Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel food material effective for improving skin conditions. The present invention provides a composition for use in improving skin conditions, comprising a Lactococcus bacterium as an active ingredient. Examples of the Lactococcus bacterium include Lactococcus lactis. The skin conditions are skin conditions deteriorated by light exposure, such as an increase in skin redness and a decrease in skin moisture content.

Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition and food composition for treating or preventing a skin disease caused by abnormal growth of a skin bacterium or infection with a pathogenic microorganism. A composition comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient, for suppressing bacterial abnormal growth, or preventing or ameliorating deterioration of skin condition caused by a bacterial abnormal growth, by oral intake thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel food material effective for improving skin conditions. The present invention provides a composition for use in improving skin conditions, comprising a Lactococcus bacterium as an active ingredient. Examples of the Lactococcus bacterium include Lactococcus lactis. The skin conditions are skin conditions deteriorated by light exposure, such as an increase in skin redness and a decrease in skin moisture content.

Abstract: This fiber wound body has a plurality of reinforcing fiber yarns wound around a winding axis, each of the reinforcing fiber yarns having a thickness gradient portion in which the fiber content is uniform along the longitudinal direction of the yarn and the thickness gradually changes.

Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition and food composition for treating or preventing a skin disease caused by abnormal growth of a skin bacterium or infection with a pathogenic microorganism. A composition comprising a lactic acid bacterium as an active ingredient, for suppressing bacterial abnormal growth, or preventing or ameliorating deterioration of skin condition caused by a bacterial abnormal growth, by oral intake thereof.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin load energy-absorber has: a multi-layer woven fabric or laminated woven fabric as a reinforcement base material; a resin as a matrix; slits; binding threads; and reinforcing members. The reinforcement base material has corners formed by bending said reinforcement base material. Slits are provided at least in the portions of the reinforcement base material that form the corners. The binding threads bind each of the woven fabric layers in the multi-layer woven fabric or laminated woven fabric. The binding threads are configured so as to bind each of the woven fabric layers when the multi-layer woven fabric or laminated woven fabric is divided in the thickness direction into at least two woven fabric layers. The reinforcing members are held inside the slits.

Abstract: This fiber wound body has a plurality of reinforcing fiber yarns wound around a winding axis, each of the reinforcing fiber yarns having a thickness gradient portion in which the fiber content is uniform along the longitudinal direction of the yarn and the thickness gradually changes.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fiber-reinforced composite includes a laminate having a plurality of fiber bundle layers that are layered in a lamination direction and include first and second outermost layers, a matrix resin; and a binding yarn. The binding yarn has first and second traverse yarn sections, and a surface-layer yarn section. The surface layer yarn section has bifurcated sections extending in opposite directions from the first and second traverse yarn sections on the surface of the second outermost layer. An additive and the matrix resin are arranged in a space enclosed by the bifurcated sections and the fiber bundles of the second outermost layer adjacent to the bifurcated sections, and also in a space between each of the first and second traverse yarn sections and fiber bundles adjacent thereto, and in a space between the first and second traverse yarn sections.

Abstract: A vehicle configuration member comprising a base material formed using a resin material; and a woven fabric that is formed by interweaving a plurality of warp threads and a plurality of weft threads, that is covered by the base material so as to reinforce the base material, and that includes a join portion and a pair of branch portions branching out from the join portion. The number of the weft threads bound by a pair of warp threads at an end portion of the join portion on a branch portion side is smaller than the number of the weft threads bound by a pair of warp threads at a location of the join portion on a side away from the branch portions.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced composite material (11) is constructed by laminating a plurality of fiber bundle layers formed of a reinforced fiber to form a laminated fiber bundle layer and further impregnating the laminated fiber bundle layer with a matrix. At either side of a neutral surface (16), the number of +? layers which are fiber bundle layers having a fiber orientation angle of +? and the number of ?? layers which are fiber bundle layers having a fiber orientation angle of ?? are the same, the order of laminating the fiber bundle layers is inversely symmetrical with respect to the standard surface, and the number of other fiber bundle layers disposed between the +? and ?? layers at either side of the standard surface is the same.

Abstract: A three-dimensional fiber-reinforced composite includes a laminate having a plurality of fiber bundle layers that are layered in a lamination direction and include first and second outermost layers, a matrix resin; and a binding yarn. The binding yarn has first and second traverse yarn sections, and a surface-layer yarn section. The surface layer yarn section has bifurcated sections extending in opposite directions from the first and second traverse yarn sections on the surface of the second outermost layer. An additive and the matrix resin are arranged in a space enclosed by the bifurcated sections and the fiber bundles of the second outermost layer adjacent to the bifurcated sections, and also in a space between each of the first and second traverse yarn sections and fiber bundles adjacent thereto, and in a space between the first and second traverse yarn sections.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced composite material (11) is constructed by laminating a plurality of fiber bundle layers formed of a reinforced fiber to form a laminated fiber bundle layer and further impregnating the laminated fiber bundle layer with a matrix. At either side of a neutral surface (16), the number of +? layers which are fiber bundle layers having a fiber orientation angle of +? and the number of ?? layers which are fiber bundle layers having a fiber orientation angle of ?? are the same, the order of laminating the fiber bundle layers is inversely symmetrical with respect to the standard surface, and the number of other fiber bundle layers disposed between the +? and ?? layers at either side of the standard surface is the same.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a means for obtaining a novel soy sauce with less soy sauce smell and having a rich flavor although it is a brewed soy sauce. More particularly, it is intended to provide a process for producing such a brewed soy sauce, comprising: preparing a soy sauce koji; preparing a soy sauce moromi by adding an aqueous common salt solution to the soy sauce koji at a ratio of water within 170% to 450% (V/V); fermenting and maturating the soy sauce moromi; adding either a soy sauce koji alone or a combination of a soy sauce koji and an aqueous common salt solution to the soy sauce moromi during the fermentation and maturation; and further fermenting and maturating the soy sauce moromi after the addition thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a 5?-nucleotide-containing soy sauce characterized in that, in a soy-sauce producing method, malt, germinated rice, or a processed product thereof is added to soy sauce moromi mash with phosphatases derived from microorganisms being inactivated, thereby producing and accumulating 5?-nucleotides; and a 5?-nucleotide-containing soy sauce obtained according to the method.

Abstract: An energy absorber is crushed upon receiving compressive load, thereby absorbing energy. The energy absorber has a first end and a second end with respect to a direction of the compressive load. The energy absorber is formed of fiber-reinforced resin. The fiber-reinforced resin includes a stack of fiber layers having a compression direction fiber layer. The compression direction fiber layer includes fiber bundles of filament fibers. The fiber bundles are arranged such that the extending direction of the fiber bundles has a component of the direction of the compressive load. The density of the fiber bundles is gradually increased from the first end to the second end. Therefore, compressive load required for crushing is prevented from increasing at an early stage of crushing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a soy sauce koji having a reduced Busho-shu which is one of the unpleasant smells of soy sauce, and a soy sauce koji having a reduced Busho-shu obtained by this production process. Specifically, the process for producing a soy sauce koji is characterized by using a combination of a koji mold having a high isobutyric acid productivity and another koji mold having a low isobutyric acid productivity. The present invention also relates to a process for producing a soy sauce having a reduced Busho-shu and a soy sauce obtained by this production process.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a means for obtaining a novel soy sauce with less soy sauce smell and having a rich flavor although it is a brewed soy sauce. More particularly, it is intended to provide a process for producing such a brewed soy sauce, comprising: preparing a soy sauce koji; preparing a soy sauce moromi by adding an aqueous common salt solution to the soy sauce koji at a ratio of water within 170% to 450% (V/V); fermenting and maturating the soy sauce moromi; adding either a soy sauce koji alone or a combination of a soy sauce koji and an aqueous common salt solution to the soy sauce moromi during the fermentation and maturation; and further fermenting and maturating the soy sauce moromi after the addition thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antiallergic agent comprising, as an active ingredient, at least one of a tomato extract, tomato pericarp, naringenin chalcone or its derivatives, tricaffeoylquinic acid or its derivatives and dicaffeoylsuccinylquinic acid or its derivatives; a histamine-release inhibitor or a leukotriene-release inhibitor; and a medicament, food, drink or cosmetic comprising the antiallergic agent, the histamine-release inhibitor or the leukotriene-release inhibitor mentioned above; and a method for producing an antiallergic agent comprising extracting raw material tomato with a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a 5?-nucleotide-containing soy sauce characterized in that, in a soy-sauce producing method, malt, germinated rice, or a processed product thereof is added to soy sauce moromi mash with phosphatases derived from microorganisms being inactivated, thereby producing and accumulating 5?-nucleotides; and a 5?-nucleotide-containing soy sauce obtained according to the method.

Abstract: An energy absorber is crushed upon receiving compressive load, thereby absorbing energy. The energy absorber has a first end and a second end with respect to a direction of the compressive load. The energy absorber is formed of fiber-reinforced resin. The fiber-reinforced resin includes a stack of fiber layers having a compression direction fiber layer. The compression direction fiber layer includes fiber bundles of filament fibers. The fiber bundles are arranged such that the extending direction of the fiber bundles has a component of the direction of the compressive load. The density of the fiber bundles is gradually increased from the first end to the second end. Therefore, compressive load required for crushing is prevented from increasing at an early stage of crushing.