Abstract: The riparian improvement structure for use upon riparian protection, shore and bank protection, wave control, water control, etc. of a river, lake, sea, etc. is composed of a plurality of blocks and a structural body or bodies composed of a plurality of wooden materials or mass materials. The riparian improvement structure also provides an environment suitable for the habitation of aquatic life such as fish, crustaceans, e.g., crabs, shrimps, aquatic insects, etc., and for the growth of aquatic plants, etc. The blocks are each provided with a water passage, such as a through-hole formed therein or a plurality of grooves formed on the bottom thereof, through which fresh water can flow, when they are disposed on the structural body or bodies or on a riparian area such as a river-bed, shore, bank, bottom, etc. of a river, lake, sea, etc. The blocks are disposed for fresh water to flow through the water passage and to be supplied to the structural body or bodies inhabitable for aquatic life.

Abstract: The present invention provides a copolyester resin composition which has good physical properties, biodegradability and processability and a process for preparing and/or producing the same. To improve the biodegradability and physical properties of the copolyester, the present invention applied multi-stage reaction step, and copolyester resin having number average molecular weight of from 30,000 to 70,000, weight average molecular weight of from 100,000 to 600,000, melting point of from 55° C. to 120° C., and melt index of from 0.1 to 30 g/10 minute (190° C., 2,160 g) is obtained. The processability and physical properties of the copolyester resin of the present invention has been greatly enhanced by incorporating (i) an “aromatic-aliphatic prepolymers” having number average molecular weight of from 300 to 30,000 and the contiguous repeating unit of aromatic group in the dicarboxylic acid position of “aromatic-aliphatic prepolymers” is less than 5.

Abstract: A tooling fixture includes a plurality of cylinders in a module fitted with pistons in which a portion thereof extends from the surface of the module. The cylinders are connected with a fluid source by a control valve assembly. The control valve assembly controls the amount of fluid to enter the cylinders in order to raise the pistons until a portion thereof are in contact with and support a workpiece. Once all of the pistons are in contact with and are fully supporting the workpiece, the fluid pressure is stabilized, maintaining the pistons at their set heights. Once the pistons are desired to be lowered, the valve assembly opens and the fluid can freely exit the cylinders and retract the pistons back into the module.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary batteries is substantially made of a Li containing transition metal composite oxide, which has a composition expressed by LixMySzO2 (wherein M is a transition metal, such as Co, Ni, Mn, Fe and V, and 0.9≦x≦1.15, 0.8≦y≦1.00, and 0<z<0.001). Such positive electrode active material is excellent in particle size controllability (miniaturization and sharpening of the particle size distribution). A nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery comprises a positive electrode, a separator, a negative electrode, a battery case accommodating these, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution filled in the battery case. The positive electrode contains the positive electrode active material for the nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery expressed by the aforementioned general formula.

Abstract: A wiper blade for a screen printing head in which pasty product to be screen printed is biased toward a printing screen under pressure, the wiper blade comprising an elongate blade element having a thickness of between 0.1 and 0.5 mm, one edge of the blade element being configured to be fixed to a screen printing head and the other edge of the blade element being a forwardly-directed free edge which in use contacts a printing screen, and a strip fixed to the upper, non-screen contacting surface of the blade element along the free edge there of, wherein the strip and the free edge of the blade element together define a leading face which has a height of from 1 to 2.5 mm and encloses an acute angle with the printing screen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing 3,5-diamino-6-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,2,4-triazine (lamotrigine) by cyclization reaction from &agr;-oxo-2,3-dichlorophenylacetamidino-aminoguanidino-hydrazone.

Abstract: The present invention is directed generally to activating gene expression or causing over-expression of a gene by recombination methods in situ. The invention also is directed generally to methods for expressing an endogenous gene in a cell at levels higher than those normally found in the cell. In one embodiment of the invention, expression of an endogenous gene is activated or increased following integration into the cell, by non-homologous or illegitimate recombination, of a regulatory sequence that activates expression of the gene. The invention also provides methods for the identification, activation, isolation, and/or expression of genes undiscoverable by current methods since no target sequence is necessary for integration. The invention also provides methods for isolation of nucleic acid molecules (particularly cDNA molecules) encoding a variety of proteins.

Abstract: Process of making polypropylene fibers obtained from an isotactic polypropylene homopolymer with an isotactic index of 90-99%, through melt-spinning or through drawing after melt-spinning, and shows two differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) endothermic peaks between 155 and 170 ° C. When being thermally bonded with each other, the fibers are made into non-woven fabrics which have excellent strength in addition to being soft. A high quality of the non-woven fabrics can be produced in a high speed carding machine with high yields.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mesoporous zeolitic material having a stereoregular arrangement of uniformly-sized mesopores with diameters ranging from 20 to 500 Å and walls having a microporous nanocrystalline structure. The mesopore walls have a stereoregular arrangement of uniformly-sized micropores with diameters less than 15 Å. The mesoporous zeolite material according to the invention displays both the catalytic properties associated with zeolites containing strong Brönsted acid sites and the large mesopore surface area associated with mesoporous molecular sieves.

Abstract: White rot fungi capable of decomposing dioxin were screened from rotten wood to isolate the MZ-340 strain. This MZ-340 could be cultured in the Kirk liquid medium (HCLN) or PDB medium. New systems that can be used to decompose dioxins in incineration ash were constructed using this MZ-340 strain. The present invention can decompose dioxins in incineration ash effectively and efficiently in both solid phase systems and liquid phase systems. Thus, the present invention enables the prevention of environmental pollution by dioxins generated during incineration and also the clean up of dioxin pollutants.

Abstract: The invention relates to an inexpensive method in which the partial pressure of a gas component in the air exhaled by a patient is determined per breath.

Abstract: The present invention is directed generally to activating gene expression or causing over-expression of a gene by recombination methods in situ. The invention also is directed generally to methods for expressing an endogenous gene in a cell at levels higher than those normally found in the cell. In one embodiment of the invention, expression of an endogenous gene is activated or increased following integration into the cell, by non-homologous or illegitimate recombination, of a regulatory sequence that activates expression of the gene. In another embodiment, the expression of the endogenous gene may be further increased by co-integration of one or more amplifiable markers, and selecting for increased copies of the one or more amplifiable markers located on the integrated vector. In another embodiment, the invention is directed to activation of endogenous genes by non-targeted integration of specialized activation vectors, which are provided by the invention, into the genome of a host cell.

Abstract: The present invention discloses dielectric ceramic compositions having dielectric properties suitable for high frequency bands, such as microwave and millimetric wave, and a method for manufacturing multilayered components, such as chip LC filters, chip duplexers, and dielectric filters for PCS, using the dielectric ceramic compositions. The dielectric ceramic composition not only possesses low dielectric loss, a high dielectric constant, and temperature stability, but are also capable of being sintered at low temperatures and simultaneously baked with metal electrodes, including silver, copper, silver/palladium. Therefore, the dielectric composition can be applied to temperature stable capacitors (NPO MLCC), microwave oscillators, substrates, filters, planar antenna and on the like. The dielectric composition are represented by the general formula: Ax′A1−x″By′B1−y″O4 where A′ and A″ are La, Nd, Y and Al; B′ and B″ are Nb and Ta.

Abstract: A filling device for and a method of filling balls in an array of apertures in a ball-receiving element, the filling device comprising: a housing including an opening at a lower surface thereof and defining in part a chamber for containing a supply of balls, the housing being in use movably disposed over a ball-receiving element including an array of apertures; and distribution means disposed within the housing for distributing balls contained in the chamber such as to maintain a limited number of layers of the balls over at least a region of the opening in the housing.

Abstract: The present invention is directed generally to activating gene expression or causing over-expression of a gene by recombination methods in situ. The invention also is directed generally to methods for expressing an endogenous gene in a cell at levels higher than those normally found in the cell. In one embodiment of the invention, expression of an endogenous gene is activated or increased following integration into the cell, by non-homologous or illegitimate recombination, of a regulatory sequence that activates expression of the gene. The invention also provides methods for the identification, activation, isolation, and/or expression of genes undiscoverable by current methods since no target sequence is necessary for integration. The invention also provides methods for isolation of nucleic acid molecules (particularly cDNA molecules) encoding a variety of proteins.

Abstract: An electric therapeutic device having easy operability and improved therapy effects for treating the affected part of a user with electric current flowing from a conductor (3) attached to the affected part, including a hot water or cold water circulator (4) for circulating hot or cold water in the conductor (3).

Abstract: A capillary squeegee and a method utilizing a capillary squeegee for screen printing liquid product onto a substrate through apertures in a printing screen on translation thereover, the squeegee including a capillary element for delivering liquid product from a pressurizable reservoir to a printing screen, wherein the capillary element is configured to provide a flow resistance which is such as to prevent flow therefrom when not pressurized and allow flow therefrom when pressurized; and first and second sealing lips which, during screen printing, both together contact the printing screen, wherein the sealing lips are disposed, in oppositely-inclined relation, to opposed edges of the capillary element in the direction of translation and define a delivery aperture therebetween, the delivery aperture having size suited to the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a deodorizer composition comprising magnesium and calcium phosphate compounds, capable of effectively removing various malodorous components from the atmosphere.

Abstract: A pressureless electric water heater for domestic use having a cylindrical double-walled tank for holding a quantity of a heat transfer liquid such as water. Cold water enters a copper coil immersed in the heat transfer liquid. The heat transfer liquid is heated by an electric heating element that extends down a double-walled top. The inner walls and the outer walls of the tank and the upper and lower walls of the top may be spaced apart using any convenient spacing distance, in order to accommodate an amount of thermal insulation, such as fiberglass, foam, cellulose or cardboard, preferably includes open air spaces between the linings of insulation or between a lining of insulation and a wall or surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for prevention and prophylaxis of neurological diseases accompanied by neuronal death. The invention includes synthesis of 5-benzylamino salicylic acid (BAS) and its derivatives. BAS and its derivatives protect cortical neurons from toxic insults by N-methyl-D-aspartate, Zn2+, and reactive oxygen species. Thus, the present invention provides compositions and methods for treating stroke, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative diseases that are accompanied by severe neuronal loss via excitotoxicity, Zn2+ neurotoxicity, and free radical neurotoxicity.