Letter to the Editor for "Auto-injector needle length may be inadequate to deliver epinephrine intramuscularly in women with confirmed food allergy" by Tsai et al. There are limitations of this study note mentioning such as method of compression, role of propulsion, defining those patients who are at risk of prophylaxis and future studies.

We propose to train trading systems by optimizing financial objective functions via reinforcement learning. The performance functions that we consider as value functions are profit or wealth, the Sharpe ratio and our recently proposed differential Sharpe ratio for online learning. In Moody & Wu (1997), we presented empirical results in controlled experiments that demonstrated the advantages of ...

In many types of information systems, users face an implicit tradeoff between disclosing personal information and receiving benefits, such as discounts by an electronic commerce service that requires users to divulge some personal information. While these benefits are relatively measurable, the value of privacy involved in disclosing the information is much less tangible, making it hard to desi...

We study substructure in X-ray clusters of galaxies by application of a set of statistics, the power ratios of Buote & Tsai (1995), to a simulated cluster and in the context of a simple analytic model for merger events. The simulation involves a newly developed code for performing high resolution gravity and gas dynamics simulations in cosmological volumes. Thesis Supervisor: Edmund Bertschinge...

This paper presents an investigation on thermo-electro-mechanical nonlinear low-velocity impact behaviors of the geometrically imperfect functionally graded (FG) graphene-reinforced composite (GRC) beam with surface-bonded piezoelectric layers. Both uniformly distributed and FG patterns graphene nanoplatelets (GPLs) are considered along thickness GRC host beam. The effective Young’s modulus is ...

1. Xu HG, Qiang S. Inventory invasive alien species in China. Beijing: Chinese Environmental Science Press; 2004. 2. Zhou XC. Risk analysis of invasive Pomacea canaliculata. Jian Yan Jian Yi Ke Xue. 2004;14:37–9. 3. Tsai HC, Liu YC, Kunin CM, Lai PH, Lee SS, Chen YS, et al. Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis associated with eating raw snails: correlation of brain magn...

BACKGROUND Biaxial (BX) and triaxial (TX) composite laminates with ±45° angled plies have been widely used in wind turbine blades. As the scale of blades increases, BX and TX laminates with shallow-angled plies (i.e. off-axis ply angle <45°) might be utilized for reducing mass and/or improving performance. The compressive properties of shallow-angled BX and TX laminates are critical considering...

En-Cheng.Liu, Shih-Wei Kung, Syh-Tsang Jenq , Chie Gau, Hsin-Luen Tsai, Cheng-Ching Lee, and Yu-Der Chen Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2 Dassault Systemes Simulia Central, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 3 Department of Electronic engineering, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung county, Taiwan, R.O.C. Aeronautical Systems Research Division, ...

A description and a detailed comparison of the Mo and Tsai and the Dubna radiative correction schemes is presented. Numerical comparisons made in the kinematical region of the NMC high energy deep inelastic electroproduction experiment are discussed. An overall agreement between the two approaches in the region of low x and high y, where the radiative corrections are largest, is better than 2%.

Recently, Tsai and Liao et al. each proposed a multi-server authentication protocol. They claimed their protocols are secure and can withstand various attacks. But we found some security loopholes in each protocol. We will show the attacks on their schemes.