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 - Yang, Shiyang. Validation of XML Document Based on Parallel Bit Stream Technology. Diss. Applied Sciences: School of Computing Science, 2013.
 - N. Nakasato, "Implementation of a parallel tree method on a GPU", Journal of Computational Science, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 132-141, 2012.
 
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+## Funding
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+The work is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under grant number RGPIN-2017-03910. 
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