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All issues Volume 5 / No 1 (2014) Int. J. Metrol. Qual. Eng., 5 1 (2014) 102 References
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Int. J. Metrol. Qual. Eng.
Volume 5, Number 1, 2014
Article Number 102
Number of page(s) 9
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/ijmqe/2014002
Published online 22 September 2014
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