Abstract: [Problems] To provide a novel mixture for assaying a target nucleic acid, characterized by enabling a nucleic acid assay while: 1) requiring no step of diluting the target nucleic acid; 2) requiring no procedure of changing a probe concentration depending on a concentration of the target nucleic acid. [Means for Solving Problems] 1) A mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and two nucleic acid probes labeled with a fluorescent dye; 2) a mixture for measuring Km value which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid having a partial mutation and one nucleic acid probe labeled with a fluorescent dye; 3) a mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and one double nucleic acid probe labeled with two fluorescent dyes; and a method for assaying a nucleic acid by making use thereof.

Abstract: Genetic recombinant yeast expressing xylose reductase (XR), (wild-type or mutant) xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH), and xylulokinase (XK) and a method for highly efficiently producing ethanol from xylose using the yeast are provided. Pichia stipitis-derived XR and (wild-type or modified-type) XDH genes and Saccharomyces cerevisiae-derived XK gene were introduced via chromosomal integration. Thus, a genetic recombinant yeast having a high xylose fermentation rate, being capable of producing ethanol from xylose in high yields, and having high xylose fermentability in the presence of glucose, as well as a method using the recombinant yeast for highly efficiently producing ethanol from xylose or a saccharified solution from lignocellulose-based biomass are provided. Furthermore, a method for improving the xylose fermentability of the genetic recombinant yeast of the present invention via acclimatization treatment is also provided herein.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a process for producing a dispersion of fine core/shell type metal oxide particles and the dispersion thereby produced, the present invention are a process for producing a dispersion of fine core/shell type metal oxide particles comprising the steps of mixing a metal salt and a polymer in an organic solvent to obtain a mixture and heating this mixture under reflux at a prescribed temperature to precipitate metal oxide, wherein the metal salt is a nitrate salt or acetate salt and the particle diameter of the fine core/shell type metal oxide particles is adjusted using the molecular weight of the polymer, and a dispersion of fine core/shell type metal oxide particles obtained by the process, which does not undergo sedimentation even after standing for at least one day, and exhibits long-term stability, and a powder thereof.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a novel mixture for assaying a target nucleic acid, characterized by enabling a nucleic acid assay while: 1) requiring no step of diluting the target nucleic acid; 2) requiring no procedure of changing a probe concentration depending on a concentration of the target nucleic acid. [Means for Solving Problems] 1) A mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and two nucleic acid probes labeled with a fluorescent dye; 2) a mixture for measuring Km value which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid having a partial mutation and one nucleic acid probe labeled with a fluorescent dye; 3) a mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and one double nucleic acid probe labeled with two fluorescent dyes; and a method for assaying a nucleic acid by making use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element and a light control member that uses this element, relates to an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element, which is a magnesium/titanium alloy reflection type light control element in which a multilayer thin film is formed on a transparent substrate, wherein at least a transparent conductive film layer, an ion storage layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a catalyst layer, and a reflection light control layer employing a magnesium/titanium alloy thin film are formed on the substrate; and a light control member which is incorporated with this reflection light control electrochromic element, and the present invention allows a reflection light control electrochromic element, which has a novel multilayer structure that is colorless when transparent and can be switched in a short time over a wide area, as well as a light control member incorporated with this element to be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a p-type zinc oxide thin film that is clearly shown to be a p-type semiconductor based on the magnetic field dependence of the Hall voltage in the measurement of the Hall effect using a Hall bar, as well as a method for producing such a thin film with good reproducibility, and a light-emitting element thereof, and the present invention relates to the method for producing a p-type zinc oxide semiconductor thin film, for which combination is effected between a high temperature annealing step for activating a p-type dopant added to a zinc oxide thin film in order to develop the p-type semiconductor properties of zinc oxide or irradiating the thin film with an active species of p-type dopant to dope the film while the p-type dopant is active, and a low temperature annealing step in an oxidizing atmosphere, whereby conversion to a p-type semiconductor is realized, and relates to a p-type zinc oxide thin film thus produced using this method and a light-emitting element thereof, the pr

Abstract: The present invention is an electrochemical reactor unit in which a plurality of electrochemical reactor cells constituted by a tube are housed in a porous material body having a heat releasing function and a current collecting function, these are electrically connected in series, and a fuel manifold is mounted to the connected electrochemical reactor cells; an electrochemical reactor module that comprises a plurality of the units which are arranged in fuel supply holes, and a structure supplying air directly to the entire electrochemical reactor module; and an electrochemical reaction system in which such an electrochemical reactor module is utilized.

Abstract: Tube electrochemical reactor bundle or stack, having a structure, in which a plurality of tube fuel cells, formed of a dense ion conductor (electrolyte) and cathode (air electrode) laminated to an anode (fuel electrode) material having a tube structure, are electrically connected by a thin metallic wire, and an electrochemical reactor system using them are provided.

Abstract: This invention has a cell incorporating a built-in Schottky diode region disposed in at least part of an elementary cell that constitutes an SiC vertical MOSFET provided in a low-density p-type deposit film with a channel region and a base region inverted to an n-type by ion implantation. This built-in Schottky diode region has built therein a Schottky diode of low on-resistance that is formed of a second deficient pan disposed in a high-density gate layer, a second n-type base layer penetrating a low-density p-type deposit layer formed thereon, reaching an n-type drift layer of the second deficient part and attaining its own formation in consequence of inversion of the p-type deposit layer into an n-type by the ion implantation of an n-type impurity from the surface, and a source electrode connected in the manner of forming a Schottky barrier to the surface-exposed part of the second n-type base layer.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a phosphorus-doped diamond film allowing a significantly reduced electron emission voltage, a method for producing the same, and a diamond electron source using the same, such diamond electron source exerting stable and excellent electron emission characteristics, which can be used for a cold cathode surface structure operable with low voltage, are provided. Also, a method for producing a phosphorus-doped diamond film, comprising growing a diamond film on a diamond substrate by a microwave CVD method in an atmosphere containing gases (methane and hydrogen) and phosphorus with the use of tertiary butyl phosphorus as a source of addition of phosphorous, such diamond film containing phosphorus at a concentration of 1015 cm?3 or more, having a resistivity of 107 ?cm or less, and allowing a voltage for initiation of electron emission to be 30 V or less, and a diamond electron source using the same are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a diamond electron source exerting stable and excellent electron emission characteristics, which can be used for a cold cathode surface structure operable with low voltage and a method for producing the diamond electron source. Specifically, the diamond electron source having a carbon-terminated structure has a structure composed of an electrode and a diamond film and emits electrons or electron beams from the diamond film when voltage is applied to the electrode. The diamond film is made of diamond having a carbon-terminated structure. The method for producing the diamond electron source is also provided herein.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device that uses a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having p type, n type impurity semiconductor regions formed by ion implantation, the electrical characteristics of the end semiconductor device can be improved by decreasing the roughness of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate surface. The semiconductor device of this invention is a Schottky barrier diode or a p-n type diode comprising at least one of a p type semiconductor region and n type semiconductor region selectively formed in a silicon carbide semiconductor region having an outermost surface layer surface that is a (000-1) surface or a surface inclined at an angle to the (000-1) surface, and a metal electrode formed on the outermost surface layer surface, that controls a direction in which electric current flows in a direction perpendicular to the outermost surface layer surface from application of a voltage to the metal electrode.

Abstract: The invention provides a porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, having a plurality of through-holes, an electrochemical reaction cell stack and an electrochemical reaction system comprising the porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, and the invention relates to a support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, in which a plurality of through-holes provided in a porous support act as structural supports for electrochemical reaction cells, to an electrochemical reaction cell stack in which electrochemical reaction unit cells are integrated at a high density using the porous support, to an electrochemical reaction system comprising the electrochemical reaction cell stack, and to a manufacturing method thereof, and the present invention enables to provide a porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, an electrochemical reaction cell stack and an electrochemical reactio

Abstract: The present invention is a ZnO whisker film, a manufacturing method thereof and an electronic device material composed of such a ZnO whisker film, the film is composed of primarily (at least 50 mol %) of ZnO crystals, and of accumulated whisker-like particles having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, and the film has a nanostructure with both a high specific surface area and a high electrical conductivity, the film can be manufactured by adjusting one or more solution condition selected from starting material concentration, temperature and pH so as to induce the deposition of ZnO crystals, in a reaction solution system for depositing zinc oxide, and forming thereby a ZnO whisker film on a substrate.

Abstract: A particle separation apparatus includes a base, a disc-shaped container rotatable on the base at a constant speed and a suspension supply tank for separating in the container particles contained in a suspension supplied from the tank according to specific gravities or particle diameters of the particles. The container includes a plurality of centrifugation vessels disposed around a rotation axis and in a circumferential direction of the container, particle supply cylinders disposed at a center of the container for discharging the particles in the suspension toward the vessels and a lid, and has a structure controllable in rotational speed to adjust a distance of relative movement in a rotation direction between large-gravity particles and small-gravity particles. The vessels are individually in a form of dents independent of one another and are each formed of an inner circumferential wall and a bottom wall.

Abstract: A temperature fixed-point cell is configured with a crucible composed of carbon and a fixed-point material enclosed in the crucible. The fixed-point material has a peritectic structure of carbon and a carbon compound. A thermometer is calibrated by installing the temperature fixed-point crucible in a furnace, increasing or decreasing the ambient temperature thereof, measuring the temperature of the temperature fixed-point cell with the thermometer, observing the state of temperature change, and using this state of temperature change as a basis for the calibration. This invention is aimed at realizing a fixed point in the temperature range exceeding the copper point and accomplishing great improvement in accuracy in the calibration of radiation thermometers, thermocouples and all thermometers used in high temperature ranges.

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a novel mixture for assaying a target nucleic acid, characterized by enabling a nucleic acid assay while: 1) requiring no step of diluting the target nucleic acid; 2) requiring no procedure of changing a probe concentration depending on a concentration of the target nucleic acid. [Means for Solving Problems] 1) A mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and two nucleic acid probes labeled with a fluorescent dye; 2) a mixture for measuring Km value which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid having a partial mutation and one nucleic acid probe labeled with a fluorescent dye; 3) a mixture which comprises one internal standard nucleic acid and one double nucleic acid probe labeled with two fluorescent dyes; and a method for assaying a nucleic acid by making use thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an all-solid-state reflection-controlable electrochromic device and a reflection-controlable member using that device, and the present invention relates to the all-solid-state reflection-controlable electrochromic device, which is a reflection-controlable device in which a multilayer thin film is formed on a transparent base material, wherein, at least a transparent conductive film layer, an ion storage layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a catalyst layer and a reflection-controlable layer using a magnesium-nickel based alloy thin film are formed on the base material; and, a reflection-controlable member incorporating this reflection-controlable electrochromic device, and it is possible to provide a reflection-controlable electrochromic device, having a novel multilayer structure with high transmissivity when transparent and capable of switching in a short period of time over a large surface area, and a reflection-controlable member incorporating this device.

Abstract: To provide an interface apparatus capable of achieving noncontact and unrestricted arm pointing actions of multiple users in an indoor space, and facilitating the recognition of all typical arm pointing actions in standing, sitting, and lying postures and the operation of indoor units in the indoor space by the arm pointing actions. The interface apparatus includes: image processing means for picking up images of the interior of an indoor space 5 with a plurality of stereo cameras 1-1 to 1-n, and producing a distance image based on the picked-up images within the visual field on a camera-by-camera basis and the coordinate system of the indoor space 5; means for extracting the posture and arm pointing of a user 4 from the distance information from the stereo cameras 1-1 to 1-n; and means for determining, when the arm pointing has been identified, whether the arm pointing is an intended signal, from the direction pointed by the arm and the motion of the arm.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device that uses a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having p type, n type impurity semiconductor regions formed by ion implantation, the electrical characteristics of the end semiconductor device can be improved by decreasing the roughness of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate surface. The semiconductor device of this invention is a Schottky barrier diode or a p-n type diode comprising at least one of a p type semiconductor region and n type semiconductor region selectively formed in a silicon carbide semiconductor region having an outermost surface layer surface that is a (000-1) surface or a surface inclined at an angle to the (000-1) surface, and a metal electrode formed on the outermost surface layer surface, that controls a direction in which electric current flows in a direction perpendicular to the outermost surface layer surface from application of a voltage to the metal electrode.