Abstract: The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a support and a positive recording layer formed on the support and containing: (A) a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), (B) a photo-thermal converting agent, and (C) an amino compound having a methylol group or an alkoxymethyl group; and a positive recording layer whose solubility in an alkaline developer is improved by exposure to light or by heating. In general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group or a cyclic group, x represents 0 or 1, and A represents a bivalent bonding group. According to the invention, a positive planographic printing plate precursor for use with infrared lasers having excellent chemical resistance and wide image development latitude can be obtained.

Abstract: A fluorescent recorded image and an image forming method capable of achieving the compatibility between fluorescence intensity and recorded matter density are provided. The image is composed of multiple layers formed from fluorescent ink, or preferably fluorescent ink containing a surfactant. The method includes superimposing the fluorescent ink to form the fluorescent image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based fluorescent ink for the purpose of measurement or judgment of the fluorescence emission in a visible light region by an excitation wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet range, containing water, a coloring material dissolved or dispersed in water, and an organic solvent, having a plurality of fluorescent groups in the coloring material structure of the coloring material, and using a water-soluble coloring material having a sulfonic acid group as the water-soluble group in the state of a free acid, capable of improving the water resistance and the light resistance, dramatically increasing the content of the fluorescent coloring material in the ink, which has conventionally been included only by a small amount in the ink due to the concentration quenching problem, obtaining preferable fluorescence emission and water resistance of the recorded image, and providing preferable adhesion resistance to the recording medium of the coloring material and reliability.

Abstract: The invention is to provide an aqueous ink, a recorded image and a recording method capable of improving an image fastness and a color-developing property of a recorded image, and is featured in that components of the aqueous ink are so prepared as to realize, at least on a surface portion of a recording medium, a fixed state of an ink droplet in which a contour portion of a second coloring material is formed around a central portion in which a first coloring material is fixed.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): R1—NH—X—Y-Z (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful as a vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) inhibitor, a pharmaceutical composition, a method for preventing or treating a VAP-1 associated disease, especially macular edema, which method includes administering an effective amount of the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a mammal, and the like.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorescence ink having a high fluorescence intensity, and an ink jet recording method using the same. The ink contains a first fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence at a predetermined fluorescence wavelength to be used for measurement or determination with excitation at a predetermined excitation wavelength, a second fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence on excitation at the predetermined excitation wavelength, where the excitation spectrum of the first coloring material in the ink to obtain the fluorescence at the predetermined emission wavelength has a peak wavelength range next to the predetermined fluorescence wavelength, and the emission fluorescence spectrum of the second coloring material has an emission wavelength region substantially including at least the above peak wavelength range.

Abstract: A field control system includes: a field device installed in a process site; a control computer system connected to the field device via a signal line; and a wireless communication apparatus which is provided at a middle of the signal line, and includes a signal converting section for converting a signal being transmitted through the signal line based on a wireless protocol, and a wireless communication section for wirelessly transmitting the signal converted by the signal converting section, which are provided at a middle of the signal line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating a vascular hyperpermeable disease (except macular edema), which method comprises administering to a patient in need thereof a vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) inhibitor in an amount sufficient to treat said patient for said disease.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide coated fine particles with a uniform particle size, having stable crystals on the surface, and to provide colored fine particles which exhibit good color development. A recorded image formed by a dispersion and an ink, using the coated fine particles, is provided with good color development and fastness. The present invention provides coated fine particles comprising fine particles as cores, the fine particles having a crystal layer on the surface, respectively.

Abstract: A field device connected to a network includes: a storage section; a communication section for performing communication via the network; and an arithmetic control section for controlling the field device entirely by executing a main task under an execution environment, and controlling an operation mechanism that operates under the execution environment. The operation mechanism assigns a group identifier, a unique address space and a unique name space to an additional task being started.

Abstract: A water-based ink that comprises a liquid medium containing water, a water-dispersible coloring material and a surfactant, wherein when the ink is attached onto a recording material, the water-dispersible coloring material forms a plurality of minute interspersed aggregations and is fixed on the recording material, and a recording method using the ink.

Abstract: A field device to be installed at a process site is provided with a wireless terminal for connecting a removable radio communication unit to the field device.

Abstract: An aqueous ink containing at least a water-dispersible coloring material and a water-soluble crystalline component, characterized in that the water-dispersible coloring material forms an aggregate around a crystal of the crystalline component formed as the content of the aqueous ink decreases, which ink may further contain a water-soluble coloring material.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink comprising (i) first and second organic compounds which are incompatible with each other; (ii) at least one of a compound exhibiting fluorescence properties and a coloring material exhibiting fluorescence properties; and (iii) a liquid medium dissolving or dispersing the components (i) and (ii) therein.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided an infrared-sensitive planographic printing plate precursor including: a support; a recording layer on one surface of the support, which recording layer contains a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and an infrared absorber, and is capable of forming an image by infrared irradiation; and an organic polymer layer on the other surface of the support, which organic polymer layer is formed by coating and drying a solution that contains at least one organic polymer selected from epoxy resins and resole resins, and a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ink-jet recording method comprising a step of applying thermal energy to an ink to generate bubbles thereby ejecting the ink from an ejecting portion to record, wherein the relationship among a cloud point (T) of a liquid obtained by removing coloring material from the ink, a temperature T0 of the ink before formation of the bubbles in a portion in which the bubbles are generated and a temperature T1 of a part of the ink, which includes a portion in contact with the bubbles and surrounds the bubbles, satisfies T0<T<T1.

Abstract: A recording method including the step of providing an ink from a recording head to a recording medium through a gap provided between the recording head and the recording medium, the ink being supplied to the recording head from an ink tank including an ink contact member and the ink contacting the ink contact member, wherein the ink comprises: (i) a fluorescent coloring material; (ii) a nonionic surfactant; (iii) a compound which is not compatible with (ii); and (iv) a liquid medium for dissolving or dispersing (i), (ii) and (iii), and wherein the ink contact member comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyacetate and polyolefin.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-based fluorescent ink for the purpose of measurement or judgment of the fluorescence emission in a visible light region by an excitation wavelength in a predetermined ultraviolet range, containing water, a coloring material dissolved or dispersed in water, and an organic solvent, having a plurality of fluorescent groups in the coloring material structure of the coloring material, and using a water-soluble coloring material having a sulfonic acid group as the water-soluble group in the state of a free acid, capable of improving the water resistance and the light resistance, dramatically increasing the content of the fluorescent coloring material in the ink, which has conventionally been included only by a small amount in the ink due to the concentration quenching problem, obtaining preferable fluorescence emission and water resistance of the recorded image, and providing preferable adhesion resistance to the recording medium of the coloring material and reliability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorescence ink having a high fluorescence intensity, and an ink jet recording method using the same. The ink contains a first fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence at a predetermined fluorescence wavelength to be used for measurement or determination with excitation at a predetermined excitation wavelength, a second fluorescent coloring material that emits fluorescence on excitation at the predetermined excitation wavelength, where the excitation spectrum of the first coloring material in the ink to obtain the fluorescence at the predetermined emission wavelength has a peak wavelength range next to the predetermined fluorescence wavelength, and the emission fluorescence spectrum of the second coloring material has an emission wavelength region substantially including at least the above peak wavelength range.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): R1—NH—X—Y-Z (I) wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful as a vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) inhibitor, a pharmaceutical composition, a method for preventing or treating a VAP-1 associated disease, especially macular edema, which method includes administering an effective amount of the compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a mammal, and the like.