Abstract: Provided is a gypsum-based board producing apparatus including: a mixer configured to prepare a gypsum slurry; a foaming apparatus; and a pump configured to convey foam generated by the foaming apparatus to the mixer, wherein the pump is a positive displacement pump.

Abstract: Provided is a gypsum-based board producing apparatus including: a mixer configured to prepare a gypsum slurry; a foaming apparatus; and a pump configured to convey foam generated by the foaming apparatus to the mixer, wherein the pump is a positive displacement pump.

Abstract: [Object] There is provided a manifold base and a manifold-type electromagnetic valve that uses the manifold base, wherein a silencer for attenuating exhaust noise of solenoid valves is embedded in a base body, thereby enabling streamlined designing of the base body. [Solution] Main channels 9a and 9b are provided in a base body 2 so as to pass through the base body 2 in a direction of arranging valve mounting regions 3 in a row. In addition, communicating openings 10a and 10b are also provided in the base body 2 so as to allow the main channels 9a and 9b to communicate with a valve mounting surface 2A that is the top surface of the base body 2. The communicating openings 10a and 10b open at the valve mounting surface 2A so as to cross the valve mounting regions 3, and silencers 50 is installed in respective communicating openings 10a and 10b so as to extend in the longitudinal direction of the communicating openings 10a and 10b.

Abstract: Provided is a gypsum-based board producing apparatus including: a mixer configured to prepare a gypsum slurry; a foaming apparatus; and a pump configured to convey foam generated by the foaming apparatus to the mixer, wherein the pump is a positive displacement pump.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a practically valuable insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance (a heavy metal or the like) and an insolubilization method using the insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance, the insolubilizing material and method: making it possible to conduct treatment in a neutral region from start to finish to effectively insolubilize and immobilize a heavy metal or the like, which is contained in soil and the vicinity of the surface of the soil and which has adverse effects on health, by adding the insolubilizing material to the soil to mix with the soil, or spraying the insolubilizing material on the soil; and making the treated matter reusable, environmentally friendly, and neutral without fail.

Abstract: A casting Al—Si—Mg-based aluminum alloy comprising by mass 12.0-14.0% of Si, 1.5-4.0% of Mg, and 0.10% or less of Mn, the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and having excellent specific rigidity, strength and ductility, and its cast member.

Abstract: Provided is a colorectal cancer inspection method by which the presence of early colorectal cancer at any one of stages from 0 to 2 can be accurately determined. The colorectal cancer inspection method includes: measuring the amounts of at least lactic acid, pyruvic acid, and glycolic acid among a plurality of kinds of in vivo metabolites contained in a biological sample collected from a test subject, based on data obtained by performing a chromatograph-MS/MS analysis on the biological sample; and determining the presence of colorectal cancer at any one of stages from 0 to 2, based on a measurement value of at least one of the lactic acid, the pyruvic acid, and the glycolic acid.

Abstract: At least one stable isotope reagent is added to each biological sample and standard sample to prepare biological samples for analysis and standard sample for analysis. The quality of the biological samples is evaluated using data of one set of biological samples for analysis composed of a plurality of biological samples for analysis. Besides, the quality of a pretreatment and/or analysis of each set of samples for analysis is evaluated using data obtained by analyzing the standard sample for analysis before and after an analysis of one set of samples for analysis. An abnormality in a chromatograph or mass analyzer used for the analysis of one set of samples is evaluated by the data obtained by analyzing a sample for device evaluation before and after the analysis of one set of samples for analysis. Thus, the quality of data obtained by chromatographic mass spectrometry on biological samples is comprehensively evaluated.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure having crystal phases of aluminum titanate and mullite, which is obtained by sintering a honeycomb molding made of a mixture comprising titania powder, alumina powder, silica powder and mullite powder, the mixture containing 1-10 parts by mass of silica powder and 5-30 parts by mass of mullite powder per the total amount (100 parts by mass) of the titania powder and the alumina powder, and the mullite powder containing 40-60% by mass of particles having particle sizes of 10-50 gm and 5-30% by mass of particles having particle sizes of 3 gm or less, and its production method.

Abstract: Methods for increasing immunoglobulin A (IgA) levels in a subject having a deficiency thereof are provided herein by administering to the subject an agent that inhibits CXCL13 activity, such as an anti-CXCL13 or an anti-CXCR5 antibody. Further provided are methods for treating an inflammatory disorder in a subject deficient for IgA by administering to the subject an agent that inhibits CXCL13 activity.

Abstract: A casting Al—Si—Mg-based aluminum alloy comprising by mass 12.0-14.0% of Si, 1.5-4.0% of Mg, and 0.10% or less of Mn, the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and having excellent specific rigidity, strength and ductility, and its cast member.

Abstract: This invention provides an adhesive agent with a stronger adhesive force that can adhere and be peeled reversibly with the irradiation of light. With the use of a liquid crystalline polymer compound containing azobenzene or a sugar alcohol derivative containing a hydroxyl group and azobenzene, a photo-reactive adhesive agent that can strongly adhere to and be peeled from a substrate reversibly with the irradiation of light can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a practically valuable insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance (a heavy metal or the like) and an insolubilization method using the insolubilizing material for a designated hazardous substance, the insolubilizing material and method: making it possible to conduct treatment in a neutral region from start to finish to effectively insolubilize and immobilize a heavy metal or the like, which is contained in soil and the vicinity of the surface of the soil and which has adverse effects on health, by adding the insolubilizing material to the soil to mix with the soil, or spraying the insolubilizing material on the soil; and making the treated matter reusable, environmentally friendly, and neutral without fail.

Abstract: A device to project the shape of a cutting line with respect to a workplace on a board face of a working board in a band saw includes: a working board support section provided in a main body in order to adjustably support a working board with a flexible steel strip as the center and fix the working board at an arbitrary position and posture; and a light beam projector which projects the shape of the cutting line with respect to the workpiece to the board face of the working board, the light beam projector is positioned on the side surface of a band saw main body so as to project a light beam parallel to a cutting surface by the flexible steel strip and there is a projection section mounted by using a joint which can change the projection direction to an arbitrary direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a read sensor that can acquire data from the read object reliably, with a simple configuration, by making it possible to acquire data from the read object using both a magnetic field and an electric field. A read sensor 10 has conductive elements 30 that have a shape in which first elements 31 and second elements 32 are connected with each other along a first plane 20a, as if drawn unicursally in one stroke, so that the angle ?1 formed between a first element 31 and a second element 32 becomes a predetermined sharp angle, and a metal plate 40 that covers a second plane 20b of the dielectric plate 20, which is the back plane of the first plane 20a.