Abstract: A flat-plate portion of a negative electrode composite material layer includes a first end portion at one end portion in a direction of axis of winding of a flat electrode winding assembly, a second end portion located opposite to the first end portion, and a central portion lying between the first end portion and the second end portion. The flat-plate portion of the negative electrode composite material layer is provided with a plurality of communication grooves. The communication groove includes a first terminal end portion at the first end portion, includes a second terminal end portion at the second end portion, includes in the central portion, a starting portion located closer to a bottom portion of a prismatic case relative to the first terminal end portion and the second terminal end portion, and extends from the starting portion toward the first terminal end portion and the second terminal end portion.

Abstract: A film forming apparatus includes: a film forming gas discharge part; an exhaust port; a rotation mechanism; a heating part configured to heat the interior of a reaction container to a temperature lower than a temperature of a film forming gas discharged from the film forming gas discharge part; first gas discharge holes opened, in the film forming gas discharge part, toward a gas temperature reducing member so that the film forming gas is cooled by colliding with the gas temperature reducing member inside the reaction container before the film forming gas is supplied to substrates; and second gas discharge holes opened, in the film forming gas discharge part, in a direction differing from an opening direction of the first gas discharge holes so that the film forming gas does not collide with the gas temperature reducing member before the film forming gas is supplied to the substrates.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to: obtain a read image read from an image of a document output from an image reading device; detect an edge between a background area and a document area in the read image; sample a detection result of the edge at each first interval in a first direction to extract a first boundary point group including a plurality of boundary points; sample the detection result of the edge at each second interval in the first direction to extract a second boundary point group including a plurality of boundary points; determine a noise removal condition based on the first boundary point group; remove, from the second boundary point group, a boundary point satisfying the noise removal condition as noise; and calculate a linear equation approximating the second boundary point group from which the noise is removed.

Abstract: An image recognition device sets an overall observation region which surrounds a whole body of an object and partial observation regions which surround characteristic parts of the object respectively to locations in an image which are estimated to include captured images of the object. The device clips images in the overall observation region and the partial observation regions, and calculates similarity degrees between them and previously learned images on the basis of a combination of two image feature amounts. The device calculates an optimum ratio in combining the HOG feature amount and the color distribution feature amount individually for the regions. This ratio is determined by setting a weight parameter ?i for setting a weight used for combining the HOG feature amount and the color distribution feature amount to be included in a state vector and subjecting the result to complete search by a particle filter.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle cooling apparatus that includes: a PCU cooling unit for cooling a power control unit controlling an electric motor; a T/A cooling unit for cooling a drive-force transmitting apparatus including the electric motor; and a heat exchanger for transferring heat between the PCU cooling unit and the T/A cooling unit. The T/A cooling unit includes a first pump for circulating a refrigerant of the T/A cooling unit, while the PCU cooling unit includes a second pump for circulating a refrigerant of the PCU cooling unit. The control apparatus includes a controlling portion configured to cause the first pump to be driven when a temperature of the power control unit is higher than a threshold temperature value and a temperature of the refrigerant of the PCU cooling unit is higher than a temperature of the refrigerant of the T/A cooling unit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display system configured to control a plurality of display devices by combining a plurality of information processing devices and the display devices, even if the display system includes a display device incapable of communicating a switch signal with all of the information processing devices.

Abstract: Provided is a novel technique for controlling the blood-brain barrier. An antibody whose epitope is a region within an extracellular domain of Claudin 5 protein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display system comprising: first and second information processing devices; first and second display devices configured to switch between a first display mode, in which a first image output from the first information processing device is displayed across the first and second display devices, and a second display mode, in which a second image output from the second information processing device is displayed across the first and second display devices; a detector configured to detect whether a pointing position is positioned on a switch area arranged in at least one of the first and second display devices; and a display switcher configured to, when the detector detects the pointing position on the switch area in the first display mode, switch a display mode from the first display mode to the second display mode.

Abstract: A reactive power control device includes a limit value deriver configured to derive a limit value of reactive power, which is output by one or a plurality of power conversion devices determined for system stabilization and control of a system voltage, on the basis of a voltage of a point other than a voltage control target, and a command value adjuster configured to adjust a reactive power command value for the one or plurality of power conversion devices on the basis of the limit value derived by the limit value deriver.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel peptide. The present invention provides a peptide which comprises the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 30 and inhibits protease activity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire that can exhibit sufficient wet grip performance on roads in different areas. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a tread, the tread showing a loss tangent (tan ?) versus temperature curve whose peak position is at ?20.0° C. to 0.0° C. and whose tan ? at the peak position is 0.80 or higher, the curve being obtained by plotting tan ? as a function of measurement temperature, the curve having a tan ? at an intersection of a tangent line to the curve at a temperature lower by 20° C. than the peak position temperature and a tangent line to the curve at a temperature higher by 20° C. than the peak position temperature that satisfies the following relationship (1): (tan ? at peak position?0.05)?(tan ? at intersection)?(tan ? at peak position+0.05)??(1).

Abstract: An edge detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire first color information and second color information in an image including a document region and a background region outside the document region. The first color information is color information of the background region and the second color information is color information of the document region. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a boundary between the background region and the document region from a change in color information between the first color information and the second color information.

Abstract: A method including a step of preparing a positive electrode including a positive electrode mixture layer, a negative electrode including a negative electrode mixture layer, and a nonaqueous electrolyte; and a step of accommodating the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the nonaqueous electrolyte in a battery case. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains a compound (I) represented by the following formula (I) LiO3S—R—SO3Li (wherein R represents a linear hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms). When a BET specific surface area of the negative electrode mixture layer is represented by X (m2/g) and when an amount of the compound (I) with respect to the total amount of the nonaqueous electrolyte is represented by Y (mass %), the following relationships 3?X?4.3, 0.2?Y?0.4, and (Y/X)?0.093 are satisfied.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to: obtain a read image read from an image of a document output from an image reading device; detect an edge between a background area and a document area in the read image; sample a detection result of the edge at each first interval in a first direction to extract a first boundary point group including a plurality of boundary points; sample the detection result of the edge at each second interval in the first direction to extract a second boundary point group including a plurality of boundary points; determine a noise removal condition based on the first boundary point group; remove, from the second boundary point group, a boundary point satisfying the noise removal condition as noise; and calculate a linear equation approximating the second boundary point group from which the noise is removed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by performing a process on a substrate includes: forming a protective layer made of a polymer having a urea bond by supplying a raw material for polymerization to a surface of a substrate on which a protected film to be protected is formed; forming a sealing film at a first temperature lower than a second temperature at which the polymer is depolymerized so cover a portion where the protective layer is exposed; subsequently, subjecting the substrate to a treatment at a third temperature equal to or higher than the second temperature at which the polymer as the protective layer is depolymerized; subsequently, performing a treatment which causes damage to the protected film when the protective layer is not present; and after the performing a treatment which causes damage to the protected film, depolymerizing the polymer by heating the substrate.

Abstract: A compound is represented by the formula, R1 to R8 are each a hydrogen atom, aliphatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic group, heterocyclic group, a halogen atom, or the like. One of X1 to X3 is a sulfur atom, and the remaining two are carbon atoms having one R0. One of X4 to X6 is a sulfur atom, and the other two are carbon atoms having one R0. R0 is a hydrogen atom, aliphatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic group, heterocyclic group, a halogen atom, or the like. When X1 and X2 are each R0C, X2 and X3 are each R0C, X4 and X5 are each R0C, or X5 and X6 are each R0C, the adjacent R0s may be bounded to each other to form a cyclic structure.

Abstract: A history storage area (106) stores, for each of a plurality of pieces of data, number of times of access via a file system. A cache management unit (119), when access to the plurality of pieces of data not via the file system occurs, sets as overwrite prohibition data and caches in a disc cache area (108), data for which number of times of access that is equal to or more than a threshold is stored in the history storage area (106), the threshold being determined based on number of times of access of the plurality of pieces of data.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition which has excellent processability owing to its low rubber viscosity during kneading, despite containing a white filler, and which further has excellent fuel economy and excellent abrasion resistance. Also provided is a pneumatic tire formed from the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition including: a rubber component, a white filler, and a compound represented by the formula (1) below, wherein X represents —CONH— or —COO—; R1 represents a C7-C23 alkyl group or a C7-C23 alkenyl group; R2 represents a C1-C3 alkylene group; and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C3 alkyl group, or a C1-C3 hydroxyalkyl group, and at least one of R3 or R4 is the hydroxyalkyl group.

Abstract: An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on an outline of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object at detection positions in at least one of the main-scanning and sub-scanning directions on the outline of the object in the image information; detect a boundary group including detection results of the second boundary at the detection positions; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from detection results of the first boundary, the second boundary, and the boundary group.

Abstract: An inclination detecting device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect, in image information that is an image of an object imaged by an imaging device at an imaging position where a background member forms a background, a first boundary between the background member and a shadow of the object; detect a second boundary between the object and the shadow of the object in the image information; and detect an inclination of the object in the image information from the first boundary and the second boundary detected by the processing circuitry.