Abstract: Provided is an insulin-containing granulated composition for nasal administration comprising a crystalline cellulose aggregate having a specific particle diameter distribution as a carrier. Such granulated composition for nasal administration can efficiently increase a blood insulin concentration.

Abstract: The invention has as an object proving a carbon nanomaterial fabrication method that can continuously mass-produce a high purity carbon a nanomaterial. The tube-shaped or fiber-shaped carbon nanomaterial having carbon as the main constituent is fabricated with a compound that includes carbon (raw material) and an additive that includes a metal by using a fluidized bed reactor.

Abstract: A method for screening substances which are useful as effective components of prophylactic or therapeutic drug for neurodegenerative diseases caused by the binding of an aberrant protein and a valosin-containing protein, wherein the aberrant protein and the valosin-containing protein and the candidate substance are made to coexist, and the substance that shows inhibitory action on the binding of the aberrant protein and the valosin-containing protein is identified, is provided.

Abstract: A waveform equalization controller which combines a follow-up property when the distortion is varied and there is a higher convergence speed at the initial operation, and a higher stability at a low C/N time, and which realizes a high performance and a low cost in a waveform equalizer. The waveform equalization controller controls the updating of a tap coefficient, and comprises a waveform equalizer for reducing a transmission line distortion of an input signal based on a LMS algorithm, an error estimation unit for estimating an error signal from an output signal of the waveform equalizer and outputting the error signal, a step size decision unit for generating a step size having an arbitrary size and outputting the step size, and a coefficient updating amount calculation unit for calculating a tap coefficient updating amount based on the error signal, the step size and a tap coefficient updating data.

Abstract: A navigation system is provided which obtains facility information and displays a facility icon in a position corresponding to the position of the facility on a map shown on a display. The navigation system includes a facility designating device to designate the facility icon, and a designated facility route guidance device to give route guidance to the facility when the facility designating operation is conducted with the facility designating device.

Abstract: A Rho kinase inhibitor is provided as a novel pharmaceutical agent, particularly as a therapeutic agent of hypertension, a therapeutic agent of angina pectoris, a suppressive agent of cerebrovascular contraction, a therapeutic agent of asthma, a therapeutic agent of peripheral circulation disorder, a prophylactic agent of immature birth, a therapeutic agent of arteriosclerosis, an anti-cancer drug, an anti-inflammatory agent, an immunosuppressant, a therapeutic agent of autoimmune disease, an anti-AIDS drug, a contraceptive, a prophylactic agent of digestive tract infection, a therapeutic agent of osteoporosis, a therapeutic agent of retinopathy and a brain function improving drug. In addition, the Rho kinase inhibitor is provided as a reagent and a diagnostic.

Abstract: A system stream contiguous reproduction apparatus to which are input one or more system streams interleaving at least moving picture data and audio data, and system stream connection information includes a system clock STC generator for producing the system clock that is used as the system stream reproduction reference clock. The system stream contiguous reproduction apparatus further includes one or more signal processing decoders that operate referenced to the system clock STC, decoder buffers for temporarily storing the system stream data transferred to the corresponding signal processing decoders, and STC selectors for selecting a system clock STC referenced by the signal processing decoders when decoding the first system stream, and another system clock STC referenced by the signal processing decoders when decoding a second system stream reproduced contiguously to the first system stream.

Abstract: The present invention is a waste incinerating method and a device for the method, characterized in that, using a combustion furnace (111) incorporating a high temperature resistant coil-shaped flue (117) and having flue heating means and a thermo sensor (128), while maintaining the temperature inside the flue at a high temperature by suppressing an air feed amount and a temperature of the heating means, exhaust smoke produced by the combustion of waste is passed through the flue for complete combustion to completely eliminate the exhaust smoke. Because any harmful substance such as dioxin is not exhausted, the method and device are suitable as the incinerating method and incinerating device for inflammable waste.

Abstract: Movable contact unit of the present invention comprises a plurality of dome-like movable contacts made of electrically conductive metal sheets capable of making an inflective action when depressed, a base film having an adhesive layer for retaining upper surfaces of the plurality of movable contacts, and a plurality of press-down projections bonded by adhesive to an upper surface of the base film in positions corresponding to center portions of the respective movable contacts, wherein the upper surface of the base film and underside surfaces of the press-down projections are each provided with a pretreated layer. The above structure has an advantage of strengthening the bonding between the adhesive and each of the pretreated layers formed on the adhering surfaces of the base film and the press-down projections, so as to provide the movable contact unit with outstanding reliability in maintaining the bonded condition for a long duration.

Abstract: A pulsation reducing system for a fuel line of an internal combustion engine, especially for an automotive engine equipped with an electronic fuel injection system is provided. The system includes a fuel delivery rail, a fuel tank, and a longitudinal main fuel pipe. A first flexible tube is arranged between the fuel delivery rail and the main fuel pipe. A second flexible tube is arranged between the main fuel pipe and the fuel tank. A small-ID tubular portion is arranged within the first tube or near the connecting portion of the first tube. The inside diameter of the small-ID tubular portion is smaller than that of the main fuel pipe. The length of the small-ID tubular portion is set between 10 to 50 times the inside diameter of the small-ID tubular portion itself. Thus, standing waves and resultant pressure pulsations caused by the fuel delivery rail are reduced by the small-ID tubular portion.

Abstract: A billet produced by continuous casting having little central segregation, in particular a billet of high carbon steel produced by continuous casting, and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. In the continuous casting billet, the size of the dendritic equiaxed crystal in a billet central portion is reduced to be not more than 6 mm. For this purpose, electromagnetic stirring is performed so that the inclining angle of the primary dendrite within 10 mm of a billet surface layer is increased to be not less than 10°. Furthermore, the mechanical soft reduction is performed during continuous casting so that the diameter of the center porosity in the billet central portion is reduced to be not more than 4 mm. Thereby, in particular in the manufacturing of the continuous casting billet having a carbon content of not less than 0.

Abstract: A polishing cloth mounted on a turntable is dressed by bringing a dresser in contact with the polishing cloth for restoring the polishing capability of the polishing cloth. The dressing is performed by measuring heights of a surface of the polishing cloth at radial positions of the polishing cloth in a radial direction thereof determining a rotational speed of the dresser with respect to a rotational speed of the turntable on the basis of the measured heights, and dressing the polishing cloth by pressing the dresser are rotating. The dresser has an annular diamond grain layer or an annular SiC layer.

Abstract: This invention presents a gallium nitride phosphor with superior light emitting characteristics, its method of manufacture, and a display device which uses the phosphor. By heat treatment or microwave irradiation of gallium nitride phosphor powder in an ambient containing essentially no H2 or H2O, a phosphor is produced wherein the amount of H2 and H2O gas evolved when heated in a vacuum is less than or equal to 0.2 cm3/g of phosphor and 2.0 cm3/g of phosphor respectively.

Abstract: A porous pipe having an excellent absorbing and draining function, a producing apparatus capable of producing a porous pipe at high speed and low cost, and a method of producing a porous pipe are provided. The porous pipe is a pipe formed by spirally winding a tape. The pipe is formed by a hole forming portion 13 for forming a recess or a notch or a hole in the tape 2 molded by a tape molding portion 11, and the hole forming portion 13 is located between the tape molding portion 11 and a pipe forming portion 12 so that the tape 2 is molded, holes 6 are formed, and a pipe 1 is formed continuously. The holes 6 are formed into a predetermined shape by elongating the hole 6 from a side of the pipe forming portion 12. In the pipe 1 formed thereby, a peripheral wall portion of the hole 6 is gradually thin-walled toward an outer peripheral face of the hole.

Abstract: A tape feeder feeds electronic components by advancing a tape intermittently. The tape feeder comprises a motor controller for controlling a motor, which rotatively drives a sprocket to advance the tape, and a communication unit for receiving a control signal from a control unit of an electronic component mounting apparatus and transmitting a control parameter such as a rotating speed, an amount of rotation, and acceleration and deceleration pattern to the motor controller. The tape feeder has such a structure that a tape advancing speed and an amount of tape advancement are easily changeable according to a type of the electronic components by changing the control parameter of the rotating speed and the amount of rotation of the motor.

Abstract: There is provided a highly accurate electrical capacitance diaphragm pressure sensor capable of reducing temperature drift that arises when a pressure-travel coefficient changes with temperature variations of a fluid whose pressure is sensed.

Abstract: Coatings for bakery/confectionery use and coated cakes or breads. These coatings have transparency like glaze, and appearance and crispiness like fondant, and suffer from neither stickiness nor sugar-sagging with the passage of time after coating. Coatings for bakery/confectionery use comprising fat and sugar as the main components and containing coarse grains of non-fat components having a grain size of 50 ?m or more; and a process for producing a coating for bakery/confectionery use characterized by heating materials, which comprise fat and sugar as the main components and contain coarse grains of non-fat components having a grain size of 50 ?m or more, to the melting temperature of the fat or above and solidifying the same substantially without pulverizing.

Abstract: A charge transporting material, a light emitting material and an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency using a specified diazapentacene derivative represented by the following general formula (1): (in the general formula (1), R1 to R10 each represents independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, a substituted or not-substituted amino group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, in which the substituted or not-substituted aryl group or heterocyclic group, when they are adjacent with each other, may be of a structure condensed to each other, X1 and X2 each represents independently an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and Y1 and Y2 each represents independently a substituted or not-substituted alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group).

Abstract: For an arm type valve gear in which a lash adjuster is mounted between an arm pivoted by the rotation of a cam and a valve stem, it is a goal to reduce the axial length of the lash adjuster and to suppress wear at the contact portion with the valve stem. An engaging hole is formed in an arm pivoted by the rotation of a cam at a position corresponding to the top end face of a valve stem. A lash adjuster received in the engaging hole includes a nut member, an adjuster screw in threaded engagement with the nut member, an elastic body biasing the adjuster screw toward the valve stem, and a ball joint to reduce the axial length of the lash adjuster. Further, by bringing the bottom end face of the ball joint into surface contact with the top end face of the valve stem, wear at the contact portion is suppressed.