Abstract: An operation managing apparatus totalizes necessary resource amount information every the service so as to acquire necessary resource amount information every BP, and identifies the necessary resource amount information every the BP with resource amount information which can be utilized with respect to each of the service executing apparatuses so as to retrieve such service executing apparatuses capable of providing resource amounts by which the necessary resource amount information every the BP is stored. When the service executing apparatuses are retrieved, the operation managing apparatus allocates a service to the retrieved service executing apparatuses, whereas when the service executing apparatuses are not retrieved, the operation managing apparatus allocates the services to plural sets of the service executing apparatuses.

Abstract: A system for the preparation of a light-sensitive material comprising a substrate, a light-sensitive layer and a base film which comprises a roller for providing a continuous light-sensitive sheet comprising the base film, the light-sensitive layer and a protective film; means for cutting the light-sensitive layer and protective layer in the traverse direction; fixing means for temporarily fixing the sheet; a roller for providing an adhesive tape for removing the protective film; the adhesive tape-collecting roller; a bar for pressing the adhesive tape by its tip to the front end of the light-sensitive sheet and to press the front end against the bottom of the fixing means and peeling the protective film from the sheet; a dancer roll; light-sensitive sheet cutting means; substrate supplying means; and heat rollers for laminating the base film and light-sensitive layer on the. substrate.

Abstract: According to the present invention which comprises subjecting an aqueous solution of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid or its water-soluble salt containing an acid impurity, whose acidity is higher than that of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid, to contact with an anion-exchange resin, then allowing the 2-keto-L-gulonic acid or the water-soluble salt thereof to precipitate from the processed solution obtained by allowing the impurity to be adsorbed, 2KGA or its water-soluble salt of a high purity can be separated in a high yield from an aqueous solution of 2KGA or its water-soluble salt containing acid impurities with less number of steps as compared with conventional methods.

Abstract: Inosine and/or guanosine can be separated from fermentation broth containing microbial cells and high-molecular-weight substances by heat-treating said broth at 90.degree. to 110.degree. C., followed by subjecting to ultrafiltration. The present process is advantageously carried out in the industrial use of ultrafiltration.