Contributors’ Copyright Form and Conflict of interest

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All people who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are mentioned in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors.