A new microcell configuration scheme in urban areas is proposed in order to increase the reuse efficiency of radio resources. Multiple directional-beam antennas lined up along a street form a cigar-shaped cell. Antennas are located at intersection and are directed along the intersecting streets. Two antennas facing each other form a microzone and, therefore, a cigar-shaped cell consists of mult...

In the report, "Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2011-2016," an error occurred in the Table. The prevalence estimate for cigar smoking among high school males should read "9.9 (8.6-11.2)."

ALAN D. DESANTIS is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He is presently researching the ways fraternities and sororities both reinforce and challenge traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity on college campuses. " The primary function of these arguments was to inoculate regulars from the potential disonance-causing and anxiety-cr...

design (3). We can imagine that some statistical procedure more powerful than standard Mantel-Haenszel and Miettinen tests might narrow the confidence intervals a bit, but it would not alter these point estimates by much. Adjustment of the RR's for tobacco use provides an adequate test for confounding. With subjects categorized either as non-, ex-, or current cigarette smokers or as pipe or cig...

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...