Abstract: A method for efficiently evaluating or selecting an obesity controlling substance, a blood insulin regulating substance or a blood sugar regulating substance, is provided. A method for evaluating or screening an obesity controller, the method including administering a carbohydrate and a lipid to an animal, and evaluating or selecting a substance which decreases or increases insulin secretion, is also provided.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a GIP secretion inhibitor which is a useful drug or food ingredient. The present invention provides an agent for inhibiting postprandial GIP secretion contains a monoacylglycerol as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for inhibiting a postprandial increase in blood insulin level, wherein the agent containing a monoacylglycerol as an active ingredient. An agent of the invention for inhibiting a postprandial increase in blood insulin level contains a monoacylglycerol as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A photo device condenses the bright spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the time from the time of a vertical sync signal and supplies its output to AND gates. A correspondence detector brings bright spot display positions on the display at multiple times into correspondence with their projection positions on the photo device in accordance to recording time. An extrinsic parameter calculator calculates the 3-D translation and rotation of the photo device with respect to the bright spot scanning surface of the display from at least three sets of the bright spot display positions and their corresponding projection positions.

Abstract: A photo device condenses the spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the time from the time of a vertical sync signal, and supplies its output to AND gates. A correspondence detetor brings bright spot display positions on the display at multiple times into correspondence with their projection positions on the photo device in accordance to recording time. An extrinsic parameter calculator calculates the 3-D translation and rotation of the photo device with respect to the bright spot scanning surface of the display from at least three sets of the bright spot display positions and their corresponding projection positions.

Abstract: A device and method can carry out reliable visceral 3-D input over a wide range at arbitrary measuring time intervals without being affected from electric field or temperature, with requiring small installation space. A bright spot is displayed on the display surface of a display by scanning. A photo device condenses the bright spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the time from the time of a vertical sync signal, and supplies its output to AND gates. A correspondence detector brings bright spot display positions on the display at multiple times into correspondence with their projection positions on the photo device in accordance to recording time.

Abstract: A food product containing the following-non-polymerized components (A) and (B):

Abstract: Message processing control methods, apparatus and computer programming products are provided by assembling a message including a message address portion and a body portion. Message addresses are checked to determine if any are a group address. If so, an associated list of user addresses corresponding to the members of the group is retrieved from an address book database. The retrieved list is added to the message to form a transmit message. On the receiving end of the message processing, the message address and body portions are displayed in a first window responsive to a display request. The lists of addresses may also be selected and displayed in separate, optionally scrollable, windows. Accordingly, the present invention allows ready viewing of both the message and the identity of the members of groups receiving the message.

Abstract: An amide derivative represented by the following formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a C.sub.1-40 hydrocarbon; R.sup.2 represents a C.sub.1-6 alkylene; R.sup.3 represents H, OH or alkoxyl; R.sup.4 represents a C.sub.1-39 hydrocarbon; R.sup.5 represents ##STR2## with the proviso that when R.sup.5 represents ##STR3## R.sup.3 does not represent OH; and a composition of the amide derivative for topical application to human skin. The composition improves the barrier function of the stratum corneum, providing improvement and prevention of dermatitis, skin roughness, or similar disorders.

Abstract: In appearance inspection for a printed image, image data without a fault or image data in which a fault is corrected is selected as a reference image, and a table having, as its elements, flags in a number corresponding to the number of levels of an image for each pixel of the reference image is prepared. An index space is formed by a set of tables of all the pixels, and a reference pattern is formed by turning on the flags in the space. The flags in the index space are inspected and determined once for each pixel in accordance with attribute values of an image to be inspected. Setting of an allowable range for inspection is performed as pre-processing before flag propagation processing for turning on flags within the allowable range in the index space is performed. The flag is not limited to a binary one having values of ON and OFF but may be a multivalue one. The index space can be compressed by expressing flags by a hierarchical structure utilizing image data characteristics.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus and method which allow multiple stations on a communications network to be Initial Program Loaded simultaneously from a server station. Thus, the method minimizes the time it would normally take to load the stations sequentially. Following the establishment of a program loading session between the server station and a station in the network, other stations requiring the program are allowed to participate in the session and receive any remaining portions of the program which have not yet been transmitted to the station. At the conclusion of the session, the server station retransmits, to the stations, that portion of the program which it had already transmitted at the time when the stations join the session.

Abstract: Beet juice is purified, then concentrated and treated in several steps for boiling and centrifugal separation to effect recovery of sucrose therefrom. The molasses remaining after the separation of sucrose from massecuite is treated with .alpha.-galactosidase to effect hydrolysis of raffinose present in the molasses. The resultant raffinose hydrolyzate is introduced into a calcium saccharate-forming step, wherein quicklime is continuously added to the hydrolyzate to form saccharate within the hydrolyzate. From the calcium saccharate-forming step, nearly the same volume of the saccharate-containing solution as that of the raffinose hydrolyzate fed therein is forwarded to a filtering and washing step. The resultant saccharate cake is sent back to the step for purification.