Abstract: A cause-effect sentence analysis device including: a cause-effect sentence extraction unit configured to extract a cause-effect sentence including a cause expression and an effect expression from a text; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a reference expression for analyzing the degree of similarity; a similarity degree analysis unit, for a cause-effect sentence extracted by the cause-effect sentence extraction unit, configured to calculate a cause similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the cause expression included in the cause-effect sentence, and an effect similarity degree, namely, the degree of similarity between the reference expression and the effect expression; and a desired cause-effect sentence extraction unit for extracting a cause-effect sentence in which one of the cause expression and the effect expression included in the cause-effect sentence is similar to the reference expression and the other is not similar to the

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure is represented by the chemical formula Li6?4b+ab(Zr1?aMa)bX6 (I). M denotes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, Bi, Sc, Sm, and Sb, X denotes at least one halogen element, and the two mathematical formulae 0<a<1 and 0<b<1.5 are satisfied.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit attachable to and detachable from an apparatus body, a preceding unit configured to move relative to the apparatus body before the detachable unit is attached to or detached from the apparatus body, and an adhesion-suppressing component provided on the preceding unit and configured to suppress adhesion of floating matter in the apparatus body to a grip of the detachable unit by covering the grip.

Abstract: The air discharge device includes a duct defining: a main flow path through which an air flow passes; and a main hole opened in a flat shape to discharge the air flow as a working air flow toward a downstream from the main flow path. A throttle portion is provided in the duct to reduce a flow path height of the main flow path from an upstream of the air flow toward a downstream of the air flow. A plurality of partitions are arranged to divide the main flow path in a major direction into a pair of side flow paths and at least one center flow path. The plurality of partitions are disposed in the duct such that a flow path width of the center flow path is reduced from the upstream of the air flow toward the downstream of the air flow.

Abstract: A negative electrode including: a negative electrode current collector with a roughened surface; and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode active material layer includes: negative electrode active material particles containing a compound of lithium, silicon, and oxygen; and a composite compound filled in interparticle gaps and a surface layer of the negative electrode active material particles, the composite compound at least containing chemically bonded carbon and oxygen atoms, the composite compound not being alloyed with the negative electrode active material particles. A ratio O/Si of the oxygen to the silicon constituting the negative electrode active material particles is in the range of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a kneaded material including an ultraviolet absorbing agent that contains at least one compound selected from a compound represented by Formula (1) or a compound represented by Formula (2), and a polymer compound.

Abstract: Provided are a photopolymerizable composition including at least one compound selected from a compound represented by Formula (1) or a compound represented by Formula (2), a polymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator, and a cured substance and an optical member which are formed of the photopolymerizable composition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit that is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body; and a cleaning unit that is provided in the apparatus main body, and at the time of attachment or detachment of the detachable unit, comes into contact with a grip portion of the detachable unit to clean a floating substance adhered to the grip portion, the floating substance being in the apparatus main body.

Abstract: With the present invention, it is possible to provide an inspection tool capable of easily inspecting whether or not light which inactivates a virus or the like has been radiated and easily inspecting whether or not light which is harmful to the human body has been radiated. The inspection tool of the present invention includes a first display portion and a second display portion, in which the first display portion is a display portion which indicates a visual change before and after irradiation of the inspection tool with light having at least any of wavelengths in a wavelength range of 200 to 280 nm, and the second display portion is a display portion which does not indicate a visual change before and after irradiation of the inspection tool with light in a wavelength range of 200 to 230 nm, but indicates a visual change before and after irradiation of the inspection tool with light having at least any of wavelengths in a wavelength range of more than 230 nm and 280 nm or less.

Abstract: A dye ink composition includes: a dye represented by the general formula (I) as defined herein; water; a compound represented by the general formula (II) as defined herein; and a toning agent represented by the general formula (Cy-2) as defined herein.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable users at remote locations to more naturally communicate with each other. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a control unit, in which when a captured image captured by an imaging device in one space is displayed in real time by a display device in another space between a first space in which a first imaging device and a first display device are installed and a second space in which a second imaging device and a second display device are installed, the control unit acquires analysis target data obtained from a device installed in at least one of the first space or the second space, analyzes a state of a user by using the acquired analysis target data on the basis of a human visual characteristic, and controls a shape of a display area of the display device on the basis of an analysis result of the state of the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and a method capable of implementing more various communications. In a space of a user, an input of information by the user is accepted, and tag information for associating control information for controlling occurrence of an event for a communication partner of the user with a space of the communication partner is generated using the accepted information. Furthermore, it is determined whether or not an occurrence condition of the event designated by the tag information for associating the control information for controlling the occurrence of the event for the communication partner with the space of the communication partner, the tag information associated with the space of the user is satisfied, and in a case where it is determined that the occurrence condition is satisfied, the event designated by the tag information is allowed to occur.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit attachable to and detachable from an apparatus body, a preceding unit configured to move relative to the apparatus body before the detachable unit is attached to or detached from the apparatus body, and an adhesion-suppressing component provided on the preceding unit and configured to suppress adhesion of floating matter in the apparatus body to a grip of the detachable unit by covering the grip.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detachable unit that is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus main body; and a cleaning unit that is provided in the apparatus main body, and at the time of attachment or detachment of the detachable unit, comes into contact with a grip portion of the detachable unit to clean a floating substance adhered to the grip portion, the floating substance being in the apparatus main body.

Abstract: Provided are an ultraviolet absorbing agent including a compound represented by Formula (1), in which the ultraviolet absorbing agent has a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range of 350 to 390 nm in an ethyl acetate solution, and a value obtained by dividing an absorbance at a wavelength of 430 nm by an absorbance at the maximum absorption wavelength is 0.01 or less, a resin composition, a cured substance, and an optical member which include the ultraviolet absorbing agent, a method of producing an ultraviolet absorbing agent, and a compound. In Formula (1), X1 and X2 each independently represent a cyano group or the like, R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group or the like, and R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or an aryloxy group.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing system, method, and program capable of displaying an image corresponding to an operation body in a certain place adaptively generated for an operation of the operation body in another place, the system including an information acquisition unit configured to acquire first transmission information according to an operation of an operation body related to a first user located in a first place, the first transmission information being for communication with a second user located in a second place, and an output control unit configured to display, on a display surface in the second place, an image corresponding to the operation body generated based on a pointing position of the operation body in the second place and a first virtual position of the first user in the second place, the pointing position and the first virtual position being specified based on the first transmission information.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet recording ink containing a near-infrared absorbing colorant represented by Formula 1, a polymerizable monomer, a polymerization initiator, and a dispersant, in which a content of the polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the ink jet recording ink, and a difference between an SP value of the polymerizable monomer and an SP value of the dispersant is 3.8 MPa1/2 to 16.0 MPa1/2. Also provided is an ink jet recording method. The description of a ring A, a ring B, XA, XB, GA, GB, kA, and kB in Formula 1 will not be repeated.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of reducing a sense of delay given to a user. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition section; an encoding section; a context recognition section; a priority data extraction section; and a communication section. The acquisition section acquires data relating to a transmission point. The encoding section encodes the data relating to the transmission point. The context recognition section sets data to be preferentially transmitted from the data relating to the transmission point on the basis of a situation of the transmission point recognized using the data relating to the transmission point. The priority data extraction section extracts the preferentially transmitted data as priority data on the basis of a setting in the context recognition section.

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, which are capable of allowing users at remote locations to each grasp more deeply the condition of the space where the partner is present. Provided is an information processing device including a control unit, wherein, between a first space where a first imaging device and a first display device are installed and a second space where a second imaging device and a second display device are installed, when a captured image captured by the imaging device in one of the spaces is displayed by the display device in the other space in real time, the control unit performs a control for presenting a state of the second space in an ineffective region excluding an effective region in which a captured image captured by the second imaging device is displayed, in a display region of the first display device. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a video communication system.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telepresence system capable of providing telepresence in a better acoustic environment. The telepresence system includes: a network that connects a plurality of bases; and a plurality of telepresence facilities that transmit and receive video images and sound via the network, and share the video images and the audio between the respective bases. Each telepresence facility is then entirely covered with a sound shielding portion that acoustically shields the external environment and the internal environment of the telepresence facility from each other. Further, in each of the telepresence facilities, the same sound field as that of another telepresence facility is reproduced in a closed space shielded by the sound shielding portion. The present technology can be applied to a telepresence system capable of making a user feel as if places were connected and the other party were present in the same place, for example.