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Authored technical account. Cited passages: abstract, central disk-like structures, bar-driven gas redistribution and complementary observational diagnostics.

By Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. and Neal J. Evans II. Sections3–6 describe rate diagnostics and the relation between gas, clouds and galactic star formation.

This primary observational study combines disk-averaged star-formation and gas tracers for normal spirals and infrared-selected starbursts. Its fitted power-law index is $1.4\pm 0.15$; the tracer selection, dust correction and gas conversion factors matter to interpretation.