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and the lack of correlation between degree and clustering coecient. It is hoped
to shed further light on this matter in a publication in the near future.
Acknowledgements
The author is grateful to Hugues Bersini from IRIDIA, and to ARTIST (funded
by EPSRC) for providing financial support to enable travel to IRIDIA to discuss
aspects of this work.
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