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AI Autonomous Agents with Python Programming

by Edgar Milvus ...

Stop Building Chatbots. Start Building Digital Workers.The era of static "prompt-and-response" AI is over. The future belongs to Autonomous Agents—systems that don't just talk, but act, plan, debug, and collaborate to solve complex problems without human intervention.This book is the definitive handbook for senior developers ready to master the most advanced frontier of Generative AI. This is not ... Read more

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Stop Building Chatbots. Start Building Digital Workers.The era of static "prompt-and-response" AI is over. The future belongs to Autonomous Agents—systems that don't just talk, but act, plan, debug, and collaborate to solve complex problems without human intervention.This book is the definitive handbook for senior developers ready to master the most advanced frontier of Generative AI. This is not
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Understanding Your Users

A Practical Guide to User Research Methods

by Kathy Baxter, Catherine Courage, Kelly Caine ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
This new and completely updated edition is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, "how-to" guide on user research methods. You'll learn about many distinct user research methods and also pre- and post-method considerations such as recruiting, facilitating activities or moderating, negotiating with product developments teams/customers, and getting your results incorporated into the product. For each method ... Read more

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This new and completely updated edition is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, "how-to" guide on user research methods. You'll learn about many distinct user research methods and also pre- and post-method considerations such as recruiting, facilitating activities or moderating, negotiating with product developments teams/customers, and getting your results incorporated into the product. For each method
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Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing

31st International Workshop, LCPC 2018, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 9–11, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Mary Hall, Hari Sundar ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2018, held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in October 2018. The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Specific topics are compiling for parallelism and parallel compilers, static, dynamic, and ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2018, held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in October 2018. The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Specific topics are compiling for parallelism and parallel compilers, static, dynamic, and
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Runtime Verification

25th International Conference, RV 2025, Graz, Austria, September 15–19, 2025, Proceedings

Edited by Bettina Könighofer, Hazem Torfah ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2025, held in Graz, Austria, during September 15–19, 2025.The 22 regular papers, 1 short paper, 2 tool papers, and 1 tutorial paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions.The RV conference focuses on all aspects of formal methods for monitoring, ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2025, held in Graz, Austria, during September 15–19, 2025.The 22 regular papers, 1 short paper, 2 tool papers, and 1 tutorial paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions.The RV conference focuses on all aspects of formal methods for monitoring,
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Designing Sorting Networks

A New Paradigm

by Sherenaz W. Al-Haj Baddar, Kenneth E. Batcher ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Designing Sorting Networks: A New Paradigm provides an in-depth guide to maximizing the efficiency of sorting networks, and uses 0/1 cases, partially ordered sets and Haase diagrams to closely analyze their behavior in an easy, intuitive manner.This book also outlines new ideas and techniques for designing faster sorting networks using Sortnet, and illustrates how these techniques were used to ... Read more

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Designing Sorting Networks: A New Paradigm provides an in-depth guide to maximizing the efficiency of sorting networks, and uses 0/1 cases, partially ordered sets and Haase diagrams to closely analyze their behavior in an easy, intuitive manner.This book also outlines new ideas and techniques for designing faster sorting networks using Sortnet, and illustrates how these techniques were used to
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Safer Better Healthcare, By All for All

Proceedings of the International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS 2025

Edited by Marie E. Ward, Siobhán Corrigan, Peter Lachman, John Fitzsimons, Tamasine Grimes, Liam M. Chadwick ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 8th Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety (HEPS) international conference, held in Dublin, Ireland, on June 18-20, 2025, which was endorsed by the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The conference theme of ‘Safer Better Care, By All, For All’ promoted the importance of bringing together Patient and Public Involvement, ... Read more

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This book presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 8th Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety (HEPS) international conference, held in Dublin, Ireland, on June 18-20, 2025, which was endorsed by the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). The conference theme of ‘Safer Better Care, By All, For All’ promoted the importance of bringing together Patient and Public Involvement,
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Data Structures and Algorithm

by Knowledge Flow ...

Series series Programming & Computer Science Series
Data Structures and Algorithms book by Knowledge Flow is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand educational resource designed for IT professionals, computer science students, and coding enthusiasts. It provides clear explanations, real-world examples, and practical implementations of essential data structures and algorithms. Covering arrays, pointers, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, ... Read more

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Data Structures and Algorithms book by Knowledge Flow is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand educational resource designed for IT professionals, computer science students, and coding enthusiasts. It provides clear explanations, real-world examples, and practical implementations of essential data structures and algorithms. Covering arrays, pointers, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs,
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Mastering Spark for Data Science

Lightning fast and scalable data science solutions

by Andrew Morgan, Antoine Amend, Matthew Hallett, David George ...

Master the techniques and sophisticated analytics used to construct Spark-based solutions that scale to deliver production-grade data science productsKey Features\[\*\] Develop and apply advanced analytical techniques with Spark\[\*\] Learn how to tell a compelling story with data science using Spark’s ecosystem\[\*\] Explore data at scale and work with cutting edge data science methodsBook ... Read more

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Master the techniques and sophisticated analytics used to construct Spark-based solutions that scale to deliver production-grade data science productsKey Features\[\*\] Develop and apply advanced analytical techniques with Spark\[\*\] Learn how to tell a compelling story with data science using Spark’s ecosystem\[\*\] Explore data at scale and work with cutting edge data science methodsBook
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Hands-On Data Science with the Command Line

Automate everyday data science tasks using command-line tools

by Jason Morris, Chris McCubbin, Raymond Page ...

Big data processing and analytics at speed and scale using command line tools. Key FeaturesPerform string processing, numerical computations, and more using CLI toolsUnderstand the essential components of data science development workflowAutomate data pipeline scripts and visualization with the command lineBook DescriptionThe Command Line has been in existence on UNIX-based OSes in the form of ... Read more

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Big data processing and analytics at speed and scale using command line tools. Key FeaturesPerform string processing, numerical computations, and more using CLI toolsUnderstand the essential components of data science development workflowAutomate data pipeline scripts and visualization with the command lineBook DescriptionThe Command Line has been in existence on UNIX-based OSes in the form of
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Learning C# by Programming Games

by Arjan Egges, Jeroen D. Fokker, Mark H. Overmars ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Developing computer games is a perfect way to learn how to program in modern programming languages. This book teaches how to program in C# through the creation of computer games – and without requiring any previous programming experience.Contrary to most programming books, Egges, Fokker and Overmars do not organize the presentation according to programming language constructs, but instead use the ... Read more

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Developing computer games is a perfect way to learn how to program in modern programming languages. This book teaches how to program in C# through the creation of computer games – and without requiring any previous programming experience.Contrary to most programming books, Egges, Fokker and Overmars do not organize the presentation according to programming language constructs, but instead use the
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Interactive Segmentation Techniques

Algorithms and Performance Evaluation

by Jia He, Chang-Su Kim, C.-C. Jay Kuo ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic graph-cut segmentation algorithms and then discuss state-of-the-art techniques, ... Read more

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This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first introduce classic graph-cut segmentation algorithms and then discuss state-of-the-art techniques,
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Inductive Logic Programming

28th International Conference, ILP 2018, Ferrara, Italy, September 2–4, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Fabrizio Riguzzi, Elena Bellodi, Riccardo Zese ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2018, held in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2018.The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a subfield of machine learning, which originally relied on logic programming as a uniform ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2018, held in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2018.The 10 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a subfield of machine learning, which originally relied on logic programming as a uniform
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Computers Helping People with Special Needs

16th International Conference, ICCHP 2018, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2018, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Klaus Miesenberger, Georgios Kouroupetroglou ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 10896 and 10897 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2018, held in Linz, Austria, in JulyThe 101 revised full papers and 78 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 356 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Web accessibility ... Read more

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The two-volume set LNCS 10896 and 10897 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2018, held in Linz, Austria, in JulyThe 101 revised full papers and 78 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 356 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Web accessibility
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Advanced Social Interaction with Agents

8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems

Edited by Maxine Eskenazi, Laurence Devillers, Joseph Mariani ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book presents lectures given at the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. As agents evolve in terms of their ability to carry on a dialog with users, several qualities are emerging as essential components of a successful system. Users do not carry on long conversations on only one topic—they tend to switch between several topics. Thus the authors are observing the emergence of ... Read more

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This book presents lectures given at the 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems. As agents evolve in terms of their ability to carry on a dialog with users, several qualities are emerging as essential components of a successful system. Users do not carry on long conversations on only one topic—they tend to switch between several topics. Thus the authors are observing the emergence of
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Building Industrial Digital Twins

Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins

by Shyam Varan Nath, Pieter van Schalkwyk, Dan Isaacs ...

Build your first digital twin MVP and gain first-hand experience of using the technology, the challenges it presents, and its impact on your organization Key Features • Create a digital twin prototype using Microsoft Azure Digital Twin • Explore the digital twin approach to the design, operations, and maintenance of industrial assets and products • Understand key characteristics and components of ... Read more

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Build your first digital twin MVP and gain first-hand experience of using the technology, the challenges it presents, and its impact on your organization Key Features • Create a digital twin prototype using Microsoft Azure Digital Twin • Explore the digital twin approach to the design, operations, and maintenance of industrial assets and products • Understand key characteristics and components of
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HCI International 2020 - Posters

22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The three-volume set CCIS 1224, CCIS 1225, and CCIS 1226 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.*HCII 2020 received a total of 6326 submissions, of which 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication in the pre-conference proceedings ... Read more

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The three-volume set CCIS 1224, CCIS 1225, and CCIS 1226 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.*HCII 2020 received a total of 6326 submissions, of which 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication in the pre-conference proceedings
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A Computational View of Autism

Using Virtual Reality Technologies in Autism Intervention

by Uttama Lahiri ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book first explains autism, its prevalence, and some conventional intervention techniques, and it then describes how virtual reality technology can support autism intervention and skills training. The approaches and technologies covered include immersive virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. The tasks covered include emotion recognition, affective computing, teaching ... Read more

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This book first explains autism, its prevalence, and some conventional intervention techniques, and it then describes how virtual reality technology can support autism intervention and skills training. The approaches and technologies covered include immersive virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. The tasks covered include emotion recognition, affective computing, teaching
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Dynamic Logic. New Trends and Applications

Second International Workshop, DaLí 2019, Porto, Portugal, October 7–11, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Luís Soares Barbosa, Alexandru Baltag ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DALI 2019, held in Porto, Portugal in October 2019.The workshop was held in Porto, Portugal, on October 9, 2019, as part of the Formal Methods Week which hosted the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods. The 12 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Dynamic Logic, DALI 2019, held in Porto, Portugal in October 2019.The workshop was held in Porto, Portugal, on October 9, 2019, as part of the Formal Methods Week which hosted the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods. The 12 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26
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Augmented Cognition. Theoretical and Technological Approaches

14th International Conference, AC 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Dylan D. Schmorrow, Cali M. Fidopiastis ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in July 2020. The conference was planned to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in July 2020. The conference was planned to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total
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Advances in Information Systems Development

Information Systems Beyond 2020

Edited by Alena Siarheyeva, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Henry Linger, Christoph Schneider ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development (ISD). It xamines advances in ISD in general and investigates emerging trends that will shape the ISD research agenda beyond 2020. The book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in ... Read more

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This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development (ISD). It xamines advances in ISD in general and investigates emerging trends that will shape the ISD research agenda beyond 2020. The book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in
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Numerical Computations with GPUs

Edited by Volodymyr Kindratenko ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book brings together research on numerical methods adapted for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). It explains recent efforts to adapt classic numerical methods, including solution of linear equations and FFT, for massively parallel GPU architectures. This volume consolidates recent research and adaptations, covering widely used methods that are at the core of many scientific and engineering ... Read more

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This book brings together research on numerical methods adapted for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). It explains recent efforts to adapt classic numerical methods, including solution of linear equations and FFT, for massively parallel GPU architectures. This volume consolidates recent research and adaptations, covering widely used methods that are at the core of many scientific and engineering
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Playful User Interfaces

Interfaces that Invite Social and Physical Interaction

Edited by Anton Nijholt ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
The book is about user interfaces to applications that have been designed for social and physical interaction. The interfaces are ‘playful’, that is, users feel challenged to engage in social and physical interaction because that will be fun. The topics that will be present in this book are interactive playgrounds, urban games using mobiles, sensor-equipped environments for playing, child-computer ... Read more

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The book is about user interfaces to applications that have been designed for social and physical interaction. The interfaces are ‘playful’, that is, users feel challenged to engage in social and physical interaction because that will be fun. The topics that will be present in this book are interactive playgrounds, urban games using mobiles, sensor-equipped environments for playing, child-computer
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Artificial Intelligence in HCI

3rd International Conference, AI-HCI 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Helmut Degen, Stavroula Ntoa ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2022, which was held as part of HCI International 2022 and took place virtually during June 26 – July 1, 2022.A total of 1271 papers and 275 posters included in the 39 HCII 2022 proceedings volumes. AI-HCI 2022 includes a total of 39 papers; they are grouped thematically ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in HCI, AI-HCI 2022, which was held as part of HCI International 2022 and took place virtually during June 26 – July 1, 2022.A total of 1271 papers and 275 posters included in the 39 HCII 2022 proceedings volumes. AI-HCI 2022 includes a total of 39 papers; they are grouped thematically
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Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2022

28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5–9, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Shweta Agrawal, Dongdai Lin ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022.The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were ... Read more

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The four-volume proceedings LNCS 13791, 13792, 13793, and 13794 constitute the proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2022, held in Taipei, Taiwan, during December 5-9, 2022.The total of 98 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 364 submissions. The papers were
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