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This work was supported partly by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Re-
search from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
and Technology (MEXT) (Nos. 20675002 and 258112) and ACT-
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grateful to Umicore for generous support in supplying rhodium
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