Abstract: Provided are an insolation correction method, an insolation correction device, a recording medium, a model, a model generating method, and a model providing method in which insolation data having a small deviation from an actually measured value can be provided. An insolation correction method includes: acquiring insolation data; acquiring weather data; and correcting the acquired insolation data, on the basis of the acquired weather data.

Abstract: Technique is provided that enables detection of changes in the condition of a power generation system that generates fluctuating power outputs even in a normal condition thereof. A power generation system management apparatus has: range information management means for managing a condition determination power output range corresponding to a range in which a power output at a predetermined measurement point of the power generation system is to be included with a predetermined probability or higher, the condition determination power output range being determined based on a standard deviation of a plurality of model construction power output values, which is calculated using a representative value of the power output at the measurement point and the model construction power output values, the representative value being calculated from a pseudo system model that is created with a non-parametric method using the plurality of model construction power output values.

Abstract: Technique is provided that enables detection of changes in the condition of a power generation system that generates fluctuating power outputs even in a normal condition thereof. A power generation system management apparatus has: range information management means for managing a condition determination power output range corresponding to a range in which a power output at a predetermined measurement point of the power generation system is to be included with a predetermined probability or higher, the condition determination power output range being determined based on a standard deviation of a plurality of model construction power output values, which is calculated using a representative value of the power output at the measurement point and the model construction power output values, the representative value being calculated from a pseudo system model that is created with a non-parametric method using the plurality of model construction power output values.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film having polarization selectivity and diffusibility, and a means for easily producing the film. The polarizing diffuser film is composed of substantially one kind of crystalline resin having an intrinsic birefringence of not less than 0.1, has a total light transmittance to visible light of 50-90%, a transmission haze to visible light of 15-90% and a transition polarization degree to visible light of 20-90%.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film having polarization selectivity and diffusibility, and a means for easily producing the film. The polarizing diffuser film is composed of substantially one kind of crystalline resin having an intrinsic birefringence of not less than 0.1, has a total light transmittance to visible light of 50-90%, a transmission haze to visible light of 15-90% and a transition polarization degree to visible light of 20-90%.

Abstract: Disclosed are a film with excellent polarization selectivity and excellent diffusion properties, and a means for easily producing the same. The polarizing diffusion film has an intrinsic birefringence of at least 0.1 and substantially comprises one type of crystalline resin; and in the polarizing diffusion film, the total light transmittance is 50 to 90% in relation to visible light, the transmission haze is 15 to 90% in relation to visible light, and the degree of transmission polarization is 20 to 90% in relation to visible light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film having polarization selectivity and diffusibility, and a means for easily producing the film. The polarizing diffuser film is composed of substantially one kind of crystalline resin having an intrinsic birefringence of not less than 0.1, has a total light transmittance to visible light of 50-90%, a transmission haze to visible light of 15-90% and a transition polarization degree to visible light of 20-90%.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a lithographic printing plate with a hydrophilic layer mainly made from resins which has a photosensitivity to the light in near infrared region, on which images can be printed directly with laser beam, requiring no development and wiping off operation, and immediately recovering from ink stains without any difficulties when an ink attaches to non-image areas on printing, and a photosensitive resin composition applied to the printing plate. A lithographic printing original plate having a photosensitive layer formed on a support is characterized in that the surface of the photosensitive layer has a phase-separation structure, and the recessed parts are formed on the surface of a photosensitive layer by the dissolution of one component of photosensitive layer constituting the phase-separation and the surface of the photosensitive layer is changed to have affinity for ink by irradiation with light.

Abstract: The present invention provides a precursor that may provide a lithographic printing plate having an excellent image forming capability and having not only good hydrophilicity in a non-image part but also excellent printing resistance. Specifically, the present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor having a photosensitive layer containing a hydrophilic polymer, a crosslinking agent, hydrophobic polymer particles and a photo-thermal converter, wherein the hydrophilic polymer does not substantially contain, in its polymer chain, any of alcoholic hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups (for example, 1.5% or less by mol of the repeating units of the hydrophilic polymer contain an alcoholic hydroxyl or carboxyl group).

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing one or more compounds selected from imide compounds having a metallocene residue in a recording layer and an imide compound represented by a general formula (1): wherein a ring AR represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring residue or a residue formed by combining two or more aromatic ring residues via one or more linking groups; n represents the number of imide groups bonded to the ring AR; Am represents any one of substituents A1 to An bonded to a nitrogen atom of each imide group; and m represents an integer of from 1 to n, with the proviso that at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of A1 to An is one having at least one substituted or unsubstituted metallocene residue.

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing one or more compounds selected from imide compounds having a metallocene residue in a recording layer and an imide compound represented by a general formula (1): wherein a ring AR represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring residue or a residue formed by combining two or more aromatic ring residues via one or more linking groups; n represents the number of imide groups bonded to the ring AR; Am represents any one of substituents A1 to An bonded to a nitrogen atom of each imide group; and m represents an integer of from 1 to n, with the proviso that at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of A1 to An is one having at least one substituted or unsubstituted metallocene residue.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a lithographic printing plate with a hydrophilic layer mainly made from resins which has a photosensitivity to the light in near infrared region, on which images can be printed directly with laser beam, requiring no development and wiping off operation, and immediately recovering from ink stains without any difficulties when an ink attaches to non-image areas on printing, and a photosensitive resin composition applied to the printing plate.

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing one or more compounds selected from imide compounds having a metallocene residue in a recording layer and an imide compound represented by a general formula (1): wherein a ring AR represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring residue or a residue formed by combining two or more aromatic ring residues via one or more linking groups; n represents the number of imide groups bonded to the ring AR; Am represents any one of substituents A1 to An bonded to a nitrogen atom of each imide group; and m represents an integer of from 1 to n, with the proviso that at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of A1 to An is one having at least one substituted or unsubstituted metallocene residue.

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing in the recording layer a dipyrromethene-metal chelate compound of which the initial principal weight loss temperature is thermogravimetrically from 330° C. through 500° C. inclusive, capable of high speed and high density recording and playback with a laser having a wavelength of 520 to 690 nm.

Abstract: A recordable optical recording medium comprising a recording layer containing an organic dye which can absorb a laser beam and a metal reflective layer directly or via another layer on a transparent supporting substrate having a pre-groove and a pre-pit, wherein the organic dye has a refractive index nk of 2.2 or more at a reproduction wavelength &lgr;2; in relation to the reproduction wavelength &lgr;2, the depths of the pre-groove and the pre-pit on the substrates are more than &lgr;2/4; and the following equations are satisfied: 0.25r≦wg≦0.38r; 0.25≦wp/wg≦0.

Abstract: A recordable optical recording medium comprising a recording layer containing an organic dye which can absorb a laser beam and a metal reflective layer directly or via another layer on a transparent supporting substrate having a pre-groove and a pre-pit, wherein the organic dye has a refractive index nk of 2.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium is here disclosed which comprises a transparent substrate, a recording layer comprising an organic dyestuff on which information can be written by a laser beam, a reflective layer and a protective layer formed in this order on the substrate, the aforesaid optical information recording medium being characterized by containing a pit.multidot.edge control agent for the formation of recording pits, particularly a dyestuff thermal decomposition accelerator in the recording layer. By the addition of the pit.multidot.edge control agent, deviation properties and jitter properties can be remarkably improved, whereby a CD-R medium having a low error rate and good recording properties can be provided. In consequence, stable compatibility with a commercial CD player can be secured.

Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising a recording layer, a light interference layer, a reflective layer and a protective layer that are laminated on a substrate, characterized in that said recording layer and said light interference layer comprise at least one organic dye, and that a light absorbent and/or a thermal decomposition promoter are/is added to said light interference layer, wherein the optical recording medium has compatibility that allows good recording and/or reproduction by using lasers of different two wavelength ranges and has good recording properties.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium is here disclosed which comprises a transparent substrate, a recording layer comprising an organic dyestuff on which information can be written by a laser beam, a reflective layer and a protective layer formed in this order on the substrate, the aforesaid optical information recording medium being characterized by containing a pit.edge control agent for the formation of recording pits, particularly a dyestuff thermal decomposition accelerator in the recording layer. By the addition of the pit.edge control agent, deviation properties and jitter properties can be remarkably improved, whereby a CD-R medium having a low error rate and good recording properties can be provided. In consequence, stable compatibility with a commercial CD player can be secured.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium is here disclosed which comprises a transparent substrate, a recording layer comprising an organic dyestuff on which information can be written by a laser beam, a reflective layer and a protective layer formed in this order on the substrate, the aforesaid optical information recording medium being characterized by containing a pit-edge control agent for the formation of recording pits, particularly a dyestuff thermal decomposition accelerator in the recording layer. By the addition of the pit-edge control agent, deviation properties and jitter properties can be remarkably improved, whereby a CD-R medium having a low error rate and good recording properties can be provided. In consequence, stable compatibility with a commercial CD player can be secured.