Abstract: A binding apparatus includes a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper, a water supplier configured to supply a preset amount of water to the sheets of paper to be bound by the binder, and a processor configured to, if a specific condition is satisfied, make a setting to reduce the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water supplier.

Abstract: When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.

Abstract: The management server 2 acquires sensing information obtained by the UAV 1 sensing, from the sky, a scatter area where a colcothar is scattered on a mountain climbing route, identifies a state of the colcothar on the basis of the sensing information, and identifies a visual recognition difficult place on the basis of the state of the colcothar.

Abstract: A profile creation device that causes a display section to display a display screen displaying an input color space image and an output color space image, the profile creation device includes an acquisition section that acquires first color gamut data indicating a color space related to the input device and second color gamut data indicating a color space related to the output device, an image generating section configured to generate an input color space image of a three dimensional image based on the first color gamut data and an output color space image of a three dimensional image based on the second color gamut data, a display control section configured to generate screen data for displaying the display screen having an image display area for displaying the input color space image and the output color space image generated by the image generating section, and an input and output section for transmitting the screen data generated by the display control section to the display section.

Abstract: A method for producing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition having a viscosity of 10 mPa·s or more, the method containing a step 1 of charging at least a resin of which polarity increases by an action of an acid, a photoacid generator, and a solvent as raw materials into a stirring tank, and a step 2 of stirring the raw materials in the stirring tank. A liquid temperature in the stirring tank is controlled to be equal to or lower than a 3.0° C. higher temperature than a liquid temperature at a start of the step 2 throughout the entire step 2, and the control of the liquid temperature in the stirring tank in the step 2 is performed by passing an inert gas through the stirring tank.

Abstract: In an analysis system for analyzing a fatigue and/or stress state of an organization, the analysis system includes an information acquisition unit, an information storage unit, a fatigue and/or stress value acquisition unit, the fatigue and/or stress value being calculated based on the information regarding the fatigue and/or the stress, an adjustment target extraction unit configured to extract adjustment targets from among a plurality of members based on personal information including health information and a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition including whether a predetermined health state is good, and a fatigue and/or stress state analysis unit configured to adjust a set of the fatigue and/or stress values by correcting or excluding from an analysis the fatigue and/or stress value of the adjustment targets and to analyze the fatigue and/or stress state of the organization based on an adjusted set of the fatigue and/or stress values.

Abstract: The center server 3 determines, for each take-off/landing port 2, any one of charging of the UAV 1, discharging of the UAV 1, operation of the UAV 1 for article delivery, and standby of the UAV 1 as a action to be implemented in the take-off/landing port 2 on the basis of delivery schedule information related to a schedule for article delivery and battery information of the UAV 1 deployed in each of the plurality of take-off/landing ports 2.

Abstract: A brushless motor includes a rotor, the rotor including magnets and a core member. The magnets are arranged around a rotating shaft and sequentially arrayed with N poles or S poles facing each other in a circumferential direction. The core member includes: an annular portion around the rotating shaft; an outer peripheral core part which supports the magnets on an outer peripheral side of the annular portion; and bridges which extend radially between the annular portion and the outer peripheral core part. Each of the bridges is positioned between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The bridges include one or more first bridges extending over a first range corresponding to a partial range of the core member along a direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: Convenience of an ink bottle and a bottle set is improved. An ink bottle includes: a container portion that contains ink; a guiding portion that is formed in one end portion of the container portion, and includes an outflow port from which the ink in the container portion flow out; and a cover that covers at least an end portion of the container portion on the opposite side of the guiding portion.

Abstract: A vehicle accident prediction system, a vehicle accident prediction method, a vehicle accident prediction program, and a learned model creation system obtain a training data set containing feature group data, which includes a first feature representing an attribute of a driver of a vehicle, a second feature representing a state of the vehicle, and a third feature combining a plurality of second features, and accident data relating to an accident of the vehicle, create, through learning, a learned model that predicts an accident of the vehicle from the feature group data using a plurality of the obtained training data sets, input the feature group data that is to be a prediction target, and predict an accident of the vehicle from the input feature group data using the created learned model.

Abstract: A production method and others according to the present embodiment are provided with a structure for effectively preventing occurrence of accidental spiking during drawing of a preform. In order to control the residual He-concentration in the center part of the preform, a transparent glass rod that has a predetermined outer diameter and is already sintered but is not doped with an alkali metal yet is annealed in in the atmosphere not containing He gas for an annealing time determined by referring to result data in which the relationship between the annealing time and the residual He-concentration is previously recorded for each outer diameter. In the result data, actually measured data of the residual He-concentration in a produced optical fiber preform and the annealing time are accumulated as annealing treatment results.

Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a resin (A) and a resin (B) which include a repeating unit having an acid-decomposable group, and the acid-decomposable group in the resin (A) and the acid-decomposable group in the resin (B) have the same structures. Regarding the resin (A) and the resin (B), |GA?GB| is from 5% by mole to 20% by mole, SA/SB is 10/90 to 90/10, |MwA?MwB| is from 100 to 5,000, and |MwA/MnA?MwB/MnB| is 0.05 or more.

Abstract: A plasma CVD device which comprises a substrate having a three-dimensional shape such as that of a bottle and which can form a coating on the surface of various substrates under atmospheric pressure, and a coating forming method are provided. This atmospheric pressure remote plasma CVD device is provided with a dielectric chamber which has a gas inlet, an inner space and a plasma outlet, and a plasma generation device which generates plasma in the inner space. The plasma outlet is provided with a nozzle that has an opening area smaller than the average cross-sectional area of the cross-sections perpendicular to the direction of gas flow in the inner space.

Abstract: A method for producing a composition, the method being for producing a composition using a stirring device provided with a stirring tank and a stirrer, includes a mixing step of charging a resin, an acid generator, and a solvent into the stirring tank, and a stirring step of stirring the mixture accommodated in the stirring tank, using the stirrer, in which a ratio c of a content of the acid generator to a total mass of the mixture is 0.3% to 2.5% by mass, the stirrer is provided with a rotatable stirring shaft, a plurality of support parts attached to the stirring shaft, and a plurality of stirring elements attached to each of end parts of the plurality of support parts, the shape and the arrangement of the stirring elements are specified, and the positions of the plurality of stirring elements are specified so as to satisfy a specific Expression (1).

Abstract: A method for producing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, comprising: preparing an intermediate solution which includes a photoacid generator and a solvent; and mixing the intermediate solution with at least a resin to prepare an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition having a viscosity of 10 mPa·s or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to in a case where an image related to a file or a thumbnail image corresponding to the file is selected and an enlarged thumbnail image obtained by enlarging the thumbnail image is displayed in a first peripheral area which is a peripheral area of the image related to the file or the thumbnail image, move the image related to the file or the thumbnail image in a case where the first peripheral area is smaller than a predetermined value, and display the enlarged thumbnail image in a second peripheral area which is a peripheral area of the image related to the file or the thumbnail image after the movement.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a recognition result of a table image containing a table; and perform control such that a screen on which the table image and the recognition result are arranged for each row or column of the table in an alternate manner is displayed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a radiation-sensitive resin composition, in which an inter-lot variation in performance of radiation-sensitive resin compositions that have been filtered is suppressed, a pattern forming method, and a method for producing an electronic device. The method for producing a radiation-sensitive resin composition of an embodiment of the present invention has a step 1 of bringing a first solution including a first organic solvent into contact with a first filter to clean the first filter, and a step 2 of filtering a radiation-sensitive resin composition using the first filter cleaned in the step 1.

Abstract: The invention provides an all-solid-state battery stack with high voltage. The all-solid-state battery stack of the disclosure has a plurality of monopolar battery units stacked together via insulator layers. The monopolar battery unit also has a first current collector layer, a first active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a second active material layer, a second current collector layer, a second active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a first active material layer and a first current collector layer, stacked in that order. The plurality of monopolar battery units are connected together in series.

Abstract: A cathode active material with high durability and a lithium ion secondary battery. The cathode active material is a cathode active material represented by a general formula Li(1+a)NixCoyMnzWtO2 (?0.05?a?0.2, x=1?y?z?t, 0?y<1, 0?t<1, 0<t?0.03), wherein the cathode active material satisfies the following formula (1): ?1/t1?0.92??(1) where t1 is an element concentration average of insides and grain boundaries of primary particles of a W element, and ?1 is an element concentration standard deviation of the insides and grain boundaries of the primary particles of the W element.