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Acknowledgments
Four anonymous reviewers are acknowledged for the comments on the manuscript. We thank Ivan
Ostr´ for technical support. This study was supported by the European Union within the FP 6
Integrated Project ALARM (GOCE-CT-2003-506675) by grant no. 206/03/1216 from the Grant
Agency of the Czech Republic, by the institutional long-term research plan no. AV0Z60050516 fund-
ed by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and by grant MSMT 0021620828 from the
Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic.
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