Abstract: Provided are composite carbon particles capable of obtaining a lithium-ion secondary battery having good cycle characteristics and small electrode expansion. Composite carbon particles including a porous carbon material and a silicon component, the composite carbon particle having an average aspect ratio of 1.25 or less, and a ratio (ISi/IG) of a peak intensity (ISi) in the vicinity of 470 cm?1 to a peak intensity (IG) in the vicinity of 1580 cm?1 as measured by Raman spectroscopy of 0.30 or less, wherein the porous carbon material satisfies V1/V0>0.80 and V2/V0<0.10, when a total pore volume at a maximum value of a relative pressure P/P0 is defined as V0 and P0 is a saturated vapor pressure, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is defined as V1, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=10?7 is defined as V2 in a nitrogen adsorption test, and has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more.

Abstract: A defibrillator configured to execute a defibrillation process of delivering an electric shock for defibrillation to a heart of a subject. The defibrillator includes: a processor, and a memory that stores a computer-readable instruction that when executed by the processor, causes the defibrillator to perform operations including: receiving a raw data related to at least one of a plurality of components configuring the defibrillator and an accessory of the defibrillator; and transmitting the received raw data and an identification information of the defibrillator to a management server. The raw data is used to determine presence or absence of an abnormality in at least one of the plurality of components and the accessory.

Abstract: Provided is an interior article for a conveyance including a touch switch suppressing an unintended misoperation by an occupant. An interior article 30 for a conveyance of the present invention includes a touch switch 35 operating an electrical component provided in a conveyance and a recess portion 33 formed in an interior side surface of the conveyance. The touch switch has a sensing unit 36 detecting an occupant's finger. The recess portion has an opening portion 33a, a bottom portion 33b, a standing wall portion 33c formed around the bottom portion, and a curved surface 33d formed to be curved so as to protrude toward the opening portion side in the bottom portion. The sensing unit is disposed on the curved surface.

Abstract: There is provided a controller for receiving input from a user, including: a plurality of input elements, each operating to receive respective operative input from a user, the respective operative input being processed and transmitted to an external apparatus for manipulating an application program during execution; a memory having a plurality of sets of profile data stored therein, each set of profile data includes a respective profile ID in association with respective location information indicative of where a respective one of the input elements is located on the controller; a communication unit operating to receive a user-selected one of the plurality of sets of profile data; and a control unit operating to control the controller based on the selected profile data set received from the communication unit.

Abstract: The cooling structure has a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet, and a flow path made of resin and connecting the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlet, in which a portion of a face configuring the flow path is open.

Abstract: An active material includes, as constituent elements, silicon, oxygen, a first element, a second element, and a third element. The first element includes boron, phosphorus, or both. The second element includes at least one of an alkali metal element, a transition element, or a typical element. The typical element excludes silicon, oxygen, boron, phosphorus, an alkali metal element, and an alkaline earth metal element. The third element includes an alkaline earth metal element. The content of silicon with respect to all the constituent elements excluding oxygen and carbon is 60 at % or greater and 98 at % or less. The content of the first element with respect to all the constituent elements excluding oxygen and carbon is 1 at % or greater and 25 at % or less. The content of the second element with respect to all the constituent elements excluding oxygen and carbon is 1 at % or greater and 34 at % or less.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a solid-phase carrier on which an IgG-binding peptide is immobilized, the peptide being usable for IgG purification, having resistance to repeated washing with an alkaline solution after IgG purification, and having a high binding affinity for IgG. Specifically, the present invention relates to a solid-phase carrier on which an IgG-binding peptide is immobilized, wherein the two cysteine residues on the outside of the peptide are linked as shown in the following formula: (in the formula, the upper cysteine residue is on the N-terminal side of the peptide, and the lower cysteine residue is on the C-terminal side of the peptide).

Abstract: There is provides liquid discharging apparatus including: head having nozzle; reservoir configured to store the liquid such that liquid surface is positioned higher than opening of the nozzle in a state that the reservoir stores the liquid of maximum storable amount; and atmosphere port connecting gas layer and outside of the reservoir. Inner diameter d of the nozzle and head difference h satisfy expression of ?hd/? cos ??4/g, provided that p is specific weight of the liquid, ? is surface tension of the liquid, ? is contact angle of the liquid in the nozzle and g is gravitational acceleration, the head difference h being difference in height between meniscus in the opening of the nozzle and the liquid surface in the state that the reservoir stores the liquid of the maximum storable amount.

Abstract: An object is to provide a resin composition having a high permittivity and a low dissipation factor, and having low water absorption, favorable thermal characteristics, a high glass transition temperature, a high peel strength of the metal foil, and a low coefficient of thermal expansion, and suitably used for producing an insulation layer of a printed wiring board; and a prepreg, a resin sheet, a laminate, a metal foil-clad laminate, and a printed wiring board obtainable by using the resin composition. The resin composition of the present invention contains: (A) a dielectric powder, (B) a cyanate ester compound, and (C) an epoxy compound, wherein a functional group equivalent ratio of a cyanate group of the cyanate ester compound (B) to an epoxy group of the epoxy compound (C) (cyanate group/epoxy group) is 0.1 to 2.0.

Abstract: Provision of an affinity carrier using a mutant VHH antibody. An affinity carrier comprising: a solid phase carrier; and an immunoglobulin-binding protein bound to the solid phase carrier; wherein the immunoglobulin-binding protein comprises a mutant VHH antibody or a fragment of the mutant VHH antibody that recognizes an epitope in at least one region selected from the group consisting of amino acids 127 to 184 of SEQ ID NO: 22 and amino acids 13 to 210 of SEQ ID NO: 23.

Abstract: A crosslinking agent for a protein or a peptide is represented by the following formula (I). In the formula, A is a hydrogen atom, a C1 to 6 alkyl group optionally substituted with a phenyl group or a halogen atom, or a phenyl group.

Abstract: A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery containing a composite (C) that contains a porous carbon (A) and a Si-containing compound (B). The porous carbon (A) satisfies V1/V0>0.80 and V2/V0<0.10. When a total pore volume at the maximum value of a relative pressure P/P0 is defined as V0 and P0 is a saturated vapor pressure, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is defined as V1, and a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=10?7 is defined as V2 in a nitrogen adsorption test. Further, the porous carbon (A) has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more, and the Si-containing compound (B) is contained in pores of the porous carbon (A). Also disclosed is a negative electrode sheet including the negative electrode material and a lithium-ion secondary battery including the negative electrode sheet.

Abstract: Composite carbon particles including a porous carbon material and a silicon component, the composite carbon particle having an average aspect ratio of 1.25 or less, and a ratio (ISi/IG) of a peak intensity (ISi) in the vicinity of 470 cm?1 to a peak intensity (IG) in the vicinity of 1580 cm?1 as measured by Raman spectroscopy of 0.30 or less, wherein the porous carbon material satisfies V1/V0>0.80 and V2/V0<0.10, when a total pore volume at a maximum value of a relative pressure P/P0 is defined as V0 and P0 is a saturated vapor pressure, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=0.1 is defined as V1, a cumulative pore volume at a relative pressure P/P0=10?7 is defined as V2 in a nitrogen adsorption test, and has a BET specific surface area of 800 m2/g or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an IgG-binding peptide comprising a ligand capable of binding to a radioactive metal nuclide, an IgG-binding peptide labeled with a radioactive metal nuclide, a conjugate of the IgG-binding peptide and IgG, and a radionuclide imaging agent or a diagnostic agent for cancer comprising the IgG-binding peptide or the conjugate, etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technique enabling modification of a soluble protein and in particular regioselective modification of a soluble protein. More specifically, the present invention provides a compound having an affinity substance to a soluble protein, a cleavable portion, and a reactive group represented by the following Formula (I): A-L-B-R??(I) wherein A is an affinity substance to a soluble protein; L is a cleavable linker which is a divalent group comprising a cleavable portion; B is (a) a divalent group comprising a bioorthogonal functional group or (b) a divalent group comprising no bioorthogonal functional group; and R is a reactive group to the soluble protein; or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a micro-oscillator includes: preparing a substrate having a flat portion and a curved surface portion formed in a three-dimensional curved shape protruding from one surface of the flat portion, the curved surface portion being surrounded by the flat portion; and irradiating an outer surface of the curved surface portion with a laser beam to separate the curved surface portion from the flat portion.

Abstract: A composite particle including carbon and silicon, in which the composite particle contains a crystalline metal oxide particle, and the end of the metal oxide particle is present inside the surface of the composite particle, and pores are present on the surface of the composite particle. According to the present invention, there can be provided a composite particle, in which silicon is attached to the inside of fine pores of a carbon material that has been provided with specific fine pores, the composite particle also contains a crystalline metal oxide particle, the end of the metal oxide particle is present inside the surface of the composite particle, and furthermore, pores are present on the surface of the composite particle. By using this composite particle, a lithium-ion secondary battery with excellent rate characteristics and cycle characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A stirring and defoaming device is a stirring and defoaming device of a revolution and rotation type, wherein a vacuum unit for sucking air in each container to bring the inside of each container into a vacuum state includes sealing bodies that seal respective containers, a vacuum generation source, a suction path running toward a revolution center with each container as a starting end, passing through the revolution center to go outside the system, and reaching the vacuum generation source placed outside the system, at least part of the suction path being an independent path from the starting end in association with each container, and at least two or more vacuum measurement units, each provided in an independent path.

Abstract: A composite particle includes a particle including a carbon material and silicon, and a coating layer including carbon and oxygen on the surface of the particle, in which the composite particle has a true density of 1.80 to 1.99 g/cm3; in the Raman spectrum, a peak is present at 450 to 495 cm?1, and when the intensity of the peak is defined as ISi and the intensity of the G band is defined as IG, ISi/IG is 1.3 or less; and when the ratios of the number of atoms of Si, O, and C in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy are defined as ASi, AO, and AC, respectively, and the ratios of SiO2 and SiO are defined as BSiO2 and BSiO, respectively, ASi is 0.05 or more, and ISi/IG and AC/(AC+ASi×(BSiO2+BSiO)) have predetermined relationships.

Abstract: This invention relates to an IgG-binding peptide, an IgG-binding peptide modified with a cross-linking agent, a conjugate of the IgG-binding peptide modified with a cross-linking agent and IgG, and a method for producing the conjugate, etc.