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6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
This research has been partially supported by the National Key 
Basic Research and Development Program (2012CB719903), 
by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61172175) 
and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central 
Universities (2011 21302020010). 
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