Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.

Abstract: A walking training system according to the present embodiment includes: a treadmill; a load distribution sensor that is provided on a lower side of a belt of the treadmill so as not to move together with the belt and that detects a distribution of a load received from a sole of a trainee riding on the belt of the treadmill; an extraction unit that extracts a load distribution in a region corresponding to a position of the sole of the trainee during walking training, out of a load distribution detected by the load distribution sensor; and a determination unit that determines a walking state of the trainee based on the load distribution extracted by the extraction unit.

Abstract: The walking training device includes: a robot leg attached to one leg of a trainee; a treadmill; a load distribution sensor that detects a distribution of a load received from a sole of the trainee; and a walking state distinguishing unit that determines whether the one leg is in a swinging leg state; a control unit that performs a predetermined bending-extending control for the swinging leg state of the one leg by the robot leg when the one leg is in the swinging leg state; a measuring unit that measures a clearance between the one leg in the swinging leg state and the treadmill. The control unit changes control content of the predetermined bending-extending control so that the one leg does not contact the belt of the treadmill during extending control of the one leg, when the clearance is less than a specified value.

Abstract: Provided are a nickel-manganese composite hydroxide capable of producing a secondary battery having a high particle fillability and excellent battery characteristics when used as a precursor of a positive electrode active material and a method for producing the same. A nickel-manganese composite hydroxide is represented by General Formula: NixMnyMz(OH)2+? and contains a secondary particle formed of a plurality of flocculated primary particles. The primary particles have an aspect ratio of at least 3, and at least some of the primary particles are disposed radially from a central part of the secondary particle toward an outer circumference thereof. The secondary particle has a ratio I(101)/I(001) of a diffraction peak intensity I(101) of a 101 plane to a peak intensity I(001) of a 001 plane, measured by an X-ray diffraction measurement, of up to 0.15.

Abstract: A double lumen catheter includes: a circumferential wall 101 forming a lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end; and a partition 102 dividing the lumen into a first passage 110 and a second passage 120 extending in a longitudinal direction. Distal ends of the first passage 110 and the second passage 120 of the circumferential wall 101 are aligned with each other. The partition 102 includes a projection 103 projecting beyond the distal end of the circumferential wall 101, and having a U-shaped plane. The first passage 110 has, at the distal end, a first passage slit 111 formed by cutting out a part of the circumferential wall 101 around a circumferential center of the circumferential wall 101.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an extraction system capable of accurately extracting a region of an image where a leg part of a trainee is included. an extraction system including: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image obtained by capturing the trainee; an extraction unit that sets regions of the image on both left and right sides of the belt of the treadmill to regions of the image where the leg part of the trainee is not present and thereby distinguishes the set regions from the region of the image where the leg part of the trainee is included, and extracts the region of the image where the leg part of the trainee is included; and a mask processing unit that applies a mask to each of the regions of the image where the leg part of the trainee is not present.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery contains lithium composite oxide particles, the lithium composite oxide particles including lithium (Li), nickel (Ni), manganese (Mn), zirconium (Zr), and an additive element M (M) in an amount of substance ratio of Li:Ni:Mn:Zr:M=a:b:c:d:e, wherein 0.95?a?1.20, 0.10?b<0.70, 0.01?c?0.50, 0.0003?d?0.02, and 0.01?e?0.50, and the additive element M is one or more elements selected from Co, W, Mo, V, Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, and Ta, wherein, a half-value width of a peak of (003) plane calculated from an X-ray diffraction pattern in the lithium composite oxide is 0.055° or more and 0.065° or less.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a stacking unit having an abutment portion, a feeding unit, a conveyance unit, a reading unit, a rotating shaft, and a drive unit. The abutment portion abuts a document end in a widthwise direction of a document stacked on the stacking unit. The conveyance unit conveys the stacked document fed by the feeding unit in a feeding direction perpendicularly intersecting the document widthwise direction. The reading unit reads an image of the document. The drive unit rotates the stacking unit, rotatably supported by the rotating shaft, around the rotating shaft. The rotating shaft is disposed at a position where at least a part of the rotating shaft exists between one end and other end in the document widthwise direction of a document having a maximum width conveyable by the conveyance unit in a state where the maximum width document abuts on the abutment portion.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery containing lithium nickel manganese complex oxide particles, wherein the lithium nickel manganese complex oxide particles are composed of secondary particles in which primary particles of a lithium nickel manganese complex oxide represented by a general formula LidNi1-a-b-cMnaMbZrcO2+? (where M is at least one element selected from Co, W, Mo, Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, Cr, and Ta, and is 0.05?a<0.60, 0?b<0.60, 0.00003?c?0.03, 0.05?a+b+c?0.60, 0.95?d?1.20, and ?0.2???0.2), wherein at least a portion of zirconium is dispersed in the primary particle, and wherein an amount of a positive active material for a lithium ion secondary battery in which an amount of excessive lithium determined by a neutralization titration method is 0.02 mass % or more and 0.09 mass % or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, including: lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide particles having a layered hexagonal crystal system, wherein, the lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide is represented by the following general formula: Li1+tNiaMnbMcMgdO2+???(1) in which an element M in the general formula (1) is at least one element selected from Co, Ti, W, B, Mo, V, Nb, Ca, Al, Cr, Zr, and Ta; ?0.05?t?0.2, 0.50?a?0.95, 0.03?b?0.40, 0.02?c?0.40, 0.0005?d?0.05, a+b+c+d=1.0, and 0???0.5; wherein the lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide particles contains secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles of the lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide particles, and wherein lattice constants a and c of the lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide as determined by an X-ray diffraction method are 2.8640 ??a?2.8750 ? and 14.195 ??c?14.225 ?.

Abstract: A solid product of a lignin-containing composition can have high dispersibility and heat stability; a solid product of a high performance lignin derivative can be used as a dispersing agent, useful at a construction site, with a concrete, and/or as a premix mixed with a hydraulic composition. A composition can serve as a dispersing agent capable of providing various substances to be dispersed with a thickening property and of enhancing the properties thereof, regardless of the use thereof such as for a hydraulic composition, dye, inorganic or organic pigment, coal-water slurry, agricultural chemical, ceramic, and/or oil drilling mud. The composition includes a lignin sulfonic acid-based compound and a water-soluble compound, or includes a lignin derivative that is a reaction product of a lignin sulfonic acid-based compound with an aromatic water-soluble compound and that satisfies prescribed conditions; and the composition may be a granular product or a liquid product.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide formed of secondary particles with a plurality of aggregated primary particles, in which the positive electrode active material is represented by a general formula (1): LidN1?a?b?cMnaMbNbcO2+?, at least a part of niobium is solid-dissolved inside the primary particles, and an amount of lithium to be eluted into water when the positive electrode active material is immersed in water is 0.02% by mass or more and 0.10% by mass or less with respect to the entire positive electrode active material as determined by a neutralization titration method.

Abstract: Provided is a printed matter producing method including: a volume expansion layer forming step of forming a volume expansion layer containing a volume expansion agent; a volume expansion suppressor applying step of applying and contacting a volume expansion suppressor containing a multifunctional monomer to the volume expansion layer while increasing an amount of the multifunctional monomer to be applied to a predetermined region of the volume expansion layer in accordance with a degree of suppressing volume expansion of the predetermined region of the volume expansion layer; and a volume expanding step of heating the volume expansion layer after the volume expansion suppressor applying step to volume-expand the volume expansion layer.

Abstract: Appropriate housing equipment according to the physical ability of a trainee who has performed rehabilitation in order to restore or maintain the physical ability is easily presented. A housing equipment presentation apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store definition information defining housing equipment information according to a physical ability, an acquisition unit configured to externally acquire physical ability information of a trainee who has performed training in order to restore or maintain his/her physical ability, a conversion unit configured to convert the acquired physical ability information into the housing equipment information based on the definition information, and an output unit configured to output presentation information including the converted housing equipment information.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is disclosed which contains a lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide containing a secondary particle formed of a plurality of flocculated primary particles and a lithium-niobium compound. The positive electrode active material is represented by General Formula (1): LidNi1-a-b-cMnaMbNbcO2+? (M is at least one element selected from Co, W, Mo, V, Mg, Ca, Al, Ti, Cr, Zr, and Ta; and 0.03?a?0.60, 0?b?0.60, 0.02?c?0.08, a+b+c<1, 0.95?d?1.20, and 0???0.5, the lithium-nickel-manganese composite oxide has a (003)-plane crystallite diameter of at least 50 nm and up to 130 nm, the lithium-niobium compound is present on surfaces of the primary particles, and part of niobium in the positive electrode active material is solid-solved in the primary particles.

Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a camera system configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which at least a part of a gait of the trainee walking on the treadmill is recognizable, a determination unit configured to determine whether abnormal walking occurs in the trainee based on a plurality of predetermined determination criteria, an image processing unit configured to clip, as a video clip, a video in a predetermined period including a timing when the determination unit determines that the abnormal walking occurs from a video captured by the camera system, and perform image processing to emphasize an abnormal part of the abnormal walking determined by the determination unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the video clip subjected to the image processing.

Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus having moving means for moving a coupling gear between a coupling position where a drum side coupling portion and a main body side coupling portion are coupled to each other and a decoupling position where the drum side coupling portion and the main body side coupling portion are decoupled from each other. The moving means moves the coupling gear to the coupling position when forming a color image, and moves the coupling gear to the decoupling position when forming a monochrome image. The coupling gear has a main body side gear portion which meshes with the main body gear. The coupling gear is integrally molded with the main body side coupling portion and the main body side gear portion.

Abstract: From the viewpoint of a decrease in environmental impact in recent years, an object of the present invention is to effectively utilize lignin as a circulative biomass resource having high effect of reducing environmental impact. Specifically, the object is to provide a lignin derivative that can improve the dispersibility of various substances to be dispersed regardless of uses of cements, dyes, oil field drilling mud, and the like. The present invention provides a lignin derivative compound that is a reaction product of a lignin sulfonic acid-based compound with an aromatic water-soluble compound, and a dispersant containing the same. The lignin derivative compound preferably has an anionic functional group and/or a polyalkylene oxide chain.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for obtaining a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein capacity, electron conductivity, durability, and heat stability at the time of overcharge are improved, durability and heat stability being achieved at a high level, and including: a lithium nickel manganese composite oxide composed of secondary particles, in which a plurality of primary particles are flocculated, wherein the composite oxide is represented by a general formula (1): LidNi1-a-b-cMnaMbTicO2 (wherein, M is at least one kind of element selected from Co, W, Mo, V, Mg, Ca, Al, Cr, Zr and Ta, 0.05?a?0.60, 0?b?0.60, 0.02?c?0.08, 0.95?d?1.20), at least a part of titanium in the composite oxide is solid-solved in the primary particles, and, a lithium titanium compound exists on a surface of the positive electrode active material for the lithium ion secondary battery.