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Physical Review Letters – 10 December 2001
Volume 87, Issue 24

X-ray dichroism images of a nickel oxide film covered by cobalt monolayers. [H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 247201 (2001)]

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam
J. S. T. Ng, P. Chen, H. Baldis, P. Bolton, D. Cline, W. Craddock, C. Crawford, F. J. Decker, C. Field, Y. Fukui, V. Kumar, R. Iverson, F. King, R. E. Kirby, K. Nakajima, R. Noble, A. Ogata, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, and A. W. Weidemann
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
244801 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins
H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
247201 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

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Local Vortex Generation and the Surface Mode Spectrum of Large Bose-Einstein Condensates
J. R. Anglin
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
240401 [View PDF (111 kB)]
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Inequivalence of Pure State Ensembles for Open Quantum Systems: The Preferred Ensembles Are Those That Are Physically Realizable
H. M. Wiseman and John A. Vaccaro
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
240402 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Degenerate Fermion Gas Heating by Hole Creation
Eddy Timmermans
Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages)
240403 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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1/f Noise and Extreme Value Statistics
T. Antal, M. Droz, G. Györgyi, and Z. Rácz
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
240601 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Two-Time Green's Functions and the Spectral Density Method in Nonextensive Classical Statistical Mechanics
A. Cavallo, F. Cosenza, and L. De Cesare
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
240602 [View PDF (124 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Probing Neutron-Star Superfluidity with Gravitational-Wave Data
N. Andersson and G. L. Comer
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
241101 [View PDF (118 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of the B → J/ψK*(892) Decay Amplitudes
B. Aubert et al. ((The BABAR Collaboration))
Published 20 November 2001 (7 pages)
241801 [View PDF (232 kB)]
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Observation of Diffractive J/ψ Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
T. Affolder et al. ((CDF Collaboration))
Published 21 November 2001 (6 pages)
241802 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Search for the Decay B0→γγ
B. Aubert et al. ((BABAR Collaboration))
Published 27 November 2001 (7 pages)
241803 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Flavor-Spin Symmetry Estimate of the Nucleon Tensor Charge
Leonard Gamberg and Gary R. Goldstein
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
242001 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Top-Quark Spin Correlations at Hadron Colliders: Predictions at Next-to-Leading Order QCD
W. Bernreuther, A. Brandenburg, Z. G. Si, and P. Uwer
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
242002 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Antilambda Production in Au+Au Collisions at 11.7AGeV/c
B. B. Back et al. (The E917 Collaboration)
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
242301 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Precision Measurement of the Spin-Dependent Asymmetry in the Threshold Region of 3H⃗e(e⃗,e′)
F. Xiong et al.
Published 27 November 2001 (5 pages)
242501 [View PDF (107 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Photodetachment of H- in a Strong Infrared Laser Field
Rainer Reichle, Hanspeter Helm, and Igor Yu. Kiyan
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
243001 [View PDF (192 kB)]
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Photoionization of Metastable O+ Ions: Experiment and Theory
A. M. Covington, A. Aguilar, I. R. Covington, M. Gharaibeh, C. A. Shirley, R. A. Phaneuf, I. Álvarez, C. Cisneros, G. Hinojosa, J. D. Bozek, I. Dominguez, M. M. Sant'Anna, A. S. Schlachter, N. Berrah, S. N. Nahar, and B. M. McLaughlin
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
243002 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Observation of the Isomer Effect on Charge Transfer from C3H4 Molecules (Allene and Propyne) at keV Energies
T. Kusakabe, S. Satoh, H. Tawara, and M. Kimura
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
243201 [View PDF (85 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers Subject to Delayed Optical Feedback: The Short Cavity Regime
T. Heil, I. Fischer, W. Elsäßer, and A. Gavrielides
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
243901 [View PDF (211 kB)]
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Coherent Control of High-Order Harmonics with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Dong Gun Lee, Jung-Hoon Kim, Kyung-Han Hong, and Chang Hee Nam
Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages)
243902 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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Effects of Interparticle Force on the Packing of Spherical Granular Material
A. J. Forsyth, S. R. Hutton, C. F. Osborne, and M. J. Rhodes
Published 26 November 2001 (3 pages)
244301 [View PDF (69 kB)]
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Pattern-Dislocation-Type Dynamical Instability in 1D Optical Feedback Kerr Media with Gaussian Transverse Pumping
E. Louvergneaux
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
244501 [View PDF (715 kB)]
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Energy Budget in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
R. M. Kerr
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
244502 [View PDF (116 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam
J. S. T. Ng, P. Chen, H. Baldis, P. Bolton, D. Cline, W. Craddock, C. Crawford, F. J. Decker, C. Field, Y. Fukui, V. Kumar, R. Iverson, F. King, R. E. Kirby, K. Nakajima, R. Noble, A. Ogata, P. Raimondi, D. Walz, and A. W. Weidemann
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
244801 [View PDF (101 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Plasma Equilibrium and Confinement in a Tokamak with Nearly Zero Central Current Density in JT-60U
T. Fujita, T. Oikawa, T. Suzuki, S. Ide, Y. Sakamoto, Y. Koide, T. Hatae, O. Naito, A. Isayama, N. Hayashi, and H. Shirai
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
245001 [View PDF (301 kB)]
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MHD Stability of Advanced Tokamak Scenarios with Reversed Central Current: An Explanation of the “Current Hole”
G. T. A. Huysmans, T. C. Hender, N. C. Hawkes, and X. Litaudon
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
245002 [View PDF (177 kB)]
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Symmetry-Breaking Induced Transport in the Vicinity of a Magnetic Island
K. C. Shaing
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
245003 [View PDF (146 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Transition between Orbital Orderings in YVO3
G. R. Blake, T. T. M. Palstra, Y. Ren, A. A. Nugroho, and A. A. Menovsky
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
245501 [View PDF (153 kB)]
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Fluctuation and Dissipation in Liquid-Crystal Electroconvection
Walter I. Goldburg, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt, and Hamid Kellay
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
245502 [View PDF (208 kB)]
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Ultraslow Dynamics and Stress Relaxation in the Aging of a Soft Glassy System
Laurence Ramos and Luca Cipelletti
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
245503 [View PDF (251 kB)]
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Universal Scaling Laws of Diffusion in a Binary Fluid Mixture
Alok Samanta, Sk. Musharaf Ali, and Swapan K. Ghosh
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
245901 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Mechanism of the Poisoning Action Of Sulfur on Catalytically Active Pd(100)
M. Rutkowski, D. Wetzig, and H. Zacharias
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
246101 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Surface Alloying and Interface Roughening: Growth of Au on Fe(001)
M. M. J. Bischoff, T. Yamada, A. J. Quinn, R. G. P. van der Kraan, and H. van Kempen
Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages)
246102 [View PDF (537 kB)]
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Oxygen Abstraction from Dioxygen on the Al(111) Surface
Andrew J. Komrowski, Jonathan Z. Sexton, Andrew C. Kummel, Marcello Binetti, Olaf Weiße, and Eckart Hasselbrink
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
246103 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Spontaneous Nanoscale Corrugation of Ion-Eroded SiO2: The Role of Ion-Irradiation-Enhanced Viscous Flow
Christopher C. Umbach, Randall L. Headrick, and Kee-Chul Chang
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
246104 [View PDF (280 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Exciton Rabi Oscillation in a Single Quantum Dot
H. Kamada, H. Gotoh, J. Temmyo, T. Takagahara, and H. Ando
Published 16 November 2001 (4 pages)
246401 [View PDF (272 kB)]
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Origin of the Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior of SrRuO3
M. S. Laad and E. Müller-Hartmann
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
246402 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Restrictions on the Coherence of the Ultrafast Optical Emission from an Electron-Hole-Pair Condensate
A. Olaya-Castro, F. J. Rodríguez, L. Quiroga, and C. Tejedor
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
246403 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Close Correlation between the Magnetic Moments, Lattice Distortions, and Hybridization in LaMnO3 and La1-xSrxMnO3+δ: Doping-Dependent Magnetic Circular X-Ray Dichroism Study
T. Koide, H. Miyauchi, J. Okamoto, T. Shidara, T. Sekine, T. Saitoh, A. Fujimori, H. Fukutani, M. Takano, and Y. Takeda
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
246404 [View PDF (267 kB)]
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Anomalous Quasiparticle Lifetime in Graphite: Band Structure Effects
Catalin D. Spataru, Miguel A. Cazalilla, Angel Rubio, Lorin X. Benedict, Pedro M. Echenique, and Steven G. Louie
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
246405 [View PDF (126 kB)]
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Linear-Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations
A. J. Williamson, Randolph Q. Hood, and J. C. Grossman
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
246406 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson-Junction Charge Two-Level System
Y. Nakamura, Yu. A. Pashkin, and J. S. Tsai
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
246601 [View PDF (266 kB)]
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Zero-Bias Anomaly in Disordered Wires
E. G. Mishchenko, A. V. Andreev, and L. I. Glazman
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
246801 [View PDF (92 kB)]
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Ghost Excitonic Insulator Transition in Layered Graphite
D. V. Khveshchenko
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
246802 [View PDF (84 kB)]
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Magnetoresistance of Carbon Nanotubes: From Molecular to Mesoscopic Fingerprints
Stephan Roche and Riichiro Saito
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
246803 [View PDF (128 kB)]
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Implications of Reflectance Measurements on the Mechanism for Superconductivity in MgB2
F. Marsiglio
Published 19 November 2001 (4 pages)
247001 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Proximity Effects and Quantum Dissipation in the Chains of YBa2Cu3O6+x
Dirk K. Morr and Alexander V. Balatsky
Published 20 November 2001 (4 pages)
247002 [View PDF (144 kB)]
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Superconductivity in the Filled Cage Compounds Ba6Ge25 and Ba4Na2Ge25
F. M. Grosche, H. Q. Yuan, W. Carrillo-Cabrera, S. Paschen, C. Langhammer, F. Kromer, G. Sparn, M. Baenitz, Yu. Grin, and F. Steglich
Published 21 November 2001 (4 pages)
247003 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations and Superconductivity in Ferromagnetic ZrZn2 from Ab Initio Calculations
G. Santi, S. B. Dugdale, and T. Jarlborg
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247004 [View PDF (362 kB)]
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Hydrodynamic Instability of the Flux-Antiflux Interface in Type-II Superconductors
L. M. Fisher, P. E. Goa, M. Baziljevich, T. H. Johansen, A. L. Rakhmanov, and V. A. Yampol'skii
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247005 [View PDF (766 kB)]
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Phase Diagram of a Disordered Boson Hubbard Model in Two Dimensions
Ji-Woo Lee, Min-Chul Cha, and Doochul Kim
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247006 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Shapiro Step Response in the Coherent Josephson Flux Flow State of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Yu. I. Latyshev, M. B. Gaifullin, T. Yamashita, M. Machida, and Yuji Matsuda
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
247007 [View PDF (111 kB)]
Spectroscopic Identification and Direct Imaging of Interfacial Magnetic Spins
H. Ohldag, T. J. Regan, J. Stöhr, A. Scholl, F. Nolting, J. Lüning, C. Stamm, S. Anders, and R. L. White
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
247201 [View PDF (169 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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17O NMR Study of q = 0 Spin Excitations in a Nearly Ideal S = 1/2 1D Heisenberg Antiferromagnet, Sr2CuO3, up to 800 K
K. R. Thurber, A. W. Hunt, T. Imai, and F. C. Chou
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247202 [View PDF (149 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Telecloning of Continuous Quantum Variables
P. van Loock and Samuel L. Braunstein
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247901 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Coherence-Preserving Quantum Bits
Dave Bacon, Kenneth R. Brown, and K. Birgitta Whaley
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
247902 [View PDF (101 kB)]
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Quantum Cloning Machines with Phase-Conjugate Input Modes
N. J. Cerf and S. Iblisdir
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
247903 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Temporal Map Formation in the Barn Owl’s Brain
Christian Leibold, Richard Kempter, and J. Leo van Hemmen
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
248101 [View PDF (230 kB)]
Picometer-Scale Dynamical X-Ray Imaging of Single DNA Molecules
Yuji C. Sasaki, Yasuaki Okumura, Shinichi Adachi, Hitoshi Suda, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Naoto Yagi
Published 26 November 2001 (4 pages)
248102 [View PDF (160 kB)]
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Extracting Hidden Information from Knowledge Networks
Sergei Maslov and Yi-Cheng Zhang
Published 27 November 2001 (4 pages)
248701 [View PDF (94 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals by Liquid Crystals”
Byoungchoo Park, J. W. Wu, and Hideo Takezoe
Published 27 November 2001 (1 page)
249601 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Reznikov et al. Reply:
Yuriy Reznikov, Oksana Ostroverkhova, Kenneth D. Singer, Jae-Hoon Kim, Satyendra Kumar, Oleg Lavrentovich, Bin Wang, and John L. West
Published 27 November 2001 (1 page)
249602 [View PDF (47 kB)]
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Comment on “Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens”
G. W. 't Hooft
Published 20 November 2001 (1 page)
249701 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Pendry Replies:
John Pendry
Published 20 November 2001 (1 page)
249702 [View PDF (36 kB)]
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Some Problems with Negative Refraction
John Michael Williams
Published 20 November 2001 (1 page)
249703 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Pendry Replies:
John Pendry
Published 20 November 2001 (1 page)
249704 [View PDF (30 kB)]

ERRATA

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Publisher's Note: Solution of the Relativistic Dirac-Morse Problem[Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 210405 (2001)]
A. D. Alhaidari
Published 19 November 2001 (1 page)
249901(E) [View PDF (20 kB)]
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Erratum: Shape of a Liquid Front upon Dewetting [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 196101 (2001)]
R. Seemann, S. Herminghaus, and K. Jacobs
Published 21 November 2001 (1 page)
249902(E) [View PDF (24 kB)]
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Erratum: Fermi-Edge Singularities in AlxGa1-xAs Quantum Wells: Extrinsic Versus Many-Body Scattering Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 852 (2000)]
T. Mélin and F. Laruelle
Published 26 November 2001 (1 page)
249903(E) [View PDF (38 kB)]
 
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