Pleural Effusion of Lung Cancer Tzu-Hsiu Tsai, Kang-Yi Su, Shang-Gin Wu, Yih-Leong Chang, Sheng-Ching Luo, I-Shiow Jan, Chong-Jen Yu, Sung-Liang Yu, Jin-Yuan Shih, and Pan-Chyr Yang Affiliations of Authors: Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taip...

Using a surface integral equation approach based on the tangential Poggio–Miller–Chang–Harrington–Wu–Tsai formulation, we present a full wave analysis of the resonant modes of 3D plasmonic nanostructures. This method, combined with the evaluation of second-harmonic generation, is then used to obtain a better understanding of their nonlinear response. The second-harmonic generation associated wi...

Based on a random sample of size n from an unknown d-dimensional density f , the problem of selecting the variable (or adaptive) bandwidth in kernel estimation of f is investigated. The common strategy is to express the variable bandwidth at each observation as the product of a local bandwidth factor and a global smoothing parameter. For selecting the local bandwidth factor a method based on cl...

In this paper, we first provide m pivotal quantities to test the shape parameter and establish confidence interval of the shape parameter of the bathtub-shaped distribution under the failure-censored plan (see Balasooriya (1995) and Wu and Tsai (2000)). Next, we also find the best test statistic based on their most power of test among all test statistics and the best pivotal quantities with the...

C 2014 American Chemical Society Toward Omnidirectional Light Absorption by Plasmonic Effect for High-Efficiency Flexible Nonvacuum Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Film Solar Cells Shih-Chen Chen, Yi-Ju Chen, Wei Ting Chen, ) Yu-Ting Yen, Tsung Sheng Kao, Tsung-Yeh Chuang, Yu-Kuang Liao, Kaung-Hsiung Wu, Atsushi Yabushita, Tung-Po Hsieh, Martin D. B. Charlton, Din Ping Tsai, ),X Hao-Chung Kuo,* and Yu-Lun Ch...

A multi-objective optimization approach for fibrous composite plates with curvilinear fibers is proposed in the present study. The non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is used to obtain Pareto-optimum solutions, where the presence of a trade-off relation between the mechanical performance and curvatures of reinforcing fibers has been established. The in-plane strength around a circ...

This paper investigates the skeletonization problem using parallel thinning techniques and proposes a new one-pass parallel asymmetric thinning algorithm (OPATA 8). Wu and Tsai presented a one-pass parallel asymmetric thinning algorithm (OPATA 4) that implemented 4-distance, or city block distance, skeletonization. However, city block distance is not a good approximation of Euclidean distance. ...

T. K. Wu and L. L. Tsai, “Numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields in biological tissues,” Proc. IEEE (Lett.), vol. 62, pp. 1167–1168, Aug. 1974. R. F. Barrington. Field Computation by Moment Methods. New York: Macmillan, 1968, ch. 3. B. H. McDonald and A. Wexler, “Finite-element solution of unbounded field problems,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. (1972 Symp. Issue), vol. MTT-20, pp. 8...

Global biodiversity is strongly influenced by the decrease in endangered biological species. Predicting the distribution of endangered medicinal plants is necessary for resource conservation. A spatial distribution model-geographic information system for global medicinal plants (GMPGIS)-is used to predict the global potential suitable distribution of four endangered Panax species, including Pan...

In this paper we examine the performance of two newly developed procedures that jointly select the number of states and variables in Markov-switching models by means of Monte Carlo simulations. They are Smith, Naik and Tsai (2006) and Psaradakis and Spagnolo (2006), respectively. The former develops Markov switching criterion (MSC) designed specifically for Markov-switching models, while the la...