Abstract: Provided is a therapeutic agent for cellular drug resistance to a microtubule inhibitor. The therapeutic agent contains a ? opioid receptor agonist.

Abstract: A switch device includes a plurality of communication ports; a switch unit configured to relay a frame, which has been transmitted from a function unit and to which information including an ID of a VLAN is added, to another function unit via a communication port; and a duplication unit configured to, when the diagnosis device is connected to another switch device, duplicate the frame to be relayed via a designated communication port among the plurality of communication ports, and generate a duplicate frame for diagnosis that is a frame obtained by adding, to a duplicate frame obtained through the duplication, specific information indicating that the duplicate frame for diagnosis should be transmitted to the diagnosis device. The switch unit outputs the duplicate frame for diagnosis generated by the duplication unit from a communication port corresponding to the other switch device.

Abstract: An air conditioning system comprises a heat source side machine, a plurality of user side machines more than half of which are disposed below the heat source side machine, and liquid phase and gas phase pipes connecting the heat source side machine with the user side machines to form a closed circuit. A phase-changeable fluid included in the closed circuit circulates by utilizing its own specific gravity difference between the liquid and gas phases, so that each of the user side machines can perform cooling and heating operations. The liquid phase pipe and the gas phase pipe can communicate with each other via a gas bypass circuit and/or a liquid bypass circuit including a open-close valve and liquid level detection means, so that bubbles or condensed liquid generated in the closed circuit can be exhausted quickly.

Abstract: A heat exchanger tube for a falling film evaporator has fins provided on the outer periphery of the tube body and extending in a direction transverse or in oblique to the axial direction of the tube. The fins have heights in a range of 0.2 to 0.8 mm. The fins are arranged in a density to have 905 to 1102 in number of fins per 1 m in the axial direction. Grooves formed in the tip end of the fins and extending substantially along the fins, the mutually opposing inner peripheral wall surface of the groove defining an angle within a range of 70° to 150°. Cut-outs formed in the tip end of the fins, the cut-outs being provided at a pitch in a range of 0.5 to 1.0 mm. With this construction, the heat exchanger tube for the falling film evaporator which exhibits a high refrigerant wetting and spreading ability as well as large surface area for providing remarkably improved heat transmission performance.

Abstract: An air conditioning system comprises a heat source side unit adapted to condense and supply a fluid which can change a phase between a gas phase and a liquid phase and a plurality of user side units entirely or mostly disposed below the heat source side unit in terms of number and connected to said heat source side unit by piping so as to establish a circulation of the fluid supplied from said heat source side unit passing through said heat source side unit and said user side units by utilizing the difference in specific gravity between the liquid phase and the gas phase of said liquid so that it can provide a cooling/heating effect regardless of the floors where the user side units are installed and the power consumption rate of the system can be minimized.

Abstract: An air conditioning system comprises a heat source side machine such as an absorption type refrigerator, a plurality of user side machines more than half of which are disposed below the heat source side machine, and liquid phase and gas phase pipes connecting the heat source side machine with the user side machines to form a closed circuit. A phase-changeable fluid circulates between the heat source side machine and the user side machines by utilizing its own specific gravity difference between the liquid and gas phases and a driving force of an electric pump provided to the liquid phase pipe, so that each of the user side machines can perform cooling operation. A receiver tank is provided to the inlet side of the electric pump, and an upper portion of the receiver tank is connected to the gas phase pipe by a pressure-equalizing pipe so as to improve a start characteristic of the cooling operation.

Abstract: A control device for an absorption refrigeration machine in which an evaporator, an absorber, an absorption liquid pump, a generator and a condenser, etc. are connected to form a refrigeration cycle. A heating amount of the generator is controlled on the basis of external conditions or internal conditions. The device includes a detection device for detecting a plurality of change amounts representative of the external conditions or internal conditions. A memory device stores fuzzy rules and membership functions between the change amounts and a rotational speed of the absorption liquid pump. An arithmetic unit carries out fuzzy logical calculations based on the change amounts and the fuzzy rules and membership functions to calculate the rotational speed of the absorption liquid pump. A control device inputs an output of the arithmetic unit to control the rotational speed of the absorption liquid pump.

Abstract: An absorption heat pump system having a generator, a condenser, an evaporator and an absorber connected hermetically to form closed cycles for a refrigerant and an absorbent, comprising a control means disposed in the refrigerant passage leading from said condenser to said evaporator and adapted to continuously controlling the temperature or flow rate of the liquid refrigerant, thereby to stabilize the temperature in said evaporator.