INTRODUCTION Increased medical imaging and computing power, reduced cost, and ease of software usability, make finite element modeling available to a greater number of researchers. A finite element model (FEM) is often used to provide quantitative insights to clinical problems that may either be difficult or impossible to measure with direct in vivo or in vitro experimentation. In the near futu...

The Improvisational Theater Space is an interactive stage where human actors can perform accompanied by virtual actors. Virtual actors are modeled as animated \Media Creatures" that are behavior-based automous software agents. We used Artiical Life programming methods and behavior-based design to avoid rigid scripting of performers and media interaction. Media Creatures allow content to be acti...

Allocation decisions depend on an organism's condition which can change with age. Two opposite changes in life-history traits are predicted in the presence of senescence: either an increase in breeding performance in late age associated with terminal investment or a decrease due to either life-history trade-offs between current breeding and future survival or decreased efficiency at old age. Ag...

s from the 9th Biennial Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society (APPES) and the 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology (JSPE) Tokyo, Japan. 17-20 November 2016 Published: 28 Dec 2017 PS1 Fat fate and disease from science to global policy