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Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), in
part by the UE through the European Project ProeTex (FP6-2004-IST-4-026987), in part by Irish
Research Council (IRC), and in part by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).
The authors are grateful to Prof. Danilo De Rossi, Interdepartmental Research Center “E. Piaggio”,
University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Dr. Martina Mincica, and Dr. Fabio Zito, today with Analog Devices,
Limerick, Ireland, and Ansaldo STS SpA, Naples, Italy, respectively, for their contributions to this
research.

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