We thank the two anonymous referees, the editors, and Youping Li for helpful comments and suggestions. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71273092), the Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (10YJCZH108), and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China.
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