Abstract: The present invention is a method of puncturing a shunt blood vessel, using a incision needle having a pointed extremity that protrudes apically from a hypothetical angled plane formed by cutting straight through the tip of the needle at an angle, wherein the pointed extremity of the incision needle is inserted into a shunt blood vessel, thereby forming a reverse U-shaped incision on the surface of the shunt blood vessel, with the apex of the incision being on the bottom side in the direction of insertion.

Abstract: A multilayer tube including at least three layers including a layer (a) formed of (A) polyamide 11 and/or polyamide 12, a layer (b) formed of (B) a polyamide (semi-aromatic polyamide) including a dicarboxylic acid unit containing a terephthalic acid and/or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid unit in a proportion of 50 mol % or more based on all dicarboxylic acid units, and a diamine unit containing an aliphatic diamine unit having a carbon number of 9 to 13 in a proportion of 60 mol % or more based on all diamine units, and a layer (c) formed of (C) a fluorine-containing polymer having introduced into the molecular chain thereof a functional group having reactivity with a polyamide-based resin, is provided as a multilayer tube excellent in an alcohol gasoline permeation-preventing property, interlayer adhesion, low-temperature impact resistance, heat resistance and chemical resistance.

Abstract: To provide a good and simple method for decomposing and detoxifying a hardly decomposable fluorinated organic compound. Specifically, a fluorinated organic compound is decomposed by bringing an aqueous solution of the fluorinated organic compound into contact with a catalyst containing a metal oxide. The metal oxide may preferably be an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Pd, Cu, Mn, Fe and Co, and more preferably be nickel oxide. The contact temperature is preferably within the range of from 0 to 100° C. Preferably, the fluorinated organic compound to be decomposed is an organic fluorocarboxylic acid, an organic fluorosulfonic acid or a salt thereof, which is used as a surfactant or an surface treatment agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to producing a disulfonyl fluoride compound easily and efficiently by utilizing coupling reaction where a compound (2) is obtained by subjecting a compound (1) wherein Y is a fluorine atom to photocoupling reaction, or subjecting a compound (1) wherein Y is a hydroxyl group, —OMa wherein Ma is an alkali metal atom, or —O(Mb)1/2 wherein Mb is an alkaline earth metal atom to electrolytic coupling reaction, and derivatives such as the following compound (7A) are obtained from the compound (2): FSO2-E-CX2—COY??(1) FSO2-E-CX2—CX2-E-SO2F??(2) wherein E is a single bond, —O—, a C1-20 alkylene group which may contain an etheric oxygen atom, or the like, X is a fluorine atom or the like, and Y is a fluorine atom, a hydroxyl group, or the like.

Abstract: A plasma purifying device is provided that is capable of recovering blood and plasma remaining within the plasma purifying device easily and without risk of coagulation, following completion of plasma purification therapy. The plasma purifying device has a control unit controls flow rates of the air pump and a plasma pump so that a pressure of the filtration side space of the plasma separator is higher than a pressure of the blood side space while delivering blood to the blood side space of the plasma separator by continuing to operate a blood pump without stopping following completion of plasma purification and then delivers plasma remaining in a filtration side space of a plasma separator to a blood side space of the plasma separator or to a plasma circuit by supplying air from an air pump.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quality inspection method of a glass plate, which can predict the shape of the glass plate on a four-point supporting type actual measurement inspection stand from the shape of the glass plate on a three-point supporting type universal actual measurement inspection stand.

Abstract: The object is to provide a transformant which can produce a heterologous protein having a structurally controlled O-linked sugar chain having an O-Man-Gal disaccharide structure, a method for producing the transformant by using Schizosaccharomyces pombe as the host, and provide a host for producing the transformant and a method for producing an O-glycosylated heterologous protein. An Schizosaccharomyces pombe host having no omh1 gene or an inactivated omh1 gene in its chromosomes for producing an O-glycosylated heterologous protein having an O-linked sugar chain having an O-Man-Gal disaccharide structure by expression of the heterologous protein by a genetic engineering technique and subsequent glycosylation of the expressed heterologous protein. A transformant from the host, a method for producing the transformant and a method for producing an O-glycosylated heterologous protein by using the transformant.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic LED element in which the extraction efficiency is improved up to 80% of emitted light. Further, the invention relates to an electrode-attached translucent substrate having a translucent substrate, a scattering layer formed over the glass substrate and containing a base material having a first refractive index for at least one wavelength of wavelengths of emitted light of an organic LED element and a plurality of scattering materials positioned in the base material and having a second refractive index different from that of the base material, and a translucent electrode formed over the scattering layer and having a third refractive index equal to or lower than the first refractive index, in which distribution of the scattering materials in the scattering layer decreases from the inside of the scattering layer toward the translucent electrode.

Abstract: A base material for adhesion to be adhered to a solid body comprising; a substrate made from metal, polymer resin, glass or ceramics whose surface is adhesive to the solid body by silyl-ether-linkage that at least one active silyl group selected from the group consisting of a hydrosilyl-containing silyl group, a vinyl-containing silyl group, an alkoxysilyl-containing silyl group and a hydrolytic group-containing silyl group having reactivity with a reactive group on the surface of the solid body is bound to a dehydrogenated residue of hydroxyl group on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: To provide a process for removing water, which is free from formation of stains due to transfer of an article among dipping sumps, with which the water removal performance will not be decreased even for an article having a complicated shape, which can suppress suspension of water in a water removal solvent in a dipping sump, and which can maintain stable water removal performance continuously for a long period of time only with one dipping sump.

Abstract: To obtain a nonwoven fabric which is excellent in the heat resistance and the chemical resistance, of which the fiber diameter is small, and which is excellent in the mechanical strength at a temperature at which it is used; and an electrolyte membrane which is excellent in the dimensional stability when it is swollen by water, and of which an increase in the resistance by a reinforcing material is suppressed. A nonwoven fabric 28 containing fibers 26 of an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a storage elastic modulus E? at 25° C. of at least 8×108 Pa and a melt viscosity measured at 300° C. of higher than 60 Pa·s and at most 300 Pa·s, wherein the average fiber diameter of the fibers is from 0.01 to 3 ?m; and an electrolyte membrane reinforced by the nonwoven fabric 28.

Abstract: To provide a substrate for a light-emitting element, being less susceptible to the loss of light supplied from a light emitting element, having high utilization efficiency of light, being excellent in flatness of a mounting surface on which a light-emitting element is to be mounted, and having a low heat resistance, when used for a light-emitting device.

Abstract: A glass substrate obtained by a method including measuring flatness of a glass substrate surface and measuring concentration distribution of dopant in the substrate. Processing conditions of the surface are set up for each site of the substrate based on results from the measuring the flatness and the measuring the distribution, and the finishing is carried out while keeping an angle formed by normal line of the substrate and incident beam onto the surface at from 30 to 89°. The surface is subjected to second finishing for improving an RMS in a high spatial frequency region. The surface after the second finishing satisfies the requirements: an RMS slope in the region that 5 ?m<? (spatial wavelength)<1 mm is not more than 0.5 mRad and an RMS slope in the region that 250 nm<? (spatial wavelength)<5 ?m is not more than 0.6 mRad.

Abstract: To provide a method for preparing a mayenite-containing oxide containing a mayenite type compound and having a hydride ion density of at least 1×1018/cm3 without need for expensive facilities, control of complicated reaction conditions or a long period of reaction time. A method for preparing a mayenite-containing oxide, which comprises a firing step of heating a starting material having a molar ratio of CaO:Al2O3 being from 9:10 to 14:5 based on the oxides at a temperature of from 900 to 1,300° C. to obtain a fired powder and a hydrogenation step of firing the fired powder at a temperature of at least 1,210° C. and lower than 1,350° C.

Abstract: A cation exchange membrane which shows suppressed deterioration of the strength of the membrane in the upper portion of an electrolytic cell when the membrane is employed in the electrolytic cell and used for a long term, which can perform electrolysis with good production efficiency, and which can be produced simply with low cost; its production process and; such an electrolytic cell; are provided.

Abstract: A propylene-based resin composition for a pipe member, and a pipe member and multi-layered pipe member formed using that the same, which is comprised of (a) 65 to 90 parts by mass of a propylene resin homopolymer, (b) 10 to 25 parts by mass of talc having an average particle size of 1 to 10 ?m and (c) 1 to 10 parts by mass of at least one kind of a rubber component selected from an ethylene-propylene-based rubber, an ethylene-butene-based rubber, a styrene-butadiene-based rubber and a styrene-isoprene-based rubber as main components, wherein the MFR of a melt-kneaded mixture obtained by melt kneading these components (a) to (c) is from 0.01 to 2.00 g/10 minutes.

Abstract: A process for industrially producing dialkyl carbonate and a diol continuously through a reactive distillation system is disclosed. The process includes the steps of taking a cyclic carbonate and an aliphatic monohydric alcohol as starting materials, continuously feeding the starting materials into a continuous multi-stage distillation column in which a catalyst is present, carrying out reaction and distillation simultaneously in the column, continuously withdrawing a low boiling point reaction mixture containing the produced dialkyl carbonate from an upper portion of the column in a gaseous form, and continuously withdrawing a high boiling point reaction mixture containing the diol from a lower portion of the column in a liquid form. According to the present invention, there is provided a specific continuous multi-stage distillation column having a specified structure, and a production process using this continuous multi-stage distillation column.

Abstract: A wave plate is disclosed which includes a glass plate having a thickness of at least 0.1 mm and at most 5 mm. The glass plate has a plurality of strip-shaped birefringent regions substantially in parallel with a surface of the glass plate. The axial directions of the strip-shaped birefringent regions are the same with one another, and substantially in parallel with the surface of the glass plate. The wave plate has a retardation value of from 80 to 450 nm as measured with incident light having a wavelength of 540 nm.

Abstract: A polyolefin microporous film comprising polyethylene and polypropylene having a viscosity average molecular weight of 100,000 or higher, the polypropylene being contained in an amount of 4 wt % or more and the terminal vinyl group concentration per 10,000 carbon atoms in the polyolefin constituting the microporous film being 2 or more as measured by infrared spectroscopy. The microporous film has both of a good film breaking resistance and a low thermal shrinkage, is excellent in fuse property, and has a uniform film thickness. Particularly, the microporous film can retain safety in the oven safety test at 150° C. for a battery which is required for use as a lithium ion battery separator.

Abstract: To provide a coating composition capable of forming a hydrophilic coating film which has high transparency and which is excellent in abrasion resistance (adhesion), hydrophilicity (anti-fogging, wettability and anti-fouling properties) and hydrophilic durability. A coating composition for forming a hydrophilic coating film, which comprises boehmite particles, silica particles, a binder and water, wherein the crystallite diameter of the boehmite particles, as calculated from the diffraction peak of the (120) plane, is from 20 to 50 nm, the average particle diameter of the silica particles is from 5 to 50 nm, the proportion of the boehmite particles is from 20 to 80 mass % based on the total amount of the boehmite particles and the silica particles, and the proportion of the binder is from 0.5 to 15 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass in total of the boehmite particles and the silica particles.