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Acknowledgements - Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati.

I am very grateful to Professor Otto G. Raabe from the University of California Davis for spending a great deal of time for reviewing this complicated manuscript and for his valuable input - Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati.

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