Abstract: A dynamic image display device which successively reads out each frame from dynamic image data stored as successive frames to display each of the frames at each predetermined display period on a window of a display device. The display period and the display area size of the window are changeable. The dynamic image display device comprises a display area size input device for inputting the display area size of the window, a storage device having a definition correlating the display area size with the display period, a device for reading out from the storage device the display period corresponding to the display area size of the window inputted in the display area size input device, and a device to display each of the frames on the window of the display device during each read display period.

Abstract: A dynamic image display device which reads out each frame from dynamic image data stored as successive frames every predetermined number of skipped frames, to display each of the frames at each predetermined display period on a window of a display device. The predetermined number of skipped frames and a display area size of the window are changeable. The dynamic image display device includes a display area size input device for inputting the display area size of the window, a storage device having a definition correlating the display area size with the predetermined number of skipped frames, a device for reading out from the storage device the predetermined number of skipped frames corresponding to the display area size of the window inputted by the display area size input device, and a device for displaying each of the frames on the window of the display device every read predetermined number of skipped frames.

Abstract: A multiwindow display control method and apparatus for easily controlling a display of a plurality of groups of windows each group including a plurality of windows. The invention includes plural frame memory control units each storing pixel data to be displayed on one of the windows, a first group number of a group of windows to which the window belongs, and a priority number for identifying a display priority among the windows included in the same group of windows. The invention further provides an outline generating unit for generating a second group number each identifying one of the group of windows; a pixel data arbitration unit for determining a group of windows having the first group number which coincides with the second group number, and for determining a window to be displayed having a highest priority number of the determined group of windows; and a display unit for displaying pixel data of the determined window.

Abstract: A dynamic image display device which successively reads out each frame from dynamic image data stored as successive frames to display each of the frames at each predetermined display period on a window of a display device. The predetermined display period is changeable. The dynamic image display device includes a distance parameter input device for inputting a distance parameter between a display screen displaying the window and a person looking at a dynamic image on the display screen, a storage device having a definition correlating the distance parameter with the predetermined display period, a device for reading out from the storage device the predetermined display period corresponding to the distance parameter inputted by the distance parameter input device, and a device for displaying each of the frames on the window of the display device during each predetermined display period.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of terminals includes a processing section, a cooperation controlling section and an inputting section. The inputting section inputs, to the cooperation controlling section, input data and switching data for switching over a cooperative operation mode and an individual operation mode. The switching section switches over the cooperative operation mode and the individual operation mode on the basis of the switching data given from the inputting section. The self-input processing section supplies, when in the cooperative operation mode, the input data from the self-inputting section to the self-processing section and other processing sections which should operate in cooperation and supplies, when in the individual operation mode, the input data from the self-inputting section to the self-processing section.

Abstract: High purity 2-nitroimidazole derivatives having excellent radiosensitivity and high safety and useful as a drug to be used along with radiotherapy of various cancers can be prepared at a high yield from inexpensive diester of tartaric acid according to the following reaction formua, ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be the same or different and each individually represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, and X represents a halogen atom.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an antiprotozoal composition containing a 2-nitroimidazole derivative as its active component. This drug is especially useful against Trypanosoma cruzi. Process for the preparation is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a 2-nitroimidazole derivative represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be the same or different from each other and mean individually a hydrogen atom or an acyl group, and a radiosensitizer containing the same. The compound (I) according to this invention has an excellent radiosensitizing effect and high safety, so that a radiosensitizer containing the same is remarkably useful in the radiotherapy of cancers.

Abstract: A novel heterocyclic derivative of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents ##STR2## and R.sub.2 represents hydrogen or acyl. When R.sub.2 is acyl, the derivative can be prepared, for example, by the following process: ##STR3## wherein R.sub.4 is acyl and R.sub.1 is ##STR4## The derivative is less toxic and has radiosensitizing activity and antiviral activity even at a low concentration.Radiosensitizing agents and antiviral agents containing the derivative as active component are also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a blower for the production of a mist or the like (e.g. a smoke, a fog, etc.). The blower comprises a conduit means able to convey liquid carbon dioxide (CO.sub.2) and a support means, said conduit means having an inlet means suitable for introducing liquid CO.sub.2 therewithin and an outlet means able to discharge liquid CO.sub.2 to the atmosphere so as to form a mist or the like, said inlet means being fixed to said support means, characterized in that, said outlet means is rotatably coupled to said inlet means, said outlet means being rotatable about a first axis of rotation.

Abstract: A novel heterocyclic derivative of formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents ##STR2## and R.sub.2 represents hydrogen or acyl. When R.sub.2 is acyl, the derivative can be prepared, for example, by the following process: ##STR3## wherein R.sub.4 is acyl and R.sub.1 is ##STR4## The derivative is less toxic and has radiosensitizing activity and antiviral activity even at a low concentration.Radiosensitizing agents and antiviral agents containing the derivative as active component are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing pressurized, sealed containered food is disclosed, in which a predetermined quantity of low-temperature liquefied gas is charged through two or more low-temperature liquefied gas outlets into a succession of individual containers which have already a predetermined quantity of food including liquid content and are successively travelling upright with the top end open at a constant speed, and each container is subsequently sealed with a lid.

Abstract: Composition for dermatological application to be used for freckles, liver-spots, and acnes containing as an active constituent 0.1 to 40 wt % of a dicarboxylic acid ester, having 7 to 13 carbon atoms as activated constituent and represented by the general formula of ##STR1## wherein n=5-11R.sub.1 =ethyl, isopropyl, glyceryl, or H,R.sub.2 =ethyl, isopropyl, glyceryl or H,and wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together are diethyl, diisopropyl, and diglyceryl, and H and ethyl, H and isopropyl, H and glyceryl.

Abstract: An automatic dishwasher which comprises an enclosure for accommodating articles to be washed, a washing solution tank arranged below the enclosure, a hot water storage tank for containing a predetermined amount of hot water for rinsing use, a plurality of nozzles for spraying a liquid medium towards the articles in the enclosure, a motor-driven pump, a first piping connecting a discharge port of the pump with the nozzles, a second piping connecting both of the solution and storage tanks with a suction port of the pump, and a valve assembly disposed on the second piping and operable to close a first passage between the suction port and the storage tank and to open a second passage between the suction port and the solution tank during the washing operation in which the articles are washed, and to open and close the first and second passages, respectively, during the rinsing operation in which the articles are rinsed.

Abstract: A method of preventing the atmosphere from entering a heat-insulating container adapted to temporarily reserve a low-temperature liquefied gas, wherein a dry gas is constantly supplied to the inside of the heat-insulating container when it is in an inoperative state, in order to maintain the inside of the heat-insulating container in a dry gas atmosphere having a pressure slightly higher than the atmospheric pressure. The dry gas is a vaporized gas of a low-temperature liquefied gas of the same kind as the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used. The dry gas is led out in the gas phase from a supply container for supplying the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used, or is a gas obtained by vaporizing a part of the low-temperature liquefied gas to be used, outside the supply container.

Abstract: In a low-temperature liquefied gas constant outflow device having a heat-insulating container having an opening at the top, a cover member closing the opening of the heat-insulating container, a low-temperature liquefied gas outlet which runs through the base of the heat-insulating container, a level sensor which detects the level of low-temperature liquefied gas in the heat-insulating container, and a vaporized-gas exhaust conduit which opens from the cover member, the improvement wherein a pressure absorbing container is located within the heat-insulating container, a low-temperature liquefied gas supply conduit and a vaporized-gas exhaust conduit are both inserted into the pressure absorbing container through the cover member, a low-temperature liquefied gas outlet is provided in the pressure absorbing container, and a check valve is provided in the low-temperature liquefied gas supply conduit, which opens or closes in response to a signal from the level sensor.

Abstract: A low-temperature liquefied gas outflow device wherein an outflow nozzle having a plurality of through-holes is provided through the base of a heat-insulating container having an opening at the top, and a cover member closing the opening, a control device for selectively opening or closing any desired number of the plurality of through-holes provided in the outflow nozzle is provided. The heat-insulating container has a level sensor located within the heat-insulating container, a liquefied gas supply conduit running through the cover member, a vaporized-gas exhaust conduit provided in the cover member, and a check valve inserted into the liquefied gas supply conduit, operating in response to a signal from the level sensor. The control device for selectively opening or closing the through-holes comprises a plurality of valve elements for selectively closing the through-holes, and an elevation cylinder for controlling the operation of the plurality of valve elements.