Abstract: The present invention provides a method of sterilizing a food packaging container or a food charging system, which comprises a chemical sterilizing treatment which involves contacting an aqueous sterilizing solution containing a hypochlorous acid-containing, chlorine-based sterilizing agent and a pH adjusting agent with the surface of a food packaging container or the surface of a line pipe, an instrument and a chamber in a food packaging system and a heat sterilizing treatment which involves increasing the temperature of the surface to be sterilized, the two sterilizing treatments being carried out simultaneously or in separate steps. The invention also provides a sterilizing device which has a predetermined sterilizing effect on a wide variety of microbial species, can be easily handled, does not corrode a treated surface over a prolonged period of time, is free of a pungent smell and does not require any special treatment for disposal of waste liquor.

Abstract: A TCP communications performance measuring device 2 obtains an effective bandwidth (a transfer speed) representing performance in TCP communications, wherein performance indexes or both of a round trip time and a maximum segment size which are obtained based on TCP communications variable-length packets transmitted and received pursuant to a TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) defined as protocol of a transport layer of the OSI Reference model, and any one of an average congestion window size, a packet discard rate and a packet discard event rate. The measuring device 2 therefore includes a packet monitoring unit, a performance index detecting unit 22, a session management unit 23, a session management table 24 and a performance calculating unit 25. The measuring device 2 is capable of measuring the performance in the TCP communications on a communications route of a network without specially transmitting the multiplicity of measurement-oriented packets to the network.

Abstract: The load balancing system comprises a first load balancing apparatus (primary), a first load balancing apparatus (secondary), and a first load balancing apparatus (backup), which carry out load balancing by primary-sorting service requests from clients to service sites; and first and second secondary load balancing apparatuses which carry out load balancing by second-sorting the service request which has been primary-sorted by the first load balancing apparatus (primary), the first load balancing apparatus (secondary) and the first load balancing apparatus (backup), to one of multiple servers provided in the site.

Abstract: Measurement packets are sent at equi-intervals from a sending unit into a network path. The probing packets are received by a reception unit, which measures the packet transmission time to estimate an available bandwidth of a network path from a parameter Q indicative of a correlation in the packet transmission time between adjacent packets.

Abstract: A colored liquid hypochlorite bleach composition is provided, comprising a particulate pigment such as Ultramarine Blue, which is stably suspended in the composition by means of a flocculate, such as calcium soap flocs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for carrying out a germicidal process on microbes, which uses hypochlorous acid or the like. More specifically, the present invention provides a sterilizing method in which an aqueous solution comprising (A) hypochlorous acid and/or a salt thereof, (B) a surfactant and (C) a pH adjusting agent is made in contact with microbes.

Abstract: When service is allocated to a server of the other network on the basis of load information, a packet from a client is transferred as a transfer packet to the other wide area load distribution apparatus. The other wide area load distribution apparatus fetches the client packet from the transfer packet and converts its destination from a transferor address Lx to a server address S and its sender from a client address C to a self address Ly for sending to a server. Upon a reception of a response server packet from the server, the destination is converted from the self address Ly to the client address C and the sender is converted from the server address S to the transferor address Lx for the relay to the client.

Abstract: A liquid agricultural chemical composition which is excellent in liquid stability even though it contains an agricultural chemical at a high concentration comprises (a) a water-soluble agricultural chemical, (b) a cationic surfactant represented by formula (I), and (c) an acid salt of a compound represented by formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl or alkenyl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or an ethyl group, each AO represents an oxyethylene group or an oxypropylene group, each of p and q is a number of 1 to 15 with the proviso that the total of p and q is from 2 to 25, and X.sup.- represents a counter ion; and ##STR2## where R.sup.3 represents an alkyl or alkenyl group having 4 to 18 carbon atoms, and R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 represent each a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group.

Abstract: An aqueous liquid agricultural composition which is excellent in liquid stability even when it contains an agricultural chemical at a high concentration comprises (a) a water-soluble agricultural chemical, (b) at least one member selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following formula (I) and derivatives thereof, and (c) at least one member selected from the group consisting of salts of compounds represented by the following formula (II) with acids and compounds represented by the following formula (III): ##STR1##