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@book{glover_2008,
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@book{bergen_1986,
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@book{law_2007,
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@book{shapiro_2009,
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        year = "2009"
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@book{northeast_2003,
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        publisher = "U.S. Department of Energy and Natural Resources Canada",
        year = "2004"
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@book{eia_gov,
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@book{nerc_dawg,
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        title = "Disturbance Analysis Working Group Database: www.nerc.com",
        publisher = "NERC",
	year = "2013"
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%%%%TEMPLATES

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@book{ConcreteMath,
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        address = "Reading, MA",
        year = "1989"
}

@unpublished{Simpson,
        author = "H. Simpson",
        title = "Proof of the {R}iemann {H}ypothesis",
        note = "preprint (2003), available at 
        \texttt{http://www.math.drofnats.edu/riemann.ps}",
}

@incollection{Er01,
        author = "P. Erd{\H o}s",
        title = "A selection of problems and results in combinatorics",
        booktitle = "Recent trends in combinatorics (Matrahaza, 1995)",
        publisher = "Cambridge Univ. Press",
        address = "Cambridge",
        pages = "1--6"
}