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Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (NKBRP) of People's Republic of China (No 2006CB503806, 2007CB512008), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30471916, 30821001) and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No 7052045).
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