Optical Engineering

Physics

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World Health Organization, “Climate change,” 12 October 2023, <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health> (accessed 15 October 2026).
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Book
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H. Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia (1960).
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Journal Article
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J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick, “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,” Nature 171(4356), 737–738 (1953) [doi:10.1038/171737a0].
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Newspaper Article
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J. N. Wilford, “Men Walk on Moon,” in The New York Times, p. 1 (1969).
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Optical Engineering
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