Abstract: An optical receiver includes an optical filter that transmits signal light to be received from wavelength-multiplexed signal light, a light source that outputs local oscillation light, a 90-degree hybrid circuit that causes the local oscillation light output from the light source to interfere with the signal light transmitted through the optical filter to output interference signal light, a converter that converts the interference signal light into an electrical data signal, a spectrum detector that detects a frequency spectrum of the electrical data signal based on the electrical data signal, and a controller that controls a center frequency of a passband of the optical filter based on a shape of the frequency spectrum.

Abstract: The sensor arrangement structure includes a pulley that rotates about a rotation axis; and a sensor that detects rotation of the pulley. The pulley includes a fixed pulley, a movable pulley that can be displaced relative to the fixed pulley in a direction of the rotation axis, and a plunger defining an oil chamber on a back of the movable pulley. The plunger is provided with a detection target portion in a region that can be visually recognized from the direction of the rotation axis, and the sensor is provided on a support portion that rotatably supports the fixed pulley in a direction along the rotation axis and faces the region in which the detection target portion is provided.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory. In both of a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is applied to a current block and a second type of residual coding where the orthogonal transform is skipped, wherein when a number of CABAC processes is within an allowable range, the circuitry encodes coefficient information flags by CABAC, each of the coefficient information flags relating to a coefficient included in the current block; and otherwise, the circuitry skips the encoding of the coefficient information flags; and the circuitry encodes a remainder value of the coefficient with Golomb-Rice code when the coefficient information flags are encoded; and the circuitry encodes a value of the coefficient with the Golomb-Rice code when the plurality of coefficient information flags are not encoded, wherein the coefficient information flags are partially different between the first type of residual coding and the second type of residual coding.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides: a non-woven fabric for a sterilization packaging material, the non-woven fabric being capable of being compatible with all sterilization treatment methods and maintaining a sterile state in the interior without breaking even in a variety of environments in which the non-woven fabric can be assumed to be used as a sterilization packaging material; and a non-woven fabric for a sterilization packaging material, the non-woven fabric achieving both easy-peel properties that enable easy handling without breakage and barrier properties for retaining the sterile state in the interior.

Abstract: A printing system includes a first terminal apparatus, a printing apparatus, and a first server. The first terminal apparatus acquires a mail address of the printing apparatus by near field communication with the printing apparatus or from a code displayed on the printing apparatus and transmits the acquired mail address to the first server. The first server transmits electronic data corresponding to the first terminal apparatus to the printing apparatus through a third communication path based on the received mail address.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a wireless communication device, a wireless communication terminal, and a wireless communication method capable of improving frequency utilization efficiency. The wireless communication device causes a signal, in which at least a first portion of a preamble and a payload are narrowed in band, to be transmitted. The present technology can be applied to a wireless communication system.

Abstract: DAC system includes a first direct air capture (DAC) device for recovering carbon dioxide from an atmosphere, a second DAC device in which an intake port is installed to be located at a side of an exhaust port of the first DAC device, and that recovers carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and a stirring plate disposed between the first DAC device and the second DAC device for stirring the air discharged from the exhaust port of the first DAC device and the atmosphere.

Abstract: Hydrotreating catalyst material and/or hydrotreating catalyst particles are provided having at least two hydrotreating metal components and a chelating agent carried on a support. The support comprises an inorganic oxide binder and a post-framework modified ultra-stable Y-type (USY) zeolite in which a portion of aluminum atoms constituting a zeolite framework thereof is substituted with zirconium atoms and/or titanium atoms and/or hafnium atoms. The hydrotreating metal components form a metal complex via the chelating agent, and are carried on said support as chelating complex type II active sites.

Abstract: A toilet seat device according to an embodiment is a toilet seat device configured to be attached to an upper part of a closet bowl on which a bowl part for receiving excrement is formed, and includes: a toilet seat upper plate constituting a seating surface on which a user sits; a toilet seat bottom plate joined with the toilet seat upper plate to be opposed to an upper part of the closet bowl; a heating device disposed between the toilet seat upper plate and the toilet seat bottom plate to heat the toilet seat upper plate; and a detection device disposed on the toilet seat to optically detect the excrement. The detection device is arranged in a non-contact manner with respect to the heating device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sterilization method for a medical rubber product in which non-eluting characteristics are maintained even after sterilization with gamma ray and with which less troubles occur in a medical product manufacturing process. The medical rubber product according to the present invention is a medical rubber product formed from an elastic material and sterilized by being irradiated with gamma ray or electron ray (beta ray), wherein, when measurement is performed on a surface portion of the elastic material through ATR by using an FT-IR, if an area of an infrared absorption peak at around a wave number of 1650 cm?1 in an infrared absorption spectrum obtained through the measurement is defined as As and an area of an infrared absorption peak at around a wave number of 1470 cm?1 in the infrared absorption spectrum is defined as Bs, Ss=(As/Bs)×100?6 is satisfied.

Abstract: A drive waveform creation method, an information processing apparatus, and a program that enable even a technician not having professional knowledge to efficiently create a drive waveform suitable for ejecting liquid to be used. A method of creating a drive waveform to be used for driving a piezoelectric element of a liquid ejection head including the piezoelectric element includes, via one or more processors, predicting flight of liquid to be ejected by the liquid ejection head in a case of inputting an unknown drive waveform using a machine learning model that is trained through machine learning using data related to an actual flight shape of the liquid in a case where each of a plurality of drive waveforms is applied to the piezoelectric element using the liquid and the liquid ejection head, and determining a drive waveform suitable for ejecting the liquid based on the prediction of the flight.

Abstract: A working machine includes a vehicle body, a first working device attachable to the vehicle body, a traveling device, and a controller configured or programmed to include a first acquirer to acquire non-travelable lines arranged at first interval(s) in an agricultural field, and a route creator to create, based on the non-travelable lines, a first route including first portions. The traveling device includes portions spaced apart from each other by a distance corresponding to the first interval, and the route creator includes a line definer to define, as travelable lines, regions of the agricultural field other than the non-travelable lines based on the non-travelable lines acquired by the first acquirer, and a setter to set, as the first portions, a path which extends between opposite edges of the agricultural field and along which the traveling device travels on the travelable lines defined by the line definer.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an encoder and a decoder. The encoder is configured to estimate an unknown value on the basis of first biological information including a line of sight of a subject extracted from an image of the subject, subject's environmental information representing an environment of the subject, and subject's internal state information representing an internal state of the subject. The decoder is configured to estimate second biological information including the line of sight of the subject on the basis of the unknown value, the subject's environmental information, and the subject's internal state information. The electronic device adjusts parameters of the encoder and the decoder on the basis of reproducibility of the first biological information from the second biological information.

Abstract: An endoscopic treatment may include a sheath extending in a longitudinal direction, a distal end member having insulation and the distal end member provided at a distal end of the sheath and having a through-hole penetrating in the longitudinal direction. The treatment tool may further include an electrode having a first conduit extending in the longitudinal direction and the electrode being configured to advance and retract into the through-hole. The electrode including a rod extending in the longitudinal direction and configured to be arranged in at least a part of the first conduit.

Abstract: A power control apparatus is connected to a high-voltage battery constructed by connecting a plurality of cell units. In the power control apparatus, an electrical connection unit for connecting the high-voltage battery and a load and a series-parallel switching unit that is connected to the plurality of cell units and the electrical connection unit and switches a connection between the plurality of cell units between series and parallel are integrated.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to perform, in a feeding device including a feeding unit that feeds out a feeding target loaded on a loading unit and a cleaning unit that cleans the feeding unit in a state where the feeding target is exhausted from the loading unit, notification control of issuing notification to prompt a user to take out the feeding target from the loading unit on a notification unit in a case where an addition state in which the feeding target is added to the loading unit occurs before the feeding target is fed out and exhausted from the loading unit.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a bed, a column which is provided on the bed so as to be erected therefrom, a saddle which is a moving body supported by the column, and a tool spindle which is supported by the saddle and rotates a tool around a rotation center axis extending in a Z-axis direction parallel to a horizontal direction. The saddle has a frame portion which is provided so as to surround the tool spindle. The thickness of the frame portion in the Z-axis direction changes along a Y-axis direction parallel to a vertical direction, and becomes maximum at a first position-(Pa) closer to an upper end portion of the frame portion than a lower end portion of the frame portion.

Abstract: A Brassicaceae plant containing a large amount of glucoraphanin is obtained. A first parent plant and a second parent plant, which are both Brassicaceae plants classified into different genera, are crossbred, thereby obtaining an intergeneric crossbred plant. The first parent plant has 5 mg/100 g (fresh weight) or more of glucoraphanin. The second parent plant has a loss-of-function type glucoraphasatin synthase gene.

Abstract: A treatment instrument includes a tube with a conduit; a wire located in the tube so as to advance and retract in the tube, and through which a high frequency current is allowed to flow. The treatment instrument may also include an electrode connected to a distal end of the wire; and a distal end tip located at a distal end portion of the tube, the distal end tip configured to accommodate at least a part of the electrode. The distal end tip includes a passage that connects with an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the distal end tip. The passage connects with the conduit.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body including a first and second stacked portions including first and second conductive layers and having first and second end portions stepwise processed, a first and second interlayer insulating layers covering the first and second end portions, a first stopper insulating layer provided at least between the first and second interlayer insulating layers and above the first end portion, including a first portion extending flat above the first end portion, and first contacts penetrating the second interlayer insulating layer, the first portion of the first stopper insulating layer and the first interlayer insulating layer, and connected to different first conductive layers.