Abstract: A worker transfers GPS signals to a communication system at each node of traveling using a cellular phone terminal, and the communication system specifies the position of the cellular phone terminal and notifies positional information to a management system. When the cellular phone terminal cannot receive GPS signals or is outside a range accessible to the communication system, it starts recording acceleration data using an accelerometer. When a communicable state is recovered, the cellular phone terminal sends GPS signals and the recorded acceleration data to the communication system. A management computer determines whether the position notified by the communication system is an intended node. If the notified position is not an intended node, the management computer derives the position of the intended node using the acceleration data, and predicts the travel route based on the node position.

Abstract: A worker transfers GPS signals to a communication system at each node of traveling using a cellular phone terminal, and the communication system specifies the position of the cellular phone terminal and notifies positional information to a management system. When the cellular phone terminal cannot receive GPS signals or is outside a range accessible to the communication system, it starts recording acceleration data using an accelerometer. When a communicable state is recovered, the cellular phone terminal sends GPS signals and the recorded acceleration data to the communication system. A management computer determines whether the position notified by the communication system is an intended node. If the notified position is not an intended node, the management computer derives the position of the intended node using the acceleration data, and predicts the travel route based on the node position.

Abstract: A server which connects to a plurality of clients via network, stores contents and a plurality of applications which are authoring tools for editing contents and have different operational conditions from one another in accordance with capacities of hardware and software. The server obtains information indicating capacities of hardware and software of each client and specifies any of the applications that can be operable with the hardware and software of each client. The server provides the specified application to each client. The server also provides contents to the clients in response to requests from the clients.

Abstract: A keyboard assembly having key-switches, comprising a key holder plate supporting multiple keys in plural rows and movably across the thickness of the plate, and further comprising an upper casing which has a rectangular aperture closed by the key holder plate. The key holder plate has holes through which the keys extend, and integral guide portions concentric with the holes and extend toward the rectangular aperture. Opposite right and left sides of the aperture perpendicular to the rows of the keys are defined by side walls of the upper casing each of which has a downward extension toward the key holder plate. The extension has a convex lower end profile with which the key holder plate is held in pressed contact by fasteners, with elastic deformation thereof following the convex lower end profile of the downward extension, such that a surface generally defined by top faces of the keys is curved in cross section across the rows of the keys.

Abstract: A coated paper having a moisture and water-proof coating thereon is produced by coating a paper substrate with an aqueous emulsion containing a synthetic rubber latex and a wax emulsion in an amount of the solid wax of 5 to 200 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the solid synthetic rubber and, then, drying the coated paper at a temperature the same as or higher than the melting point of the wax. The resultant paper is highly capable of repulping.

Abstract: A keyboard assembly having key-switches, comprising a key holder plate supporting multiple keys in plural rows and movably across the thickness of the plate, and further comprising an upper casing which has a rectangular aperture closed by the key holder plate. The key holder plate has holes through which the keys extend, and integral guide portions concentric with the holes and .[.extend.]. .Iadd.extending .Iaddend.toward the rectangular aperture. Opposite right and left sides of the aperture perpendicular to the rows of the keys are defined by side walls of the upper casing each of which has a downward extension toward the key holder plate. The extension has a convex lower end profile with which the key holder plate is held in pressed contact by fasteners, with elastic deformation thereof following the convex lower end profile of the downward extension, such that a surface generally defined by top faces of the keys is curved in cross section across the rows of the keys.