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The financial support of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MEST) of the Republic of Korea is acknowledged thankfully. Part of the work of this paper has been supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsberiech) SFB 876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Analysis”, project TB1 “Resource-Constrained Analysis of Spectrometry Data”.
In addition, the work was supported partly by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology based on a decision of the German Bundestag within the project KF2368102AKO.
R. Cumeras gratefully acknowledges support from FPI Fellowship (BES-2008-005267) by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation MICINN-TEC2007-67962-C04 and MICIIN-TEC2010-21357-C05 projects.
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Cumeras, R., Schneider, T., Favrod, P. et al. Stability and alignment of MCC/IMS devices. Int. J. Ion Mobil. Spec. 15, 41–46 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12127-012-0088-y
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