Abstract: In order to produce a new substance having a diamond crystal structure, the following steps are taken in order. First, a graphite-like substance is prepared which contains boron (B), carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) as main elements. Then, the graphite-like substance is mixed with a metal powder to produce a mixture. Then, a pressure is applied to the mixture to produce a molded body, and then an explosion pressure is applied to the molded body.

Abstract: A mold for molding a synthetic resin coated with a highly durable thick heat insulating layer, and a molding method using the same are provided. The present invention relates to a mold comprising a base mold comprising a metal, with its inner wall constituting the mold cavity being coated with a heat insulating layer, wherein the heat insulating layer comprises a polymer alloy comprising (A) a heat-resistant non-crystalline resin of a linear high-molecular weight polymer containing an aromatic ring in the main chain thereof and having a glass transition temperature of not lower than 150.degree. C. and an elongation at break of not less than 10% and (B) a cured thermosetting resin at a (A)/(B) mixing ratio of 40/60 to 5/95 by weight; and further relates to a molding method using the mold.

Abstract: An agent for controlling snow blight disease damage, which comprises a filamentous fungus of the genus Humicola exhibiting an antagonistic activity against the pathogenic fungi of snow blight diseases but harmless to animals and plants or which comprises a microbial product containing such filamentous fungus, as well as a method for controlling snow blight diseases using such control agent which allows an efficient control of snow blight. In particular the fungus is Humicola grisea var. grisea FERM BP-5452.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyamide resin composition comprising a melt-kneaded product of (A) a polyamide; (B) a polyphenylene ether; (C) a styrene polymer; and (D) a compound having in a molecule thereof a carbon-to-carbon double bond and at least one functional group selected from a carboxylic acid group, an acid anhydride group, an epoxy group, an amino group and a hydroxyl group, wherein the polyamide (A) is present as a continuous phase in which the polyphenylene ether (B) and the styrene polymer (C) are dispersed individually, independently or in mixture thereof to form a dispersion phase having an average particle diameter of 5 .mu.m or less, and wherein the (B)/(C) weight ratio is from 20/80 to 70/30, and the styrene polymer (C) in the melt-kneaded product has a reduced viscosity of 0.70 dl/g or more.

Abstract: A method for immunologically determining antistreptolysin O antibody comprises contacting a test sample solution containing antistreptolysin O antibody with a binding agent to selectively bind the antistreptolysin O antibody to the binding agent, and determining an amount of the bound antistreptolysin O antibody, wherein the binding agent comprises a streptolysin O-immobilized carrier obtained by contacting a solution containing streptolysin O with a carrier having immobilized thereon at least one steroid represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a side chain moiety of cholesterol or a side chain moiety of cholic acid, wherein each of the side chain moieties is independently unsubstituted or substituted and independently saturated or unsaturated; R.sup.2 is hydrogen or hydroxyl; and each dashed line independently represents a single bond or no bond.

Abstract: A process for producing a photosensitive resin printing plate, which comprises the steps of developing a photosensitive resin which has been exposed to light, with a composition comprising a developer for a photosensitive resin and a hydrogen-abstracting agent which can abstract hydrogen atoms from a compound upon irradiation with an active radiation, and thereafter, irradiating the surface of an obtained cured plate with an active radiation.

Abstract: An aromatic polyamide film is disclosed, which contains micro-particles in an amount in a range from 0.001 to 10% by weight, characterized in that, at least on one film surface, a distribution density of projections having a height in a range from 0.01 .mu.m to 0.05 .mu.m is in a range from 10.sup.2 to 10.sup.7 /mm.sup.2 ; that of projections having a height in a range from 0.27 .mu.m to less than 0.54 .mu.m is in a range from 0 to 5/cm.sup.2 ; that of projections having a height in a range from 0.54 .mu.m to less than 0.81 .mu.m is in a range from 0 to 2/10 cm.sup.2 ; and that of projections having a height of 0.81 .mu.m or more is in a range from 0 to 0.5/100 cm.sup.2. The aromatic polyamide film has both satisfactory slipperiness and surface smoothness, and is suitably used as an electro-insulating material for a high rotational speed electric appliance, a base film for a solar cell, or a flexible printed circuit board.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous, silicone-modified acrylate polymer emulsion, which is an acrylate polymer emulsion produced by subjecting a monomer system (A) comprising an acrylate monomer selected from the group consisting of an acrylic ester, a methacrylic ester and a mixture thereof to emulsion polymerization in an aqueous medium in the presence of emulsifier (B) selected from the group consisting of a sulfonic acid group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, a sulfonate group-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a mixture thereof, wherein the acrylate polymer emulsion is silicone-modified using a specific, silicone structure-containing modifier (C) during or after the emulsion polymerization.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyisocyanate composition which comprises: (a) a hydrophilic polyisocyanate comprising at least one base polyisocyanate selected from an aliphatic and/or an alicyclic diisocyanate, and a polyisocyanate derived therefrom, and a nonionic hydrophilic group, bonded to the polyisocyanate, containing therein 5 to 50 repeating ethylene oxide units in terms of the average number of the units, wherein the hydrophilic group is present in an amount of from 2 to 50% by weight, based on the total weight of the base polyisocyanate and the hydrophilic group; and (b) 0.5 to 20% by weight, based on the total weight of components (a) and (b), of a substantially water-free ionic surfactant. The polyisocyanate composition exhibits not only excellent dispersibility in water, but also exhibits high stability in the form of an aqueous dispersion thereof, since a reaction between the terminal isocyanate groups and water is suppressed.

Abstract: A polycarbonate composition comprises (a) a substantially chlorine-atom free, aromatic dihydroxy compound/carbonic diester transesterification polycarbonate, and the following components (b), (c) and (d) in specifically, extremely limited amounts, wherein component (b) is at least one metal selected from an alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal, component (c) is an aromatic monohydroxy compound, and component (d) is at least one member selected from an oligomer having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 or less and a residual monomer. This polycarbonate composition is substantially free from occurrence of crazing, even when it experiences moist heat, and especially even when it has been recycled.

Abstract: An injection moulding process for moulding a material in a mould having a mould cavity and at least one channel communicating with the mould cavity, each channel entering the mould at a respective mould inlet includes the steps of heating inner surface areas of the mould to a temperature above the heat distortion temperature of the material; supplying the molten material into the mould by way of at least one channel and subjecting the molten material to a propelling force, sufficient to propel it through the channel into the mould; causing the molten material in the mould to solidify; applying periodic forces to the material in the mould at a plurality of spaced-apart regions, first and second of the regions being located either side of molten material in the mould cavity, the periodic force being applied with a difference in phase so as to cause shear of molten material within the mould cavity between the first and second regions; cooling the mould below the heat distortion temperature of the resin while or

Abstract: Disclosed is an injection-molded hollow article having large hollow portions 1 which securely provide the strength required by the injection-molded hollow article without depending upon ribs as more solid remaining portions being unstable in position and size.A melted resin and pressurized fluid are injected under pressure into a metal mold cavity 4, a movable core 5 projected into the metal mold cavity 4 is moved and then a support portion 2 is formed at the position from which the movable core 5 is moved.The position and size of the support portion 2 can be determined by selecting the position and size of the movable core 5.

Abstract: Disclosed is a blocked polyisocyanate composition comprising: a blocked polyisocyanate obtained by blocking the terminal isocyanate groups of a two or more terminal isocyanate groups-containing polyisocyanate derived from at least one diisocyanate selected from an aliphatic diisocyanate and an alicyclic diisocyanate with a blocking agent comprising at least one active methylene compound selected from a malonic diester and an acetoacetic ester; and a salt of a basic compound with an acidic compound, or a mixture of the salt with the basic compound or the acidic compound, the composition having a pH value of from 1 to 8.5. The blocked polyisocyanate composition of the present invention not only exhibits high stability even under high temperature conditions, but also is capable of maintaining such high stability for a prolonged period of time.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for continuously producing a dialkyl carbonate and a diol, comprising: (1) feeding a cyclic carbonate and an aliphatic monohydric alcohol to a continuous multi-stage distillation column, and effecting a transesterification in the presence of a catalyst in the multi-stage distillation column and/or at least one transesterification reactor which communicates fluid-tightly with the distillation column, while continuously withdrawing a low boiling point gaseous mixture containing the produced dialkyl carbonate from a upper portion of the distillation column and a high boiling point liquid mixture from a lower portion of the distillation column; and (2) continuously feeding water and the high boiling point mixture to a hydrolysis reactor, to thereby effect a continuous hydrolysis of the unreacted cyclic carbonate contained therein and produce a diol and carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A sorbitol kinase having at least the following physicochemical properties:(1) Enzymatic action: utilizing mainly ATP, but not substantially phosphoenolpyruvate, as the phosphate donor catalyzing a reaction of generating sorbitol-6-phosphate and ADP from sorbitol and ATP of the formula,sorbitol+ATP.fwdarw.sorbitol-6-phosphate+ADP(2) Substrate specificity: for sorbitol(3) N-terminal amino acid sequence: containing ##STR1## (4) Heat stability stable at least up to 60.degree. C. when a 100 mM Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.5, containing 0.5 U/ml of sorbitol kinase) is heated for 15 minutes at various temperatures and the residual acitvity is measured.

Abstract: A three-dimensional plexifilamentary fiber (26) of a high-density polyethylene group obtained by supplying a polymer to a dissolving area in a state such that the polymer is melted by a heated screw extruder (compressing zone 13, metering zone 14 to 16), supplying a solvent (CCl.sub.3 F) into the melted polymer (feed opening 18), mixing and dissolving the polymer and the solvent to make a polymer solution, and extruding the polymer solution from a nozzle (24 in FIG. 24) arranged in the dissolving area into a low pressure area. A nonwoven fabric is obtained through a process in which the fiber (26) is spread by striking the fiber against a skirt portion (33) having a fiber swinging face (34) and a cushioning face (35), and this nonwoven fabric has an excellent strength, covering property, and whiteness.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing an aromatic polycarbonate which comprises subjecting to a transesterification reaction in a polymerizer at least one polymerizable material selected from a molten monomer mixture of an aromatic dihydroxy compound and a diaryl carbonate, and a molten prepolymer obtained from the monomer mixture, wherein a liquid mass of polymerizable material being transesterified in the polymerizer has an exposed surface, and wherein the transesterification reaction of the liquid mass of polymerizable material is performed under reaction conditions such that the following formula (1) is satisfied:log (S/V).gtoreq.2.times.10.sup.-5 .times.Mn+0.8 (1)wherein S represents an evaporation surface area (m.sup.2) which is defined as the area (m.sup.2) of the exposed surface of the liquid mass of polymerizable material; V represents the volume (m.sup.

Abstract: A polyoxymethylene copolymer prepared by copolymerizing a mixture comprising trioxane and 1,3-dioxolane in the presence of at least one polymerization catalyst selected from the group consisting of boron trifluoride, a boron trifluoride hydrate and a coordination complex compound of an organic compound containing an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom with boron trifluoride, wherein the 1,3-dioxolane has a 2-methyl-1,3-dioxolane content of not more than 500 ppm by weight and a 1,3-dioxolane peroxide content of not more than 15 ppm by weight in terms of hydrogen peroxide, and contains at least one hindered phenol in an amount of from 10 to 500 ppm by weight, each based on the weight of the 1,3-dioxolane.

Abstract: Disclosed are a novel cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase which is increased with respect to expression amount thereof in accordance with the differentiation of blood cells, and a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) coding for the same. The tyrosine kinase of the present invention can be advantageously used for screening chemical substances having the capability to inhibit or activate the tyrosine kinase activity of at least the tyrosine kinase of the present invention.

Abstract: An ion conductive film and a precursor thereof which comprises a film composed of an aromatic polyamide, electrolyte and solvent in which a content of the aromatic polyamide is between 20 and 70% by weight. The film is easy to handle due to heat resistance, resistance to chemicals and mechanical properties. Little deterioration of the properties, or change in the structure of the film is caused by aging and exposure to heat. The film is especially suited for various electrochemical usages including battery separator.