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Alexandre Carneiro da Silva1 \*, Marcos de Freitas Barbosa1 , Pedro Bento da Silva<sup>2</sup> , Janiffe Peres de Oliveira1 , Tatiana Loureiro da Silva1 , Davair Lopes Teixeira Junior1 and Maurisrrael de Moura Rocha3

1 Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Acre (IFAC), Brazil

2 Sacred Heart University (USC), Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil

3 Embrapa Meio-Norte, Piauí State, Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: alexander.silva@ifac.edu.br

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