Abstract: The present invention provides a mutated histidine decarboxylase suitable for a practical use. Specifically, the present invention provides a mutated histidine decarboxylase having at least one amino acid residue mutated as compared to a wild-type histidine decarboxylase, and having higher histidine decarboxylase activity and/or stability than the wild-type histidine decarboxylase, and also a use thereof. The mutated histidine decarboxylase has Motifs (1) to (6), and an amino acid residue in at least one motif thereof can be mutated. The mutated histidine decarboxylase can also have a mutation of at least one amino acid residue in an amino acid sequence designated by SEQ ID NO: 3 and in a homologous sequence thereto.

Abstract: A first rotating member a heating recording medium, a second rotating member forming a nip portion with the first rotating member, a holding member disposed downstream of the nip portion in a conveying direction and holds a conveying member conveying the recording medium, and a guide member facing the conveying member, the fixing apparatus is not exposed to an outside when opening/closing member is in a closed state, the fixing apparatus is exposed to the outside when the opening/closing member is in an opened state. A distance between the holding member being in the closed state and at a first position and the guide member is a first distance. A distance between the holding member being in the opened state and at a second position and the guide member is a second distance, and the second distance is shorter than the first distance.

Abstract: The present invention provides an alternative L-glutamate oxidase that allows for measurement of L-glutamate. More specifically, the present invention provides the following L-glutamate oxidase mutant (a) or (b) and the like: (a) an L-glutamate oxidase mutant including an amino acid sequence that has 90% or more identity to an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 and exhibits an activity of oxidizing L-glutamate, except an L-glutamate oxidase including an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; or (b) an L-glutamate oxidase mutant comprising a peptide linker consisting of 1 to 20 amino acid residues which is inserted into one or more sites selected from the group consisting of (1) a site in a region proximity to a boundary between ?1 and ?2 regions, (2) a site in a region proximity to a boundary between ?2 and ? regions and (3) a site in a region proximity to a boundary between ? and ? regions in the L-glutamate oxidase mutant (a), and having the activity of oxidizing L-glutamate.

Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a super-liquid-repellent coating film that has improved abrasion resistance. Provided as a means for solving the problem is a coating film that has a fluorine atom content of 1 to 60 wt %, the coating film having a surface that has an average surface roughness Ra of 0.5 to 20, a surface area ratio of 1.7 to 5, a contact angle with water of 150° or more, a contact angle with n-hexadecane of 80° or more, and a surface that has a contact angle with water of 150° or more after being rubbed 100 times with a PET film under a load of 100 g.

Abstract: Provided are a method for producing a complicated peptide molecule, such as a dimeric peptide, in a simpler manner at lower cost compared with the conventional chemical synthesis methods; and a dimeric peptide which comprises a specific short linker and has a satisfactory activity; and others.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance section, the conveyance section including a roller rotatable in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction, a guide member configured to move between a first position and a second position, a drive source, a drive switching unit including an input unit, an output unit, and a switching unit, a drive interruption unit configured to transition between a transmission state and a non-transmission state. The roller is configured to rotate by the driving force output from the output unit of the drive switching unit while the guide member moves between the first position and the second position.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance roller, a first rotary member forming a first nip portion conveying a sheet in a first conveyance direction, a rotation axis of the first rotary member being inclined with respect to a rotation axis of the conveyance roller such that a center of one end of the first rotary member is positioned at a different position in the first conveyance direction with respect to a center of the other end, and a second rotary member forming a second nip portion conveying a sheet in a second conveyance direction, a rotation axis of the second rotary member being inclined with respect to the rotation axis of the conveyance roller such that a center of one end of the second rotary member is positioned at a different position in the second conveyance direction with respect to a center of the other end.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a blocking member having a blocking surface with which a leading end of a sheet that is being conveyed comes into contact for obliquity correction. The blocking member is rotated by being pushed by the sheet against an urging force of a positioning unit that positions the blocking member to be in the standby position. The blocking member is rotatable to be in a sheet-passage-allowing orientation in which the sheet is allowed to pass. When a trailing end of the sheet that is being conveyed has passed the blocking member, the blocking member that is in the sheet-passage-allowing orientation rotates in a same direction as a sheet conveyance direction and is positioned to be in a standby position.

Abstract: Provided are a composition for forming an anti-snow-accumulation film capable of forming a film that is unlikely to undergo snow accumulation, and an anti-snow-accumulation film. The composition for forming an anti-snow-accumulation film according to the present disclosure contains composite particles formed from fine particles each coated with a first polymer and a coating material component. The anti-snow-accumulation film according to present disclosure contains composite particles formed from fine particles each coated with a first polymer and a binder component. The anti-snow-accumulation film according to the present disclosure has a snow accumulation start time of 20 minutes or more as measured in a snow accumulation test. The anti-snow-accumulation film according to the present disclosure is unlikely to undergo snow accumulation.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a film that has high water slidability, and a substrate having a surface covered with the film. The present disclosure provides a film having the properties of a sliding velocity of 150 mm/s or more at an inclination angle of 30° and an average surface roughness (Ra) of 1 ?m or less, and further provides a substrate having a surface covered with the film.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a film-forming composition capable of forming a film having excellent water repellency, a high level of hardness, and excellent water resistance, and provides the film. The film-forming composition of the present disclosure contains an inorganic fine particle, a polymerizable component, and a water-repellent component, wherein the inorganic fine particle has an average particle size of 100 nm or more and 5 ?m or less, the content of the inorganic fine particle is 5 to 40 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the total mass of the inorganic fine particle, the polymerizable component, and the water-repellent component, and the water-repellent component is a polymer having at least a structure unit based on the compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein X represents a hydrogen atom etc., Y represents a direct bond, a C1-10 hydrocarbon group optionally having an oxygen atom etc.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide an antenna cover base material that is coated with a fluoropolymer-containing film and that has excellent durability of water sliding. The present disclosure pertains to an antenna cover base material coated with a fluoropolymer-containing film, the film having the properties of a water sliding velocity of 150 mm/s or more at an inclination angle of 30°, and an average surface roughness (Ra) of 1 ?m or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a unit and a method useful for more precise phenylalanine measurement. More specifically, the present invention provides a modified phenylalanine dehydrogenase that includes a mutation of at least one amino acid residue so as to improve the characteristics (for example, substrate specificity, solubility, and phenylalanine dehydrogenase activity) of a phenylalanine dehydrogenase related to measurement of phenylalanine, a method for analyzing phenylalanine by measuring phenylalanine contained in a test sample using the modified phenylalanine dehydrogenase, and others.

Abstract: A method of heating up a furnace bottom and a burner lance used in the method are proposed. The method of heating up the furnace bottom includes a step of opening, in the tap hole, a burner lance insertion hole having a diameter larger than a diameter of the burner lance so as to penetrate into the furnace, a step of installing the burner lance in the opened burner lance insertion hole, a step of filling a gap between the installed burner lance and a furnace exterior side of the tap hole with a refractory, and a step of blowing in gas for heating into the furnace from the burner lance to heat up the furnace bottom.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a polymer, characterized by reacting (A) an epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups in the molecule with (B) a reactive compound having, in the molecule, two or more functional groups reactive with epoxy groups, in the presence of (C) a polymerization catalyst and (D) a cocatalyst.

Abstract: A problem to be solved by this disclosure is to provide a composition, preferably a composition for forming a liquid-repellent coating film.

Abstract: A first rotating member a heating recording medium, a second rotating member forming a nip portion with the first rotating member, a holding member disposed downstream of the nip portion in a conveying direction and holds a conveying member conveying the recording medium, and a guide member facing the conveying member, the fixing apparatus is not exposed to an outside when opening/closing member is in a closed state, the fixing apparatus is exposed to the outside when the opening/closing member is in an opened state. A distance between the holding member being in the closed state and at a first position and the guide member is a first distance. A distance between the holding member being in the opened state and at a second position and the guide member is a second distance, and the second distance is shorter than the first distance.

Abstract: A method for producing an ion-exchange resin having a water content of 5% by weight or less, a method for producing a lithography coating film forming-composition using the ion-exchange resin, and a method for washing the ion-exchange resin. The methods include the step of passing an organic solvent having a water content of 150 ppm or less through an ion-exchange resin precursor having a water content of 40% by weight or more, where a dehydration efficiency defined by the following equation is 5 or more: Dehydration efficiency=Dehydration rate (%)/[Weight of the organic solvent used per unit weight of the ion-exchange resin precursor (kg/kg)×Washing time (h)].

Abstract: The drive device drives a drive member and is provided with a power-side gear and a drive-side gear. The power-side gear is driven by a force output from a power source so as to drive the drive member in a range between a first stop position and a second stop position. In addition, the drive-side gear meshes with the power-side gear and transmits the force obtained from the power-side gear to the drive member. Also, the drive-side gear and the power-side gear are configured so as to disengage from each other when the drive member has reached the first stop position and/or the second stop position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having TrkA inhibitory activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention relates to a compound represented by Formula (I): wherein ?X is ?O or the like, R5 and R5A are hydrogen atoms or the like, -A- is —NR1— or the like, B is substituted or unsubstituted aromatic carbocyclyl or the like, R1 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like, R2 is a hydrogen atom or the like, —W— is —CH2— or the like, —WA— is —CH2— or the like, R13 is substituted or unsubstituted aromatic carbocyclyl or the like, R14 is substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclyl or the like, R15 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or the like, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.