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Author’s statements
EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 2020

Acknowledgments (if applicable)

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Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful for the reviewer’s valuable comments that improved the
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Please also note that authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to
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significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in
certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement
section.

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If there is a conflict of interest, the following (or similar) Author’s Statement (including appropriate
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All investigation with human subjects must have been conducted by following the tenets of the Helsinki
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Ethical approval: The conducted research is not related to either human or animals use.

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Data availability statements (if applicable)

In accordance with our data sharing policy, the final manuscript that reports results derived from
research data must include a Data Availability Statement (DAS). The provision of a DAS will be verified as
a condition of publication. The DAS should include information on where data supporting the results
reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets
analysed or generated during the study. Where research data are not publicly available, this must be
stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for accessing the data.

Data Availability Statement should be included before the References (or at the end of the
Acknowledgments section) after the Author’s Statement.

Data availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if
required for multiple types of research data):

 The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the
[NAME] repository, [PERSISTENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS]
 The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the
corresponding author on reasonable request.
 Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during
the current study.
 All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its
supplementary information files].
 The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but
restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current
study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon
reasonable request and with permission of [third party name].