Subaru Corporation

Hymo Corporation

Mika Suzuki

Fumiya Sato

Tomohiro Abe

Hiroki Marumo

Hisao Takeda

Kenji Sakai

Takumi Ohara

A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors execute determination as to whether a driving state of the vehicle involves difficulty in continuing the automatic driving. In a case where the driving state is determined as involving difficulty in continuing the automatic driving, the one or more processors execute determination on a difficulty level of operation authority transfer from the automatic driving to the manual driving on the basis of information regarding a surrounding environment of the vehicle, information regarding a driving skill of a driver, and information regarding an experience level of the driver of the operation authority transfer. The one or more processors execute setting of a driving-state condition for executing the operation authority transfer in accordance with the difficulty level. The one or more processors execute the operation authority transfer in a case where the driving-state condition is satisfied.

Apparatus for switching control between automatic driving and manual driving in vehicles

A driving assistance apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle includes one or more processors and one or more memories communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a process including determining whether the vehicle is in a situation in which the vehicle is obstructing passage of a following vehicle; that the vehicle is in the situation, determining whether a driver of the vehicle is aware of the situation; upon determining that the driver is aware of the situation, determining whether the driver is able to determine a driving operation for avoiding the situation; and, upon not determining that the driver is able to determine the driving operation, setting an assistance operation for avoiding the situation, based on consciousness of the driver and a width of a road on which the vehicle is traveling.

Driving assistance apparatus, computer program, and recording medium storing computer program

A precast acrylamide electrophoresis gel is disclosed, which includes a gel buffer solution containing either Tris and glycine or Tris, glycine and any one or more than two of ampholytes, and a monobasic acid, titrated to a specified pH range. With the gels constituted as stated earlier, proteins can be successfully subjected to electrophoresis using the commonly available Laemmli's buffer system, while the DNA can be also satisfactorily run on the gel using the electrophoresis electrode solution containing Tris, chelating agent, and any one acid of acetic acid, phosphoric acid and boric acid. In either of protein and DNA analyses, the gels even after stored under refrigeration more than six months are fully comparable in resolution and clearness of electrophoretic pattern to the gels just after being prepared. Where the DAN is subjected to electrophoresis using either the Laemmli's buffer or the Ornstein and Davis buffer, commonly used in electrophoresis of proteins, the gels even after storage under refrigeration over four months may exhibit the electrophoretic patterns comparable in resolution and clearness to the gels soon after being produced.

Polyacrylamide precast gels for electrophoresis, process for producing the same and electroporesis method by using the gels

A process for producing a water-soluble polymer dispersion comprising polymerizing water-soluble monomers having double bonds in an aqueous salt solution that dissolves the monomers but does not dissolve the formed polymer while stirring in the presence of a dispersant composed of a polymer electrolyte soluble in this aqueous salt solution to obtain fine polymer particles dispersed in the aqueous salt solution, characterized by adding at least one viscosity-increase suppressor selected from the group consisting of: (A) a polyvalent carboxylic acid or a salt thereof, (B) a polyvalent phenol, (C) a cyclic compound containing a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, (D) gluconic acid or a salt thereof, (E) a reaction product obtained by reacting methoxyhydroquinone and/or (meth)acrylic cationic monomer with a compound that generates radicals in an oxidizing atmosphere, (F) a reaction product obtained by reacting (meth)acrylic cationic polymer with a compound that generates radicals in an oxidizing atmosphere, (G) a reaction product obtained by reacting (meth)acrylic cationic polymer with an oxidant, and a mixture thereof.

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Mika Suzuki