Abstract: The invention provides methods for treating retinal edema, particularly cystoid macular edema, employing interferon (IFN)-.alpha., IFN-.beta., or IFN-.gamma.. The IFN may be administered locally, orally, or parenterally.

Abstract: Method for producing an alkyl carboxylate, in which a carboxylic acid and an alcohol are esterified by reaction in the presence of an acid catalyst, by removing water in a dehydration step established halfway in the esterification reaction using a solid acid catalyst as the acid catalyst, and restarting the esterification reaction to complete the esterification reaction.

Abstract: A grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet having a multiplicity of fine grains having a diameter of about 3 mm or less on the surface of the steel sheet, in a numerical ratio of about 65% or more and of about 98% or less relative to the constituting grains that penetrate the sheet along the direction parallel to its thickness, and a method for producing the same. The fine grains are artificially created and regularly disposed with a random orientation in the steel sheet, and contribute to decreasing the strain susceptibility of the steel. More preferably, a treatment for finely dividing magnetic domains is applied on the surface of the steel sheet. Transformers based upon the steel sheet have excellent magnetic characteristics (iron loss and magnetic flux density) together with strain resistance, and the steel sheet has good practical device characteristics (building factor) after being assembled into a transformer.

Abstract: A polyester composition comprising 0.005 to 10% by weight compound oxide particles having a volume average particle meter of 0.005 to 2 .mu.m, a relative standard deviation .sigma. of the particle diameter of not more than 0.3, and composed mainly of silicon (Si), aluminum (Al) and at least one alkali metal (M), wherein the contents of the silicon, aluminum and alkali metal satisfy the following requirements: 10 wt. %.ltoreq.Si.ltoreq.45 wt. %, 3 wt. %.ltoreq.Al.ltoreq.30 wt. % and 0.5 wt. %.ltoreq.M.ltoreq.20 wt. %, respectively. The polyester composition, particularly when formed into films, has excellent surface evenness, running ability and abrasion resistance, and such films are suitable particularly for magnetic recording media and other applications.

Abstract: A deodorant fibrous material contains (1), as a first deodorant material, at least one deodorant component selected from inorganic type and polyorganic acid, ester or salt type components, (2), as a second deodorant material, at least one of a hydrazine compound and a specified polyvinyl amine compound and (3) a synthetic resin binder. The deodorant fibrous material can be produced by applying to a fibrous material, by a padding or coating method, a liquid composition containing the above components (1)-(3), followed by subsequent heat treatment.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fabric exhibiting excellent hygroscopicity, pliable handling touch and shape memory.An aspect of the present invention for achieving the foregoing object lies in a fabric comprising cellulose fibers, wherein hydrophilic vinyl monomers are graft-polymerized with the cellulose fibers, and the ratio B/W of bending rigidity (B) measured by KES (Kawabata Evaluation System) and weight (W) is 0.0001 or higher and 0.005 or lower.Another aspect of the present invention lies in a fabric comprising the cellulose fibers and polyester fibers.A still further aspect of the present invention lies in a fabric comprising cellulose fibers, wherein the percentage of laundry shrinkage is 3% or lower and the ratio B/W of bending rigidity (B) measured by KES and weight (W) is 0.0001 or higher and 0.005 or lower.

Abstract: A dispenser for bottles, suspendable via a collar portion in guides on the dispenser, running toward a discharge opening, and having at the discharge opening a stop mechanism with a rocker arm which is spring-tensioned or shaft-mounted, and mounted in a housing and having a longitudinal edge portion forming a spring-loaded contact with the top portion of the container and a flat portion of the rocker arm forming an upper limiting face for the top of the collar portion where the longitudinal portion of the rocker arm has a forward area having an indentation and a rear area which forms an arresting element, and where the stop mechanism also has a front portion having a downwardly and backwardly oriented guide slot for the collar, the guide slot at the rear terminating in an undercut portion.

Abstract: A composite textured yarn contains a component yarn A and a component yarn B each false twisted and crimped. The component yarn B is shorter in yarn length or larger in shrinkage at least after heat treatment. Single fibers of component B have thick portions and thin portions successively alternating in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A liquid-crystalline resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a semi-aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester and/or a semi-aromatic liquid-crystalline polyester-amide, from 0.001 to 5 parts by weight of at least one or more compounds selected from phosphorous acid, hypophosphorous acid and their salts, and from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of red phosphorus has good flame retardancy, low anisotropy, good heat resistance and good hydrolysis resistance, and is useful as engineering plastic.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for dosing the components of a mixed fodder for feeding cattle. The straw feed is delivered onto a horizontal conveyor (6) for weighing its amount thereon. The flour is metered by means of metering mechanisms (7, M1-M4) controlled by a calculator (8a), which dose amounts of flour proportioned as desired to the amount of straw feed directly within the straw feed concurrently with the weighing thereof. The weighing result of a weighed component is reduced in real time on the basis of dosages received from the calculator (8a).

Abstract: A reduced friction conveyer chain is used for conveying aluminum cans, glass bottles, PET bottles and other objects in a conveyer chain system where such objects are produced continuously. The conveyer chain is especially useful in the system where the objects being conveyed are slid on the surface of the chain and relatively thereto. Since the kinetic friction coefficient of the outer surfaces of the links, which constitute the conveyer chain and on which the objects to be conveyed are put, is reduced, the slidability of the links is improved, and the bottom surfaces of the objects being conveyed are prevented from being scratched.

Abstract: A bundle of short chopped carbon fibers impregnated with a sizing agent, the short fiber bundle having an average weight per unit length of 1.7 to 4 mg/mm in the fiber length direction and a coefficient of variation of 30 to 60% in the distribution of weight per unit length in the fiber length direction.

Abstract: A method of producing a steel sheet useful for making cans. The method steps include hot-rolling a slab consisting of about 0.0005 to 0.01 wt % C, about 0.001 to 0.04 wt % N (the total of C and N is at least about 0.008 wt %), about 0.05 to 2.0 wt % Mn, about 0.005 wt % or less Al, about 0.01 wt % or less O at a finish rolling temperature within a temperature range of about the Ar.sub.3 point to about 950.degree. C., coiling the rolled material at a temperature range of about 400 to 600.degree. C., cold rolling the material, continuously annealing the material at a temperature higher than the recrystallization temperature, and then temper-rolling the material. The steel sheet exhibits good workability during can making and which can be formed into a can having high strength.

Abstract: An extruder comprising a screw and cylinder, the screw and/or cylinder having helices formed thereon and distal portions of the helices having substantially continuous irregularities formed in their surfaces which form a control mechanism enabling control of the degree of combing and fiber length by combing the supplied continuous roving.

Abstract: A non-destructive method of measuring physical characteristics of a medium, such as uncemented sediment, sandstone, or limestone. A pseudo-random code is generated and is used to generate a pseudo-random acoustic signal. This signal is transmitted into the medium to be measured through the use of a transducer, such as a piezoelectric element, and is received by a plurality of hydrophones. The received signal is then processed to obtain an image of its velocity and attenuation. A universal geoacoustic model of the medium for a given set of measured data is determined, and the model is solved to obtain a pair of permeability-porosity results for the medium. The one of this pair of permeability-porosity results which is correctly indicative of the physical characteristics of the medium is then determined.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a catalyst composition for transalkylation of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons which exhibits the percent conversion of ethyltoluene higher than 50 wt %, is composed of mordenite (100 pbw), inorganic oxide and/or clay (25-150 pbw), and at least one metal component of rhenium, platinum, and nickel, and contains mordenite such that the maximum diameter of secondary particles of mordenite is smaller than 10 .mu.m. Disclosed also herein is a process for producing xylene by the aid of said catalyst from alkylaromatic hydrocarbons containing C.sub.9 alkylaromatic hydrocarbons containing more than 5 wt % ethyltoluene and less than 0.5 wt % naphthalene, in the presence of hydrogen.

Abstract: A method for producing polybutylene terephthalate comprising continuously esterifying a dicarboxylic acid component consisting essentially of terephthalic acid with a diol component consisting essentially of 1,4-butanediol followed by polycondensing the resulting oligomer, wherein the esterification is effected in a molar ratio, P, of the diol component to the dicarboxylic acid component to fall between 1.1 and 1.6, in the presence of a combination of an organic titanium compound and an organic tin compound that satisfies the following requirement:amount of organic titanium compound (mol %).ltoreq.0.08.times.P-0.07where P=molar ratio of diol component to dicarboxylic acid component, and is followed by the polycondensation.

Abstract: A welding method for two members adapted to be welded and formed of a low-alloy steel for structural purposes causing the weld metal to develop martensite transformation during cooling after welding, so that the weld metal becomes expanded to a greater degree at room temperature than at a temperature at which the martensite transformation initiates.

Abstract: Safe antibacterial agents containing macrocyclic lactones and/or macrocyclic ketones usable for suppressing the growth of indigenous dermal bacteria. Cosmetics containing these antibacterial agents can, in particular, suppress the evolution of the body odor and are efficacious in preventing and treating pimples. When introduced into clothing, these antibacterial agents achieve an antibacterial/deodorizing effect.

Abstract: An electrical insulating polyester film has an apparent density of 1.37 to 0.85 g/cm.sup.3 and a tensile modulus of 2.0 to 4.5 GPa.A film having low oligomer content, low cost, high heat resistance, high impact resistance, superior machinability and processability, assembling stability, and superior visibility is obtained. Furthermore, leakage of current is reduced when it is used for motor insulation.