Abstract: Rubber crumbs are imparted with non-tackiness or antiblocking property by treating the crumbs with a mixture of a rubber latex and an aqueous carbon black slurry in the presence of a coagulant.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition is prepared from a mixture of a photosensitive resin containing radicals having the formula ##STR1## wherein X and Y represent hydrogen, halogen, cyano or nitro, Ar represents an aryl radical or a substituted aryl radical, and n represents 1 or 2, and a solvent having the formula ##STR2## wherein R and R" represent a lower alkyl radical and R' represents a lower alkylene radical.

Abstract: A process for preparing a shaped titanium oxide catalyst carrier which comprises calcining titanium oxide at 400.degree. C-800.degree. C as a first calcining step, then shaping the titanium oxide followed by calcining the shaped material at 300.degree. C-800.degree. C as a second calcining step.

Abstract: Methacrylic acid is manufactured by oxidative dehydrogenation of isobutyric acid in vapor phase in the presence of a supported catalyst containing a heteropolyacid and/or a reduced form of the heteropolyacid. A highly siliceous material having a high water absorbability is used as a carrier for the catalyst to improve the conversion rate and selectivity as well as the catalyst durability.

Abstract: This invention relates to 2-omega-aminoalkoxydiphenylethers and derivatives thereof which are pharmocologically active as antidepressants.

Abstract: 2-(3-Alkylaminopropoxy) diphenylmethanes have been produced and have been found to possess antidepressant activity.

Abstract: 2-Omega-aminoalkoxydiphenyl sulfides are prepared and found useful as pharmaceutical agents, particularly as antidepressants.

Abstract: The improvement in a process for the production of 17-hydroxyandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one and androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione by the microbiological oxidation of a sterol, its 4-en-3-one derivative or its 1,4-dien-3-one derivative, which comprises adding to the culture medium at least one glyceride-containing substance selected from the group consisting of glycerides, fats, oil seeds and oil fruits in an amount sufficient that the culture medium contains at least 0.3 percent by weight of glycerides.

Abstract: A fractional distillation method of separating diacetoxybutene isomers from a reaction mixture produced from the reaction of butadiene, acetic acid and molecular oxygen comprises employing a series of at least two distillation towers, one of said towers being used for distillation of water and acetic acid under a pressure of 30 - 250 Torr and a tower bottom temperature of 190.degree. - 120.degree. C and the other being used for separation of high boiling point materials under a pressure of 2 - 100 Torr and a tower bottom temperature of 190.degree. - 120.degree. C, the temperature of all tower bottoms being from 190.degree. - 120.degree. C.

Abstract: An azo dye having the formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, acyloxyalkyl, acylalkyl, hydroxyalkylaminoalkyl, cyanoalkyl, aminoalkyl, N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl, alkylaminoalkyl, chloroalkyl, bromoalkyl, carboxyalkyl, morpholinoalkyl, cyclohexyl, phenethyl, benzyl, phenyl, chlorophenyl, methoxyphenyl, nitrophenyl, tolyl, xylyl, dialkylaminophenyl and alkyl containing an ammonium group wherein the ammonium nitrogen is quaternized by alkyl groups or by an amino group with alkyl groups, or wherein the ammonium nitrogen atom is the heterocyclic nitrogen atom of a morpholine ring or a pyridine ring, wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 represent hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, nitro, cyano, carboxyl, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, trifluoromethyl, .beta.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -alkoxynaphthalenesulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis.

Abstract: A catalyst for producing a cyclomonoolefin by hydrogenating an aromatic hydrocarbon of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are the same or different and each represents hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl at 100.degree.-200.degree. C under a hydrogen pressure of 5-100 atm. in an aqueous medium having a pH of 2-7 is prepared by (1) immersing a carrier into an aqueous solution containing at least one cation selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc, manganese and iron to obtain a treated carrier, (2) supporting at least one metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium and rhodium on said treated carrier, and (3) immersing the carrier impregnated with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of ruthenium and rhodium into an aqueous solution containing at least one cation selected from the group consisting of sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, barium, zinc manganese and iron.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing an isocyanate-based polymer by catalytically reacting a polyisocyanate alone or in combination with a polyhydroxy compound, the improvement in which an aromatic aldehyde having aldehyde group and no functional group capable of reacting with the isocyanate group, as a smoke suppressing agent is added to the reaction system.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -alkoxynaphthalenesulfonyl-L-arginiamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis, and are prepared by reacting N.sup.2 -alkoxynaphthalenesulfonyl-L-arginyl halide with a secondary amine.

Abstract: Exhaust gas containing a chlorohydrocarbon having 1-10 carbon atoms and molecular oxygen is contacted with chromium oxide or a boehmite supported platinum at an elevated temperature to decompose the chlorohydrocarbon to carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen chloride and free chlorine.

Abstract: A pallet for a fork lift structurally comprises two component parts of thermoplastic resin wherein each of said component parts comprises a deck board and girders integrally formed thereon with at least one girder being disposed along each of the side edges of said deck board and along a line intermediate and parallel to the side edges, at least one of said component parts being provided with numerous ribs integrally formed on said deck board, which are lower in projection than said girders and which in areas not covered by said girders are disposed in decreased distance from one another in the neighborhood of the side edges of the deck board, said component parts being mutually melt adhered together at the respective bottom surfaces of said girders provided thereon, and wherein the deck board is provided with an anti-slip member having an upper and a lower portion and fitted into a hole penetrating a rib interally formed on the deckboard so that the lower portion of the anti-slip member protrudes from the ri

Abstract: A catalyst for the selective reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases in the presence of ammonia is vanadium oxide supported on a specific carrier of the anatase form of titanium oxide.

Abstract: A cryogenic heat insulating structure comprises: a wall coated with a plurality of superposed rigid foam layers each of the layers having a skin and each layer containing fibers oriented parallel to the wall.

Abstract: A vesicular image is prepared by contacting an original with a vesicular photograhic element, wherein the element contains a decomposing photosensitive material; and irradiating said element with light containing infrared light from the element side of said contacted image and element.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -naphthalenesulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis.