Abstract: The holder member 4 is rotatably supported at the tip portion 2a of the sliding member 2 placed on the guide face 1a of the guide member 1 arranged fixedly inside the cylinder C. The holder member 4 is inclined when the tip portion 3a of the profiling member 3 is inserted between the holder member 4 and the sliding member 2. Then the tapered end of the processing roller 6 is pushed into the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder where the sliding member 2 and the profiling member 3 move together in the axial direction of the cylinder, thereby to form a linear groove on the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of constructing a circular DNA library having an increased content of a desired first dsDNA by removing a second dsDNA using RecA protein to introduce a target single strand nucleic acid by homologous recombination at the 3? terminal portion of the second dsDNA, whereby the target DNA has a 3? terminal portion that differs from the 3? terminal portion of the second dsDNA to prevent circularization, thereby creating a triple stranded DNA portion at the 3? terminal end of the second dsDNA, adding Exonuclease I to digest the displaced first strand of the second dsDNA, ligating the DNA fragments to circularize the desired first dsDNA, removing the linear second dsDNA, thereby constructing the circularized DNA library having an increased content of the desired first dsDNA.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a method in which a lignocellulosic material is treated with a phenol derivative and acid, whereby a lignophenol derivative can be recovered, and moreover sugar from an acid/sugar solution obtained at the same time can be recovered and used easily and efficiently. One form of the present invention relates to a method of separating and recovering an acid/sugar solution and a lignophenol derivative, comprising putting a reaction mixture of a lignocellulosic material, a phenol derivative and an acid into an amount of water 0.5 to 6 times the amount of the mixture as a volume ratio, and leaving the mixture to stand or maintaining the mixture in a weakly agitated state, so as to agglomerate a lignophenol derivative produced as a solid phase, and then carrying out solid-liquid separation, so as to separate and recover the lignophenol derivative as the solid phase and an acid/sugar mixture as a liquid phase.

Abstract: The holder member 4 is rotatably supported at the tip portion 2a of the sliding member 2 placed on the guide face 1a of the guide member 1 arranged fixedly inside the cylinder C. The holder member 4 is inclined when the tip portion 3a of the profiling member 3 is inserted between the holder member 4 and the sliding member 2. Then the tapered end of the processing roller 6 is pushed into the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder where the sliding member 2 and the profiling member 3 move together in the axial direction of the cylinder, thereby to form a linear groove on the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder C.

Abstract: In the case where a first semiconductor chip 100 and a second semiconductor chip 200 are stacked, both the semiconductor chips 100 and 200 are connected using micro bumps, in which a circuit block in the first semiconductor chip and a circuit block in the second semiconductor chip are connected by the micro bumps, and the circuit block in the second semiconductor chip is also connected to the external electrode by the micro bumps through the first semiconductor chip. Further, micro bumps 121, 221 that connect circuit blocks 101, 102, 103, 104 and 210 of both the semiconductor chips 100, 200 and the micro bumps 122, 222 that connect the circuit block 210 in one chip 200 to an external electrode are arranged in different positions.

Abstract: A plasma generating electrode capable of generating plasma with a high energy level by using a small amount of electric power is provided. The plasma generating electrode includes at least a pair of unit electrodes including a unit electrode as an anode and a unit electrode as a cathode, and can generate plasma by applying voltage, the unit electrode as an anode and the unit electrode as a cathode being disposed facing each other, and at least the unit electrode as an anode having a plate-like ceramic dielectric and a conductive film disposed in the ceramic dielectric, wherein the unit electrode as a cathode can emit secondary electrons in a number five times or greater than the number of cations (primary particles) which it receives when the cations produced in the process of plasma generation collide therewith.

Abstract: A display control program is proposed which displays data already stored in a memory on a display unit if an empty capacity of the memory is insufficient for an amount of write data to be written in the memory; displays an operator on the display unit in a first color, the operator being capable of moving by a user operation and being used for selecting data to be overwritten with the write data from the data displayed on the display unit; displays a gage on the display unit and display in a second color a range in the gage corresponding to an insufficient capacity for writing the write data in the memory; and displays a range in the gage corresponding to an empty capacity to be formed by deleting the data selected with the operator, in the first color same as a color of the operator.

Abstract: There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.

Abstract: An objective of this invention is to provide a method which can specifically enrich a desired DNA with a long insert size from a DNA library and can provide a clone of the DNA directly. This invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having increased proportion of a first double-stranded DNA therein by removing, from an original library containing the first double-stranded DNA to be increased in proportion, a second double-stranded DNA different from the first double-stranded DNA.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of constructing a circular DNA library having an increased content of a desired nucleic acid by removing a specific DNA from the circular DNA library by using a RecA protein. More specifically, the present invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having an increased content of the first dsDNA by removing a second dsDNA different from the first dsDNA from a DNA library containing the first dsDNA to be increased in content and the second dsDNA.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having increased proportion of a desired nucleic acid(s) therein by removing a nucleic acid(s) other than the desired nucleic acid(s) from a parent library.

Abstract: An objective of this invention is to provide a method which can specifically enrich a desired DNA with a long insert size from a DNA library and can provide a clone of the DNA directly. This invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having increased proportion of a first double-stranded DNA therein by removing, from an original library containing the first double-stranded DNA to be increased in proportion, a second double-stranded DNA different from the first double-stranded DNA.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of constructing a DNA library having increased proportion of a desired nucleic acid(s) therein by removing a nucleic acid(s) other than the desired nucleic acid(s) from a parent library.

Abstract: Phonetic modeling includes the steps of forming triphone grammars (11) from phonetic data, training triphone models (13), clustering triphones (14) that are acoustically close together and mapping unclustered triphone grammars into a clustered model (16). The clustering process includes using a decision tree based on the acoustic likelihood and allows sub-model clusters in user-definable units.

Abstract: In a digital information system for realizing the sale of information or the like having a commercial value in the form of a digital signal, and an audio processor, and signal processor suitably used with the system, when a digital signal is received/delivered, a digital signal source is connected directly to a player for receiving and storing a specified information, which is reproduced by the player independently. A voice interval of a digital audio signal is processed to realize the slow and fast playback. The system includes a data compressor and a data extender of simple configuration. The value of the digital signal received/delivered can be exhibited directly. A selling system is constructed easily, and the player is simple in configuration and easy to operate by anyone.

Abstract: In a digital information system for realizing the sale of information or the like having a commercial value in the form of a digital signal, and an audio processor, and signal processor suitably used with the system, when a digital signal is received/delivered, a digital signal source is connected directly to a player for receiving and storing a specified information, which is reproduced by the player independently. A voice interval of a digital audio signal is processed to realize the slow and fast playback. The system includes a data compressor and a data extender of simple configuration. The value of the digital signal received/delivered can be exhibited directly. A selling system is constructed easily, and the player is simple in configuration and easy to operate by anyone.

Abstract: A shower head comprises a jet nozzle for jetting pressurized water supplied, a shower main body having ejector mechanisms consisting of the jet nozzle and an air-liquid mixing tube provided via an air suction member, a discharge outlet of the air-liquid mixing tube opening to a shower discharge member, and an annular projecting member projecting from the shower discharge member so as to surround the discharge outlet, wherein an air absorption hole of the air absorption member is made in an outer side section of the annular projecting member.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to cytomegalovirus (CMV) latent transcripts, latency-associated polypeptides and antibodies directed against such polypeptide. The polypeptides are encoded by CMV DNA sequences and are produced specifically during latent infection. Also provided are methods of detecting CMV in a sample, particularly CMV in a latent state. The methods include RT-PCR-based methods and immunodiagnostic methods.

Abstract: A hydrothermal reaction is performed on an aqueous medium without adding an oxidizing agent, and then another hydrothermal reaction is performed in the presence of an oxidizing agent, thereby reducing a chemical oxygen demand of the aqueous medium. An apparatus for performing a hydrothermal reaction has a fluid inlet being capable of introducing an oxidizing agent in a fluid form during a hydrothermal reaction.

Abstract: A hydrothermal reaction is performed on an aqueous medium without adding an oxidizing agent, and then another hydrothermal reaction is performed in the presence of an oxidizing agent, thereby reducing a chemical oxygen demand of the aqueous medium. An apparatus for performing a hydrothermal reaction has a fluid inlet being capable of introducing an oxidizing agent in a fluid form during a hydrothermal reaction.