Abstract: A first game played by at least one user belonging to a team is executed, and a second game influenced by a result of the first game is executed. Then, at least before the first game is started, when the first game is suspended, or after the first game is ended, a first notification and a second notification for urging the user of the team to perform an operation of moving an entirety of a controller are given, and when the operation of moving the entirety of the controller is performed using the at least one controller operated by the users belonging to the team, and a success condition is satisfied, a game parameter used in the second game is increased or decreased so as to obtain an advantageous effect for the team or the user belonging to the team.

Abstract: Regarding game processing, a case where a screen is closer to vertical than a first reference is set to a first mode, and a case where the screen is closer to horizontal than the reference is set to a second mode. Then, in the first mode, a virtual camera is set to a first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which an information image is placed in a first direction is generated. In the second mode, the virtual camera is set to be further downward than the first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which the plurality of information images are placed in different directions is generated.

Abstract: An electronic component module including a fixing part, a function part housed in, or fixed to, the fixing part, at least one connection line, and at least one protrusion on the function part or the fixing part. The fixing part includes an abutting face, an outer face extending from an end of the abutting face in a direction including a component of a first direction, and an edge line along which the abutting and outer faces meet. The connection line is flexible, electrically connected to the function part, positioned on a second direction side relative to the abutting face, and configured to be led out in a third direction from an inside to an outside relative to the edge line. The protrusion extends at least partly in the third direction and is positioned at least partly on the first direction side relative to the connection line in the led-out state.

Abstract: A method of observing a liquid specimen in an electron microscope includes: housing the liquid specimen in a space formed by a specimen stage and a lid member; and observing the liquid specimen, wherein the lid member includes a water retaining material, and a supporting member for supporting the water retaining material, and the water retaining material is provided with a through-hole that enables passage of an electron beam with which the liquid specimen is irradiated.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a refrigeration cycle apparatus including an ejector capable of significantly increasing the pressure of sucked refrigerant and flowing out the refrigerant having the increased pressure toward a compressor.

Abstract: A network management system includes a plurality of server units. A first management server included in a first server unit transmits a disconnection setting request for disconnecting an abnormal flow to each of a communication node connected to a self-region covered by the first management server, and one or more second server units covering one or more primary adjacent regions adjacent to the self-region. Disconnection setting is executed in response to the disconnection setting request. Each of a plurality of regions includes two or more areas each of which is covered by corresponding one of two or more base stations connected to an identical communication node.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device. The developing device transports a two-component developer by a transporting unit so that the two-component developer passes through a developing roller. The two-component developer is stored in a storage chamber provided with a transporting path. The transporting unit rotates in the transporting path. The developing device causes a portion of the two-component developer to overflow from a discharge port provided at the transporting path, and to discharge the two-component developer. The image forming apparatus has a period in which a first operation is executed, the first operation of reversely rotating the transporting unit at a high speed so that a rotational direction of the transporting unit is an opposite direction to that at a time of development and a rotational speed of the transporting unit is higher than that at the time of development.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a refrigeration cycle device and three-way flow rate control valve. In a refrigeration cycle device including a compressor, first and second coolers configured to cool first and second storage compartments at least, respectively, and a mixer configured to mix refrigerants that have passed through the first and second coolers, a refrigerant flow path is switched so that refrigerants of first and second flow rates are circulated to the first and second coolers, respectively, while the first and second storage compartments are being cooled, and a refrigerant flow path is switched so that a refrigerant of a specific flow rate, which is smaller than a first flow rate but is not zero, is circulated to the first cooler after cooling of the first storage compartment is completed.

Abstract: The network system includes a plurality of communication nodes, a network that is connected to the plurality of communication nodes, and a network management server that is connected to the network. The network management server accepts information of a plurality of regions in each of which a plurality of areas that are assigned to the respective communication nodes are grouped, and the network management server executes setting of controlling an abnormal flow on the communication nodes to which the areas grouped in a first region in which the areas assigned to the communication node notifying detection of the mobile unit that transmits the abnormal flow are grouped and at least one second region adjacent to the first region are assigned.

Abstract: A first game played by at least one user belonging to a team is executed, and a second game influenced by a result of the first game is executed. Then, at least before the first game is started, when the first game is suspended, or after the first game is ended, a first notification and a second notification for urging the user of the team to perform an operation of moving an entirety of a controller are given, and when the operation of moving the entirety of the controller is performed using the at least one controller operated by the users belonging to the team, and a success condition is satisfied, a game parameter used in the second game is increased or decreased so as to obtain an advantageous effect for the team or the user belonging to the team.

Abstract: Regarding game processing, a case where a screen is closer to vertical than a first reference is set to a first mode, and a case where the screen is closer to horizontal than the reference is set to a second mode. Then, in the first mode, a virtual camera is set to a first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which an information image is placed in a first direction is generated. In the second mode, the virtual camera is set to be further downward than the first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which the plurality of information images are placed in different directions is generated.

Abstract: From a stored panorama moving image, panorama images are read and sequentially acquired every predetermined time for reproduction on a display device, each of the panorama images being a frame of the panorama moving image. A range to be displayed in a first display area is set in each of the acquired panorama images. A range to be displayed in a second display area is set in each of the acquired panorama images. The respective ranges of the acquired panorama images which are set to be displayed in the first display area are displayed in the first display area. The respective ranges of the acquired panorama images which are set to be displayed in the second display area are displayed in the second display area.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a pumped-storage power generation control device includes a control section that controls at least one of the pumping input of the pumped-storage power generation facility in the pumping operation and the power output of the pumped-storage power generation facility in the power generating operation such that a value, which is obtained by a predetermined calculation using the measurement value relating to the pumping input of the pumped-storage power generation facility in the pumping operation and the measurement value relating to the power output of the pumped-storage power generation facility in the power generating operation, becomes a set target value.

Abstract: A method of observing a liquid specimen in an electron microscope includes: housing the liquid specimen in a space formed by a specimen stage and a lid member; and observing the liquid specimen, wherein the lid member includes a water retaining material, and a supporting member for supporting the water retaining material, and the water retaining material is provided with a through-hole that enables passage of an electron beam with which the liquid specimen is irradiated.

Abstract: A mark indicating portion provided on a sidewall portion includes a reference surface provided on a surface of the sidewall portion and marks formed on the reference surface. A surface of each mark is inclined with respect to the reference surface in a direction in which a height thereof increases from one side to the other side in a tyre radial direction.

Abstract: In an optical signal transmission system for transmitting signal light through a transmitting fiber, an optical connector, and a receiving fiber to an optical receptacle, the relationships ?1ex<?2en and ?pd<?2en are satisfied, where ?1ex is the core diameter of the transmitting fiber at the exit face of the transmitting fiber, ?2en is the core diameter of the receiving fiber at the entrance face of the receiving fiber, and ?pd is the diameter of a receiving surface of a light receiving element in the optical receptacle, and the relationship NA1ex>Na2en is satisfied, where, in the optical connector, NA1ex is the numerical aperture (NA) of the signal light emitted from the transmitting fiber, and NA2en is the NA of the signal light incident on the receiving fiber.

Abstract: A network management system includes a plurality of server units. A first management server included in a first server unit transmits a disconnection setting request for disconnecting an abnormal flow to each of a communication node connected to a self-region covered by the first management server, and one or more second server units covering one or more primary adjacent regions adjacent to the self-region. Disconnection setting is executed in response to the disconnection setting request. Each of a plurality of regions includes two or more areas each of which is covered by corresponding one of two or more base stations connected to an identical communication node.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire which includes a tread portion having a tread inner surface provided with a noise damper. The noise damper includes sponge members arranged in a tire circumferential direction. Each sponge member includes an inner surface facing radially inwardly, wherein the inner surface of each sponge member includes protrusions protruding radially inward and recesses recessed radially outward, and the protrusions and the recesses are arranged alternately.

Abstract: A network management device retains path information of paths as a list of node identifying information to identify nodes, the path information including information on paths sharing a link regarding a relation in which one path shares a link with another path. According to the information on paths sharing a link, the network management device determines a path setup timing for a path to be the same for a group of one or more paths that do not share a same link with the path and determines a different path setup timing for a group of one or more paths that share a same link with the path than the timing for the group including the path, and executes path setup via communication devices existing on paths constituting each group of paths as per path setup timing determined for each group.

Abstract: This game system is provided with a plurality of information processing apparatuses that are capable of communicating with each other and include at least a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus, and a control unit that controls the plurality of information processing apparatuses. The first information processing apparatus includes a first display unit and a first touch panel that detects contact on the first display unit, and the second information processing apparatus includes a second display unit and a second touch panel that detects contact on the second display unit.