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José Moleiro Martins1 \*, António Abreu2 and João M.F. Calado3

1 Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL)/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

2 Mechanical Engineering Department, ISEL—Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa/CTS—Uninova, Lisbon, Portugal

3 Mechanical Engineering Department, ISEL—Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa/IDMEC-LAETA-IST-UL, Lisbon, Portugal

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