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Trinidad Ruiz-Téllez1\*, Francisco M. Vázquez-Pardo2 , José Blanco-Salas2 and F. Javier Carbonell-Espín3

\*Address all correspondence to: truiz@unex.es

1 University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

2 La Orden-Cicytex Research Center, Badajoz, Spain

3 QuarQ Enterprise, Badajoz, Spain

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