Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing ultrafine particles of a Prussian blue-type metal complex wherein (A) an aqueous solution containing an anionic metal cyano complex having a metal atom M1 as the central metal is mixed with an aqueous solution containing metal cations of a metal atom M2 for precipitating a crystal of a Prussian blue-type metal complex having the metal atom M1 and the metal atom M2; then (B) a solution obtained by dissolving a ligand L in a solvent is mixed with the crystal of the Prussian blue-type metal complex for forming a dispersion liquid of ultrafine particles of the Prussian blue-type metal complex; and the (C) the Prussian blue-type metal complex is separated from the dispersion liquid as nanometer-sized ultrafine particles.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel packing composition for separation and/or analysis which permits easy capillary replacement; a process for the production of the packing composition; a method for filling a capillary with the packing composition; and electrophoretic methods (such as capillary electrophoresis) with the same. The invention relates to a packing composition for electrophoretic separation and/or analysis which contains a long self-assembly produced by dissolving a low-molecular-weight amphiphilic compound having a hydrophobic moiety and a hydrophilic moiety in water under heating and then cooling the resulting solution; a process for the production of the packing composition; a method of separation and/or analysis with the composition; and so on.

Abstract: A process for producing a lysosomal enzyme having a mannose-6-phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain, wherein the process comprising: culturing in a medium yeast cells obtained by introducing a lysosomal enzyme gene into a sugar chain biosynthetic enzyme gene mutant strain of yeast, collecting a lysosomal enzyme having a phosphate-containing sugar chain from the culture, and then treating the enzyme with ?-mannosidase; and pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of human lysosomal enzyme deficiencies produced by the process. The genetic engineering technique using the yeast according to the present invention allows large-amount and high-purity production of a glycoprotein having a phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain which can serve as a labeling marker for transporting into lysosomes in cells of mammals such as human. The glycoprotein having a phosphate-containing acidic sugar chain according to the invention may be utilized as a drug effective in treatment of human lysosomal enzyme deficiencies, etc.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory element in which Rb1-yMbyMnO3 having higher insulation properties than Ra1-xMaxMnO3 is inserted between the Ra1-xMaxMnO3 and a metal having a shallow work function or a low electronegativity in order to improve resistance change properties and switching properties and to control the resistance change properties. (In the formulas, Ra and Rb represent rare earth elements and are solid solutions of one or more types of rare earth elements. Average ionic radius of the Rb is smaller than that of the Ra. Ma and Mb represent alkaline earth metals and are solid solutions of one or more types of alkaline earth metals. 0<x, y<1).

Abstract: A resistance-type oxygen sensor which is provided to be used mainly for measuring the oxygen gas partial pressure of automobile exhaust gas, and which has a short output response time in response to changes in oxygen partial pressure, low resistivity of the oxide semiconductor, and low temperature dependence of the resistivity. In a resistance-type oxygen sensor, in which the oxygen gas detection part comprises an oxide semiconductor, the oxide semiconductor is an oxide comprising cerium ions and hafnium ions, the amount of substance of cerium ions as a percentage of the amount of substance of positive ions is 60 mol % or more, the amount of substance of hafnium ions as a percentage of the amount of substance of positive ions is 3 to 30 mol %, and the hafnium ions are an oxide in solid solution in the parent phase.

Abstract: A circuit substrate includes a passive element and an interconnection pattern, wherein any of the passive element and the interconnection pattern is formed by an aerosol deposition process that uses aerosol of a fine particle material.

Abstract: Aimed at readily and exactly separate 8-hydroxy-2?-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) contained in a sample, a column packing material used for separating 8-OHdG, which contains a packing material composed of a material having a straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 6 or more and 30 or less carbon atoms as a functional group, and having a carbon content over the surface of carrier of 18% or less by element ratio, wherein the packing material contains 1 cumulative percent or more and 20 cumulative percent or less, on the particle-count basis, of particles having a circle-equivalent diameter, measured using a flow-type particle image analyzer, of 0.5 ?m or larger and 10 ?m or smaller, is used.

Abstract: An ion generating element capable of cost reduction and space saving while exhibiting a high generation efficiency of positive ions and negative ions and stabilized generation capacity with less variation, and an ion generator and a neutralizer employing it. The ion generating element comprises a dielectric body having at least two faces, at least two discharge electrodes arranged on the at least two faces of the dielectric body, and an induction electrode arranged in the dielectric body and subjected to the action of the at least two discharge electrodes and is characterized in that positive ions and negative ions are generated on the body, and ions are generated from the at least two faces of the dielectric body through discharge generated because of the potential difference between the discharge electrode of the ion generating element and the induction electrode when a drive voltage is applied between them.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of delivering solid material at a position far enough from any surrounding solid with high enough target density without scattering debris to the environment. In the present invention, radiation is generated from plasma produced by laser irradiation on a material. This material is a cluster of particles that is composed of many fine particles bound together with a binder that vaporizes at temperature lower than melting point of fine particles. Density of particles in a particle-cluster 8 is increased by vaporizing a solvent 7 by heating a droplet 5 with the irradiation of laser 6. Solvent of a droplet occupies large fraction of the droplet in order to stabilize droplet generation. This solvent is vaporized prior to delivery to a vacuum chamber 9 for plasma generation. This vaporization helps to avoid degradation of vacuum of the chamber 9. The diameter of a particle-cluster thus condensed is several tens ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of synthesizing a water-free nanotube capable of efficiently encapsulating a functional substance therein, in large quantities.

Abstract: A gene construct incorporating any of at least two luciferase genes which emit lights with different colors using an identical substrate such that the gene can be stably expressed in mammalian cells.

Abstract: A simple-structured recording medium without a mask layer and information recording and reproducing methods, which resolve thermal stability related problems arising during reproduction, the recording medium including a high melting point recording layer between first and second dielectric layers. The method of recording information on the recording medium involves irradiating a laser beam onto the recording medium to induce reaction and diffusion in the high melting point recording layer and the first and second dielectric layers. The method of reproducing information recorded on such a super-resolution near-field recording medium by the above method involves generating plasmon using crystalline particles of the high melting point recording layer and the first and second dielectric layers as a scatter source to reproduce information regardless of a diffraction limit of a laser used.

Abstract: To provide an inductively-coupled plasma torch capable of realizing a GC analysis or the like and a solution analysis by the same torch without removing a capillary tube, etc. The injector tube of the inductively-coupled plasma torch includes an outer injector tube 11 for introducing an atomized solution sample or the like into the inductively-coupled plasma, and an inner injector tube 12 for introducing gaseous molecules into the inductively-coupled plasma, housed in the outer injector tube as integrated and coaxially with it. The inner injector tube is able to convey make-up gas, and has a capillary tube 4 for conveying gaseous molecules and carrier gas together. For sample introduction in analyzing a gaseous sample, the inner injector tube 12 is used, and for sample introduction in analyzing an aerosol sample, the outer injector tube 11 is used.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a graded refractive index optical element, the method being capable of easily forming a graded refractive index distribution in a desired portion of a glass substrate without the need for a specific treatment atmosphere, and without using a molten salt. More specifically, the present invention provides a method of producing a graded refractive index optical element comprising applying a paste containing a copper compound, an organic resin and an organic solvent to a glass substrate containing an alkali metal component as a glass component, and then performing heat treatment at a temperature below the softening temperature of the glass substrate.

Abstract: A Bi-based oxide superconductor thin film whose c-axis is oriented parallel to the substrate and whose a-axis (or b-axis) is oriented perpendicular to the substrate, is manufactured in order to obtain a high performance layered Josephson junction using a Bi-based oxide superconductor. The method of manufacturing an a-axis oriented Bi-based oxide superconductor thin film, involves an epitaxial growth process using an LaSrAlO4 single crystal substrate of a (110) plane or a LaSrGaO4 single crystal substrate of a (110) plane, for which the lattice constant matches well with a (100) plane of a Bi-2223 oxide superconductor. By this method, rather than the normally easily obtained Bi-2212, an a-axis oriented film of Bi-2223 showing an extremely high superconductive transition temperature even for a Bi-based oxide superconductor can be selectively manufactured.

Abstract: An enzyme which transfers N-acetylgalactosamine to N-acetylglucosamine via a ?1-4 linkage was isolated and the structure of its gene was explained. This led to the production of said enzyme or the like by genetic engineering techniques, the production of oligosaccharides using said enzyme, and the diagnosis of diseases on the basis of said gene or the like. The present invention uses a protein having the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 26 or 27 in the Sequence Listing or a variant of said amino acid sequence wherein one or more acids are substituted or deleted, or one or more acids are inserted or added and having the activity of transferring N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) to N-acetylglucosamine serving as a substrate via a ?1-4 linkage and nucleic acids encoding said protein.

Abstract: A cantilever control device is provided that can prevent, in an atomic force microscope, self-excited oscillation of a cantilever from stopping and prevent a probe of the cantilever from coming into contact with a measurement object. In the atomic force microscope, a cantilever control device 1 is constituted from a cantilever 10 having a probe 12, an actuator 20 that causes self-excited oscillation in the cantilever 10, an oscillation velocity detector 30 that detects the oscillation velocity of the cantilever 10, a displacement calculator 32 that calculates the oscillation displacement of the cantilever 10, and a controller 40 that generates a signal for driving the actuator 20. A feedback control signal S is represented as (K?G·x2)·dx/dt, where x is the oscillation displacement of the cantilever 10, dx/dt is the oscillation velocity of the cantilever 10, and both K and G are feedback gains of a positive value.

Abstract: A piezoelectric material layer is easily formed on a partial region of the substrate surface. By forming a different hardness material layer that has a different hardness from that of the substrate in the form of a pattern on the surface of the substrate, a film-deposition permitting region A to which particles of a piezoelectric material in a carrier gas adhere in a form of a film and a film-deposition inhibiting region B which inhibits the formation of a film are provided. Further, when a carrier gas containing particles of a piezoelectric material are ejected onto the surface of the substrate by means of AD, a film-like piezoelectric material layer is formed as a result of the adhesion of the particles in the film-deposition permitting region A. As a result, the piezoelectric material layer can be formed easily in a partial region of the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A porous metal IC membrane 2 is formed on a base tube 1, a fuel electrode 3 and a dense metal IC membrane 4 are formed to cover a part of the porous metal IC membrane 2, a solid electrolyte membrane 5 is formed on the fuel electrode 3 and the dense metal IC membrane 4 to entirely cover the fuel electrode 3 as well as to cover the periphery of the dense metal IC membrane 4, an air electrode 6 is formed on the solid electrolyte membrane 5 to cover a part of it, a porous metal IC membrane 7 is formed on the air electrode 6 to cover it as well as cover the exposed portion of the dense metal IC membrane 4, and further, exfoliation preventing membranes 8 are formed in the disconnected portions of the porous metal IC membrane 7 so as to cover the dense metal IC membrane 4.

Abstract: A waveguide type wavelength domain optical switch includes an input/output port including at least three waveguide spectrometers stacked in thickness direction, a first lens for collecting light outputted from an input port of the input/output port in one axis direction, a second lens for collecting light outputted from the first lens in a direction orthogonal to the collecting direction of the first lens, and an optical phase modulation cell for reflecting light outputted from the second lens through the second lens and the first lens to an output port of the input/output port. Alternatively, the input/output port may include at least two waveguide spectrometers and a waveguide optical coupler circuit stacked in thickness direction.