Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding; and a coating resin layer coating the glass fiber, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and coating the glass fiber and a secondary resin layer coating the outer periphery of the primary resin layer, the primary resin layer has a Young's modulus of 0.4 MPa or less at 23° C. and the primary resin layer has an outer diameter of 185 ?m or more and 202 ?m or less, the secondary resin layer has a glass transition temperature of 60° C. or more and 95° C. or less, and the difference between the average linear expansion coefficient of the coating resin layer in the range of 60° C. to 140° C. and the average linear expansion coefficient of the coating resin layer in the range of ?60° C. to 0° C. is 0.7×10?4/° C. or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, and the primary resin layer and the secondary resin layer are resin layers containing inorganic oxide particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a resin composition for optical fiber coating, the resin composition including a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, in which a volume average particle size of the inorganic oxide particles as measured by a small angle X-ray scattering method is 800 nm or less, and a standardized dispersion of the volume average particle size is 60% or less.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber that includes a core and a cladding and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The coating resin layer includes a cured material of an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition having a dissolved oxygen concentration of greater than or equal to 8.5 mg/L.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an optical fiber, a dummy rod is connected to a vicinity of an upper end of a glass preform which includes a diameter-reduced portion at an upper portion thereof, and the glass preform is heated to be melt in a drawing furnace to draw an optical fiber. A cap member is provided at a position of the diameter-reduced portion, and an upper end of the cap member is disposed close to a lower end of the dummy rod. When an orthogonal coordinate axis is set, in which an outer diameter ratio of the cap member to the glass preform is set as a horizontal axis x, and an outer diameter ratio of the dummy rod to the glass preform is set as a vertical axis y, the x and the y satisfy an expression y?0.1527×x?3.103.

Abstract: An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer covering the outer periphery of the glass fiber, wherein the average linear expansion coefficient of the coating resin layer at ?50° C. or more and 0° C. or less is 3.3×10?5/° C. or more and less than 9.0×10?5/° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber comprising a glass fiber including a core and a clad; a primary resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber; and a secondary resin layer that coats the primary resin layer, in which the secondary resin layer is formed from a cured product of a resin composition that includes a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, a volume average particle size of the inorganic oxide particles as measured by a small angle X-ray scattering method is 800 nm or less, and a standardized dispersion of the volume average particle size is 60% or less.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glass preform, the method having: a depositing step for installing a starting rod and a burner for generating glass fine particles in a reaction container, introducing a siloxane as a glass raw material to the burner, oxidizing the glass raw material in a flame formed by the burner and generating glass fine particles, depositing the generated glass fine particles on the starting rod and fabricating a glass fine particle deposited body; and a transparentizing step for heating the glass fine particle deposited body and manufacturing a transparent glass preform, wherein, after the depositing step, the transparentizing step is performed after the glass fine particle deposited body is heated for a time range of one to eight hours in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature lower than the temperature of the transparentizing step.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first detection unit which detects an object around a vehicle, a second detection unit of which at least a part of a detection range overlaps a detection range of the first detection unit and which detects an object around the vehicle, and a determination unit which determines whether or not the object has started to move on the basis of detection results of the first detection unit and the second detection unit. The determination unit determines that the object has started to move in a case in which the vehicle and the object are in a halted state when a detection result of the first detection unit indicates that the object has started to move and a detection result of the second detection unit indicates that the object has started to move.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an optical fiber, a dummy rod is connected to a vicinity of an upper end of a glass preform which includes a diameter-reduced portion at an upper portion thereof, and the glass preform is heated to be melt in a drawing furnace to draw an optical fiber. A cap member is provided at a position of the diameter-reduced portion, and an upper end of the cap member is disposed close to a lower end of the dummy rod. When an orthogonal coordinate axis is set, in which an outer diameter ratio of the cap member to the glass preform is set as a horizontal axis x, and an outer diameter ratio of the dummy rod to the glass preform is set as a vertical axis y, the x and the y satisfy an expression y?0.1527×x?3.103.

Abstract: An optical fiber includes a glass fiber that includes a core and a cladding and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The coating resin layer includes a cured material of an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition having a dissolved oxygen concentration of greater than or equal to 8.5 mg/L.

Abstract: A peptide compound having a dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity or a composition containing the peptide compound that can make a contribution to the prevention of the onset of pathology or the progression in diabetes mellitus patients or those at risk of diabetes mellitus can be provided according to the present invention by a simple method using, as a raw material, milt of a fishery product, which has been eaten for ages and has high safety. In the present invention, a peptide compound having a peptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity obtained in a hydrolysate of a milt protein source obtained from a fishery product is used as an active component of a composition for inhibiting DPPIV.

Abstract: A seal structure of an optical fiber drawing furnace for sealing a gap between an upper end opening of the optical fiber drawing furnace and an optical fiber glass preform inserted from the upper end opening, includes a plurality of blade members, a support mechanism for supporting the plurality of blade members, and a pressing operation mechanism for individually pressing the plurality of blade members in a radial direction of the optical fiber glass preform so as to bring distal ends of the plurality of blade members into contact with a side surface of the optical fiber glass preform, wherein a pressing force at the time of bringing the plurality of blade members into contact with the optical fiber glass preform is set at 0.1 to 10 N per blade member.

Abstract: The invention provides a cut-out method capable of suppressing production of a byproduct, wherein the object RNA oligonucleotide is not cleaved from a universal linker, which is produced in cutting out the object RNA oligonucleotide from the universal support, and capable of increasing the yield of the object RNA oligonucleotide. The RNA oligonucleotide cut-out method includes a step of bringing a universal support supporting an RNA oligonucleotide in contact with an aqueous solution containing alkylamine and a monovalent inorganic salt.

Abstract: A composition which can efficiently obtain an effect of decreasing or suppressing an increase in the neutral fat level is provided. Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and/or eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is used as an active ingredient of a composition for decreasing or suppressing an increase in the neutral fat level, and the timing of intake of the active ingredient is within a time for intake within 6 hours after arousal from sleep including the breakfast time essentially including the breakfast time.

Abstract: A peptide compound having a dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity or a composition containing the peptide compound that can make a contribution to the prevention of the onset of pathology or the progression in diabetes mellitus patients or those at risk of diabetes mellitus can be provided according to the present invention by a simple method using, as a raw material, milt of a fishery product, which has been eaten for ages and has high safety. In the present invention, a peptide compound having a peptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity obtained in a hydrolysate of a milt protein source obtained from a fishery product is used as an active component of a composition for inhibiting DPPIV.

Abstract: A peptide compound having a dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity or a composition containing the peptide compound that can make a contribution to the prevention of the onset of pathology or the progression in diabetes mellitus patients or those at risk of diabetes mellitus can be provided according to the present invention by a simple method using, as a raw material, milt of a fishery product, which has been eaten for ages and has high safety. In the present invention, a peptide compound having a peptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV) inhibitory activity obtained in a hydrolysate of a milt protein source obtained from a fishery product is used as an active component of a composition for inhibiting DPPIV.

Abstract: Degranulation suppressors are provided that are effective against allergic disease and osteoarthritis. The degranulation suppressors contain chlorophyll c.

Abstract: Degranulation suppressors are provided that are effective against allergic disease and osteoarthritis. The degranulation suppressors contain chlorophyll c.

Abstract: Degranulation suppressors are provided that are effective against allergic disease and osteoarthritis. The degranulation suppressors contain chlorophyll c.