Objective. To evaluate the hypolipidemic activity and antiatherosclerotic effect of polysaccharide of Polygonatum sibiricum (PPGS), which is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine using the rhizome part of the whole herb. Materials and Methods. Thirty rabbits were divided into normal control group, model control group, and PPGS subgroups of 0.8, 1.6, and 3.2 mL/kg/day under random selection. In athe...

A variety of polymers or surfactant mixtures or aeration of a number of liquids could generate mixtures of liquid and foam. Therefore, characterizing the properties of liquid/foam mixtures has important applications in the chemical process industry. The lack of a robust automated method for characterization within limited time and with high accuracy, however, has made this task difficult. In th...

Beer brewing is an intricate process encompassing mixing and further elaboration of four essential raw materials, including barley malt, brewing water, hops and yeast. Particularly hops determine to a great extent typical beer qualities such as bitter taste, hoppy flavour, and foam stability. Conversely, hop-derived bitter acids account for an offending lightstruck flavour, which is formed on e...

This paper investigates the parametric study of the empty and foam-filled end-capped tubes under quasi static and dynamic loadings. The numerical crash analysis of the empty and foam-filled tubes was performed using the explicit finite element code ABAQUS- explicit. Satisfactory agreements were generally achieved between the numerical and experimental results. In order to determine the crash be...

Abstract: Enhanced foam flooding is a chemical flooding technology, which is applied to improve the recovery efficiency of oil and gas. The oil displacement agent of enhanced foam flooding is a foam that the polymer and surfactant solution as liquid. In this paper, three-dimensional mathematical model of unsteady flow is established about enhanced foam system in the porous media, and the numeri...

Liquid foams have important practical applications. To analyze the dependence of foam behavior on material properties, and to improve foam models, foam scientists work with dozens of related simulations obtained by varying these material properties as well as parameters such as foam attributes, properties of objects interacting with foam or shape of foam containers. We present visualization sol...

Understanding the interaction of the atherogenic lipoprotein, lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], with macrophages may provide important insight into the physiology and pathophysiology of this lipoprotein. We have recently shown that cholesterol loading of macrophages, such as occurs in atheroma foam cells, leads to marked upregulation of a novel receptor activity for native Lp(a) and its plasminogen-like ...

Abstract Auxetic (negative Poisson’s ratio) and gradient open cell foams have shown promise for their conformability high impact energy absorption—useful in applications like protective equipment, footwear prosthetics. Recent methods fabricated auxetic closed foam by steaming conventional foam. Methods developed herein control the structure of foam, to produce novel intentionally anisotropic Pi...

Foam dynamics is gaining interests within Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Graphics. We believe that liquid foam, or froth, is the next evolution in the field of fluid dynamics. Froth is the natural phenomenon of bubbles that arise due to nucleation of gas in liquids. As the physics of foams in two dimensions is better understood this thesis begins the journey of physics-based foam dyn...

This investigation presents the effect of various parameters on foam stability and its rheological properties. The underlying idea of this experiment is generating of drilling foam with uniform bubbles. The main problem of foam using is controlling its stability during field application. The most important parameters which cause Instability in foam are gravity drainage, gas diffusion and bubble...