Submission declaration and verification
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 or as an
electronic preprint, see https://www.elsevier.com/sharingpolicy), 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responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published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, including electronically without
the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the
originality detection service CrossCheck https://www.elsevier.com/editors/plagdetect.