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Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Popov, Piotr ^a   Honaker, Lawrence W ^a,b   Mirheydari, Mona ^a   Mann, Elizabeth K ^a   Jákli, Antal ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

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EID: 85018866039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01595-6     Document Type: Article

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