Abstract: An information processing device of: generating first routes satisfying a first condition; calculating a first index of each node based on a cost of each edge; generating a second route arriving at each node from a starting point and satisfying a second condition; generating a third route satisfying the second condition by adding the edge to the second route; calculating a second index being a difference between a total value of the first index and the cost of the second and third routes; updating the second route when the second index of the third route is smaller than the second index of the second route; excluding the edge having not contributed to the updating more than a predetermined number of times; and outputting a route with the smallest second index, the first index representing a degree of reduction of the cost in a linearly relaxed problem of the routing problem.

Abstract: A film forming method of forming a film made of a curable composition, includes an arranging step of arranging the curable composition on an underlayer of a substrate including a base member and the underlayer arranged on the base member, a contact step of bringing the curable composition and a mold into contact with each other after the arranging step, a curing step of curing the curable composition after the contact step, and a separation step of separating the curable composition and the mold after the curing step, wherein a gas filling a space between the underlayer and the mold exists in the contact step, and a solubility coefficient of the gas with respect to the underlayer is 0.5 kg/m3·atm or more and 10 kg/m3·atm or less.

Abstract: As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the difference between a solvation free energy of a reduced form of the cathodic EC compound in propylene carbonate and a solvation free energy of the reduced form in octanol is ?35 kcal/mol or less.

Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting connected to an end of an electric wire; a housing including a housing chamber and an electric wire drawing port; a first waterproof member that is elastically deformable and fills a space between an inner peripheral surface of the housing and an outer peripheral surface of a cover of the electric wire in the housing chamber to form a first sealed space part between the first waterproof member and the electric wire drawing port; a second waterproof member that is elastically deformable and includes one end part, an other end part, and a tubular part, the tubular part having a second sealed space part that communicates with the first sealed space part through the electric wire drawing port; and a ventilation component.

Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting connected to an electric wire; a housing including a housing chamber, an electric wire drawing port, a communication hole, and a counterpart fitting chamber where a gap formed between the counterpart fitting chamber and a counterpart terminal fitting is filled with a first sealing member; a lid member; a second sealing member that fills a gap between these and forms a first sealed space part in the housing with the first sealing member; a waterproof member including one end part in close contact with an end part of the housing, the other end part in close contact with the electric wire drawn from the electric wire drawing port, and a tubular part, the tubular part including a second sealed space part communicating with the first sealed space part through the electric wire drawing port; and a ventilation component.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor to generate routes for delivering packages in a vehicle routing problem, obtain a first optimum solution of the vehicle routing problem with respect to the routes, determine whether a difference between an objective function value of the first optimum solution and an objective function value of a second optimum solution is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, the second optimum solution being obtained for a linear relaxation problem of the vehicle routing problem, and remove routes for which a variable indicative of a corresponding route is less than or equal to a second threshold value in the second optimum solution, upon finding that the difference is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, wherein a processor generates new routes for delivering packages other than packages that are to be delivered by one or more routes which are left remaining.

Abstract: An organic metal complex represented by formula (1) and having a ligand represented by formula (2). MLmL?nL?l??(1) In formula (1), M represents a transition metal, and Lm, L?n, and L?l represent ligands different from each other. In formula (2), R11 to R14 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a substituent. X is selected from the group consisting of CRR?, SiRR?, S, SO, and SO2. Y1 to Y6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom. When Y3 to Y6 are carbon atoms, each of the carbon atoms may be bound to a carbon atom adjacent to the carbon atom to form a ring structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic compound that has a mother skeleton with a fused-ring structure, an electron-withdrawing group bonded to the mother skeleton, and an electron-donating group bonded to the mother skeleton, wherein the electron-withdrawing group is bonded at a position satisfying the following relationship in the mother skeleton.

Abstract: An organic light emitting element includes, in sequence, an anode, a first light emitting layer, a second light emitting layer, and a cathode. The first light emitting layer includes a first compound and a first light emitting material. The second light emitting layer includes a second compound and a second light emitting material having an energy gap different from an energy gap of the first light emitting material. The organic light emitting element satisfies relations (a) to (c). LUMO(H1)>LUMO(D1)??(a) LUMO(H2)>LUMO(D2)??(b) LUMO(H2)?LUMO(D2)>LUMO(H1)?LUMO(D1)??(c) Where LUMO (H1), LUMO (D1), LUMO (H2), and LUMO (D2) represent a LUMO level of the first compound, a LUMO level of the first light emitting material, a LUMO level of the second compound, and a LUMO level of the second light emitting material, respectively.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by the following general formula is provided. In the above formula (1), R11 to R15 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom provided that at least one of R11, R13, and R15 represents the alkoxy group or the aryloxy group; and R11 to R15 may form a ring structure therebetween. R5 and R6 each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. In addition, R21 to R24 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom and may form a ring structure therebetween. The above groups except the acyl group may be substituted when necessary.

Abstract: A waterproof construction of a three-phase line part includes a three-phase line part having three bus bar construction bodies, a first terminal block provided on one end side of the three-phase line part, a second terminal block provided on the other end side of the three-phase line part, and a tubular exterior member that covers a middle portion of the three-phase line part. One end of the tubular exterior member is water-tightly fixed to a first housing of the first terminal block, and the other end thereof is water-tightly fixed to a second housing of the second terminal block, in a state that the tubular exterior member covers the three-phase line part.

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining, with respect to a route optimization problem that packages are delivered to or from a plurality of nodes by using a plurality of mobile bodies, node information that specifies each node included in the plurality of nodes, demand amount information that indicates a demand amount of each of the plurality of nodes, and mobile body information that indicates a maximum load capacity of each of the plurality of mobile bodies; executing a generation process to specify a node group, among the plurality of nodes, to which the packages are delivered and that satisfies a condition of the maximum load capacity for each of the plurality of mobile bodies and generate a plurality of routes that defines a delivery order of each node included in the node group; and executing a calculation process to execute processing for solving the route optimization problem using the plurality of routes.

Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a photoelectric conversion layer that contains a first organic semiconductor, a second organic semiconductor, and a third organic semiconductor, and a cathode. As each of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor, a low-molecular weight organic semiconductor is used. The first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor have mass ratios that satisfy the following relationship: the first organic semiconductor?the second organic semiconductor?the third organic semiconductor. Further, when a total amount of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor is 100 mass %, a content of the second organic semiconductor is 6 mass % or more, and a content of the third organic semiconductor is 3 mass % or more.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor configured to generate a plurality of routes satisfying a first condition among a plurality of conditions included in a vehicle routing problem The processor, when a total cost for each route satisfying a second condition among the plurality of conditions is calculated from the plurality of routes, performs narrowing-down on the plurality of routes based on the total cost and a value that is set for the route, the value indicating whether or not the route satisfies the second condition and being set to a real number which is equal to or greater than 0 and equal to or smaller than 1 by linear relaxation. The processor calculates a route satisfying the first condition and the second condition based on information on the plurality of routes narrowed down.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by formula [1] is provided. Ring A is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ring having a fluoranthene skeleton and having 16 to 60 carbon atoms and optionally has, as a substituent, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or the like. Rings B1 and B2 are aromatic hydrocarbon rings having 6 to 18 carbon atoms and each have two or more electron withdrawing groups. Q1 and Q2 respectively represent one of the electron withdrawing groups of the ring B1 and one of the electron withdrawing groups of the ring B2, and are respectively located at an ortho position of the ring B1 and at an ortho position of the ring B2 with respect to the ring A.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an electrical wire. The electrical wire includes a rod-like conductor having a shape corresponding to a predetermined wiring route and also having rigidity to enable the rod-like conductor to maintain the shape, and an insulation sheath covering the rod-like conductor. The method includes: preparing a plurality of rod-like preliminary conductors having the rigidity so as to correspond to a plurality of sub routes into which the wiring route is divided; processing at least one of the plurality of preliminary conductors into a shape conforming to the corresponding sub routes; connecting the plurality of preliminary conductors together to form the rod-like conductor; and forming the insulation sheath to cover the rod-like conductor.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by formula [1]: wherein in formula [1], R1 to R10 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, and an amino group, provided that at least one of R6 and R9 is a methyl group, and sets of R1 and R2, R2 and R3, and R3 and R4 are each independently optionally taken together to form a ring.

Abstract: An organic light emitting element includes, in sequence, an anode, a first light emitting layer, a second light emitting layer, and a cathode. The first light emitting layer includes a first compound and a first light emitting material. The second light emitting layer includes a second compound and a second light emitting material having an energy gap different from an energy gap of the first light emitting material. The organic light emitting element satisfies relations (a) to (c). LUMO(H1)>LUMO(D1)??(a) LUMO(H2)>LUMO(D2)??(b) LUMO(H2)?LUMO(D2)>LUMO(H1)?LUMO(D1)??(c) Where LUMO (H1), LUMO (D1), LUMO (H2), and LUMO (D2) represent a LUMO level of the first compound, a LUMO level of the first light emitting material, a LUMO level of the second compound, and a LUMO level of the second light emitting material, respectively.

Abstract: An exterior member of an electrical wire includes a first tubular body and a second tubular body. The first tubular body includes a hollow portion through which the electrical wire is inserted, an opening portion from which the electrical wire is drawn out, and a vent portion which is impermeable to moisture and permeable to air. The second tubular body is provided to extend from the first tubular body and to cover an outer periphery of the electrical wire drawn from the opening portion, and is made of a material more flexible than a material of the first tubular body.

Abstract: Provided are an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer above the support, in which a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a polymerization product of a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge including the electrophotographic photosensitive member. Also provided is a method of producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, including (i) forming a coating film of a coating solution for a surface layer which is a composition containing a specific hole transporting compound, and (ii) forming the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member by a polymerization reaction of the composition containing the specific hole transporting compound.