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A process for producing an electronic device material of a high quality MOS-type semiconductor comprising an insulating layer and a semiconductor layer excellent in the electrical characteristic. The process includes: a step of CVD-treating a substrate to be processed comprising single-crystal silicon as a main component, to thereby form an insulating layer; and a step of exposing the substrate to be processed to a plasma which has been generated from a process gas on the basis of microwave irradiation via a plane antenna member having a plurality of slots, to thereby modify the insulating film by using the thus generated plasma.

An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pressure measuring precision. For this purpose, the touch panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed oppose to the first substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on either one of opposed surfaces of the respective substrates or disposed separately on both of the surfaces, pressure sensitive ink members disposed with a gap from at least one of the pair of electrodes, each of the pressure sensitive ink members having an electrical characteristic varied by a pressing force applied thereto, and a gap retaining member for bonding the first and second substrates to each other and for retaining a gap between each of the pressure sensitive inks and at least one of the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes are disposed in a frame shape along an edge portion of the first or second substrate, and the pressure sensitive ink members are scattered along the edge portion of the first or second substrate so that, when the first or second substrate is deformed upon an application of an external force, at least one of them is made in contact with both of the pair of electrodes so as to make the two electrodes conductive to each other.

Methods of processing an emulsion of aqueous droplets containing nucleic acid. The methods may include breakage of the emulsion with a destabilizing fluid including a halogen-substituted hydrocarbon.

A method of conducting a survey. The method includes providing a plurality of questions to respondents, at least some questions being provided to a plurality of the respondents, collecting answers to the questions from the respondents, transfer-ring at least some of the answers to respondents other than those who generated the answers, collecting responses to the transferred answers, at least some of the responses being qualitative, and providing a statistical report which is at least partially based on qualitative responses collected from the respondents.

An object of the present invention is to provide a touch panel having a press detection function, which makes it possible to suppress degradation of visibility of a display unit of a display device even when mounted on an electronic device, and also to improve a pressure measuring precision. For this purpose, the touch panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed oppose to the first substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on either one of opposed surfaces of the respective substrates or disposed separately on both of the surfaces, pressure sensitive ink members disposed with a gap from at least one of the pair of electrodes, each of the pressure sensitive ink members having an electrical characteristic varied by a pressing force applied thereto, and a gap retaining member for bonding the first and second substrates to each other and for retaining a gap between each of the pressure sensitive inks and at least one of the pair of electrodes, wherein the pair of electrodes are disposed in a frame shape along an edge portion of the first or second substrate, and the pressure sensitive ink members are scattered along the edge portion of the first or second substrate so that, when the first or second substrate is deformed upon an application of an external force, at least one of them is made in contact with both of the pair of electrodes so as to make the two electrodes conductive to each other.

A liftable slide cover mounting structure consisting of two hinges, two metal sheet bracket mechanism, two sliding rails, two gears, two gear racks and two supplementary support mechanisms. Subject to the use of the sheet plate bracket mechanisms to hold the sliding rails instead of zinc alloy sliding rail holders, the weight of the liftable slide cover mounting structure is minimized. Further, when the cover panel is opened from the base member, the sheet plate bracket mechanisms are forced into engagement with the supplementary support mechanisms to support the cover panel in position for enabling the user to operate the display screen of the cover panel positively.

A multi-media method and system performs psychological assessment of an individual for suitability for particular jobs, whereby the individual is shown and provided with discrete visual and auditory stimuli on a multi-media computer screen, so that the individual's responses can be monitored in conjunction with physiological responses received by biofeedback sensors. The computer tallies the test subject's recorded responses. Virtual work environments are optionally displayed, to enable the tested individual to simulate a real work environment. Unlike other job evaluation systems, the system evaluates a job candidate's ability to maintain task focus under pressure. It directly measures performance under pressure, rather than only inferring potential performance based upon selective input from a job candidate.

The present invention discloses a method and system for controlling an underwater robot locus based on deep reinforcement learning. The system comprises a learning phase and an application phase. In the learning phase, a simulator simulates the running process of an underwater robot and collects the data of the simulated running underwater robot, the data comprises the state of each moment and the target state of the next moment corresponding to each moment, and the learning is performed aiming at a decision neural network, an auxiliary decision neural network, an evaluation neural network and an auxiliary evaluation neural network through the data. In the application phase, the state o the underwater robot at the current moment and the target state of the underwater robot at the next moment are obtained and input to the decision neural network obtained through the final learning in the learning phase, and the decision neural network is configured to calculate the propulsive force required by the underwater robot at the current moment. The method and system for controlling underwater robot locus based on the deep reinforcement learning can realize accurate control of the underwater motion track.

An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing element which receives subject light incident via a photographing lens, converts the subject light into a captured image signal, and outputs the signal; an A / D conversion section which converts the captured image signal outputted by the image capturing element into image data and outputs the image data; a storage section which stores at least the image data outputted by the A / D conversion section; a registration section which relates identification facial images which are image data to be used as criteria for identifying faces of subjects among the image data stored in the storage section to identification information of each subject, and registers related data into a database; a facial image extraction section which extracts facial images which are facial portion regions of a person from photographed images which are desired image data outputted by the A / D conversion section and stored in the storage section; an identification section which identifies from the database an identification facial image matching an extracted facial image which is a facial image extracted by the facial image extraction section; and a photograph quantity calculation section which calculates for each subject identification information a photograph quantity which is the total number of photographed images from which an extracted facial image matching an identification facial image corresponding to identification information for each subject has been extracted.

An object of the invention is to reduce an influence of deviation in pressure increasing performance, which would be caused by individual differences of pressure increase valves, so that a desired braking force may be obtained. A moderate pressure increasing operation is carried out for wheel cylinder pressure of a wheel, which is on a high μ-road, wherein a demand differential pressure for a pressure increase valve is set at a first target pressure for a first time period and then switched to a second target pressure for a second time period. The influence of the deviation may be absorbed during the moderate pressure increasing operation, so that a difference of wheel cylinder pressure between front left and front right wheels may be reduced.

A liftable slide cover mounting structure consisting of two hinges, two metal sheet bracket mechanism, two sliding rails, two gears, two gear racks and two supplementary support mechanisms. Subject to the use of the sheet plate bracket mechanisms to hold the sliding rails instead of zinc alloy sliding rail holders, the weight of the liftable slide cover mounting structure is minimized. Further, when the cover panel is opened from the base member, the sheet plate bracket mechanisms are forced into engagement with the supplementary support mechanisms to support the cover panel in position for enabling the user to operate the display screen of the cover panel positively.

A portable IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) of high reliability, compact size, and low cost includes a main circuit to which a control circuit and an auxiliary power supply circuit are connected. The main circuit includes, in sequence, an input rectifier filter circuit, an inverter circuit, a high-frequency primary transformer, and a secondary output rectifier circuit. The control circuit includes a PWM regulation circuit, an IGBT driving circuit, a current feedback circuit, and a current setup circuit. The inverter circuit includes a full-bridge hard switching structure, which has IGBTs constituting bridge arms that are sequentially conducted, so that their alternating conduction converts direct current into high frequency square wave alternating current, which flows through the high-frequency primary transformer and is then subjected to rectification to supply an output of low voltage direct current. Each IGBT is connected in parallel to resistor and capacitor, which constitute a peak voltage absorption circuitry.

The methods and apparatus disclosed herein can be used to treat glaucoma of the eye. The methods and apparatus can be configured to apply energy to the sclera, cornea, and / or other regions of the eye in order to shrink collagenous tissue near Schlemm's canal. Juxtacanalicular treatment of the sclera and / or cornea adjacent Schlemm's canal can be used to dilate Schlemm's canal, collector channels, and / or the Trabecular Meshwork. The methods and apparatus can be configured to apply energy to the sclera to generate scleral vacuoles in the sclera to improve uveoscleral outflow.

The invention discloses an online content recommending method based on a deep neural network. On the traditional basis of content recommendation, a deep neural network (DNN) word vector tool is introduced, content and users are mapped to high-dimensional vector space according to content text information to be recommended and the historical behaviors of the users, the cosine distance between vectors is calculated, and user groups interested in the recommended content are screened and filtered. Experiments in a large-scale moving content service system prove that compared with random recommendation, a Content KNN, Item CF and other algorithms, the recommending effect of the recommending strategy is remarkably improved.

A shieldable needle device includes a hub with and a needle cannula having a puncture tip extending from a forward end thereof, and a shield member in telescoping association with the hub. At least one of the hub and the shield member are adapted for relative axial movement with respect to the other between a first position in which the puncture tip of the needle cannula is exposed from a forward end of the shield member and a second position in which the puncture tip of the needle cannula is encompassed within the shield member. A drive member extends between the hub and the shield member, biasing the hub and the shield member axially away from each other. A packaging cover may further extend about the needle cannula, applying external pressure between the cooperating portions of the hub and the shield. In use, external pressure is applied by a user to at least one of the hub and the shield member providing an engagement therebetween, thus permitting removal of the packaging cover and preventing the drive member from biasing the hub and the shield member axially away from each other until activation is desired.

Packets are relayed using a network relay device including a plurality of interface units. Each of the interface units includes one or more physical ports for connection to a line, and a bandwidth controller configured to control transmission bandwidth for packets received by the physical ports. Furthermore, a single specific physical port is selected as the output physical port from the distributed-control logical port based on output port group information unique to the output port group including the distributed-control logical port.

It is an object of this invention to measure small amounts of a plurality of sample solutions at the same time. The small amounts of sample solutions are respectively placed on measuring electrodes, a medium is placed across the plurality of sample solutions, a liquid joint of a reference electrode is brought into contact with the medium, and a potential difference between each of the measuring electrodes and the reference electrode via the medium is measured.

A multi-media method and system performs psychological assessment of an individual for suitability for particular jobs, whereby the individual is shown and provided with discrete visual and auditory stimuli on a multi-media computer screen, so that the individual's responses can be monitored in conjunction with physiological responses received by biofeedback sensors. The computer tallies the test subject's recorded responses. Virtual work environments are optionally displayed, to enable the tested individual to simulate a real work environment. Unlike other job evaluation systems, the system evaluates a job candidate's ability to maintain task focus under pressure. It directly measures performance under pressure, rather than only inferring potential performance based upon selective input from a job candidate.

Packets are relayed using a network relay device including a plurality of interface units. Each of the interface units includes one or more physical ports for connection to a line, and a bandwidth controller configured to control transmission bandwidth for packets received by the physical ports. Furthermore, a single specific physical port is selected as the output physical port from the distributed-control logical port based on output port group information unique to the output port group including the distributed-control logical port.

A fuel control device includes a combustion temperature estimation value calculation unit that calculates a temperature estimation value when a mixture of fuel and inflow air is burned using an atmospheric condition, an opening degree command value of a valve that controls the amount of air that is mixed with the fuel and burned, and an output prediction value calculated on the basis of a fuel control signal command value used for calculation of a total fuel flow rate flowing through a plurality of fuel supply systems, a fuel distribution command value calculation unit that calculates a fuel distribution command value indicating a distribution of fuel output from the fuel supply systems based on the temperature estimation value, and outputs the fuel distribution command value, and a valve opening degree calculation unit that calculates each valve opening degree of a fuel flow rate control valve of the fuel supply systems.

There is provided a magnetic antenna, suitable for use in an RFID tag and an RFID tag reader / writer, which operates stable even if brought close to a metallic object and suitable for mass-production, and a board mounted with the magnetic antenna. The magnetic antenna has a coil comprising a magnetic layer and a conductive layer provided on the magnetic layer via an insulating layer. Alternatively, the magnetic antenna has a plurality of coils each comprising a magnetic layer having a square or rectangular shape and arranged radially. One ends of the coils are connected in series or parallel to one another by the magnetic layers thereof such that the coils have the same polarity. An insulating layer is provided on one or both outer surface of the coils, and a conductive layer is provided on an outer surface of at least one of the insulating layers. The magnetic antenna is produced using an LTCC technology.

The disclosed phase-shift full bridge circuit for flexible switch comprises: a transformer, a lead / lag bridge arm connected with one / another end of the primary side of transformer, an auxiliary bridge arm connected with power end, a break capacitor between primary side of transformer and the lead arm, and an output circuit set on secondary side of the transformer. This invention makes both the lead and lag arm fit to zero voltage switch, and turns off the rectifying diode with zero voltage.

The invention discloses a correction method for a mining borehole clinometer probe tube. The correction method for the mining borehole clinometer probe tube comprises the steps that correction parameters are calculated through a recursive least square ellipsoid fitting process by collecting any position data of a magnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor in the three-dimensional non-magnetic rotary platform clinometer probe tube; misalignment errors between the magnetic sensor and the acceleration sensor in the three-dimensional non-magnetic rotary platform clinometer probe tube and a clinometer probe tube shell carrier are calculated through a least square planar fitting method by collecting the data of the magnetic sensor and the acceleration sensor in the three-dimensional non-magnetic rotary platform clinometer probe tube around the X axis and the Z axis; the errors of the magnetic sensor and the acceleration sensor and the soft and hard iron error of the magnetic sensor are obtained; and the misalignment errors between the magnetic sensor and the clinometer probe tube shell carrier as well as between the acceleration sensor and the clinometer probe tube shell carrier are corrected. According to the correction method for the mining borehole clinometer probe tube, the geomagnetic field and gravitational acceleration are used for correction, the errors of a three-axis sensor and the misalignment errors between the three-axis sensor and the coordinate system of the probe tube shell carrier are compensated, the inclination precision of the corrected mining borehole clinometer probe tube is + / -0.2 degree, and the precision of the azimuth angle of the corrected mining borehole clinometer probe tube is+ / -0.5 degree.

The present invention relates to a versatile method of identifying protein coding DNA sequences (genes) useful as drug targets in a genome using specially developed software GeneDecipher, said method comprising steps of generating peptide libraries from the known genomes with peptide of length ‘N’ computationally arranged in an alphabetical order, artificially translating the test genome to obtain a polypeptide corresponding to each reading frame, converting each polypeptide sequence into an alphanumeric sequence one corresponding to each reading frame on the basis of overlappings with the peptide libraries, training Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with sigmoidal learning function to the alphanumeric sequence, deciphering the protein coding regions in the test genome, thus, identifying longer streches of peptides mapping to large number of known genes and their corresponding proteins and lastly, a method of the management of the diseases caused by the pathogenic organisms comprising a step of evaluation of the proposed drug candidate by inhibiting the functioning of one or more proteins identified by the steps of the invention.

A gas turbine combustor includes a pilot burner, provided at a top portion of a combustion liner having a combustion chamber defined therein, and a main burner of a premixing type disposed adjacent an outer periphery thereof. The pilot burner is provided with an inflow passage, provided in an upstream end portion to allow the compressed air from a radially outer area into a radially inner area, a plurality of fuel supply holes for injecting the fuel into the inflow passage in a direction perpendicular to the flow of the compressed air, a premixing passage for guiding the air-fuel mixture from the inflow passage in an axially downstream direction while the compressed air and the fuel are mixed together, and a plurality of premixed air-fuel mixture injection holes for injecting the premixed air-fuel mixture from the premixing passage into the combustion chamber.

Disclosed is a conductive member having a stable contact resistance, which is hardly separated and requires a small inserting / drawing force when used as a connector. The conductive member is characterized in that a Cu-Sn intermetallic compound layer (3) and an Sn surface layer (4) are formed in this order on the surface of a Cu substrate (1) through an Ni base layer (2); the Cu-Sn intermetallic compound layer (3) is composed of a Cu3Sn layer (5) arranged on the Ni base layer (2) and a Cu6Sn5 layer (6) arranged on the Cu3Sn layer (5); the Cu-Sn intermetallic compound layer (3) obtained by bonding the Cu3Sn layer (5) and the Cu6Sn5 layer (6) is provided with recesses and projections in the surface which is in contact with the Sn surface layer (4); thicknesses X at the recessed portions (7) are set to 0.05-1.5 [mu]m; the area coverage of the Cu3Sn layer (5) relative to the Ni base layer (2) is not less than 60%; the ratio of the thicknesses Y at the projected portions (8) to the thicknesses at the recessed portions (7) in the Cu-Sn intermetallic compound layer (3) is 1.2-5; and the average thickness of the Cu3Sn layer (5) is 0.01-0.5 [mu]m.

In a piezoelectric element, an adhesive layer 12 is provided on a substrate 11, a first electrode layer 14 made of a noble metal containing titanium or titanium oxide is provided on the adhesive layer 12, and an orientation control layer 15 that is preferentially oriented along a (100) or (001) plane is provided on the first electrode layer 14. In the vicinity of a surface of the orientation control layer 15 that is closer to the first electrode layer 14, a (100)- or (001)-oriented region extends over titanium or titanium oxide located on one surface of the first electrode layer 14 that is closer to the orientation control layer 15, and the cross-sectional area of the region in the direction perpendicular to the thickness direction gradually increases in the direction away from the first electrode layer 14 toward the opposite side. Further, a piezoelectric layer 16 that is preferentially oriented along a (001) plane is provided on the orientation control layer 15.