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Acknowledgements

The author is grateful to Ruth Cameron for converting the material to a format compatible to the Pressbooks platform, and for providing continuous support during the typesetting and proofreading process. The author would also like to acknowledge Anthony O’Brien for his guidance on copyright and attribution issues.

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