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Ethylene Polymerizations Using Parallel Pressure Reactors and a Kinetic Analysis of Chain Transfer Polymerization
Published on: November 27, 2015
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Nicholas Meti1, Ali Sadeghi-Naini1, William T Tran1
1Nicholas Meti, MD, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Ali Sadeghi-Naini, PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and William T. Tran, MRT(T), MSc, PhD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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