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Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
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Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. However, this does not imply endorsement by the licensor.
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No Additional Restrictions— You may not apply legal or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Warnings:
- Public Domain material is not subject to these license conditions.
- No warranties are provided. The license may not cover all necessary permissions (e.g., publicity, privacy, or moral rights). (Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License, you are free to:
Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — Remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes.
As long as you comply with the license terms, the licensor cannot revoke these freedoms.
Conditions:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. However, this does not imply endorsement by the licensor.
Non-Commercial — The material may not be used for commercial purposes.
No Additional Restrictions— You may not apply legal or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Warnings:
- Public Domain material is not subject to these license conditions.
- No warranties are provided. The license may not cover all necessary permissions (e.g., publicity, privacy, or moral rights). (Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
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Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any published material (figures, diagrams, tables, or any text excerpt) for which they do not hold copyright. Permission should be requested from the copyright holder (typically the publisher; please check the license of the original publication to identify the copyright holder). However, permission is not required in the following cases:
- Material in the public domain;
- Material freely available online (e.g., Wikipedia) when properly cited;
- When authors recreate their own tables based on previously published data (please indicate the source as “Data source…” or “Adapted from…”);
- Reasonably short quotations or graphics, charts, diagrams, and artwork that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly altered to be unrecognizable from the original.
- Unless stated otherwise in the source, such materials are assumed not to be protected by copyright.
Furthermore, authors acknowledge and agree that all materials, texts, figures, and/or documents included in the article do not infringe upon the copyright of any third party. They accept full responsibility for any claims, legal actions, or disputes arising from copyright infringement, and agree that the Publisher and Journal Editors bear no responsibility. Authors also confirm that the article contains no unlawful content, and that no illegal materials or methods were used during the research.
To avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process, it is recommended to start obtaining permissions as early as possible. If there is any doubt regarding copyright, authors should request permission. The journal cannot publish material from other sources without proper permission.