To the Editor-in-Chief: We respectfully resubmit to BMC Public Health our manuscript (#1872779892138581) entitled " Systematic review of cigar smoking and all-cause and smoking-related mortality. " We have revised the manuscript based on the comments from the reviewers. Please see below, the point-by-point response to each of the reviewer comments, including the revisions made to the manuscript...

We nd that recent results from the KamLAND collaboration on geologically produced antineutrinos N U Th events correspond to a radiogenic heat production from Uranium and Thorium decay chains H U Th TW The con dence limit on the geo neutrino signal translates into the upper bound H U Th TW which is much weaker than that claimed by KamLAND H U Th TW based on a too narrow class of geolog ical mode...

Let W be a crystallographic Weyl group, and let TW be the complex toric variety attached to the fan of cones corresponding to the reflecting hyperplanes of W , and its weight lattice. The real locus TW (R) is a smooth, connected, compact manifold with a W -action. We give a formula for the Euler characteristic of TW (R) as a generalised character of W . In type An−1 for n odd, one obtains a gen...

In this paper, we present a probabilistic model for the unsupervised morphological disambiguation problem. Our model assigns morphological parses T to the contexts C instead of assigning them to the words W . The target word w ∈ W determines the possible parse set Tw ⊂ T that can be used in w’s context cw ∈ C. To assign the correct morphological parse t ∈ Tw to w, our model finds the parse t ∈ ...

We study toy aging processes in hierarchically decomposed phase spaces where the equilibrium probability distributions are multifractal. We found that an autocorrelation function shows crossover behavior from a power law t−x in the quasi-equilibrium regime (t ≪ tw) to another power law t−λ (λ ≥ x) in the off-equilibrium regime (t ≫ tw) obeying a simple t/tw scaling law. The exponents x and λ ar...

The accumulation of ice has adverse effects on human activities but the dynamic mechanism icing and de-icing not been well clarified. Herein, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations analysis methods hydrogen bond tetrahedral order parameter are used for first time to investigate underpinning physics visualize thermal process a flat wall from level. thickness (H), temperature (Tw) wettability examin...

This article investigates the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted two-way non-orthogonal multiple access (RIS-TW-NOMA) networks, where a pair users exchange their information through RIS. The influence imperfect successive interference cancellation on RIS-TW-NOMA is taken into account. To evaluate potential RIS-TW-NOMA, we derive exact and asymptotic expressions outage pr...

Bcl-2 family of proteins plays critical roles in human cancers, including pancreatic cancer, suggesting that the discovery of specific agents targeting Bcl-2 family proteins would be extremely valuable for pancreatic cancer therapy. We have previously reported the synthesis and characterization of TW-37, which seems to be a negative regulator of Bcl-2. In this investigation, we tested our hypot...

Length-weight relationship, length at first maturity and sex ratio of the Nile perch Lates niloticus (L.) were studied from 342 fish samples collected between February 1995 and May 1996. The relationship between total length (TL) and total weight (TW) for both sexes was curvilinear and statistically significant. The regression equation for the males was TW=0.0044TL3.27 (r2=0.978, P<0.001) and t...

BACKGROUND Diseases of the kidneys and genitourinary tract are common health problems that affect people of all ages and demographic backgrounds. In this study, we compared the quantity and quality of nephrological and urological articles published in international journals from the three major regions of China: the mainland (ML), Hong Kong (HK), and Taiwan (TW). METHODS Nephrological and uro...