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Acknowledgements

The research work has been financed by the P.O.R. Sardinia F.S.E. 2007–2013 in the con-
text of research project 13/D3-2 carried out at the University of Sassari. We thank three
anonymous referees for their valuable comments. All remaining errors are our own.

Ethics Statement

The analyses described in this paper were performed using secondary data obtained from
publicly available sources as outlined in the Data and Methods section.
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