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Acknowledgements The authors Vieira A. and Guedes R.M. would like to thank the FCT (Por-
tuguese Science and Technology Foundation) for financial support under the grants PTDC/EME-
PME/70155/2006 and PTDC/EME-PME/114808/2009. Tita V. would like to thank FAPESP (Re-
search Foundation of State of São Paulo) for financial support under the grant 09/00544-5. The
authors would like to highlight that this work was also partially supported by the Program USP/UP,
which is a scientific cooperation agreement established between the University of Porto (Portugal)
and the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
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