National Academy of Sciences • National Academy of Engineering • Institute of Medicine • National Research Council Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders—which include depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse—affect large numbers of young people. Studies indicate that MEB disorders are a major health threat and are as commonplace today among young people as a fractured limb-...

The study examined Symptom Validity Test (SVT) performance in a sample of military service members on active orders as a function of evaluation context. Service members were assessed in the context of either a pending disability evaluation (Medical Evaluation Board; MEB) or a non-MEB/clinical evaluation. Overall, 41.8% of the sample failed the Word Memory Test; however, significantly more indiv...

Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping (MEB) was designed to overcome the problem of semantic drift suffered by iterative bootstrapping, where the meaning of extracted terms quickly drifts from the original seed terms (Curran et al., 2007). MEB works by extracting mutually exclusive classes in parallel which constrain each other. In this paper we explore the strengths and limitations of MEB by applying...

BACKGROUND Nutritional and topical antioxidants and immuno-modulant compounds play a key role in maintaining healthy skin. However, little is known about the combined effects antioxidant cosmeceuticals and nutricosmetics can have on the appearance of aging skin. OBJECTIVE The clinical trial was designed to study the combined effects on skin hydration, superficial lipids, elasticity, peroxidat...

The miniaturization boiling (micro-bubble emission boiling [MEB]) phenomenon, with a high heat removal capacity that contributes considerably to the cooling of the divertor of the nuclear fusion reactor, was discovered in the early 1980s. Extensive research on MEB has been performed since its discovery. However, the progress of the application has been delayed because the generation mechanism o...

Iterative bootstrapping techniques are commonly used to extract lexical semantic resources from raw text. Their major weakness is that, without costly human intervention, the extracted terms (often rapidly) drift from the meaning of the original seed terms. In this paper we proposeMutual Exclusion bootstrapping (MEB) in which multiple semantic classes compete for each extracted term. This signi...

The Musical Emotional Bursts (MEB) consist of 80 brief musical executions expressing basic emotional states (happiness, sadness and fear) and neutrality. These musical bursts were designed to be the musical analog of the Montreal Affective Voices (MAV)-a set of brief non-verbal affective vocalizations portraying different basic emotions. The MEB consist of short (mean duration: 1.6 s) improvisa...

The Medical Entomology Branch (MEB) of the Territory Health Services (THS) and the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) have coordinated and separate programs to detect and eliminate exotic mosquitoes imported into Darwin. AQIS searches all overseas vessels and cargo for exotic mosquitoes and conducts elimination procedures on positive or potential receptacles on vessels or within 40...

M uscle-eye-brain (MEB) disease is a rare congenital autosomal recessive disorder with around 30 reported cases in the literature. It is 1 of 3 types of congenital muscular dystrophy with severe defects in organogenesis and neuronal migration, and, along with Walker-Warburg syndrome, is associated with ocular abnormalities. Usually, the retina in MEB disease and Walker-Warburg syndrome is descr...

BACKGROUND Microemulsions (MEs), which consist of oil, water, surfactants, and cosurfactants, have recently generated considerable interest as antimicrobial agents. OBJECTIVES To determine the antifungal and antiviral activities of three ME formulations (MEa, MEb, and MEc) that differ in their hydrophilicity. METHODS The ME formulas were produced by mixing different fractions of Tween 80, S...