Copyright & Open Access

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For Open Access articles:

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  • The Open Access publication fee is payable by authors or their research funder.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.