Although several medical technologies have been around since decades and are in the continuous process of development, some latest technologies are changing the way medicine would be practiced in the future. These technologies would allow medical practice from anywhere, any time and from any device. These include smart phones, Tablet PCs, Touch screens, digital ink, voice recognition, Electroni...

We present an innovative drawing tool that can detect tangible drawing instruments on a capacitive multi-touch tablet. There are three core components to the system: the tangible hardware, the recognizer used to identify the tangibles, and the drawing application. Our tangible drawing instruments include a ruler, protractor and set square. Users can apply these familiar physical instruments to ...

In order to use handwritings as a universal man-machine interface, we assume a pen device — data-embedding pen — which can embed digital data into a handwriting by invisible ink in a real-time manner. This paper discusses the system design, application, and required technologies around the data-embedding pen. Especially, a novel stroke recovery algorithm is proposed for retrieving the embedded ...

The colorectal cancer is the leading contributor of cancer-related mortality. Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), existing in 2 complexes (mTORC1/2), is frequently dysregulated and constitutively activated in colorectal cancers. It represents an important drug target. Here we found that INK-128, the novel ATP-competitive kinase inhibitor of mTOR, blocked both mTORC1 and mTORC2 activation in c...

statement of problem: the achievement of a good and durable dentin/composite resin bond is an important task in restorative dentistry. the application of acid conditioners and dentin bonding agents is an accepted method to enhance this bond strength. pretreating of dentin surface by laser irradiation seems to be a supplemental way to obtain better results, since lased dentin is more roughened a...

In many imaging applications, the objects of interest have broad range of strongly correlated spectral components. For example, the spectral components of grayscale objects such as media printed with black ink or toner are nearly perfectly correlated spatially. We describe how to exploit such correlation during the design of electro-optical imaging systems to achieve greater imaging performance...

Without drawing too much attention to the advent of technology, interaction between users and synthetic hardware systems – through appropriate software interfaces – have provided opportunities to utilise an important sensing modality, through the use of a digital pen (stylus). Recognising and reacting to the input sketches and gestures from the stylus assist in expediting responses needed to im...

Comic books are very popular all over the world, among the readers of all ages. They are even sometimes referred to as the ninth art. In our increasingly digital world, comics still remain creature of print and paper and ink. Despite its convenience in many aspects, this media does not completely fulfil the needs of a large segment of public such as mobile users, motor-impaired people, and low-...