Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sputtering target with which an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects can be formed is provided. Alternatively, an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects is formed. A method for manufacturing a sputtering target is provided, which includes the steps of: forming a polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide (M represents a metal chosen among aluminum, titanium, gallium, yttrium, zirconium, lanthanum, cesium, neodymium, and hafnium) powder by mixing, sintering, and grinding indium oxide, an oxide of the metal, and zinc oxide; forming a mixture by mixing the polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide powder and a zinc oxide powder; forming a compact by compacting the mixture; and sintering the compact.

Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary portion and a movable portion to vibrate in a central axis direction with respect to the stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a housing and a coil on an outer side in a radial direction of the movable portion. The movable portion includes a core portion including a magnet. The housing houses the movable portion and the coil, and includes a peripheral wall portion on an outer side in the radial direction of the coil and extending in an axial direction, and a magnetic portion on a portion of the peripheral wall portion and including a magnetic body. At least a portion of the magnetic portion opposes the coil in the radial direction and extends in a circumferential direction. The peripheral wall portion includes a through hole adjacent to the magnetic portion in the axial direction and extends in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An image analyzer including: an area setting unit configured to extract a scratch area that is an area having no cells from a reference image selected from a plurality of images acquired by imaging cells in a time series and set a reference region corresponding to the scratch area in the plurality of images; a calculation unit configured to calculate an area of a cell region within the reference region and/or the ratio of an area of the cell region to the reference region from the plurality of images; and a control unit configured to cause a display device to display a change in a time series of the calculated area of the cell region and/or the ratio of the area of the cell region to the reference region.

Abstract: A cell tracking method for performing cell tracking on the basis of a plurality of cell images captured in time series, including an extraction process of extracting a tracking region corresponding to the cell for each cell images; a tracking process of calculating a change information in a position of the extracted tracking region and tracking the cell on the basis of the change information; a determination process of determining whether or not the cell as a tracking target is in a cell division state on the basis of the cell image; and an analysis process of analyzing a movement state of the cell on the basis of the change information from which the change information in a period of the cell division state is excluded when the cell is determined to be in the cell division state in the determination process.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image processing unit that performs image processing on an observed image in which a cell is imaged and an image processing method selector that is configured to determine an observed image processing method for analyzing the imaged cell on the basis of information of a processed image obtained through image processing of the image processing unit.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an associating unit configured to associate information on an identification element used to identify a cell in imaged cell information with information on a non-identification element serving as an element of the cell which is not the identification element on the basis of the information on the identification element and information of the non-identification element; and a status determination unit configured to determine a cell status on the basis of the information on the identification element and the information on the non-identification element associated together by the linking unit.

Abstract: An image processing device includes: an associating unit configured to associate information on an identification element used to identify a cell in imaged cell information with information on a non-identification element serving as an element of the cell which is not the identification element on the basis of the information on the identification element and information of the non-identification element; and a status determination unit configured to determine a cell status on the basis of the information on the identification element and the information on the non-identification element associated together by the linking unit.

Abstract: An image processing device includes an image processing unit that performs image processing on an observed image in which a cell is imaged and an image processing method selector that is configured to determine an observed image processing method for analyzing the imaged cell on the basis of information of a processed image obtained through image processing of the image processing unit.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a shaft and an armature with a core that includes a shaft hole. The core includes a plurality of core materials that are laminated. When pressing in and fixing the shaft to the shaft hole, the shaft hole is applied with an ironing process in advance in order to rectify a cylindrical hole shape of the shaft hole.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a shaft and an armature with a core that includes a shaft hole. The core includes a plurality of core materials that are laminated. When pressing in and fixing the shaft to the shaft hole, the shaft hole is applied with an ironing process in advance in order to rectify a cylindrical hole shape of the shaft hole.

Abstract: An audio disk/memory disk player. At the time of playing a disk, TOC information in a lead-in area will be read out first after loading of the disk is complete. The player determines whether the disk to be played is an audio disk (CD) or a memory disk (CD-ROM) based on identifying information in the TOC information. If the disk is the memory disk, the operation goes directly to a pause mode so that upon reception of a read command transition to the searching for a designated address is promptly executed to quickly read out the desired data. Only when the disk being played is the audio disk, the audio system is changed to the audio disk from another source, thus permitting a user to view a map while listening to the previous source. When playing for an area having a series of group information recorded is complete in special play mode, the mode is quickly changed to the pause mode in the case of the memory disk to wait for the read command, thus ensuring quick reading of designated map data.

Abstract: The present invention overcomes drawbacks of prior composite sheets consisting of a spun-bonded nonwoven fabric and pulp fibers and provides an inexpensive composite sheet with excellent draping qualities, a nearly fabric-like touch and good usability. According to the present invention, a composite sheet made by entangling a web of thermoplastic filaments with pulp fibers under water stream is creped to increase the elongation in machine direction as high as in cross direction enough to obtain a usability equal to those of fabric wipers.

Abstract: Provided are an ink jet recording paper which is provided with a recording layer having a coverage rate of from 0.1 to 10 g/m.sup.2 on at least one side of a base paper and has a basis weight of from 50 to 100 g/m.sup.2, with the recording paper having an irreversible shrinkage factor of from -0.05% to 0.10% in the CD direction when it is put under an environment that the relative humidity thereof is raised to 95% from 35% and then lowered to 35% and further showing a shrinking rate of from 0.15% to 0.25% in the CD direction by the change in relative humidity of the environment from 75% to 60% during the process of lowering the relative humidity from 90% to 35%.

Abstract: Provided is a cast-coated pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet which hardly causes a curling trouble after ink jet recording which comprises a cast-coated recording paper, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and a release coated paper laminated via the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the side opposite to the recording layer, with the adhesive sheet having a difference between the two characteristic values (A) and (B) within the range of 0.00 to 0.10%, expressed in absolute value, wherein the characteristic value (A) is an irreversible shrinkage factor of the cast-coated recording paper in the CD direction determined under an environment that the relative humidity thereof is raised to 90% from 35% and then lowered to 35% and the characteristic value (B) is a shrinking rate of the release coated paper in the CD direction determined under a condition that the relaltive humidity of the environment is changed from 75% to 60% in the course of lowering the relative humidity from 90% to 35%.

Abstract: Provided is a recording paper having a feeling of plain paper suitable for ink jet recording with water-base ink, with the recording paper having in both machine and cross directions an irreversible shrinkage factor of from -0.10% to +0.10% when it is put under an environment that the relative humidity thereof is changed from 35% to 90% and further changed to 35%.

Abstract: A magnetic data recording apparatus magnetically records various items of data on a film in accordance with a feed of the film by a PPM Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) recording method. The apparatus includes a PPM signal converting circuit for converting the data to be recorded into a PPM signal and outputting the PPM signal, a magnetic head and a head driving circuit for driving the magnetic head on the PPM signal outputted from the PPM signal converting circuit. The apparatus further includes a data quantity calculating circuit for calculating a quantity of the data to be recorded during a feed of the film. The PPM signal converting circuit determines a change-of-signal position of the PPM signal within one period on the data quantity calculated by the data quantity calculating circuit.