Abstract: A bead set is composed of plural subsets of beads. The beads in each subset are each provided with a surface permitting immobilization thereon of a substance that takes part in a predetermined corresponding reaction or interaction. The individual beads in the beat set are provided with different physical elements, respectively, such that the individual beads in the bead can be distinguished into the plural subsets through an analysis of captured images of the individual beads in the bead set by a computer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a management section configured to manage biological rhythm information about a user, and a display control section configured to display the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a nucleic acid amplifier for carrying out a nucleic acid amplification reaction, the amplifier including at least: a plurality of wells configured to carry out the nucleic acid amplification reaction; a heating unit provided for every well; optical means capable of irradiating excitation light of a specified wavelength to all of the wells; and a fluorescence detection unit provided for every well.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for extracting a biosubstance from a root of a hair, including the step of using as the hair a hair that has pulling force of at least a predetermined reference value to pull out the hair.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor thermal recording medium capable of recording and erasing repeatedly high-contrast clear images free of color fogging without causing color deterioration and a method for recording on the recording medium. The reversible multicolor recording medium includes recording layers numbered from the first to the nth, which are formed on a supporting substrate separately and independently in sequential order, the recording layers each containing a reversible thermal color developing composition differing from one another in the hue of the developed color and further containing a light-heat converting composition which generates heat upon absorption of near infrared rays with a wavelength in different ranges, and the recording layers having respectively the absorption peak wavelengths ? max 1, ? max 2, . . . , ? max n, in the near infrared region such that 1500 nm>? max 1>? max 2> . . . >? max n>750 nm.

Abstract: A hybridization detecting unit which includes a reaction region in which hybridization takes place, a plurality of sites (e.g., the surface of electrodes) arranged in the reaction region to which is fixed a nucleic acid for detection, and means for sequentially moving by dielectrophoresis the target nucleic acid introduced into the reaction region according to the order of arrangement of the sites to which is fixed a nucleic acid for detection. A sensor chip provided with the hybridization detecting unit. The detecting unit compulsorily moves the target nucleic acid into the region where a probe nucleic acid for detection exists, thereby increasing the probability of hybridization taking place.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor recording medium includes a supporting substrate, and recording layers which have, respectively, a plurality of reversible thermal coloring compositions having different colors. The recording layers are separated from and stacked on one another on the supporting substrate. The reversible thermal coloring compositions respectively include light-to-heat transforming materials which respectively absorb infrared rays having different wavelength ranges to generate heat.

Abstract: To provide a lubricant for recording medium, which is advantageous not only in that it maintains excellent lubricity under various conditions for use and excellent lubricating effect over a long time, but also in that it can impart excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability. For example, when C18H37—CH(CH2COOC10H6OH)COORf (wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated partially-fluorinated-alkyl group) is used as a lubricant for magnetic recording medium, there can be obtained a magnetic recording medium having excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor thermal recording medium which is free from fogging and has sharp contrast even after recording and erasing are performed repeatedly, and a recording method using the same are provided. A reversible multicolor recording medium is provided, which includes recording layers each containing a plurality of reversible thermal coloring compositions having different coloring tones, formed to be separated from and stacked on a surface direction of a supporting substrate; and the plurality of reversible thermal coloring compositions containing light-to-heat transforming materials which absorb infrared rays having different wavelength ranges to generate heat, respectively; wherein an absorption peak wavelength of the light-to-heat transforming material contained in the recording layers becomes the longest wavelength at the layer formed nearest the supporting substrate, and becomes a shorter wavelength as the layer is closer to the surface layer in the stacked order.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor recording medium includes a supporting substrate, and recording layers which have, respectively, a plurality of reversible thermal coloring compositions having different colors. The recording layers are separated from and stacked on one another on the supporting substrate. The reversible thermal coloring compositions respectively include light-to-heat transforming materials which respectively absorb infrared rays having different wavelength ranges to generate heat.

Abstract: A reversible multicolor recording medium includes a supporting substrate and a recording layer including reversible thermal coloring compositions having different colors on the supporting substrate. The reversible thermal coloring compositions are included within a separated and independent minute gap structure, and respectively have light-to-heat transforming materials which respectively absorb infrared rays having different wavelength ranges to generate heat.

Abstract: To provide a lubricant for recording medium, which is advantageous not only in that it maintains excellent lubricity under various conditions for use and excellent lubricating effect over a long time, but also in that it can impart excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability. For example, when C18H37—CH(CH2COOC10H6OH)COORf (wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated partially-fluorinated-alkyl group) is used as a lubricant for magnetic recording medium, there can be obtained a magnetic recording medium having excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability.

Abstract: To provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and a semiconductor device manufacturing method able to form a sufficiently precise pattern by ablation. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus comprising a light source emitting light of a first wavelength on the surface of a wafer and a mask through which at least a part of the light of the first wavelength passes and removing a material of the part of the wafer exposed by the light of the first wavelength by vaporization, wherein the light source comprises an electron beam generating means for generating an electron beam and a light emitting means for emitting light of a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and wherein the light of the first wavelength is inverse Compton scattered light obtained by collision of electrons in the electron beam with photons in the light of the second wavelength causing the energy of the electrons to be given to the photons and a semiconductor device manufacturing method using the apparatus.

Abstract: A microscopic analysis apparatus for analysis of infrared single beam spectrum is composed of an interference light source unit, a measuring unit, and a signal processing unit. The measuring unit is configured such that a semi-spherical prism made from germanium, an incident angle varying device composed of a pair of opposed parabolic mirrors, and a detector for sensing light totally reflected from the surface of a sample are provided in an enclosed sample chamber. According to the method using the analysis apparatus, a profile of a concentration of an organic lubricant contained in a sample in the depth direction of the sample is measured by bringing the surface on the magnetic layer formation side of a floppy disk as the sample into press-contact on the bottom surface of the prism at a low pressure, scanning an incident angle of an infrared light ray on the prism, and analyzing the spectrum of the infrared light ray totally reflected from the surface of the sample.

Abstract: This invention provides a magnetic recording medium which, even when the friction time is prolonged or the scan speed is increased to achieve a long time recording, will leave no burnt matters onto a magnetic head, reduce spacing loss, and prevent an increase in error rate. This invention also provides a cleaning tape which, without causing any wear and damage of a magnetic head, will remove the head of burnt matters adherent thereto.They are actually a magnetic recording medium and cleaning tape which hold an antiseize agent containing a compound with a pyridine skeleton and two or more ligand sites. Alternatively, they are a magnetic recording medium and cleaning tape which hold an antiseize agent containing a diketone compound. The antiseize agent may contain a titanium coupling agent, carboxylic acid, and phosphor-containing compound, in addition to the above compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder so as to exhibit an excellent electromagnetic property.The magnetic recording medium has a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic body, from a magnetic paint mainly consisting of a ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent. This magnetic layer also contains a metal chelate compound of a diketone shown in Chemical Formula given below: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 are selected from a group consisting of hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl group, nitro group, carboxyl group, carbonyl group, amino group, amide group, and sulfonic acid group as well as alkyl group, aryl group, hetero-aromatic group replaced therewith and wherein the metal of the chelate compound is Ti, Zr, Ni, Sn, Co, or Cr.

Abstract: A novel bi-nuclear metal complex with greater luminescence and higher electron transfer potency and an optical device such as organic EL devices using therein the metal complex, are provided, together with a method for producing the novel complex at a higher efficiency. The complex containing specific ligands is represented by the following general formula:General formula ?I!:M.sub.2 (L.sup.l -O).sub.m (L.sup.2 -0).sub.n (L.sup.3 -0).sub.3-m-n Xp(wherein M represents a divalent metal atom or Zn; L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 are ligands, individually different from each other;X represents an anion;"m" and "n" represent independently an integer of 0 to 3; and"p" represents an integer of 0 to 4.).

Abstract: A wavelength multiplexed optical recording material is disclosed wherein a photosensitive material including substituted porphine, such as tetra(pentafluorophenyl) porphine or tetra(4-methoxyphenyl) porphine, is uniformly dispersed into an optically transparent dispersion medium. When such wavelength multiplexed optical recording material is cooled to a temperature of liquid helium and irradiated with a laser beam, a large number of holes of narrow width are formed in an inhomogenous absorption band under the phenomenon of photochemical hole burning. As compared to unsubstituted porphine, the above porphine derivatives give an improved recording sensitivity and narrow hole width.

Abstract: A wavelength multiplexed optical recording material is disclosed wherein a photosensitive material including substituted porphine, such as tetra(pentafluorophenyl) porphine or tetra(4-methoxyphenyl) porphine, is uniformly dispersed into an optically transparent dispersion medium. When such wavelength multiplexed optical recording material is cooled to a temperature of liquid helium and irradiated with a laser beam, a large number of holes of narrow width are formed in an inhomogenous absorption band under the phenomenon of photochemical hole burning. As compared to unsubstituted porphine, the above porphine derivatives give an improved recording sensitivity and narrow hole width.

Abstract: An optical recording medium is disclosed, in which an optical recording layer and a reflective layer are formed on a transparent substrate. The recording layer contains a first compound having absorption or a recording laser light having a predetermined wavelength, and a second compound having substantially no absorption for a laser light having the predetermined wavelength and decomposable upon heat generation by the laser light in the optical recording layer.