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The work of Dejan Brkić has been supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, while the work of both, Dejan Brkić and Pavel Praks has been by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic through the project “Center of Energy and Environmental Technologies” No. TK03020027.

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Received: Oct 10, 2022
Accepted: Oct 26, 2022
Published online: May 2, 2023
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Discussion open until: Oct 2, 2023

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Senior Researcher, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Niš, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, Niš 18000, Serbia; IT4Innovations, VSB–Technical Univ. Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava 708 00, Czech Republic (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2502-0601. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Senior Researcher, IT4Innovations, VSB–Technical Univ. Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, Ostrava 708 00, Czech Republic. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-7800. Email: [email protected]

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