Abstract: A baseball game is made realizable in an environment difficult to achieve with a dedicated game apparatus and a joy stick for such an apparatus. When a player team is at bat, the positioning point of the bat of a batter character relative to a ball character and the batting action of the batter character are determined by manipulating a mouse 22, while, when the player team is in the field, the pitching action and the pitch course for the ball character displayed moving from a pitcher character toward the batter character are determined by manipulating the mouse 22, and upon the end of the game, the particulars of the game results and the particulars of the batting results and pitching results of the player team are uploaded to a recording unit 42 in a server system 16 connected via a network 12 to computers 14.

Abstract: A pitcher character and a batter character are displayed on a browser image. The pitcher character throws a ball at a random speed in a random course. A behavior of the batter character is controlled through operation of a mouse by a player. Specifically, the player predicts a ball passing position and moves a pointer of the mouse to set a meet cursor at the predicted position on the browser image. The batter character swings a bat at the timing of the player clicking the mouse Depending on an overlap state between the meet cursor and the ball, it is judged whether or not the player has hit a home run. Resultant data of a game is sent to a server system along with identification information of the player. The server system totalizes resultant data to derive the total record per player, and produces a game award to be given to each player whose total record deserves it.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide a pellicle having, on the inside of the pellicle frame, a tacky layer which exhibits excellent performance for holding foreign matters such as dust or dirt suspended in space defined by the pellicle and the mask, and resistance against light of short wavelengths such as excimer beam. The pellicle comprises a pellicle frame, a pellicle film stretched on one side of said pellicle frame, and a tacky layer formed on the inside of said pellicle frame and containing a greasy fluorine-contained resin.

Abstract: First to fourth initial data memories 31a to 31d prestore initial data R obtained when a reference optical fiber 22 having a predetermined length was previously measured, and initial data Pa to Pc obtained when a to-be-monitored optical fiber was previously measured. A first arithmetic unit 33 finds a difference .alpha. between measurement data R' obtained when the reference optical fiber 22 is newly measured and the initial data R as a first drift amount representing a variation in characteristics of the OTDR itself. A second arithmetic unit 34 finds a difference .beta. between measurement data P' obtained when the to-be-monitored optical fiber 1 is newly measured and the initial data of the to-be-monitored optical fiber as a second drift amount representing a variation in characteristics of the OTDR itself and characteristics of the to-be-monitored optical fiber 1. A third arithmetic unit 35 finds, from a difference between .beta. and .alpha., a real characteristic variation amount .gamma.

Abstract: A retaining wall functioning both as a gravity-type retaining wall and as a leaning-type retaining wall is constructed on a sloped cut earth surface for the prevention of landslide. The retaining wall includes a bottom surface defined by a horizontal portion of the cut earth surface and having a transverse length of L.sub.2, a top surface opposite the bottom surface and having a transverse length of L.sub.1 which is greater than L.sub.2, an outside surface extending generally vertically between the top and bottom surfaces, and an inclined surface opposite the outside surface and defined by the cut earth surface. The retaining wall has the center of gravity at a position so that part of the weight of the wall is imposed upon the sloped portion of the cut earth surface.

Abstract: A construction material including a concrete body, a metallic material embedded within the concrete body, and an organophosphorus compound, such as an organic phosphonic acid or a salt thereof, dispersed within the concrete body. Chemical corrosion of pipes or the like metals extending from such a construction material into an environment which is less alkaline an the concrete body, such as soil, can be prevented by incorporation of the organic phosphorus material.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus provided with a handle which is pulled out of the facsimile body when the facsimile apparatus is carried. The handle is designed to be turned and set in an inclined positon relative to the facsimile body, thereby enabling the automatic and continuous feed of a plurality of original documents to be transmitted and accordingly dispensing with an original document tray.

Abstract: A repositioner for a streaming magnetic tape drive apparatus includes control circuitry which, when a repositioning instruction is received from an external device, supplies a drive stop instruction to a tape reel motor and a measurement start instruction to a tape travel distance measuring device when a first data block edge detection signal is reproduced from the tape within a certain time period. A tape stop detection signal is produced when forward movement of the tape ceases, and the control circuitry outputs a reverse drive instruction to the reel motor while supplying a reverse tape travel distance measurement start instruction to the distance measuring device. When the forward and reverse tape travel distances become equal and a data block edge detection signal is reproduced from the tape within a certain time period, a normal operation signal is provided to the external device to signal that a repositioning operation is normally performed.

Abstract: A reel position-detecting device for use in a magnetic tape drive unit, designed to determine whether or not a supply reel has been positioned upside down in a retainer. When reel-detecting means detects that the supply reel has been set in the retainer, the retainer is rotated in the opposite direction to the tape-supply direction. If tape supply-detecting means detects the magnetic tape and then ceases to detect the tape within a predetermined period, processing means determines that the supply reel has been correctly positioned. Otherwise, the processing means determines that the supply reel has been positioned upside down.

Abstract: Two dissolved gas components in sample water, for example, oxygen and hydrogen in core water, are readily quantitatively determined in one and same membrane-type oxygen meter by using a membrane producing an overlapped potential region where a potential region for an oxidation limiting current plateau is overlapped with that for a reduction limiting current plateau between two dissolved gas components, and applying to between a pair of an electrode and a counter-electrode a more positive potential than the equilibrium potential for oxidation-reduction reaction of one of the two dissolved gas components principally, thereby measuring a current generated between the electrodes, and a more negative potential than the equilibrium potential for oxidation-reduction reaction of the other dissolved gas component, when desired, thereby measuring a current generated between the electrodes, and quantitatively determining a concentration of the first dissolved gas component from the latter current quantity and quantitati