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Jason H Bostron1, Timothy A Brungart, Andrew R Barnard

  • 1Graduate Program in Acoustics and Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, PO Box 30, State College, Pennsylvania 16804, USA. jason.bostron@gmail.com

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|April 12, 2011
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