Abstract: A cathode active material capable of increasing a capacity and improving high temperature characteristics or cycle characteristics, a method of manufacturing it, a cathode using the cathode active material, and a battery using the cathode active material are provided. In a cathode active material contained in a cathode, a coating layer is provided on at least part of complex oxide particle containing at least lithium (Li) and cobalt (Co). The coating layer is an oxide which contains lithium (Li) and at least one of nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).

Abstract: As an antitumor drug which is excellent in terms of antitumor effect and safety, there is provided an antibody-drug conjugate in which an antitumor compound represented by the following formula is conjugated to an antibody via a linker having a structure represented by the following formula: -L1-L2-LP-NH—(CH2)n1-La-Lb-Lc- wherein the antibody is connected to the terminal of L1, and the antitumor compound is connected to the terminal of Lc with the nitrogen atom of the amino group at position 1 as a connecting position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive electrode active material wherein at least one metallic element M1 different from a principal transition metal element A is present at least at part of a surface of a lithium-containing transition metal oxide containing the principal transition metal element A, and, further, a compound of a metallic element M2 different from the metallic element M1 is present in a coating manner or in the vicinity of the lithium-containing transition metal oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition which is advantageous not only in that the resin composition can be produced at low cost, but also in that it is unlikely to thermally expand, and a prepreg, a laminate, and a wiring board formed using the resin composition. The resin composition comprises an insulating resin having an aromatic ring, wherein the insulating resin having an aromatic ring has a molecular weight between crosslinking sites of 300 to 1,000 on the stage after the production of the laminate, as determined from an elastic shear modulus of the insulating resin measured at a temperature of Tg or higher.

Abstract: A cathode active material capable of obtaining a high capacity and capable of improving stability or low-temperature characteristics, a method of manufacturing the same, and a battery are provided. A cathode (21) includes a cathode active material including a lithium complex oxide including Li and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn, and P and at least one kind selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Mn, Fe, Al, Mg and Zn as coating elements on a surface of the lithium complex oxide. Preferably, the contents of the coating elements are higher on the surface of the cathode active material than those in the interior thereof, and decrease from the surface to the interior.

Abstract: A compound represented by the general formula (III) which serves as an intermediate of an oligonucleotide analog having stable and excellent antisense or antigene activity or having excellent activity as a detection reagent (probe) for a specific gene or as a primer for the initiation of amplification of a specific gene can be produced at high yields regardless of the type of nucleobase by a method comprising reacting a compound represented by the general formula (II) or a salt thereof with a trimethylsilylated compound obtained from a compound represented by the general formula (IVb), wherein X, Y, Z, A, R, and B are as defined in claim 1.

Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, controls an exhaust operation of the internal combustion engine (200) provided with an exhaust gas purification catalyst (216) in an exhaust passage (215). The exhaust gas control apparatus for the internal combustion engine is provided with a warming-up device configured to warm up the exhaust gas purification catalyst; and an oxygen supplying device (220, 221) configured to supply oxygen to the exhaust gas purification catalyst after the end of the warm-up. This makes it possible to preferably desorb sulfur adsorbed to the exhaust gas purification catalyst during warm-up. It is therefore possible to suppress a reduction in purification ability of the exhaust gas purification catalyst due to sulfur coating.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a jet-black multilayer coating film having excellent properties in high appearance, water resistance, and humidity resistance and comprising a base coating film and a clear coating film formed by a coating composition containing a plant-derived aliphatic polyester mainly and a method for forming the same. A jet-black multilayer coating film comprising a base coating film layer formed by a base coating composition which contains a polyester polyol (A-1) containing a polyol having three or more functions and lactic acid as a consisting component of 80 mol % or more and having a hydroxyl value of 140 to 240 mgKOH/g wherein 70 mol % or more of the hydroxyl groups are secondary hydroxyl groups, an acrylic resin (A-2) with a hydroxyl value of 30 to 80 mgKOH/g and a glass transition point of 40 to 80° C.

Abstract: A method for the prevention or treatment in a mammal of a disease preventable or treatable by the pharmacologically useful antisense or antigene activity of an oligonucleotide analogue or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof in the body of said mammal, which method comprises administering to said mammal in need of such prevention or treatment a pharmaceutically effective amount of an oligonucleotide analogue comprising two or more nucleoside units, wherein at least one of said nucleoside units is a structure of the formula (2): wherein A is methylene; and B is an unsubstituted purin-9-yl, an unsubstituted 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl or a substituted purin-9-yl; or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: When alcohol mixing fuel is supplied to an internal combustion engine, an intake air flow rate is detected and a basic amplitude amount ? of an upstream target air-fuel ratio abyfr corresponding to this detected intake air flow rate is calculated. Next, alcohol concentration in the fuel (in more detail, ethanol concentration Cetha) and a cooling water temperature (or an intake air temperature) are detected, hydrogen concentration Ch in a mixing exhaust gas is calculated based on the detected ethanol concentration Cetha and the detected cooling water temperature (or the detected intake air temperature) amplitude gain ? corresponding to the calculated hydrogen concentration is calculated and finally, an amplitude amount (?×?) of the upstream target air-fuel ratio is calculated.

Abstract: An oil deterioration prevention device is provided that can prevent an increase in pressure loss by reducing oilflow resistance. The oil deterioration prevention device may include a filtering unit including a filter element that filters oil, and a deterioration prevention unit including a powdery deterioration prevention agent that prevents deterioration of oil, wherein the deterioration prevention unit includes a passage wall that retains the deterioration prevention agent and forms an oil passage.

Abstract: An oil deterioration prevention device is provided that can prevent an increase in pressure loss by reducing oilflow resistance. The oil deterioration prevention device may include a filtering unit with a filter element that filters oil, and a deterioration prevention unit having a powdery deterioration prevention agent that prevents deterioration of oil, wherein out of oil fed from an oil containing unit, oil filtered by the filtering unit is fed to a part to be lubricated, and oil that is prevented from being deteriorated by the deterioration prevention unit is returned to the oil containing unit or sent to the part to be lubricated.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material includes: a complex oxide particle containing at least lithium and one or plural transition metals; and a coating layer provided in at least a part of the complex oxide particle, wherein the coating layer contains at least one element M which is different from the principal transition metal constituting the complex oxide particle and which is selected among elements belonging to the Groups 2 to 13, and at least one element X selected among phosphorus (P), silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge), and the element M and the element X show different distribution from each other in the coating layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adhesion assisting agent-bearing metal foil comprising a layer of an adhesion assisting agent containing an epoxy resin as an indispensable component on a metal, wherein the adhesion assisting agent layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 10 ?m. The invention also relates to a printed wiring board being a multilayer wiring board having a plurality of layers, wherein an adhesion assisting agent layer is formed between insulating layers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a positive electrode active material prepared by mixing a lithium-containing compound, a compound containing a transition metal to be put into a solid solution, and a compound containing a metallic element M2 different from the transition metal, and firing the mixture to form composite oxide particles, depositing a compound containing at least one element selected from among sulfur (S), phosphorus (P) and fluorine (F) on surfaces of the particles, and firing the particles, whereby each of the particles is provided with a concentration gradient such that the concentration of the metallic element M2 increases from the center toward the surface of the particle, and at least one element selected from among (S), (P) and (F) is made present in the form of being aggregated at the surfaces of the composite oxide particles.

Abstract: When an alcohol mixed fuel is supplied to an internal combustion engine, the magnitude of the alcohol concentration (more specifically, ethanol concentration Cetha) is determined (step 1005), and the magnitude of an operation state temperature (more specifically, cooling water temperature THW) is determined on the basis of said determination (step 1015). When the alcohol concentration is high and the operation state temperature is low, the generation of intermediate products (more specifically, aldehydes), which are alcohol oxides contained in unburned alcohol mixed fuel, is promoted, and the intermediate products generated are trapped in an intake passage by opening an intake valve in the expansion stroke of the internal combustion engine (step 1055).

Abstract: The present invention provides an additive agent to be added to oil and comprising weak basic hydrotalcite. At the time of adding a mixture of hydrotalcite of 1 weight % and water by 3 weight % to the oil where a hydrogen ion exponent is within a range of 6 to 7 for stirring, the weak basic hydrotalcite is hydrotalcite where the obtained oil indicates the hydrogen ion exponent within a range of 6 to 7. Such an additive agent can be accommodated in an oil filter (36) for use.

Abstract: A cathode active material capable of increasing a capacity and improving high temperature characteristics or cycle characteristics, a method of manufacturing it, a cathode using the cathode active material, and a battery using the cathode active material are provided. In a cathode active material contained in a cathode, a coating layer is provided on at least part of complex oxide particle containing at least lithium (Li) and cobalt (Co). The coating layer is an oxide which contains lithium (Li) and at least one of nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).

Abstract: A cathode active material capable of increasing a capacity and improving high temperature characteristics or cycle characteristics, a method of manufacturing it, a cathode using the cathode active material, and a battery using the cathode active material are provided. In a cathode active material contained in a cathode, a coating layer is provided on at least part of complex oxide particle containing at least lithium (Li) and cobalt (Co). The coating layer is an oxide which contains lithium (Li) and at least one of nickel (Ni) and manganese (Mn).

Abstract: The invention provides a cathode active material that includes: a particle containing a cathode material capable of absorbing and releasing an electrode reactive material; and a film that is disposed at least partially to the particle and contains a metal salt represented by a formula (1). (R1 represents a (a1+b1+c1) valent group and M1 represents a metallic element. a1, d1, e1 and n each represent an integer of 1 or more and b1 and c1 each represent an integer of 0 or more. However, b1 and c1 satisfy (b1+c1)?1.), a cathode therewith and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.