Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition that has high solubility and high solubility retention for the dye compound and has high light resistance and a device including the composition. The use of a combination of one or two or more predetermined alkenyl compounds and a compound including a predetermined difluoro structure can provide a dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition that has high solubility and high solubility retention for the dye compound and has high light resistance, and the dye compound-containing liquid crystal composition is useful for devices, in particular, photochromic devices.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for editing a document including a plurality of objects, including a change unit configured, based on a user instruction, to change a paper size of the document from a first paper size to a second paper size different from the first paper size, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a size of the object included in the document based on the second paper size, wherein the adjustment unit adjusts the size of a specific object in the plurality of objects such that an aspect ratio of the specific object is maintained.

Abstract: A resonator includes a base; and at least three vibrating arms having first ends connected to a front end of the base and second ends that are open ends spaced away from the front end. Each vibrating arm includes an arm portion having a part that extends from the fixed end in a direction toward the open end with a constant width and a mass-adding portion that is connected to a tip of the arm portion and has a larger width than the arm portion. An interval between the mass-adding portions is larger than an interval between the arm portions for any two vibrating arms that are adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A protective cover member includes a laminate including: a protective membrane having a shape configured to cover an opening when the protective cover member is placed on the face of an object; a substrate film joined to the protective membrane; and a first adhesive layer configured to fix the protective cover member to the face, wherein an outer peripheral surface of the protective cover member has a step in a laminating direction of the laminate, a first portion of the protective cover member protrudes at the step more outward than a second portion of the protective cover member does when the protective cover member is placed on the face, the first portion being positioned farther from the face than the step, the second portion being positioned closer to the face than the step, and the protective membrane and the substrate film are positioned in the first portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal light control apparatus includes: a pair of electrodes; a liquid crystal composition that is disposed between the pair of electrodes and satisfies d/p?2, where d (?m) is the distance between the electrodes and p (?m) is a chiral pitch; a voltage application unit that applies a voltage between the electrodes; and a controller that controls the voltage application unit such that an intermediate voltage for aligning liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal composition in a focal conic alignment state is applied between the electrodes after a first voltage for aligning the liquid crystal molecules in a homeotropic alignment state is applied between the electrodes but before a second voltage that is different in magnitude from the first voltage and is for aligning the liquid crystal molecules in a planar alignment state is applied between the electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a Pim-1 inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound of Formula [I] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, and a pharmaceutical use thereof, and the like. wherein each symbol is as defined in the description.

Abstract: A sustained releasing particle contains a water-soluble physiologically active substance and a fat-soluble base material, wherein the sustained releasing particle has a ratio of a surface area to a volume is 0.6 or less.

Abstract: A natural gas liquefying apparatus includes: a precooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to precool natural gas; a liquefying unit, which is a treatment unit configured to liquefy the natural gas; a refrigerant cooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to cool a liquefying refrigerant; a compression unit configured to compress vaporized refrigerants; and a pipe rack including air-cooled coolers arrayed and arranged on an upper surface. The treatment units and the compression unit are separately arranged in a first arrangement region and a second arrangement region arranged opposed to each other across a long side of the pipe rack. The pipe rack interposed between the first and second arrangement regions has a region in which no air-cooled cooler is arranged in order to arrange a plurality of pipes, through which refrigerants are allowed to flow, in a direction of a short side of the pipe rack.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a liquid crystal device including a liquid crystal composition containing a dichroic dye (dye-containing liquid crystal composition) that is in a light transmissive state when no voltage is applied to the transparent electrode and in a light scattering state when voltage is applied. The liquid crystal composition exhibits a negative dielectric constant anisotropy. The haze value of the liquid crystal device is 10% or less when no voltage is applied at 25° C., and the haze value is 50% or more when a rectangular wave voltage (AC 50 V, 60 Hz) is applied. The voltage holding ratio of the dye-containing liquid crystal composition is 60% or less at 25° C. The liquid crystal device provided by the disclosure is used as a component to provide a liquid crystal display apparatus, a light control apparatus, or a light transmitting apparatus with a high contrast.

Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a polyelectrolyte having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g; and (b) at least one scandium compound selected from the group consisting of scandium oxide, scandium acetate, scandium sulfate, scandium nitrate, and scandium carbonate, wherein a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-derived compound in the polymer electrolyte membrane has a total content of 10 ppm or less.

Abstract: A compound that helps achieve a high voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal composition that contains this compound, and a liquid crystal display element made with this liquid crystal composition. More specifically, a compound represented by general formula (Y), which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s). A liquid crystal display element made with a liquid crystal composition that contains one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (Y), each of which has polymerizable groups and polar group(s).

Abstract: [Object] An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable compound for use in the manufacture of a PSA or PSVA liquid crystal display device. The polymerizable compound has a sufficiently high polymerization rate. The PSA or PSVA liquid crystal display device has few or no display defects due to a change in pretilt angle, has an adequate pretilt angle, and has high responsiveness. The present invention also provides a liquid crystal display device having the liquid crystal composition. [Solution] The object is achieved by using a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more polymerizable compounds represented by the general formula (I).

Abstract: A polymer electrolyte membrane according to the present invention has a cluster diameter of 2.96 to 4.00 nm and a converted puncture strength of 300 gf/50 ?m or more. The polymer electrolyte membrane according to the present invention has a low electric resistance and an excellent mechanical strength.

Abstract: In order to respond flexibly to various processing modes, such as forming curved surface shapes, when cutting a workpiece using a wire saw, this wire saw device (1) is provided with: a single robot arm (2) that is capable of moving freely by means of multi-axis control; a wire saw unit (3) that is detachably connected to the robot arm (2) via a tool changer (7); a wire (8) that spans a plurality of pulleys supported within the wire saw unit (3); and a workpiece cutting zone (20) that is established between the pulleys. The workpiece is cut to a prescribed shape by moving the robot arm (2) in a preset direction while running the wire (8) of the wire saw unit (3) and pressing the wire (8) against the supported workpiece.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus detects a printing-target fingernail area from a first captured image, creates print data for performing printing in the detected fingernail area, and detects a printing-target fingernail area from a second captured image before transmitting the print data to a printer. The print data is corrected based on a difference between the first and second detection results. In addition, a change in position, gradient, and shape of a fingernail based on the first detection results and the second detection results is detected, and it is determined whether one of an amount of change in position, an amount of change in gradient, and an amount of change in shape of a fingernail is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a first substrate having an electrode A formed thereon; a second substrate having an electrode B formed thereon and being disposed to oppose the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and substantially vertically aligned with respect to the first and second substrates when no voltage is applied between electrodes, in which the electrode A has a fishbone pattern having a branched portion, and a space (S ?m) between adjacent branches of branches of the fishbone pattern and an inter-substrate distance (d ?m) between the first substrate and the second substrate satisfy a relationship of formula (1): (d?0.6)/1.25<S<(d+1.1)/1.25??formula (1).

Abstract: Provided is a polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a polyelectrolyte having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 3.0 meq/g; and (b) at least one scandium compound selected from the group consisting of scandium oxide, scandium acetate, scandium sulfate, scandium nitrate, and scandium carbonate, wherein a polyethylene glycol (PEG)-derived compound in the polymer electrolyte membrane has a total content of 10 ppm or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition, containing: one kind or two or more kinds of a first monomer having a first mesogenic skeleton, at least one polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG1) linked to the first mesogenic skeleton, and at least one polar group linked to the mesogenic skeleton or the polymerizable group; and one kind or two or more kinds of a second monomer having a second mesogenic skeleton and a polymerizable group represented by the general formula (PG2) linked to the second mesogenic skeleton, and having a chemical structure different from that of the first monomer, in an amount of more than 0.4% by mass, which is excellent in vertical alignment, burn-in characteristics (change with time of pretilt angle), and compatibility, and provides a liquid crystal display element using the liquid crystal composition.

Abstract: An image processing method for reading additional information from image data obtained by an imaging device capturing an image of a printed product with the additional information embedded therein as an electronic watermark includes acquiring, a plurality of times, distance information about a distance between the imaging device and the printed product, and causing a display to display a predetermined object in such a manner that a display form of the predetermined object changes according to the acquired distance information.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal composition excellent in vertical alignment and compatibility and to provide a liquid crystal display device produced using the same. The problem is solved by a liquid crystal composition containing one or two or more kinds of self-aligning polymerizable monomers and one or two or more kinds of polymerizable monomers (or polymerizable compounds) having a specific chemical structure, and a liquid crystal display device produced using the same, specifically a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I) and a spontaneously aligning monomer which has a chemical structure different from that of the polymerizable monomer represented by General Formula (I), and has a polar group, and a liquid crystal display device containing the same.