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Enzymatic hydrolysates with antihypertensive activity were obtained from the leftover residues of a chicken essence factory. Among many proteases tested, Alcalase was found to be the best to produce high angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity in vitro. The in vivo experiment revealed that a 3% supplement of the Alcalase-treated hydrolysate of chicken essence residues added to the control diet fed to spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) lowered the systolic blood pressure (SBP) of the rats after 16 weeks of treatment and at 1 week post-treatment. Repression of ACE activity of the aorta was suggested to be the reason for the antihypertensive effect of the Alcalasetreated hydrolysate of chicken essence residues.

In this paper we propose a deformation transfer technique that achieves physically-plausible deformation by transferring stretchiness ratios of local edges. Given a source reference mesh, a source deformed mesh, and a target reference mesh, the objective is to transfer deformation between the source reference and deformed onto the target reference, and produce a target deformed mesh. To generate a deformed target, we create a mass-spring system which is topologically consistent with the target reference mesh and multiply the stretchiness ratio between the edge lengths from the source meshes to the rest lengths of that mass-spring system. The deformed new target mesh can be synthesized by computing the equilibrium state of the new mass-spring system. To increase the performance we also adopt a non-linear multi-grid algorithm for solving large scale massspring systems. Stretchiness ratio is a coordinate-free quantity and we show that our method outperform previous approaches in certain cases.

Figure 1: The result from the proposed deformation transfer technique. From left to right, source reference mesh S, source deformed mesh S, target reference mesh T , and target deformed meshT .