Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a transparent conductive film exhibiting excellent adhesion to a substrate and excellent crack resistance, together with high transparency and conductivity. Also disclosed is a transparent conductive film comprising a substrate having thereon: a low density metal oxide layer made of metal oxide, and a high density metal oxide layer made of metal oxide that are alternately laminated layer by layer, wherein the transparent conductive film satisfies a condition specified by the following inequality (1); 1.01?M2/M1?1.400??(1), provided that a density of the low density metal oxide layer and a density of the high density metal oxide layer are represented by M1 and M2, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides an intermediate transfer member having higher transferability and higher cleaning properties aid durability, an apparatus for producing an intermediate transfer member which does not require the provision of any large equipment such as vacuum equipment, and an image forming apparatus comprising the intermediate transfer member. The intermediate transfer member contains a support and, provided on the support, a first inorganic compound layer containing carbon atoms and a second inorganic compound layer as a surface layer, the second inorganic compound layer not containing any carbon atom or containing carbon atoms in a smaller amount than the carbon atoms in the first inorganic compound layer.

Abstract: Provided is an intermediate transfer member, a method of producing the same, and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus thereof having excellent effects such that neither crack nor rupture is generated upon repetitive use, no transferring ratio drops during secondary transfer, and neither white patch of an text image nor white patch of a solid image is generated. Also disclosed is an intermediate transfer member used for an image forming apparatus, wherein a surface of the intermediate transfer member has a hardness of 1.5-3.0 GPa, measured by a nano indentation method, and a hardness of 0.15-0.45 GPa, specified by a universal hardness method.

Abstract: A display front plane having an anti-reflection film in thickness uniformity and good adhesion between the anti-reflection film and the base material is supplied. Each of a display lenticular lens and a display fresnel lens having a sophisticated anti-reflection function with a high total light transmittance is also to be provided. As for the display front plane, lenticular lens, fresnel lens relating to the present invention, gas containing a gas for thin film formation is introduced into a discharge space under the atmospheric pressure or the pressure close to it and the gas is activated by applying a high frequency electric field in the discharge space mentioned above. And then, anti-reflection film at least on one side of the surface of the base material is formed by exposing the base material in the aforementioned activated gas.

Abstract: A single protein which is the substance of the PGE2 synthesis activity in brain soluble fractions of LPS administered rats has been purified and identified. The protein has an activity of synthesizing PGE2 from PGH2, and further, has an activity of synthesizing PGE2 from arachidonic acid in combination with COX.

Abstract: A single protein which is the substance of the PGE2 synthesis activity in brain soluble fractions of LPS administered rats has been purified and identified. The protein has an activity of synthesizing PGE2 from PGH2, and further, has an activity of synthesizing PGE2 from arachidonic acid in combination with COX.

Abstract: A display front plane having an anti-reflection film in thickness uniformity and good adhesion between the anti-reflection film and the base material is supplied. Each of a display lenticular lens and a display fresnel lens having a sophisticated anti-reflection function with a high total light transmittance is also to be provided. As for the display front plane, lenticular lens, fresnel lens relating to the present invention, gas containing a gas for thin film formation is introduced into a discharge space under the atmospheric pressure or the pressure close to it and the gas is activated by applying a high frequency electric field in the discharge space mentioned above. And then, anti-reflection film at least on one side of the surface of the base material is formed by exposing the base material in the aforementioned activated gas.

Abstract: A thin film forming method, wherein a discharge gas is introduced into a discharge space to be excited under an atmospheric or approximately atmospheric pressure, a thin film forming gas containing an orgenometallic compound with an organic group containing a fluorine atom being brought into contact with said excited discharge gas outside the discharge space to be converted into an indirectly excited gas, and a substrate is exposed to said indirectly excited gas to form a thin film on said substrate, and a thin film formed substance formed by the same.

Abstract: An silver halide photothermographic light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a undercoating layer and a photographic light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide, and organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the undercoating layer contains fine particles having a mean primary particle size of 0.01 to 1.6 &mgr;m and satisfying the following equation, 1≦(r2/r1)≦1.4 wherein r1 and r2 are respectively an inscribed circle radius and a circumscribed circle radius of each of projected images of the fine particles obtained by a microscope, and (r2/r1) is an average value of r2/r1 of projected images of 500 fine particles randomly selected from the whole fine particles.

Abstract: An silver halide photothermographic light sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a undercoating layer and a photothermographic light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide, and organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the undercoating layer contains fine particles having a mean primary particle size of 0.01 to 1.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a backing layer containing inorganic particles is disclosed. The photographic material is exelent in curl-balance suitable for transporting during the processing with automatic processing machine. The photographic material may also comprise a magnetic recording layer on the backing layer so that it is allowed to use as magnetic recording.

Abstract: Peptide inhibitors of phospholipase A.sub.2 from inflammatory sites having the amino acid sequence given in formula SEQ. I.D.

Abstract: Protein inhibitors of phospholipase A.sub.2 purified from inflammatory sites which have an amino acid sequence given in FIGS. 3-1 through 3-3 or an amino acid sequence physiologically equivalent thereto, a process for preparation of said inhibitory protein wherein serum of mammalian animal is enzymatically treated, and a gene coding said inhibitory protein.

Abstract: Protein having inflammatory phospholipase A.sub.2 inhibitory activity wherein said protein has a nature to be induced from cells by administration of glucocorticoid, for example, having a molecular weight of 40 K and the amino acid sequence from the N-terminal consisting of a N-terminal amino acid-Asp-Val-Pro-Ala-Ala-Asp-Leu-Ser-Asp-.

Abstract: An electric wire bundler is disclosed in which an anchor is provided on a bottom of an electric wire rest, and a boss is provided on a top of the rest so that an end face of the boss is located at a distance from an axis of the anchor. A flexible band extends from the boss and has a plurality of engaging portions at intervals in the longitudinal direction of the band. The boss has an insertion hole, into which the band is inserted from the end face. The boss is provided with an engaging means, which is engaged with one of the engaging portions of the band inserted into the hole.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a grommet for supporting a bundle of electric wires which passes a fixing hole formed in a partition panel. The grommet comprises an elastic member and a rigid member to be assembled with the elastic member. The elastic member has a wire securing portion in which the bundle of the electrical wires is secured, a sealing lip to be in contact with the partition panel and a fitting portion having an outer periphery on which a concave portion is formed. The rigid member has a lock portion to be locked with the partition panel and a fitted portion to be fitted onto the fitting portion of the elastic member. The fitted portion has an inner periphery on which a convex portion to be engaged with the concave portion of the fitting portion of the elastic member when the elastic member is assembled with the rigid member is formed. The grommet can realize easy and stable composition of the elastic portion and the rigid portion with high sealability.

Abstract: A tundish for continuous casting of a free-cutting steel comprises a molten steel teeming zone into which a low melting metal is added to a molten metal as a machinability element, a dispersing means provided in the flow path of the molten steel between the molten steel teeming zone and a discharge outlet for the molten steel, and a dam installed downstream the dispersing means.

Abstract: A system is provided with a sensor for sensing the vibration of the engine, and control means responsive to an output of the sensor at a condition of knocking in the engine and for producing a knock signal. A control means is provided responsive to the knock signal for enriching the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine so as to prevent the knocking. The system further comprises an ignition timing control system responsive to the knock signal for retarding the ignition timing.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine having an emission control system with a three-way catalytic converter for controlling the air-fuel ratio in accordance with the temperature of the engine and operation of the engine. A temperature sensor for detecting the engine temperature and a negative pressure sensor for detecting the engine manifold vacuum in the induction passage are provided. A feedback control circuit is provided for controlling the air-fuel ratio to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in a normal operating condition and for stopping the control operation when the acceleration in the cold engine is detected by the temperature sensor and the negative pressure sensor. A first switch is provided to be actuated by the output of the negative pressure sensor to connect the output of the temperature sensor with the input of the feedback control circuit when the negative pressure is lower than a predetermined value.