Abstract: A communication device may establish a session with a target server, execute a communication confirmation repeatedly, the communication confirmation including that the communication device sends a confirmation signal to the target server and receives a response signal from the target server, and adjust a waiting time. In a case where a proxy server is used in communication between the communication device and the target server, the communication device adjusts the waiting time by instructing the target server to use a first time as the waiting time. In a case where the proxy server is not used in communication between the communication device and the target server, the communication device adjusts the waiting time by instructing the target server to use a second time as the waiting time, the second time being longer than the first time.

Abstract: A communication device may establish a session with a target server, execute a communication confirmation repeatedly, the communication confirmation including that the communication device sends a confirmation signal to the target server and receives a response signal from the target server, and adjust a waiting time. In a case where a proxy server is used in communication between the communication device and the target server, the communication device adjusts the waiting time by instructing the target server to use a first time as the waiting time. In a case where the proxy server is not used in communication between the communication device and the target server, the communication device adjusts the waiting time by instructing the target server to use a second time as the waiting time, the second time being longer than the first time.

Abstract: A function executing device may comprise a first wireless interface according to a Bluetooth Low Energy scheme being capable of repeatedly sending an advertising signal. The function executing device may after a first advertising signal in which a first radio field intensity is used has been sent from the first wireless interface, receive a specific signal via the first wireless interface from a terminal device, change a radio field intensity used for sending the advertising signal from the first radio field intensity to a second radio field intensity lower than the first radio field intensity, and after a second advertising signal in which the second radio field intensity is used has been sent from the first wireless interface, establish a first wireless connection with the terminal device via the first wireless interface.

Abstract: A disposable diaper has front and rear waist regions, a crotch region, and an absorbent chassis. The absorbent chassis includes an absorbent structure and a pair of side flaps. Each of the side flaps has layered sheet materials and includes a distal edge, a cuff branch line between the side edge of the absorbent structure and the distal edge, a leg-opening elasticized area between the cuff branch line and the distal edge, and a leakage-barrier cuff branched from the cuff branch line and intersecting with the leg-opening elasticized area. The leakage-barrier cuff has a free edge parallelly-spaced from the cuff branch line. The distance from the cuff branch line to the distal edge is larger than from the cuff branch line to the free edge. The number of sheet material layers included in the leg-opening elasticized area is larger than in the leakage-barrier cuff.

Abstract: An absorbent article having a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a front-back direction that intersect each other. The absorbent article includes: a front portion disposed in a front side of the front-back direction; and a back portion disposed in a back side of the front-back direction and that includes a portion having a different function from the front portion. The front portion includes a front appearance graphic that shows at least a part of a front appearance of a character. The back portion includes a back appearance graphic that shows at least a part of a back appearance of the character.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus comprising: at least one controller, having at least one processor which executes instructions stored in at least one memory and/or at least one circuitry, being configured to: generate intermediate data by analyzing PDL data; generate a color conversion table based on a predetermined color conversion method; rewrite color information contained in the intermediate data by using the color conversion table; and perform rendering based on the intermediate data after the rewrite of the color information.

Abstract: A diaper has vertical and lateral directions, and a skin facing surface and a non-skin facing surface on an opposite side thereof, includes a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region positioned between the front and rear waist regions, and includes a pair of leg openings, and a waist opening defined by side edges of the front and rear waist regions. At least one of the front and rear waist regions includes a pair of tape fasteners fixed to the non-skin facing surface of the side edges. At least one of the front and rear waist regions includes a pocket openable toward the crotch region, on the skin facing surface. An upper end of a fixing part of the tape fastener is positioned at a lower side of a closing edge (folding part) positioned on the waist opening side of the pocket in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A composition is provided for controlling pests containing a carboxamide compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom, and one or more compounds selected from the following group (A), wherein the group (A) is a group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (II): and a compound represented by the following formula (III): which has an excellent efficacy for controlling pests.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus is provided. The polishing apparatus includes: a polishing unit configured to polish a substrate by bringing a polishing tool into contact with the substrate and moving the substrate relatively to the polishing tool; a cleaning unit; and a first transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate before polishing to the polishing unit and/or configured to transfer the substrate after polishing from the polishing unit to the cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes: at least one cleaning module, a buff processing module configured to perform a buff process to the substrate, and a second transfer robot configured to transfer the substrate between the cleaning module and the buff processing module, the second transfer robot being different from the first robot.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a side frame formed by filling a mold with a material, the side frame extending along forward and backward directions and having a front lower portion and a rear lower portion; a front leg attached to the front lower portion of the side frame to support the side frame between the front lower portion and a vehicle floor surface; and a rear leg attached to the rear lower portion of the side frame to support the side frame between the rear lower portion and the vehicle floor surface.

Abstract: A communication device may receive first authentication information from a specific server, store the first authentication information in a memory, store selection information in the memory in a case where one or more service providing servers are selected by a user, send the first authentication information in the memory and first related information to the specific server in a case where the selection information is stored in the memory, determine whether the selection information is stored in the memory in a case where a deletion instruction for instructing deletion of information in the memory is acquired; and delete the first authentication information in the memory in a case where it is determined that the selection information is not stored in the memory. The first authentication information may be not deleted in a case where it is determined that the selection information is stored in the memory.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disposable wearing article which prevents a position shift of a front waist region without a part of a front waist region receding in a concave portion of the abdomen of the wearer. A plurality of linear front waist elastics contractible in a lateral direction is disposed in a front waist region of a disposable wearing article. The front waist elastics have (include) a first elastic positioned adjacent to an outer side of a front-end edge of a liquid absorbent core in a vertical direction, a second elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the front-end edge in the vertical direction, and a third elastic positioned adjacent to an inner side of the second elastic in the vertical direction. A contractile force of the first elastic and the second elastic is weaker than a contractile force of the third elastic.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal radiation light source that allows a wider range of material choices than those of conventional techniques, so that light having a desired peak wavelength can easily be obtained. A thermal radiation light source 10 includes a thermo-optical converter made of an optical structure in which a refractive index distribution is formed in a member 11 made of an intrinsic semiconductor so as to resonate with light of a shorter wavelength than a wavelength corresponding to a bandgap of the intrinsic semiconductor. When heat is externally supplied to the thermo-optical converter, light having a spectrum in a band of shorter wavelengths than a cutoff wavelength is produced by interband absorption in the intrinsic semiconductor, and light of a resonant wavelength ?r in the wavelength band, the light causing resonance in the optical structure, is selectively intensified and emitted as thermal radiation light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable absorbent wearing article with a given part curved to protrude outward. At least one waist region, which is at least one of front and rear waist regions in a disposable absorbent wearing article such as a pull-on diaper includes an elastic band that form a part of a skin-facing surface and extends in a lateral direction. The elastic band has a middle part in the lateral direction elastically contracting, with an elastic contraction amount of the middle part being larger than a component part of article facing the middle part without being joined to the middle part, in a thickness direction of the middle part in the lateral direction. An absorbent core material in the at least one waist region has a deformation guide extending in a direction crossing the elastic band, formed to facilitate forming of a bulging part in the wearing article.

Abstract: Disclosed is a disposable wearing article in which a front waist region has an appropriate retaining force and free from a possibility that the lower abdominal region may be tightened. On a body facing surface, an elastic strip extending in a lateral direction between both lateral edges is located along a lower edge area of a front waist region of the disposable wearing article.

Abstract: Exemplary substrate supporting apparatus and method for attaching and/or detaching substrate are provided. In one aspect, substrate supporting apparatus has a plurality of supporting members 10 that contacts a circumferential part of a substrate W and rotate the substrate W; a pair of driven members 30 on which the plurality of supporting members 10 are provided; a connecting member 20 connecting one driven member 31 and another driven member 32; and a driving device 40 that brings the pair of driven members 30 close to each other or separates the pair of driven members 30 from each other, linearly along a first direction, by moving at least a part of the connecting member 20. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seat back and a seat frame. The seat frame has a first member provided with a first engaging pawl and a first pressing surface, a second member provided with a second engaging pawl and a second pressing surface, and a third member provided with a first concave portion and a second concave portion. The first engaging pawl is disposed on an inner side of the first concave portion, the second engaging pawl is disposed on an inner side of the second concave portion, and at least a portion of the first pressing surface and at least a portion of the second pressing surface press each other, causing the first engaging pawl to engage with the first concave portion, and the second engaging pawl to engage with the second concave portion.

Abstract: A thermal radiation light source includes a laminated body including m quantum layers laminated where m is an integer of 2 or more, including an n-layer and a p-layer sandwiching the quantum layers from both sides in the laminating direction, the n-layer made of an n-type semiconductor and the p-layer made of a p-type semiconductor; a voltage applying unit for the m quantum layers is directly or indirectly connected to the n-layer and p-layer sandwiching each layer applying a voltage for moving to the n-layers or p-layers a charge; a voltage switching unit switches ON/OFF of application of the voltage to the m quantum layers; and a photonic crystal portion disposed in the laminated body or adjacent to the laminated body, so that lights of m wavelengths resonate, the lights of the m wavelengths generated in the m quantum layers corresponding to transition energy between subbands in the quantum layer.

Abstract: An optimization apparatus includes one or more memories and one or more processors. For an operation node constituting a representation of an operation of a neural network, the one or more processors are configured to calculate a time consumption for recomputing an operation result of a focused operation node, from another operation node whose operation result has been stored, and acquire data on the operation node whose operation result is to be stored, based on the time consumption.

Abstract: A vehicle seat to which a child seat is capable of being fixed, the vehicle seat including: a first fixture and a second fixture which are disposed while being spaced apart from each other in a seat-width direction, wherein the first fixture includes: a first engaging portion including first and second end parts and configured to be engageable with a first connector provided to the child seat, the first and second end parts being positioned on opposite sides from each other in the seat-width direction; a first leg portion including a first root part; and a second leg portion including a second root part, and wherein a center position in the seat-width direction of the first engaging portion and a center position in the seat-width direction between the first root part and the second root part are different from each other in the seat-width direction.