Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles that include a binder resin and a release agent and have an exposure ratio of the release agent of 15% or more and 30% or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an arithmetic average particle size of 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, the resin cover layers have an average thickness of 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces of the carrier three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.

Abstract: Provided are a dielectric material, a device including the dielectric material, and a method of preparing the dielectric material, in which the dielectric material may include: a layered perovskite compound, wherein the layered perovskite compound may include at least one selected from a Dion-Jacobson phase, an Aurivillius phase, and a Ruddlesden-Popper phase, a temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC) of a capacitance at 200° C. with respect to a capacitance at 40° C. may be in a range of about ?15 percent (%) to about 15%, and a permittivity of the dielectric material may be 200 or greater in a range of about 1 kilohertz (kHz) to about 1 megahertz (MHz).

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes a core material and a resin coating layer that contains strontium titanate particles and coats the core material, in which a content of the strontium titanate particles is 10% by mass or more and 55% by mass or less with respect to a total mass of the resin coating layer, and a proportion of strontium atoms within a surface of the resin coating layer, the proportion being determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, is 0.2 at % or more and 1.0 at % or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound having a STING agonistic activity, which may be expected to be useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of STING-related diseases. The present disclosure relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, or a salt thereof.

Abstract: When a trophy unlock condition is fulfilled, a trophy processing section 124 grants a virtual award to a user playing a game. A transmission processing section 126 transmits, to a server device 5, acquisition information regarding a trophy acquired by the user. A trophy information acquiring section 150 acquires, from the server device 5, information regarding a trophy that has a possibility of being acquired by the user next. A display processing section 140 displays the information acquired by the trophy information acquiring section 150.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes an illumination light generator configured to generate illumination pulses of coherent light, and a speckle modulator configured to modulate speckle caused by the coherent light. The illumination pulse generator repeatedly generates a single illumination pulse group including a plurality of illumination pulses as a repetitive illumination pulse group.

Abstract: Electrical cables and optical waveguides are disclosed as including an electrically insulative foam. The electrically insulative foam can coat at least one electrical conductor of the electrical cable. The electrically insulative foam can coat the optical fiber of the waveguide. The electrically insulative foam can also define a waveguide.

Abstract: Electrical cables and optical waveguides are disclosed as including an electrically insulative foam. The electrically insulative foam can coat at least one electrical conductor of the electrical cable. The electrically insulative foam can coat the optical fiber of the waveguide. The electrically insulative foam can also define a waveguide.

Abstract: An endoscope system includes a light source that emits lights with first to n-th wavelengths, a lens that makes the lights with the first to n-th wavelengths parallel lights, a diffractive optical element (DOE) that converges components of the lights with the first to n-th wavelengths, the components being included in the parallel lights, into first to n-th linear lights at mutually different positions, a slit that projects, onto a subject, first to n-th pattern lights based on the first to n-th linear lights, an imager that captures, as one-frame image, an image of the subject onto which the first to n-th pattern lights are projected, and a processor being configured to calculate a distance to the subject or a shape of the subject based on the image captured by the imager.

Abstract: Provided is a light distribution inspection device capable of accurately and easily inspecting light quantity and luminous intensity distribution of light emitted from a light guide member. A light distribution inspection device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire, based on a plurality of beams of inspection light each incident on a light guide of an illumination device, a light quantity distribution characteristic of each of a plurality of beams of emission light emitted from each of a plurality of emission sections of the illumination device optically connected to the light guide, in association with incident position information of each of the beams of inspection light; calculate light distribution information of the illumination device, based on each of pieces of the incident position information and each of the light quantity distribution characteristics; and analyze the light distribution information to calculate light quantity and luminous intensity distribution.

Abstract: An electrical contact for an electrical connector includes a contact body and a lossy material located on the contact body. An electrical connector includes contacts with a lossy material located on the contact body. A method of applying a lossy material to a contact for an electrical connector includes providing a contact and applying the lossy material to the contact.

Abstract: Radio frequency (RF) waveguides and related interconnect members are disclosed. The interconnect members can have a smaller footprint than WR15 flanges. Further, the interconnect members can be configured to mate with complementary interconnects without undergoing substantial relative rotation.

Abstract: An optical device includes a light source unit and a body unit. The light source unit includes a first light source configured to emit first irradiation light, a second light source configured to emit second irradiation light, a light source control unit, and a light collecting unit. The body unit includes an insertion section. The insertion section includes a light guide member, an optical system, an optical filter, a first imager configured to output image information of a subject, and a second imager configured to output distance information from the optical system to the subject. In the second irradiation light, light intensity is temporally modulated, and the first irradiation light and the second irradiation light are emanated from the insertion section.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of executing a plurality of tasks in real time and improving performances is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a plurality of processors and a plurality of DMA controllers as master, a plurality of memory ways as slave, and a real-time schedule unit for controlling the plurality of masters such that the plurality of tasks are executed in real time. The real-time schedule unit RTSD uses the memory access monitor circuit and the data determination register to determine whether or not the input data of the task has been determined, and causes the task determined to have the input data determined to have been determined to be executed preferentially.

Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of suppressing performance degradation and systems using the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of processors CPU1 and CPU2, a scheduling device 10 (ID1) connected to the processors CPU1 and CPU2 for controlling the processors CPU1 and CPU2 to execute a plurality of tasks in real time, memories 17 and 18 accessed by the processors CPU1 and CPU2 to store data by executing the tasks, and access monitor circuits 15 for monitoring accesses to the memories by the processors CPU1 and CPU2. When an access to the memory is detected by the access monitor circuit 15, the data stored in the memory 18 is transferred based on the destination information of the data stored in the memory 18.

Abstract: Electrical cables and optical waveguides are disclosed as including an electrically insulative foam. The electrically insulative foam can coat at least one electrical conductor of the electrical cable. The electrically insulative foam can coat the optical fiber of the waveguide. The electrically insulative foam can also define a waveguide.

Abstract: An electrical contact for an electrical connector includes a contact body and a lossy material located on the contact body. An electrical connector includes contacts with a lossy material located on the contact body. A method of applying a lossy material to a contact for an electrical connector includes providing a contact and applying the lossy material to the contact.

Abstract: Electrical cables are disclosed can include at least one electrical conductor, an inner electrical insulator that surrounds the at least one electrical conductor, and an electrical shield disposed about the inner electrical insulator. The electrical cables can include an electrically conductive material disposed between adjacent layers of the electrical cable. In one example, an electrical coating can be disposed in the electrical shield, for instance, in regions of overlap. Flowable electrically conductive materials are also disclosed that can flow into gaps during operation of the electrical cable.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide novel miR-143 derivatives described herein that can be used as oligonucleotide therapeutics.

Abstract: A connector includes a thermal metamaterial. The thermal metamaterial provides heat flow paths from inside of the connector to outside of the connector. In addition, an electrical connector includes an electrically insulating housing, an electrically conductive contact included in the electrically insulating housing, and a metamaterial thermally connected to one of the electrically insulating housing or the electrically conductive contact. The metamaterial thermally cools the electrical connector.