Each year, approximately 1.5 million U.S. adults have a heart attack or stroke, resulting in approximately 30 deaths every hour and, for nonfatal events, often leading to long-term disability. Overall, an estimated 14 million survivors of heart attacks and strokes are living in the United States. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with nonprofit and priv...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether occupational exposure to raw tobacco causes respiratory or allergic diseases, an excess of respiratory symptoms, a decrease in lung function, or parenchymal changes in chest radiography among Finnish cigar workers. METHODS This cross sectional study included all Finnish cigar workers (n = 106) exposed to raw tobacco and also a group of unexposed matched referen...

In the first part of this article we briefly overview the fundamentals of Bose-Einstein condensation and survey a series of results concerning the effective equations which describe the dynamics of elongated and oblate Bose-Einstein condensates. In the second part of the paper we show how one can construct effective oneand two-dimensional polynomial Schrödinger equations which describe the long...

We study non-critical superstrings propagating in d ≤ 6 dimensional Minkowski space or equivalently, superstrings propagating on the two-dimensional Euclidean black hole tensored with d-dimensional Minkowski space. We point out a subtlety in the construction of supersymmetric theories in these backgrounds, and explain how this does not allow a consistent geometric interpretation in terms of fie...

We study D-branes in the superstring background IR × SL(2, IR)k=1/U(1) which are extended in the cigar direction. Some of these branes are new. The branes realize flavor in the four dimensional N = 1 gauge theories on the D-branes localized at the tip of the cigar. We study the analytic properties of the boundary conformal field theories on these branes with respect to their defining parameter ...

We prove that the cigar conformal field theory is dual to the Sine-Liouville model, as conjectured originally by Fateev, Zamolodchikov and Zamolodchikov. Since both models possess the same chiral algebra, our task is to show that correlations of all tachyon vertex operators agree. We accomplish this goal through an off-critical version of the geometric Langlands duality for sl(2). More explicit...

We employ KAM theory to rigorously investigate the transition between quasiperiodic and chaotic dynamics in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in periodic lattices and superlattices. Toward this end, we apply ∗Corresponding author

Definition Tobacco is consumed in a variety of different ways, though smoking of manufactured cigarettes is the most prevalent form of its use. The emergence of widespread cigar use particularly among adolescents of both sexes has been reported in the past decade in the US. Cigars have higher total nicotine content than cigarettes do and can deliver nicotine both through smoke and through direc...