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        The following references comprise a "mixed bag" ranging from web sites that are chiefly for marketing to scholarly books and scientific treatises.  Several of the latter include quoted or paraphrased information referenced to other publications (original+ sources);  I have checked only the “original publications” on the following list -- i.e., a few citations in my writeups to, for example, Dubin (1987) are indicated by her to come from sources I have not checked.

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