Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: allowing a player to select a character to be used in each of a plurality of category games included in a specific game; setting the character selected by the player for each category game; deriving an individual game result for each category game; determining, for each category game, a predetermined parameter associated with the character used in the category game; ranking a plurality of characters based on the predetermined parameters of the plurality of category games, the plurality of characters being used in the specific game in accordance with the selection by the player; and deriving an overall game result based on the individual game result of each of the plurality of category games or the predetermined parameters of the plurality of category games.

Abstract: The present invention provides an environmentally friendly pigment dispersant composition that can be produced relatively easily. In this pigment dispersant composition, the content of a volatile component is significantly reduced even though the pigment dispersant composition contains a pigment dispersant mainly containing a constituent unit derived from a vinyl-based monomer, and a pigment dispersion and an ink which are excellent in pigment dispersability can be prepared using this pigment dispersant composition.

Abstract: An information processing device 10 is an information processing device for a game in which rankings of a plurality of game media are respectively determined and a winning team is determined among a plurality of teams consisting of the game media, the information processing device including: a game-media-to-be-used management unit 23a that manages, as the same teams, a plurality of game media selected by a player from a game media group including the plurality of game media; and a game execution unit 23b that executes the game by employing the plurality of game media managed as the teams, wherein the game execution unit 23b has a ranking determination unit 235 that respectively determines the rankings of the game media employed in the game and a winning-team determination unit 236 that determines the winning team on the basis of the rankings determined by the ranking determination unit 235.

Abstract: There is provided a resin-treated pigment that is useful as a coloring agent for color filters or inkjet inks, that can expand a hue range and improve performances such as color density, color developability, and transparency, and that is excellent in properties such as dispersibility and dispersion stability of pigments, re-dissolvability, and alkali-solubility. An A-B block copolymer 90% by mass or more of which is constituted by a methacrylate-based monomer or methacrylate-based monomers, in which the block A has a carboxy group-containing methacrylate as a constituent, and the block B has an ionic bond moiety represented by formula (1) as a constitutional unit, the ionic bond moiety containing a methacrylate, and an organic coloring matter having one or more sulfonate ions each being bonded thereto and each being a counter ion of a nitrogen cation of a quaternary ammonium salt.

Abstract: There is provided a resin-treated pigment that is useful as a coloring agent for color filters or inkjet inks, that can expand a hue range and improve performances such as color density, color developability, and transparency, and that is excellent in properties such as dispersibility and dispersion stability of pigments, re-dissolvability, and alkali-solubility. An A-B block copolymer 90% by mass or more of which is constituted by a methacrylate-based monomer or methacrylate-based monomers, in which the block A has a carboxy group-containing methacrylate as a constituent, and the block B has an ionic bond moiety represented by formula (1) as a constitutional unit, the ionic bond moiety containing a methacrylate, and an organic coloring matter having one or more sulfonate ions each being bonded thereto and each being a counter ion of a nitrogen cation of a quaternary ammonium salt.

Abstract: Provided are a rinsing agent to produce a hard disk substrate free from remaining abrasive grains as well as a pit defect on the surface thereof and a method for production of a hard disk substrate using such a rinsing agent. A rinsing agent of the present invention is rinsing solution containing colloidal silica as abrasive grains. Letting that the colloidal silica abrasive grains have a concentration C and an average grain size R (C and R are represented in weight % and nm, respectively), the concentration C and the average grain size R of the colloidal silica abrasive grains have a relation matching the following Expression (1): 12.2C+18.2??(1).

Abstract: Provided are a rinsing agent to produce a hard disk substrate free from remaining abrasive grains as well as a pit defect on the surface thereof and a method for production of a hard disk substrate using such a rinsing agent. A rinsing agent of the present invention is rinsing solution containing colloidal silica as abrasive grains. Letting that the colloidal silica abrasive grains have a concentration C and an average grain size R (C and R are represented in weight % and nm, respectively), the concentration C and the average grain size R of the colloidal silica abrasive grains have a relation matching the following Expression (1): 12.2C+18.2 (1).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an .alpha.-methylene-cyclopentanone derivative represented by the formula [I] below which is useful as an intermediate for pharmaceuticals and insecticides, especially prostaglandins. Also disclosed herein is a process for producing the derivative advantageously on an industrial scale. ##STR1## where X denotes (.alpha.-OZ, .beta.-H) or (.alpha.-H, .beta.-OZ), with Z representing a protecting group for the hydroxyl group; U denotes (.alpha.-H, .beta.-R.sup.1) or (.beta.-R.sup.1, .alpha.-H); R.sup.1 denotes ##STR2## where R.sup.2 denotes a protected hydroxyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-15 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.2-15 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.2-15 alkynyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.6-15 aryl group; Z' denotes a protecting group for the hydroxyl group; and k is 0 or 1).

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone derivatives and substituted cyclopentenone and cyclohexenone derivatives, which are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical products and agricultural chemicals and especially useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins, and also to a process for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone derivatives and substituted cyclopentenone and cyclohexenone derivatives, which are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical products and agricultural chemicals and especially useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins, and also to a process for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone derivatives and substituted cyclopentenone and cyclohexenone derivatives, which are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical products and agricultural chemicals and especially useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins, and also to a process for producing the same.

Abstract: Optical resolution of (.+-.)-2-(3-benzoyl)-phenylpropionic acid is attained effeciently in high yield by the use of a specific optically active amine which is represented by the general formula [I]: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 either stands for a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, a methyl group, or an isopropyl group or participates, as a divalent group, in forming a benzene ring in combination with two carbon atoms adjoining each other in a benzene ring to which the substituent, R.sup.1, is bonded, R.sup.2 stands for a lower alkyl group, a hydroxymethyl group, an .alpha.-hydroxybenzyl group, or a ##STR2## group (R.sup.3 standing for a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a bromine atom, or a methyl group), n for 0 or 1, and * for the center of optical activity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted cyclopentanone and cylohexanone derivatives and substituted cyclopentenone and cyclohexenone derivatives, which are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical products and agricultural chemicals and especially useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins, and also to a process for producing the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone derivatives and substituted cyclopentenone and cyclohexenone derivatives, which are useful as intermediates for pharmaceutical products and agricultural chemicals and especially useful for the synthesis of prostaglandins, and also to a process for producing the same.

Abstract: An optically active polymer comprises recurring units of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein l is an integer of 5-1000, n is an integer of 1-3, m is an integer of 2-20, and * denotes the location of an asymmetric center. The optically active polymer has a good mutual solubility with a low-molecular weight mesomorphic compound and is easily mixed with the latter to provide a uniform liquid crystal composition which shows ferroelectricity and better film formability and stability than the low-molecular weight mesamorphic compound alone.

Abstract: A compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydroxyl-protecting group, X is a hydrogen atom, CO.sub.2 R' (wherein R' is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 7 carbon atoms, or CO.sub.2 R' is a salt of CO.sub.2 H), or a group of the formula: ##STR2## and when X is a hydrogen atom, Y is CO.sub.2 R' (wherein R' is as defined above) or a group of the formula: ##STR3## and when X is CO.sub.2 R' or the group of the formula (i), Y is a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: 2-Phenylpropoionic acid ester of Formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents p-nitrophenyl group, .beta.-naphthyl group or 2-(.beta.-naphthyl)ethyl group.Optical resolution of the above is carried out by preferential crystallization by seeding either one of the optical isomers into a super-saturated solution of a racemic modification thereof or a mixture of the optical isomers thereof. The efficiency of the optical resolution can be increased by optional addition of a recemizing agent comprising a strongly basic amine or an alcholate.

Abstract: A process for preparing d-.alpha.-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)propionic acid, which comprises hydrolyzing an ester of d-.alpha.-(6-methoxy-2-naphthyl)propionic acid in an aqueous solution containing a basic catalyst.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of an ester of .alpha.-thio-.alpha.-aromatic propionic acid derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl, phenyl or benzothiazolyl, R.sup.2 is alkyl and Ar is an aromatic substituent.The method comprises reacting an ester of .alpha.-chloro-.alpha.-thiopropionic acid of the formula: ##STR2## with an aromatic compound of the formula ARH, in the presence of a Lewis acid. The method provides good reactivity and positional selectivity in the Friedel-Crafts reaction. Many esters of the formula (2) are useful as pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, perfumes or their intermediates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing an optical active alkyl ester of .alpha.-(6-methoxynaphth-2-yl)propionic acid from the racemic modification thereof or from a mixture of the optical isomers thereof by preferential crystallization. The efficiency of the optical resolution can be increased by adding a base which facilitates the racemization. The process comprises dissolving the racemic modification or the optical isomers in an organic solvent such as methanol, ethanol, etc., with or without a base such as sodium methoxide, sodium ethoxide, etc., and seeding seed crystals of one of the optical isomers to effect crystallization for optical resolution.