A tool assembly and method for completing a well are provided. The tool includes debris relief features that enable use in solids-laden environments, for example in the presence of sand. Forward and reverse circulation pathways to the isolated interval are present to allow clearing of debris from the wellbore annulus while the sealing device remains set against the wellbore.

Described herein are methods and compositions for treating certain retionol-related diseases and conditions by modulation of transthyretin (TTR) and retinol binding protein (RBP) availability in the subject. For example, the methods and compositions provide for therapeutic agents for the treatment and/or prevention of age-related macular degeneration and/or dystrophies, metabolic disorders, idiopa...

The present invention relates to a method for producing butanol using a bacterium capable of biosynthesizing butanol from butyryl-CoA as an intermediate. More particularly, a method for producing butanol, the method comprising generating bytyryl-CoA in a bacterium which contains a gene coding for AdhE (an enzyme responsible for the conversion of butyryl-CoA to butanol) using various methods, and c...

The present invention relates to a method for producing butanol using a bacterium capable of biosynthesizing butanol from butyryl-CoA as an intermediate. More particularly, a method for producing butanol, the method comprising generating bytyryl-CoA in a bacterium which contains a gene coding for AdhE (an enzyme responsible for the conversion of butyryl-CoA to butanol) using various methods, and c...

Disclosed herein are a method for producing butanol in yeast having the ability to biosynthesize butanol using butyryl-CoA as an intermediate, the method comprises producing butyryl-CoA in yeast having a CoAT (acetyl-CoA:butyryl-CoA CoA-transferase)-encoding gene introduced thereinto, through various pathways, and then converting the produced butyryl-CoA to butanol.

The invention relates to new improvements in a process for crystal growth in the environment of supercritical ammonia-containing solution, which are based on use of specific azide mineralizers and result in the improved bulk Group XIII element nitride monocrystals, in particular balk monocrystalline gallium-containing nitride, intended mainly for variety of nitride-based semiconductor products suc...

Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition including; (A) a carboxyl group-containing polyurethane prepared by using (a) a polyisocyanate compound (b) polyol compounds (c) a carboxyl group-containing dihydroxy compound as raw materials, (B) a curing agent, wherein the polyol compounds (b) are one or more kinds of polyol compound(s) selected from Group (I) and one or more kinds of polyol compou...

A liquid cargo carrying maritime vessel including a plurality of liquid cargo carrying tanks and a plurality of gas expansion trunks wherein each gas expansion trunk is above, associated with, and in fluid communication with a respective tank therebelow, via slotted apertures in the deck. Each gas expansion trunk is fixedly positioned on a portion of a deck of the vessel above the associated tank ...

A first communication terminal (100) is a communication terminal which executes an application using user data which can be output to a second communication terminal (200), and has a management data making section (140) which makes management data including an access information of a server (300) capable of transmitting the application, and a data transmitting section (152) which transmits the use...

There is provided a method including, acquiring brain function data and diffusion tensor data (S10), calculating a connection degree between voxels adjacent to each other based on the diffusion tensor data (S30), constituting a data evaluation value based on the brain function data and the connection degree between the adjacent voxels (S40), subjecting the data evaluation value to nonparametric re...

Provided is a quiet propeller including a propeller blade having such a pitch angle not at its root portion but at its blade end edge portion with respect to a relative flow in the rotational direction, as to raise the internal pressure of a liquid thereby to eliminate a cavity, a water bubble or a cavitation at the blade root portion at the time of a high-speed rotation so that the propeller is r...

An organo-modified silica based material to be used for making a stationary phase for liquid chromatography comprising a part which is unmodified silica, and a part 5 which is silica comprising organic groups bonded to the silica. A method for preparing an organo-modified silica based material comprising mixing in an aqueous medium a silica based material and an organosilane compound, and reacting...

A method and apparatus manages resources in a wireless communication system by transmitting a multi-carrier switch command message to an access terminal instructing the access terminal to switch between a diversity mode where each antenna module of a plurality antenna modules receives a single carrier signal transmitted at a single carrier frequency and a multi-carrier mode where a first antenna m...

A video encoding method for assigning a plurality of images to a plurality of GOPs and encoding images belonging to the GOPs as a video image. The method includes determining whether each image belonging to each GOP is to be encoded; encoding GOP encoding/non-encoding data for indicating whether encoded data of the image belonging to the relevant GOP is output; and encoding the image belonging to ...

There are provided an image processing apparatus, an endoscope apparatus, and a color balance adjusting method capable of obtaining a good observation image. An image processing apparatus of the invention includes: an image signal input unit for inputting an image signal of a subject image picked up by an image pickup unit, the subject image including at least an image of a color balance adjustmen...

A system for treating a bone having an interior volume comprising cancellous bone is described. The system comprises first and second cannulas and first and second void forming tools which are sized and configured to be advanced respectively through the first and second cannulas. The first and second void forming tools are each adapted to form a void in cancellous bone of a desired shape and volum...

A cavity creation device is introduced into a cancellous bone volume of a vertebral body through a percutaneous access path. The cavity creating device is manipulated to form a cavity in the cancellous bone volume. A volume of filling material is placed in the cavity by introducing a tube through the percutaneous access path and by conveying the filling material through a side dispensing port of t...

On the same semiconductor substrate 1, a memory cell array in which a plurality of memory elements R having a chalcogenide-material storage layer 22 storing a high-resistance state with a high electric resistance value and a low-resistance state with a low electric resistance value by a change of an atom arrangement are disposed in a matrix is formed in a memory cell region mmry, and a semiconduct...

An endoscope includes an elongated insertion portion having a distal end portion provided with an illumination window and an observation window. A single solid-state image sensing device whose image pickup face is provided at an image forming position of an objective optical system mounted on the observation window. In the vicinity of the image pickup face of the solid-state image sensing device, ...

The present invention relates to a polymer PTC thermistor and a temperature sensor using the same. The polymer PTC thermistor, including a conductive polymer 1 having PTC characteristics and electrodes 2 and 3 joined to the conductive polymer 1, characterized in that the electrodes 2 and 3 are provided along two sides 1a and 1b of the plate-like conductive polymer 1 and are separated from the edge...