The deep penetration of tablets in daily life has made them attractive targets for keystroke inference attacks that aim to infer a tablet user’s typed inputs. This paper presents VISIBLE, a novel video-assisted keystroke inference framework to infer a tablet user’s typed inputs from surreptitious video recordings of tablet backside motion. VISIBLE is built upon the observation that the keystrok...

The purpose of this study was to assess the bioavailability of two oral preparations of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO). The current preparation of DFMO is a liquid with a concentration of 0.2 gram/ml that must be drawn up into a syringe and dispensed into a small medicine glass. This form of DFMO causes wastage of the medication. The liquid form also makes compliance and blinding difficult. Rec...

BACKGROUND Newer atypical antipsychotics such as aripiprazole (Abilify, Otsuka) and lurasidone (Latuda, Sunovion) have favorable safety and efficacy profiles, but their use is limited by high cost. University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center initiated an antipsychotic tablet-splitting program in August 2015 to counter the costs based on the identical pricing structure of aripiprazole and luras...

BACKGROUND A minicomputer (tablet) with instructions and a training diary has the potential of facilitating adherence to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of adding a tablet to a classic outpatient PR programme for COPD patients. METHODS A total of 115 patients participated in a 7- to 10-week outpatient PR programme in groups of 10-12 individuals. Half of the g...

We have developed a pen and writing tablet for use by subjects during fMRI scanning. The pen consists of two jacketed, multi-mode optical fibers routed to the tip of a hollowed-out ball-point pen. The pen has been further modified by addition of a plastic plate to maintain a perpendicular pen-tablet orientation. The tablet is simply a non-metallic frame holding a paper print of continuously var...

Development of a lyophilized orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) that enhanced the in vitro dissolution and in vivo absorption of nimesulide (NM), a drug with poor solubility and poor bioavailability, is presented. The ODTs were prepared by freeze-drying an aqueous dispersion of NM containing a matrix former, a sugar alcohol, and a collapse protectant. In addition, different disintegration accel...

Morris NP, Ramsay L, Chauhan V. Can a tablet device alter undergraduate science students’ study behavior and use of technology? Adv Physiol Educ 36: 000–000, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00104.2011.— This article reports findings from a study investigating undergraduate biological sciences students’ use of technology and computer devices for learning and the effect of providing students with a table...

Many novel pharmaceutically active substances are characterized by a high hydrophobicity and a low water solubility, which present challenges for their delivery as drugs. Tablets made from cross-linked hydrophobically modified poly (acrylic acid) (CLHMPAA), commercially available as Pemulen™, have previously shown promising abilities to control the release of hydrophobic model substances. This ...

Upon the adoption of an external lubrication system (ELS) for tableting, control of the content uniformity of lubricant among tablets and its distribution on the tablet surface becomes extremely important. An energy-dispersion X-ray analyzer (EDX) attached to a scanning electron microscope was used to assess these parameters. The content of magnesium stearate (Mg-St) on the tablet surface signi...

In this paper we address automated visual inspection of tablets that may, in contrast to manual tablet sorting, provide objective and reproducible tablet quality assurance. Visual inspection of the ever–increasing numbers of the produced imprinted tablets, regulatory enforced for unambiguous identification of active ingredients and dosage strength of each tablet, is especially demanding. The pr...