several studies have shown that oil recovery significantly increased by low salinity water flooding (lswf) in sandstones. however, mechanism of oil recovery improvement is still controversial. co2 that develops buffer in presence of water is expected as a deterrent factor in lswf efficiency based on mechanism of ift reduction due to ph uprising. no bright evidence in literature supports this id...

Children with acute bronchiolitis frequently require hospitalization and parenteral fluid therapy. Water retention due to impaired renal water excretion has been described in several pulmonary conditions in children. We studied 20 infants (3.6 +/- 2.9 months), hospitalized consecutively for acute bronchiolitis for water and electrolyte changes during the acute stage and compared them to those o...

In this article we describe the preparation and characterization of a water-triggered shape memory polymer (SMP) family, PCL–PEG based thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs). Upon immersion in water, water molecules selectively swelled the hydrophilic PEG domains, resulting in durable hydrogels with strain-to-failure values greater than 700%. Dry samples fixed in a temporary shape underwent watertr...

Membrane Condenser (MC) is a novel membrane contactor operation recently investigated for the valorization of industrial waste gaseous streams. In particular, until now, it was applied for water recovery from flue gas, cooling tower plumes, etc. More recently, its effectiveness and flexibility in contaminants (such as, NH3 , HF, SO2 ) removal and control from waste gaseous streams was also prov...

Photosynthesis was studied in sunflower plants subjected to 1 to 2 days of desiccation and then permitted to recover. The leaf water potential to which leaves returned after rewatering was dependent on the severity of desiccation and the evaporative conditions. Under moderately evaporative conditions, leaf water potential returned to predesiccation levels after 3 to 5 hours when desiccation was...

To assess the effect of cold water immersion and active recovery on thermoregulation and repeat cycling performance in the heat, ten well-trained male cyclists completed five trials, each separated by one week. Each trial consisted of a 30-min exercise task, one of five 15-min recoveries (intermittent cold water immersion in 10 degrees C, 15 degrees C and 20 degrees C water, continuous cold wat...

Owing to increased demands on ground water accompanied by increased drawdowns, technologies that use recharge options, such as aquifer storage recovery (ASR), are being used to optimize available water resources and reduce adverse effects of pumping. In this paper, three representative ground water flow models were created to assess the impact of hydrogeologic and operational parameters/factors...

Efforts to enhance oil recovery through wettability alteration by nanoparticles have been attracted in recent years. However, many basic questions have been ambiguous up until now. Nanoparticles penetrate into pore volume of porous media, stick on the core surface, and by creating homogeneous water-wet area, cause to alter wettability. This work introduces the new concept of adding ZnO nanopart...

green tea used for year has a popular cancer preventive activity. researchers have showed green tea inhibited growth of cancer in the animals. this research has been done with awareness of positives effect of green tea, which is approved by researchers and the importance of treatment of opened skin wound. this work has been done experimentally. there were 56 male mice in 7 different groups. dif...