Acknowledgements This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51178377), the Key Laboratory Foundation of Shaanxi Provice (No. 2010JS026) and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. 1RT0853).
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