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...

BACKGROUND Robust reference values for fecal egg count reduction (FECR) rates of the most widely used anthelmintic drugs in preventive chemotherapy (PC) programs for controlling soil-transmitted helminths (STHs; Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm) are still lacking. However, they are urgently needed to ensure detection of reduced efficacies that are predicted to occur due t...

Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris is considered to be one of the important target microorganisms in the quality control of acidic canned foods. There is an urgent need to develop a suitable method for inhibiting or controlling the germination and outgrowth of A.acidoterrestris in acidic drinks. The aim of this work was to evaluate the chemicals used in the lemon industry (sodium benzoate, potass...

Tiwai onion contains secondary metabolic compounds of phenol, alkaloid, terpenoid, and has antioxidant antimicrobial bioactivity. The tiwai can be used for supplement drinks. purpose this study was to obtain the best treatment extract drinks on malondialdehyde levels in mice (Mus musculus L.). This a completely randomized design with one factor consisting 8 treatments: 1) new oil (mb) as contro...

Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners' knowledge can provide valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and ecosystems for human well-being. There is, therefore, a great need within emerging global assessment programs, such as the IPBES and other international efforts, to develop functioning mechanisms for legitimate, transpar...

In 2007 the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb sent an signal to the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) concerning four reports of cutaneous vasculitis associated with nitrofurantoin [1]. These reports were received by Lareb in the period from September 1997 to October 2006. Since then, Lareb received three additional reports of vasculitis associated with the use of nitrofurantoin. The cu...

M uscle-eye-brain disease (MEB; OMIM 253280) was first described in 1977 in Finland, where it is enriched because of founder effect and genetic isolation. MEB is now known to occur throughout the world, but Finland remains the country with the largest group of MEB patients. MEB patients present as floppy infants with visual problems and severe mental retardation. The hypotonia is partly caused ...