Abstract: An intermediate, 5-Acyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno [3,2-c ]pyridine- 2-carboxylic acid derivative of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an acyl group and R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group is useful for synthesizing ticlopidine hydrochloride from an inexpensive, easily available compound in short steps.

Abstract: A novel pyrrolotriazole derivative is disclosed, represented by any one of formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), or (V): ##STR1## A heat transfer dye providing material is also disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a dye providing layer containing a heat migrating dye, said dye providing layer containing at least one pyrrolotriazole azomethine dye represented by any one of formulae (I), (II), (III), or (IV).

Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus, capable of obtaining images with high spatial resolution arid S/N ratio, reducing the influence of the inhomogeneity of the static magnetic field and the chemical shift artifacts, and improving the contrast in the T.sub.2 enhanced image and T.sub.1 enhanced image. The imaging uses the pulse sequence, including: application of RF pulses and slicing gradient magnetic field for exciting a desired region of the body to be examined; application of reading gradient magnetic fields which regularly fluctuate between a negative value and a positive value; application of initial phase encoding gradient magnetic field before the reading gradient magnetic field is applied; application of a predetermined pulse shaped phase encoding gradient magnetic field every time the reading gradient magnetic field changes polarity; and collection of the echo signals emitted from the desired region every time the reading gradient magnetic field changes polarity.

Abstract: An azomethine dye is disclosed, represented by the general formula (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or nonmetallic atom group; X represents --OH or --NR.sup.5 R.sup.6 ; R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, aryl group or heterocyclic group; R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.9, R.sup.10, R.sup.11, R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or nonmetallic atom group; and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, and/or R.sup.2 and R.sup.5, and/or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, and/or R.sup.6 and R.sup.3, and/or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, and/or R.sup.7 and R.sup.8, and/or R.sup.9 and R.sup.10, and/or R.sup.11 and R.sup.12, and/or R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 may be connected to each other to form a cyclic structure.

Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material which forms a cyan dye that has superior heat resistance and that will not readily fade in a reducing atmosphere. The silver halide color photosensitive material contains in at least one layer on a support at least one coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1##wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen atom or a substituent; R.sup.2 represents a substituent; X represents hydrogen atom or a group releasable on a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of a color developing agent; Z.sup.1 represents a nonmetallic atom group necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing, six-membered, heterocyclic ring which has at least one dissociative group: Z.sup.1 cannot be --C(.dbd.O)--N(R)-- C(.dbd.O)--NH--; and R represents a substituent.Also disclosed is a novel dye forming coupler which exhibits a high coupling activity and which gives a dye having a large molar extinction coefficient and superior stability, the coupler being represented by the following formula (XX) or (XXI).

Abstract: Intermediates of the following formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkylcarbonyl group, arylcarbonyl group, alkylsulfonyl group, arylsulfonyl group, alkoxycarbonyl group or aryloxycarbonyl groupand acid salt thereof are useful for synthesizing ticlopidine hydrochloride from an inexpensive and easily available compound in short steps.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing one or more imidazotriazole cyan couplers each having an electron attracting group with a .sigma.p of 0.35 or more in at least one layer on the support. The material provides a cyan color image having a sharp light absorption characteristic absorbing light having a relatively long wavelength falling within a narrow wavelength range. The imidazotriazole cyan coupler is of the following structural formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R.sub.2 represents an electron attracting group having a Hammett's constant value .sigma.p of 0.35 or ore; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group released by coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; and R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 may also be a divalent group forming a dimer or higher polymer, or they each may be bonded to a polymer chain to form a homopolymer or copolymer.

Abstract: A gap between adjoining fuel rods arranged in a fuel assembly is measured by setting a measuring device into a fluid such as cooling water or a specific gas such as CF filling a container, placing a fuel assembly to be inspected to a predetermined portion the container, measuring a distribution of the fluid distributed in the fuel assembly by utilizing a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging system, and measuring the gap in accordance with the fluid distribution as an image. The measuring device includes a magnet unit and a coil unit for generating magnetic fields, and the coil unit includes a coil assembly for generating gradient magnetic fields and a coil assembly for generating a high-frequency magnetic field and detecting a nuclear magnetic resonance signal.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one 1H-pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,2,4]triazole cyan coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is an electron withdrawing group which has a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of 0.15 or more; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to form a ring; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being released upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; said coupler may form a bis-compound or or a polymer at R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) and a silver color photographic material containing same. ##STR1## wherein EWG represents an electron-attractive group having a Hammett substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.30 or more, R represents a substituent, l represents an integer of 0 to 2, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, R and EWG may bond together to form a ring, and when l is 2, two Rs may be the same or different or may bond together to form a ring.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one 1H-pyrrolo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazole cyan coupler represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of 0.20 or more; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to form a ring; the sum of a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma.p value of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 0.65 or more; R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being released upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent; said coupler may be in a form of a bis-compound or a polymer formed at R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.

Abstract: A dry image-forming process is disclosed. The dry image-forming process of the invention comprises heat developing a light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye releasing redox compound said dye releasing redox compound being reductive to the photosensitive silver halide and being capable of releasing a hydrophilic dye upon reaction with the photosensitive silver halide under heating, after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure, to form imagewise a mobile hydrophilic dye and heating, after simultaneously with the heat development, the light-sensitive material together with a dye-fixing layer in the presence of a hydrophilic thermal solvent to thereby transfer the mobile hydrophilic dye onto the dye-fixing layer to form a dye image and fix the dye image. The heat development is carried out in a state containing substantially no water, and the whole of steps are carried out without particular supplying a solvent.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) and a silver halide color photographic material containing same. ##STR1## wherein EWG represents an electron-attractive group having a Hammett substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of 0.30 or more, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a substituent, l represents an integer of 0 or 1, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, and Y represents a hydroxyl group or a sulfonamido group.

Abstract: A color light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver salt layer combined with an image forming compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Dye represents a cyan dye group or a precursor thereof represented by formula (II) defined in the specification;X represents a chemical bond or a linking group;Y represents a group which releases Dye corresponding to or countercorresponding to light-sensitive silver salt having an imagewise latent image and makes a difference in diffusibility between the dye thus released and the compound represented by formula (I), provided that Dye and X are linked to each other by A or E in formula (II); andq represents an integer of 1 or 2, provided that when q is 2, the two groups (Dye--X) may be the same or different.

Abstract: A method of forming a cyan dye image in an exposed silver halide color photographic material comprising a support and a photosensitive silver halide emulsion, said method comprising developing the exposed silver halide color photographic material with a color developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine color developing agent in the presence of a cyan coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein EWG.sub.1 and EWG.sub.2 each represents an electron attractive group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p value of at least 0.30 or;R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent;R.sub.2 represents a substituent;X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of splitting off by a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring; provided that R.sub.2 must not be a halogen atom; and a silver halide color photographic material containing the cyan dye forming coupler.

Abstract: A real-time control system for use with an NMR spectrometer. The control system comprises a control section, a plurality of functional units controlled by the control section, and a bus line connecting the control section with the functional units. Each functional unit has a memory storing event data specifying the conditions of control means such as gates included in the functional unit. The control section has a memory storing timing data and event codes specifying event data. The control section successively produces timing signals and event codes according to the timing data. The timing signals are transmitted to the functional units over the bus. Each functional unit reads event data from its memory according to the incoming event codes and controls its gates according to the event data in synchronism with the timing signals.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dye forming coupler represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a substituent group, and X is a hydrogen atom or a group which can be eliminated by a coupling reaction with the oxidized species of a primary aromatic amine derivative.

Abstract: There is disclosed a thermal transfer dye-providing material capable of providing a sharp image having a high density.

Abstract: A light- and heat-sensitive composition which contains a photo-hardenable composition and at least one dye, a light- and heat-sensitive recording material which contains a support having the composition provided on at least one side thereof, and an image-forming process using the recording material are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel color coupler for photography and a silver halide color photographic material comprising the same, wherein the color coupler is one of the .beta.,.gamma.-unsaturated nitriles represented by formula (I). The invention provides for a color coupler, particularly a cyan coupler, which forms color images less in subsidiary absorption, good in color reproduction, and excellent in fastness, and a silver halide color photographic material having color images as described above. Further the color coupler can be synthesized from inexpensive raw material at a low cost ##STR1## wherein W represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released when the compound is subjected to a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of an aromatic primary amine derivative, R.sub.1 represents a represents a nitrogen atom, R.sub.2 represents a substituent, if V represents ##STR2## R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represent substituent, provided that at least one of R.sub.2 and R.sub.