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Manuscript submissions
Manuscripts may be sent to the Editor-in-Chief
I. Zs.-Nagy, Editor in Chief.
University Medical School, 4012, Debrecen, Hungary
Submission Checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful
during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal's Editor for Review. Please consult this Guide for Authors
for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are present
• One Author designated as Corresponding
Author
• E-Mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
• Disk is enclosed (Note:
All of the requirements regarding the disk version are valid only for the revised manuscripts).
• The electronic version and
the hardcopy of the manuscript are identical
• Disk has been labelled with article details (first Author, first words of title)
• file name(s)
• media format (e.g., PC, Mac)
• file format (e.g., Word, LaTeX)
• All text pages
• Keywords
• Original artwork (high-quality prints)
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title,
description, footnotes)
Further Considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked"
• References are in
the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Colour figures
are clearly marked as being intended for colour
reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced in colour
on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only colour on the Web is required, black and white versions
of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please contact the Author Support Department
at authorsupport@elsevier.com
Submission of articles
It is essential to give a fax number and e-mail
address when submitting a manuscript. Articles must be written in good English and follow US-English spelling.
Submission of an article
implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture
or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all Authors and
tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published
elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of
an article, authors will be asked to sign a "Journal Publishing Agreement" (for more information on this and copyright see  http://authors.elsevier.com).
Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An email (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a "Journal Publishing Agreement" form.
If excerpts from other copyrighted
works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier
has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Philadelphia, PA, USA: Tel. (+1) 215 238
7869; Fax (+1) 215 238 2239; email healthpermissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier
homepage ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has
established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish in Elsevier journals to comply with potential manuscript archiving
requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies
Submission to the journal prior to acceptance
Three copies of the manuscript, each accompanied by a set of high-quality
original illustrations, suitable for direct reproduction, should be submitted.
Types of papers
(1) Original papers reporting
results of fundamental research in the fields defined in Aims and Scope (see inside front cover). (2) Review articles will usually follow
an invitation from the Editor-in-Chief; other such papers will be accepted if they give a valuable survey and synthesis based upon a
critical interpretation of the recent research data or hypotheses. Review papers of interdisciplinary character are especially welcome.
Before writing a review, the authors are requested to send a brief, but informative outline of the planned article to the Editor-in-Chief
for a preliminary consultation.
Book reviews will be published as space permits. Books within the scope of the journal should be
sent to the Editor-in-Chief (address on inside front cover).
Electronic format requirements for accepted articles
General
points. We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. An electronic version of the text should
be submitted together with the final hardcopy of the manuscript. The electronic version must match the hardcopy exactly. Always keep
a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Label storage media with your name, journal title, and software used.
Save your files using the default extension of the program used. No changes to the accepted version are permissible without the explicit
approval of the Editor. Electronic files can be stored on 3? inch diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh).
Wordprocessor
documents
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column
format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article.
In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts,
superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When
preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid
is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional
manuscripts (see also http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/authorartworkinstructions). Do not import the
figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript.
See also the section on Preparation of electronic illustrations. To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spellchecker"
function of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX documents
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text.
The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsart", or alternatively the standard document class "article".
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Author Gateway's Quickguide:
http://authors.elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the files: elsart.cls, guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start,
and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".
Although Elsevier can process most wordprocessor file formats, should
your electronic file prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hardcopy printout.
Presentation of manuscript
Please write your text in good English (US-English spelling). Italics are not to be used for expressions of Latin origin, for example,
in vivo, et al., per se. Use decimal points (not commas), use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).
Authors in Japan please note
that, upon request, Elsevier Japan will provide authors with a list of people who can check and improve the English of their paper (before
submission). Please contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier, 4F Higashi-Azabu, 1 Chome Bldg, 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044,
Japan; phone: (03)-5561-5032; fax: (03)-5561-5045; e-mail:jp.info@elsevier.com.
Print the entire manuscript on one
side of the paper only, using double spacing and wide (3 cm) margins. (Avoid full justification, i.e., do not use a constant right-hand
margin.) Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated. Present tables and figure captions on separate pages at the end of the
manuscript. If possible, consult a recent issue of the journal to become familiar with layout and conventions. Number all pages consecutively.
Provide the following data on the title page (in the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often
used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations. Where
the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the Authors' affiliation addresses (where
the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the Author's
name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if
available, the e-mail address of each Author.
Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code)
are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
All authors should have made substantial contributions
to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
(2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted.
Acknowledgements. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship as defined above should be listed in an acknowledgements
section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department
chair who provided only general support. Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the entity that
paid for this assistance.
Present/permanent address. If an Author has moved since the work described in the article was
done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that Author's name.
The address at which the Author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals
are used for such footnotes.
Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum length 200 words). The abstract
should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate
from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in
full, without reference to the reference list. Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be
defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6
keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only
abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.N.B. Acknowledgements.
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a
footnote to the title or otherwise.
Conflict of interest. At the end of the text, under a subheading "Conflict of interest
statement" all authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organisations that could inappropriately
influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria,
paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.
Role of the funding source. All sources
of funding should be declared as an acknowledgement at the end of the text. Authors should declare the role of study sponsors, if any,
in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to
submit the manuscript for publication. If the study sponsors had no such involvement, the authors should so state.
Arrangement
of the article
Subdivision of the article. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections
should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2,?), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also
for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to "the text". Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear
on its own separate line.
Introduction. State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a
detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Experimental/Materials and methods. Provide sufficient detail to
allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be
described.
Theory and\or calculation. A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already
dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development
from a theoretical basis.
Results. Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion. This should explore the
significance of the results of the work, not repeat them.
Conclusions. The main conclusions of the study may be presented
in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Nomenclature:
Authors are requested to follow the instructions given in Information for Contributors to Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, which is available
free of charge from BBA Editorial Secretariat, P.O. Box 1345, 1000 BH Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Appendices. If there is
more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering:
(Eq. A.1), (Eq. A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, (Eq. B.1) and so forth.
References. See separate section, below.
Figure captions, tables, figures, schemes. Present these, in this order, at the end of the article. They are described in more
detail below. High-resolution graphics files must always be provided separate from the main text file (see Preparation of illustrations
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/authorartworkinstructions).
Text graphics. Present incidental
graphics not suitable for mention as figures, plates or schemes at the end of the article and number them "Graphic 1", etc. Their precise
position in the text can then be defined similarly (both on the manuscript and in the file). See further under the section, Preparation
of illustrations. Ensure that high-resolution graphics files are provided, even if the graphic appears as part of your normal wordprocessed
text file.
Footnotes. Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript
Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate
the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves on a separate sheet at the end of the article. Do not include
footnotes in the Reference list.
Table footnotes. Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Tables. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the
table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that
the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
Nomenclature and units. Follow
internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other quantities are mentioned, give their
equivalent in SI.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material (e-components)
to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting
applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied
will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file
formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption
for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/authorartworkinstructions
Randomised controlled trials: All randomised controlled trials submitted for publication in Complementary Therapies in Medicine
should include a completed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart. Please refer to the CONSORT statement website
at http://www.consort-statement.org for more information. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics has adopted the proposal from
the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) which require, as a condition of consideration for publication of clinical
trials, registration in a public trials registry. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial
registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. For this purpose, a clinical trial is defined as any
research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate
the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome
(for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health
outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and
adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the
investigator) will not require registration. Further information can be found at http://www.icmje.org.
Disclosure
of clinical trial results
In line with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Journal is
willing to consider manuscripts which include results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides.
It will not consider such postings to be prior publication, providing the results posted are presented in the form of a brief structured
(500 words) abstract or table. However, divulging results in other circumstances (eg, investors' meetings) is strongly discouraged and
may jeopardise consideration of the manuscript. Authors should fully disclose all postings in registries of results of the same or closely
related work.
Ethics: Work on human beings that is submitted to Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics should comply
with the principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki; Recommendations guiding physicians in biomedical research involving human
subjects. Adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, June 1964, amended by the 29th World Medical Assembly, Tokyo,
Japan, October 1975, the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983, and the 41st World Medical Assembly, Hong Kong, September
1989. The manuscript should contain a statement that the work has been approved by the appropriate ethical committees related to the
institution(s) in which it was performed and that subjects gave informed consent to the work. Studies involving experiments with animals
must state that their care was in accordance with institution guidelines. Patients' and volunteers' names, initials, and hospital numbers
should not be used.
Files can be stored on 3? inch diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh).
References
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the Authors.
Citations in the text: Please
ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract
must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned
in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and
should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference
as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication. If more than one reference is quoted within the same parentheses,
they should be in chronological order. If more papers are from the same year, they should be put in alphabetical order of the first author.
Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (Author
names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the
reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Text: All citations in the text
should refer to:
1. Single Author: the Author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of
publication;
3. Two Authors: both Authors' names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more Authors: first
Author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references
should be listed first chronologically, then alphabetically.
Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones,
1998). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown ...."
List: References should be arranged alphabetically. For references
with the same first author, single author works should be listed first and arranged chronologically; followed by works with one co-author,
which should be arranged alphabetically by co-author, then chronologically. Finally, works that have more than one co-author should be
arranged chronologically. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b",
"c", etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J.,
Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51-59.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction
to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.
Journal names should be abbreviated according to List of serial
title word abbreviations: http://www.issn.org/lstwa.html
Preparation of illustrations
Preparation of
electronic illustrations
Submitting your artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible
standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. General points
• Always supply high-quality printouts
of your artwork, in case conversion of the electronic artwork is problematic.
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing
of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
• Only use the following
fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence
in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files, and supply a separate listing of the files and the software
used.
• Provide all illustrations as separate files and as hardcopy printouts on separate sheets.
• Provide captions
to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
Files can be stored on 3.5
inch diskette, ZIP-disk or CD (either MS-DOS or Macintosh).
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information
are given here.
Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via
e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a
disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when your electronic
artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats (Note the resolution requirements for line
drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below.):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: Colour or greyscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum
of 1000 dpi.,
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (colour or greyscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or
PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications please supply "as is".
Please do not:
• Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation) document;
• Supply files that are optimised
for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
•
Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Non-electronic illustrations
Provide all illustrations
as high-quality printouts, suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Number illustrations consecutively
in the order in which they are referred to in the text. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text.
Clearly mark all illustrations on the back (or - in case of line drawings - on the lower front side) with the figure number and the Author's
name and, in cases of ambiguity, the correct orientation.
Mark the appropriate position of a figure in the article
Captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions on a separate sheet, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise
a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum
but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Line drawings
Supply high-quality printouts on white paper produced
with black ink. The lettering and symbols, as well as other details, should have proportionate dimensions, so as not to become illegible
or unclear after possible reduction; in general, the figures should be designed for a reduction factor of two to three. The degree of
reduction will be determined by the Publisher. Illustrations will not be enlarged. Consider the page format of the journal when designing
the illustrations.
Photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.
Photographs (halftones)
Please supply original photographs for reproduction, printed on glossy paper, very sharp
and with good contrast. Remove non-essential areas of a photograph. Do not mount photographs unless they form part of a composite figure.
Where necessary, insert a scale bar in the illustration (not below it), as opposed to giving a magnification factor in the caption.
Note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable.
Colour illustrations
Reproduction in colour will
have to be approved by the Editor-in-Chief and the cost will have to be borne by the author.
Submit colour illustrations as original
photographs, high-quality computer prints or transparencies, close to the size expected in publication, or as 35 mm slides. Please make
sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. Polaroid colour prints
are not suitable. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional
charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these
illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding
the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for colour in print or on the Web only.
For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
Please
note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to "grey scale" (for the printed version should
you not opt for colour in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the colour illustrations.
Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper
proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version
7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will
accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of
your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections
cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article
if no response is received.
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Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially
those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.
Offprints
The corresponding author,
at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a
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and conditions of use. Additional paper offprints can be ordered by the authors. An order form with prices will be sent to the corresponding
author. Each corresponding author will also receive, at no cost, one copy of the issue in which his article was published.
There
will be no page charges.
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