Abstract: An image generation system includes a character control section, a virtual camera control section, an image generation section, and a motion mode switch section. The motion mode switch section switches a motion mode of a character from a free-move mode to a battle mode when an encounter event between the character and another character has occurred in the free-move mode, the free-move mode being a mode in which the character moves on a field in an object space, and the battle mode being a mode in which the character battles the other character. The character control section moves the character on the field in a direction indicated by direction instruction information from a direction instruction section of an operation section in the free-move mode, and causes the character to make a battle motion indicated by the direction instruction information from the direction instruction section in the battle mode.

Abstract: A system for autonomous decentralized control in which a client terminal and a center server are connected, as a network through a WAN and/or LAN, to a remote control server connected to a monitored/-controlled target device through a control communication network. The system is characterized in that a virtual machine, which is described as the other self of the monitored/controlled target device having the same information as that possessed by the monitored/controlled target device, and which is a software object having communication protocols used for communication with the monitored/controlled target device and concealed in the software object, is moved in the system with transparency and/or is held in the client terminal, the center server, or the remote control server.

Abstract: A method of controlling a mechanical ventilator is provided which is capable of increasing a stability margin in the controlling of a gas-delivery mechanism for the mechanical ventilator. The flow rate F of an assisting gas is measured, and an observer 54 estimates a flow rate {circumflex over (F)} of the assisting gas. A difference ?F between the measured flow rate F and estimated flow rate {circumflex over (F)} is then determined, and information on a patient's respiratory effort pressure Pmus is obtained. A target pressure Pin for controlling a gas-delivery mechanism 20 is calculated on the basis of this information. When the target pressure Pin is calculated on the basis of the flow-rate difference ?F, an allowance with respect to the stability limit of the overall system 14 can be increased. This enables the runaway to rarely occur even when an actual overall system is varied. Moreover, the responsibility of assist respiration can be improved as compared with that of the related art PAV method.

Abstract: A system for autonomous decentralized control in which a client terminal and a center server are connected, as a network through a WAN and/or LAN, to a remote control server connected to a monitored/controlled target device through a control communication network. The system is characterized in that a virtual machine, which is described as the other self of the monitored/controlled target device having the same information as that possessed by the monitored/controlled target device, and which is a software object having communication protocols used for communication with the monitored/controlled target device and concealed in the software object, is moved in the system with transparency and/or is held in the client terminal, the center server, or the remote control server.

Abstract: A chlorinated ethylene-propylene copolymer having a chlorine content of 20 to 45% by weight and a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 10 to 150 is produced by chlorinating in two or three stages, by contact with chlorine gas in an aqueous suspension, an ethylene-propylene copolymer having a propylene content of 15 to 40% by weight, a melt flow index of 0.01 to 5.0 g/10 minutes, a melting peak as measured by differential scan calorimeter (DSC) of 80.degree. C. or more, a crystallinity as measured by X-rays of 3% or more, an index M.sub.W /M.sub.N of the distribution of molecular wieght, determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), of greater than 4, and a Mooney visocisty (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 10 to 180.

Abstract: When chlorinating a polyolefin in an aqueous suspension system, a metal salt of an alkyldiphenyl ether disulfonic acid represented by the following formula [I], or together with an anionic surfactant, are each added in an amount of 0.01 to 5% by weight based on the polyolefin, as a suspension stabilizer: ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having 6 to 36 carbon atoms, and M is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal).

Abstract: A chlorinated ethylene-propylene copolymer having a chlorine content of 20 to 45% by weight and a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 10 to 150 is produced by chlorinating in two or three stages, by contact with chlorine gas in an aqueous suspension, an ethylene-propylene copolymer having a propylene content of 15 to 40% by weight, a melt flow index of 0.01 to 5.0 g/10 minutes, a melting peak as measured by differential scan calorimeter (DSC) of 80.degree. C. or more, a crystallinity as measured by X-rays of 3% or more, an index M.sub.W /M.sub.N of the distribution of molecular weight, determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), of greater than 4, and a Mooney visocisty (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 10 to 180.

Abstract: Animal hair grease is recovered in a high yield from a scouring waste liquid obtained from a scouring process of a raw animal hair material with a hydrophobic organic solvent and containing a scouring extract derived from the raw animal hair material. The process for this comprises the steps of:(A) converting the scouring waste liquid to a flock-forming liquid by the following operations, which may be carried out in any sequence,(a) adding water to the scouring waste,(b) adjusting the content of the scouring extract in the flock-forming liquid to 20% to 70% based on the entire weight of the flock-forming liquid,(c) adjusting the content of water in the flock-forming liquid to 2% to 110% based on the weight of the scouring extract, and(d) adjusting the temperature of the flock-forming liquid to 80.degree. C. to 100.degree. C.

Abstract: A new type of scoured animal hair material, in which the animal hair retains therein 1 to 3% by weight of a residual soapy substance and 0.3 to 5% by weight of a residual fatty substance, is prepared by scouring a greasy animal hair material in the form of opened loose fibers having a density of 0.007 to 0.04 g/cm.sup.3, with a scouring liquid comprising at least one organic solvent selected from 1,1,1-trichloroethane and methylene chloride and 0.1 to 10%, based on the weight of the scouring liquid, of a raw animal hair grease which has been extracted from the same type of greasy animal hair as that to be scoured, while moving either one or both of the animal hair material and the scouring liquid in relation to each other at a relative speed of 3 to 60 m/min.