Abstract: A soybean curd puree which can be applied to various foods and are useful for expansion of applications of soybean milk, and a process and apparatus for preparing the same, and the apparatus includes a system in which a raw material tank, heating apparatus, a holding pipe, first emulsifying dispersion apparatus, cooling apparatus and second emulsifying dispersion apparatus are arranged in that order, and coagulant supply apparatus connected between the heating apparatus and the holding pipe, and the process includes adding the coagulant to the soy milk, holding the temperature thereof at 40 to 90° C. to form a coagulated product, pre-crushing the product by the first emulsifying dispersion apparatus, followed by cooling to 10 to 35° C., and crushing the product by the second emulsifying dispersion apparatus into particles having the average particle diameter of 2 to 15 &mgr;m and 90% particles diameter of not more than 35 &mgr;m.

Abstract: In a data-processing apparatus, in local information storage L and R at each node, local information for the purpose of accessing a constituent element is stored, this information being updated. A plan is generated that represents the action that should be taken by an agent in order to satisfy request code that has been input, this being generated as a set of actions, based on agent information and local information. The operation of the agent is implemented at the nodes L and R, based on the various actions that make up the thus-generated plan, and an agent is migrated to another node, based on a go action within the plan. It is possible to perform replanning and generation of a child agent at a migration destination node, if necessary, because of the failure of plan execution, for example.

Abstract: A start-stop synchronous communication speed detecting apparatus includes a counter, a speed determining unit, a clock switching unit, a shift register, a character determining unit, a code generator, and a controller. The counter counts a time period, in which received data is a space polarity, in start-stop synchronous communication. The speed determining unit compares the count value with a time per bit of a specified communication speed. The clock switching unit selects a clock synchronized with the start bit of the received data and having the same frequency as that of the specified communication speed. The shift register stores the received data. The character determining unit compares a received character from the register with a predetermined character. The code generator supplies codes of the first to Nth characters to the character determining unit.

Abstract: An equalizer characteristic of an amplitude equalizer for use in a modulating and demodulating device (MODEM) can be set with considerable ease. One of a plurality of equalization characteristics assigned to an amplitude equalizer is set by generating and feeding to a transmission line a plurality of reference signals at the same level but with respectively-different frequencies. Each of such respective reference signals are received from the transmission line, separated, and measured as to its reception level. Level errors are then determined between each measured reception level and an estimated reception level previously determined in association with a respective one of the equalization characteristics. A selection and setting is then made of one of the equalization characteristics that is associated with one of the estimated receptions levels having the smallest level error.