A process for hydrolyzing alkyl monohalides comprises using activated carbon impregnated with alkali metal hydroxide or alkaline earth metal hydroxide in the presence of water and converting the alkyl monohalides virtually quantitatively into the corresponding alcohols. Apparatus for carrying out the process comprises at least one, preferably two, especially three, reactors (2), especially tubular reactors. The process is also particularly useful for preparing alcohols.

A wire harness constituted by bundling a plurality of pieces of line streak members by a predetermined exterior member is regarded to be an elastic body having a circular shape and coupled with a plurality of beam elements maintaining a linearity to form a model and a shape of the wire harness is predicted by utilizing a finite element method. When an end portion of the wire harness is displaced by an input apparatus, a shape 1c physically in equilibrium is automatically calculated by the finite...

An apparatus and method for production simulation simulates to calculate a total number of assembly boards manufactured with time by an electronic-component-mounting apparatus which includes a component feeding section having plural component feeders for feeding various components. The apparatus and the method allow a result of the simulation to be displayed. The production simulation apparatus is linked with a host computer for generating, transmitting, receiving, and storing data. When data fo...

A nucleic acid probe capable of participating in a chemiluminescent reaction comprising a defined nucleic acid sequence, the sequence being linked to any one of a. a chemiluminescence precursor, b. a chemiluminescence enhancer, and c. an enzyme the remaining two of (a), (b) and (c) not linked to the sequence being in a mixture of the linked sequence. A method for determining a particular single stranded polynucleotide sequence in a test medium, comprising the steps of: (a) combining the test med...

A robot off-line simulation apparatus that allows a person to know an optimum placement for a robot, an operation margin index, etc. before going to an actual working site. Provisional robot placing positions are selected using data about a given sequence of task points (operation path), etc. The conditions for selection are (i) that solution to the inverse kinematics should be found regarding the entire sequence of task points, (ii) that the robot should not interfere with a peripheral device, ...

A system, method and computer program product to assist in managing the physical plant mechanisms and market finances for a deregulated electricity grid or regulated utility grid, populated with solar electric generation capacity. This system provides tools to assist grid operators in the scheduling and dispatch of generation resources in an electrical grid populated with solar electric generation capacity, a week in advance, on an hourly basis. It also provides tools to assist companies engaged...

A method of evaluating constraint functions, the evaluation being based at least in part on a fuel bundle movement criteria.

Disclosed is a computer-aided product designing assistant apparatus and method for assisting designing of an environmentally conscious product by presenting at least one design guideline to be adopted in designing the environmental counscious product. The apparatus comprises: a database storing a plurality of design guidelines for each product and evaluation values assigned to each design guideline in relation to a plurality of environmental issues and a plurality of phases defining a life cycle...

Method for optically scanning an object comprising a flat support for holding the object; a linear optical sensor held in a fixed position on one side of the support; a light source held in a fixed position on the other side of the support for projecting light through the object toward the optical sensor; and a drive mechanism for moving the object along one direction to successive scanning positions. The user may create custom application computer programs for performing desired image scanning ...

A race condition extraction unit extracts the past race results, which are the object of statistics, based on the race conditions of a target race. A factor extraction unit extracts effective factors, which are factors related to arrival order by sorting the extracted race results in arrival order. A factor conformation judgment unit judges whether each competitor participating in the target race conforms to each extracted effective factor and attaches a score to each competitor based on the jud...