PURPOSE To investigate the associations between tobacco smoking and various forms of cataracts among the people of a state in India. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional epidemiologic study was conducted in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). A total of 10,293 subjects of all ages from one urban and three rural areas, representative of the population of AP, were interviewed, ...

We use the conjectured strong-weak coupling worldsheet duality between the SL(2)/U (1) and Sine-Liouville conformal field theories to study some properties of degenerate operators and to compute correlation functions in CFT on AdS 3. The same quantities have been computed in the past by other means. The agreement between the different approaches provides new evidence for the duality. We also di...

In baseball batting, golf putting, and dart throwing, successful players estimate the size of the target object to be bigger than their less successful counterparts. While more and more empirical evidence is accumulated supporting the existence of this intriguing phenomenon, an explanation of the processes underpinning this effect remains to be provided. Here, we re-analysed data from a dart th...

This paper presents a class of hierarchical fuzzy system applied to a cigar classification system. The weight, texture and chromatic characteristics are used to classify multiple cigars using a previous classification based on heuristic knowledge. In the adaptive part, a gradient descendent and error backpropagation method is applied for adjusting the parameters. A detailed description of the a...

It has been shown that non-Abelian vortex string supported in four dimensional (4D) ${\mathcal N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) with the U(2) gauge group and $N_f = 4$ quark flavors becomes a critical superstring. This propagates ten space formed by product of flat 4D an internal given Calabi-Yau non-compact threefold, namely, conifold. The spectrum closed states associated theory was obtained u...

Primary pulmonary sporotrichosis is a rare disease. Comstock and Wolson (1975) were able to trace approximately 30 such cases. We report a further case; to our knowledge, the various stages in the development of sporotrichosis, from a cigar body to the mature asteroid body with radiations which were present in our case, have not been so well demonstrated in a single case.

We propose an experimental scheme to observe the Gibbons-Hawking effect in the acoustic analog of a (1+1)-dimensional de Sitter universe, produced in an expanding, cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate. It is shown that a two-level system created at the center of the trap, an atomic quantum dot interacting with phonons, observes a thermal Bose distribution at the de Sitter temperature.