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Kadhiravan, T., Thabah, M.M. (2017). Introduction. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_5
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