Abstract: Provided is a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode, or a secondary battery having high charge load characteristics. The positive electrode active material includes a lithium complex oxide having a layered rock-salt structure. The lithium complex oxide contains lithium, a metal element including at least one of cobalt and nickel, and potassium. A ratio of a substance amount of potassium contained in the lithium complex oxide to a substance amount of the metal element included in the lithium complex oxide is 0.0005 or more and 0.03 or less. In the lithium complex oxide, potassium is distributed so as to extend in a direction intersecting a <001> direction of the layered rock-salt structure.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a transmitting circuit that repeatedly outputs a first prescribed signal to a transmission path at a prescribed cycle; a receiving circuit that receives a second prescribed signal repeatedly output at the prescribed cycle from another communication device via the transmission path; a waveform equivalence processing unit that performs waveform equivalence processing on the signal received by the receiving circuit; a holding unit that holds parameters of the waveform equivalence processing; a storage unit that stores information on a signal propagation speed in the transmission path, duration of a prescribed cycle, and a transmission rate; and an abnormality position determining unit that calculates a distance to a position of an abnormality in the transmission path using information on the parameter caused by the abnormality of the transmission path among the parameters and the information stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: This document provides materials and methods involved in making and using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). For example, measles virus vectors for reprogramming somatic cells into iPSC's, methods for obtaining iPSCs, and methods for using iPSCs are provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for training a model includes a storage unit configured to store a parameter of the model trained by using a training data set, and the training data set, a detector configured to use the model to determine whether an anomaly is present in a test data set and store a determined result and the test data set in the storage unit, and a retraining unit configured to retrain the model by using the determined result, the test data set, and the training data set.

Abstract: This document provides materials and methods involved in making and using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). For example, measles virus vectors for reprogramming somatic cells into iPSCs, methods for obtaining iPSCs, and methods for using iPSCs are provided.

Abstract: An arithmetic operation device executes a test using a partially reconfigurable programmable logic unit, the programmable logic unit includes a test target circuit which is a user circuit, and a non-test circuit which is a user circuit which is not the test target circuit, and the arithmetic operation device includes a configuration control unit which causes the programmable logic unit to form, by partial reconfiguration, a test partition unit which separates the test target circuit and the non-test circuit, and a partition control unit which controls the test partition unit to test the test target circuit.

Abstract: A feature value generation device includes a generator configured to generate vectors whose elements are feature values of data items collected at a plurality of timings from a target of anomaly detection, so as to normalize or standardize the vectors based on a set of predetermined vectors; a learning unit configured to learn the predetermined vectors so as to output a learning result; and a detector configured to detect, for each of the vectors normalized or standardized by the generator, an anomaly based on said each of the vectors and the learning result. The set of predetermined vectors is a set of vectors with which no anomaly is detected by the detector, and the set of vectors is updated in accordance with no anomaly being detected by the detector.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for treating retinitis pigmentosa that includes statin-loaded nanoparticles. The pharmaceutical composition is used in a method of treating retinitis pigmentosa involving administering to a subject in need thereof the pharmaceutical composition that includes statin-loaded nanoparticles.

Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for treating cancer. For example, foamy viruses (e.g., simian foamy viruses) are provided as well as methods and materials for treating cancer using foamy viruses as an oncolytic agent.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes a first negative electrode active material particle, and the first negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based material. A Si2p spectrum obtained by measuring the first negative electrode active material particle in a state of 0.6 V (vs. Li/Li+) by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has a peak in a range from 99.0 eV to 105.0 eV, and a half width of the peak is 1.5 eV or more and 8.0 eV or less.

Abstract: This document provides methods and materials for treating cancer. For example, foamy viruses (e.g., simian foamy viruses) are provided as well as methods and materials for treating cancer using foamy viruses as an oncolytic agent.

Abstract: A vehicle power supply system, mounted on a vehicle including an internal combustion engine, includes: a main power supply system including a main low-voltage power supply; and a backup power supply system including a backup low-voltage power supply. A starter motor that starts the internal combustion engine is connected to the main power supply system. At least one of a vehicle control device, configured to control the main power supply system, the backup power supply system, the internal combustion engine and the starter motor, and a backup power supply control device of the backup power supply system is configured to execute an abnormality determination processing of determining whether an abnormality occurs in the main power supply system, and does not execute the abnormality determination processing when the starter motor is in operation, or determines that no abnormality occurs in the main power supply system in the abnormality determination processing.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material includes a first negative electrode active material particle, and the first negative electrode active material includes a silicon-based material. A Si2p spectrum obtained by measuring the first negative electrode active material particle in a state of 0.6 V (vs. Li/Li+) by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has a peak in a range from 99.0 eV to 105.0 eV, and a half width of the peak is 1.5 eV or more and 8.0 eV or less.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a negative electrode active material particle that includes a first object including a silicon oxide, and a second object including at least one of copper, a copper compound, tungsten, or a molybdenum oxide and attached to a surface of the first object. A Raman spectrum of the negative electrode active material particle has a maximum peak within a range of greater than or equal to 470 cm?1 and less than or equal to 490 cm?1. An XRD spectrum thereof has a peak within a range of 37°±1° and a peak within a range of 44°±1°, has a peak within a range of 40°±1°, or has a peak within any one of a range of 23°±1°, a range of 25°±1°, a range of 37°±1°, a range of 41°±1°, a range of 54°±1°, or a range of 60°±10.

Abstract: An electronic control device includes a receiving unit that receives a data signal from an external device via a transmission line, a determination criterion selection unit that determines a determination criterion based on transition information of a waveform in the data signal, and a condition determination unit that determines a condition of a communication system including the external device, the receiving unit, and the transmission line based on a transmission waveform characteristic in the data signal and the determination criterion.

Abstract: A wiring substrate is connected to a backplane, and includes: a first connector that is mounted on one surface of the wiring substrate and is connected to the backplane; an opening portion that is formed in the one surface on a side opposite to a side connected to the backplane of the first connector, and through which a cable having one end connected to the first connector is passed; an integrated circuit that is mounted on the one surface on a side opposite to a side on which the first connector is present relative to the opening portion; and a second connector that is mounted on the other surface on a side opposite to the one surface in the vicinity of the integrated circuit on the side opposite to the side on which the first connector is present relative to the opening portion, is connected to the integrated circuit via a through hole penetrating the wiring substrate, and is connected to the other end of the cable.

Abstract: An anomaly factor estimation apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to execute training an anomaly detection model for performing anomaly detection based on an error of output data with respect to input data represented by a multidimensional numerical vector; inputting test data into the anomaly detection model, to determine whether the test data corresponds to an anomaly based on output data output from the anomaly detection model and the test data; and calculating a degree of contribution to the anomaly for each dimension of the test data based on a likelihood of said each dimension, in response to determining that the test data corresponds to the anomaly.

Abstract: A vehicle power supply system, being mounted on a vehicle, includes: a main power supply system including a main low-voltage power supply and a normal load; and a backup power supply system including a backup low-voltage power supply and an emergency important load and connected to the main power supply system. A backup power supply control device of the backup power supply system is configured to execute a backup low-voltage power supply state estimation processing, and output a signal indicating that the backup low-voltage power supply is in a state allowing supplying electric power for operating the emergency important load based on an estimation result of the backup low-voltage power supply state estimation processing, in a case in which the state of the vehicle does not satisfy a predetermined condition.

Abstract: An arithmetic operation device executes a test using a partially reconfigurable programmable logic unit, the programmable logic unit includes a test target circuit which is a user circuit, and a non-test circuit which is a user circuit which is not the test target circuit, and the arithmetic operation device includes a configuration control unit which causes the programmable logic unit to form, by partial reconfiguration, a test partition unit which separates the test target circuit and the non-test circuit, and a partition control unit which controls the test partition unit to test the test target circuit.

Abstract: A feature value generation device includes a generator configured to digitize non-numerical text data items collected at a plurality of timings from a target of anomaly detection, to generate vectors whose elements are feature values corresponding to the digitized data items; a learning unit configured to learn the vectors during a learning period so as to output a learning result; and a detector configured to detect, during a test period, for each of the vectors generated by the generator, an anomaly based on said each of the vectors and the learning result.