Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae containing spores and parasporal bodies in large numbers per unit volume of medium. In a process for producing sporangia of Bacillus popilliae containing spores and parasporal bodies by culturing Bacillus popilliae in a liquid medium containing an adsorbent, the liquid medium contains 0.1–0.7% by weight of proline.

Abstract: Method for liquefying a gas which comprises cooling a feed gas stream successively through first and second temperature ranges to provide a liquefied product, wherein refrigeration for cooling the feed gas stream in the first temperature range is provided by a first vaporizing refrigerant and refrigeration for cooling the stream in the second temperature range is provided by a second vaporizing refrigerant, and further wherein an auxiliary refrigerant derived from the second vaporizing refrigerant provides additional refrigeration by vaporization at temperatures above a lowest temperature in the first temperature range.

Abstract: In the technical field where a difunctional epoxy resin having increased molecular weight is used to impart flexibility or improving dielectric properties, the present invention has remarkably improved moisture resistance and water resistance when used to produce a cured epoxy resin article. The epoxy resin composition comprises a difunctional epoxy resin (A) having a structure wherein an aromatic hydrocarbon group (a1) having a bonding site in an aromatic nucleus and a hydrocarbon group (a2) having an ether bond or the other hydrocarbon group (a3) are bonded via an acetal bond (a4), and also has a structure wherein a glycidyloxy group is bonded to the aromatic hydrocarbon group (a1); and a curing agent (B) as essential component.

Abstract: A nematic liquid crystal composition includes at least one of liquid crystal compounds containing a trans-4-trifluoromethoxycyclohexyl group in a backbone, in which the number of an intramolecular cyclohexane ring is 2 to 4; at least one of compounds in which ?? is less than 1 in absolute value; and at least one selected from liquid crystal compounds containing a naphthalene-2,6-diyl group, a decahydronaphthalene-2,6-diyl group, or a 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene-2, 6-diyl group in a backbone, in which ?? is 1 or more in absolute value, and a liquid crystal compound in which the number of a six-membered ring is 2 to 4, and ?? is 1 or more in absolute value.

Abstract: Method of making a product gas mixture comprising providing a first gas mixture, contacting the first gas mixture with a lean absorber liquid at a first pressure and absorbing a portion of the first gas mixture in the lean absorber liquid to provide a rich absorber liquid and a non-absorbed residual gas, pressurizing the rich absorber liquid provide a pressurized rich absorber liquid, stripping the pressurized rich absorber liquid with a stripping gas at a second pressure greater than the first pressure to provide a pressurized lean absorber liquid and the product gas mixture, and reducing the pressure of the pressurized lean absorber liquid to provide the lean absorber liquid at the first pressure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal compound which has negative dielectric anisotropy and a large absolute value thereof; and a liquid crystal display element which contains the compound as a constituent element and has a negative value of dielectric anisotropy in the vertical alignment mode, IPS, or the like. The liquid-crystal display element has a structure including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween, and includes at least an alignment control layer, a transparent electrode, and a polarizing plate, in which the liquid crystal includes at least one compound having a partial structure represented by general formula (A): (wherein W1 and W2 each independently represents fluorine, chlorine, —CF3, —CF2H, —OCF3, or —OCF2H) and has negative dielectric anistropy.

Abstract: The present invention provides 1,7,8-trifluoro-2-naphthol and a derivative thereof as intermediates for efficiently producing a trifluoronaphthalene liquid crystal material. A method for efficiently producing a trifluoronaphthalene liquid crystal material using such intermediates is also disclosed. A naphthol derivative having the following general formula (I) is disclosed. A method for producing a trifluoronaphthalene compound having the following general formula (IV), (VI) or (VIII) using the naphthol derivative as a raw material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A compound represented by Formula [2]: wherein R2 and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methoxy group, a 2-methoxyethoxy group or a hydroxyl group; and B2 and B3 each independently represent a nucleic acid base, or a salt thereof can be synthesized from a compound represented by Formula [1]: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methoxy group, a 2-methoxyethoxy group, or a hydroxyl group substituted with a hydroxyl protecting group; and B1 represents a nucleic acid base which may be protected.

Abstract: A binder resin for toner which is excellent in low-temperature fixing property and offset resistance as well as smear resistance, while responding to the demand of the market from the perspectives of environmental protection, such as being free from a bisphenol A structure and tin, and a toner using the same. The binder resin for toner can be obtained using a catalyst containing titanium or germanium, preferably comprises the structure derived from branched or alicyclic alcohols, and comprises the structure derived from terephthalic acid as the acid component, which represents greater than or equal to 60 mol % with respect to the number of moles of all acid components, and a toner using the same.

Abstract: A system and method for managing the procedure of an office work is capable of saving an individual or a corporation the trouble of managing the procedure of the office work and performing a reasonable and reliable procedure of the office work by collectively managing a submit period of documents and an answer to an administrative organ. A period managing system includes at least a management condition creating unit 1, a management information storing unit 2, a management condition determining unit 3, and a management condition storing unit 4. The period managing system is operated on the basis of period management information stored in the management condition storing unit. The system for managing the procedure of the office work performs document exchange between the client and the administrative organ by exchanging the document with the client and/or the administrative organ while managing the period by the period managing system, thereby managing the procedure of the office work.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal recording material, which is easy to manufacture and has excellent productivity, water resistance, heat resistance (running stability) and chemical resistance, by solving various problems caused by using a crosslinking agent for a protective layer. The thermal recording material of the present invention comprises a protective layer mainly composed of a resin emulsion (a) comprising a copolymer resin emulsion (b) containing (meth)acrylonitrile and a vinyl monomer copolymerizable therewith, and having an SP value (solubility parameter) of 12.0 or more, a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 10 to 70° C., and a minimum film-forming temperature (MFT) of 5° C. or less, and a polyolefin copolymer resin emulsion (c).

Abstract: A thermal transfer recording medium comprising a thermally-melting layer comprising a polyolefin wax defined in the following items (i) to (iv): (i) the wax comprises an ethylene homopolymer or a copolymer made from ethylene and an ?-olefin having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, (ii) the wax has a number-average molecular weight (Mn) of 400 to 3,000, the molecular weight being measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), (iii) the wax has a melting point of 60 to 120° C., the melting point being measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and (iv) the softening point (Ts (° C.)) of the wax and the penetration (Y (dmm)) thereof satisfy a specific relationship expression. The thermal transfer recording medium can provide printed images having a superior sharpness (dot reproducibility) and an improved abrasion resistance at a low energy.

Abstract: A quinolinone derivative pharmaceutical composition comprising a quinolinone derivative represented by the structural formula (I): wherein the quinolinone derivative is in the form of particles, which have an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 ?m and such a particle size distribution that particles having a particle diameter of 15 ?m or less account for 90% or more of the totality of the particles, and also have a fusion enthalpy of 30 J/g or more, and the surface of the particles are coated with a water-soluble composition containing a water-soluble polymer, can quickly dissolve an active ingredient in the digestive tract and is also superior in long-term storage stability.

Abstract: An automobile part comprising a polypropylene resin composition, the polypropylene resin composition comprising a propylene homopolymer (A1), an elastomer (B) and an inorganic filler (C), or comprising a propylene block copolymer (A2) and an inorganic filler (C) optionally together with an elastomer (B), in specified proportions. The propylene homopolymer (A1), or the propylene homopolymer segment of the propylene block copolymer (A2) exhibits an MFR (230-C) of 20 to 300 g/10 min, a ratio of position irregular units derived from 2,1-insertion or 1,3-insertion of propylene monomer relative to all propylene structural units, determined from a 13C-NMR spectrum, each of 0.2% or less, and an Mw/Mn, determined by GPC, of 1 to 3.

Abstract: A hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer containing at least structural units of the general formula [3] and/or the general formula [4] and the weight-average molecular weight Mw to the number-average molecular weight Mn (Mw/Mn) is more than 2.0 and less than 5.0: wherein R8 to R11 and R13 to R16 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, X2s and X3s are the same or different and represent —O— or —CR122— wherein R12 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, one of Y1 and Y2 represents —(C?O)— and the other of Y1 and Y2 represents —CR182— wherein R18 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and m and n represent an integer of 0 or 1 to 3.

Abstract: This invention provides a low-temperature sintering conductive paste for high density circuit printing which can form a fine circuit having good adhesive force, a smooth surface and low resistance when applied on a substrate and then baked; the conductive paste of the invention uses, as conductive media, in combination with metal fillers having an average particle diameter of 0.

Abstract: A multi-layered heat-shrinkable film composed of at least three layers has: front-back film layers each composed of a resin composition having cyclic olefin-based resin of from 55 to 95 mass % and linear low-density polyethylene of from 45 to 5 mass %; and an intermediate film layer composed of a resin composition having propylene-?-olefin random copolymer of from 95 to 55 mass % and cyclic olefin-based resin of from 5 to 45 mass %, or composed of a resin composition having: a resin composition of from 95 to 55 mass % mainly composed of the propylene-?-olefin random copolymer; and the cyclic olefin-based resin of from 5 to 45 mass % When immersed in a hot water of 90° C. for 10 seconds, the multi-layered heat-shrinkable film has a heat shrinkage in a lateral direction of 50% or higher, and has a tear propagation strength in a longitudinal direction of from 800 mN to 350 mN.

Abstract: An organohydrosiloxane composition comprising: a) one or more organohydrosiloxane compounds, each having at least one [—HSiR-O—] unit, wherein R?C1-C18 linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl, C1-C18 linear, branched, or cyclic alkoxy, or substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and b) an antioxidant compound shown in Formula (1) wherein the antioxidant compound is a phenolic compound and is present in a concentration from about 1 ppm to about 5,000 ppm and wherein R1 through R5 can each independently be H, OH, C1-C18 linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl, C1-C18 linear, branched, or cyclic alkoxy or substituted or unsubstituted aryl. The compositions of present invention exhibit stability and significantly extend the shelf life of organohydrosiloxane products and allow greater flexibility in handling these products in chemical processes or semiconductor manufacturing. The resulting stabilization of siloxanes prevents the possibility of complete polymerization (i.e.

Abstract: A system for the supply and delivery of a high or a ultrahigh purity (UHP) carbon dioxide product stream to at least one process tool within a manufacturing facility and method comprising same is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system is comprised of the following sub-systems: a carbon dioxide source, a carbon dioxide delivery system, and the point of use (POU) containing at least one process tool.

Abstract: An adsorbent material fabricated into a reinforcement-free, self-supported coherent thin sheet and configured for use as a parallel passage contactor element in adsorption/separation applications with gases and liquids is disclosed. The adsorbent sheet material is obtained by enmeshing fine adsorbent particulates in a polymer binder. Particulates include but are not limited to carbon particles, inorganic oxides particles, or ceramic particles, or synthetic polymer resin particles. The adsorbent sheet advantageously contains a large volume percentage of active adsorbent particles.