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Cortex 2021 Mar 4;139:12-26. Epub 2021 Mar 4.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Psychologie, Berlin, Germany; Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address:

Goal-directed eye movements (saccades) bring peripheral objects of interest into high-acuity foveal vision. In preparation for the incoming foveal image, the perception of the saccade target may sharpen gradually before the eye movement is executed. Indeed, previous studies suggest that pre-saccadic attention shifts enhance sensitivity to high spatial frequencies (SFs) more than sensitivity to lower SFs. Read More

Addict Behav 2021 Jul 11;118:106909. Epub 2021 Mar 11.

London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, United Kingdom.

Introduction: This study aimed to document changes in puffing topography and, the effects of device type and nicotine concentration on puffing topography, subjective effects and smoking behaviour over two weeks of e-cigarette (EC) use.

Methods: EC naïve smokers (N = 50; 64% female) were randomly allocated to a cigalike (18 mg/mL) or tank containing either 18 (Tank18) or 6 mg/mL nicotine concentrations (Tank6). In 3 separate sessions (Baseline, 1 and 2 weeks post-baseline), participants vaped 20 min ad-libitum. Read More

J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio) 2021 Mar 12;31(2):269-273. Epub 2021 Mar 12.

Laboratory of Animal Health (LARSANA), Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), Santarém, Brazil.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the biochemical and blood gas alterations of whole blood of buffaloes that was stored in citrate-phosphate-dextrose with adenine (CPDA-1) and CPD/SAG-M blood bags for 42 days.

Design: Prospective study.

Interventions: Ten male buffaloes were used in this study. Read More

Ocul Surf 2021 Feb 19;20:130-138. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Ocular Surface Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Electronic address:

Purpose: Antimicrobial ultraviolet C (UVC) has proven efficacy in vitro against keratitis isolates and has potential to treat corneal infection if safety can be confirmed.

Method: Safety of 265 nm, 1.93 mW/cm intensity UVC (15-300 s exposures) was investigated in vitro via cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) formation in DNA of human cultured corneal epithelial cells; ex vivo, by evaluating UVC transmissibility as a function of porcine corneal thickness; and in vivo, by evaluating CPD induction in the mouse cornea following UVC exposure. Read More

Environ Sci Technol 2021 Feb 26;55(4):2541-2552. Epub 2021 Jan 26.

School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.

Degradation kinetics of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by free available chlorine (FAC), ozone (O), and UV light (UV) were investigated in phosphate buffered solutions at pH 7 using a chromosomal ARG () of methicillin-resistant (MRSA). For FAC, the degradation rates of extracellular (extra-) were accelerated with increasing FAC exposure, which could be explained by a two-step FAC reaction model. The degradation of extra- by O followed second-order reaction kinetics. Read More