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A method for producing pressure-responsive particles, the method comprising: adding an aggregating agent to a dispersion containing composite resin particles containing a styrene-based resin including a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin including a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound as a polymer component to aggregate the composite resin particles so as to form aggregated particles A; forming a shell by adding an aggregating agent and styrene-based resin particles containing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components to a dispersion containing the aggregated particles A to aggregate the styrene-based resin particles so as to form aggregated particles B; and heating and fusing the aggregated particles B to form pressure-responsive particles, wherein an amount of the styrene-based resin particles added in the formation of the shell is 5 mass% or more and 40 mass% or less relative to a total mass of the composite resin particles, an amount of the aggregating agent added in the formation of the shell is 0.1 mass% or more and 1.0 mass% or less relative to the total mass of the composite resin particles, a mass ratio of the styrene-based resin to the (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin in the pressure-responsive particles is from 80:20 to 20:80, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature of resins contained in the pressure-responsive particles is 30°C or more. adding an aggregating agent to a dispersion containing composite resin particles containing a styrene-based resin including a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin including a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound as a polymer component to aggregate the composite resin particles so as to form aggregated particles A; forming a shell by adding an aggregating agent and styrene-based resin particles containing a styrene compound and a vinyl monomer other than the styrene compound as polymer components to a dispersion containing the aggregated particles A to aggregate the styrene-based resin particles so as to form aggregated particles B; and heating and fusing the aggregated particles B to form pressure-responsive particles, wherein an amount of the styrene-based resin particles added in the formation of the shell is 5 mass% or more and 40 mass% or less relative to a total mass of the composite resin particles, an amount of the aggregating agent added in the formation of the shell is 0.1 mass% or more and 1.0 mass% or less relative to the total mass of the composite resin particles, a mass ratio of the styrene-based resin to the (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin in the pressure-responsive particles is from 80:20 to 20:80, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature of resins contained in the pressure-responsive particles is 30°C or more.
A composition comprising a population of multipotent stromal cells encapsulated in Platelet-Poor Plasma (PPP), for use in a method of regenerating pulp tissue in a root canal.
A laser processing method of converging laser light (L) into an object to be processed made of silicon so as to form a modified region and etching the object along the modified region so as to form the object with a through hole , the method comprising: a laser light converging step of converging the laser light (L) at the object so as to form the modified region along a part corresponding to the through hole in the object ; an etch resist film producing step of producing an etch resist film resistant to etching on an outer surface of the object after the laser light converging step; and an etching step of etching the object so as to advance the etching selectively along the modified region and form the through hole after the etch resist film producing step; characterized in that, in the laser light converging step, a surface of the modified region is exposed to the outer surface of the object ; in the etch resist film producing step, a fracture included in the modified region and exposed to the outer surface of the object cause occurrence of a defect in the etch resist film on the exposed surface of the modified region; in the etching step, an etchant is caused to infiltrate from the defect of the etch resist film into the modified region to advance selectively along the modified region and etch the modified region, thereby forming the through hole; and the etch resist film is a thermally oxidized film. a laser light converging step of converging the laser light (L) at the object so as to form the modified region along a part corresponding to the through hole in the object ; an etch resist film producing step of producing an etch resist film resistant to etching on an outer surface of the object after the laser light converging step; and an etching step of etching the object so as to advance the etching selectively along the modified region and form the through hole after the etch resist film producing step; characterized in that, in the laser light converging step, a surface of the modified region is exposed to the outer surface of the object ; in the etch resist film producing step, a fracture included in the modified region and exposed to the outer surface of the object cause occurrence of a defect in the etch resist film on the exposed surface of the modified region; in the etching step, an etchant is caused to infiltrate from the defect of the etch resist film into the modified region to advance selectively along the modified region and etch the modified region, thereby forming the through hole; and the etch resist film is a thermally oxidized film.
A heart phantom assembly comprising: a mechanical actuator system comprising a support operatively supporting at least two actuators and a fixing device , and a phantom interface operatively connected to the at least two actuators to be displaceable in at least one translational degree of freedom and at least one rotational degree of freedom as a function of actuation from the at least two actuators ; and a deformable heart phantom connected at an end to the phantom interface , and at another end to the fixing device , characterized in that the deformable heart phantom is molded into a systolic type gel to be subjected to compression/expansion in response to movements of the phantom interface in the translational degree of freedom, and to torsion in response to movements of the phantom interface in the rotational degree of freedom. a mechanical actuator system comprising a support operatively supporting at least two actuators and a fixing device , and a phantom interface operatively connected to the at least two actuators to be displaceable in at least one translational degree of freedom and at least one rotational degree of freedom as a function of actuation from the at least two actuators ; and a deformable heart phantom connected at an end to the phantom interface , and at another end to the fixing device , characterized in that the deformable heart phantom is molded into a systolic type gel to be subjected to compression/expansion in response to movements of the phantom interface in the translational degree of freedom, and to torsion in response to movements of the phantom interface in the rotational degree of freedom.
A method for processing optical lenses , wherein the processing occurs in a plurality of steps and comprises a polishing, coating, testing, marking and/or cleansing, wherein the lenses are optionally conveyed by means of a transfer system to separate processing apparatus for independent processing of the lenses , wherein the lenses can be selectively conveyed to any desired selection of processing apparatus , wherein a system controller manages processing statuses for the lenses to be processed, and wherein one or each processing apparatus communicates the new processing state of the processed lens(es) to the system controller after each completed processing and one or each processing apparatus delivers the lens to the transfer system after an occurred processing and automatically requests a new lens . wherein the processing occurs in a plurality of steps and comprises a polishing, coating, testing, marking and/or cleansing, wherein the lenses are optionally conveyed by means of a transfer system to separate processing apparatus for independent processing of the lenses , wherein the lenses can be selectively conveyed to any desired selection of processing apparatus , wherein a system controller manages processing statuses for the lenses to be processed, and wherein one or each processing apparatus communicates the new processing state of the processed lens(es) to the system controller after each completed processing and one or each processing apparatus delivers the lens to the transfer system after an occurred processing and automatically requests a new lens .
An information display device , wherein the information display device comprises a spatial light modulator , a first grating , a second grating , and an optical waveguide , wherein the spatial light modulator is configured to emit a holographic three-dimensional light field to the first grating, wherein the holographic three-dimensional light field corresponds to at least two focal planes; the first grating is configured to deflect the holographic three-dimensional light field that comes from the spatial light modulator, so that the deflected holographic three-dimensional light field is transmitted into the optical waveguide; the optical waveguide is configured to propagate the transmitted holographic three-dimensional light field; the second grating is configured to deflect three-dimensional object light in the holographic three-dimensional light field that is propagated in the optical waveguide, so that the three-dimensional object light is emitted out from the optical waveguide; the information display device further comprises a separation hole , wherein the separation hole is arranged in the second grating; the first grating is further configured to focus, at the separation hole, zero-order light in the holographic three-dimensional light field that comes from the spatial light modulator; and the separation hole is configured to absorb the focused zero-order light, or propagate the focused zero-order light in the optical waveguide in a total reflection manner.
Solar module comprising a flat substrate and a plurality of solar cells that are connected in series between two conductor tracks and are arranged on a first side of the substrate , wherein the solar cells form an optically active inner region that is surrounded by an optically inactive edge region , wherein associated with the two conductor tracks in each case are: - a hole in the substrate , - a junction box on a second side of the substrate , - an electrical connection between a tapping point on the conductor track and a connection point of the junction box , wherein the hole is positioned at least partially in the inner region such that the tapping point on the conductor track is situated outside an aligning extension of the hole , characterised in that a layer structure is applied on the substrate , which layer structure comprises a back electrode layer , a front electrode layer , and an absorber layer arranged between the back and the front electrode layer, wherein the hole is arranged over a zone of the layer structure , in which all layers are removed or not applied at least all the way to the back electrode layer , in particular all the way to the back electrode layer , the zone including an indentation of the inner region , wherein at least one of said solar cells being divided into two solar sub-cells (12-1, 12-2) or has a shortened length. - a hole in the substrate , - a junction box on a second side of the substrate , - an electrical connection between a tapping point on the conductor track and a connection point of the junction box , wherein the hole is positioned at least partially in the inner region such that the tapping point on the conductor track is situated outside an aligning extension of the hole , characterised in that a layer structure is applied on the substrate , which layer structure comprises a back electrode layer , a front electrode layer , and an absorber layer arranged between the back and the front electrode layer, wherein the hole is arranged over a zone of the layer structure , in which all layers are removed or not applied at least all the way to the back electrode layer , in particular all the way to the back electrode layer , the zone including an indentation of the inner region , wherein at least one of said solar cells being divided into two solar sub-cells (12-1, 12-2) or has a shortened length.
A method for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request of downlink data, comprising: receiving (S201), by a terminal, downlink data from a base station; and sending (S202), by the terminal, a hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, feedback codebook to the base station, wherein a size of the HARQ feedback codebook is determined based on a state of a semi-persistent scheduling physical downlink shared channel, SPS PDSCH, transmission and a total downlink assignment indicator in the downlink data, wherein states of the SPS PDSCH transmission comprise an activated state and a deactivated state; and the HARQ feedback codebook comprises a HARQ bit for the SPS PDSCH transmission when the SPS PDSCH is in the activated state; wherein when the state of the SPS PDSCH transmission is the activated state, the size of the HARQ feedback codebook is equal to a size of a first codebook plus 1 bit; and the size of the first codebook is determined based on the total downlink assignment indicator. receiving (S201), by a terminal, downlink data from a base station; and sending (S202), by the terminal, a hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, feedback codebook to the base station, wherein a size of the HARQ feedback codebook is determined based on a state of a semi-persistent scheduling physical downlink shared channel, SPS PDSCH, transmission and a total downlink assignment indicator in the downlink data, wherein states of the SPS PDSCH transmission comprise an activated state and a deactivated state; and the HARQ feedback codebook comprises a HARQ bit for the SPS PDSCH transmission when the SPS PDSCH is in the activated state; wherein when the state of the SPS PDSCH transmission is the activated state, the size of the HARQ feedback codebook is equal to a size of a first codebook plus 1 bit; and the size of the first codebook is determined based on the total downlink assignment indicator.
Use of an accumulator in a refrigerant cycle having a compressor , the accumulator comprising: a tank separating refrigerant flowing to the tank into vapor-phase refrigerant and liquid-phase refrigerant, the tank therein storing the liquid-phase refrigerant and emitting the vapor-phase refrigerant toward a suction side of the compressor ; and a desiccant disposed in the tank and removing a water content from the refrigerant, wherein the tank is configured to guide liquid-phase refrigerant included in the refrigerant flowing to the tank to drop downward from a location that is located above the desiccant , and is stored in a lower portion in the tank , the tank is configured to guide vapor-phase refrigerant included in the refrigerant flowing to the tank to be drawn through a suction port that is located above the desiccant to flow out of the tank , the desiccant is disposed in the tank such that at least a part of the desiccant is exposed to vapor-phase refrigerant under a normal condition, and the desiccant is located at a location that is away from a dropping route of liquid-phase refrigerant in the tank , and characterised by at least a part of the desiccant is located above a highest liquid level (Lmax) of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the tank while the compressor is being stopped. a tank separating refrigerant flowing to the tank into vapor-phase refrigerant and liquid-phase refrigerant, the tank therein storing the liquid-phase refrigerant and emitting the vapor-phase refrigerant toward a suction side of the compressor ; and a desiccant disposed in the tank and removing a water content from the refrigerant, wherein the tank is configured to guide liquid-phase refrigerant included in the refrigerant flowing to the tank to drop downward from a location that is located above the desiccant , and is stored in a lower portion in the tank , the tank is configured to guide vapor-phase refrigerant included in the refrigerant flowing to the tank to be drawn through a suction port that is located above the desiccant to flow out of the tank , the desiccant is disposed in the tank such that at least a part of the desiccant is exposed to vapor-phase refrigerant under a normal condition, and the desiccant is located at a location that is away from a dropping route of liquid-phase refrigerant in the tank , and characterised by at least a part of the desiccant is located above a highest liquid level (Lmax) of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the tank while the compressor is being stopped.
A method of a wireless terminal configured to operate in a wireless network using at least one wideband channel, wherein the wireless terminal is configured to operate in a narrowband channel within the wideband channel, wherein the network comprises at least one other wireless terminal configured to operate in the entire wideband channel, and at least one access point - AP, wherein the AP is configured to support transmission and reception over the entire wideband channel, and wherein the wideband channel is dividable into a plurality of resource units, the method comprising: receiving a trigger from the AP, wherein the trigger comprises an indication of a first resource unit and a second resource unit of the plurality of resource units on which the AP will transmit data intended to the wireless terminal using a dual carrier modulation - DCM - transmission; measuring a signal quality of the first and second resource units by measuring, in a frequency of the wideband channel which corresponds to the first and second resource unit, a reception quality of data transmitted from the AP to the at least one other wireless terminal; determining which of the first and second resource units has a highest signal quality based on the measured signal quality; receiving the DCM-transmission on the resource unit determined to have the highest signal quality. receiving a trigger from the AP, wherein the trigger comprises an indication of a first resource unit and a second resource unit of the plurality of resource units on which the AP will transmit data intended to the wireless terminal using a dual carrier modulation - DCM - transmission; measuring a signal quality of the first and second resource units by measuring, in a frequency of the wideband channel which corresponds to the first and second resource unit, a reception quality of data transmitted from the AP to the at least one other wireless terminal; determining which of the first and second resource units has a highest signal quality based on the measured signal quality; receiving the DCM-transmission on the resource unit determined to have the highest signal quality.
A method for treating wood, in which method a hydrophobation agent is applied onto the surface of untreated wood, characterized in that an aqueous dispersion of fortified coniferous wood rosin or saponified coniferous wood rosin is used as the hydrophobation agent, and the coniferous wood rosin binds onto the surface of wood, forming onto the surface of wood a coniferous wood rosin coating, which leaves the wood surface permeable to water vapor and by means of which the water-repellency of the surface of wood is improved and penetration of micro-organisms, such as mold, algal and/or blue stain fungi, into the wood is mechanically inhibited, and wherein the aqueous dispersion of coniferous wood rosin contains one or more agents that improve the stability of the aqueous dispersion, which agents are selected from a group consisting of starch, cationic starch, a cationic synthetic polymer, an aliphatic amine and a copolymer of epichlorohydrin and dimethylamine, and wherein the aqueous dispersion of coniferous wood rosin contains a fixing agent that improves the binding of the coniferous wood rosin to wood, wherein the fixing agent is aluminum sulfate or polyaluminum chloride.
A terminal apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive, using higher layer signaling, a first number of Physical Downlink Control CHannel, PDCCH, candidates configured for at least one User Equipment-specific, UE-specific, Search Space in a slot and a second number of PDCCH candidates configured for at least one Common Search Space in the slot, the terminal apparatus being characterized in that it further comprises: a processor configured to adjust the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in all the UE-specific Search Spaces in the slot in a case that a sum of i) the number of PDCCH candidates configured for all the UE-specific Search Spaces in the slot based on the first number and ii) the number of PDCCH candidates configured for all the Common Search Spaces in the slot based on the second number is more than a maximum number of PDCCH candidates in the slot. a receiver configured to receive, using higher layer signaling, a first number of Physical Downlink Control CHannel, PDCCH, candidates configured for at least one User Equipment-specific, UE-specific, Search Space in a slot and a second number of PDCCH candidates configured for at least one Common Search Space in the slot, the terminal apparatus being characterized in that it further comprises: a processor configured to adjust the number of PDCCH candidates to be monitored in all the UE-specific Search Spaces in the slot in a case that a sum of i) the number of PDCCH candidates configured for all the UE-specific Search Spaces in the slot based on the first number and ii) the number of PDCCH candidates configured for all the Common Search Spaces in the slot based on the second number is more than a maximum number of PDCCH candidates in the slot.
An imaging system that calibrates a parameter of an imaging apparatus (10, 10A-10N) disposed in a predetermined position, the imaging system comprising: a movement controller that causes a movable object that includes a marker for use in calibration to move into an imaging area of the imaging apparatus ; an imaging controller that causes the imaging apparatus to image the marker ; and a calibrator that calibrates an internal parameter of the imaging apparatus , using an image that includes the marker , the image being captured by the imaging apparatus imaging the marker , characterized in that the movable object includes a display apparatus that displays the marker , the shape of the marker displayed on the display apparatus is changed so that the shape of the marker included in an image captured by the imaging apparatus is rectangular or square; and the movement controller causes the movable object to move so as to cause the marker to be imaged over entirety of an image sensor that is included in the imaging apparatus . a movement controller that causes a movable object that includes a marker for use in calibration to move into an imaging area of the imaging apparatus ; an imaging controller that causes the imaging apparatus to image the marker ; and a calibrator that calibrates an internal parameter of the imaging apparatus , using an image that includes the marker , the image being captured by the imaging apparatus imaging the marker , characterized in that the movable object includes a display apparatus that displays the marker , the shape of the marker displayed on the display apparatus is changed so that the shape of the marker included in an image captured by the imaging apparatus is rectangular or square; and the movement controller causes the movable object to move so as to cause the marker to be imaged over entirety of an image sensor that is included in the imaging apparatus .