Abstract: A method of controlling an information processing apparatus includes transmitting a first job to a job processing apparatus, executing first control for holding the first job in a job queue that the information processing apparatus has in a state where processing based on the first job is executed in the job processing apparatus, and executing second control for terminating holding of the first job by the job queue based on a fact that a second job is registered in the job queue in a state where the first job is held in the job queue even in a case where the processing based on the first job is executed in the job processing apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention provides a charge-reversible phospholipid that is not positively charged at a pH of the body fluid (typically in the neutral range) and has low cytotoxicity. The present invention provides a phospholipid represented by formula (1): wherein m represents a natural number of 9 to 25, n represents a natural number of 10 to 15, X1, X2, and X3 are the same or different and each represent H or OH, and R1 represents the following formula (i) or (ii): wherein p represents 1 or 2, q represents 1 or 2, and r represents an integer of 1 to 4; or wherein s represents an integer of 1 to 3, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water-repellent coating composition which enables easy removal of dirt while having good appearance due to high compatibility of a water-repellent component with other materials. The present invention provides a coating composition, comprising a siloxane group-containing polymer (A) and a crosslinking agent (B), wherein the siloxane group-containing polymer (A) is a block copolymer comprising an A block and a B block, and containing, in the A block, at least a structural unit derived from a siloxane group-containing vinyl monomer (a) and containing, in the B block, a structural unit derived from a hydroxyl group-containing vinyl monomer (b) and, as necessary, a structural unit derived from another vinyl monomer (c) copolymerizable with the vinyl monomers (a) and (b), and is a copolymer having a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 2.0 or less and polymerized by living radical polymerization.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a holding table having a holding surface that holds a wafer, a polishing unit in which a polishing pad having an opening at the center of a polishing surface that polishes the wafer is mounted to a spindle and is rotated, a slurry supply unit that supplies slurry to the polishing surface of the polishing pad, and an air supply unit that shuts an upper end of a penetrating path penetrating through the axial center of rotation of the polishing pad and the spindle and supplies air into the penetrating path.

Abstract: Provided is a charge-reversible and ethanol-soluble phospholipid suitable for the preparation of lipid particles. A phospholipid represented by formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different and each represent a chain hydrocarbon group, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and m represents an integer of 1 to 3.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus configured to convey a sheet includes a reversing portion, a reversing retraction portion provided in the reversing portion, a conveyance portion, a guide member provided in the reversing retraction portion, and a fan provided in the conveyance portion. The reversing portion conveys the sheet in a first direction and then a second direction opposite to the first direction. The reversing retraction portion temporarily retracts the sheet conveyed in the first direction. The conveyance portion has a conveyance path through which the sheet conveyed in the second direction passes and configured to convey the sheet. The guide member guides one surface of the sheet. The fan blows air toward the sheet guided by the guide member and is disposed to blow the air of the conveyance path in the conveyance portion toward the reversing retraction portion and along the guide member in the first direction.

Abstract: A test container including: at least two accommodation portions each accommodating a liquid and internally provided; a flow path connecting the two accommodation portions to each other at respective upper end positions thereof internally provided; and a flexible film deformable inwards of at least one accommodation portion at a portion forming an upper wall surface of the one accommodation portion, in which the liquid accommodated in the one accommodation portion is fed to the other accommodation portion via the flow path due to deformation of the flexible film towards the one accommodation portion, and a breaking elongation of the flexible film is 100% or more and 600% or less.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device capable of reducing wiring resistance by using a stripe wire. The semiconductor device includes: a source pad electrode formed on a second interlayer insulating layer; a plurality of source extraction electrodes extracted in a first direction from the source pad electrode; a drain pad electrode formed on the second interlayer insulating layer; and a plurality of drain extraction electrodes extracted in the first direction from the drain pad electrode. The source pad electrode and the plurality of source extraction electrodes are electrically connected to a plurality of source wires of stripe wire covered by the second interlayer insulating layer. The drain pad electrode and the plurality of drain extraction electrodes are electrically connected to a plurality of drain wires of the stripe wire. The plurality of drain extraction electrodes are engaged with the plurality of source extraction electrodes.

Abstract: A separation device includes: a container that includes a storage portion for storing liquid containing magnetic particles; and a coil that separates the magnetic particles from the liquid by generating a magnetic field through application of current, causing a magnetic force to act on the magnetic particles in a state where the coil stops with respect to the storage portion, and causing the magnetic particles to move from the storage portion against gravity acting on the liquid containing the magnetic particles.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a head configured to discharge an ink onto a continuous sheet to form an image; a platen including a support face that supports the continuous sheet; a star-wheel-unit holding unit disposed at a position that is downstream of the head in a transport direction of the continuous sheet and is opposed to the support face; and a star wheel unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the star-wheel-unit holding unit and to support a plurality of star wheels configured to press the continuous sheet on a side of the support face.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an authenticator that authenticates a user so that the user accesses plural resources on a network, an acquirer that acquires conditions that are related to a strength of authentication information and are provided differently for the respective resources, and a controller that controls, when the user accesses one resource out of the plural resources, access to the one resource based on a condition related to the strength for the one resource and strength information related to the strength of the authentication information of the user that is used by the authenticator.

Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer that contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1) in a molecule, and a metal foil that is laminated on the insulating layer, and in which a chromium element amount, on an exposed surface of the insulating layer exposed by an etching treatment of the copper-clad laminate is 7.5 at % or less with respect to a total element amount on the exposed surface, and ten-point average roughness of the exposed surface is 2.0 ?m or less. In Formula (1), Z represents an arylene group, R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A tin-plated copper terminal material in which on a substrate made of copper or copper alloy, a nickel-or-nickel-alloy layer, a copper-tin alloy layer, and a tin layer are laminated in this order; in this material, the tin layer has an average thickness 0.2 ?m to 1.2 ?m inclusive; the copper-tin alloy layer is a compound alloy layer in which Cu6Sn5 is a main ingredient and part of copper in the Cu6Sn5 is substituted with nickel, and an average crystal grain size is 0.2 ?m to 1.5 ?m inclusive; part of the copper-tin alloy layer appears on a surface of the tin layer and tin solidification parts exist like islands; and the tin solidification parts have an average diameter 10 ?m to 1000 ?m inclusive in a direction along the surface of the tin layer and an area ratio to the surface of the tin layer 1% to 90% inclusive.

Abstract: A recording material cooling device includes a belt, a plurality of rollers, a belt cooling member, a recording material feeding member, a deposited matter removing member, a deposited matter receiving container, a roller holding member, and a supporting member for supporting the roller holding member so as to be swingable between a first position where the belt and the recording material feeding member contact each other and a second position where the belt is spaced from the recording material feeding member. The supporting member supports the roller holding member so that a swing center is positioned on one end side with respect to a rotational axis direction of the rollers. The receiving container includes a wall surface portion for preventing overflow of the deposited matter received through an opening of the receiving container when the roller holding member is positioned in the second position.

Abstract: There are provided a positioning method and a positioning device that can position workpieces by a simple method and configuration. A positioning method includes: gripping at least one of first and second workpieces; obtaining point group data of the at least one gripped workpiece of the first and second workpieces; calculating a translation matrix of shape fitting point group data obtained by adjusting a position of the point group data to reference data in a position adjustment state of the first and second workpieces; calculating an inverse matrix based on the translation matrix; and positioning the first and second workpieces by moving the at least one gripped workpiece of the first and second workpieces based on at least one of the translation matrix and the inverse matrix.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip that has a main surface, a device region that is demarcated at the main surface, a differential amplifier that is formed in the device region and that amplifies and outputs a differential signal input to the differential amplifier, an insulation layer that covers the device region on the main surface, and a shield electrode that is incorporated in the insulation layer such as to conceal the device region in a plan view and that is fixed to a ground potential.

Abstract: A test container includes a container main body including a first-accommodation-portion, a second-accommodation-portion, and a third-accommodation-portion each accommodating a liquid and internally provided, a first flow path connecting the first-accommodation-portion and the second-accommodation-portion to each other at respective upper end positions thereof and internally provided, and a second flow path connecting the second-accommodation-portion and the third-accommodation-portion to each other at respective upper end positions thereof and internally provided, in which at least a portion forming an upper wall surface of the second-accommodation-portion has flexibility to be deformable inwards of the second-accommodation-portion; and a liquid return prevention structure which prevents a backflow of the liquid to the first-accommodation-portion, when the liquid accommodated in the second-accommodation-portion is fed to the third-accommodation-portion via the second flow path due to deformation of the portio

Abstract: An operational amplifier 1 comprises transistors Q1 and Q2 forming an input stage, and input resistors R1 and R2 which form a filter together with parasitic capacitors C1 and C2 accompanying the transistors Q1 and Q2. Resistance values R of the resistors R1 and R2 may be set to R=1/(2?·fc·C), where C is the capacitance value of each of the parasitic capacitors C1 and C2, and fc is the target cutoff frequency of the filter. The operational amplifier 1 may also include a power supply resistor R0 which forms a filter together with a parasitic capacitor C0 accompanying a power supply line.

Abstract: A test container includes a container main body including a first-accommodation-portion, a second-accommodation-portion, and a third-accommodation-portion each accommodating a liquid and internally provided, a first flow path connecting the first-accommodation-portion and the second-accommodation-portion to each other at respective upper end positions thereof and internally provided, and a second flow path connecting the second-accommodation-portion and the third-accommodation-portion to each other at respective upper end positions thereof and internally provided, in which at least a portion forming an upper wall surface of the second-accommodation-portion has flexibility to be deformable inwards of the second-accommodation-portion; and a liquid return prevention structure which prevents a backflow of the liquid to the first-accommodation-portion, when the liquid accommodated in the second-accommodation-portion is fed to the third-accommodation-portion via the second flow path due to deformation of the portio

Abstract: A voltage monitoring circuit monitors a magnitude relationship between a monitoring target voltage and a determination voltage and is capable of suppressing the influence of an offset of a reference voltage upon the determination voltage and setting the determination voltage as desired. The voltage monitoring circuit includes: an input terminal, applied with a monitoring target voltage or a divided voltage of the monitoring target voltage; a reference voltage generating circuit, generating a first reference voltage; a linear power circuit, converting the first reference voltage to a second reference voltage; a feedback resistor, generating a divided voltage of the second reference voltage, and negatively feeding back the divided voltage of the second reference voltage to the linear power circuit; and a comparing portion, comparing the second reference voltage with the monitoring target voltage or the divided voltage of the monitoring target voltage applied to the input terminal.