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Author’s Contributions
Concept, write-up and interpretation of the available information included in the present review paper have been solely contributed
by SKT. The author read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgement
I sincerely acknowledge and thank all researchers for their valuable contributions in the field of QPM research included in the text as
references.
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