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License

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Additional or Alternative Clauses: Subject to the above conditions, and in consideration of the Publisher undertaking to subsidize costs of the publication of the article, the Author assigns to the Journal the exclusive world rights to the article in its present, or substantially its present form (in both print and electronic publication), and the parties agree upon the foregoing terms for themselves and their respective executors, administrators, assigns or successors.