{"id":2496,"date":"2019-03-06T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:04:57","slug":"rheology-in-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/2019\/03\/rheology-in-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Rheology in vending machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I was seriously sick and in a hospital for a few weeks. During that period, when I felt reasonably good, occasionally I sought something related to rheology for patients. For example, it was interesting to see that the needles for intravenous drips are flexible. I did recognize it because I had enough time to test it by myself. Indeed, the needle was in my arm for 10 days, and I made my daily life with it, feeling its flexibility. In the beginning, I was afraid that it must be stiff and I attempted not to bend my arm. Eventually, I found that it is quite flexible and it follows the motion of my arm. Quite helpful, yet I felt that the needle is a little bit stiffer than my organs. I had another problem with the needle, in which the blood coagulated. Once it happens, the needle must be replaced. A needle having bending modulus smaller than human organs and preventing blood coagulation is needed. <\/p>\n<p>After I was discharged from the hospital, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20190302-00000011-it_nlab-soci\">this article<\/a> very interesting. Very sorry for the fact that the article is written in Japanese. What is written there is that a company has invented and released the vending machine with which the customer can control the rheology of drinks. On the machine, there is a set of buttons by which the amount of thickener can be changed. Such a function is quite important for people who have dysphagia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I was seri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/c16cc610a46bb93017d8355249ac766f_s.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rheology.jp\/nagoya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}