Abstract: Provided herein are methods and compositions for analyzing extracellular (cell-free) nucleic acids and/or nucleases in a body fluid, to identify subjects having a disease or condition associated with a change in the amount of cell-free nucleic acids and/or nuclease activity compared to the amount of cell-free nucleic acids and/or nuclease activity in a healthy subject. The methods and compositions provided herein can be used to identify subjects having a disease such as cancer, or a disease caused by a pathogen, for example, a virus, such as SARS-CoV-2.

Abstract: Provided is a press molding method in which a plate material is molded into a target molded body including a ridge section, said method including: a first step for molding an intermediate molded body; and a second step for forming the target molded body from the intermediate molded body. The target molded body and the intermediate molded body have coincident regions where the cross-sectional shapes coincide on both sides of an intermediate ridge section, and an intermediate region where the cross-sectional shapes do not coincide. The intermediate region includes: an outer region in which the intermediate molded body protrudes outward of an edge radius with respect to the target molded body; and an inner region in which the intermediate molded body is curved inward of the edge radius with respect to the target molded body.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication interface connectable to a mobile ordering server and a store ordering server. A control unit of the apparatus acquires, via the communication interface, first order information from the mobile ordering server. The first order information includes information about items ordered by a customer from a store via a mobile ordering application on a mobile terminal of the customer. The control unit also acquires second order information, via the communication interface, from the store ordering server of the store. The second order information includes information about items ordered by the customer from the store via an in-store ordering system of the store. The control unit can output third order information to the mobile ordering server or the mobile terminal of the customer. The third order information is obtained by combining the first order information and the second order information.

Abstract: There is provided a shock absorption-resin composition comprising: an A component comprising one or more block copolymers each comprising a polymer component A1 having a glass transition point of 30° C. or higher and a polymer component A2 having a glass transition point of 0° C. or lower; a B component comprising a polymer compatible with the polymer component A1; a C component comprising a filler compatible with the B component or dispersible in the B component; and a D component comprising a liquid polyol-based component.

Abstract: A registration server in a POS system including a weighing device for weighing a commodity sold by weight in a store and a mobile terminal operated by a customer for managing registered commodities, includes a network interface connectable to the weighing device and the mobile terminal, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to, upon receipt of identification information identifying the weighing device from the mobile terminal, control the network interface to establish a connection with the weighing device, acquire commodity information indicating the weighed commodity and a weight thereof from the weighing device, register in the memory the weighed commodity as a commodity to be purchased by the customer, control the network interface to output the commodity information to the mobile terminal, and maintain the connection with the weighing device until an instruction for disconnecting the connection is received from the weighing device.

Abstract: An impeller includes a hub having a circular plate shape with an axial line as a center, a shroud disposed to face the hub in a direction of the axial line, and a plurality of blades disposed with a space from each other in a circumferential direction between the hub and the shroud. A meridian plane shape of the impeller differs in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: This press forming method includes a first drawing step for forming a first drawn step portion, a second drawing step for forming a second drawn step portion, and a finishing step for completing a stepped portion. In the first drawing step, a first outside curved portion is formed to the outside of a second outside curved portion with respect to an extension region of a character line, and a first parallel portion is formed to the same depth as the drawn depth of a second parallel portion. In the second drawing step, a second inside curved portion having a greater curvature than a first inside curved portion is formed.

Abstract: The present invention is a press forming method for obtaining a target formed article that has an edge-shaped ridge section and that has a negative surface on one side and a positive surface on the other side with respect to the ridge section as a border, said press forming method including: a first step for forming an intermediate formed article having an intermediate ridge section having a larger radius than the edge radius of the ridge section; and a second step for forming the target formed article from the intermediate formed article.

Abstract: There is provided a rotating machinery including: a rotating body R which is rotatable around an axis O and has a first facing surface P1 that widens in a plane intersecting the axis O; a stationary body S which faces the first facing surface P1 from the axial direction O, and has a second facing surface P2 forming a flow path F1 through which a fluid flows from a radially inner side toward the radially outer side between the first facing surface P1 and the second facing surface P2; and a rotation side projection portion 80 which projects from the first facing surface P1 toward the second facing surface P2, has an annular shape around the axis O, and faces the second facing surface P2 via a clearance C.

Abstract: Provided is a press molding method in which a plate material is molded into a target molded body including a ridge section, said method including: a first step for molding an intermediate molded body; and a second step for forming the target molded body from the intermediate molded body. The target molded body and the intermediate molded body have coincident regions where the cross-sectional shapes coincide on both sides of an intermediate ridge section, and an intermediate region where the cross-sectional shapes do not coincide. The intermediate region includes: an outer region in which the intermediate molded body protrudes outward of an edge radius with respect to the target molded body; and an inner region in which the intermediate molded body is curved inward of the edge radius with respect to the target molded body.

Abstract: This press forming method includes a first drawing step for forming a first drawn step portion, a second drawing step for forming a second drawn step portion, and a finishing step for completing a stepped portion. In the first drawing step, a first outside curved portion is formed to the outside of a second outside curved portion with respect to an extension region of a character line, and a first parallel portion is formed to the same depth as the drawn depth of a second parallel portion. In the second drawing step, a second inside curved portion having a greater curvature than a first inside curved portion is formed.

Abstract: A squeeze film damper bearing has an inner support ring capable of supporting a bearing portion; an outer support ring disposed on an outer periphery of the inner support ring; and a dissipation portion formed on at least one of the outer support ring and the inner support ring to dissipate vibration energy. A damper gap formed between an outer circumferential face of the inner support ring and an inner circumferential face of the outer support ring is filled with a viscous fluid.

Abstract: A motor pump includes a shaft rotatable around an axis, a driving section including a rotor core integrally fixed to an outer circumference of the shaft and a stator surrounding an outer circumference of the rotor core, a compression section configured to compress a working fluid, a casing surrounding the shaft, the driving section, and the compression section, a partition radially partitioning an inside of the casing into a first space in which the stator is disposed and a second space in which the rotor core is disposed, a first connection path connecting the first space to a first portion of the compression section, and a second connection path connecting the second space to a second portion of the compression section in which a pressure of the working fluid is higher than that of the first portion.

Abstract: A control system includes an electronic control unit including a feedback controller and a reference governor. The feedback controller is configured to determine a value of control input such that a value of control output approximates a target value. The reference governor is configured to calculate, with a prediction model, a predicted maximum value of an overshoot amount of the control output that overshoots from the target value. The prediction model is derived assuming that an n-th delay (n is a natural number) occurs in a response of the control output. The reference governor is configured to calculate the target value by correcting the provisional target value of the control output based on the predicted maximum value so as to increase a degree of satisfaction of a constraint condition with regard to the control output.

Abstract: A relaying apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire, from a gateway device, a resource identifier for a network resource provided from a device in a first network to a server in a second network through the gateway device, the resource identifier indicating a location in the second network of the network resource, relate a gateway identifier corresponding to an address of the gateway device included in the resource identifier to the resource identifier, receive, from the server, a request for the network resource to the device, detect, from a correspondence relationship between the gateway identifier and the resource identifier, the resource identifier corresponding to the gateway identifier specified in the request, and relay the request to the device through the gateway device in accordance with the resource identifier that has been detected.

Abstract: An impeller includes a disk, a long blade that is disposed at an interval in a circumferential direction on a disk surface on a first side in an axial direction of the disk, and that reaches an outer peripheral edge of the disk, and a short blade that is disposed between the long blades adjacent to each other on the disk surface, and that reaches the outer peripheral edge. A circumferential length of the short blade gradually increases as the short blade faces outward in the radial direction, and a circumferential length of the long blade in the outer peripheral edge is smaller than the circumferential length of the short blade in the outer peripheral edge.

Abstract: A plant control system comprises a target value calculating part calculating a target value r of a control output x of a plant, a target value correcting part correcting the target value so as to calculate a corrected target value w, and a feedback controller determining a control input. The target value correcting part, if making the control output change to the target value, sets the corrected target value so that an amount of correction of the target value becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value, then changes the corrected target value so that the amount of correction of the target value becomes larger than the predetermined value, then changes the corrected target value so that the amount of correction of the target value becomes equal to or less than the predetermined value before the control output reaches the target value.

Abstract: The present invention is a press forming method for obtaining a target formed article that has an edge-shaped ridge section and that has a negative surface on one side and a positive surface on the other side with respect to the ridge section as a border, said press forming method including: a first step for forming an intermediate formed article having an intermediate ridge section having a larger radius than the edge radius of the ridge section; and a second step for forming the target formed article from the intermediate formed article.

Abstract: An optical communication device, for performing communication between spatially separated points by using one or more laser beams, includes an angle correction device that corrects a direction of a light receiving system and an emission optical axis correction device, in which an angle error which is not corrected by the angle correction device is detected by a light receiving angle detection device, and the emission optical axis correction device is controlled according to a detected error amount, and an emission optical axis is corrected.

Abstract: A centrifuge turbo machinery includes an impeller which rotates about an axis to pressure-feed fluid flowing along the axis to an outer side in a radial direction, and a casing which accommodates the impeller and has a facing surface facing the impeller in an axial direction. A convex portion relatively close to the impeller and extending in the radial direction and a concave portion relatively spaced apart from the impeller and extending in the radial direction are alternately and continuously formed on the facing surface in a circumferential direction.