Abstract:
Desmosterol alone, the combination of desmosterol and amyloid beta, the combination of desmosterol and gelsolin and the combination of desmosterol, amyloid beta and gelsolin can be used as in-blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment. A method for evaluating the effect of a candidate for a therapeutic agent to treat Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, a method for aiding the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, and a method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment are provided in which the biomarkers are used.
Abstract:
Desmosterol alone, the combination of desmosterol and amyloid beta, the combination of desmosterol and gelsolin and the combination of desmosterol, amyloid beta and gelsolin can be used as in-blood biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment. A method for evaluating the effect of a candidate for a therapeutic agent to treat Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, a method for aiding the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, and a method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment are provided in which the biomarkers are used.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a solar photovoltaic power generator system that includes a solar cell panel and a power conditioner that controls a voltage or a current of generated power output from the solar cell panel as an operating value in accordance with a characteristic of the solar cell panel to search a maximum output point of the generated power so as to be supplied to a power system. The power conditioner includes a data memory module that stores a plurality of operating values and a plurality of patterns of the generated powers from the solar cell panel based on the operating values, and a maximum power point tracking module that adds a new operating value based on the pattern of the generated power in the past to calculate the operating values for the next search, and sets the maximum value through an algorithm.
Abstract:
A diagnosis system composed of a fluoroscopic apparatus for obtaining a fluoroscopic image of an internal body be radiating x-rays to the body, and an endocopic apparatus for obtaining an optical image of the internal body part to be observed by inserting an insertion section of the endoscope into the body. In an operating section of the endoscope, a fluoroscope operating section for operating the fluoroscopic apparatus is disposed. Operation signals from the fluoroscope operating section are sent from a communication I/F of an endoscopic processor to the fluoroscopic apparatus. The fluoroscoptic apparatus receives the operation signals with a fluoroscopic processor and controls a fluoroscopic table.
Abstract:
A hybrid system using a wind-power generator and a battery energy storage system includes a unit to set a system constant output value, a unit to control power generated from the wind-power generator, a unit to gradually change an output target value between an output constant operation and a regulation control operation, and a control unit to secure a charged ampere-hour of a battery in the output constant operation.
Abstract:
A training system includes a tight fitting device 100 having an inflatable tube which is intended to be wrapped around a compression target range of an arm or a leg, a pressure regulating segment 200 that controls an applied pressure applied by the tight fitting device 100 to the compression target range by means of supplying air into the inflatable tube of the tight fitting device 100 or removing the air from the inflatable tube, a measuring segment 300, and a control segment 400. The measuring segment 300 measures a measurement target value which is one of a heart beat rate, a pulse wave value, and an oxygen saturation value, of a user who is receiving KAATSU training. When the measurement target value measured by the measuring segment 300 indicates that the KAATSU training should not be continued, then the control segment 400 notifies it to the pressure regulating segment 200 and terminates the KAATSU training.
Abstract:
An ultrasonograph is provided with a frequency component adjuster that adjusts spatial frequency components of original image data RAW0 of an ultrasonotomographic image. The frequency component adjuster is constituted of an unsharp image data generator, a subtraction circuit, a weighting circuit, an integration circuit, a multiplication circuit and an addition circuit. The unsharp image data generator circuit generates unsharp image data RAWi (i=1 to 5) by reducing the spatial frequency components of the original image data RAW0 in five steps. The subtraction circuit generates differential image data ΔRAWj (j=1 to 4) by subtracting the unsharp image data RAW1 from RAWi-1. The weighting circuit weights the differential image data ΔRAWj by multiplying them by respective coefficients kj (−1
Abstract:
Crystals of 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one having a diffraction peak at a diffraction angle (2θ±0.2°) of 9.7° and/or 21.9° in a powder X-ray diffraction are suitable for an active ingredient of a preventing and therapeutic agent for diseases such as constipation. Crystals of 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one hydrate and amorphous 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one hydrate are also suitable for an active ingredient of a preventing and therapeutic agent for diseases such as constipation.
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A manufacturing method of a clad material composed of a bronze alloy and a steel is provided, including: scattering a bronze alloy powder on a steel back metal; sintering the bronze alloy powder to obtain a bilayer material having a porous bronze alloy layer on the steel; dry-rolling and a sintering the bilayer material so that the bronze alloy layer has a porosity of 3% or less; and wet-rolling the bilayer material with supplying a rolling oil to surfaces of rolling rolls. The clad manufactured according to this method can be heat-treated without an disadvantage in a conventional wet-rolling that entering rolling oil vaporizes in the bronze alloy layer during the heat treatment to form new voids. Therefore, it becomes possible to make a bronze alloy layer high in density in small times of rolling, thus enabling an increase in production efficiency.