Abstract: A heater (1a) includes a substrate (10), a transparent conductive oxide layer (20), a first power supply electrode (31), and a second power supply electrode (32). The ratio of the sum of the electric resistance of the first power supply electrode (31) in a particular direction and the electric resistance of the second power supply electrode (32) in the particular direction to the electric resistance of the transparent conductive oxide layer (20) between the first power supply electrode (31) and the second power supply electrode (32) is 45% or less. The transparent conductive oxide layer (20) has a thickness from 20 to 250 nm and is formed of a material having a specific resistance from 1.4×10?4 to 3.0×10?4 ?·cm.

Abstract: Provided is a means for promoting electron transfer between nanocarbon and other substances. An electron transfer accelerator for nanocarbon comprising a compound having an aromatic ring skeleton.

Abstract: The invention has for its object to provide an aqueous solution for structural separation capable of acting on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having a specific structure thereby separating them with high accuracy, a separation and recovery method capable of allowing the aqueous solution to act on CNTs having a specific structure thereby separating and recovering them, and CNTs obtained by the separation and recovery method. According to the invention, it is possible to separate CNTs having a specific structure with high accuracy by solubilizing lithocholic acid or a lithocolic acid isomer that has high hydrophobicity and is insoluble in water by itself, and a carbon nanotube obtained by using an aqueous solution containing lithocholic acid or a lithocholic acid isomer, each solubilized, as an aqueous solution for structural separation of CNTs.

Abstract: To provide a walking mode display method, a walking mode display system and a walking mode analyzer each of which allows for analysis of a walking mode of a user and display thereof in an easily understandable manner. The walking mode display method includes: selecting measurement of a walker and measurement of a reference walker to be compared with the walker; displaying a first walking model that displays a walking for one walking step of the walker as an animation; displaying a second walking model that displays a walking for one walking step of the reference walker as the animation; and displaying a magnitude of predetermined feature amount data related to the measurement of the walker and the magnitude of predetermined feature amount data related to the measurement of the reference walker in a comparable manner.

Abstract: An acrylic fiber for artificial hair may include an acrylic copolymer. The acrylic fiber has a fiber cross section including 2 to 4 T-shaped protrusions that extend radially from a central portion. Each of the T-shaped protrusions has an arc-shaped upper side that bulges in a direction away from the central portion. A circumradius of the fiber cross section is 40.0 to 60.0 ?m. A distance between adjacent end portions of the corresponding upper sides of the adjacent T-shaped protrusions is 3.0 to 60.0 ?m. An axial width is 10.0 ?m or more. Torsional rigidity of the acrylic fiber is 0.30 to 2.0 mg·cm2. The acrylic fiber for artificial hair has high volume, good texture, and good twist processability, and a hair ornament may include the acrylic fiber for artificial hair.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a blood flow analysis device capable of accurately identifying a change in the blood flow in a muscle caused by resistance exercise performed by a subject. A blood flow analysis device according to the present invention specifies a resistance exercise period during which a muscle of a subject present at a position to be measured by a motion sensor is performing a resistance exercise, and analyzes a light detection signal in the resistance exercise period, to thereby calculate a feature amount of a change in the blood flow in the muscle of the subject in the resistance exercise period (see FIG. 1).

Abstract: There is provided a group III nitride laminate, including: a substrate comprised of silicon carbide; a first layer comprised of aluminum nitride and formed on the substrate; a second layer comprised of gallium nitride and formed on the first layer; and a third layer formed on the second layer and comprised of group III nitride having an electron affinity lower than that of the gallium nitride comprised in the second layer, the second layer containing silicon at an average concentration of less than 1×1016/cm3 in a lower layer portion when the second layer is divided into three equal thicknesses.

Abstract: An analysis system includes a storage module for storing a track indicating in time series a position of an individual that is moving as track data and for storing sensor data indicating in time series a measurement result of the individual by a sensor worn by the individual, a speed calculation module for calculating a speed index indicating a movement speed of the individual based on the track data, an index calculation module for calculating a behavior index indicating a movement intensity of the individual based on the sensor data, a similarity degree calculation module for calculating a degree of similarity between the speed index and the behavior index based on changes in time series of the speed index and the behavior index, and an association module for associating the track and the individual on which the sensor data has been measured based on the degree of similarity.

Abstract: There is provided a group III nitride laminate, including: a substrate comprised of silicon carbide; a first layer comprised of aluminum nitride and formed on the substrate; a second layer comprised of gallium nitride and formed on the first layer; and a third layer formed on the second layer and comprised of group III nitride having an electron affinity lower than that of the gallium nitride which is comprised in the second layer, the second layer having a thickness of less than 500 nm, the second layer containing iron at a concentration of less than 1-1017/cm3, and the second layer containing carbon at a concentration of less than 1×1017/cm3.

Abstract: Modacrylic fibers for artificial hair include a modacrylic polymer; and a condensed phosphate. The modacrylic polymer includes 29.5 to 79.5% by mass of acrylonitrile, 20 to 70% by mass of vinyl chloride and/or vinylidene chloride, and 0.5 to 5% by mass of a sulfonic acid group containing vinyl monomer, with respect to a total mass of the modacrylic polymer. A content of the condensed phosphate in the modacrylic fibers is 0.05 to 0.57% by mass.

Abstract: A ground-truth data creation support system comprising: an input unit configured to input sensor data obtained by measurement with a sensor; a storage unit configured to store a code assigning model to assign codes associated with characteristics of sensor data to the sensor data and an activity inferring model to infer an activity of a person wearing the sensor based on the sensor data that has been assigned codes; a processing unit configured to infer an activity in a specific measurement time period of a person wearing the sensor, based on sensor data in the specific measurement time period, the code assigning model, and the activity inferring model; and an output unit configured to output the inferred activity in the specific measurement time period and codes assigned to the sensor data in the specific measurement time period.

Abstract: A vehicle auxiliary power supply device mounted in an electric rolling stock and that includes a converter device to convert DC power supplied from a DC power supply into desired DC power, and a three-phase inverter to convert the DC power supplied from the converter device into three-phase AC power and to supply the converted power to a load, wherein a switching element of the three-phase inverter is constituted by a semiconductor module formed of a wide bandgap semiconductor.

Abstract: An acrylonitrile-containing fiber includes 100 parts by mass of a polymer including at least 15 parts by mass of acrylonitrile; and 1.0 to 50 parts by mass of a water absorbent resin having a pure water absorption capacity (g/g) with respect to its own weight of at least 10 but less than 100, wherein the fiber is dyeable with a disperse dye.

Abstract: A heater (1a) includes a support (10) made of an organic polymer and having a sheet shape, a heating element (20), and at least one pair of power supply electrodes (30) in contact with the heating element (20). The heating element (20) is a transparent conductive film made of a polycrystalline material containing indium oxide as a main component. In the heater (1a), the heating element (20) has a specific resistance of 1.4×10?4 ?·cm to 3×10?4 ?·cm. The heating element (20) has a thickness of more than 20 nm and not more than 100 nm.

Abstract: In a magnetic field measurement apparatus and a magnetic field measurement method provided herein, a magnetic field from an object is measured by a magnetic sensor group including a plurality of magnetic sensors. Then, an estimated value of a common noise component included in observed quantities of the magnetic sensors of all the channels of the magnetic sensor group is obtained as an external magnetic noise component. Finally the magnetic signal from the object is calculated by subtracting the estimated value from the observed quantity of each of the magnetic sensors.

Abstract: There is provided a communicating, at a first network access point, with a core network entity using a user plane protocol, said communicating comprising receiving user data from the core network entity on a first bearer, the first bearer capable of being split with a second network access point such that at least some of the user data is provided to the second network access point, the first network access point and the second network access point configured to communicate wirelessly with a plurality of user equipments, and wherein the first network access point does not communicate with the core network using a control plane protocol associated with the first bearer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a controller. The controller controls throttling to make a performance value of the memory system fall between a first performance value and a second performance value. The throttling limits the number of times of accesses per unit time to a nonvolatile memory. The first performance value is calculated based on a third performance value of the memory system and is greater than the third performance value. The third performance value is a value which is expected to be reached at a time when a first period has elapsed since the memory system started being used if throttling is not performed. The second performance value is provided between the first performance value and the third performance value.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid, a discharge portion which discharges a waste liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head, and a mounting unit which is provided with the discharge portion and in which is mounted a waste liquid container capable of storing the waste liquid which is discharged from the discharge portion, in which the mounting unit includes a liquid holding portion capable of holding the waste liquid in a periphery of the discharge portion.

Abstract: A signal processing device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of signal processing units and a pseudo signal generating unit. The plurality of signal processing units are provided in a plurality of reception antennas which receive reflection signals of a transmission signal reflected on an object, and perform signal processing in parallel on beat signals which are generated based on the transmission signal and the reflections signals. The pseudo signal generating unit generates a pseudo signal imitating the beat signal, and inputs the pseudo signal as a target of the signal processing into the plurality of signal processing units in parallel.

Abstract: A switching circuit includes: a drive power supply; a first transistor and a second transistor; a drive signal source; and a drive circuit. Each of the first transistor and the second transistor includes: a drain electrode and a source electrode in which a main current flows when a corresponding one of the first transistor and the second transistor is ON; a first source terminal for passing the main current; and a second source terminal. Here, the first source terminal is connected to the source electrode at an impedance lower than an impedance of the second source terminal.