Abstract: Objects are: to make a fixing structure in which an engagement part of a fixing member is inserted and fixed in a through hole of a plate-shaped member, into a structure in which the fixing member is easily detached from the through hole and is less likely to be damaged or broken when being detached; and to, in doing so, maintain the dustproof and waterproof performance, the molding processability, and the elasticity of a dish-like contact portion of the fixing member at the conventional level, and suppress a size increase. To attain these objects, in a fixing structure, arc-shaped bent portions are respectively formed at both ends of a dish-like contact portion which annularly contacts a through hole surrounding portion from a near side in an insertion direction, and are guide portions for a detachment jig to enter the inside of the dish-like contact portion in the fixing structure.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an identification unit configured to identify unique information on shoes using at least part of a captured image of the shoes, and a setting unit configured to set an association between an acquisition device configured to acquire the unique information and a module device attached to the shoes based on the unique information.

Abstract: A coil component includes a coil configured of a winding, an exterior body provided to cover the coil, and a terminal part configured to be continuous with the winding. A proximal end portion of the terminal part is buried in the exterior body. A distal end portion ahead of the proximal end portion is bent from the proximal end portion and located outside a mounting surface of the exterior body along the mounting surface.

Abstract: A controller of a thrust generating device executes one of first control of controlling thrust by changing the pitch angle of each blade while maintaining the rotational speed of a propeller at a reference value, or second control of allowing the thrust greater than the thrust generated in the first control to be generated by making the rotational speed of the propeller larger than the reference value.

Abstract: A water-absorbent resin containing a vinyl alcohol-based polymer and having a crystal melting enthalpy of more than 0 J/g in a dry state.

Abstract: A water-absorbent copolymer may include a vinyl alcohol constituent unit x and a constituent unit z other than the vinyl alcohol constituent unit x and a vinyl ester constituent unit y, wherein a ratio of a content of an average sequence of the constituent unit z to a content of the constituent unit z is 50.0 mol % or less.

Abstract: Problem To provide an apparatus for evaluating biological function, and a method and a program for evaluating biological function, for the purpose of measuring and quantifying biological function, to make possible the quantification of measured values concerning brain characteristics at time of rest. Means for resolution The apparatus for evaluating biological function (1) is [an apparatus] that utilizes the near-infrared spectroscopy method to evaluate biological function; measuring part 5 computes time course change amounts of oxyhemoglobin and time course change amounts of deoxyhemoglobin, based on light information from detecting parts 4; and it has a computing part 8, which obtains a group of zeroset vectors at prescribed sampling times based on 2-dimensional diagrams showing the relationship between change amounts of oxyhemoglobin and change amounts of deoxyhemoglobin, and computes parameters based on the directions and/or scalars of that vector group.

Abstract: A polyvinyl alcohol-based crosslinked copolymer may include an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid-based structural unit, wherein an amount of carboxylate-forming structural units in the crosslinked copolymer is 1% by mole or more and 35% by mole or less with respect to all structural units constituting the crosslinked copolymer, and a solubility of the crosslinked copolymer in water is 90% or less.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a modified polyvinyl alcohol resin, comprising step (A) of acetalizing polyvinyl alcohol particles swollen with a solvent capable of swelling the polyvinyl alcohol particles by reacting them with a carbonyl compound and/or an acetalized carbonyl compound in the presence of the solvent, wherein a content of an organic solvent in the solvent is 5% by mass or more.

Abstract: A water-absorbent resin containing a vinyl alcohol-based polymer and having a crystal melting enthalpy of more than 0 J/g in a dry state.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a modified polyvinyl alcohol resin, comprising step (A) of acetalizing polyvinyl alcohol particles swollen with a solvent capable of swelling the polyvinyl alcohol particles by reacting them with a carbonyl compound and/or an acetalized carbonyl compound in the presence of the solvent, wherein a content of an organic solvent in the solvent is 5% by mass or more.

Abstract: An apparatus and a program are provided which are capable of simultaneously measuring, evaluating, imaging and displaying the biological function of sites with different biological functions, such as the brain and the muscle, different parts of the brain or different muscle locations, using near-infrared spectroscopy. In an apparatus for evaluating biological function K, physiological indices, including parameters derived from changes in deoxyhemoglobin concentration and changes in oxyhemoglobin concentration, are calculated by a calculating part of a controller. To measure simultaneously, evaluate, image and display the biological functions of sites with different biological function, such as the brain and the muscle, different parts of the brain or different muscle locations, these physiological indices from different sites of the living body are adjusted in such a way that they can be compared with each other by the calculating part and displayed by a display part.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for white-matter-enhancement processing, and a method and a program for white-matter-enhancement processing that makes it possible to analyze distinguishing characteristics of the brain of a living body, such as degree of growth and development, left/right brain dominance, areas of strength and weakness, and personality traits.

Abstract: The brain state support apparatus 1 comprises a stimulus applying device 2, a light detecting device 3, a calculating section 13 for calculating the changed amount of total hemoglobin and the changed amount of oxygen saturation based on the light information, a determination section 14 for determining whether the brain state of the human body is in at least one of a relaxation mode, a concentration mode and an intermediate mode, based on the changed amount of total hemoglobin and the changed amount of oxygen saturation by applying a stimulus of an electrical signal having a predetermined frequency to the acupoint of the human body through the stimulus applying device 2; and a stimulus adjusting section 15 for adjusting a quantity of stimulus to be applied to an acupoint of the human body by the stimulus applying device 2.

Abstract: Paste which is prepared by any solid concentration and is excellent in terms of handleability, applicability, and storage stability; an electrolyte film or electrode film which is an even and highly flexible coating film formed in a desired thickness from the paste through a few repetitions of an application/drying step; and a polymer transducer which can be industrially and economically produced and shows excellent performance. The paste comprises: a solid polyelectrolyte (A) consisting of a block copolymer containing; a polymer block (a-1) which is represented by chemical formula (1) and a polymer block (a-2) which has substantially no ionic group and is rubbery at room temperature; an organic solvent (B) having a boiling point at 150° C. or higher; and non-dissociable particles (C) which are insoluble in the organic solvent (B) and have a major-axis length of 1-100 ?m and an aspect ratio of 5 or less.

Abstract: Paste which is prepared by any solid concentration and is excellent in terms of handleability, applicability, and storage stability; an electrolyte film or electrode film which is an even and highly flexible coating film formed in a desired thickness from the paste through a few repetitions of an application/drying step; and a polymer transducer which can be industrially and economically produced and shows excellent performance. The paste comprises: a solid polyelectrolyte (A) consisting of a block copolymer containing; a polymer block (a-1) which is represented by chemical formula (1) and a polymer block (a-2) which has substantially no ionic group and is rubbery at room temperature; an organic solvent (B) having a boiling point at 150° C. or higher; and non-dissociable particles (C) which are insoluble in the organic solvent (B) and have a major-axis length of 1-100 ?m and an aspect ratio of 5 or less.

Abstract: The brain state support apparatus 1 comprises a stimulus applying device 2, a light detecting device 3, a calculating section 13 for calculating the changed amount of total hemoglobin and the changed amount of oxygen saturation based on the light information, a determination section 14 for determining whether the brain state of the human body is in at least one of a relaxation mode, a concentration mode and an intermediate mode, based on the changed amount of total hemoglobin and the changed amount of oxygen saturation by applying a stimulus of an electrical signal having a predetermined frequency to the acupoint of the human body through the stimulus applying device 2; and a stimulus adjusting section 15 for adjusting a quantity of stimulus to be applied to an acupoint of the human body by the stimulus applying device 2.

Abstract: An apparatus and a program are provided which are capable of simultaneously measuring, evaluating, imaging and displaying the biological function of sites with different biological functions, such as the brain and the muscle, different parts of the brain or different muscle locations, using near-infrared spectroscopy. In an apparatus for evaluating biological function K, physiological indices, including parameters derived from changes in deoxyhemoglobin concentration and changes in oxyhemoglobin concentration, are calculated by a calculating part of a controller. To measure simultaneously, evaluate, image and display the biological functions of sites with different biological function, such as the brain and the muscle, different parts of the brain or different muscle locations, these physiological indices from different sites of the living body are adjusted in such a way that they can be compared with each other by the calculating part and displayed by a display part.

Abstract: The apparatus for evaluating biological function of the present invention has living body probes 1, a behavioral information measuring part 2 and an apparatus body 3, and it utilizes near-infrared spectroscopy to evaluate biological function; apparatus body 3 has a controller 8 for calculating (based on light information from living body probes 1) a variety of parameters derived from two-dimensional diagrams showing relationships between changes in oxyhemoglobin and changes in deoxyhemoglobin and two-dimensional diagrams showing relationships between absolute amounts of oxyhemoglobin and absolute amounts of deoxyhemoglobin, a behavioral information input part for entering behavioral information measured by means of behavioral information measuring part 12, and a display part 10 for performing various types of image displays based on various parameters calculated by means of controller 8 and/or behavioral information entered in the behavioral information input part.

Abstract: A dielectric material for a polymeric actuator having a moveable part of the polymeric actuator driven by an electric field, the dielectric material containing a block copolymer (A) having a microphase-separated structure including a polymer block (B1) and a polymer block (B2), both of which are immiscible with each other. A main compositional unit in both of the polymer block (B1) and the polymer block (B2) is a (meth)acrylic ester unit, the polymer block (B1) having an alpha-dispersion temperature of 70° C. or more, and the polymer block (B2) having an alpha-dispersion temperature of 25° C. or less. The polymeric actuator provides the dielectric material between electrodes.