Abstract: A screening method comprising the following steps is provided. A step of culturing cells in the presence and in the absence of a test compound, a step of measuring HIF-1? expression in the respective cultured cells, and a step of determining the test compound to be a compound that inhibits onset or progression of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis if the HIF-1? expression in the cells cultured in the presence of the test compound is less than the HIF-1? expression in the cells cultured in the absence of the test compound.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an air conditioning unit, and three wiring lines for supplying power to the air conditioning unit. The three wiring lines are a pair of single phase AC power lines and an earth line which are to be connected to three source lines. The three source lines are a pair of single phase AC source lines and a ground line. The air conditioner also includes a detection unit including a detecting device that detects voltages between each of the AC power lines and the earth line, a conversion device that converts the voltages detected by the detecting device into logic level signals, a comparator that determines presence or absence of faulty connection between the three wiring lines and the three source lines by comparing the logic level signals obtained by the conversion device with reference logic level signals, and an output device that shows a result of determination made by the comparator.

Abstract: A faulty wiring detection device of a simple structure for an air conditioner is provided, which can detect faulty wiring of the primary power line of an air conditioner and notify the presence/absence of faulty wiring by a display, alarm or other means, thereby preventing problems due to faulty wiring.