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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 863707, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/863707
Research Article

Hölder Scales of Sea Level

Ming Li,1,2 YangQuan Chen,3 Jia-Yue Li,4 and Wei Zhao1

1Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, Avenida Padre Tomas Pereira, Taipa, Macau, Macau
2School of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
3School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA
4College of Resources and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

Received 2 November 2012; Accepted 21 November 2012

Academic Editor: Sheng-yong Chen

Copyright © 2012 Ming Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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