Abstract: A thermal head includes a substrate, electrodes, and a resistor layer. The electrodes are located on the substrate and extend along a first direction of the substrate in a plan view. The resistor layer is located on the substrate and on the electrode. The electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode arranged at a predetermined interval in a second direction intersecting the first direction. In at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, a central portion in the second direction protrudes out farther than an end portion in the second direction on the upper surface located below the resistor layer.

Abstract: An electrode device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an ion-conducting medium extending over and in contact with the first electrode and the second electrode. The ion-conducting medium is made of a bicontinuous microemulsion including a water phase as a continuous phase and an oil phase as a continuous phase. At least one of the water phase and the oil phase is a gel.

Abstract: A carbon electrode includes a substrate, and a conductive carbon layer disposed at an upper side of the substrate and having an sp2 bond and an sp3 bond. On an upper surface of the conductive carbon layer, the concentration ratio of oxygen to carbon is 0.07 or more. The ratio of a number of sp3 bonded carbon atoms to the sum of a number of sp2 bonded carbon atoms and the number of sp3 bonded carbon atoms is 0.35 or more.

Abstract: A BRDC sign detecting system includes: a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain, with respect to a bovine developing bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) within a time period required for a fattening process, data indicating a condition of the bovine during a predetermined time period in which the bovine did not yet develop the BRDC, and obtain data indicating a condition, during a predetermined time period, of a bovine that has not developed BRDC perform machine learning with respect to a correspondence relation between the obtained data indicating the condition during the predetermined time period and information indicating whether BRDC is developed, and infer, by inputting data indicating a condition of a new bovine during the predetermined time period into a learned model generated by performing the machine learning, information indicating whether the new bovine will develop BRDC and output an inference result.

Abstract: A wavelength-converting encapsulant composition is provided, which includes a first organic material capable of absorbing ultraviolet light and converting absorbed light to longer wavelength light; and a second organic material capable of absorbing light with a wavelength longer than that of the light absorbed by the first organic material and converting absorbed light to longer wavelength light, wherein the maximum emission wavelength ?1em of the first organic material and the maximum excitation wavelength ?2ex of the second organic material satisfy the relationship of formula (1): ?1em?60??2ex (nm), and which has high durability, is advantageous in terms of cost and suitable for use on solar cells, and can improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of solar cells by converting light in a wavelength region not contributable to power generation to light in another wavelength region contributable to power generation.

Abstract: Provided are a encapsulant composition that is for solar cells and can reduce the time required for a lamination process and improve light stability and resistance to moisture and heat, and a solar cell encapsulant layer and a solar cell module, each produced with the composition, wherein the composition includes an ethylenic copolymer and an organic peroxide having a peroxyester structure represented by formula (1) or (2) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent an optionally substituted alkyl group of 1 to 18 carbon atoms or an optionally substituted aryl group of 5 to 18 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A wavelength-converting encapsulant composition is provided, which includes a first organic material capable of absorbing ultraviolet light and converting absorbed light to longer wavelength light; and a second organic material capable of absorbing light with a wavelength longer than that of the light absorbed by the first organic material and converting absorbed light to longer wavelength light, wherein the maximum emission wavelength ?1em of the first organic material and the maximum excitation wavelength ?2ex of the second organic material satisfy the relationship of formula (1): ?1em?60??2ex (nm), and which has high durability, is advantageous in terms of cost and suitable for use on solar cells, and can improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of solar cells by converting light in a wavelength region not contributable to power generation to light in another wavelength region contributable to power generation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cured multilayer sheet production method, comprising adjacently laminating a first uncured layer formed by a first curable resin and a second uncured layer formed by a second curable resin to form a laminated body, wherein the first curable resin contains a first monomer or partial polymer thereof, and an immiscible substance, the second curable resin contains a second monomer and polymer, the first monomer concentration in the first curable resin is higher than the polymerizable monomer concentration in the second curable resin, wherein in the laminating step, the immiscible substance is eccentrically distributed on or near an interface on the side opposite to the second uncured layer, and thereafter curing the layers, so that a cured multilayer sheet, wherein a substance different from a polymer cured layer is eccentrically located on the surface of the polymer cured layer, is produced at high productivity.