Abstract: A formulation is provided for the treatment of synovial inflammation, the formulation consisting of dysprosium-165 hydroxide macroaggregates or yttrium-90 hydroxide macroaggregates, wherein the formulation is substantially devoid of other co-precipitating agents in particular, ferric hydroxide. A method of treatment of synovial inflammation is also provided in which the method comprises adminstering an intra-articular injection of the above formulation. Preferably the above formulation is in the form of a isotonic apyrogenic injectable solution.

Abstract: A suit material support device which comprises a center suit coat body support member and a pair of suit sleeve support members disposed on the opposite sides of the suit body support member. The suit coat body support member is rotatable from a suit coat body placing position and to right- and left-hand suit sleeve sewing positions. It has a plurality of suit body bars displaceable in planes intersecting each other at right angles and clamp needles for clamping suit sleeves against the suit body bars. A pair of suit sleeve support members are disposed on opposite sides of the suit body support member and each is rotatable between a suit sleeve attaching position and a suit sleeve placing position as the mechanism rotates.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying a person lying on a support member includes a main body, a plate member, a guide frame for accommodating therein and causing the plate member to slide therealong toward and away from the person, a loading unit provided on the main body for supporting the plate member rotatably about a shaft, and a controller for controlling the rotation of the plate member. The plate member is controlled by the controller so that it is rotated about the shaft to slide along the guide frame toward the person until a forward end thereof abuts on the person, whereupon the forward end follows the contour of the person and advances into a gap between the person and the support member. Consequently, the person is loaded onto the plate member easily.

Abstract: A crack shear displacement gage for use in determining the critical load of a composite laminate by providing the laminate with a crack at one end, applying a load to near the center of the laminate, and measuring the shift in the longitudinal direction between the end portions of the laminate above and below the crack. The gage comprises a frame, a fixing member mounted on the frame and having a head for clamping the end portion of the laminate above the crack, a contact for contacting the end face of the end portion below the crack, a spring member for urging the contact against the end face, and a strain gage mounted on the spring member for detecting the strain of the spring member.

Abstract: Display of alphanumeric characters symbols, graphs and other information in a dot-matrix form on a CRT is enhanced by modulating the CRT beam sinusoidally at twice the dot matrix clock rate to produce two full cycles of sinusoidal modulation for each dot space. The amplitude of the modulation is selected to be one-fourth the raster scan spacing of the CRT, whereby two sinusoidal cycles of modulation in each dot space more fully fills the space allocated to a dot display in the vertical direction as the electrons beam scans the dot space in the horizontal direction.

Abstract: This invention relates to a solar cooker assembly comprising a circular and convex Fresnel lens having its convex side facing either upward or downward, a protective frame unit rigidly fitted to the periphery of said Fresnel lens, a support unit for swingably supporting said Fresnel lens so that the elevation and the aximuth of the lens can be freely chosen without restriction and a cooking unit located at the focal point of said Fresnel lens.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical recording medium comprising a Langmuir-dgett film made from a mixture of a photochromic compound of the following formula, in which a carboxyl group and an alkyl group have been introduced to the 8-position and the 1'-position, respectively, at the same time, and a long-chain carboxylic acid: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrocarbon having 5 to 31 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A perfluoro-(N-vinylamine) compound containing a >NCF.dbd.CF.sub.2 group is produced from a perfluoro-compound containing a group of the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein X stands for a fluorine atom or a --OM group having an alkali or alkaline earth metal ion for M) and having connected to the group of the general formula a perfluoro-alkyl group having a total of 2 to 6 carbon atoms contained in the main carbon chain thereof by heating the perfluoro-compound at a temperature in the range of 100.degree. C. to 500.degree. C. thereby effecting conversion of the group of the foregoing general formula into the aforementioned >NCF.dbd.CF.sub.2 group.

Abstract: A half-tone reproduction of an object on a recording medium is produced using gray level values contained in the cells of an object matrix representative of the object. An actuatable marking device is operatively associated with and displaceable relative to the recording medium for printing a dot thereon at an exposure point determined by the location of the marking device at which the latter is actuated. A representation of the coordinates of the marking device is obtained, and converted to modular coordinates representative of the coordinates of the exposure point on a mesh of a fictitious of half-tone screen having a predetermined angular orientation relative to the print medium. A threshold screen value is computed from the modular coordinates, and a gray level value is obtained from the cell of the object matrix closest to the coordinates of the exposure point.

Abstract: A semisubmersible system for collecting a desired material from the sea water includes a submersible collection chamber which is defined by a pair of non-porous, buoyant side walls, a pair of non-porous end walls, a porous top wall and a porous bottom wall. A quantity of collecting agent is contained in the collection chamber. The buoyancy force applied to the present system by the pair of buoyant side walls is so set to keep the collection chamber substantially at a predetermined depth from the sea surface, so that the sea water is permitted to move into and out of the collection chamber due to wave motion while keeping the collection chamber virtually stationary in the vertical direction. There is obtained a large relative motion between the sea water and the collection chamber so that a large quantity of sea water is brought into contact with the collecting agent, thereby allowing a useful material contained in the sea water to be collected by the collecting agent by adsorption or absorption.

Abstract: A continuously porous adsorbent material substantially comprising zeolite type clay powder particles, magnetized magnetite particles and ettringite crystals bonding the clay particles and the magnetic particles, wherein the adsorbent material possesses continuous pores comprising relatively large cages connected with one another through smaller channels, the porous material suitable for the purification of various kinds of fluid by adsorption of the impurities contained in the fluid.

Abstract: The heterojunction magnetic field sensor is basically a heterojunction structure forming a two-dimensional electron gas layer having a high carrier mobility at the junction portion of at least two different kinds of semiconductor layers having a different band gap, respectively, and further, at least one semiconductor layer having a quantum well structure is provided adjacent to and in contact with the two dimensional electron gas layer, the energy level of the ground state subband thereof being higher than that of the two-dimensional electron gas layer. This heterojunction magnetic field sensor has a high sensitivity which is not saturated even under a high electric field and provides an enhanced output even under the high electric field.

Abstract: An interferon preparation to be administered topically is provided comprising: (a) a therapeutically effective amount of one or more interferons; (b) a vehicle base compatible with the interferon or interferons being administered; (c) an effective amount of one or more protease inhibitors for the purpose of reducing the rate of decay of the biological activity of the interferon or interferons due to proteolytic agents; and (d) an effective amount of one or more anti-microbial agents. In certain preferred embodiments of the invention, the vehicle base is prepared from a mixture of polyethylene glycols or includes hydroxyethyl cellulose as a thickening agent.

Abstract: The present invention is characterized by a ceramic sintered body consisting of (1) a primary mixed powder in which boride metal powder the MB.sub.2 type or M.sub.2 B.sub.5 type (M indicates the metal) is mixed with a titanium hafnium carbide powder; (2) a secondary mixed powder in which titanium carbonitride is mixed with the above-mentioned primary mixed powder; or (3) a tertiary mixed powder or a quaternary mixed powder in which carbide powder such as hafnium carbide or zirconium carbide is mixed with above-mentioned primary mixed powder or the secondary mixed powder. The resulting sintered bodies have high hardness and toughness.

Abstract: Aspergillus niger B60 was immobilized in a dual hollow fiber bioreactor to produce citric acid continuously. The fungi proliferated well in the interstitial region formed by a parallel arrangement of three microporous polypropylene hollow fibers contained within a silicone tube. Excessive fungal cell growth could be controlled by supplying a nitrogen-deficient medium at the production stage, and also uniform cell distribution in the reactor could be obtained by changing the direction of medium flow. With pure oxygen aeration and nitrogen-deficient medium, volumetric productivity reached 1.62 g/l.h at a residence time of 4.02 h, which corresponded to a 27-fold increase over that of shake-flask fermentation. When the residence time was increased to 20.1 h, citric acid at a concentration of 26 g/l was continuously produced, with a yield of 80-90% and a volumetric productivity of 1.3 g/l.h.

Abstract: A torque sensor for a pulley-belt driving system has a belt passed round a drive pulley and a driven pulley. The torque sensor has a frame having opposite ends respectively in contact with first and second parts of the belt, a beam secured to a stationary body and supporting the frame and strain detection means for detecting the strain of the beam.

Abstract: An inner tube tube an outer surface of which is machined to define regerative coolant grooves for flowing a coolant to cool a combustor is split at a throat into upper and lower portions which in turn are fitted into an outer tube fabricated as a unitary structure. The upper and lower inner tube portions and the inner and outer tubes are integrally joined together.

Abstract: A light absorbing medium to be interposed under photosensitive layers, such as a photo-resist for integrated circuit "chips" to eliminate defects caused by reflected light, has a polymer vehicle which can penetrate into small depressions of a substrate and form a thin, smooth and uniform coating. The coating includes a light absorbing dye. This light absorbing layer is imageable in the process. The light absorbing material eliminates many of the defects caused by reflected light resulting in increased sharpness of the images in the photo-resist. The material reduces the losses due to defects and increases the yield of useable product.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of .alpha.-substituted carbonyl compounds, wherein .alpha.-substituted ketone is prepared by the following reaction: ##STR1## .alpha.-azo ester is prepared by the following reaction: ##STR2## and .alpha.-hydrozono ester is prepared by the following reaction: ##STR3## wherein the .alpha.-azo ester and .alpha.-hydrazono ester obtained by the above reactions include novel compounds, which are also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a membrane-type filter device. Vents located opposite the hydrophilic membrane remove entrapped gases in the inlet chamber of the housing. There are preferably two such vents on either end of the inlet chamber, of which the corners are preferably non-rectangular, and which remove entrapped gases from the fluid without regard to filter device orientation.