We demonstrate that with two small modifications, the popular dielectric continuum model is capable of predicting, with high accuracy, ion solvation thermodynamics in numerous polar solvents, and ion solvation free energies in water–co-solvent mixtures. The first modification involves perturbing the macroscopic dielectric-flux interface condition at the solute–solvent interface with a nonlinear...

We distinguish schema updates and user updates. A crucial benchmark for the assimilation of new knowledge via updates is the enforcement of integrity. The procedures SLIC for integrity checking of schema updates and SLDAI for integrity maintenance of user updates are forged into the abductive procedure SLDAI*, for satisfying schema and user update requests. SLDAI* computes modifications of the ...

This paper presents a method for extending operating system functionality in a way that is secure, eecient, simple, requires no kernel source changes, and is compatible with existing application binaries. Our approach is to enable extensions of the system call interface by loading a device driver into the kernel that redirects system calls to extension code running either in the kernel or in a ...

Modern production operating systems are large and complex systems developed over many years by large teams of programmers, containing many hundreds of thousands of lines of code. Consequently, it is extremely difficult to add significant new functionality to these systems [16, 1, 42]. In response to this problem, a number of recent research projects have addressed the issue of extensible operat...

abstractbackground: although electronic portal imaging devices (epids) have originally developed for positioning verification, they can also be used for dosimetric purposes. in the current work, the dose response of minimum detectable thickness of a scanning liquid filled ion chamber epid, slic-epid, and the variation of transmitted dose with the shift of inhomogeneity inside of phantom was als...

We introduce a user-friendly steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) system. Single-channel EEG is recorded using a low-noise dry electrode. Compared to traditional gel-based multi-sensor EEG systems, a dry sensor proves to be more convenient, comfortable and cost effective. A hardware system was built that displays four LED light panels flashing at dif...

A modified method for better superpixel generation based on simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) is presented and named BSLIC in this paper. By initializing cluster centers in hexagon distribution and performing k-means clustering in a limited region, the generated superpixels are shaped into regular and compact hexagons. The additional cluster centers are initialized as edge pixels to imp...

We propose a new region-based method for stained glass rendering of an input photograph. We achieve more regular region sizes than previous methods by using simple linear iterative clustering, or SLIC, to obtain tile boundaries. The SLIC regions respect image edges but provide an oversegmentation suitable for stained glass. We distinguish between important boundaries that match image edges, and...

The simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) method is a recently proposed popular superpixel algorithm. However, this method may generate bad superpixels for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images due to effects of speckle and the large dynamic range of pixel intensity. In this paper, an improved SLIC algorithm for SAR images is proposed. This algorithm exploits the likelihood information of S...

Most superpixel methods are sensitive to noise and cannot control the number precisely. To solve these problems, in this article, we propose a robust method called fuzzy simple linear iterative clustering (Fuzzy SLIC), which adopts local spatial C-means dynamic superpixels. We develop fast precise algorithm onion peeling (OP) algorithm. Fuzzy SLIC is insensitive most types of noise, including G...