Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is an active material including a niobium titanium-containing oxide phase and a carbon coating layer. The niobium titanium-containing oxide phase contains a niobium titanium-containing oxide having a monoclinic structure and Na, and a Na content therein is 0 ppm or more and 100 ppm or less. The carbon coating layer coats at least a part of the niobium titanium-containing oxide phase, and contains 0.001% or more of carboxyl group.

Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, a niobium-titanium oxide is provided. The niobium-titanium oxide satisfies Formulae (1) to (3) below in an L*a*b* color space according to Japanese Industrial Standard JIS Z 8722:2009: 95.0?L*?100??(1) ?1.0?a*?1.0??(2) ?1.0?b*?6.0??(3).

Abstract: A niobium-titanium-based oxide includes niobium-titanium-based oxide particles, wherein an Si2p peak area and an Nb3d peak area, as measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for the niobium-titanium-based oxide particles, satisfy a ratio A of 0.40?A?1.0, provided that the ratio A is the Si2p peak area/the Nb3d peak area.

Abstract: To provide meat that is beneficial to human health, for the purpose to produce transgenic animals in which the content of unsaturated fatty acids increase is increased, transgenic animals characterized by increased content of unsaturated fatty acids that are beneficial to human health is provided by the present invention. Furthermore, the present invention also provides a method to enhance levels of unsaturated fatty acid in animals.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to enable quick, easy, and inexpensive connections even in a narrow area using an inexpensive device and an inexpensive optical fiber connecting element, thereby achieving high operability and high durability reliability. An optical fiber connecting element includes an optical alignment sleeve having tapered insertion ports formed at opposite ends thereof and having an ejection port opened in an area in which the two optical fibers inserted through the insertion ports are butted against each other, a cyanoacrylate-type glue injected into the insertion ports and the injection port to fix the two optical fibers, and a heat-shrinkable tube wrapped around the optical alignment sleeve and two optical fiber coatings and having a hot-melt adhesive provided therein.

Abstract: A method for producing temperature-tolerant plants, which comprises transforming a plant with a recombinant vector carrying a gene encoding choline oxidase, as well as temperature-tolerant plants produced by said method or progenies thereof having the same properties.

Abstract: A waterproof connector includes a housing in which a terminal is to be held, having an opening on its terminal insertion side, a sealing member inserted in the opening of the housing, having a sealing part, which is provided on the outer circumference of the sealing member and airtightly contacts the inner surface of the opening, and having a plurality of through holes, each of which allows a terminal to pass through and each of which has a respective inner surface that is able to airtightly contact an electric wire, and covers provided for the respective through holes, a circumferential part of each of the covers being integrally connected over the entire circumference to the circumferential wall of the through hole, and the circumferential part being formed into a thickness that can be broken by human force.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to enable quick, easy, and inexpensive connections even in a narrow area using an inexpensive device and an inexpensive optical fiber connecting element, thereby achieving high operability and high durability reliability. An optical fiber connecting element includes an optical alignment sleeve having tapered insertion ports formed at opposite ends thereof and having an ejection port opened in an area in which the two optical fibers inserted through the insertion ports are butted against each other, a cyanoacrylate-type glue injected into the insertion ports and the injection port to fix the two optical fibers, and a heat-shrinkable tube wrapped around the optical alignment sleeve and two optical fiber coatings and having a hot-melt adhesive provided therein.

Abstract: To ease the work of opening through holes in a collectively-waterproofed type waterproof connector wherein a sealing member is inserted into an opening in a housing on its terminal insertion side. To insert a wired terminal into the waterproof connector with a single touch.

Abstract: A method for producing salt-tolerant and/or osmotolerant plants, which comprises the step of transforming a plant with a recombinant vector carrying a gene encoding choline oxidase, as well as the salt-tolerant and/or osmotolerant plants produced by said method or a progeny thereof having the same properties.

Abstract: An isolated gene encoding .DELTA.9 desaturase of cyanobacteria, an expression vector containing the same, a transformant transformed therewith and a recombinant .DELTA.9 desaturase are provided, wherein said gene is useful for improving the composition of fatty acids of animals, plants and microorganisms by transformation and for producing animals, plants or microorganisms which tolerate low temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a DNA sequence which comprises a nucleotide sequence coding for a polypeptide having glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferase activity and having the amino acid sequence corresponding substantially to the amino acid sequence from A to B represented in FIGS. 1(a) and (b). The DNA sequence has an ability to biotechnologically produce a glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferase.

Abstract: An adhesive composition comprising a photopolymerization initiator or curing agent and the compound represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein M is a divalent organic group comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a divalent organic group comprising at least two substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon groups, the alicyclic hydrocarbon group or aromatic hydrocarbon group may be linked by O, S or CH.sub.2 or may form a condensed ring, n is zero or a positive number.

Abstract: Fluorine-containing alicyclic or aromatic cyclic compounds represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein M is a divalent organic group comprising at least one substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a divalent organic group comprising at least two substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, the alicyclic hydrocarbon group or aromatic hydrocarbon group may be linked by O, S or CH.sub.2, or may form a condensed ring, X is ##STR2## Y is H or CH.sub.3, n is zero or a positive number, are useful as an effective component of the adhesive composition.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for printing an electronic circuit on a board by screen printing. A board to be printed is transported from a supply/discharge station to a positioning station and then to a printing station and is returned to the supply/discharge station. At the positioning station spaced from the printing station, positioning of the board is effected by an image processor and an XY.theta. table. The board thus positioned is transported to the printing station while the board is kept in the positioned state. At the printing station, a screen printing is effected on the thus correctly positioned board.

Abstract: A protective packaging method of protecting the spliced portion of optical fibers, comprising the steps of providing a protective packaging assembly having a heat-shrinkable tube capable of shrinking in the radial direction thereof, an extended form of hot-melt adhesive disposed on the inner side of the heat-shrinkable tube, and an electrical resistance heating element so disposed on the inner side of the heat-shrinkable tube and extendedly in the axial direction of the heat-shrinkable tube as to be capable of heating both the heat-shrinkable tube and the extended form of hot-melt adhesive, and a space provided in the heat-shrinkable tube for allowing the passage of the optical fiber; placing the protective packaging assembly around the splice portion of the optical fiber which has been passed through the space; and supplying electric current through the electrical resistance heating element to heat-melt the hot-melt adhesive and to heat-shrink the heat-shrinkable tube for forming a reinforced unit including

Abstract: A radio receiver having RF, frequency converter, demodulator and audio stages, in which the frequency converter stage is connected to a local oscillator composed of a phase locked loop. The radio receiver includes a variable frequency divider inserted into the phase locked loop, a memory circuit for variably controlling the frequency dividing ratio of the frequency divider in accordance with a signal to be received, a scanning counter for supplying a read-out control signal to the memory circuit, a clock signal source for generating a clock signal, a counter control circuit for controlling supply and supply-terminating of the clock signal fed to the scanning counter, a level detecting circuit for detecting if a signal supplied to the RF stage has a level higher than a predetermined level, a switching circuit for switching a received channel, and a circuit for cutting off the clock signal fed to the scanning counter when outputs of the switching circuit and level detecting circuit are fed thereto.