surface thereof and a catalyst layer superimposed on the aggregation suppressive layer (34). The catalyst layer is a catalyst particle layer (44) consisting of metallic catalyst particles (42) composed mainly of a catalytic metal. The metallic catalyst particles (42) have an average particle diameter, D, satisfying the relationship 0.5 nm?D?80 nm, and individual particles of the metallic catalyst particles (42) have a diameter, d, falling within the range of the above average particle diameter (D).

Abstract: It is intended to highly efficiently produce a high-density brush-shaped carbon nanostructure useful in the production of CNT assembly, such as rope-shaped CNTs, and provide a catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure that enables the production. The catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure is one comprising a substrate (32), an aggregation suppressive layer (34) superimposed on a surface thereof and a catalyst layer superimposed on the aggregation suppressive layer (34). The catalyst layer is a catalyst particle layer (44) consisting of metallic catalyst particles (42) composed mainly of a catalytic metal. The metallic catalyst particles (42) have an average particle diameter, D, satisfying the relationship 0.5 nm?D?80 nm, and individual particles of the metallic catalyst particles (42) have a diameter, d, falling within the range of the above average particle diameter (D).

Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to precisely obtain the noise figure (NF) of a receiver. A noise figure deriving device includes a first NF deriving unit that derives a first noise figure, which is a noise figure when a predetermined receiver-side pin pin1R is connected to a receiver, based on a ratio Y of one power to the other power of two types of reference noise, which are different from each other in a level, are output from a reference noise source an excessive noise ratio of which is known, and are measured by the receiver when the two types of reference noise are fed as input signals to the receiver via the predetermined receiver-side pin pin1R and the excessive noise ratio of the reference noise source, and a second NF deriving unit that derives a second noise figure, which is a noise figure when receiver-side pins pin2R, pin3R, and pin4R are connected to the receiver, based on an inter-measurement-device-side-terminal difference and the first noise figure.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a gene amplification method, wherein the method can amplify both methylated and unmethylated nucleic acids present in a biological sample, and further regulate the amplification ratio of the methylated and/or unmethylated nucleic acid as needed. Such objects can be solved by an amplification method using a nonspecific primer which can hybridize both with methylated and unmethylated nucleic acids and a specific primer which specifically hybridizes with either methylated or unmethylated nucleic acid, and further by an amplification method which can change the amplification ratio of methylated or unmethylated nucleic acid by changing the mixing rate of these primers.