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In just one hour with IEEE Explorer, the PIs of this grant found 72 papers
that use the repository\footnote{See \cite{KORU2005,SUNDARAM2005,BOETTICHER2005,MAIR2005,MENZIES2005,%
CHEN2005,MENZIES2005-2,HAYES2005,HAYES2005-2,%
JALALI2007,MA2007,DEKHTYAR2007,LIU2007,WEISS07,MIZUNO2007,%
GOKHALE2008,AZZEH2008,KORTE2008,MENZIES2008,JIANG2008,MOSER2008, BOETTICHER08,JALALI08,LI08, LIEBCHEN08,WATANABE08,%
BRAGA08,PORT2008,JIANG20082, WEDEL2008, TOSUN2008,KULTUR2008, HATA08, KAMEI08, YANG08, RANA2008, HECKMAN2008, BRODER2008,HOLZ2008, ERDOGMUS2008, %
BOETTICHER2009, KITCHENHAM2009, GAY2009, TOSUN2009, TOSUN2009-3, JIANG2009, AZZEH2009, MENDE2009,WAGNER2009,FU09, MENZIES2009, SARCIA2009-2,MORASCA2009,SARCIA2009, BIRD2009, CAGLAYAN2009, TOSUN20092, WINKLER2009, SINGH2009, CATAL2009, MORAN2009, JIA2009, KORU2009, KULTUR2009,RANA2009, TURHAN2009, %
SAMI2010, MALHOTRA2010, FERNANDES2010, GOKHALE2010, AZZEH2010, BAKIR2010}}



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