Abstract: Instead of using a uniform aqueous solution of a water-soluble cellulose ether as a coating liquid of solid medicament forms, e.g., granules and tablets, to form a film-forming layer, an aqueous dispersion of a cellulose ether, which is soluble in cold water but insoluble in hot water, is used as a coating liquid at a temperature higher than the solubilization temperature, i.e. the critical point of the solubility behavior, followed by plasticization of the cellulose ether particles with water to cause fusion thereof. The coating liquid is freed from the limitation by the flowability even when the content of the cellulose ether is much higher than in the conventional solution-type coating liquid.

Abstract: A cyanoacrylate composition suitable as cyanoacrylate adhesives for bonding porous materials, shaping material and fingerprint detectors comprises a 2-cyanoacrylate as a main component and at least one of crown ethers, polyalkylene oxides and derivatives of the polyalkylene oxides as a curing accelerator and at least one of hydrophobic silicas.

Abstract: Alkaloids present in Catharanthus roseus tissue are selectively concentrated by aqueous extraction of ground tissue followed by extraction with organic solvent e.g. ethyl acetate. The resultant concentrate is rich in catharanthine, vindoline and 3',4'-anhydrovinblastine (AVLB). Yield of AVLB is enhanced by addition to the aqueous extraction medium of acid, salt, or hydrogen peroxide and can be further enhanced through the addition of sodium borohydride.

Abstract: When a poly(allyl amine) is reacted with a perfluoroalkanoic acid ester of the formula R.sub.f --CO--OR, in which R.sub.f is a perfluoroalkyl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms and R is an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, e.g., ethyl perfluorooctanoate, the amino groups in the poly(allyl amine) are almost quantitatively amidated to introduce the perfluoroalkyl groups into the polymer as bonded through amide linkages. When the degree of amidation of the amino groups is 40% or smaller, the fluorine-containing polymeric compound is soluble in organic solvent to give a solution, from which Langmuir-Blodgett's films, i.e. monomolecular and built-up film, can be readily prepared.

Abstract: Non-compressed sustained release tablets which will float on gastric fulid are described. The tablets comprise a hydrocolloid gelling agent, the selected therapeutic agent and water.

Abstract: Non-compressed sustained release tablets which will float on gastric fluid are described. The tablets comprise a hydrocolloid gelling agent, a therapeutically acceptable inert oil, the selected therapeutic agent and water.

Abstract: Water-soluble, amide group containing polymers such as polyacrylamide are modified, to render them easy to detect, by reacting the polymer in aqueous solution with organic dye molecules which can form stable carbo-cations reversibly in water. The labelled polymers can then be detected spectrophotometrically. An example of a suitable dye molecule is 9-xanthydrol.

Abstract: Whereas the mechanism for the crosslink formation in the curable organopolysiloxane composition of the invention is the ultraviolet-induced addition reaction between alkenyl, e.g., vinyl, groups in a diorganopolysiloxane and mercaptoalkyl groups in another organopolysiloxane as in conventional compositions, the mercaptoalkyl-containing organopolysiloxane used in the invention is, differently from those in conventional compositions, an organopolysiloxane of a three-dimensionally branched molecular structure as composed of the siloxane units of the formulas R.sup.1.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5, R.sup.1.sub.a (HSR.sup.2)SiO.sub.(3-a)/2 and SiO.sub.2, in which R.sup.1 is, for example, a methyl or phenyl group, R.sup.2 is, for example, --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 -- and a is zero, 1 or 2, in a specified proportion. In addition, the vinyl group-containing siloxane units in the vinyl-containing diorganopolysiloxane are localized in the molecular structure forming two blocks each bonded to one of the terminal silicon atoms.

Abstract: Fingerprint developers are made of woven or non-woven fabric of hydrophobic synthetic fibers which is impregnated with a 2-cyanoacrylate. The synthetic resin for the fibers may be polyethylene, polypropylene and the like. This developer is placed in a closed vessel together with an article suspected of containing a latent fingerprint with or without a cup of hot water. Rapid development of fingerprints is possible.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic pressure gas bearing device in a rotational unit in which a rotational member put on a cantilevered fixed shaft is designed such that an operating gas generated by a dynamic pressure groove formed between the fixed shaft and the rotational member is directed into a pressure chamber between the fixed shaft and the rotational member and supports the rotational member in the thrust direction and that the pressure in the pressure chamber is adjusted by a hole formed in the fixed shaft or the rotational member.

Abstract: Although the positive-working photoresist composition comprises a phenolic novolac resin as the film-forming component and a known photosensitizing compound as in conventional compositions, the novolac resin is prepared from a specific mixture of two classes of phenolic compounds including, one, phenol, cresols and/or resorcinol and, the other, one or more of the phenolic compounds having a nucleus-substituting group selected from allyloxy, allyloxymethyl, allyl dimethyl silyl, 2-(allyl dimethyl silyl) ethoxy, cinnamoyl, acryloyl and methacryloyl groups. By virtue of this unique combination to give the phenolic moiety in the novolac resin, the photoresist composition has markedly improved heat resistance as well as stability against plasma in dry etching so that the composition can give a patterned photoresist layer with extreme fineness having high fidelity to the mask pattern.

Abstract: A dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device in which a housing and a shaft rotatable relative to each other are opposed to each other to provide inner and outer bearing surfaces for radial load. One of these bearing surfaces is formed with a groove for generating dynamic pressure and the housing and the shaft are opposed to each other in a first and a second bearing surface for thrust load. A circulation path for circulating lubricant is formed in at least one of the housing and the shaft and opens in the first and/or second bearing surface.

Abstract: A dually photosensitive composition useful as a photoresist in the manufacture of ICs and the like electronic devices, which is positively photosensitive by exposure to ultraviolet in a relatively small dose but negatively photosensitive by exposure to ultraviolet in a substantially larger dose than above or by exposure to far ultraviolet light, is obtained by admixing a positive-type photoresist material comprising a novolac resin and an o-naphthoquinone diazide compound with a bisazide compound such as 4,4'-diazidodiphenyl sulfide. The inventive photosensitive composition provides a possibility of developing an ingenious technique for patterning of a photoresist layer on the substrate such as a checkboard-like patterned layer by use of a photomask of a line-and-space pattern.

Abstract: Low acid heat-sensitive foodstuffs, such as low acid heat-sensitive vegetables and cereal grain products, are thermally processed in the presence of a mixture of an acid and its lactones, preferably an aldonic acid with its lactones, the acid of which makes possible a considerably reduced commercial sterilizing parameter whereby more of the flavor, color, or texture of the foodstuff is retained, and is closer to that of the freshly harvested home-cooked product, compared to the foodstuff processed at a more severe parameter when the acid is not employed. The type and level of the acid employed and its presence with its lactones results in a thermally processed foodstuff which does not have an objectionable acid taste. The preferred mixture is gluconic acid with its lactones, glucono-delta lactone and glucono-gamma lactone, provided to the foodstuff by combining it with a precursor of gluconic acid, preferably glucono-delta lactone.

Abstract: A very efficient microbiological method is proposed for the preparation of .gamma.-linolenic acid or a lipid rich in the content of .gamma.-linolenic acid, one of the essential fatty acids in the diet of mammals, e.g. human. The method comprises culturing a fungus of Mortierella genus including isabellina, vinacea, ramanniana, ramanniana var. angulispora and nana in a culture medium containing a carbohydrate, e.g. glucose, as the carbon source in an unusually high concentration of 60 to 400 g/liter to grow a fungal body containing a large amount of a lipid rich in the content of .gamma.-linolenic acid. A further improvement in the efficiency of culture and the content of the desired fatty acid in the fungal body is obtained by the addition of acetic acid or an alkali acetate to the culture medium.

Abstract: A mixture of a cyclodextrin and an alkoxy silane compound, e.g., tetraethoxy silane, is admixed with water and an acidic or alkaline catalyst, e.g., acetic acid, to effect ligand exchange and hydrolysis of the alkoxy silane followed by gelation into a gelled mass which is dried and, preferably, leached with water to remove excess of the cyclodextrin. The thus obtained gelled material is a composite having a structure in which the cyclodextrin molecules are incorporated into the matrix of amorphous silica presumably by forming Si-O-C linkages. The composite has characteristics as a combination of the properties of both of the component materials and can expand the applicability of the materials, for example, as a carrier of catalysts and immobilized enzymes, absorbent and adsorbent and so on.

Abstract: Use of tin protoporphyrin and tin mesoporphyrin together with ultraviolet light in the treatment of psoriasis.

Abstract: Alkaloid dimers are formed by coupling vindoline and catharanthine in the presence of ferric ion. The predominant products are 3',4'-anhydrovinblastine and vinblastine when reaction conditions are selected appropriately.

Abstract: Nasal compositions useful for the delivery of caffeine alone or with other therapeutic agents.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel and efficient method for preventing biofouling on the surface of a solid body continuously in contact with bacteria-containing sea water, such as the heat transfer surface in a heat exchanger using sea water as the cooling medium, caused by the attachment of the proliferated bacteria. The method comprises adding bacteriophages capable of lysing the bacteria responsible for the biofouling of the surface to the sea water brought into contact with the surface so that the sea water can be efficiently and inexpensively sterilized prior to contacting with the surface not to cause biofouling absolutely without the problem of environmental pollution.