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Acknowledgments
This work was done during the visit of J.F.F. to
Collegium Budapest in November 2003. J.F.F. is supported
by CNPq and FAPESP, project 99/09644-9. M.S. is
supported by a fellowship (PR2003-0431) from the
Programa Nacional de Ayudas para la Movilidad de
Profesores de Universidad, Ministerio de Educacio´n,
Cultura y Deporte (Spain); and by Fundacio´n Ramo´n
Areces (Spain). M.S. and E.S. greatly acknowledge the
sponsorship from COST-European Cooperation in the
field of Scientific and Technical Research, Internal Project
number D27/0003/02 ‘‘Emergence and Selection of Networks
of Catalytic Species’’ (URL: http://cost.cordis.lu/
src/extranet/publish/D27WGP/d27-0003-02.cfm).
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