Abstract: It is intended to provide an oral flora-improving agent capable of forming a favorable flora in the oral cavity and a food or a drink for improving the oral flora. An oral flora-improving agent containing as an active ingredient a ganglioside and a food, a drink, or a feed for improving the oral flora containing the ganglioside exhibit an antibacterial effect on harmful bacteria in the oral cavity, which are undesirable from the viewpoint of decay and diseases such as periodontal disease, and a growth-improving effect on useful bacteria to be preserved in the oral cavity. Further, the ganglioside is efficaciously used as an active ingredient in an antibacterial agent or an antibacterial drink, food, or feed, a growth promoter, or a food, a drink, or a feed for promoting growth.

Abstract: Provided are an agent for maintaining hardness of tooth substances and a food or drink for maintaining the hardness of tooth substances, both of which include lactoferrin and iron-lactoferrin as an active ingredient. Lactoferrin and iron-lactoferrin suppress decalcification of enamel by use or ingestion thereof, and hence is effective for the prevention of dental caries.

Abstract: Meal menu data suitable for each patient is created as a combination of a plurality of types of meal according to the symptom, actual condition, or preference and provided to the patient or alliance restaurants. An information processing system for meal management comprises medical institution network servers interconnected through a bidirectional information communication network, restaurant servers, patient data processors, and a center server.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an effective cariostatic material which inhibits dental plaque formation as well as onset of dental carries. A material for inhibiting enamel demineralization containing, as the active ingredient, a proanthocyanidin-like polyphenol originating in hop bract or immature apple, which effectively inhibits not only dental plaque formation but also the dental caries process including proliferation of bacteria, formation of acids by the bacteria and enamel demineralization. Also, foods, drinks and oral care goods with the use of the above substance as an enamel demineralization inhibitor are provided.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an oral flora-improving agent capable of forming a favorable flora in the oral cavity and a food or a drink for improving the oral flora. An oral flora-improving agent containing as an active ingredient a ganglioside and a food, a drink, or a feed for improving the oral flora containing the ganglioside exhibit an antibacterial effect on harmful bacteria in the oral cavity, which are undesirable from the viewpoint of decay and diseases such as periodontal disease, and a growth-improving effect on useful bacteria to be preserved in the oral cavity. Further, the ganglioside is efficaciously used as an active ingredient in an antibacterial agent or an antibacterial drink, food, or feed, a growth promoter, or a food, a drink, or a feed for promoting growth.

Abstract: It is intended to provide an effective cariostatic material which inhibits dental plaque formation as well as onset of dental carries. A material for inhibiting enamel demineralization containing, as the active ingredient, a proanthocyanidin-like polyphenol originating in hop bract or immature apple, which effectively inhibits not only dental plaque formation but also the dental caries process including proliferation of bacteria, formation of acids by the bacteria and enamel demineralization. Also, foods, drinks and oral care goods with the use of the above substance as an enamel demineralization inhibitor are provided.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprises, on a substrate, a recording auxiliary layer, a recording holding layer, recording control layer, and a recording layer. The recording layer is constructed by using a ferri-magnetic material having perpendicular magnetization. The data can be recorded at a super high density by using the recording and reproducing head of the present invention, because the recording layer has the perpendicular magnetization. The disappearance of data, which would be otherwise caused by the thermomagnetic relaxation phenomenon, is suppressed after recording the data, because the recording layer has large coercive force at the room temperature. The data, which is recorded at the super high density on the magnetic recording medium, can be reproduced by using a magnetic resistance element carried on the recording and reproducing head.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium includes a recording layer, a reproducing layer in which information is subjected to expansion reproduction, a first intermediate layer which is provided between the recording layer and the reproducing layer, a recording magnetic field assist layer which is provided on a side opposite to a side of the first intermediate layer with respect to the recording layer, and a second intermediate layer which is provided between the recording layer and the recording magnetic field assist layer. The recording magnetic field assist layer exhibits perpendicular magnetization, which is one of an amorphous alloy film containing GdFeCo as major component and a multilayer film formed by alternately stacking transition metal layers and noble metal layers. The recording magnetic field assist layer generates the assist magnetic field during recording of information to form stable recording magnetic domains even when the external magnetic field is low.

Abstract: A means is provided to determine, accurately in a shorter period of time, an optimum reproducing laser beam intensity for reproducing user data or various management data on a magneto-optical recording medium based on the magnetic amplifying magneto-optical transfer system. In a method for determining the reproducing laser beam intensity of the present invention, a test reproduction area, which is formed of maze magnetic domains having random sizes not subjected to any recording process and provided on a magneto-optical recording medium based on Zero-Field MAMMOS, is irradiated with a laser beam before reproducing user information while changing the laser beam intensity to detect a magneto-optical signal. Subsequently, the reproducing laser beam intensity is determined for user information on the basis of the magneto-optical signal obtained from the test reproduction area.

Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium comprises a recording layer 5, an intermediate layer 4, and a reproducing layer 3. The reproducing layer 3 is formed of a rare earth transition metal alloy in which rare earth metal is dominant, and each of the intermediate layer 4 and the recording layer 5 is formed of a rare earth transition metal alloy in which transition metal is dominant. The intermediate layer 4 exhibits in-plane magnetization at a temperature of not less than 140° C. Therefore, the intermediate layer 4 cuts off the exchange coupling force between the recording layer 5 and the reproducing layer 3 during the reproduction. A magnetic domain 3A, which is transferred to the reproducing layer 3, is expanded to a size of a minimum magnetic domain diameter by the magnetostatic repulsive force exerted between the magnetic domain in the intermediate layer 4 and the magnetic domain in the reproducing layer.

Abstract: External magnetic fields H(x) or reproducing light beams L(x) having different intensity patterns are applied to an identical recording position on a magneto-optical recording medium so that different pieces of information corresponding to the patterns are reproduced from the identical recording position. A function H(x) or L(x) is a password for obtaining the information. Only a person, who knows the function, can access specified information recorded on the magneto-optical recording medium. The function H(x) or L(x) is a function in which the magnetic field intensity or the light intensity is modulated with respect to the recording position x so that magnetic domains may be thinned out to perform reproduction at a specified cycle from continuous magnetic domains in a recording area.

Abstract: External magnetic fields H(x) or reproducing light beams L(x) having different intensity patterns are applied to an identical recording position on a magneto-optical recording medium so that different pieces of information corresponding to the patterns are reproduced from the identical recording position. A function H(x) or L(x) is a password for obtaining the information. Only a person, who knows the function, can access specified information recorded on the magneto-optical recording medium. The function H(x) or L(x) is a function in which the magnetic field intensity or the light intensity is modulated with respect to the recording position x so that magnetic domains may be thinned out to perform reproduction at a specified cycle from continuous magnetic domains in a recording area.

Abstract: External magnetic fields H(x) or reproducing light beams L(x) having different intensity patterns are applied to an identical recording position on a magneto-optical recording medium so that different pieces of information corresponding to the patterns are reproduced from the identical recording position. A function H(x) or L(x) is a password for obtaining the information. Only a person, who knows the function, can access specified information recorded on the magneto-optical recording medium. The function H(x) or L(x) is a function in which the magnetic field intensity or the light intensity is modulated with respect to the recording position x so that magnetic domains may be thinned out to perform reproduction at a specified cycle from continuous magnetic domains in a recording area.

Abstract: A semiconductor module comprises,

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprises, on a substrate, a recording auxiliary layer, a recording holding layer, recording control layer, and a recording layer. The recording layer is constructed by using a ferri-magnetic material having perpendicular magnetization. The data can be recorded at a super high density by using the recording and reproducing head of the present invention, because the recording layer has the perpendicular magnetization. The disappearance of data, which would be otherwise caused by the thermomagnetic relaxation phenomenon, is suppressed after recording the data, because the recording layer has large coercive force at the room temperature. The data, which is recorded at the super high density on the magnetic recording medium, can be reproduced by using a magnetic resistance element carried on the recording and reproducing head.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprises, on a substrate, a recording auxiliary layer, a recording holding layer, recording control layer, and a recording layer. The recording layer is constructed by using a ferri-magnetic material having perpendicular magnetization. The data can be recorded at a super high density by using the recording and reproducing head of the present invention, because the recording layer has the perpendicular magnetization. The disappearance of data, which would be otherwise caused by the thermomagnetic relaxation phenomenon, is suppressed after recording the data, because the recording layer has large coercive force at the room temperature. The data, which is recorded at the super high density on the magnetic recording medium, can be reproduced by using a magnetic resistance element carried on the recording and reproducing head.

Abstract: A compact recording and reproducing apparatus includes a floating-type head movable in a fan shape in parallel with the surface of a disk recording medium in order to make faster access to the tracks and to record information at a higher density. A slider and a head are secured to the tip of a swing arm capable of fan-shaped swing movement, and a solid immersion lens is used for the head, so that the light beam can be passed along the arm from the fulcrum at the rotating pivot of the swing arm member.

Abstract: A compact recording and reproducing apparatus includes a floating-type head movable in a fan shape in parallel with the surface of a disk recording medium in order to make faster access to the tracks and to record information at a higher density. A slider and a head are secured to the tip of a swing arm capable of fan-shaped swing movement, and a solid immersion lens is used for the head, so that the light beam can be passed along the arm from the fulcrum at the rotating pivot of the swing arm member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the injection molding of a resin to produce a shaped resin article having a thick portion biasedly, wherein an excess filling of the cavity of a mold is effected to form a molten resin mass having opposite, first and second surfaces respectively facing opposite, first and second inner walls of the mold cavity, the mold having a specific structure in which a gas-release passage is formed in association with the mold cavity and with a mating surface of the mold, which gas-release passage has an inner opening in an inner wall surface of the mold cavity and communicates with the outside of the mold, and a pressurized gas is introduced into the mold cavity on a side of the first surface of the molten resin mass, thereby forming a closed space which is filled with the pressurized gas and separated from the gas-release passage through the molten resin mass, so that the pressurized gas filled in the closed space urges the second surface of the molten resin mass to be pressed against the seco

Abstract: A non-steroidal analgesic anti-inflammatory adhesive preparation rendered by coating one surface of support with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl)propionic acid and a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer or S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl) propionic acid and a modified copolymer in which methylmethacrylate is allowed to graft-polymerize on said copolymer, or with an adhesive containing S-(+)-2-(2-fluoro-4-biphenylyl) propionic acid, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium polyacrylate.