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it allows the quantification of the activity level, and, use the collected information to
better support the evaluation and prescription of exercise therapy based techniques.
Acknowledgements
This work was partially supported by National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF-
QREN) under projects ”LUL” and ”Affective Mouse”, by Seventh Framework Pro-
gramme (FP7) program under project ICT4Depression and under the grant SFRH/BD/
65248/2009 from Fundac¸
˜
ao para a Ci
ˆ
encia e Tecnologia (FCT) , whose support the
authors gratefully acknowledge.
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