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Authors publishing with Science Publications today keep the copyright of their work. Each article shows the licence printed on it. Articles published since 2021 are under CC BY 4.0; most published from 2015 to 2020 are under CC BY 3.0; earlier articles are mostly free to read under the publisher’s copyright, and some carry CC BY 3.0. The Creative Commons licences (CC BY 3.0 and CC BY 4.0) allow others to copy, distribute, display and adapt the work, provided the original work is properly cited. An article under the publisher’s copyright (© Science Publications) is free to read; reusing it needs our permission.

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1. Authors will own the copyright to the Article.
2. The manuscript submitted for publication is the author’s original work.
3. Authors hereby grant to Science Publications a free and unrestricted license to disseminate the Article electronically to anybody who asks for it.
4. All authors participated in the work in a substantive way and are prepared to take public responsibility for the work.
5. All authors have seen and approved the manuscript as submitted.
6. The manuscript has not been published and is not being submitted or considered for publication elsewhere.
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