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  • All author takes responsibility for the validity, integrity, and objectivity of the entire study.
  • An author with financial interest in or indebtedness to any commercial organization (employment, research grant, travel support, consultation fees, honoraria, equipment donation) must disclose the relationship in the acknowledgements section, if the manuscript concerns products or services of that organization or its competitors.
  • The authors reserve the right to make print copies for their own scientific or academic classroom use; the right to reuse figures and tables in articles published in other works or journal articles written by them; the right to post one PDF file on their own educational website after publication.