Abstract: The present invention relates to novel molecular markers for diagnosis and classification of human breast cancer and lung cancer.

Abstract: Polymerizing an ethylenically unsaturdated monomer in an aqueous medium can produce an aqueous polymer dispersion. The polymerization is in the presence of a dispersant and a metal-carbene complex. The polymerization can also optionally be in the presence of a dispersant, an organic solvent with low solubility in water, or both. The aqueous polymer dispersion resulting from the process can be used to make a polymer powder.

Abstract: The invention is based on the recognition that known antimicrobial compounds, such as nisin or other lantibiotics, can be made to form a long lasting antimicrobial surface coating by linking the peptide with a block polymer, such as PLURONIC® F108 or an end group activated polymer (EGAP) in a manner to form a flexible tether and/or entrap the peptide. The entrapped peptide provides antimicrobial action by early release from entrapment while the tethered peptide provides longer lasting antimicrobial protection. Antimicrobial gels and foams may be prepared using the antimicrobial peptide containing block copolymers.

Abstract: A high melting point soldering layer includes a low melting point metal layer, a first high melting point metal layer disposed on a surface of the low melting point metal layer, and a second high melting point metal layer disposed at a back side of the low melting point metal layer. The low melting point metal layer, the first high melting point metal layer, and the second high melting point metal layer are mutually alloyed by transient liquid phase bonding, by annealing not less than a melting temperature of the low melting point metal layer, diffusing the metal of the low melting point metal layer into an alloy of the first high melting point metal layer and the second high melting point metal layer. The high melting point soldering layer has a higher melting point temperature than that of the low melting point metal layer.

Abstract: A drive mechanism includes a rotatable steering unit, a wheel supported by the steering unit, a drive member rotating about an axis extending along a center axis of the steering unit, an output shaft located at an offset position from the center axis of the steering unit and transmitting rotational force of the drive member to the wheel. The drive member includes a first drive unit driven in a forward rotation direction and a second drive unit driven in a reverse rotation direction and located coaxially with the first drive unit. The output shaft includes a first output unit to which driving force is transmitted from the first drive unit, and a second output unit to which driving force is transmitted from a conversion unit for converting rotation of the second drive unit, is restricted by both the output units, and transmits rotational force obtained from the output units to the wheel.

Abstract: A diversity reception device includes a power combiner to combine electric powers of OFDM signals, each OFDM signal being received by a first antenna and second antenna, a switch to change connections between branched output-ports of the first and second antennas, in mid-stream of effective symbol periods, the effective symbol periods are assigned respectively in each of symbol periods of the OFDM signals, a receiver to demodulate the OFDM signals, a phase shifter to shift phases of the OFDM signals received by the second antenna, and an arithmetic and control processing circuit to calculate complex correlation coefficient between a guard interval, assigned in each of the symbol periods associated with the first antenna, and a copy-source interval, assigned in each of the symbol periods associated with the second antenna, and to determine rotation angle on the basis of the complex correlation coefficient.

Abstract: The present teachings provide compounds of Formulae I and II: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, complexes, esters, and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R1?, R2, R2?, R3, R3?, and X are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of making the compounds of formulae I and II, and methods of treating RyR-associated conditions, disorders, and diseases that include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I or II to a subject in need thereof. In addition, the present teachings relate to methods of reducing the open probability of a ryanodine receptor, and methods of reducing Ca2+ release across a ryanodine receptor (e.g., into the cytoplasm of a cell), by contacting a compound of formula I or II with a ryanodine receptor.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a durability improving agent for a cement composition that improves the freezing-thawing resistance of the cement composition and also exhibits a sufficient shrinkage reducing performance as well, and a cement composition including such a durability improving agent. Specifically, the present invention provides a durability improving agent for a cement composition, characterized by comprising a hydrocarbon-based compound having an average molecular weight of 150 to 600 and a pour point of 20° C. or less as an active ingredient, and a cement composition including such durability improving agent.

Abstract: The invention provides for a diet that significantly reduces the glycohemoglobin levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes. A diet plan can be provided to an individual in the form of cards and/or pages with an appropriate meal plan, food items and/or pre-packaged meals, or in an electronic medium for the individuals to use to develop appropriate meal plans. The diet comprises food items having a nutritional composition that consists essentially of 30% protein, 50% fats, and 20% carbohydrates, or food items having a nutritional composition that consists essentially of 30% protein, 40% fats, and 30% carbohydrates.

Abstract: This invention describes the preparation of fatty acid esters of glycerol formal either by a triglyceride transesterification process or, alternatively, by an esterification process of fatty acids previously obtained from the hydrolysis of triglycerides (fat splitting), with glycerol formal in the presence of an acid or basic catalyst. Also the invention describes the use of these fatty acid esters of glycerol formal prepared by said process as biofuel. In an embodiment, such biofuel is used in the preparation of other biofuels by its mixture with a product selected from a group formed by: glycerol formal, biodiesel, petrol-derived diesel, and mixtures thereof. The biofuels thus obtained are characterized to allow the complete incorporation of the glycerol obtained in the current biodiesel production process in a biodiesel fuel.

Abstract: Provide are a peptide gel with practically sufficient mechanical strength and a self-assembling peptide capable of forming the peptide gel. The self-assembling peptide is formed of the following amino acid sequence: a1b1c1b2a2b3db4a3b5c2b6a4 where: a1 to a4 each represent a basic amino acid residue; b1 to b6 each represent an uncharged polar amino acid residue and/or a hydrophobic amino acid residue, provided that at least five thereof each represent a hydrophobic amino acid residue; c1 and c2 each represent an acidic amino acid residue; and d represents a hydrophobic amino acid residue.

Abstract: Provided are a speech search device, the search speed of which is very fast, the search performance of which is also excellent, and which performs fuzzy search, and a speech search method. Not only the fuzzy search is performed, but also the distance between phoneme discrimination features included in speech data is calculated to determine the similarity with respect to the speech using both a suffix array and dynamic programming, and an object to be searched for is narrowed by means of search keyword division based on a phoneme and search thresholds relative to a plurality of the divided search keywords, the object to be searched for is repeatedly searched for while increasing the search thresholds in order, and whether or not there is the keyword division is determined according to the length of the search keywords, thereby implementing speech search, the search speed of which is very fast and the search performance of which is also excellent.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing low valence titanium oxides in a steady supply manner acceptable in industrial production. The low valence titanium oxides are produced by electrical discharge between two electrodes in an aqueous medium, wherein at least one of the electrodes is a titanium-containing electrode.

Abstract: A hollow microtube structure capable of being used as a minimally invasive electrode, a production method thereof, and a biopsy device using the hollow microtube structure. The hollow microtube structure includes a semiconductor substrate and at least one hollow tube formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The hollow tube includes a metal coating film layer on the inner surface and an electrically insulating coating film layer on the outer surface. The semiconductor substrate includes a through hole communicated with an interior of a hollow tube at a location where the hollow tube is formed. The production method includes an etching, a sacrificial layer forming, a metal coating film layer forming, an electrically insulating coating film layer forming, a tip portion removing, and a piercing.

Abstract: Integrated high efficiency lateral field effect rectifier and HEMT devices of GaN or analogous semiconductor material, methods for manufacturing thereof, and systems which include such integrated devices. The lateral field effect rectifier has an anode containing a shorted ohmic contact and a Schottky contact, and a cathode containing an ohmic contact, while the HEMT preferably has a gate containing a Schottky contact. Two fluorine ion containing regions are formed directly underneath both Schottky contacts in the rectifier and in the HEMT, pinching off the (electron gas) channels in both structures at the hetero-interface between the epitaxial layers.

Abstract: A semiconductor element includes: a p-type semiconductor region; an n-type light-receiving surface buried region buried in the semiconductor region; an n-type charge accumulation region buried in the semiconductor region, continuously to the light-receiving surface buried region, establishing a deeper potential well depth than the light-receiving surface buried region; a charge read-out region configured to read out the charges accumulated in the charge accumulation region; an exhaust-drain region buried in the semiconductor region, configured to extract the charges from the light-receiving surface buried region; a first potential controller configured to extract the charges from the light-receiving surface buried region to the exhaust-drain region; and a second potential controller configured to transfer the charges from the charge accumulation region to the charge read-out region.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide means to treat breast cancer and/or mastitis by topically administering a non-steroidal antiinflammatory analgetic agent and/or an anticancer agent and allowing them efficiently to arrive into the mammary gland. The present invention provides an iontophoretic preparation for treating breast cancer and/or mastitis which contains a non-steroidal antiinflammatory analgetic agent and/or an anticancer agent as an active ingredient and has a donor to be applied on a nipple part for topical administration of the active ingredient from the nipple part to the mammary gland by application of electric potential.

Abstract: Provided is a frequency conversion mixer. The frequency conversion mixer includes a transconductance stage, a switching stage, a load stage, a current bleeding circuit, and a bias stage. The transconductance stage receives an RF signal, and outputs a current corresponding to a voltage of the RF signal. The switching stage switches the current which is outputted from the transconductance stage in response to a local oscillation signal, for frequency conversion the RF signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The load stage is connected between the switching stage and a supply voltage terminal. The current bleeding circuit is connected parallel with the switching stage, especially, embodying inverter structure with transconductance stage to get not only current bleeding effect but also current reuse effect, and one resonant inductor for reducing noise which is generated in parasitic capacitance at node between transconductance stage and switching stage.

Abstract: An electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell includes a fluorine polymer electrolyte having a sulfonic acid group, and a copolymer which includes at least an aromatic ring and a cyclic imide that is condensed or not condensed with the aromatic ring, and in which an aromatic repeating unit having a structure in which the aromatic ring and the cyclic imide are bonded together directly or by only a single atom, is linked with a siloxane repeating unit having a structure that includes a siloxane structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to degreasing compositions comprising at least one dialkyl amide of formula (I), R1CO—NR2R3, in which R1CO represents a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic, optionally hydroxysubstituted acyl group having 2 to 56 carbon atoms, and R2 and R3 independently represent alkyl groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms. The compositions are useful for degreasing hard surfaces, particularly metal surfaces.