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The deformation of a leaf is the aggregation of the deformation of all the cells on the leaf. Mesophyll cells and vascular bundle cells have distinctly different degree of rigidity for shrinkage. In order to simulate the deformation of an autumn leaf realistically we need the realistic venation distribution of the leaf. We modify Runions’s technique [Runions et al. 2005] by increasing the growi...

Autumn Conference of the Korean Society of Exercise Rehabilitation will be held at the Sang Myung University, Seoul, Korea on October 24, 2015. The topic of the autumn Conference is “Application of exercise rehabilitation on the problems of modern society.” There were many difficulties such as acquiring sufficient funding and venue selection, however, it was possible to prepare the Conference d...

Spending on hospital services has historically been one of the largest shares of total health care expenditures for the majority of countries in Europe and the developed world.1 According to the OECD, hospital spending on average accounted for approximately onethird of total current expenditure on health care in European OECD countries in 2008, ranging from 26.7% in Slovakia to 46.9% in Sweden ...

Autumn crocus poisoning of cattle is characterized by severe diarrhea caused by alkaloid colchicine. Previously, we examined pathologically this poisoning in cattle and reported that enterotoxic lesions were closely associated with apoptosis. To examine enterotoxicity of autumn crocus more precisely, a reproductive study was performed using guinea pigs and mice, and pathological findings associ...