A comment on J. Akin et al., “The determinants Of breastfeeding in Sri Lanka”
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It has come to our attention that the work of Yuan et al. [1] is being represented as definitive regarding the existence of a particular nonstrange, isoscalar, spin three dibaryon, d * , which we [2] , among others [3, 4, 5, 6, 8] , have proposed exists. We therefore wish to comment on this paper and its relation to ours and those of others. In our work [2] , the d * dibaryon is constructed in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/2060925