Cigars were one form of Native American tobacco use observed by Columbus and early European settlers. A long, thick bundle of twisted tobacco leaves wrapped in a dried palm or maize leaf was used by Native Americans as a primitive cigar. Smoking of cigars is recorded on artifacts of the Mayas of the Yucatan region of Mexico, and the Mayan verb “sikar,” meaning to smoke, became the Spanish noun ...

Recent ineleastic electron-proton scattering experiments have led to rather accurate values for the N → ∆ transition quadrupole moment Q N →∆. The experimental results imply a prolate (cigar-shaped) intrinsic deformation of the nucleon. The nonsphericity of the proton's charge distribution might be seen in the spectrum of atomic hydrogen. The possibilities and limitations for determining the ge...

In Ihis paper, [he capacity and ihe interference statistics of the sectors of the cigar-shaped WCDMA microcells are studied using the hybrid model of propagation. A model of nine microcells in a metro tunnel is used 10 analyze the uplink capacity and the interference statistics. The capacity and the interference statistics of the microcells in metro tunnels are studied in this work for differen...

A. Sanpera,1 G. V. Shlyapnikov,1,2,3 and M. Lewenstein1 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany 2FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Square, 123182 Moscow, Russia (Received 27 October 1999) Dark solitons in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein cond...

Abstract Background Cigars and cigarettes are both smoked, but much less is known about the former’s long-term health effects, due to its low prevalence infrequent collection of cigar information in national surveys. Purpose We conducted a follow-up mortality study cigar-smoking men age 40–79 years National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS). Methods used pooled NHIS files linked Death Index obtai...