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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a particle beam therapy apparatus capable of accurately irradiating affected tissue with a particle beam by accurately making an irradiation field follow the movement of the affected part. SOLUTION: The particle beam therapy apparatus includes: an affected part displacement measuring device 9 for measuring the displacement of the affected part caused by the respiration; a steering electromagnet 6 for deflecting the trajectory of the charged particle beam fed from an accelerator 1; an irradiation device 4 for processing the charged particle beam incoming via the steering electromagnet 6 in a prescribed irradiation shape and irradiating the affected part with the processed charged particle beam; a beam position monitor 5 set between the steering electromagnet 6 and the irradiation device 4 for measuring the beam position of the charged particle beam incoming to the irradiation device 4; a steering electromagnet control part 10 having a feedback control function based on the measured beam position for controlling the excitation amount of the steering electromagnet 6 so that the trajectory of the charged particle beam is deflected according to the measured displacement of the affected part; and an irradiation device position control part 4 M for moving the irradiation device 4 according to the displacement of the affected part. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an agent for improving oral cavity bacterial flora, inhibiting the proliferation of the bacteria in an oral cavity in order to make a hygienic condition in the oral cavity good, also enabling to keep the dominance of indigenous bacteria by making the proliferation of the indigenous bacteria more predominant in the oral cavity than that of causing bacteria of aspiration pneumonia, and also in considering that it acts in a human oral cavity and in the point of safety, comprising a food component or food raw material. SOLUTION: This agent for improving the oral cavity bacterial flora is provided by containing caffeine or theophylline as an active ingredient, capable of making the hygienic condition in the oral cavity as good by inhibiting the proliferation of the bacteria, and keeping the dominance of the indigenous bacteria by making the proliferation of the indigenous bacteria more predominant than that of the causing bacteria of the aspiration pneumonia. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To register a case image so that the deviation of featured values can be prevented from being generated in a case image included in the database of a similar image retrieval system for image diagnosis. SOLUTION: Since the registration of the case images to the database is controlled according to the degree of similarity of featured values, it is possible to reduce such possibility that many similar case images appear as retrieval results, and that similar retrieval results disturbing the diagnosis of a person to be diagnosed are shown. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that there is yet no method capable of easily evaluating an actual light environment. SOLUTION: The light environment including a plurality of light sources to be evaluated is photographed by relative spectral sensitivity and melatonin secretion suppression sensitivity to acquire photographed images of respective sensitivities. In the photographed images of the respective sensitivities, light source regions of the respective light sources are extracted and pixel values of pixels within the light source regions of the respective light sources are multiplied to calculate a brightness amount under the relative spectral sensitivity related to the respective light sources and a melatonin secretion suppressive component amount under the melatonin secretion suppression sensitivity, light properties of the respective light sources are estimated on the basis of the brightness amount and the melatonin secretion suppressive component amount, and the light environment is evaluated on the basis of the estimation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for identifying a gene usable as the markers of various cancers including highly metastatic stomach cancer and judging the cancers, to provide a kit therefor, and to provide a method for screening a cancer inhibitor. SOLUTION: A highly metastatic human stomach cancer culture cell strain having a high peritoneum metastatic ability is produced from a human stomach cancer culture cell strain, and the mRNA expressions of the strain before and after the acquisition of the metastatic ability were comprehensively compared and examined with exon microarray. Consequently, a new exon sequence of BHMT (betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase), EPSTI1 (epithelial stromal interaction 1, (breast)), and NEBL (nebulette), a gene participating in cell adhesion is identified. In addition, it is found that the new splicing variants of the BHMT, EPSTI1 and NEBL are expressed in stomach cancer cells and in large intestinal cancer cells. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for judging highly metastatic stomach cancer, to provide a kit therefor, and to provide a method for screening a highly metastatic stomach cancer inhibitor. SOLUTION: A highly metastatic human stomach cancer culture cell strain having a high peritoneum metastatic ability is produced from a human stomach cancer culture cell strain, and the mRNA expressions of the strain before and after the acquisition of the metastatic ability were comprehensively compared and examined with exon microarray. Consequently, it is found that a new exon sequence of DNAJC12 (DnaJ (Hsp40) homolog, subfamily C, member 12), ULBP1 (UL16 binding protein 1), and XAF1 (XIAP associated factor-1) is identified, and a splicing variant containing a region encoded by the new exon DNA sequences is specifically strongly expressed in the high metastatic strain. In addition, it is found that the new variant of ULBP1 is expressed not only in stomach cancer cells but also in pancreatic cancer, large intestinal cancer or breast cancer cells. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive intravenous drip measuring system, which is miniaturized and allows a nurse or the like to easily and accurately perform measuring work. SOLUTION: The intravenous drip measuring system comprises a sensor slave unit 3 attachable to the intravenous drip fall part 2 of a free fall type intravenous drip set 1 and a mobile master unit 4 capable of wireless communication with the sensor slave unit 3. The sensor slave unit 3 is provided with a sensor part 5 for detecting or measuring the dripping or the number of drops of infusion freely falling at the intravenous drip fall part 2 within the prescribed measurement time, and an RFID tag part for wirelessly transmitting slave unit identification information stored beforehand the dripping or the number of drops which is detected or measured as dripping signals. The mobile master unit 4 is provided with an RFID reader part for communicating with the RFID tag part by electromagnetic induction or electromagnetic coupling and receiving the dripping signals, an operation control part for calculating an intravenous drip speed on the basis of the received dripping signals, and a display part 18 for displaying the calculated intravenous drip speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide activated carbon selectively adsorbing and removing volatile organic material such as toluene having small molecule diameter and causing sick house syndrome, malodor or the like while keeping fragrance of terpene or the like. SOLUTION: The activated carbon is provided with a slit-like micropore 11 having slit-like shaped opening 11a having ≤0.8 nm slit width L1, wherein the distribution of the slit width L1 has a peak substantially only in 0.4-0.6 nm in the measurement by a t-plot method by nitrogen adsorption, the specific surface area of total pores is ≥400 m 2 /g to the mass of carbonized material and the ratio of the specific surface area of the slit-like micropore is ≥85% to the specific surface area of total pores. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of screening a substance inhibiting interaction between human surviving protein and partner protein interactive thereto (Smac protein, INCENP protein, human surviving protein) with high throughput and high sensitivity. SOLUTION: The screening method includes the following steps (a) to (d): (a) a first reaction liquid preparation step to react biotinylated human surviving protein and tag-fused partner protein in the presence or absence of a test material within a buffer liquid; (b) a second reaction liquid preparation step to further react by adding streptavidin-donor beads and nickel chelate-acceptor beads or anti-GST-acceptor beads to the first reaction liquid; (c) a measuring/comparing step to measure and compare the interaction between the nickel chelate-acceptor beads or anti-GST-acceptor beads bonded tag-fused partner protein by a chemical amplification-type luminescence proximity homogeneous assay (AlphaScreen) method; and (d) an evaluation step to evaluate the test material as an human surviving/partner protein interaction inhibiting substance when the signal measured by the AlphaScreen method decreases comparing the case adding the test material with the case not adding. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an oral composition having improved preservation stability, a micro-gel preparation having excellent ratainability in the mouth. SOLUTION: Micro-gel particles are prepared by adding gellan gum of 0.3 to 0.4% by weight as a gelling agent and 1 to 6 mmol of a divalent metal ion per 1 g of the gellan gum as a crosslinking agent. The oral composition having excellent retainability in the mouth and improved preservation stability such as syneresis and appearance is characterized by being produced by constructing a preparation with the assembly of the micro-gel particles. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT