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The Editors of the journal remind authors that the content of all manuscripts must be original
and unpublished. Material published previously in whole or in part, or currently under review at
another journal, will be accepted only if the reasons for the duplication are stated and a reference
to the earlier article is provided.
All authors of the article must have contributed to the design, performance and development of
the study, and must also have contributed to obtaining the data, interpreting the results, and
drafting and revising the manuscript. All persons who contributed to these tasks must be named
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This manuscript is original and unpublished, and has not been nor will be submitted to
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None of the data presented in this manuscript have been plagiarized, fabricated,
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de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación, artículo 37.3) regarding the requirement to provide
open access to research results obtained with funding from public research organizations.
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