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5. Acknowledgements
The author is benefited from his visit to Europe in
1988-1992 for HTSC research, Xiamen, China during
1995 for statistical physics conference and New Orleans,
USA during 2008 for APS March meeting. We ac-
knowledge Dr. C. Iannicello and others of American In-
stitute of Physics for providing access to the URL of AIP
UniPHY.
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