Abstract: A negative electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes graphite particles satisfying the following Formula (1): [Springback rate×7.6]+[Compressive load (kN/cm2)]?4.2??(1).

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing packed beverages in which the effect of rosmarinic acid for suppressing the fading of dyes is maintained and yet any undesirable flavor that is characteristic of rosemary extracts as exemplified by their undesirable smell or aftertaste is suppressed. To this end, the contents of cineole and camphor are reduced.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to control a stimulation of a tingling aftertaste caused by limonene and alcohol in an alcoholic beverage containing limonene. The present invention provides an alcoholic beverage containing 10 to 60 ppm of limonene and 5 to 25 ppm of eriocitrin.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to inhibit the generation of a deterioration odor under light from a packaged beverage comprising a distilled liquor and having a relatively low alcohol content, the packaged beverage whose state is visually perceivable from outside. In order to achieve this object, a package capable of selectively inhibiting the transmission of light at particular wavelengths is used.

Abstract: An object is to mitigate clogging of spinneret holes which occurs as the passage of spinning time even though cellulose acetate has a small titanium oxide content or contains no titanium oxide and to prevent a reduction in pressure drop of a cellulose acetate band. A cellulose acetate fiber, in which a titanium oxide content is not greater than 0.05 wt. %, a calcium content is not greater than 20 ppm, and a magnesium content is not less than 30 ppm.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing packed beverages in which the effect of rosmarinic acid for suppressing the fading of dyes is maintained and yet any undesirable flavor that is characteristic of rosemary extracts as exemplified by their undesirable smell or aftertaste is suppressed. To this end, the contents of cineole and camphor are reduced.

Abstract: Provided is a cellulose acetate powder that makes it possible to reduce the formation of spotty patches on a formed article of the cellulose acetate and prevent lowering of the production process passability of the formed article. A cellulose acetate powder includes cellulose acetate having an acetylation degree of 53 to 56% and a 6% viscosity of 30 to 200 mPa·s. In the cellulose acetate powder, a cumulative pore volume is not less than 0.200 ml/g; a proportion of particles having a particle diameter of not less than 500 ?m is not higher than 40%; and an angle of repose is not greater than 51°.

Abstract: Provided is a cellulose acetate powder that makes it possible to reduce the formation of spotty patches on a formed article of the cellulose acetate and prevent lowering of the production process passability of the formed article. A cellulose acetate powder includes cellulose acetate having an acetylation degree of 53 to 56% and a 6% viscosity of 30 to 200 mPa·s. In the cellulose acetate powder, a cumulative pore volume is not less than 0.200 ml/g; a proportion of particles having a particle diameter of not less than 500 ?m is not higher than 40%; and an angle of repose is not greater than 51°.

Abstract: An electricity storage module includes a casing 110 that includes an intake port 114 through which a cooling medium is taken in, located at one end of the casing, and an outlet port 115 through which the cooling medium is let out, located at another end of the casing. A plurality of electricity storage elements 140 are arrayed from the intake port 114 toward the outlet port 115 with clearances set between the electricity storage elements, and the clearances present between the electricity storage elements 140 are altered so as to achieve a higher flow velocity for the cooling medium on the outlet port side compared to the flow velocity of the cooling medium on the intake port side.

Abstract: An electricity storage module includes a casing 110 that includes an intake port 114 through which a cooling medium is taken in located at one end of the casing, and an outlet port 115 through which the cooling medium is let out, located at another end of the casing. A plurality of electricity storage elements 140 are arrayed from the intake port 114 toward the outlet port 115 with clearances set between the electricity storage elements, and the clearances present between the electricity storage elements 140 are altered so as to achieve a higher flow velocity for the cooling medium on the outlet port side compared to the flow velocity of the cooling medium on the intake port side.

Abstract: To provide a tomato juice-containing alcoholic drink that has improved flavor qualities and shows regulated sedimentation and color change and a method of the production of the same. Provided is a method of the production of a tomato juice-containing alcoholic drink that comprises the following steps (a) to (c): (a) a step of producing a lactic acid-fermented tomato liquid that comprises fermenting a tomato juice-containing liquid by using a lactic acid bacterium and thus increasing lactic acid in the liquid; (b) a step of producing a clear tomato juice that comprises enzymatically treating a tomato juice and filtering the same; and (c) a step of mixing the lactic acid-fermented tomato liquid, the clear tomato juice and an alcohol; optionally followed, if desired, by the following step (d), (d) a step of adding stabilized lycopene.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can effectively improve peripheral blood flow to thereby ameliorate cold sensation, numbness, pains and other skin symptoms, as well as frostbites, chilblains and chaps and other skin disorders associated with disturbed peripheral blood flow. This composition has no side effects. Specifically, the peripheral blood flow-improving composition contains, as an active ingredient, a extract of a plant of the genus Lepidium of the family Cruciferae. More specifically, the composition contains as an active ingredient a extract of maca plant (Lepidium meyenii Walp). Food and beverage products, perfumes and cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products containing the peripheral blood flow-improving composition are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition that can effectively improve peripheral blood flow to thereby ameliorate cold sensation, numbness, pains and other skin symptoms, as well as frostbites, chilblains and chaps and other skin disorders associated with disturbed peripheral blood flow. This composition has no side effects. Specifically, the peripheral blood flow-improving composition contains, as an active ingredient, a extract of a plant of the genus Lepidium of the family Cruciferae. More specifically, the composition contains as an active ingredient a extract of maca plant (Lepidium meyenii Walp). Food and beverage products, perfumes and cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products containing the peripheral blood flow-improving composition are also provided.

Abstract: An alcoholic beverage containing an extract of maca having various excellent properties is provided. The maca extract-containing alcoholic beverage is easy to drink because a distinctive odor of the extract of maca is decreased. Such a maca extract-containing alcoholic beverage contains an extract of maca and a distilled liquor mainly made from fermented muscat grapes and containing 1 to 400 ppm of acetic acid with respect to the amount of pure alcohol contained therein. Specifically, 1 part by weight of the extract of maca is added to 0.5 to 1,000 parts by weight of the distilled liquor.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oral skin moisturizer that is readily available to those who are suffering from dry skin, has no side effects, and when orally ingested, enhances the moisture-retaining ability of the skin. The invention also provides food products or the like that contain the oral skin moisturizer. Specifically, the oral skin moisturizer contains, as an active ingredient, a extract of a plant of the genus Lepidium of the family Cruciferae. More specifically, the oral skin moisturizer contains as an active ingredient a extract of maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp). Food products, liquors, functional food products, and pharmaceutical products containing the oral skin moisturizer are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides an efficient extraction method of Maca extract having safe anti-allergic effects enabling long-term intake, and a food and beverage product, a perfumery and a cosmetic as well as a pharmaceutical preparation comprising thus obtained Maca extract showing anti-allergic effect. In the provided extraction method of Maca extract, the temperature of extracting solution is from 20° C. to 75° C. when Maca extract is extracted by adding aqueous solution containing ethanol being ethanol concentration of from 20 to 100 by volume %.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a disease prognosis prediction modeling method for preparing a model for predicting the prognosis of a specified disease from clinical laboratory test values for the disease by means of a computer, the method comprising the steps of: inputting a plurality of actually measured clinical laboratory test values for the disease and actual measured values of the prognoses into the computer; processing these values by a data mining method to determine one or a plurality of clinical laboratory test items which have an influence on the prognosis of the disease; determining a priority of the items with respect to the prognosis in a case where there are a plurality of the items; and establishing a judgment routine in which correlation of the plurality of clinical laboratory test items and the clinical laboratory test value ranges of the test items with the predicted value of the prognosis is stipulated on the basis of the priority, wherein the judgment routine is used as the model.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrially advantageous process for biochemical production of glyoxylic acid from glyoxal. More specifically, the present invention provides a process for production of glyoxylic acid, which is characterized in that the process comprises allowing oxidoreductase that can convert glyoxal into glyoxylic acid, such as oxidase and dehydrogenase, to act on glyoxal, so as to convert glyoxal into glyoxylic acid.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided to process collected sand. This method and apparatus allow the moisture content to be adjusted and the addition of a binder to be facilitated to renew the collected sand as casting sand for future use. Also, defective castings are prevented when they are made by a main mold using the renewed casting sand. The sand-collecting means can be compact. The method is performed and the apparatus is operated by separating a main mold of green sand, after casting is conducted, into parts unaffected and affected by the molten metal heat, adjusting the moisture content of the part unaffected by molten metal heat for use as facing sand in the next main mold making, and adding a binder and adjusting the moisture content of the part affected by the molten metal heat for use as back sand in making the next main mold.

Abstract: An automatic voltage-regulating system for an engine generator includes an output voltage detecting device for extracting a single-phase AC output voltage from an output winding wound around a stator to output a detection voltage, and a switching device for regularizing the output voltage to be substantially at a constant level by selectively conducting and cutting off of a field current supplied from an exciting winding wound around the stator to a field winding wound around a rotor. Depending upon whether the detection voltage is higher or lower than a predetermined value, the charged voltage of a condenser for smoothing a rectified output from the field winding is divided by a pair of voltage dividing resistors. A switch device is forcibly turned on by a detection voltage in response to the voltage at a connection point between the pair of resistors exceeding a predetermined voltage value, to thereby cause the smoothing condenser to be discharged.