Abstract: A vehicle management server is configured to transmit, to a vehicle, an update program for updating an existing program of an electronic device mounted on the vehicle. The vehicle management server includes a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The controller is configured to control an update process. The controller is configured to determine, depending on a type of the update program, whether to present, to a vehicle user, an indication related to the update process for the existing program using the update program, and transmit, when the controller determines to present the indication related to the update process to the vehicle user, information for causing a predetermined information terminal to display the indication related to the update process to the vehicle via the communicator.

Abstract: A cell unit includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, a separator, a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode current collector which are laminated on one another, the cell unit comprising a frame member arranged between the positive electrode current collector and an opposing negative electrode current collector and fixing a peripheral edge portion of the separator, and an electronic component for detecting the state inside the cell unit, wherein the electronic component is arranged in a region between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector, and the electronic component arranged in the region is electrically connected to the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector.

Abstract: A medical device includes an expansion body, an elongated shaft portion, and a plurality of electrode assemblies. The expansion body includes a recessed portion that is recessed radially inward. The recessed portion includes a radially innermost bottom portion including a proximal side curved portion and a distal side curved portion, a proximal side upright portion, and a distal side upright portion. Each of the plurality of electrode assemblies includes an electrode portion disposed along the expansion body from the proximal side upright portion or the distal side upright portion to the bottom portion so as to face a receiving space defined by the recessed portion. The proximal side curved portion and the distal side curved portion deform in response to expansion and contraction of the expansion body. The electrode portion is in a floating state with respect to the distal side curved portion and the proximal side curved portion.

Abstract: Provided is an information search system that enables a searcher to efficiently find information they want to know, the system including: a database (12) that stores a plurality of pieces of information that are text-searchable; a query sentence acceptance unit (26) that accepts a query sentence in a natural language format; an inputted search keyword extractor (44) that extracts an inputted search keyword from the query sentence; a retrieval executor (40) that executes retrieval processing from the database using the inputted search keyword, along with a keyword relevant to the inputted search keyword; and a keyword dictionary (30) in which words associated with categories are registered, wherein the retrieval executor acquires, from the keyword dictionary, words associated with one of the categories selected by a searcher, re-sorts information retrieved as a result of the retrieval processing, based on the acquired words, and displays the information to the searcher.

Abstract: Provided is a tool head in a head replaceable cutting tool configured on the basis of a novel idea so as to allow external measurement to be easily performed, while allowing cutting performance to be maintained. The tool head in the head replaceable cutting tool has a substantially cylindrical shape, and can be fastened to a shank held on a machine tool, and moreover includes an insert mounting seat on which a cutting insert is to be detachably mounted, the tool head further including a point, a line, or a surface that defines a reference surface from which a cutting edge of the cutting insert has a predetermined length to a predetermined portion thereof.

Abstract: A skin material includes: a design layer; and a base cloth layer. The design layer includes a surface layer and a foam layer. The base cloth layer includes a surface fabric and a back fabric, and a binding yarn that binds the surface fabric and the back fabric. The binding yarn is a thermoplastic resin fiber erected between the surface fabric and the back fabric to form a gap between the surface fabric and the back fabric. The foam layer and the surface fabric are joined. An interior material includes the skin material and a base material to which the skin material is attached. A method for producing the skin material includes joining the surface layer and the base cloth layer via a foamable adhesive to serve as the foam layer.

Abstract: Provided is an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, an electron-donating polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound, HOMO of the infrared absorber - HOMO of the electron-donating polymerization initiator is 0.60 eV or less, and the outermost layer contains a discoloring compound. Also provided are a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate and a lithographic printing method in which the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor is used.

Abstract: Provided is an information search system by which high-speed search is possible commonly used across a plurality of districts, the system including: a database (12) that stores a plurality of pieces of information that are text-searchable; a query sentence acceptance unit (26) that accepts a query sentence; an inputted search keyword extractor (44) that extracts an inputted search keyword from the query sentence; a retrieval executor (40) that executes retrieval processing from the database using the inputted search keyword; a local management apparatus (100) that stores district material in a local database (104); and an information management apparatus (110) that executes character extraction processing on the material stored in the local database and converts a file format of the material according to a size thereof, stores the material in a temporary memory as stored material, and outputs the stored material to the database.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound of formula (I) wherein R1A, R1B, R1C, and R1D are hydrogen atom, etc., R2A and R2B are hydrogen atom, etc., R3A, R3B, R3C, and R3D are hydrogen atom, etc., L is bond, etc., V is C1-6 alkylene, Q is optionally-substituted imidazole, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as a novel anti-tumor agent that targets CSCs which are thought to be closely involved in the persistent proliferation of malignant tumor, metastasis or recurrence of cancer, and resistance to anti-tumor agents.

Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus executes a collision avoidance control to avoid a collision of an own vehicle with an object ahead of the own vehicle by forcibly braking and stopping the own vehicle before the object when a collision condition that the own vehicle collides with the object, becomes satisfied. The vehicle driving assistance apparatus acquires information on a situation behind the own vehicle as rearward detection information when the own vehicle tows a trailer, acquires an angle between a moving vector of the own vehicle and a moving vector of the trailer as a towing angle. and keep the collision avoidance control unexecuted even when the collision condition becomes satisfied when a forbiddance condition that the towing angle is equal to or greater than a predetermined towing angle, is satisfied.

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: A heavy goods vehicle includes a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement by multiplying an arc length per unit rotation angle of the outer circumference of a specified tire by the first physical quantity, a vehicle position estimator that estimates a vehicle position using the displacement, and a memory that stores a correlation between a second physical quantity corresponding to a loading weight and an arc length per predetermined rotation angle at the outer circumference of the specified tire. The displacement calculator refers to the correlation to calculate a current arc length per unit rotation angle at the outer circumference of the specified tire from the second physical quantity corresponding to the loading weight, and calculates the displacement by multiplying the first physical quantity detected by the rotation amount detector by the current arc length per unit rotation angle.

Abstract: A cooling device for a ship propulsion machine includes a drain passage and a collector. The collector includes a collector main body, a case, an upper connection pipe, and a lower connection pipe having flexibility. A first bent portion is provided between an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the lower connection pipe. A second bent portion is provided between the first bent portion and the lower end portion of the lower connection pipe. The lower connection pipe extends downward from the upper end portion thereof along an axis of the case, bends at the first bent portion, extends downward while being inclined with respect to the axis so as to be separated from the axis, bends at the second bent portion, and extends downward while being inclined with respect to the axis so as to be close to the axis.

Abstract: A headset of the present disclosure includes a housing 1 worn on user's ears, an ear-canal insertion portion 10 with a cylindrical shape provided at an ear-canal side of the housing 1 as a part of the housing 1, a driver 4 for outputting a signal provided inside the housing 1, and a microphone 5 provided at the back of a signal outputting surface of the housing 1 to acquire a response signal from a front of the driver 4.

Abstract: A radio communication apparatus according to an embodiment includes a radio communication unit (1011), a radio information acquisition unit (1013), and a transmission condition setting unit (104). The radio communication unit transmits a radio signal. The radio information acquisition unit continuously acquires radio information containing received signal strength in the radio communication unit. The transmission condition setting unit sets a transmission time slot for transmitting the radio signal in the radio communication unit and an index value of a modulation and error correction coding rate in the radio communication unit in accordance with the radio information.

Abstract: A sulfide solid electrolyte, which is able to adjust the morphology unavailable traditionally, or is readily adjusted so as to have a desired morphology, the sulfide solid electrolyte having a volume-based average particle diameter measured by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of 3 ?m or more and a specific surface area measured by the BET method of 20 m2/g or more; and a method of treating a sulfide solid electrolyte including the sulfide solid electrolyte being subjected to at least one mechanical treatment selected from disintegration and granulation.

Abstract: A method includes, by a processor, acquiring number of persons information that indicates a number of users, including users who ride in vehicles, who depart from a facility at each of a predetermined time period, weather information for each predetermined time period, and vehicle information relating to vehicles traveling in a periphery of the facility, determining traffic jam status that indicates absence/presence of a traffic jam on a road located in a vicinity of the facility in the predetermined time period, by using the vehicle information; and generating a learned model for predicting a traffic jam of a road by machine learning using, as teaching data, the number of persons information, the weather information, and the traffic jam status that is associated with the number of persons information and the weather information.

Abstract: A biomolecule is more easily and reliably reciprocated in a nanopore. An adapter molecule that directly or indirectly binds to a biomolecule to be analyzed comprises a three-dimensional structure formation domain consisting of a single-stranded nucleotide.

Abstract: A voice data creation device is a device configured to create voice data including an additional word which is a word to be added to a recognition target in a speech recognition system, and includes: a sentence example extraction unit configured to extract one or more text corpora including the additional word from a text corpus group including a plurality of text corpora consisting of sentence examples including a plurality of words; a sentence example selection unit configured to select a text corpus having a highest measure indicating a likelihood of occurrence as a sentence among the text corpora extracted by the sentence example extraction unit 11 as an optimal sentence example for the additional word; and a voice creation unit configured to output a synthesized voice of the optimal sentence example generated by a predetermined voice synthesis system as voice data corresponding to the additional word.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a reception unit that receives setting, by a driver of a vehicle, of a provision range of vehicle information about the vehicle to be provided to a user who wishes to use the vehicle information, before the vehicle information is provided to the user; an acquisition unit that acquires the vehicle information; and a provision unit that provides the vehicle information that is included in the provision range acquired by the acquisition unit to the user.