Abstract: A stator blade including a blade body, a first insert, a second insert, and an end cover. The blade body has a first blade air passage and a second blade air passage extending in the blade height direction within the blade body. Each passage has an open end on a blade-height second side. The first insert and the second insert have tubular outer peripheral plate portions. A plurality of impinge holes are formed in the outer peripheral plate portion. The tube height opening side of the outer peripheral plate portion in the tube height direction is open. The outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert is disposed in the first blade air passage such that cooling air flows into the outer peripheral plate portion from the opening of the first insert. The outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert is disposed in the second wing air passage.

Abstract: The invention provides a gold-supporting catalyst comprising gold nanoparticles and a carrier consisting of porous ceramic obtained by firing a mixture comprising an aluminum compound, a lime component, and a plastic clay containing 1% by mass or less of feldspars and quartz, wherein the gold nanoparticles are supported in an amount of 0.01 to 10 parts by mass on the carrier based on 100 parts by mass of the carrier.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transformant into which has been incorporated DNA for coding a foreign protein having lactate dehydrogenase activity and provided with pyruvic acid substrate affinity that equals or exceeds the pyruvic acid substrate affinity of the pyruvate decarboxylase inherent in the host organism. Said transformant can stably mass-produce lactic acid inside a host organism having the pyruvate decarboxylase gene.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transformant into which has been incorporated DNA for coding a foreign protein having lactate dehydrogenase activity and provided with pyruvic acid substrate affinity that equals or exceeds the pyruvic acid substrate affinity of the pyruvate decarboxylase inherent in the host organism. Said transformant can stably mass-produce lactic acid inside a host organism having the pyruvate decarboxylase gene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of expressing a gene by inserting the genome into a host organism using genetic engineering techniques. The present invention further relates to a novel promoter, a recombinant vector containing the promoter and a target gene, a transformant containing the recombinant vector, and a method of producing a useful gene product or useful substance using the transformant.

Abstract: A membrane for liquid mixture separation is composed of an A-type zeolite film deposited on a porous support after seed crystals are held on a surface of the support.