Abstract: An electrically conductive composition capable of making specific volume resistivity control easier, is a carbonaceous material produced by burning plant material including soybean hulls, rapeseed meal, sesame meal, cotton seed meal, cotton hulls, rice hulls, rice bran, soybean chaffs, rice straws, cereal hulls or the like by adjusting any of the carbon content, burning temperature and median diameter. The burned and carbonized plant material is ground and sieved to give a median diameter of approx. 80 ?m or below. The burned plant material is obtained by burning at a temperature of 700° C. or higher.

Abstract: PROBLEM To effectively utilize plant residue such as soybean hulls, rapeseed meal, rice bran, rice husk, and cacao husk. SOLUTION When forming sheet material from a mixture of burned plant material and fibrous material by a wet-process sheet production method, the burned plant material is one of a burned material of rice husk, a burned material of rice bran, a burned material of soybean hulls, a burned material of inner skin of peanut, a burned material of conduit side wall portion of seed plant or a burned material of cacao husk, and the fibrous material is one of a organic fiber derived from thermoplastic resin including polyolefin consisting of polyethylene and polypropylene, polyester, polyamide, vinyl chloride, polyacrylonitrile, polyvinyl chloride and aramid, a fiber derived from thermosetting resin including kynol, a natural fiber including cotton, wool, etc.

Abstract: A cacao husk can be effectively used. A member comprises a burned material of cacao husk and a base material, and is sieved so that the median diameter of the burned material of cacao husk becomes approx. 85 ?m or below. The member functions as a heat conducting material, an electromagnetic shielding member, etc. The content ratio of burned material of cacao husk against the base material can be determined according to the frequency band of the electromagnetic waves to be shielded. In addition, the base material can be one of rubber, paint and cement.

Abstract: Provided is a heat conducting member using a heat conducting material that has been developed so as to retain the same heat conductivity as that of a conventional product without using silicone rubber. The heat conducting member comprises a base material formed from any of rubber, resin, paint or cement and, contained in the base material, a burned plant material selected from any of soybean hulls, rapeseed meal, sesame meal, cotton seed meal, cotton hulls, soybean chaffs, and cacao husk, and is produced by controlling at least one of the content ratio of burned plant material against the base material or the temperature at which the plant material is burned.

Abstract: Provided is an electrically conductive composition capable of making specific volume resistivity control easier, which can be produced by using a carbonaceous material comprising a burned plant material alone. A burned plant material is produced from soybean hulls, rapeseed meal, sesame meal, cotton seed meal, cotton hulls, rice hulls, rice bran, soybean chaffs, rice straws, cereal hulls or the like by adjusting any of the carbon content, burning temperature and median diameter. The burned and carbonized plant material is ground and sieved to give a median diameter of approx. 80 ?m or below. The burned plant material is obtained by burning at a temperature of 700° C. or higher.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for industrially efficiently preparing an oil and fat composition containing oleanolic acid, maslinic acid, physiologically acceptable salts thereof and derivatives thereof, wherein the method comprises the step of extracting olive plants and/or a by-product obtained in an olive oil-manufacturing process with an organic solvent or a water-containing organic solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a feed, a fertilizer, a melanogenesis-inhibitory agent for animals and plants and a blackening/browning-inhibitory composition for animals and plants, each comprising, as an effective component, at least one member selected from the group consisting of pentacyclic triterpenes, physiologically acceptable salts thereof and derivatives thereof, which have an excellent melanogenesis-inhibitory effect.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing oleanolic acid and/or maslinic acid and physiologically acceptable salts thereof, which comprises the steps of extracting olive plant and/or products obtained in the olive oil-manufacturing processes with water and/or an organic solvent and then concentrating and/or fractionating/purifying the resulting extract.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a food or beverage comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of 5-membered ring-containing triterpenes and physiologically acceptable salts or derivatives thereof. The present invention also relates to an orally administered whitening agent comprising, as an effective component, at least one member selected from the group consisting of 5-membered ring-containing triterpenes and physiologically acceptable salts or derivatives thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an external agent for the skin comprising an extract prepared from olive plants and also relates to an external agent for the skin comprising the extract as a skin-beautifying component, in particular, as an ant-aging component for the skin and/or a whitening component. The extract can be prepared by extracting olive plants and/or products generated during and after the olive oil-manufacturing processes with water and/or an organic solvent and further the extract can further be subjected to a concentration treatment and/or a fractionation-purification treatment to thus improve each effect. Moreover, the present invention also relates to a skin-beautifying agent, in particular, an anti-aging agent and a skin-whitening agent, containing the extract as an effective component.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing oleanolic acid and/or maslinic acid and physiologically acceptable salts thereof, which comprises the steps of extracting olive plant and/or products obtained in the olive oil-manufacturing processes with water and/or an organic solvent and then concentrating and/or fractionating/purifying the resulting extract.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antitumor agent, which comprises, as an effective component, a compound selected from the group consisting of maslinic acid, erythrodiol, uvaol, betulinic acid, betulin and physiologically acceptable salts thereof or derivatives thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an external agent for the skin comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of maslinic acid, erythrodiol, uvaol, betulinic acid, betulin, physiologically acceptable salts thereof and derivatives thereof

Abstract: The present invention relates to an external agent for the skin comprising an extract prepared from olive plants and also relates to an external agent for the skin comprising the extract as a skin-beautifying component, in particular, as an ant-aging component for the skin and/or a whitening component. The extract can be prepared by extracting olive plants and/or products generated during and after the olive oil-manufacturing processes with water and/or an organic solvent and further the extract can further be subjected to a concentration treatment and/or a fractionation-purification treatment to thus improve each effect.