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    "Aligarh Muslim University",
    "P.J. Šafárik University",
    "National Research and Innovation Agency - BRIN",
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    "University of Bergen",
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    "Universität Münster",
    "Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg",
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    "University of Oslo",
    "Yale University",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "Wayne State University",
    "Gangneung-Wonju National University",
    "University of Science and Technology of China",
    "Indian Institute of Technology",
    "University of Jammu",
    "Université Paris-Saclay",
    "AGH University of Krakow",
    "University of Kansas",
    "Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica ‘M. Merlin’ and Sezione INFN",
    "National and Kapodistrian University of Athens",
    "Gauhati University",
    "HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics"
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  "title": "Evidence of Nuclear Geometry-Driven Anisotropic Flow in O + O and Ne + Ne Collisions at s NN = 5.36 TeV",
  "title_text": "Evidence of Nuclear Geometry-Driven Anisotropic Flow in O + O and Ne + Ne Collisions at s NN = 5.36 TeV",
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