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Physical Review Letters – 17 October 2003
Volume 91, Issue 16

The image shows a microphotograph of a lithium sample (at 6 o'clock) inside a 0.25-mm diameter hole drilled into a gold-plated rhenium gasket. In the experiment the hole is flooded with liquid helium and compressed up to 670,000 atmospheres by diamond anvils. The Li becomes superconducting at pressures greater than 200,000 atm for temperatures in the range of 5-14 K. [Shanti Deemyad and James S. Schilling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 167001 (2003)]

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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.

Spectroscopic Studies of Quantum Solvation in 4HeN-N2O Clusters
Yunjie Xu, Wolfgang Jäger, Jian Tang, and A. R. W. McKellar
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
163401 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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LETTERS

General Physics

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Fiftyfold Improvement in the Number of Quantum Degenerate Fermionic Atoms
Z. Hadzibabic, S. Gupta, C. A. Stan, C. H. Schunck, M. W. Zwierlein, K. Dieckmann, and W. Ketterle
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
160401 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Exact Dynamics of a Continuous Time Random Walker in the Presence of a Boundary: Beyond the Intuitive Boundary Condition Approach
Jaeyoung Sung and Robert J. Silbey
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
160601 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Yang-Lee Zeros for an Urn Model for the Separation of Sand
I. Bena, F. Coppex, M. Droz, and A. Lipowski
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
160602 [View PDF (142 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Inflation versus Cyclic Predictions for Spectral Tilt
Justin Khoury, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Neil Turok
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
161301 [View PDF (88 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries and Branching Fractions in B Meson Decays to η′K
B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)
Published 13 October 2003 (7 pages)
161801 [View PDF (175 kB)]
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Bolometric Bounds on the Antineutrino Mass
C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio, O. Cremonesi, E. Fiorini, C. Lo Bianco, L. Martensson, A. Nucciotti, M. Pavan, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, E. Previtali, M. Sisti, A. Giuliani, B. Margesin, and M. Zen
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
161802 [View PDF (590 kB)]
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Seesaw Neutrino Masses with Large Mixings from Dimensional Deconstruction
K. R. S. Balaji, Manfred Lindner, and Gerhart Seidl
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
161803 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Isospin Violation in ϵ′
V. Cirigliano, A. Pich, G. Ecker, and H. Neufeld
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
162001 [View PDF (101 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Comparison of Source Images for Protons, π-’s, and Λ’s in 6A  GeV Au+Au Collisions
P. Chung et al. (E895 Collaboration)
Published 14 October 2003 (5 pages)
162301 [View PDF (141 kB)]
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Evidence for a New Type of Shears Mechanism in 106Cd
A. J. Simons, R. Wadsworth, D. G. Jenkins, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. A. Deleplanque, R. M. Diamond, P. Fallon, G. J. Lane, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, F. S. Stephens, C. E. Svensson, K. Vetter, D. Ward, and S. Frauendorf
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
162501 [View PDF (222 kB)]
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Quantum Phase Transitions in the Interacting Boson Model: Integrability, Level Repulsion, and Level Crossing
J. M. Arias, J. Dukelsky, and J. E. García-Ramos
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
162502 [View PDF (163 kB)]
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N=82 Shell Quenching of the Classical r-Process “Waiting-Point” Nucleus 130Cd
I. Dillmann, K.-L. Kratz, A. Wöhr, O. Arndt, B. A. Brown, P. Hoff, M. Hjorth-Jensen, U. Köster, A. N. Ostrowski, B. Pfeiffer, D. Seweryniak, J. Shergur, W. B. Walters, and the ISOLDE Collaboration
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
162503 [View PDF (280 kB)]
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The t+n+n System and 5H
M. Meister, L. V. Chulkov, H. Simon, T. Aumann, M. J. G. Borge, Th. W. Elze, H. Emling, H. Geissel, M. Hellström, B. Jonson, J. V. Kratz, R. Kulessa, Y. Leifels, K. Markenroth, G. Münzenberg, F. Nickel, T. Nilsson, G. Nyman, V. Pribora, A. Richter, K. Riisager, C. Scheidenberger, G. Schrieder, O. Tengblad, and M. V. Zhukov
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
162504 [View PDF (344 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Shape-Resonance-Enhanced Vibrational Effects in the Angular Distributions of C 1s Photoelectrons from Fixed-in-Space CO Molecules
J. Adachi, K. Hosaka, S. Furuya, K. Soejima, M. Takahashi, A. Yagishita, S. K. Semenov, and N. A. Cherepkov
Published 15 October 2003 (4 pages)
163001 [View PDF (149 kB)]
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Rescattering Double Ionization of D2 and H2 by Intense Laser Pulses
A. S. Alnaser, T. Osipov, E. P. Benis, A. Wech, B. Shan, C. L. Cocke, X. M. Tong, and C. D. Lin
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
163002 [View PDF (179 kB)]
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Atom-Atom Scattering under Cylindrical Harmonic Confinement: Numerical and Analytic Studies of the Confinement Induced Resonance
T. Bergeman, M. G. Moore, and M. Olshanii
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
163201 [View PDF (116 kB)]
Spectroscopic Studies of Quantum Solvation in 4HeN-N2O Clusters
Yunjie Xu, Wolfgang Jäger, Jian Tang, and A. R. W. McKellar
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
163401 [View PDF (163 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Electromagnetic Wave Collapse in a Radiation Background
Mattias Marklund, Gert Brodin, and Lennart Stenflo
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
163601 [View PDF (104 kB)]
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Mode-Locked Two-Photon States
Y. J. Lu, R. L. Campbell, and Z. Y. Ou
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
163602 [View PDF (134 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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High-Order Harmonic Generation Yielding Tunable Extreme-Ultraviolet Radiation of High Spectral Purity
F. Brandi, D. Neshev, and W. Ubachs
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
163901 [View PDF (108 kB)]
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Observation of Shock Transverse Waves in Elastic Media
S. Catheline, J.-L. Gennisson, M. Tanter, and M. Fink
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
164301 [View PDF (313 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Polarimetry of Short-Pulse Gamma Rays Produced through Inverse Compton Scattering of Circularly Polarized Laser Beams
M. Fukuda, T. Aoki, K. Dobashi, T. Hirose, T. Iimura, Y. Kurihara, T. Okugi, T. Omori, I. Sakai, J. Urakawa, and M. Washio
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
164801 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Coulomb Bicrystals of Species with Identical Charge-to-Mass Ratios
T. Matthey, J. P. Hansen, and M. Drewsen
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
165001 [View PDF (355 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Superfluid Avalanches in Nuclepore: Constrained versus Free-Boundary Experiments and Simulations
A. H. Wootters and R. B. Hallock
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165301 [View PDF (250 kB)]
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Role of Oxygen at Screw Dislocations in GaN
I. Arslan and N. D. Browning
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
165501 [View PDF (912 kB)]
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Transient Strain Driven by a Dense Electron-Hole Plasma
M. F. DeCamp, D. A. Reis, A. Cavalieri, P. H. Bucksbaum, R. Clarke, R. Merlin, E. M. Dufresne, D. A. Arms, A. M. Lindenberg, A. G. MacPhee, Z. Chang, B. Lings, J. S. Wark, and S. Fahy
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
165502 [View PDF (244 kB)]
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Bonding and Energy Dissipation in a Nanohook Assembly
Savas Berber, Young-Kyun Kwon, and David Tománek
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165503 [View PDF (353 kB)]
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Surface and Bulk Elasticity Determined Fluctuation Regimes in Smectic Membranes
Irakli Sikharulidze, Bela Farago, Igor P. Dolbnya, Anders Madsen, and Wim H. de Jeu
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165504 [View PDF (497 kB)]
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Ion Hydration under Pressure
Adriano Filipponi, Simone De Panfilis, Cecilia Oliva, Maria Antonietta Ricci, Paola D’Angelo, and Daniel T. Bowron
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165505 [View PDF (314 kB)]
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An Interfacial Complex in ZnO and Its Influence on Charge Transport
Johan M Carlsson, Helder S. Domingos, Paul D. Bristowe, and Bo Hellsing
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165506 [View PDF (320 kB)]
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Surface Freezing and a Two-Step Pathway of the Isotropic-Smectic Phase Transition in Colloidal Rods
Zvonimir Dogic
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
165701 [View PDF (991 kB)]
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Confinement-Induced Relaxation Process in Thin Films of Cis-Polyisoprene
A. Serghei and F. Kremer
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
165702 [View PDF (156 kB)]
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Adatom-Vacancy Mechanisms for the C60/Al(111)-(6×6) Reconstruction
M. Stengel, A. De Vita, and A. Baldereschi
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
166101 [View PDF (454 kB)]
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Semiflexible Polymer Confined to a Spherical Surface
Andrew J. Spakowitz and Zhen-Gang Wang
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
166102 [View PDF (206 kB)]
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Intrinsic Profiles beyond the Capillary Wave Theory: A Monte Carlo Study
E. Chacón and P. Tarazona
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
166103 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Nanofluidics: Viscous Dissipation in Layered Liquid Films
Thomas Becker and Frieder Mugele
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
166104 [View PDF (170 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Charge Distributions in Metallic Alloys: A Charge-Excess Functional Theory Approach
Ezio Bruno, Leon Zingales, and Yang Wang
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
166401 [View PDF (95 kB)]
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Tunneling Density of States of the Interacting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Jörg Rollbühler and Hermann Grabert
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
166402 [View PDF (124 kB)]
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Magnetoelectronic Spin Echo
Arne Brataas, Gergely Zaránd, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
166601 [View PDF (107 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Effects in Adiabatic Spin Pumping
Prashant Sharma and Piet W. Brouwer
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
166801 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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First-Principles Calculations of Carbon Nanotubes Adsorbed on Si(001)
W. Orellana, R. H. Miwa, and A. Fazzio
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
166802 [View PDF (470 kB)]
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Electron-Phonon Interaction at the Be(0001) Surface
A. Eiguren, S. de Gironcoli, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and E. Tosatti
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
166803 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Superconducting Phase Diagram of Li Metal in Nearly Hydrostatic Pressures up to 67 GPa
Shanti Deemyad and James S. Schilling
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
167001 [View PDF (247 kB)]
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Doping Dependence of the Mass Enhancement in (Pb,Bi)2Sr2CaCu2O8 at the Antinodal Point in the Superconducting and Normal States
T. K. Kim, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, A. Koitzsch, M. Knupfer, H. Berger, and J. Fink
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
167002 [View PDF (269 kB)]
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Fate of the Peak Effect in a Type-II Superconductor: Multicriticality in the Bragg-Glass Transition
S. R. Park, S. M. Choi, D. C. Dender, J. W. Lynn, and X. S. Ling
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167003 [View PDF (319 kB)]
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Coulomb and Liquid Dimer Models in Three Dimensions
David A. Huse, Werner Krauth, R. Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167004 [View PDF (105 kB)]
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Quantum Logic Gates for Coupled Superconducting Phase Qubits
Frederick W. Strauch, Philip R. Johnson, Alex J. Dragt, C. J. Lobb, J. R. Anderson, and F. C. Wellstood
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167005 [View PDF (173 kB)]
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Absence of Magnetic Order in Yb3Ga5O12: Relation between Phase Transition and Entropy in Geometrically Frustrated Materials
P. Dalmas de Réotier, A. Yaouanc, P. C. M. Gubbens, C. T. Kaiser, C. Baines, and P. J. C. King
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
167201 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Presence of 3d Quadrupole Moment in LaTiO3 Studied by   47,49Ti NMR
Takashi Kiyama and Masayuki Itoh
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167202 [View PDF (187 kB)]
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Orbital-Spin Structure and Lattice Coupling in RTiO3 where R=La, Pr, Nd, and Sm
Masahito Mochizuki and Masatoshi Imada
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167203 [View PDF (117 kB)]
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Competing Orders and Disorder-Induced Insulator to Metal Transition in Manganites
Yukitoshi Motome, Nobuo Furukawa, and Naoto Nagaosa
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167204 [View PDF (119 kB)]
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Direct Observation of Orbital Ordering in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 Using Soft X-ray Diffraction
S. B. Wilkins, P. D. Spencer, P. D. Hatton, S. P. Collins, M. D. Roper, D. Prabhakaran, and A. T. Boothroyd
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167205 [View PDF (224 kB)]
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Memory Effects in an Interacting Magnetic Nanoparticle System
Young Sun, M. B. Salamon, K. Garnier, and R. S. Averback
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167206 [View PDF (136 kB)]
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Uniaxial Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructured Co/Cu(001): From Surface Ripples to Nanowires
R. Moroni, D. Sekiba, F. Buatier de Mongeot, G. Gonella, C. Boragno, L. Mattera, and U. Valbusa
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
167207 [View PDF (233 kB)]
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Josephson Plasmon and Inhomogeneous Superconducting State in La2-xSrxCuO4
S. V. Dordevic, Seiki Komiya, Yoichi Ando, and D. N. Basov
Published 14 October 2003 (4 pages)
167401 [View PDF (140 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Equivalence between Two-Qubit Entanglement and Secure Key Distribution
Antonio Acín, Lluis Masanes, and Nicolas Gisin
Published 13 October 2003 (4 pages)
167901 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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Quantum Measurement of the Degree of Polarization of a Light Beam
M. Legré, M. Wegmüller, and N. Gisin
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167902 [View PDF (164 kB)]
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Pseudospin Quantum Computation in Semiconductor Nanostructures
V. W. Scarola, K. Park, and S. Das Sarma
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
167903 [View PDF (103 kB)]
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Resonant Electron Transfer in Collisions between Two Fullerene Ions
H. Bräuning, R. Trassl, A. Diehl, A. Theiß, E. Salzborn, A. A. Narits, and L. P. Presnyakov
Published 16 October 2003 (4 pages)
168301 [View PDF (237 kB)]
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Optimal Paths in Disordered Complex Networks
Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Reuven Cohen, Shlomo Havlin, and H. Eugene Stanley
Published 17 October 2003 (4 pages)
168701 [View PDF (116 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “Photoinduced Changes of Reflectivity in Single Crystals of YBa2Cu3O6.5 (Ortho II)”
Jure Demsar, Richard D. Averitt, Viktor V. Kabanov, and Dragan Mihailovic
Published 14 October 2003 (1 page)
169701 [View PDF (53 kB)]
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Gedik et al. Reply:
N. Gedik, J. Orenstein, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy
Published 14 October 2003 (1 page)
169702 [View PDF (43 kB)]
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Comment on “Staircase in the Electron Mobility of a ZnO Quantum Dot Assembly due to Shell Filling” and “Optical Transitions in Artificial Few-Electron Atoms Strongly Confined inside ZnO Nanocrystals”
Moonsub Shim and P. Guyot-Sionnest
Published 14 October 2003 (1 page)
169703 [View PDF (40 kB)]
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Vanmaekelbergh et al. Reply
D. Vanmaekelbergh, A. L. Roest, A. Germeau, J. J. Kelly, E. A. Meulenkamp, G. Allan, and C. Delerue
Published 14 October 2003 (1 page)
169704 [View PDF (47 kB)]
 
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