Abstract: A top-blowing lance nozzle is configured to freely switch an adequate expansion condition so as to control an oxygen-blowing amount and a jetting velocity independently of each other without requiring a plurality of lance nozzles or a mechanically movable part. A lance nozzle is configured to blow refining oxygen to molten iron charged in a reaction vessel while a gas is blown from a top-blowing lance to the molten iron. One or more blowing holes for blowing a working gas are on an inner wall side surface of the nozzle, at a site where the lance nozzle has a minimum cross-sectional area in a nozzle axis direction or at a neighboring site of the site.

Abstract: Provided are an ink set which is used for recording an image on a surface having a surface energy of 40 mN/m or greater and included in an impermeable base material, the ink set including an ink containing water, a colorant, and resin particles, and a pretreatment liquid containing water and resin particles, in which the resin particles contained in the pretreatment liquid include at least one of a mixture of acrylic resin particles and polyester resin particles or composite particles including an acrylic resin and a polyester resin, and the resin particles contained in the ink include at least one of acrylic resin particles or polyurethane resin particles; an image recording method; a method of producing a laminate; an image recorded material; and a laminate.

Abstract: A time required for online adaptive treatment is reduced with a workflow management system that executes a plurality of processes for radiotherapy according to a predetermined workflow. The plurality of processes include at least a first process and a second process, and the workflow management system executes the following modules, in parallel, including a first module that is included in the first process, displays a result of a first calculation based on a patient image captured during treatment by an imaging apparatus that captures a predetermined region of a patient, and requests an input from an operator; and a second module that is included in the second process, and executes a second calculation based on the patient image during the treatment.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treatment or prevention of cancer through novel action mechanism, namely, through inhibition of a riboflavin pathway. The method for treatment or prevention of cancer comprises administering an RF pathway inhibitor to a subject in need thereof.

Abstract: A press forming method for suppressing wall camber of a side wall portion due to springback of a press-formed product including a top portion, the side wall portion and a flange portion includes: a first forming step of press-forming a preformed part including a flange portion having height continuously changed in an axial direction to have a concave shape, a convex shape or a concavo-convex shape more largely than a target shape of the press-formed product in a height direction to provide a height difference; and a second forming step of press-forming the preformed part into the press-formed product having the target shape to reduce the height difference of the flange portion of the preformed part.

Abstract: Pressing a protective member causes the protective member to be embedded in boundaries of adjacent ones of a plurality of devices serving as recesses on a front surface side of a substrate, and the protective member is ground so that the front surface side of the protective member is planarized. This makes it possible to eliminate a gap between the substrate and the protective member or to reduce this gap in size, while making it possible to eliminate a gap between a chuck table holding the substrate through the protective member and the protective member or reduce this gap in size. Hence, by carrying out these steps prior to grinding of the back surface side of the substrate, it is possible to prevent the back surface side of the substrate from becoming uneven, in association with grinding of the back surface side of the substrate.

Abstract: A shape change prediction method of a press formed part predicts a shape change in which an end side in a longitudinal direction is twisted due to stress relaxation with a lapse of time after springback at a moment of die release from a tool of press forming with respect to the press formed part having a U-shaped cross-sectional shape including a top portion and side wall portions, and includes: acquiring a shape and a residual stress of the press formed part immediately after the springback by a springback analysis of the press formed part; setting a value of stress relaxed and reduced compared to the residual stress immediately after the springback for at least one of the side wall portions; and acquiring a shape with which moment of force is balanced for the press formed part in which the value of the relaxed and reduced stress is set.

Abstract: A particle therapy system includes an accelerator 1 which generates a particle beam for extraction, an irradiation apparatus 21 which irradiates the particle beam to an irradiation target 26, a gantry 18 which rotates together with the irradiation apparatus 21, and an MRI apparatus 50 which rotates together with the gantry 18. The MRI apparatus 50 includes a magnetic circuit composed of an iron core 60 and a plurality of coils 61 serving as a magnetic flux source. The iron core 60 includes two oppositely disposed magnetic poles 63A and 63B, and a return yoke 64 for connecting the magnetic poles 63A and 63B. The magnetic poles 63A, 63B have cavities 65A, 65B. The particle beam passing through the cavity 65A is irradiated to the irradiation target 26.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a frame forming part that is provided at at least one position on an end part of a light-emitting panel having a light emission surface or in a vicinity of the light-emitting panel and includes a bright part region and a dark part region, a light source that emits light to be incident upon the frame forming part, and a light amount regulation part that makes intensity of light heading for a space facing the light emission surface from the dark part region weaker than intensity of light heading for the space from the bright part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source, or makes the intensity of the light from the bright part region stronger than the intensity of the light from the dark part region in the light entering the frame forming part from the light source.

Abstract: A diffuser generates scattered light and satisfies MFP=1/(?×A2×Qs×N)=?Zd, 0.4???5 where N denotes a number of nanoparticles included in a unit volume of a light guiding and diffusing portion, A denotes an average particle radius of the nanoparticles, Qs denotes a scattering efficiency determined by a combination of the nanoparticles and a medium of the light guiding and diffusing portion, MFP denotes a mean free path for light of a design wavelength set in a range of 450 nm to 650 nm, Zd denotes a length of the light guiding and diffusing portion in a light guiding direction of incident light, and a denotes a coefficient.

Abstract: A press forming part includes: a top portion; a side wall portion continuous from the top portion via a punch shoulder; and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion via a die shoulder, the press forming part having a curved portion curved in a recessed manner in a top view, wherein a bending radius of the die shoulder in the curved portion is increased from an end side toward a middle portion of the curve.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing including an illumination opening at a position viewable by a user; a blower provided in an airflow path connecting an inlet and outlet; a light emitter provided in the housing viewable through the illumination opening and including a light incident portion to receive light emitted from a first light source and a first light emission portion to emit first light generated from the light and including light simulating natural light; and at least one light extractor emitting second light that is part of the light received by the light emitter that reaches an edge portion of the light emitter without being emitted as the first light or second light received from the first light source or a second light source different from the first light source without intervention of the light emitter. The at least one light extractor is provided in the airflow path.

Abstract: A press forming method of press forming a press forming part that includes a top portion, a side wall portion continuous from the top portion via a punch shoulder, and a flange portion continuous from the side wall portion via a die shoulder, the press forming part having a curved portion curved in a recessed manner in a top view, the press forming method includes: making a bending radius of the die shoulder in the curved portion increased from an end side toward a middle portion of the curve.

Abstract: An illumination device that simulates the sky, includes a light source that emits first light; a light-emitting part that allows the first light to enter, guides the entered first light by means of total reflection while scattering the first light, and emits the scattered light from a light emission surface; a back surface reflective part that is provided to face a back surface as a surface of the light-emitting part on a side opposite to the light emission surface and reflects light emitted from the back surface of the light-emitting part; a frame that includes a part situated at least in front of the light emission surface of the light-emitting part; and an optical member that is provided between the light emission surface of the light-emitting part and the part of the frame and reflects a part of the light emitted from the light emission surface of the light-emitting part.

Abstract: A pretreatment liquid is a pretreatment liquid to be used for a pretreatment that is performed on an impermeable base material before an image is recorded on the impermeable base material, containing an aggregating agent, an aqueous medium, and a resin, in which the resin has at least one selected from the group consisting of a structural unit (1), a structural unit (2), and a structural unit (3), and a glass transition temperature of the resin is ?40° C. or higher and lower than 100° C. In the formulae, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C4 alkyl group, A2 represents —NH— or —N(L4-Y4)—, L2 and L4 represent a divalent group or a single bond, L3 represents a divalent group, Y2 and Y4 represent a monovalent group such as an alkyl group, and Y3 represents a monovalent group such as —OH.

Abstract: Provided is an image recording method including applying an ink containing water, a resin X, and a colorant onto a resin base material A which has a specific distortion rate and to which a tension is applied, to obtain an image, heating the image to a temperature Td and drying the image, and cooling the image to a temperature Tr, in which ?total calculated by Equation (1) is 40 kgf/cm2 or less. E(Td) represents an elastic modulus of the resin X at the temperature Td, ?(Td) represents an expansion coefficient of the resin base material A under specific conditions, E(T) represents an elastic modulus of the resin X at a temperature T of the image in the cooling, ?r(T) represents a linear expansion coefficient of the resin X at the temperature T, and ?s(T) represents a linear expansion coefficient of the resin base material A under specific conditions.

Abstract: Provided are a pretreatment liquid for recording an image on an impermeable base material with an aqueous ink, the pretreatment liquid including an aqueous medium, a resin a having a glass transition temperature of lower than 25° C., and particles of a resin b having a glass transition temperature of 25° C. or higher; an ink set; a base material for image recording; an image recorded material; a method of producing a base material for image recording; and an image recording method.

Abstract: Provided is a water quality management apparatus for an aquaculture pond, the apparatus having a storage unit for storing water quality-related measured values measured at appropriate time intervals by external sensors set in the aquaculture pond, an assessment unit for calculating a predicted future value on the basis of fluctuations in the measured values and determining the time when the predicted value will exceed a reference value that indicates deterioration of water quality, and a display unit for displaying the time when the reference value will be exceeded. Said time is the time when exchange of pond water will be necessary.

Abstract: A radiation image scanner that reads a radiation image from an imaging plate, the radiation image scanner including: a stage that holds the imaging plate; an excitation light source that irradiates the imaging plate held by the stage with excitation light; and a photodetector that detects light emitted from the imaging plate by the excitation light, in which the stage includes: a stage body that includes a supporting surface capable of being brought into surface contact with a back surface of the imaging plate; and a positioning mechanism that includes a positioning surface being in contact with an edge portion of the imaging plate supported on the supporting surface and positioning the edge portion from outside along the supporting surface while pressing the edge portion against the supporting surface.

Abstract: An object to provide a press-forming method that can efficiently suppress springback and easily specify a position where a springback reduction effect by rigidity improvement is large, and the press-forming method used in producing a press-formed product having a predetermined shape by press-forming a sheet material, the method including: a first process that repeatedly performs a springback analysis, while changing a position to be restricted, to specify a position where a springback reduction effect by rigidity improvement is large; a second process that performs a rigidity improvement measure on a position of the sheet material corresponding to the position of the formed-product model specified in the first process; and a third process that produces the press-formed product by press-forming the sheet material on which the rigidity improvement measure has been performed.