Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Dr. X. E Meng in 0cean University of China for his help in computing the "Island Rule", and also to Dr. T. D. Qu in International Pacific Research Center for helpful discussion on this work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40136010 & 40520140074), and the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. kzcx3-sw-227).
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