Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode composition, the method including: a first step of mixing a first agent containing a binding material and a first liquid medium, a second agent containing carbon black and a second liquid medium, and a third agent containing carbon nanotubes and a third liquid medium to obtain a mixed solution; and a second step of mixing the mixed solution and an active material to obtain a positive electrode composition.

Abstract: Images of a livestock are taken, identifiers of the livestock are acquired, and the identifiers acquired and the images taken are stored in association with one another in a storage part. The images of the livestock identified by the same identifier, which had taken at different time points, are compared. Replacement of the livestock identified by the same identifier is reported when a change in the livestock that cannot occur during a predetermined time span is detected as a result of comparison.

Abstract: A positive electrode composition for a lithium ion secondary battery includes an active material that can occlude and release lithium ions and a conductive material, wherein the active material is a lithium cobalt composite oxide; the conductive material is carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g and a DBP absorption amount of 210 to 400 ml/100 g; the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 20 nm or less, a BET specific surface area of 170 m2/g or more, and an aspect ratio of 50 or more; and a carbon black content X (unit: % by mass) and a carbon nanotube content Y (unit: % by mass) in the positive electrode composition satisfy the following conditions (A) and (B): (A) 0.5?(X+Y)?2.0; (B) 0.80?{X/(X+Y)}?0.95.

Abstract: The present invention provides a D-glucaric acid-producing bacterium and a method for producing D-glucaric acid. The present invention is characterized in that D-glucaric acid or a salt thereof is produced from one or more saccharides selected from the group consisting of D-glucose, D-gluconic acid and D-glucuronic acid with catalytic action of a specific alcohol dehydrogenase PQQ-ADH (1) and a specific aldehyde dehydrogenase PQQ-ALDH (2), and that D-glucaric acid or a salt thereof is produced by using a microorganism having the PQQ-ADH (1) and the PQQ-ALDH (2) or a processed product thereof in the presence of the one or more saccharides. The present invention can provide a microorganism having improved productivity of D-glucaric acid to be used for production of D-glucaric acid and a method for efficiently producing D-glucaric acid.

Abstract: There is provided a health condition determination apparatus including: a behavior data acquisition part that acquires behavior data indicating a behavior of an animal acquired by executing at least one of monitoring and sensing on the animal; a behavior data accumulation part that accumulates the behavior data; and a health condition estimation part that estimates a health condition of the animal by using the behavior data.

Abstract: An evaluation apparatus includes: an evaluation method acquisition part configured to acquire evaluation method data from an evaluation method provision apparatus; an evaluation criteria creation part configured to create evaluation criteria information for evaluating collected information that integrates data collected from a field management system that manages field information based on the evaluation method data; an evaluation processing part configured to evaluate the collected information based on the evaluation criteria information and create an evaluation result.

Abstract: According to various aspects of the present invention, a positive electrode composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions, and a conductor, wherein the active material is a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese complex oxide; the conductor is a carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g, and a DBP absorption of 210 to 380 ml/100 g; and the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 7 to 15 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a DC magnetic field superconducting coil power supply device using a superconducting coil at low cost. A DC magnetic field superconducting coil power supply device 1 comprises: a superconducting coil 17; a power supply device 11 configured to supply a DC voltage; a plurality of chopper circuits 13 connected in parallel between one end of the power supply device 11 and one end of the superconducting coil 17; and a controller 18 configured to control the plurality of chopper circuits 13, wherein the 10 controller 18 is configured to operate the plurality of chopper circuits 13 in a time-division manner when charging the superconducting coil 17.

Abstract: A composition for a positive electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery, the composition comprising: an active material capable of storing and extracting lithium ion; and an electric conductive material, wherein the active material is lithium iron phosphate, wherein the conductive material includes carbon black and carbon nanotube, wherein the carbon black has an average primary particle diameter of 39 nm or less, and wherein the carbon nanotube has an average diameter of 20 nm or less.

Abstract: A gas sensor control device controls a gas sensor including a first pumping cell and a second pumping cell configured to output a current in accordance with a concentration of a specific component in a measurement target gas. The gas sensor control device has a microprocessor configured to, when calculating the concentration of the specific component, use a correction expression based on an index including at least either an initial offset indicating a current value when the concentration of the specific component at a first reference time is 0 or a difference between an ideal value and the current value when the concentration of the specific component at a second reference time is a set concentration, and a cumulative operating time which is a total operating time of the gas sensor from a third reference time.

Abstract: Provided is an article position management apparatus that a receiver receives image data from a camera apparatus and that identifies a position of an article, based on an article marker attached to an article and a reference point marker whose coordinate information in an absolute coordinate system in a field is set in advance, the article marker and the reference point marker being included in the image data, when the camera apparatus is a mobile camera apparatus, and identifies the position of the article, based on the article marker included in the image, when the camera apparatus is a fixed camera apparatus.

Abstract: A positive electrode composition containing carbon black, carbon nanotubes, an active material, and a binding material, in which the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g and a crystallite size (Lc) of 15 to 26 ?, the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 5 to 15 nm, and a ratio (average diameter/BET specific surface area) of the average diameter with respect to a BET specific surface area of the carbon nanotubes is 0.01 to 0.068 nm/(m2/g).

Abstract: A magnetic field generating device 1 comprises: an iron core 2; a pair of superconducting coils 3; and one or a pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers 4, wherein the iron core includes: a yoke 21; and a pair of split iron core portions 22 that are formed separately from the yoke, are located inside the yoke, and face each other with a work space therebetween, each of the pair of superconducting coils is wound around a different one of the pair of split iron core portions in a circumferential direction about an axis that is parallel to a direction in which the pair of split iron core portions face each other, a pair of split iron core coil assemblies 5 are stored in the one or pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers, and the yoke is located outside the one or pair of vacuum heat-insulation containers.

Abstract: A train monitoring system in the present embodiment is provided with a compartment camera 10 that takes an image of the inside of a compartment of the train, a processing server 30 that calculates a vacancy probability for each reserved seat on the basis of the image taken by the compartment camera 10 while the train is running and detects a resale candidate seat by comparing the vacancy probability with a threshold value, and a touch panel monitor 40 that displays resale candidate seat information indicating the resale candidate seat that has been detected by the processing server 30.

Abstract: Article position estimation system comprises: article movement recognition part; reference point recognition part; position information generation part; and article position estimation part. Article movement recognition part generates article movement information including time point when article is taken out by mobile body or time point when article placement is completed by mobile body. Reference point recognition part recognizes reference point and generates reference point recognition information including identification information according to recognized reference point, reference point recognition time point, and information related to recognized reference point. Position information generation part generates information related to position of mobile body at reference point recognition time point based on reference point recognition information.

Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and a cobalt content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 20 ppb or less.

Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and an iron content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 500 ppb or less.

Abstract: Carbon black in which an oil absorption amount is 150 mL/100 g or more and 400 mL/100 g or less and a nickel content that is measured by induced coupled plasma-mass spectrometry is 50 ppb or less.

Abstract: A navigation device includes an own vehicle position detecting unit configured to detect position information of own vehicle; a route setting unit configured to set a guidance route that guides the own vehicle to a destination on the basis of a first map including information of a traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; a matching unit configured to match a position of the own vehicle as a first own position with the traveling route where the own vehicle travels on the first map on the basis of the position information of the own vehicle; a driving lane detecting unit configured to match the position of the own vehicle as a second own position with a driving lane where the own vehicle travels on a second map on the basis of the second map including information of the driving lane in the traveling route and the position information of the own vehicle; and a calculating unit configured to determine whether the second own position is included in the first own position.

Abstract: Provided is a seal device, which can reliably prevent leakage of substances from a gap in a coupling portion for two flow paths while improving ease of operation at the time of coupling the two flow paths to each other and decoupling the two flow paths from each other. The seal device includes: a first flow path (16A) which allows substances to pass therethrough; a second flow path (16B) separably coupled to the first flow path (16A); a sealing member (52), which has elasticity, and is held in a gap in a coupling portion (15) between the first flow path (16A) and the second flow path (16B); and a movable member (30) that closes the gap in the coupling portion (15) by deforming the sealing member (52) when the first flow path (16A) and the second flow path (16B) are to be coupled to each other.