Abstract: Disclosed is a photoinduced carrier lifetime measuring method capable of obtaining photoinduced carrier effective lifetime of a semiconductor substrate with high accuracy regardless of the surface state of the sample. The method includes the steps of: irradiating a microwave onto a semiconductor substrate while periodically pulse-irradiating an induction light onto the semiconductor substrate; detecting the microwave transmitted through the semiconductor substrate or reflected by the semiconductor substrate; and obtaining the effective lifetime of photoinduced carriers generated in the semiconductor substrate by the pulse irradiation of the induction light, based on an irradiation duration Ti and a non-irradiation duration T2 when performing the induction light pulse irradiation and an integrated value of each microwave intensity obtained by the detection.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a thin film semiconductor substrate includes implanting ions at a specified depth into a semiconductor substrate, forming a bubble layer in the semiconductor substrate by vaporizing the ions through heating, bonding an insulating substrate onto the semiconductor substrate, and cleaving the semiconductor substrate along the bubble layer to form a semiconductor thin film on a side of the insulating substrate. At the forming, the semiconductor substrate is heated at a temperature in a temperature range of approximately 1000° C. to 1200° C. for a duration in a range of approximately 10 ?s to 100 ms. The heating of the semiconductor substrate is performed by using, for example, a light beam.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic material that is characterized by including a rigid matrix and a dye having a phosphorescence lifetime of 0.1 seconds or more in a rigid medium at 77 K and that exhibits such a strong and long-lived phosphorescence as to be recognizable with the naked eyes even at ordinary temperature: namely, an ordinary-temperature-phosphorescent organic material.

Abstract: An optically active compound represented by the following formula (5): wherein, in the formula (5), R1 and R2 may be the same or different are an alkyl group optionally having a substituent group selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group and a halogen atom, a cycloalkyl group optionally having a substituent group selected from the group consisting of an alkoxy group and a halogen atom, an aryl group optionally having a substituent group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group and a halogen atom, an alkoxy group optionally having a substituent group selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom and an aryl group or an aryloxy group optionally having a substituent group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group and a halogen atom; a1 and a2 independently are 0 or 1; and * is axial asymmetry.

Abstract: There is provided a process for industrial production of simple 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconic acid and/or 3-carboxymuconolactone from low molecular mixtures derived from plant components such as vanillin, vanillic acid and protocatechuic acid, via a multistage enzyme reaction. A recombinant plasmid containing a vanillate demethylase gene (vanAB genes), benzaldehyde dehydrogenase gene (ligV gene) and protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase gene (pcaHG genes); transformants incorporating the plasmid; and a process for production of 3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconic acid and/or 3-carboxymuconolactone characterized by culturing the transformants in the presence of vanillin, vanillic acid, protocatechuic acid or a mixture of two or more thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sugar donating reagent comprising a sugar donor compound other than a sugar nucleotide and an enzyme capable of catalyzing a glycosyl transfer reaction using a sugar donor compound other than a sugar nucleotide. The present invention provides the following: a sugar donating reagent containing a compound of formula (A): wherein R1 is independently selected from hydrogen, or C1-6 alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl, and C2-6 alkynyl in which each of the groups is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more groups selected from OH, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, NO2, and SO2, n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, m is 0 or 1, and X represents a monosaccharide bound via a ? bond on its anomeric carbon; a glycosyltransferase capable of catalyzing a glycosyl transfer reaction using the sugar donor; and a glycosyltransferase gene comprising DNA encoding the glycosyltransferase.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel mycovirus that suppresses phytopathogenic fungi and a novel method for controlling plant diseases. A novel mycovirus that is present endogenously in a predetermined rice blast fungus, has four types of double-stranded RNAs of 2.8 to 3.6 kb, and suppresses a phytopathogenic fungus has been found. This virus suppresses phytopathogenic fungi such as rice blast fungus.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a thin film semiconductor substrate includes implanting ions at a specified depth into a semiconductor substrate, forming a bubble layer in the semiconductor substrate by vaporizing the ions through heating, bonding an insulating substrate onto the semiconductor substrate, and cleaving the semiconductor substrate along the bubble layer to form a semiconductor thin film on a side of the insulating substrate. At the forming, the semiconductor substrate is heated at a temperature in a temperature range of approximately 1000° C. to 1200° C. for a duration in a range of approximately 10 ?s to 100 ms. The heating of the semiconductor substrate is performed by using, for example, a light beam.

Abstract: A method for measuring a test substance whereby the test substance in a sample can be specifically measured without using an antibody against the test substance; an aptamer molecule used therefor; and a method for creating the aptamer are disclosed. An aptamer capable of hybridizing with an oligonucleotide when it is bound to a test substance, but is incapable of hybridizing with the oligonucleotide when it is not bound to the test substance, is utilized. The aptamer is brought into contact with a sample, and the aptamer bound to the test substance is brought into contact with an immobilized oligonucleotide which hybridizes with the aptamer, to bind the aptamer to a solid phase, followed by measurement of the aptamer immobilized on the solid phase.

Abstract: A pressure wave generator (1) includes a thermally conductive substrate (2), a heat insulating layer (3) formed on one main surface of the substrate (2), an insulator layer (5) formed on the heat insulating layer (3), and a heat generator (4) formed on the insulator layer (5) to generate heat when a current containing an alternating component is applied thereto. The heat insulating layer (3) is formed containing at least one of silicon nitride (Si3N4), silicon dioxide (SiO2), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), magnesium oxide (MgO), diamond crystalline carbon (C), aluminum nitride (AlN), and silicon carbide (SiC). The heat generator (4) is formed containing, for example, gold (Au) or tungsten (W).

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a measured signal detector 11, a vehicle parameter obtainer 12, a sideslip angle temporary estimator 13, a sideslip angle differential corresponding value computer 14 and a sideslip angle real estimator 15. A sideslip angle temporary estimate value is computed from one or plural vehicle parameters including at least the mass. A sideslip angle differential corresponding value is computed from a measured signal and the vehicle parameters including no mass. A sideslip angle is derived from the sideslip angle temporary estimate value and the sideslip angle differential corresponding value. A sideslip can be detected without a steering angle detection mechanism.

Abstract: There is offered a switching resistance RAM that is very much reduced in an occupied area and is highly integrated. Memory cells CEL11-CEL14 are formed corresponding to four intersections of word lines WL0 and WL1 and bit lines BL0 and BL1. Each of the memory cells CEL11-CEL14 are composed of a switching layer 13 formed on a surface of an N+ type Si layer 11. The switching layer 13 is electrically connected to the bit line BL0 or BL1 thereabove through an electrode 14. The switching layer 13 is composed of a SiC layer 13A stacked on the surface of the N+ type Si layer 11 and a Si oxide layer 13B stacked on the SiC layer 13A. A top surface of the Si oxide layer 13B, that is the uppermost layer of the switching layer 13, is electrically connected to the corresponding bit line BL0 or BL1.

Abstract: To provide an axially asymmetric optically active biaryl ester compound that can easily produced without the step of optical resolution which was almost indispensable in conventional methods. There is provided a method for producing an axially asymmetric ester compound, comprising a cycloaddition of a compound having a triple bond with the use of a catalyst containing rhodium metal and an optically active bisphosphine.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately evaluating the specific incorporation of D-glucose into cells. The present invention as a means for achieving the object is characterized by comprising contacting a D-glucose derivative that has a fluorescent chromophore in the molecule and is specifically incorporated into cells and an L-glucose derivative that has a fluorescent chromophore in the molecule with different cells in the same cell strain to be evaluated, respectively, comparing the fluorescence emitted by the D-glucose derivative that has a fluorescent chromophore in the molecule and is specifically incorporated into cells with the fluorescence emitted by the L-glucose derivative that has a fluorescent chromophore in the molecule, and evaluating the specific incorporation of D-glucose into cells relative to L-glucose by taking the difference between the two kinds of fluorescence intensities.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel mycovirus that suppresses phytopathogenic fungi and a novel method for controlling plant diseases. A novel mycovirus that is present endogenously in a predetermined rice blast fungus, has four types of double-stranded RNAs of 2.8 to 3.6 kb, and suppresses a phytopathogenic fungus has been found. This virus suppresses phytopathogenic fungi such as rice blast fungus.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic material that is characterized by including a rigid matrix and a dye having a phosphorescence lifetime of 0.1 seconds or more in a rigid medium at 77 K and that exhibits such a strong and long-lived phosphorescence as to be recognizable with the naked eyes even at ordinary temperature: namely, an ordinary-temperature-phosphorescent organic material.

Abstract: A flame retardant resin treated article that excels in flame retardancy and is free from bleedout. A resin composition comprising a flame retarder of metal phosphinate represented by the general formula: (I) (in the formula, each of R1 and R2 is a C1-C6 alkyl or an aryl group having 12 or less carbon atoms; M is calcium, aluminum or zinc; and when M=aluminum, m=3, and otherwise m=2), a reactive organophosphorus flame retarder having an unsaturated group at its terminal and a resin wherein the total content of metal phosphinate and reactive organophosphorus flame retarder is in the range of 5 to 30 mass % is provided in molded form or coating form.

Abstract: A switching resistance RAM that is highly integrated as well as reduced in a read-out time is realized. There is formed an NPN type bipolar transistor BT composed of a collector layer made of an N-well 11, a base layer made of a P+ type Si layer 12A formed in a surface of the N-well 11, and an emitter layer made of an N+ type Si layer 15 formed in a surface of the P+ type Si layer 12A. Also, there are formed a word line WL0 electrically connected to the N+ type Si layer 15 and bit lines BL1-BL4 intersecting with the word line WL0. Also, there are formed a plurality of switching layers 14 formed on a surface of the P+ type Si layer 12A, each being electrically connected to corresponding each of the bit lines and switching between an ON state and an OFF state and an electric potential fixing line 19A to fix the P+ type Si layer 12A at a predetermined electric potential.

Abstract: There is offered a switching resistance RAM that is very much reduced in an occupied area and is highly integrated. Memory cells CEL11-CEL14 are formed corresponding to four intersections of word lines WL0 and WL1 and bit lines BL0 and BL1. Each of the memory cells CEL11-CEL14 are composed of a switching layer 13 formed on a surface of an N+ type Si layer 11. The switching layer 13 is electrically connected to the bit line BL0 or BL1 thereabove through an electrode 14. The switching layer 13 is composed of a SiC layer 13A stacked on the surface of the N+ type Si layer 11 and a Si oxide layer 13B stacked on the SiC layer 13A. A top surface of the Si oxide layer 13B, that is the uppermost layer of the switching layer 13, is electrically connected to the corresponding bit line BL0 or BL1.

Abstract: A magnetic nanotube includes bacterial magnetic nanocrystals contacted onto a nanotube which absorbs the nanocrystals. The nanocrystals are contacted on at least one surface of the nanotube. A method of fabricating a magnetic nanotube includes synthesizing the bacterial magnetic nanocrystals, which have an outer layer of proteins. A nanotube provided is capable of absorbing the nanocrystals and contacting the nanotube with the nanocrystals. The nanotube is preferably a peptide bolaamphiphile. A nanotube solution and a nanocrystal solution including a buffer and a concentration of nanocrystals are mixed. The concentration of nanocrystals is optimized, resulting in a nanocrystal to nanotube ratio for which bacterial magnetic nanocrystals are immobilized on at least one surface of the nanotubes. The ratio controls whether the nanocrystals bind only to the interior or to the exterior surfaces of the nanotubes. Uses include cell manipulation and separation, biological assay, enzyme recovery, and biosensors.