Funding for this research was provided by:
CyberAgent, Inc. (akblab-0005)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2024
Accepted: 8 July 2024
First Online: 17 July 2024
Declarations
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: Kenji Yokotani was funded by CyberAgent, Inc. Masanori Takano was an employee of CyberAgent, Inc. Nobuhito Abe does not have any conflicts of interest with respect to this study.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Graduate School of Technology, Industrial, and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, on March 22, 2022 (registration number 262). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, or comparable ethical standards.