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V.D. Naboschikov, V.P. Drankov - Ministry of Science and Technology, Russia. 

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Slovenia under grant No. Jl-7346-104-97. 

O.P. acknowledges support of the Ministry of Science and Technology (CONACyT) of Mexico (Grant No. 25301-E) and the National University of Mexico (project INI 11597). O.P. is also grateful to Silicon Graphics Inc.-Cray Research of Mexico for partial financial support and generous allocation of computer time. 

Dr. Shafi and Prof Gedanken thank the Ministry of Science and the Arts for supporting this project through the India-Israel binational grant program... 

Acknowledgments Financial support from projects Consolider CSD2006-44, and CTQ2008-00690/PPQ from Spanish Ministry of Science, and 062/SGTBI2007I3.1 from Spanish Ministry of Environment are gratefully acknowledged... 

We thank the Ministry of Science and Technology ot Korea and Dow Corning Corporation tor support ol otir research reported herein. We also thank Professor D. Son of Southern Methodist tJniversity. Dallas, Texas for his help and discussions in the preparation of this review. 

We would like to thank the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology for the financial support through the National Creative Research Initiative Program. 

Acknowledgments. Our work described here has been supported by the Creative Research Initiatives Program and International Joint R D Projects of the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology, and in part by the Bain Korea 21 Program of the Korean Ministry of Education. We also thank Dr. S. Samal for helpful discussions in preparing the manuscript. 

The author thanks Prof. Teresa Dziembowska for helpful discussions and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for financial support under grants no. NN 204 338237 in the years 2009-2012. 

The author would like to acknowledge the financial support for this research line provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (SEC2004). 

We thank Dr. Sunnie R. Thompson for critically reading this manuscript and for many great comments. Work in my lab is supported by grants from the Israel Science Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. 

This study was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant No N 204 1987 33). 

We thank the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (104/07/0383) and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1QS400400560) and The Ministry of Science and Higher Education (N N204 1987 33) for financial support. We thank Chevron Company for supporting this work. The NMR facility at Caltech was supported by the National Science Foundation (9724240) and by the MRSEC Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-0520565. 

As a continuation of the extensive monitoring of persistent organic pollutants that was started with the inclusion of the Ebro river basin in the EU Project AquaTerra, a new monitoring programme has been started in 2010. The Ebro river basin has been included as a representative Mediterranean watershed in a new project from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation included in the programme Consolider... 

Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the Project CICYT PPQ2001-1805-C03-03 from the Ministry of Science and Technology. 

The receipt of a research grant under the program National R D Project for Nano Science and Technology , funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, this work was partly supported by the Brain Korea 21 project. 

We are grateful for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10834004,21273269,51372266,51102274, and 61274130), and the National Basic Research Program of China ( 2011CB932600) by Ministry of Science and Technology of China. 

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