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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 52 , Issue 1 (January 2009) table of contents
Rural engineering development

SECTION: Virtual extension table of contents

Pages: 141-144

Year of Publication: 2009

ISSN:0001-0782

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Parag C. Pendharkar	Penn State Harrisburg, PA
James A. Rodger	Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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