Why some canine and feline blood donors do not make the cut: A cohort study.

Background: While there has been extensive investigation into the selection and retention of human blood donors, veterinary research in this area is limited. This study aimed to identify the reasons for the rejection and withdrawal of canine and feline blood donors from a blood donation programme.

Methods: Records of cats and dogs presenting as prospective blood donors and/or donating between 2014 and 2019 were analysed.

The melting of glucose.

Several sugars are known to undergo a spontaneous liquefaction below their reputed melting point (T), but the origin of this apparent melting is not yet clearly understood. In this paper we address this puzzling behavior in the particular case of the crystalline forms of glucose: Gα and Gβ, involving respectively the glucose-α and glucose-β anomers. We show in particular that the spontaneous melting below their reputed melting point T (∼151 °C for Gα and ∼156 °C for Gβ) corresponds to a horizontal displacement of the system in the eutectic phase diagram of the anomeric mixture glucose-α / glucose-β.

Emotional Autobiographical Memory Associated with Insular Resection in Epileptic Patients: A Comparison with Temporal Lobe Resection.

The insula is involved in a wide variety of functions, including social and emotional processing. Despite the numerous connections it shares with brain structures known to play a role in autobiographical memory (AM), little is known on the contribution of the insula to AM processing. The aim of the study was to examine emotional AM retrieval in patients with insular resection for drug-resistant epilepsy.

Paris MEM: a study protocol for an effectiveness and efficiency trial on the treatment of traumatic stress in France after the 2015-16 terrorist attacks.

Background: The Paris and Nice terrorist attacks affected a thousand of trauma victims and first-line responders. Because there were concerns that this might represent the first of several attacks, there was a need to quickly enhance the local capacities to treat a large number of individuals suffering from trauma-related disorders. Since Reconsolidation Therapy (RT) is brief, relatively easy to learn, well tolerated and effective, it appeared as the ideal first-line treatment to teach to clinicians in this context.

Feather pecking in laying hens housed in free-range or furnished-cage systems on French farms.

1. Beak trimming is currently used in France to avoid the negative consequences of severe feather pecking (SFP). However, this practice is controversial in terms of animal welfare, and forbidden in some European countries.