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This article presents an overview of the IEEE VSSC/1622 and its working groups. It contains information as to why a common data format for voting systems is
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Aaron G. Kusne, Christian J. Long, Ichiro Takeuchi, Tieren Gao
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Joseph T. Hodges, Jonathan Tennyson, P F. Bernath, Alain Campargue, A Csaszar, L Daumont, R R. Gamache, D Lisak, Olga Naumenko, Lawrence Rothman, Ha Tran, N Zobov, Boone Chris, L Gianfrani, Jean M. Hartmann
Recommendations of an IUPAC Task Group formed in 2011 on Intensities and line shapes in high-resolution spectra of water isotopologues from Experiment and
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Results and analyses of a sensitivity study of six control factors on the response of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 500 mm guarded-hot
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