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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Alfonso,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">A couple of quick questions for clarity (don’t know is fine, obviously the outlook is disastrous if this continues post next-August, but let’s face that later);</div>
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<div dir="ltr">This says ‘requested’. Is the expectation that the payment will be automatically agreed?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">When in the process should this request be made (and agreed)? Before submission or after acceptance?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">When does this start (I.e. what about papers currently being refereed)?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Kind regards,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Frazer</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 15 Dec 2025, at 08:38, Alfonso Aragon-salamanca (staff) <alfonso.aragon@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#009BBD;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca</span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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