Costa-Santos, Cristina
Vieira-Marques, Pedro
Costa-Pereira, Altamiro
Ferreira, Maria Amélia
Freitas, Alberto
Funding for this research was provided by:
Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização – COMPETE2020 and by National Funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (operation POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007746)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2017
Accepted: 18 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
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