Abstract: The invention has the purpose of improving and maintaining the water quality inside bays where fish are cultivated, and achieving a habitat that is amenable for fish and other marine life. The supply of seawater from the open ocean into bays is controlled more by the tides than by the currents, and while oxygen-deficient marine areas occur near the ocean floor, the oxygen content in the seawater near the surface is held comparatively high by the photosynthesis of phytoplankton and dissolution from the atmosphere. Therefore, oxygen-deficient and oxygen-less areas can be easily dissipated and eliminated by stirring the sea floor, especially the water of the bottom layer, by means of a seawater pump.

Abstract: Novel 3-aminocarbonyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-5-carboxylic acid compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is H, C.sub.1-5 alkyl, C.sub.2-5 alkenyl, C.sub.3.5 alkynyl, C.sub.3-8 cycloalkyl, R.sup.2 is C.sub.1-10 alkyl, and the NO.sub.2 group is substituted at ortho- or meta-position, provided that when the NO.sub.2 group is substituted at ortho-position and R.sup.2 is methyl, R.sup.1 is C.sub.3-5 alkyl, C.sub.2-5 alkenyl, C.sub.3-5 alkynyl, or C.sub.3-8 cycloalkyl, and when the NO.sub.2 group is substituted at meta-position and R.sup.1 is H, R.sup.2 is C.sub.3-10 alkyl, which have excellent hypotensive, vasodilating activities and are useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of hypertension, ischemic heart diseases and cerebral and peripheral circulation diseases.

Abstract: A resin composition comprising(a) a vinyl chloride/ethylene copolymer having an ethylene content in the range of 3 to 12% by weight, an average degree of polymerization in the range of 700 to 2900 and a ratio of weight average molecular weight to number average molecular weight in the range of from 2.5:1 to 5.5:1,(b) an ethylene/carbon monoxide/vinyl acetate copolymer, and(c) a glycerin ester of a specific epoxidized aliphatic carboxylic acid. This resin composition is suitable for making medical devices, especially bags for storing transfusion fluids, receptacles for storing blood, and tubes for a blood circuit in artificial kidneys.

Abstract: A resin sheet having a porous layered structure useful as an electrode separator for electric cells, said sheet comprising (a) an olefin resin, (b) a finely divided inorganic substance, and (c) at least one substance selected from the group consisting of (i) a water-swellable thermoplastic resin, (ii) a water-insoluble or difficultly water-soluble hydrophilic nonionic surface active agent, and (iii) a water-insoluble difficultly water-soluble hydrophilic anionic surface active agent, said sheet including fine pores arranged throughout its cross section in a plurality of layers, at least some of them forming open cells.The above sheet is prepared by a process comprising fabricating a mixture containing the above components (a), (b) and (c) into a sheet, and stretching the sheet in at least one direction.

Abstract: A resin sheet having a porous layered structure useful as an electrode separator for electric cells, said sheet comprising (a) an olefin resin, (b) a finely divided inorganic substance, and (c) at least one substance selected from the group consisting of (i) a water-swellable thermoplastic resin, (ii) a water-insoluble or difficultly water-soluble hydrophilic nonionic surface active agent, and (iii) a water-insoluble difficultly water-soluble hydrophilic anionic surface active agent, said sheet including fine pores arranged throughout its cross section in a plurality of layers, at least some of them forming open cells.The above sheet is prepared by a process comprising fabricating a mixture containing the above components (a), (b) and (c) into a sheet, and stretching the sheet in at least one direction.