Abstract: A sensor chip for surface plasmon-field enhanced spectroscopy, the sensor chip including: a dielectric member; a metal thin film formed on a main surface of the dielectric member; and a region on a part of the metal thin film, where a capturing substance that specifically captures a substance to be measured is immobilized. A blocking treatment with at least one blocking agent is performed in a region that includes the region where the capturing substance is immobilized, and the blocking treatment is not performed over an entirety of a wetted surface between a measurement sample and the metal thin film.

Abstract: Described herein are methods of syntheses of phosphorous atom-modified nucleic acids comprising chiral X-phosphonate moieties. The methods described herein provide backbone-modified nucleic acids in high diasteteomeric purity via an asymmetric reaction of an achiral molecule comprising a chemically stable H-phosphonate moiety with a nucleoside/nucleotide.

Abstract: The present invention brings about an effect of reducing a deterioration in communication quality that may occur in a communication circuit that can communicate in different communication modes. A communication circuit (100) of an aspect of the present invention includes a control section (109) that (i) controls a reception filter (194) such that respective passbands of a transmission filter (103) and the reception filter (104) are different from each other in a case where a full-duplex communication is made in a FDD mode, and (ii) controls the reception filter (104) such that at least part of the passband of the transmission filter (103) and at least part of the passband of the reception filter (104) overlap each other in a case where a full-duplex communication is made in a TDD mode.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a flexible circuit board, a signal transmission board, a driver component, a frame-shaped member, and a heat dissipation member. The signal transmission board is configured to transmit signals to the flexible circuit board. The driver component is mounted on the flexible circuit board and configured to process the signals from the signal transmission board and supply the processed signals to the display panel. The frame-shaped member retains the liquid crystal panel by holding edges of the display panel on a display surface side. The heat dissipation member has higher thermal conductivity than the frame-shaped member and embedded in a portion of the frame-shaped member. The heat dissipation member includes a contact portion that projects toward the signal transmission board and a distal end that is in contact with a portion of the flexible circuit board on which the driver component is mounted.

Abstract: Described herein are methods of syntheses of phosphorous atom-modified nucleic acids comprising chiral X-phosphonate moieties. The methods described herein provide backbone-modified nucleic acids in high diasteteomeric purity via an asymmetric reaction of an achiral molecule comprising a chemically stable H-phophonate moiety with a nucleoside/nucleotide.

Abstract: Chimeric single-stranded polynucleotides and double-stranded antisense agents useful for modifying the expression of a target gene by means of an antisense effect are disclosed. The chimeric single-stranded antisense polynucleotide and double-stranded antisense agents comprise a central nucleotide region flanked by a first 5?-wing region and a first 3?-wing region of modified nucleotides, which are themselves flanked by a second 5?-wing region and/or a second 3?-wing region of nucleotides that have a low affinity for proteins and/or that have higher resistance to DNase or RNase than a natural DNA or RNA and are missing in a cell when the chimeric polynucleotide delivered. The double-stranded antisense agent further comprises a complementary strand annealed to the antisense strand. The polynucleotide can be used to modify RNA transcription levels, miRNA activity, or protein levels in cells.

Abstract: A metallic material containing both a second constituent and a third constituent having positive and negative heats of mixing relative to a first constituent, respectively, and including a compound, an alloy or a nonequilibrium alloy having a melting point that is higher than the solidifying point of a metal bath made of the first constituent is placed in the metal bath. The metal bath is controlled to a temperature lower than a minimum value of a liquidus temperature within a range of compositional variations in which the amount of the third constituent in the metallic material decreases down to a point where the metallic material becomes substantially the second constituent so that the third constituent is selectively dissolved into the metal bath.

Abstract: A control system calculates inputs to a control target that has m inputs and n outputs (m=n, each of m and n is a natural number that is more than one), while designating a plurality of combinations of the inputs and the outputs. A feedback controller calculates, with respect to each designated combination, a control input to a non-interference controller based on a difference between a target value and a current value of the control quantity to make the current value follow the target value. The non-interference controller executes, with respect to each designated combination, a non-interference control to reduce influence due to mutual interference between n control quantities. This reduces the number of combinations of the inputs and the outputs, the combinations whose mutual interference needs considering; thereby, the non-interference control may be easily achieved.

Abstract: Upon completion of rewriting of a page of a document, a display apparatus having a display unit with memory switches to a low power consumption mode without rewriting the display on a display unit, and stops power supply to the display unit. When a page updating operation is performed in the low power consumption mode, the display apparatus supplies power to the display unit, and rewrites the display screen with the screen of the next page.

Abstract: An electricity distribution device is connected to a system power supply and a battery pack, and includes: a primary power converter circuit converting DC electric power discharged from the battery pack into electric power supplied to the load; a first switch switching conducting and non-conducting states between the primary power converter circuit and the load; and a control circuitry controlling the first switch to switch the conducting and non-conducting states between the primary power converter circuit and the load. The primary power convertor circuit consumes DC electric power discharged from the battery pack, in a state where the first switch switches the non-conducting state between the primary power convertor circuit and the load, and a current value is acquired when discharging from the fully-charged state to an empty state. The fully-charged capacity of the battery pack is measured using the acquired current value.

Abstract: When an area to be rewritten includes a first area including a character and a second area including an image object, a control unit outputs, to a controller, a display update instruction and information indicating the second area. Upon acquisition of the instruction and the information indicating the second area, first, the controller updates the first area and the second area by a first method. Next, the controller updates the second area by a second method that requires a longer updating time than the first method.

Abstract: A sensor chip includes: a transparent support; a metal thin film formed on one surface of the transparent support; and a reaction section in which a ligand is immobilized on an other surface of the metal thin film that is not in contact with the transparent support, wherein the sensor chip also includes a closed space-forming member which forms a closed space such that at least the reaction section is housed in the closed space, and water content in the closed space is adjusted to satisfy: X/Y<10 (?g/mm2) (wherein, X represents the water content in the closed space; and Y represents the surface area of the metal thin film in the closed space).

Abstract: Display apparatuses 10A and 10B store at least one document file that is the same. When a keyword search is performed in the display apparatus 10A, a list of search results is displayed in the display apparatus 10A. When one of the search results in the displayed list is selected, the display apparatus 10A transmits information specifying a portion corresponding to the selected search result to the display apparatus 10B. The display apparatus 10B specifies a portion to be displayed on the document, using the information transmitted from the display apparatus 10A, and displays an image of the specified portion.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a flexible circuit board, a signal transmission board, a driver component, a frame-shaped member, and a heat dissipation member. The signal transmission board is configured to transmit signals to the flexible circuit board. The driver component is mounted on the flexible circuit board and configured to process the signals from the signal transmission board and supply the processed signals to the display panel. The frame-shaped member retains the liquid crystal panel by holding edges of the display panel on a display surface side. The heat dissipation member has higher thermal conductivity than the frame-shaped member and embedded in a portion of the frame-shaped member. The heat dissipation member includes a contact portion that projects toward the signal transmission board and a distal end that is in contact with a portion of the flexible circuit board on which the driver component is mounted.

Abstract: To provide a chiral reagent or a salt thereof. The chiral reagent has following chemical formula (I). In the formula (I), G1 and G2 are independently a hydrogen atom, a nitro group (—NO2), a halogen atom, a cyano group (—CN), a group of formula (II) or (III), or both G1 and G2 taken together to form a group of formula (IV).

Abstract: To set an optimum offset voltage and detect an NRZ signal with a very small amplitude. An NRZ signal amplifying device 2 includes: input-side voltage detection means 13 for detecting a high-level voltage and a low-level voltage of an input signal to the main amplifier 12; output-side voltage detection means 14 for detecting the two signals inverted relative to each other; and offset voltage control means 15 for calculating a center voltage between the detected high-level voltage and low-level voltage, setting an offset voltage at which the center voltage is the center of an appropriate input range of the main amplifier 12 to the offset circuit 11, and finely adjusting the offset voltage, such that a voltage difference between the detected two signals inverted relative to each other and a polarity change point is close to 0.

Abstract: Porous silicon particles and complex porous silicon particles suitable for negative electrode materials etc. for lithium-ion batteries, which achieve high capacity and good cycling characteristics, are provided. Porous silicon particles formed by the joining of a plurality of silicon microparticles, and having an average particle diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1000 ?m, a three-dimensional network structure having continuous gaps, an average porosity of 15 to 93%, and a structure in which the particles of a whole particle are uniform. Complex porous silicon particles formed by the joining of a plurality of silicon microparticles and a plurality of silicon compound particles, and characterized by containing a compound of silicon and composite elements, having an average particle diameter of 0.1 ?m to 1000 ?m, and having a three-dimensional network structure having continuous gaps.

Abstract: To set an optimum offset voltage and detect an NRZ signal with a very small amplitude. An NRZ signal amplifying device 2 includes: input-side voltage detection means 13 for detecting a high-level voltage and a low-level voltage of an input signal to the main amplifier 12; output-side voltage detection means 14 for detecting the two signals inverted relative to each other; and offset voltage control means 15 for calculating a center voltage between the detected high-level voltage and low-level voltage, setting an offset voltage at which the center voltage is the center of an appropriate input range of the main amplifier 12 to the offset circuit 11, and finely adjusting the offset voltage, such that a voltage difference between the detected two signals inverted relative to each other and a polarity change point is close to 0.

Abstract: A method for preparing a phosphorothioate RNA based on the oxazaphospholidine method, wherein cyanoethoxymethyl group is used instead of tert-butyldimethylsilyl group as a protective group of 2?-hydroxyl group of RNA.

Abstract: A 2?-modified ribonucleoside having an alkoxymethyl protective group can be imparted with a high duplex-forming ability by introducing, as a substituent, a halogen atom into the protective group moiety. A modified form of RNA having a halogen-substituted alkoxymethyl protective group exhibits a high duplex-forming ability that is comparable to the duplex-forming ability of a 2?-O-methyl modified nucleic acid.