Abstract: Provided are a pyridone compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group which may be substituted, etc., R2 represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, etc., R3 and R4 are independent to each other, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group which may be substituted, etc., or in combination with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded form a pyrrolidinyl group, a piperidinyl group, etc., which may be substituted, Y represents a phenyl group which may be substituted, etc., X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and an agricultural and horticultural fungicide containing the same as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Provided are a pyridone compound represented by Formula (1): wherein R1 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group which may be substituted, etc., R2 represents a halogen atom, a cyano group, etc., R3 and R4 are independent to each other, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group which may be substituted, etc., or in combination with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded form a pyrrolidinyl group, a piperidinyl group, etc., which may be substituted, Y represents a phenyl group which may be substituted, etc., X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and an agricultural and horticultural fungicide containing the same as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A method for producing D-lactic acid in high yield, and to provide a method for producing D-lactic acid with high selectivity, in which optical purity is high and a by-product organic acid is small. In one aspect, a microorganism, wherein activity of pyruvate formate-lyase (pfl) is inactivated or decreased, and further activity of Escherichia coli-derived NADH-dependent D-lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA) is enhanced, is cultured to efficiently produce D-lactic acid. With regard to a method for enhancing ldhA activity, by linking, on a genome, a gene encoding ldhA with a promoter of a gene which controls expression of a protein involved in a glycolytic pathway, a nucleic acid biosynthesis pathway or an amino acid biosynthesis pathway, suitable results are obtained compared to the method for enhancing expression of the gene using an expression vector.

Abstract: In an image decoding method, a DC image, corresponding to each block mean value per B pixel from encoding data with respect to the HVQ system, is reproduced. A part of the DC image is made a DC nest. Image data of a target block is reproduced by synthesizing, to the DC value of target block, one or more basis vectors selected from DC nests based on the encoding data. The method is improved by setting the lowest n (n?log2 B) bits of the DC pixels in each sample to 0, and down-sampling the selected block from the DC nest and calculating the block mean value using the samples.

Abstract: A method for producing D-lactic acid in high yield, and to provide a method for producing D-lactic acid with high selectivity, in which optical purity is high and a by-product organic acid is small. In one aspect, a microorganism, wherein activity of pyruvate formate-lyase (pfl) is inactivated or decreased, and further activity of Escherichia coli-derived NADH-dependent D-lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA) is enhanced, is cultured to efficiently produce D-lactic acid. With regard to a method for enhancing ldhA activity, by linking, on a genome, a gene encoding ldhA with a promoter of a gene which controls expression of a protein involved in a glycolytic pathway, a nucleic acid biosynthesis pathway or an amino acid biosynthesis pathway, suitable results are obtained compared to the method for enhancing expression of the gene using an expression vector.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCJ from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k <Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for coding a moving image, capable of obtaining high image quality and high rate of data compression, are provided. The method compares a pixel block of current image to be coded and a pixel block of preceding image within a predetermined region of preceding frame, one after another. The method seeks a specific preceding-image pixel block minimizing matching error. If the matching error relative to the specific preceding-image pixel block exceeds an acceptable value, than the method obtains one or more of orthogonal base systems for approximating AC component vector in the current-image pixel block by inter-frame adaptive orthogonal transformation having, as nest thereof, preceding image data within a predetermined region including the specific preceding-image pixel block. The method thereby codes the moving image data.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCJ from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k<Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image coding/decoding method and to a recording medium on which a program for this method has been recorded, and the object thereof is to raise the compression rate of image data while the image data is maintained at a high quality. In FIG. 1(A), image data is divided into a plurality of pixel blocks, a DC image comprising mean values of respective ones of the blocks is generated, a corresponding block mean value is separated from each pixel block and a residual vector is obtained for every block. In a case where the magnitude of the residual vector is equal to or greater than an allowable value, orthogonal bases for approximating the residual vector by an adaptive orthogonal transformation that employs a nest of the DC image is obtained and coded. In FIG.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCT from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k<Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: A thrombolytic composition containing tissue type plasminogen activator or a derivative thereof in combination with an anionic polymer or a salt thereof and an amine compound or a salt thereof or in combination with an anionic polymer or a salt thereof, an amine compound and an acid or a salt thereof. The composition is an aqueous solution or a lyophilized preparation which can be stably dissolved on dilution at near neutral pH in both pharmaceutical solutions having high salt concentrations, such as physiological saline, and pharmaceutical solutions having low salt concentrations, such as a 5% glucose solution. Clinically useful products for infusion or injection are prepared to be used at a pH near neutral.