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Dmitriy Aronov1, Jonathan D Victor

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 1002 Fairchild, Mail Code 2436, 1212 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, USA. da2006@columbia.edu

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|July 13, 2004
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