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Ya-Ru Li1, Li-Ting Feng2, Bing-Yu Chen3

  • 1Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Taipei 10055, Taiwan.

The Science of the Total Environment
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