Abstract: A stabilized food composition with a reduced dry matter content, wherein the stabilizing agent is a fructane or fructane mixture in an amount of 1-15 wt % and to 1-25% of the water content of said food composition.

Abstract: For a plug connector having a plug-in side and a conductor-connecting side for a coaxial cable, it is proposed that an insulating body with an electrical contact element is disposed in a sleeve-shaped plug-in part, the said insulating body having tongues which are spread apart and are separated by slots and which extend from an annular groove to the end of the insulating body, gradations which are forced into the insulation of the electrical middle conductor being provided on the inside of the tongues, and the electrical contact element being held in a centred manner in a receiving bore in the insulating body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of attaching an electronic identification device having an electronic identification means to a vehicle body, which comprises the following steps: a) prior to at least one of the steps painting and galvanizing the body, the identification device is attached to the body by means of a spacer in such a way that the identification device is spaced away from the body; b) following painting and galvanizing, the identification device is permanently arrested on the body without being detached in the meantime from the body. The invention further relates to an electronic identification device for being attached to a vehicle body by means of the method proposed.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device such as a DRAM is configured to enable testing on defectiveness of memory cells by an existing memory tester, which locates defect cells to be replaced with redundancy cells by a redundancy circuit. Herein, a write circuit writes multiple-bit data to memory cells of a memory cell array under testing. Then, the multiple-bit data are read from the memory cell array by a read circuit and are compared with original one to make decisions of “pass” or “fail” on the memory cells by the memory tester. Specifically, the read circuit is configured by plural pairs of a data output circuit and a data compression circuit with respect to plural sets of prescribed data each of which consists of a prescribed number of bits corresponding to prescribed memory cells which are subjected to simultaneous replacement.

Abstract: In a method of designing a semiconductor integrated circuit device, there are provided a common block macro for a common circuit and data communication block macros having the same size or different sizes. Each of the data communication block macros is for a data communication circuit. Each of the data communication block macros has a layout pattern for an input terminal of a signal and a layout pattern for an output terminal of the signal at corresponding positions between the data communication block macros. The common block macro has a layout pattern for an output terminal of the signal at a position corresponding to the layout pattern for the input terminal of the data communication block macro. Thereby, a layout pattern of a semiconductor integrated circuit device is formed.

Abstract: A light modulator is comprised of two unit devices each using surface plasmon generated at the interface between thin metal films respectively formed on prisms and an electro-optical material, and a mirror. Both of the transmitted light due to absorption and re-radiation, and the reflected light arising from the unit devices are made into the outgoing light, the incident light on the next unit device, or the incident light on the mirror. Consequently, all light beams can be utilized as the final outgoing light beams with no loss of light. Further, the color of light can be spatially divided, and still further, it can also be temporally divided by changing the wavelength due to a voltage. As a result, the original light can be divided both temporally and spatially with almost no loss by combining two unit devices so configured as to re-radiate the absorbed light by surface plasmon using surface plasmon and a mirror, and thus utilizing both of the reflected light and the transmitted light.

Abstract: A lower electrode film is made to have a crystal grain laminated structure composed of a granular structure crystal grain layer and a columnar structure crystal grain layer. Also, a barrier layer is formed to be a granular structure crystal grain layer made of tantalum nitride containing 10 atm % or more and 50 atm % or less of nitrogen. Thereby, a semiconductor device comprising electrode films wherein both favorable oxygen barrier performance and current conductivity are compatible can be provided.

Abstract: The use is provided of a fructran with an average degree of polymerisation of at least 15 for the manufacture of a composition for the prevention and/or treatment of colon cancer in non-bovine mammals, particularly in human beings. Also provided is a method of prevention and treatment of colon cancer in a non-bovine mammal, particularly in a human being, comprising administering to said mammal a composition comprising an effective dose of a fructan with an average degree of polymerisation of at least 15. The said composition can be a medicament as well as a functional food. In a preferrred embodiment the fructan is inulin, more preferably inulin with an average degree of polymerisation of at least 20.

Abstract: A method for transverse flux induction heating using a heating machine including an iron core, that essentially has a U-shape with an opening facing downwards. The legs lie in contact with downwards facing displaceable core jaws. These are so arranged that they are displaceable towards and from each other by means of pneumatic pistons. The object that is to be heated is placed between the core jaws. The core jaws are at the displacement guided by means of U-shaped rails and rolls or linear bearings. The displacement serves among other things to free the object that is to be heated or has been heated for transport into and out from the machine. When the right position has been reached the displacement is stopped and the two core jaws are locked by a pressurized bellow pressing the core jaws upwards against the legs of the U-shaped core.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit that includes an amplifier stage and an output stage, and local feedback between these stages to drive a biasing string associated with the amplifier stage using the potential at the output stage. In one embodiment, the local feedback line is coupled between the output stage and the biasing string to remove the loading effect of the biasing string on the amplifier stage. In another embodiment, the local feedback line is coupled between the switches of the amplifier stage and the switches of the output stage to bias the amplifier stage using the output stage.

Abstract: In an apparatus for evaluating an anisotropic thin film, an optical system generates a light beam having a predetermined diameter and polaraization state to project the light beam as incident light into a thin film sample corresponding to the anisotropic thin film. An analyzer is disposed at an optically down stream side of the thin film sample. At an optically down stream side of the analyzer, a two-dimensional photo-intensity detector is disposed to detect reflected light, obtained from the thin film sample, through the analyzer. The detector produces a light intensity distribution. On the basis of the light intensity distribution, an evaluating unit evaluates an inplane distribution of an optical anisotropy of the thin film sample.

Abstract: The invention provides a phase compensation circuit that can carry out phase compensation grater than the variable delay time range of a variable delay circuit without increasing more than necessary the delay time of the variable delay circuit even in the case that the phase of the reference signal and the phase of the feedback signal change because of changes in the operating environment due to fluctuations in the power source voltage and fluctuations in temperature. The phase compensation circuit that compensates the phase of a clock signal provides a plurality of variable delay circuits, a first phase comparator that compares the phase of a reference signal to the phase of a feedback signal, a second phase comparator that compares the phases of the plurality of variable delay circuits, a switching circuit that switches the outputs of the plurality of variable delay circuits, and a control circuit.

Abstract: Polymer microgel particles dispersed in an aqueous medium. PEDOT-PSS complex, with excess fixed negative charge and dispersed in aqueous media are crosslinked. Because of the network structure and due to the gel nature of the particles used as its building block, provides the prepared gel material with excellent access of the electrolyte solution to the polymer chains. The electrical connectivity of the polymer chains is further improved by eletropolymerization of another conducting polymer, such as polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PAni), using the polymer gel as the template.

Abstract: An output buffer circuit 1 comprises an output transistor section 10, a first and a second driving means 40, 50, and a first and a second switch circuits 60, 70. The output transistor section 10 comprises PMOS 11, 13, and NMOS 12, 14. Each source terminal of the PMOS 11, 13 is connected to VDD, each source terminal of the NMOS 12, 14 is connected to GND, and each drain terminal of the PMOS 11, 13 and NMOS 12, 14 are all connected to an output terminal N1 of the output buffer circuit 1. The driving capability of the PMOS 13 is set to be larger than that of PMOS 11, and the driving capability of the NMOS 14 is set to be larger than that of NMOS 12.