Abstract: A cassette holder capable of being loaded with a radiation image capturing apparatus including a housing, a two-dimensional array of radiation detecting elements accommodated in the housing, and a connection port is shown. The cassette holder includes the following. Retention tabs hold the radiation image capturing apparatus. A connector is connectable to the connection port. The connector is magnetically fixed to the connection port. When the radiation image capturing apparatus is drawn to be detached from the cassette holder, the connector is movable with movement of the connection port. The movement of the connector moved with the connection port is regulated such that a shift distance of one end of the connector is smaller than a shift distance of the other end, and thereby the one end of the connector is detached from the connection port earlier than the other end.

Abstract: A cassette holder capable of being loaded with a radiation image capturing apparatus including a housing, a two-dimensional array of radiation detecting elements accommodated in the housing, and a connection port is shown. The cassette holder includes the following. Retention tabs hold the radiation image capturing apparatus. A connector is connectable to the connection port. The connector is magnetically fixed to the connection port. When the radiation image capturing apparatus is drawn to be detached from the cassette holder, the connector is movable with movement of the connection port. The movement of the connector moved with the connection port is regulated such that a shift distance of one end of the connector is smaller than a shift distance of the other end, and thereby the one end of the connector is detached from the connection port earlier than the other end.

Abstract: A method and system of remotely stimulating the midbrain area is disclosed. Transcranial direct current stimulation is applied via a cathode attached to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and an anode attached to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These regions are either directly connected or indirectly connected to the midbrain region. The stimulation allows non-invasive stimulation of neurons in the midbrain region to address brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression and addiction.

Abstract: A wrinkle detection device (100) includes: a light projector (110) which, while moving relative to a layered body (40) formed by stacking electrodes (50) and separators (60), projects slit light onto an outermost one of the separators (60); a camera (120) which shoots a shape of the slit light on the separator (60); and a control unit (130) which calculates a gradient of the separator (60) on the basis of the shot shape of the slit light, and determines the existence of a wrinkle on the basis of the calculated gradient.

Abstract: A method and system of remotely stimulating the midbrain area is disclosed. Transcranial direct current stimulation is applied via a cathode attached to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and an anode attached to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These regions are either directly connected or indirectly connected to the midbrain region. The stimulation allows non-invasive stimulation of neurons in the midbrain region to address brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression and addiction.

Abstract: A wrinkle detection device (100) includes: a light projector (110) which, while moving relative to a layered body (40) formed by stacking electrodes (50) and separators (60), projects slit light onto an outermost one of the separators (60); a camera (120) which shoots a shape of the slit light on the separator (60); and a control unit (130) which calculates a gradient of the separator (60) on the basis of the shot shape of the slit light, and determines the existence of a wrinkle on the basis of the calculated gradient.

Abstract: A terminal control method includes device processing executed by using a device that a terminal includes, an application program installed on the terminal, a service definition file for storing user setting required when the application program is executed and a broker for judging the device processing, judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by the service definition file is executed by the device processing and executing processing defined to the application program if the corresponding item is executed by the device processing.

Abstract: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner at the mobile terminal apparatus. Normally, the non-contact IC cannot communicate with the application manager controller during communication with the external reader/writer, and cannot communicate with the external reader/writer during communication with the application manager controller. A specific command is transmitted from the external reader/writer together with information specifying a prescribed application during communication between the external reader/writer and the non-contact IC. When the specific command is received, the non-contact IC shifts to a communication state enabling communication with the application manager controller.

Abstract: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner at the mobile terminal apparatus. Normally, the non-contact IC cannot communicate with the application manager controller during communication with the external reader/writer, and cannot communicate with the external reader/writer during communication with the application manager controller. A specific command is transmitted from the external reader/writer together with information specifying a prescribed application during communication between the external reader/writer and the non-contact IC. When the specific command is received, the non-contact IC shifts to a communication state enabling communication with the application manager controller.

Abstract: A terminal control method includes device processing executed by using a device that a terminal includes, an application program installed on the terminal, a service definition file for storing user setting required when the application program is executed and a broker for judging the device processing, judging whether or not an item corresponding to user setting condition defined by the service definition file is executed by the device processing and executing processing defined to the application program if the corresponding item is executed by the device processing.

Abstract: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner at the mobile terminal apparatus. Normally, the non-contact IC cannot communicate with the application manager controller during communication with the external reader/writer, and cannot communicate with the external reader/writer during communication with the application manager controller. A specific command is transmitted from the external reader/writer together with information specifying a prescribed application during communication between the external reader/writer and the non-contact IC. When the specific command is received, the non-contact IC shifts to a communication state enabling communication with the application manager controller.

Abstract: At a mobile terminal apparatus provided with a non-contact IC, flexible communication is carried out between the external reader/writer , non-contact IC and the internal application manager controller, and a program designated in the form of a push from the external reader/writer is activated and executed in a smooth manner at the mobile terminal apparatus. Normally, the non-contact IC cannot communicate with the application manager controller during communication with the external reader/writer, and cannot communicate with the external reader/writer during communication with the application manager controller. A specific command is transmitted from the external reader/writer together with information specifying a prescribed application during communication between the external reader/writer and the non-contact IC. When the specific command is received, the non-contact IC shifts to a communication state enabling communication with the application manager controller.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of ceramide by using erythrocytes as a starting material is disclosed herein. For the purpose of obtaining ceramide at a low cost and in a large amount, ceramide is prepared by means of hydrolysis or enzymolysis of sphingolipid existing in sphingomyelin. According to the preparation process of the present invention, ceramide useful as a moisturizer for human skin can be obtained at a low cost and in a large amount by relying upon erythrocytes as a starting material.

Abstract: Strong 5.alpha.a-reductase inhibitors are extracted and fractionated from Thuja orientalis and other similar crude drugs or they may be purified as diterpenes in isolated form. The inhibitors are used either on their own or as active ingredients of therapeutics in the treatment of diseases caused by the overactivity of 5.alpha.a-reductase or the hypersecretion of androgens, such as male pattern baldness, androgenetic alopecia, hirsutism, acne, prostatomegaly and cancer of the prostate.

Abstract: A composition having lipase inhibiting activity is prepared by extracting defatted rice germ with water at room temperature. That composition, which is useful in preventing or treating obesity, can be incorporated into food products.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel process for the production of pyrocomenic acid [3-hydroxy-4(1H)-pyran-4-one and rubiginol [3,5-dihydroxy-4(1H)-pyran-4-one, which are starting materials for synthesis of maltols useful as food spices as well as additives for cosmetics.The chemical reactions possibly taking place in the fermentation and the heating post-treatment thereof in the present invention are shown as follows: ##STR1## The microorganisms usable in the above oxidation fermentation include Gluconobacter rubiginosus IFO 3244, Gluconobacter suboxydans IFO 3254, Gluconobacter melanogenus IFO 3293, Pseudomonas fluorescens IFO 3081, Erwinia carotovara IFO 3380 etc.

Abstract: A dieting agent is disclosed which comprises an aqueous solution or a solid substance of a concentration .alpha.-amylase inhibiting substance which is produced by a process which comprises heat treating a supernatant fraction of an aqueous extract of wheat or wheat flour to modify unnecessary protein contaminants in the supernatant fraction, removing a modified protein from said fraction, subjecting a resulting aqueous solution containing an .alpha.-amylase inhibiting substance to a concentration treatment using an ultrafiltration membrane to form an aqueous solution of a concentrated .alpha.-amylase inhibiting substance or drying the aqueous solution. The dieting agent exhibits a body weight gain-inhibiting effect.

Abstract: Disclosed is use of a synthetic aluminum silicate as antacid and anti-ulcer preparation, anti-obesity preparation and acne curing preparation. This aluminum silicate is obtained by reacting an aluminum compound and silicic acid or water glass at a weight ratio Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 : SiO.sub.2 of 4.5:1.0-6.0:1.0 in a strongly acidic aqueous solution having an initial pH of 1.0-3.0, then adding thereto a basic substance to reach excess in alkali and then neutralizing the reaction mixture to pH 5.0-7.0 with an acid.

Abstract: An absorbent prepared by supporting an organic or inorganic reductive substance on hydrated aluminum silicate is useful as a pharmaceutical or as an absorbent for precious metal complexes such as gold complex, silver complex and the like.

Abstract: Novel acyl compounds 3-acyloxy-4(H)-pyran-4-ones were obtained by reacting 3-hydroxy-4(H)-pyran-4-one with acyl halides. The acyl compounds and their starting compound exhibit a skin-lightening effect on the skin and are preferably used as an active constituent in skin-lightening cosmetic preparations or local demelanizing agents.