Abstract: Provided is a method for measuring anti-drug antibodies ADAs appearing in a patient receiving molecular-targeted therapy in a simpler and more accurate manner.

Abstract: Provided is a method for measuring ADAs appearing in a patient receiving molecular-targeted therapy with a drug or the like in a simpler and more accurate manner. A method for measuring anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) in an analyte to be measured, the method comprising: (1) a step of providing a sample comprising an analyte to be measured for ADAs, the step comprising adding a corresponding drug to an analyte to be measured for ADAs to prepare a sample with a drug-ADAs immune complex formed; (2) a step of contacting the sample prepared in step (1) with a carrier coated with complement Clq, anti-C3d antibody, or anti-Clq antibody; (3) a step of contacting a labeled or non-labeled antibody to a drug corresponding to the ADAs with the coated carrier prepared in step (2); and (4) a step of quantifying the drug-ADAs immune complex binding to the complement Clq, anti-C3d antibody, or anti-Clq antibody.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolyte membrane formed of an ion conductive composition. Said composition contains a liquid crystalline polymer having an ionic dissociative group. Molecular chains of the liquid crystalline polymer are orientated in a specific direction. The degree of orientation ? of the liquid crystalline polymer is in a range of 0.45 or more and less than 1, as defined by equation (1) as follows, Degree of orientation ?=(180???)/180??(1), wherein ?? is a full width at half maximum of a peak in an X-ray diffraction intensity distribution pattern obtained by measuring an intensity distribution from 0 to 360 degrees in the azimuthal angle direction, at a peak scattering angle, in an X-ray diffraction image of the electrolyte membrane. Ionic conductivity in a thickness direction of the membrane is higher than the ionic conductivity in a direction parallel to a surface of the membrane.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an optical fiber base material. The method includes: connecting a dummy rod 3 to an end of a target formed of a quartz glass rod to form a rod with dummy, the target becoming the optical fiber base material by depositing thereon glass particles; forming a taper portion 10 of which a diameter of the dummy rod side is narrower than a diameter of the target side in a connecting portion between the dummy road being chucked and the target 5 when processing the rod with dummy to transparently vitrify it; and depositing glass particles on an outer circumference of the glass rod with dummy after the processing the dummy rod so as to cover the outer circumference of a large diameter side of the taper portion 10 and forming soot.

Abstract: The first film of the present invention is a film produced by solidifying a polybenzazole precursor that has been oriented in a given direction by the application of a magnetic or electric field. The second film of the present invention is a film produced by solidifying a polybenzazole that has been oriented in a given direction by the application of a magnetic or electric field. The first and second films have a strong anisotropy.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrolyte membrane formed of an ion conductive composition. Said composition contains a liquid crystalline polymer having an ionic dissociative group. Molecular chains of the liquid crystalline polymer are orientated in a specific direction. The degree of orientation ? of the liquid crystalline polymer is in a range of 0.45 or more and less than 1, as defined by equation (1) as follows; Degree of orientation ?=(180??B/180) (1), wherein ?B is a full width at half maximum of a peak in an X-ray diffraction intensity distribution pattern obtained by measuring an intensity distribution from 0 to 360 degrees in the azimuthal angle direction, at a peak scattering angle, in an X-ray diffraction image of the electrolyte membrane. Ionic conductivity in a thickness direction of the membrane is higher than the ionic conductivity in a direction parallel to a surface of the membrane.

Abstract: The first film of the present invention is a film produced by solidifying a polybenzazole precursor that has been oriented in a given direction by the application of a magnetic or electric field. The second film of the present invention is a film produced by solidifying a polybenzazole that has been oriented in a given direction by the application of a magnetic or electric field. The first and second films have a strong anisotropy.

Abstract: An article formed of polybenzazole comprising at least one repeating unit represented by one of specific formulas is provided. In the article, the molecular chains of said polybenzazole are orientated in a specific direction. In one aspect of the article, a degree of orientation A of the molecular chains is 0.6 or more and less than 1. In another aspect of the article, anisotropic magnetic susceptibility ?? of the article is in a range of 1.0×10?8 to 1.0×10?6 [emu/g]. The present invention also directs to methods for producing the above-described articles. The methods comprise steps of preparing a liquid containing said polybenzazole, shaping a liquid containing said polybenzazole into a desired shape, applying one of magnetic and electric fields in a specific direction to the liquid so as to orientate the molecular chains of said polybenzazole therein in the specific direction, solidifying the liquid in the desired shape while the orientation of the molecular chains is maintained.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a base material for an optical fiber, includes steps of: holding a bar material by a support member; and adjusting to reduce a difference between an axis of the bar material and a rotational axis of the support member. Furthermore, an optical fiber base material grasping apparatus for holding a bar material having an axis, includes: a support member having a center axis, the support member being rotatable around the center axis; and an adjusting mechanism for reducing a difference between the axis of the bar material and the central axis of the support member.

Abstract: Icons indicating operating conditions of each of nodes (computers) constituting a system are individually displayed in the form of a loop. When the total number of the nodes exceeds a total number B of individual displays, nodes corresponding to B are displayed individually, and the rest are displayed in the form of a node collective icon. When a forward button is clicked, a display position of each of the node icons revolves clockwise one by one, a node that has been in the node collective icon is displayed individually at a position of a node icon, and an node icon at a position of a node icon is contained in the node collective icon. By clicking buttons a clockwise continuous revolving display, a counterclockwise revolving display and a counterclockwise continuous revolving display are performed. Node icons are highlighted so as to indicate abnormal conditions of the corresponding nodes.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a base material for an optical fiber, includes steps of: holding a bar material by a support member; and adjusting to reduce a difference between an axis of the bar material and a rotational axis of the support member. Furthermore, an optical fiber base material grasping apparatus for holding a bar material having an axis, includes: a support member having a center axis, the support member being rotatable around the center axis; and an adjusting mechanism for reducing a difference between the axis of the bar material and the central axis of the support member.

Abstract: Icons indicating operating conditions of each of nodes (computers) constituting a system are individually displayed in the form of a loop. When the total number of the nodes exceeds a total number B of individual displays, nodes corresponding to B are displayed individually, and the rest are displayed in the form of a node collective icon 11. When a forward button 16 is clicked, a display position of each of the node icons revolves clockwise one by one, a node that has been in the node collective icon 11 is displayed individually at a position of a node icon 12, and an node icon at a position of a node icon 13 is contained in the node collective icon 11. By clicking buttons 15, 18 and 19, a clockwise continuous revolving display, a counterclockwise revolving display and a counterclockwise continuous revolving display are performed. Node icons 3 and 14 are highlighted so as to indicate abnormal conditions of the corresponding nodes.