Abstract: A method for producing a granular material, comprising treating unprocessed starch(es) with acid treatment, oxidation treatment and/or enzymatic treatment to obtain partially degraded starch(es), the unprocessed starch including 5% by weight or more of amylose relative to the unprocessed starch; obtaining a raw material comprising 45% by weight or more of a starch relative to a total amount of the granular material, the starch comprising 7% by weight or more of the partially degraded starches relative to the total amount of the granular material; and granulating the raw material by heating and compressing with an extruder, wherein a water absorption rate is 250-700% by weight, a compressive syneresis rate is 7% by weight or more, and a content of particles over a sieve of 0.5 mm aperture in the granular material is 40-100% by weight.

Abstract: A data storage device (DSD) is assembled with a flexible sheet of barrier material covering at least a portion of the top cover and/or bottom base of the DSD enclosure, whereby a layer of air is between the sheet of barrier material and the cover and/or base. Polyvinlyidene chloride (PVDC) may be used as the barrier material. A wrap-around structure may be used for the barrier material, enveloping the DSD so that an open end can be positioned open to a primary direction of airflow, such that a respective layer of air is created between the barrier material and each of the cover and/or base. An adhesive may be positioned around the outer edge of the cover and/or base, to adhere the sheet of barrier material to the respective cover and/or base while allowing the air layer to fill the space therebetween.

Abstract: A video processor includes a receiving section that receives video information representing video images and luminance-related information on the luminance of the video images and a video processing section that determines an expansion target luminance range of the video images based on the luminance-related information and expands the expansion target luminance range in such a way that the maximum luminance in the expansion target luminance range increases.

Abstract: Provided is a food or beverage composition for suppressing an expression of an interleukin 7 receptor (IL-7R) gene, including a resistant starch-rich starch satisfying the following conditions (a), (b), (c) and (d) as an active ingredient: (a) having a resistant starch content of 60% or more, as determined by the AOAC Official Method 2002.02 for measuring resistant starch, (b) having a molecular weight peak more than or equal to 6×103 and less than or equal to 4×104, (c) having a molecular weight dispersity more than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 6.0, and (d) having a gelatinization enthalpy at 50° C. to 130° C. of 10 J/g or less, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry.

Abstract: An oil- or fat-processed starch, exhibiting a solubility of equal to or higher than 9.5% by mass and equal to or lower than 45% by mass, and an emulsifying capacity of equal to or higher than 50% and equal to or lower than 100%.

Abstract: An air-conditioning planning unit: obtains air-conditioning control plan options indicating setting values for air-conditioning, a first room temperature of a space at a first control time, and a first air-conditioning power usage consumed at the first control time; calculates a second room temperature at a second control time with a first function whose explanatory variables include the first room temperature, the first air-conditioning power usage, and at least one of the options; calculates, for each of the options, room temperature and air-conditioning power usage in a time series by calculating a second air-conditioning power usage at the second control time with a second function whose explanatory variables include the first room temperature, the first air-conditioning power usage, and at least one of the options; calculates an evaluation indicator to evaluate a comfort level and cost; and selects an air-conditioning control plan from the options based on the evaluation indicator.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus including: a reproducing unit which generates a digital signal from an analog signal; a recording compensation unit which generates an expectation signal from the digital signal, detects a signal difference between the digital signal and the expectation signal, and adjusts a recording condition for recording the information; and a recording unit configured to record the information based on the recording condition. First recording compensation is performed for adjusting the recording condition using first recording where lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a first recording mark and lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a second recording mark are not in intersymbol interference; and second recording compensation is performed for adjusting the recording condition for the first recording mark using second recording data for changing a length of the second recording mark.

Abstract: A door handle device for a vehicle includes a door opening prevention mechanism that is provided with an inertia lever being rotatably supported at a base frame, an inertia body being mounted to the inertia lever, and an elastic member elastically biasing the inertia lever toward an initial position where the movement of a link mechanism is not restricted by the inertia lever. The inertia lever includes a center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of a center of gravity of the outside handle in an extending direction of the outside handle, the center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of the center of gravity of the outside handle in vehicle upper-lower directions, or being set at a lower position relative to the center of gravity of the outside handle.

Abstract: An information recording and reproducing apparatus including: a reproducing unit which generates a digital signal from an analog signal; a recording compensation unit which generates an expectation signal from the digital signal, detects a signal difference between the digital signal and the expectation signal, and adjusts a recording condition for recording the information; and a recording unit configured to record the information based on the recording condition. First recording compensation is performed for adjusting the recording condition using first recording where lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a first recording mark and lengths of a preceding space and a succeeding space of a second recording mark are not in intersymbol interference; and second recording compensation is performed for adjusting the recording condition for the first recording mark using second recording data for changing a length of the second recording mark.

Abstract: An intestinal environment-improving agent containing, as an effective component, a starch with a high resistant starch content that satisfies the following conditions (a), (b), (c), and (d): (a) a content of a resistant starch measured by the resistant starch measurement method of AOAC official method 2002. 02 is equal to or higher than 60%; (b) a peak of a molecular weight is equal to or higher than 6×103 and equal to or lower than 4×104; (c) a molecular weight dispersity is equal to or higher than 1.5 and equal to or higher than 6.0; and (d) a gelatinization enthalpy at 50° C. to 130° C. measured by a differential scanning calorimetry is equal to or lower than 10 J/g.

Abstract: Pentameric CRP is produced at a high efficiency by transferring DNA, which encodes monomeric CRP, into a silkworm to thereby construct a transgenic silkworm and then collecting and purifying pentameric CRP that is produced by the transgenic silkworm constructed above.

Abstract: A composition containing a starch at a content of equal to or higher than 75% by mass, wherein the composition contains a low molecular weight starch as the starch at a content of equal to or higher than 3% by mass and equal to or lower than 45% by mass, the low molecular weight starch being obtainable from a starch containing amylose at a content of equal to or higher than 5% by mass as a raw material, wherein a peak molecular weight of the low molecular weight starch is equal to or higher than 3×103 and equal to or lower than 5×104, wherein a degree of swelling in cold water of the composition at 25 degrees C. is equal to or higher than 7 and equal to or lower than 20, and wherein a content of an oversieve fraction of a granulated material in the composition on 0.5 mm mesh is equal to or lower than 50% by mass.

Abstract: An intestinal environment-improving agent containing, as an effective component, a starch with a high resistant starch content that satisfies the following conditions (a), (b), (c), and (d): (a) a content of a resistant starch measured by the resistant starch measurement method of AOAC official method 2002. 02 is equal to or higher than 60%; (b) a peak of a molecular weight is equal to or higher than 6×103 and equal to or lower than 4×104; (c) a molecular weight dispersity is equal to or higher than 1.5 and equal to or higher than 6.0; and (d) a gelatinization enthalpy at 50° C. to 130° C. measured by a differential scanning calorimetry is equal to or lower than 10 J/g.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an airbag that can be efficiently stored according to a storage space. The invention is a side airbag 1 stored in the backrest portion SA of a vehicle seat S, having a first airbag 3 which is inflated in a circular shape by gas supplied by an inflator 2 provided in the backrest portion SA when seen from the side of the backrest portion SA; a second airbag 4 provided so as to be located in the first airbag 3 in an inflated state; and a communicating path 5 that communicates the first airbag 3 and the second airbag 4 on the side of the backrest portion of the second airbag when seen from the side of the backrest portion, in which the second airbag 4 has a vertical width T2 set to be larger than the vertical width T3 of the communication path 5, and has at least the top portion 4b, the bottom portion 4c, and the front portion 4d separated from the first airbag 3 when seen from the side of the backrest portion SA.

Abstract: A collision test apparatus includes actuators that move a vehicle structural member toward the side of a carrying unit on which a dummy is carried. The actuators can be driven independently of each other. Therefore, the actuators move the vehicle structural member at respectively different driving speeds. In other words, the collision test apparatus does not simply move the vehicle structural member such that the vehicle structural member collides with the dummy, but also causes the vehicle structural member to collide with the dummy while moving the vehicle structural member at different speeds in different positions.

Abstract: When bnt denotes the length adjustment amount of a front edge portion of an nT recording mark (n: integer, T: channel clock length) and cnT denotes the length adjustment amount of a rear edge portion thereof with respect to a channel clock reference, d denotes a minimum value of n and k denotes a maximum value of n, the length adjustment amount bdT of a front edge portion of a shortest recording mark dT, the length adjustment amount cdT of a rear edge portion of the shortest recording mark dT, the length adjustment amount bkT of a front edge portion of a longest recording mark kT and the length adjustment amount ckT of a rear edge portion of the longest recording mark dT satisfy bdT+cdT>bkT+ckT.

Abstract: A granular material including equal to or larger than 45% by weight of a starch, the starch including a starch composed of one, two or more types of partially degraded starch(es) produced by treating a starch containing amylose at a content of equal to or larger than 5% by weight with any one, two or more of an acid treatment, an oxidation treatment and an enzymatic treatment, at equal to or larger than 7% by weight in the granular material, wherein a water absorption rate, in which the granular material absorbs water for 1 hour at 30 degrees C. by adding 40 g of water to 5 g of the granular material, is equal to or larger than 250% by weight and equal to or smaller than 700% by weight, wherein a compressive syneresis rate, in which a water-absorbed dough that absorbs water for 1 hour at 30 degrees C. by adding 40 g of water to 5 g of the granular material is compressed at a pressure of 141.5 g/cm2 at 30 degrees C.

Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes: first and second pairs of rollers for conveying a sheet while nipping the sheet; and a recording head disposed between the first and seconds pairs of rollers. The recording head performs an image recording on the sheet by ejecting ink droplets onto the sheet when the sheet is stopped in an intermittent conveyance of the sheet. The recording head performs the image recording in accordance with a first image-recording data, before a trailing end of the sheet passes through the first pair of rollers that is disposed on an upstream side of the second pair of rollers. The recording head performs the image recording in accordance with a second image-recording data which is based on the first image-recording data and which has a higher image resolution than the first image-recording data, after the trailing end of the sheet passes through the first pair of rollers.

Abstract: The present inventors produced transgenic silkworms which comprise a promoter of a DNA encoding a protein specifically expressed in the silk gland and a DNA encoding a recombinant antibody whose expression is regulated directly or indirectly by the promoter, and which secrete the recombinant antibody into the silk gland. The recombinant antibodies produced from the silk gland of the transgenic silkworms were confirmed to be active.

Abstract: Pentameric CRP is produced at a high efficiency by transferring DNA, which encodes monomeric CRP, into a silkworm to thereby construct a transgenic silkworm and then collecting and purifying pentameric CRP that is produced by the transgenic silkworm constructed above.