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Volume 136 • Issue 1 • January 2010

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Received: Oct 8, 2008

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Published online: May 30, 2009

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Zong-ping Wang [email protected]

Associate Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected]

Li-zhi Huang [email protected]

Master, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected]

Lin Du [email protected]

Master, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected]

Hua Sheng [email protected]

Master, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected]

Bo Lv [email protected]

Master, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China. E-mail: [email protected]