Abstract: The invention relates to new asparaginases having improved properties, preferably improved thermotolerance, such as improved activity at high temperatures and/or improved thermostability. The invention also relates to DNA sequences encoding such improved asparaginases, their production in a recombinant host cell, as well as methods of using the asparaginases, in particular for reduction of acrylamide in foods. The invention furthermore relates to methods of generating and preparing asparaginase variants having improved properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing dough or a baked product prepared from the dough by incorporating into the dough a polypeptide comprising a carbohydrate binding module (CBM) and an alpha-amylase catalytic domain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide, to nucleic acid constructs comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide which is foreign to the first nucleotide sequence. Furthermore, it also relates to expression vectors and host cells comprising the nuclei acid construct.

Abstract: The invention relates to new asparaginases having improved properties, preferably improved thermotolerance, such as improved activity at high temperatures and/or improved thermostability. The invention also relates to DNA sequences encoding such improved asparaginases, their production in a recombinant host cell, as well as methods of using the asparaginases, in particular for reduction of acrylamide in foods. The invention furthermore relates to methods of generating and preparing asparaginase variants having improved properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide, to nucleic acid constructs comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide which is foreign to the first nucleotide sequence. Furthermore, it also relates to expression vectors and host cells comprising the nuclei acid construct.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phytase variants derived from a parent phytase which is homologous to a Peniophora lycii phytase and comprises at least one substitution in at least one of a number of positions corresponding to a position in the Peniophora lycii phytase. The variants are of improved properties, in particular of a higher specific activity and/or more thermostable than the parent phytase, e.g., of a Tm of up to 82° C. at pH 5.5, as determined by DSC, and/or of a doubted specific activity. The invention also relates to DNA encoding the phytase variants, methods of their production, as well as the use thereof, e.g., in animal feed and animal feed additives.

Abstract: A decode control section 103 sets allocated times required for decoding a plurality of coded streams in processing units based on input stream information on the plurality of coded streams. A decode section 101 decodes the plurality of coded streams while switching the input between the plurality of coded streams based on the allocated times.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phytase variants derived from a parent phytase which is homologous to a Peniophora lycii phytase and comprises at least one substitution in at least one of a number of positions corresponding to a position in the Peniophora lycii phytase. The variants are of improved properties, in particular of a higher specific activity and/or more thermostable than the parent phytase, e.g. of a Tm of up to 82° C. at pH 5.5, as determined by DSC, and/or of a doubled specific activity. The invention also relates to DNA encoding the phytase variants, methods of their production, as well as the use thereof, e.g. in animal feed and animal feed additives.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and,an alpha-amylase amino acid sequence as well as to the application of such polypeptides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide, to nucleic acid constructs comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and a second nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide which is foreign to the first nucleotide sequence. Furthermore, it also relates to expression vectors and host cells comprising the nuclei acid construct.

Abstract: Variants of fungal cutinases having improved thermostability comprise substitution of one or more specified amino acid residues and/or a specified N-terminal extension. The variants may optionally comprise additional alterations at other positions.

Abstract: This invention provides a method and apparatus for signal reproduction that can simultaneously reproduce N (N?2) signals which are previously multiplexed, and simultaneously reproduce N independent signals. This apparatus selectively inputs the independent N coded signals in time division, adds the corresponding stream information to the selected input signal among N kinds of stream information for identifying the input signals, detects the stream information from the respective input signal, decodes the respective input signal by a decoding method corresponding to the respective input signal, which is decided based on the detected stream information, and outputs the decoded signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cutinase variants having improved thermostability. The variants have one or more amino acid substitutions within the vicinity of the N-terminal amino acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to phytase variants derived from a parent phytase which is homologous to a Peniophora lycii phytase and comprises at least one substitution in at least one of a number of positions corresponding to a position in the Peniophora lycii phytase. The variants are of improved properties, in particular of a higher specific activity and/or more thermostable than the parent phytase, e.g. of a Tm of up to 82° C. at pH 5.5, as determined by DSC, and/or of a doubled specific activity. The invention also relates to DNA encoding the phytase variants, methods of their production, as well as the use thereof, e.g. in animal feed and animal feed additives.

Abstract: Variants of fungal cutinases having improved thermostability comprise substitution of one or more specified amino acid residues and/or a specified N-terminal extension. The variants may optionally comprise additional alterations at other positions.

Abstract: The invention provides variant lipases with improved washing performance, including good performance in washing with a detergent having a high content of anionic surfactant at low washing temperature at a short washing time. More particularly, the invention relates to variants of the wild-type lipase from Pseudomonas sp. strain SD 705, deposited as FERM BP-4772.

Abstract: In a speaker adaptation method for speech models, input speech is transformed to a feature parameter sequence like a cepstral sequence, and N model sequences of maximum likelihood for the feature parameter sequence are extracted from speaker-independent speech HMMs by an N-best hypothesis extraction method. The extracted model sequences are each provisionally adapted to maximize its likelihood for the feature parameter sequence of the input speech while changing the HMM parameters of each sequence, and that one of the provisionally adapted model sequences which has the maximum likelihood for the feature parameter sequence of the input speech is selected and speech models of the selected sequence are provided as adapted HMMs of the speaker to be recognized.

Abstract: Noise-resistant speech HMMs are composed by: recording noise in the environment of utterance (S.sub.1); preparing HMMs of the noise (S.sub.2); transforming the output probability distribution of each of the noise HMMs and speech HMMs prepared from speech unaffected by noise and multiplicative distortion to a linear spectral domain (S.sub.31); multiplying the speech HMM distribution in the linear spectral domain by a multiplicative distortion W that is an unknown variable (S.sub.321); convoluting the multiplied value and the noise HMM distribution in the linear spectral domain (S.sub.322); inversely transforming the convoluted value to the original domain of the speech HMM (S.sub.33) to compose incomplete noise-resistant speech HMMs each containing multiplicative distortion as an unknown variable (S.sub.