Abstract: Provided are a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein and a method for producing a polyisoprenoid, which enable the production of a high molecular weight polyisoprenoid. Included is a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein obtained by mutating the amino acid sequence of a C-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein not found on rubber particles to be identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of a C-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein found on rubber particles.

Abstract: Provided are a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein and a method for producing a polyisoprenoid, which enable the production of a high molecular weight polyisoprenoid. Included is a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CET) family protein obtained by mutating the amino acid sequence of a N-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein not found on rubber particles to be identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of a N-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein found on rubber particles, and mutating the amino acid sequence of a C-terminal region of the cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein not found on rubber particles to be identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of a C-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein found on rubber particles.

Abstract: Provided are a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein and a method for producing a polyisoprenoid, which enable the production of a high molecular weight polyisoprenoid. Included is a mutant cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein obtained by mutating the amino acid sequence of a N-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein not found on rubber particles to be identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of a N-terminal region of a cis-prenyltransferase (CPT) family protein found on rubber particles.

Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution for a nonaqueous electrolytic solution battery in which even if the nonaqueous electrolytic solution is applied to a positive electrode having a content of nickel of 30% by mass to 100% by mass in a metal contained in a positive electrode active material, an effect of improving output characteristics after cycle and an effect of reducing a deposition amount of a negative electrode current collector metal on a surface of a negative electrode after initial charging and discharging can be exerted in a well-balanced manner.

Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to implement capturing of mist. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a carriage, on which a print head that ejects a liquid is mounted, configured to reciprocate within a predetermined range in a second direction intersecting with a first direction; a partition member configured to partition an inside of the casing in the first direction into a first space in which the carriage reciprocates and a second space in which the carriage does not reciprocate; a first communication unit provided within the predetermined range in the second direction and configured to cause the first space and the second space to communicate with each other; and a second communication unit provided outside the first communication unit in the second direction and configured to cause the first space and the second space to communicate with each other.

Abstract: A method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, in which a copolymer starting material containing a trioxane and a comonomer is subjected to a polymerization reaction in the presence of a polymerization initiator that contains an acidic compound (A), and where: the copolymer starting material contains a basic compound (B); an acidic compound (C) that is different from the acidic compound (A) is added into the copolymer starting material before performing the polymerization reaction, thereby causing a reaction between the basic compound (B) and the acidic compound (C) in advance; and the polymerization reaction is carried out by means of melt polymerization.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing system including: an image processing device; a microphone that is capable of acquiring speech; a retaining unit configured to retain, in a history database, setting values for image processing utilized in the past; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based at least on that a specific word has been recognized in a result of speech recognition on speech acquired by the microphone, one or more setting values from the history database using an extraction condition corresponding to the specific word, and a setting unit configured to set up a new job to be executed by the image processing device based on the one or more setting values.

Abstract: An array antenna device includes: a ground plate that is a flat-plate shaped conductor; an element antenna array in which a plurality of tapered slot antennas are linearly arranged on the ground plate along an electric field direction; and a metal plate provided at both ends or one end of an antenna aperture formed in the element antenna array arranged on the ground plate along the electric field direction, the metal plate having a height from the ground plate higher than a height of the tapered slot antenna.

Abstract: A high frequency circuit includes: a first wire provided on a front surface of a board and being in contact with a heat generation part; a second wire provided on the front surface of the board and connected to ground; and a chip resistor connected between the first wire and the second wire and having a thermal conductive characteristic and an electric insulation characteristic, and the first wire includes: a wire part which is disposed between the heat generation part and the chip resistor, and which has a characteristic impedance equal to an impedance as a reference for impedance matching in the first wire; and a wire part which is disposed on a low temperature side with the chip resistor being set as a boundary, and which has a thermal resistance higher than that of the chip resistor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a clamper including a current source that is connected between an external electrode and an internal node and generates a predetermined constant current, a diode having an anode connected to the internal node, and a current mirror that generates a second current corresponding to a first current flowing via the diode and draws the second current from the internal node to a reference voltage node.

Abstract: In order both to accommodate instantaneous current as well as overcurrent protection in accordance with the load, an overcurrent protection circuit has: a threshold value generation unit that, in accordance with a threshold value control signal, switches between setting an overcurrent detection threshold value to a first set value (? Iref) and a second set value (? Iset) lower than the first set value; an overcurrent detection unit that compares a sense signal in accordance with the current being monitored and the overcurrent detection value and generates an overcurrent protection signal; a reference value generation unit that generates a reference value (? Iset) in accordance with the seconds set value; a comparison unit that compares the sense signal and the reference value, and generates a comparison signal; and a threshold value control unit that monitors the comparison signal, and generates a threshold value control signal.

Abstract: An alloy particle contains: total content of Fe and Co: from 82.2 to 96.5 parts by mass; Co: 0 to 30.0 parts by mass; P: 0 to 4.5 parts by mass; B: more than 0 to 5.0 parts by mass; C: 0 to 3.0 parts by mass; Si: 0 to 6.7 parts by mass; Ni: more than 0 to 12.0 parts by mass; Cr: more than 0 to 4.2 parts by mass; total content of Mo, W, Zr, and Nb: 0 to 4.2 parts by mass; total content of P and Cr: 7.4 parts by mass or less; multiplication product of the parts by mass of Ni and Cr: 0.5 or more; and total content of Fe, Co, and Ni: 97.0 parts by mass or less. The alloy particle contains an amorphous phase, and a volume percentage of the amorphous phase is 70% or higher.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for 1T and 2T memory cell architectures. A memory array includes a word line which has both 1T and 2T portions. In the 1T portion, each sense amplifier is coupled to one memory cell along the word line. In the 2T portion, sense amplifiers are coupled to more than one memory cell along the word line each. For example, each sense amplifier in the 2T portion may be coupled to two bit lines, each of which intersect a memory cell along the word line. In some embodiments, the 2T portion may store a count value which represents an access count to the word line.

Abstract: A computer system gives an object to a player who has satisfied a given game condition in a game in which a plurality of players participate. The computer system gives a given prize to an owner player having the object when the owner player has satisfied a given prize giving condition. In the case where an owner player lost in a competition between the owner player and another player, the computer system confiscates an object from the owner player, thereby turning the owner player to a non-owner player, and turning another player to a new owner player.

Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to render each module easily replaceable and facilitate construction of a system in which an existing application has been incorporated. The present disclosure provides a router device including: a routing module that performs a routing process on a packet; a functional module that executes any operation on the packet subjected to the routing process performed by the routing module; and a config module that sets a communication path that connects between the routing module and the functional module.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, which is capable of producing an oxymethylene copolymer having a high molecular weight with high yield and high economic efficiency. This problem is able to be solved by a method for producing an oxymethylene copolymer, in which a copolymer starting material containing a trioxane and a comonomer is subjected to a polymerization reaction in the presence of a polymerization initiator that contains an acidic compound (A), and wherein: the copolymer starting material contains a basic compound (B); an acidic compound (C) that is different from the acidic compound (A) is added into the copolymer starting material before performing the polymerization reaction, thereby causing a reaction between the basic compound (B) and the acidic compound (C) in advance; and the polymerization reaction is carried out by means of melt polymerization.

Abstract: An electric power equipment includes a drive source, a clutch provided in a power transmission path between the drive source and the travel unit and a controller for controlling an operation of the drive source. Wherein the controller is configured that in a process of increasing a speed in accordance with a rotational speed command value, when a rotational speed of the drive source reaches the clutch connection rotational speed, the increasing of the speed in accordance with the rotational speed command value is interrupted, and when the rotational speed of the drive source reaches a predetermined rotational speed, the increasing of the speed in accordance with the rotational speed command value is performed.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a polyisoprenoid, which makes it possible to synthesize in vitro a polyisoprenoid having an unprecedented structure, such as a 100% cis-polyisoprenoid or a polyisoprenoid containing an allylic diphosphate derivative as an initiating terminal. The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a polyisoprenoid in vitro, which employs a gene coding for a neryl diphosphate synthase and rubber particles bound to a protein encoded by the gene, or a method for producing a polyisoprenoid, which includes introducing into a plant a vector in which a gene coding for a neryl diphosphate synthase is linked to a promoter having a promoter activity that drives laticifer-specific gene expression to express a protein encoded by the gene specifically in laticifers.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing system including: an image processing device; a microphone that is capable of acquiring speech; a retaining unit configured to retain, in a history database, setting values for image processing utilized in the past; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based at least on that a specific word has been recognized in a result of speech recognition on speech acquired by the microphone, one or more setting values from the history database using an extraction condition corresponding to the specific word, and a setting unit configured to set up a new job to be executed by the image processing device based on the one or more setting values.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: generate an identification image in response to at least one of a thread and a digital document posted on the thread being specified, the thread being displayed on a service screen of a message exchange service, the identification image being linked with information for accessing the thread; and perform control to output the generated identification image in a readable format.