Abstract: A partial discharge measurement device includes: an impulse voltage application unit; a measurement control unit; and first and second partial discharge detection unit. The measurement control unit includes: a first and a second detector level partial discharge counting unit; and a partial discharge resistance evaluation unit. Each of the first and the second detector level partial discharge counting units outputs a first or second detection signal when the first or second detection signal exceeds a predetermined specified value. The partial discharge resistance evaluation unit counts the number of occurrences of partial discharge based on an output from the first and second detector level partial discharge counting unit, and regards the impulse voltage value at which the count value has reached a predetermined value as a partial discharge inception voltage under the repeated impulse voltage application.

Abstract: An antibody-drug conjugate having a cyclic benzylidene acetal linker represented by formula (1) or formula (2), wherein Y is an antibody; D is a drug; R1 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently an electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituent or a hydrogen atom; s is 1 or 2, t is 0 or 1, and s+t is 1 or 2; w is an integer of 1 to 20; and Z1 and Z2 are each independently a selected divalent spacer:

Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a positive electrode material for a secondary battery including a positive electrode active material and a coating layer. The coating layer includes an ionic crystalline p-type semiconductor material and an ionic crystalline n-type semiconductor material which are both disposed on a surface of the positive electrode active material.

Abstract: An antibody-drug conjugate having a cyclic benzylidene acetal linker represented by formula (1) or formula (2), wherein Y is an antibody; D is a drug; R1 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently an electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituent or a hydrogen atom; s is 1 or 2, t is 0 or 1, and s+t is 1 or 2; w is an integer of 1 to 20; and Z1 and Z2 are each independently a selected divalent spacer:

Abstract: A synchronous reluctance type rotary electric machine of an embodiment has a rotor core. The rotor core includes a plurality of poles, multi-layered hollow parts having a convex shape toward a side radially inward formed for each pole in cross section, and a bridge formed between each of the hollow parts and an outer circumferential surface thereof. When a boundary between two adjacent poles is a pole boundary, a groove is formed on at least one of both sides sandwiching the pole boundary at positions other than on the pole boundary on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.

Abstract: Provided are: a method for efficiently manufacturing an abrasion-resistant resin substrate with a hard coating film with adhesiveness and weather resistance obtained by sequentially laminating a primer layer and a hard coating layer on a resin substrate without decreasing the adhesiveness and the weather resistance; and a resin substrate with hard coat film obtained by this method. A method for manufacturing a resin substrate with a hard coating film having a primer layer and a hard coating layer, includes: a step of forming a primer layer containing an acrylic polymer on one main surface of a resin film to obtain a resin film laminate; a step of forming a resin substrate by injection molding on another main surface of the resin film in the resin film laminate; and a step of applying a hard coating layer forming composition on the primer layer and curing the hard coating layer forming composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides an art that can improve further battery performance of lithium ion secondary batteries in which a lithium salt is added to the interior of the batteries. A herein disclosed lithium ion secondary battery electrode is constituted by disposing, on a surface of a foil-like electrode current collector, an electrode mixture layer that contains a particulate electrode active material. With this electrode, a lithium salt having a lithium ion intake capability is added to the electrode mixture layer; dividing the electrode mixture layer into three equal regions, which are a first region, a second region, and a third region, in a thickness direction, an amount of the lithium salt component in the first region and an amount of the lithium salt component in the third region satisfy the relationship 0<S3/S1?4; and a maximum particle diameter of aggregates of the lithium salt present in the electrode mixture layer is less than 1 ?m.

Abstract: Provided is a separator that is used in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and that exhibits high impregnation ability with respect to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The separator for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery disclosed herein is provided with: a porous substrate; a first coat layer formed on a pair of main surfaces and on an inner surface of the porous substrate; and a second coat layer formed on the first coat layer, at least on one main surface of the porous substrate. The first coat layer has higher hydrophilicity than the porous substrate. The second coat layer has higher hydrophobicity than the porous substrate. The hydrophilicity of an inner surface of the separator for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is higher than the hydrophilicity of the second coat layer, in a central region of the separator for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery in the thickness direction thereof.

Abstract: A piercer plug with increased life and a method of manufacturing it are provided. The piercer plug 1 includes a tip portion 2 and a trunk portion 3 made of the same material as the tip portion 2 and continuous to the tip portion 2. The trunk portion 3 includes a cylindrical portion 5 having a hole used for attaching a bar. The tip portion 2 is harder than the cylindrical portion 5.

Abstract: A lipid derivative in which a hydrophilic polymer is bound through a cyclic benzylidene acetal linker, and which can accurately control a hydrolysis rate in the weakly acidic environment of a living body to detach the hydrophilic polymer from a lipid membrane structure. The lipid derivative is represented by formula (1): wherein, R1 and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R2, R3, R4 and R5 are each independently an electron-withdrawing or electron-donating substituent or a hydrogen atom; R7 is a hydrocarbon group having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms, an acyl group having from 8 to 24 carbon atoms, a cholesterol derivative, a glycerolipid, a phospholipid or a sphingolipid; P is a hydrophilic polymer; s is 1 or 2, t is 0 or 1, and s+t is 1 or 2; and Z1 and Z2 are each independently a selected divalent spacer.

Abstract: A branched hetero polyethylene glycol according to the present invention is represented by the formula [1]: wherein X and Y represent each an atomic group containing at least a functional group which reacts with a functional group present in a bio-functional molecule to form a covalent bond and the functional group contained in the atomic group X and the functional group contained in the atomic group Y are different from each other; s is an integer of 2 to 8, which represents the number of polyethylene glycol chains; n is the number of average added moles for the polyethylene glycol chain and 20?n?2000; and E is a branching linker moiety having s-valent bonding valency for the polyethylene glycol chains and having monovalent bonding valency for the functional group Y.

Abstract: The present application discloses a therapeutic agent for breast cancer, comprising 5-((2-(4-(1-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperidin-4-yl)benzamide)pyridin-4-yl)oxy)-6-(2-methoxyethoxy)-N-methyl-1H-indole-1-carboxamide or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A hydrophilic polymer derivative having a benzylidene acetal linker whose hydrolysis rate at the pH of a weakly acidic environment in the living body can be accurately controlled. A hydrophilic polymer derivative having a benzylidene acetal linker, which is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent and at least one of R3, R4, and R5 is an electron-withdrawing substituent or at least one of R2 and R6 represents a substituent; X1 is a chemically reactive functional group; P is a hydrophilic polymer; w is an integer of 1 to 8; and Z1 and Z2 are an independently selected divalent spacer.

Abstract: Provided herein are narrowly distributed multi-armed polyethylene glycol compounds, and hydrogels containing the same. Also provided are methods for treating, adhering, or sealing a biological tissue with hydrogels, and kits for making a hydrogel. Drug releasing compositions also are provided that include a narrowly distributed multi-armed polyethylene glycol compound.

Abstract: A technique in multi-light control capable of notifying an image pickup apparatus of charge completion information items of a plurality of lighting devices. A lighting device is wirelessly communicably connected to other lighting devices, and is communicably attached to an image pickup apparatus so as to be driven in synchronism with the other lighting devices. First charge completion information of the lighting device itself and second charge completion information of the other lighting devices are transmitted to the image pickup apparatus either in a combined state or in a separate state. If it is determined that an instruction for transmitting the first charge completion information and the slave charge completion information in the separate state has been received from the image pickup apparatus, the first charge completion information and the slave charge completion information are transmitted to the image pickup apparatus in the separate.

Abstract: A lithium powder includes: a core of metallic lithium; and a coating layer coating a surface of at least a part of the core. The coating layer contains lithium carbonate including a surface in at least a part of which lithium oxide is present. The coating layer may include a first coating film layer present in at least a part of the core, and a second coating film layer present in a surface of the first coating film layer. The first coating film layer may contain lithium carbide. The second coating film layer may contain lithium carbonate.

Abstract: A film structural member includes a recessed portion formed on a transparent substrate, metal wiring provided on a base of the recessed portion, and a particle layer that is provided on the metal wiring and is configured as an aggregate of particles having an average particle diameter of 300 nm or smaller.

Abstract: A branched hetero polyethylene glycol according to the present invention is represented by the formula [1]: wherein X and Y represent each an atomic group containing at least a functional group which reacts with a functional group present in a bio-functional molecule to form a covalent bond and the functional group contained in the atomic group X and the functional group contained in the atomic group Y are different from each other; s is an integer of 2 to 8, which represents the number of polyethylene glycol chains; n is the number of average added moles for the polyethylene glycol chain and 20?n?2000; and E is a branching linker moiety having s-valent bonding valency for the polyethylene glycol chains and having monovalent bonding valency for the functional group Y.

Abstract: A hydrophilic polymer derivative having a benzylidene acetal linker whose hydrolysis rate at the pH of a weakly acidic environment in the living body can be accurately controlled. A hydrophilic polymer derivative having a benzylidene acetal linker, which is represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent and at least one of R3, R4, and R5 is an electron-withdrawing substituent or at least one of R2 and R6 represents a substituent; X1 is a chemically reactive functional group; P is a hydrophilic polymer; w is an integer of 1 to 8; and Z1 and Z2 are an independently selected divalent spacer.

Abstract: A biodegradable polyethylene glycol derivative in which a polyethylene glycol chain is linked by an acetal linker capable of accurately controlling the hydrolysis rate under different pH environments in the living body, and whose division rate into a polyethylene glycol chain of low molecular weight in the living body can be accurately controlled. The biodegradable polyethylene glycol derivative is represented by formula (1) or formula (2) as described.