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The Licensee performs editorial and publishing handling of the Work’s manuscript and brings the published Work to the public by placing a copy of the published Work in electronic (digital) form on the Periodical’s web resource and providing interactive access to the Work on the Internet or other interactive networks. 1.3. The use of the manuscript of the Work during the editorial and publishing handling of the Work, publication of the Work, as well as the use of the published copy of the Work by the Licensor(s) and users is performed under the terms of the Creative Commons open access license (hereinafter the CC License), the type of which is determined by the Regulations on the Open Science at the NAS of Ukraine, approved by the order of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine dated 12.06.2024 No. 350, namely CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution — Non Commercial — No Derivatives 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.en

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