Abstract: The invention provides a novel transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked ?-1,4 so as to transfer the ?-1,4 lingages to a ?-1, ?-1 linkages; a process for producing the transferase; a gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an oligosaccharide by using the same.

Abstract: It is intended to provide compositions and foods for use in the treatment, prophylaxis, or amelioration of diseases or symptoms which can be treated, prevented or ameliorated by activating PPAR, in particular, insulin resistant diabetes and hyperlipidemia. Namely, medicinal compositions usable in treating, preventing or improving diseases or symptoms which can be treated, prevented or ameliorated by activation PPAR which contain humulones, isohumulones or lupulones or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof.

Abstract: A pigment dispersant contains the following component (a) alone or the following components (a) and (b) in combination: Component (a): a composite pigment formed of a diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment having a sulfonic group and another diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment having no sulfonic group, wherein the number of sulfonic group per molecule of the diketopyrrolopyrrole pigments in the composite pigment is from 0.05 to 0.5; and Component (b): a pigment other than the component (a), wherein the pigment has a sulfonic group or its metal salt, ammonium salt or amine salt. Also disclosed are a colored composition for color filters, a process for the fabrication of a color filter, the color filter fabricated by the process, an image display device including the color filter, and an information communication equipment including the image display device.

Abstract: The present invention discloses: a composition comprising (A) an epoxy group-containing vinyl ester resin having, in the molecule, 0.8 to 0.3 equivalent of epoxy group and 0.2 to 0.7 equivalent of an ethylenically unsaturated group, (B) a radical-polymerizable monomer, (C) a curing agent, and (D) a carbon fiber impregnated with 0.5 to 5% by mass of (d) a vinyl ester resin as a sizing agent, obtained by an addition reaction of an epoxy resin and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and a carbon fiber-reinforced resin composite material produced by curing the above composition.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a blood pressure-lowering agent, a vascular flexibility-ameliorating agent and foods having these functions imparted thereto, which are comprising isohumulones or a hop extract and/or an isomerized hop extract as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A process gas line (255) for carrying WF6 gas for nucleation, a process gas line (257) for carrying WF6 gas for film deposition after nucleation are joined at a single joint (280) to a carrier gas line (256). A gas line (271) is connected to the joint (280) to carry a mixed gas of the carrier gas and WF6 gas to a processing chamber defined by a processing vessel. Sections of the carrier gas line (256) and the gas line (271) extending on the opposite sides of the joint (280) extend along a straight line, and the process gas lines (255, 257) are perpendicular to the gas line (271).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radial-type ceramic electronic component that can prevent cracking in the ceramic substrate and detachment of the terminal electrodes due to the contractile stresses in the solder. A ceramic electronic component element 1 is equipped with terminal electrodes 11 and 12 on either end of a ceramic substrate 10. A pair of lead wires 2 and 3 are soldered to the terminal electrodes 11 and 12. The support parts 2B and 3B of the lead wires 2 and 3 are bent from the soldering parts 2A and 3A in a direction away from the terminal electrodes 11 and 12.

Abstract: A process gas line (255) for carrying WF6 gas for nucleation, a process gas line (257) for carrying WF6 gas for film deposition after nucleation are joined at a single joint (280) to a carrier gas line (256). A gas line (271) is connected to the joint (280) to carry a mixed gas of the carrier gas and WF6 gas to a processing chamber defined by a processing vessel. Sections of the carrier gas line (256) and the gas line (271) extending on the opposite sides of the joint (280) extend along a straight line, and the process gas lines (255, 257) are perpendicular to the gas line (271).

Abstract: The invention provides a novel transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked &agr;-1,4 so as to transfer the &agr;-1,4 lingages to a &agr;-1,&agr;-1 linkages; a process for producing the transferase; a gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an oligosaccharide by using the same.

Abstract: A process gas line (255) for carrying WF6 gas for nucleation, a process gas line (257) for carrying WF6 gas for film deposition after nucleation are joined at a single joint (280) to a carrier gas line (256). A gas line (271) is connected to the joint (280) to carry a mixed gas of the carrier gas and WF6 gas to a processing chamber defined by a processing vessel. Sections of the carrier gas line (256) and the gas line (271) extending on the opposite sides of the joint (280) extend along a straight line, and the process gas lines (255, 257) are perpendicular to the gas line (271).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vector which can be integrated into a yeast chromosome in a high number of copies. Another object of the present invention is to provide a modified vector which can be integrated into the yeast chromosome in a high number of copies and of which expression units stably maintain on the chromosome. The vector according to the present invention comprises a marker gene for selecting transformants, a shortened promoter sequence which is operably linked to the marker gene and a sequence homologous to the chromosomal DNA of Candida utilis, and optionally a heterologous gene or a gene derived from C. utilis, wherein the vector is linearized by cleaving within said homologous DNA sequence or at both ends of the homologous DNA sequence with restriction enzymes, and wherein the heterologous gene or the gene derived from C. utilis can be integrated into the chromosomal DNA of C. utilis by homologous recombination.

Abstract: A deflection yoke includes a bobbin having a cavity formed in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin, and an adjusting coil having a magnetic core on which a thread is cut. The core inserted into the cavity is slidable in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin. The core has a marker formed on only one of ends of the core in the longitudinal direction. The core has been inserted into the cavity from the one end formed with the marker or the other end. The marker is formed on only one of ends of the core before or after the thread is cut thereon.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radial-type ceramic electronic component that can prevent cracking in the ceramic substrate and detachment of the terminal electrodes due to the contractile stresses in the solder. A ceramic electronic component element 1 is equipped with terminal electrodes 11 and 12 on either end of a ceramic substrate 10. A pair of lead wires 2 and 3 are soldered to the terminal electrodes 11 and 12. The support parts 2B and 3B of the lead wires 2 and 3 are bent from the soldering parts 2A and 3A in a direction away from the terminal electrodes 11 and 12.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vector which can be integrated into a yeast chromosome in a high number of copies. Another object of the present invention is to provide a modified vector which can be integrated into the yeast chromosome in a high number of copies and of which expression units stably maintain on the chromosome. The vector according to the present invention comprises a marker gene for selecting transformants, a shortened promoter sequence which is operably linked to the marker gene and a sequence homologous to the chromosomal DNA of Candida utilis, and optionally a heterologous gene or a gene derived from C. utilis, wherein the vector is linearized by cleaving within said homologous DNA sequence or at both ends of the homologous DNA sequence with restriction enzymes, and wherein the heterologous gene or the gene derived from C. utilis can be integrated into the chromosomal DNA of C. utilis by homologous recombination.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel transferase that acts on a saccharide, as a substrate, composed of at least three sugar units wherein at least three glucose residues on the reducing end are linked &agr;-1,4 so as to transfer the &agr;-1,4 lingages to a &agr;-1,&agr;-1 linkages; a process for producing the transferase; a gene coding for the same; and a process for producing an oligosaccharide by using the same.

Abstract: A deflection yoke includes a bobbin having a cavity formed in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin, and an adjusting coil having a magnetic core on which a thread is cut. The core inserted into the cavity is slidable in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin. The core has a marker formed on only one of ends of the core in the longitudinal direction. The core has been inserted into the cavity from the one end formed with the marker or the other end. The marker is formed on only one of ends of the core before or after the thread is cut thereon.

Abstract: A deflection yoke includes a bobbin having a cavity formed in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin, and an adjusting coil having a magnetic core on which a thread is cut. The core inserted into the cavity is slidable in the longitudinal direction of the bobbin. The core has a marker formed on only one of ends of the core in the longitudinal direction. The core has been inserted into the cavity from the one end formed with the marker or the other end. The marker is formed on only one of ends of the core before or after the thread is cut thereon.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vector which can be integrated into a yeast chromosome in a high number of copies. Another object of the present invention is to provide a modified vector which can be integrated into the yeast chromosome in a high number of copies and of which expression units stably maintain on the chromosome. The vector according to the present invention comprises a marker gene for selecting transformants, a shortened promoter sequence which is operably linked to the marker gene and a sequence homologous to the chromosomal DNA of Candida utilis, and optionally a heterologous gene or a gene derived from C. utilis, wherein the vector is linearized by cleaving within said homologous DNA sequence or at both ends of the homologous DNA sequence with restriction enzymes, and wherein the heterologous gene or the gene derived from C. utilis can be integrated into the chromosomal DNA of C. utilis by homologous recombination.

Abstract: A plasma processing method in which a high-frequency power is supplied to a processing chamber in which an object to be processed is mounted, thereby producing a plasma in the processing chamber, and the object is processed in an atmosphere of the plasma, wherein the high-frequency power is subjected to modulation by a low-frequency power. In one embodiment a plasma is produced in a processing chamber by using an electric power with a direction of current changed with passing of time, and the object to be processed is processed in an atmosphere of the plasma, wherein a power having a basic frequency is subjected to frequency modulation with a frequency equal to n-times (n=an integer) the basic frequency. In a plasma processing apparatus of the invention, while a process gas is supplied to a processing chamber via a first gas introducing hole formed in an electrode, an object to be processed, which is held on an opposed electrode, is subjected to plasma processing.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of fumaric acid salts of compounds of general formula (II) (wherein R.sub.1 is lower alkyl; and R.sub.2 is lower alkyl), is characterized by reacting a compound, which is prepared from erythromycin A through acetylation of the hydroxyl at position 2', formulation and hemiketalization of the hydroxyl at position 4", oxidation of the hydroxyl at position 11, alkylation of the hydroxyl at position 12 and removal of the acetyl at position 2' and the formyl at position 4", with benzyloxycarbonyl chloride under basic conditions, freeing the obtained compound from the benzyloxycarbonyl group thus introduced, alkylating the nitrogen atom at position 3', converting the obtained compound into a fumaric acid salt, recrystallizing the obtained crude salt from an alcoholic solvent, and recrystallizing the obtained crystal from hydrous ethyl acetate again.