Abstract: In a test strip measuring method in which a coloration measurement is conducted while a test strip (4) is being moved, there are detected the optical characteristics R of the ground of a test strip and the optical characteristics T of a test line (4b) which has appeared on the test strip, and the test strip is judged based on the difference or ratio between R and T. Even though the ground of the test strip presents variations in optical characteristics, and even though there are variations among samples or among test strips, such variations can be absorbed, thus assuring an accurate judgment.

Abstract: In a test strip measuring method in which a coloration measurement is conducted while a test strip (4) is being moved, there are detected the optical characteristics R of the ground of a test strip and the optical characteristics T of a test line (4b) which has appeared on the test strip, and the test strip is judged based on the difference or ratio between R and T. Even though the ground of the test strip presents variations in optical characteristics, and even though there are variations among samples or among test strips, such variations can be absorbed, thus assuring an accurate judgment.

Abstract: In a test strip measuring method in which a coloration measurement is conducted while a test strip (4) is being moved, there are detected the optical characteristics R of the ground of a test strip and the optical characteristics T of a test line (4b) which has appeared on the test strip, and the test strip is judged based on the difference or ratio between R and T. Even though the ground of the test strip presents variations in optical characteristics, and even though there are variations among samples or among test strips, such variations can be absorbed, thus assuring an accurate judgment.

Abstract: A lower alcohol is recovered from a mixed liquid thereof with water, derived from a vapor drying procedure for a water-wetted article, for example, a water-washed lens or semiconductor wafer, by feeding the mixed liquid of a lower alcohol with water from the vapor drying procedure to a vaporizer; vaporizing the mixed liquid; feeding the mixed vapor into a gas-separating module comprising at least one gas-separating membrane, for example, composed of a aromatic polyimide hollow fiber, which allows a selective permeation of water vapor from a feed side to a permeated side therethrough, withdrawing a non-permeated vapor fraction containing the lower alcohol in an increased concentration from the feed side, and converting the vapor fraction to a high purity lower alcohol liquid by cooling, while discharging a permeated vapor fraction containing water in an increased concentration from the permeated side.

Abstract: The present invention provides a speech recognition apparatus for recognizing speech by converting voice signal into digital data. The apparatus performs a two-stage Dynamic Programming (DP) operation comprising a pre-stage and post-stage operation. The pre-stage DP operation is conducted with regard to the inputted digital voice data selected along a time axis and standard pattern data formed in advance in correspondence with voice and stored in a memory, thereby selecting several standard pattern data as the candidates. The post-stage DP operation is further conducted with regard to the inputted digital voice signals and the selected candidates of standard pattern data. Thus, the DP operation time of the present apparatus is shortened and a work area of a memory is decreased.