Abstract: A novel board for printed wiring comprising a fine conductor wiring having a clear and favorable boundary line and fabricated by an ordinal printing method such as screen printing, a printed wiring board using the same, and methods for manufacturing them. A board for printed wiring and a method for manufacturing the same are characterized in that the surface of a board is subjected to one of the surface treatments: (a) roughening, (2) plasma treatment, (3) roughening and then plasma treatment, and (4) roughening and then forming of a metal film coating by sputtering. A printed wiring board and a method for manufacturing the same is characterize in that a conductor wiring is fabricated by printing using a conductive paste containing metal particles the average particle diameter of which is 4 ?m or less and the maximum particle diameter of which is 15 ?m or less.

Abstract: On a recording medium serving as a verification object, a picture whose state changes in accordance with optical conditions is formed. A verification apparatus images a plurality of pictures of the recording medium while changing an optical relationship among a light source for illuminating the recording medium, a camera for imaging a picture of the recording medium, and the recording medium with a condition modifying unit. The verification apparatus displays the plurality of pictures of the recording medium imaged by the camera, on the display unit in a state in which the optical relationship has been changed. The verification apparatus determines imaging conditions for imaging a picture for verification on the basis of the optical relationship at the time of photographing selected pictures among the plurality of pictures displayed on the display unit.

Abstract: In a personal authentication medium issuing apparatus, a main image information is input and whether a personal authentication medium on which synthesized image information having sub-information embedded in the main image information is checked or not is determined based on the state of the input main image information. Further, synthesized image information having sub-information embedded in an invisible state in the main image information which is set in a visible state is formed, a personal authentication medium is formed by printing the synthesized image information on a recording medium and the thus formed personal authentication media are sorted into personal authentication media determined to be completely formed and personal authentication media determined to require a checking process.

Abstract: A structure including tungsten as a main component and tungsten carbide and a method of manufacturing the structure are provided, wherein the content of carbon is at least 0.1% by mass and the total content of cobalt, nickel, and iron is 3% or less by mass, respectively based on the structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides an approach for identifying with high accuracy, a known protein or a variant of the known protein derived from the same genomic gene as in a target protein to be analyzed, based on a mass spectrometric result of a plurality of peptide fragments obtained from site-specific enzymatic digestion of the target protein to be analyzed by referring to nucleotide sequences of genes encoding known proteins on a database and to deduced full-length amino acid sequences thereof.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin foam, which is high in thickness-direction compressive strength and low in flexural modulus of elasticity, can be set pliably along a curved applicable portion such as body's outer surface, and can effectively absorb an impact force imparted from the outside; and an expandable thermoplastic resin molded product providing the above foam. An expandable thermoplastic resin molded product comprises an expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material of expandable thermoplastic resin having a sheet body and many projections formed scattered on at least one surface of the sheet body, and an elastic thermoplastic material layer laminated on at least one surface of the expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material so as to be spread over the outer surfaces of the projections; and a thermoplastic resin foam obtained by foaming the expandable thermoplastic resin molded product.

Abstract: A biomolecule is analyzed with high accuracy. A biomolecule is analyzed with high likelihood. A biomolecule as an analysis subject is modified with a marker binding or adsorbing to only its specific portion (S101). Next, the biomolecule modified with the marker is developed on a base plate (S102). The arrangement of the biomolecule on the base plate is detected using a marker (S103). Then, scanning is performed along the shape of the biomolecule present on the detected position (S104). The biomolecule is analyzed based on an information relating to the shape or arrangement of the biomolecule obtained by scanning or an information relating to the arrangement of the marker on the biomolecule (S105).

Abstract: Provided a method of acquiring information on internal sequence which is applicable to a trace amount of protein and has a high reliability. A protein to be analyzed is limitedly cleaved at a specified position of amino acid to prepare a mixture of a plurality of peptide fragments; one or more peptide fragments are isolated and purified from the peptide fragment mixture; C-terminal amino acids of the isolated and purified peptide fragment are successively released by chemical reaction to prepare a mixture containing a series of resulting products; mass spectrometry is applied to both the reaction products of the successive truncation and unreacted peptide fragment not subjected to the successive truncation reaction; then results of the mass spectrometry is analyzed to acquire chemical structure information of the target protein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for analyzing the C-terminal amino acid sequence of a peptide by using a reaction for successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids of the peptide, which method can suppress, when successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids of a peptide of long amino acid length, such a undesirable side reaction as cleavage of peptide bond in the intermediate position of the peptide and can carry out the chemical treatment thereof under widely applicable conditions; In the method, a dry sample of a peptide with long amino acid length is beforehand subjected to an N-acylation treatment; by using a reaction reagent where an alkanoic acid anhydride is combined with a small amount of a perfluoroalkanoic acid, successive release of C-terminal amino acids is conducted under mild conditions; a hydrolysis treatment is applied; then, selective fragmentization at site of arginine residue is performed by digestion by trypsin; thereafter, decreases in molecular weight are measured for the

Abstract: A sheet-form structure of expandable thermoplastic resin is provided which is capable of undergoing a pseudo-one-dimensional expansion in its thickness direction and which enables manufacture of thermoplastic resin foams having reduced variations in thickness and weight precisions, increased compressive strength, and excellent properties such as surface smoothness. A method of manufacturing the sheet-form structure, as well as such thermoplastic resin foams, are also provided. A sheet-form structure 1 of expandable thermoplastic resin including granules 2 of expandable thermoplastic resin arranged generally uniformly for integral connection thereof through a thin film 3 of expandable thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides, as for a method for analyzing the C-terminal amino acid sequence of a peptide by using a reaction for successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids of the peptide, which method can suppress, when successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids of a peptide of long amino acid length, such a undesirable side reaction as cleavage of peptide bond in the intermediate position of the peptide and can carry out the chemical treatment thereof under widely applicable conditions, a following method wherein a dry sample of a peptide with long amino acid length is beforehand subjected to an N-acylation treatment; by using a reaction reagent where an alkanoic acid anhydride is combined with a small amount of a perfluoroalkanoic acid, successive release of C-terminal amino acids is conducted under mild conditions; a hydrolysis treatment is applied; then, selective fragmentization at site of arginine residue is performed by digestion by trypsin; thereafter, decreases in molecular weight

Abstract: The present invention provides, as a method of analyzing the C-terminal amino acid sequence of a peptide with use of reaction technique for successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids, in which undesirable side reactions, such as cleavage of a peptide bond at the middle of the peptide, can be prevented and chemical treatments therein can be carried out under widely applicable conditions in the course of successive release of the C-terminal amino acids from a peptide, such a method comprising steps of dehydrating the gel on which a target peptide that has been separated by gel electrophoresis is held in the bound state; immersing it in a mixture solution of an alkanoic acid anhydride added with a small amount of a perfluoroalkanoic acid in a dipolar aprotic solvent to re-swell the gel carrier, forming a 5-oxazolone structure, at a temperature chosen in the range of from 30° C. to 80° C.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin foam, which is high in thickness-direction compressive strength and low in flexural modulus of elasticity, can be set pliably along a curved applicable portion such as body's outer surface, and can effectively absorb an impact force imparted from the outside; and an expandable thermoplastic resin molded product providing the above foam. An expandable thermoplastic resin molded product comprises an expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material of expandable thermoplastic resin having a sheet body and many projections formed scattered on at least one surface of the sheet body, and an elastic thermoplastic material layer laminated on at least one surface of the expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material so as to be spread over the outer surfaces of the projections; and a thermoplastic resin foam obtained by foaming the expandable thermoplastic resin molded product.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin foam, which is high in thickness-direction compressive strength and low in flexural modulus of elasticity, can be set pliably along a curved applicable portion such as body's outer surface, and can effectively absorb an impact force imparted from the outside; and an expandable thermoplastic resin molded product providing the above foam. An expandable thermoplastic resin molded product comprises an expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material of expandable thermoplastic resin having a sheet body and many projections formed scattered on at least one surface of the sheet body, and an elastic thermoplastic material layer laminated on at least one surface of the expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material so as to be spread over the outer surfaces of the projections; and a thermoplastic resin foam obtained by foaming the expandable thermoplastic resin molded product.

Abstract: A novel board for printed wiring comprising a fine conductor wiring having a clear and favorable boundary line and fabricated by an ordinal printing method such as screen printing, a printed wiring board using the same, and methods for manufacturing them. A board for printed wiring and a method for manufacturing the same are characterized in that the surface of a board is subjected to one of the surface treatments: (a) roughening, (2) plasma treatment, (3) roughening and then plasma treatment, and (4) roughening and then forming of a metal film coating by sputtering. A printed wiring board and a method for manufacturing the same is characterize in that a conductor wiring is fabricated by printing using a conductive paste containing metal particles the average particle diameter of which is 4 ?m or less and the maximum particle diameter of which is 15 ?m or less.

Abstract: In a personal authentication medium issuing apparatus, a main image information is input and whether a personal authentication medium on which synthesized image information having sub-information embedded in the main image information is checked or not is determined based on the state of the input main image information. Further, synthesized image information having sub-information embedded in an invisible state in the main image information which is set in a visible state is formed, a personal authentication medium is formed by printing the synthesized image information on a recording medium and the thus formed personal authentication media are sorted into personal authentication media determined to be completely formed and personal authentication media determined to require a checking process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for analyzing the C-terminal amino acid sequence of a peptide by applying reaction technique for successively releasing the C-terminal amino acids therefrom, which method can suppress, when releasing the C-terminal amino acids of the peptide in sequence, such a undesirable side reaction as cleavage of peptide bond in the intermediate position of the peptide, and allows to carry out the chemical treatment thereof under widely applicable conditions. In the method according to the present invention, an alkanoic acid anhydride and a perfluoroalkanoic acid both of vapor phase, which are supplied from a mixture containing an alkanoic acid anhydride with a small amount of a perfluoroalkanoic acid added thereto, are allowed to act on a dry sample of the peptide to be examined in a dry atmosphere at a temperature chosen in a range of 15 to 60° C.

Abstract: A sheet-form structure of expandable thermoplastic resin is provided which is capable of undergoing a pseudo-one-dimensional expansion in its thickness direction and which enables manufacture of thermoplastic resin foams having reduced variations in thickness and weight precisions, increased compressive strength, and excellent properties such as surface smoothness. A method of manufacturing the sheet-form structure, as well as such thermoplastic resin foams, are also provided. A sheet-form structure 1 of expandable thermoplastic resin including granules 2 of expandable thermoplastic resin arranged generally uniformly for integral connection thereof through a thin film 3 of expandable thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin foam, which is high in thickness-direction compressive strength and low in flexural modulus of elasticity, can be set pliably along a curved applicable portion such as body's outer surface, and can effectively absorb an impact force imparted from the outside; and an expandable thermoplastic resin molded product providing the above foam. An expandable thermoplastic resin molded product comprises an expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material of expandable thermoplastic resin having a sheet body and many projections formed scattered on at least one surface of the sheet body, and an elastic thermoplastic material layer laminated on at least one surface of the expandable thermoplastic resin sheet-form material so as to be spread over the outer surfaces of the projections; and a thermoplastic resin foam obtained by foaming the expandable thermoplastic resin molded product.

Abstract: A sheet-form structure of expandable thermoplastic resin is provided which is capable of undergoing a pseudo-one-dimensional expansion in its thickness direction and which enables manufacture of thermoplastic resin foams having reduced variations in thickness and weight precisions, increased compressive strength, and excellent properties such as surface smoothness. A method of manufacturing the sheet-form structure, as well as such thermoplastic resin foams, are also provided.