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The Theatre Of Religion: Jimmy Swaggart Within American Myth Discourse., Terry Grant Byars Jan 1992

The Theatre Of Religion: Jimmy Swaggart Within American Myth Discourse., Terry Grant Byars

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study explores the myth of the self-made man in American popular culture and how Jimmy Swaggart, the renowned televangelist, manipulates this myth in representing himself as an American hero. Central to such inquiry is Swaggart's use of theatrical device in promoting his heroism. Three fundamental questions provide the focus for investigation: (1) How in general does the creation of myth serve the needs of culture? (2) How specifically does the myth of self-made-ness benefit American culture? and (3) How is Swaggart able to participate in this powerful myth (especially using theatrical modes) in order to gain cultural sanction? In …

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Dialogue Journal Writing In A Foreign Language Classroom: Assessing Communicative Competence And Proficiency., Lynn Patricia Baudrand-Aertker Jan 1992

Dialogue Journal Writing In A Foreign Language Classroom: Assessing Communicative Competence And Proficiency., Lynn Patricia Baudrand-Aertker

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This research studied dialogue journal writing, as it occurred between a teacher and twenty-one students in a French III high school. Results on attitude questionnaire indicated that dialogue journals helped students overcome their fear of the written form and increase their self-confidence and willingness to write. By demystifying the writing process, writing in their dialogue journals helped these students develop positive attitudes. The results on writing proficiency pre and post-tests indicated that students performed as well or better than students after four years of a foreign language in a high school setting or four semesters of college instruction. The dialogue …

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Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg Jan 1992

Theatrical Intervention In The Aids Crisis: Performance, Politics, And Social Change., Cindy J. Kistenberg

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of performance as a means of social change by focusing on performances that have arisen out of the AIDS crisis. Working from a cultural studies perspective, I attempt to delineate both the possibilities and limitations for this perspective on social change. By comparing the various forms these performances have taken, I offer an explanation as to how these forms inhibit or enhance the ability of a performance to challenge the dominant discourse on AIDS, and create and mobilize communities that can act in the fight against AIDS. I begin by …

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Cosmology And Curriculum: A Vision For An Ecozoic Age., Angela T. Lydon Jan 1992

Cosmology And Curriculum: A Vision For An Ecozoic Age., Angela T. Lydon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The text of this dissertation explores interconnections between cosmology and curriculum. I believe the demands of an Ecozoic Age will initiate a reconceptualizing of curriculum. Further, I believe the particular cosmological perspective I advance can help us with this reconceptualization. Chapter 1 utilizes the multi-faceted insights of scientific, historical, and speculative thought. The texts used in this chapter incorporate an engagement with past cultures (Ong, Eliade), with contemporary theoretical perspectives (Munitz, Haught, and Stafford), and with a scholarship that envisions alternative futures (Bohm). Chapter 2 uncovers how modernity's relationship to the earth is rooted in the scientific, political, and social …

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Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon Jan 1992

Autobiographical Amnesia: Memory, Myth, Curriculum., Gregory Michael Nixon

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Autobiography in curriculum theory and practice is being more and more acknowledged as a major force leading toward the development of reflectively analytical teachers, reflexive practitioners, and discursively self-aware individuals. I look to two vital aspects of self-narration to explore. I speak firstly of memory, without which narrative continuity would be impossible. Memory is as involved with learning as it is with storytelling, and I would agree with Krell (1978) that "inquiry into memory and the theory of pedagogy go hand in hand" (p. 131). I eschew the models of memory provided by the behavioral sciences, empirical psychology, cognitive psychology, …

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Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni Jan 1992

Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The grammatical structure of Arabic allows for significant cross-linguistic comparisons in the study of Slips-of-the-tongue as well as aphasia. The dissertation presents a case study of the aphasic deficit in the speech of a speaker of Arabic, in particular, the Hijazi dialect spoken in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia, with a subsequent comparison with regular slips-of-the-tongue in the same dialect collected and analyzed by the same author. Both the slips-of-the-tongue data and the aphasia data have been collected in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by the present investigator. It was observed that in such a highly inflected language, …

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Voices Of The Self In Daniel Defoe's Fiction: An Alternative Marxist Approach., Zaixin Zhang Jan 1991

Voices Of The Self In Daniel Defoe's Fiction: An Alternative Marxist Approach., Zaixin Zhang

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The alternative Marxist approach to literary criticism in the present study consists of three "vocal" modes of interpretation: the public voice, the private voice, and the homeless voice of the self. The public voice represents authorial visions of the ideological real projected by dominant ideology that covers up the "objective" real, while the private voice corresponds to the authorial conscious or unconscious insertion into radical ideology that turns the "objective" real into the ideological real. However, the homeless voice of the self obliterates any ties with history and authorial ideology. A personification of the Marxist "particular interest" of the self, …

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A Brooding Eloquence: Amplification And Irony In Marlowe's Dramas., Jeffery Galle Jan 1991

A Brooding Eloquence: Amplification And Irony In Marlowe's Dramas., Jeffery Galle

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

My subject is the relationship between rhetoric and the range of possible reaction to Marlowe's protagonists in his five major plays--Tamburlaine I and II, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II. In a very broad sense, I conceive of the rhetoric of each play in terms of opposing rhetorical forces, amplification and irony, and attempt to account for the relative intensity of amplification and irony in each play as I study the rhetoric of the protagonist. One strategy, amplification, entails the investment of a major character with logical arguments from invention, effective arrangement of ideas from disposition, and …

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Lsu General Catalog 1991-1992, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1991

Lsu General Catalog 1991-1992, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew Jan 1991

Remedial English Ten Years After: Former Basic Writers In The Workplace., Eleanor Agnew

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to find out whether writing skills were a handicap to job success for former basic writers who had graduated from college. A population of 197 former basic writers (FBW's) and 68 former strong writers (FSW's, used as a comparison) were surveyed and interviewed. Research questions included (1) What types of jobs do FBW's have, compared to FSW's, and how much do their feelings about writing affect their choices of major or job? (2) How much and how often do FBW's write at work compared to FSW's? (3) What forms of writing do FBW's do …

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An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Integration Of Disabled And Nondisabled Two-Year-Old Children., Mary Beth Armstrong Jan 1991

An Ethnographic Investigation Of The Integration Of Disabled And Nondisabled Two-Year-Old Children., Mary Beth Armstrong

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study is an ethnographic investigation of the initial integration of a group of disabled and nondisabled two-year-old children. The group was comprised of a class of seven disabled children from a school parish and a class of nine nondisabled children from a university child development center in this same parish. This study incorporated ethnographic data collection and analysis procedures. Data collection procedures included participant observation, ethnographic interviews, artifactual analysis, and videorecording. The results of this study suggest that a process of stigmatization occurred in this integration program. The process of stigmatization and factors perhaps accounting for the process are …

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A Syntactic Language Computer Analysis Of Depressed Versus Non-Depressed Females., Daniel Merton Christy Jan 1991

A Syntactic Language Computer Analysis Of Depressed Versus Non-Depressed Females., Daniel Merton Christy

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study sought to examine the interrelationship of cognition and language in the clinical syndrome of depression. It was proposed that the types of cognitive differences in depression proposed by Beck and other cognitive theorists would be reflected in language usage, and especially in syntax. Using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), subjects were classified as either depressed (BDI $\geq$ 16) or non-depressed (BDI $\leq$ 4). Subjects were asked to speak into a tape recorder for 3-5 minutes on each of three stimuli, a positive event, a negative event, and a neutral opinion stimulus. The language samples were then analyzed using …

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Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale Jan 1991

Writing And Modernity: Colette's Feminist Fiction., Lezlie Hart Stivale

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

My choice of Colette's fiction as the subject of critical analysis is one occasioned not only by the richness of her literary corpus, but also by the marginalization of Colette's work as "natural" or "feminine" within the French literary canon. While much has been written on Colette, consideration of her personal life has overly influenced the critical evaluation of her works. I break with the prevalent biographical trend in Colette criticism by approaching seven of her novels from feminist perspectives informed by deconstruction, narratology and psychoanalysis. These productive readings reveal multiple destabilizing effects. A close reading of Cheri locates sites …

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An Analysis Of Syntactic Skills Used In Translating Natural Language Sentences Into Algebraic Equations., Elizabeth Devalcourt Gray Jan 1991

An Analysis Of Syntactic Skills Used In Translating Natural Language Sentences Into Algebraic Equations., Elizabeth Devalcourt Gray

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to determine how a competent person translates a natural language sentence into an algebraic equation. A current theory of how translation occurs is espoused by a group of cognitive scientists who propose that the competent translator uses only conceptual strategies in the translation process. I propose and investigate an alternate theory that the translation skills of a competent student are based on a syntactic analysis and syntactic manipulation of the sentence. In most cases such direct, syntactic translation processes will suffice, but for a small minority of sentence types a decision must be made …

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Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester Jan 1991

Dominance, Marginality, And Subversion In French (Post)Colonial Discourse., Suzanne Mary Chester

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines a selection of fictional texts by Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Assia Djebar and Tahar ben Jelloun. In my readings of these colonial and post-colonial narratives, I explore the textual strategies which transform marginalized positions based on colonialism, gender, sexual orientation and class into positions of dominance. In Gide and Duras, for example, this is evident in their complicity with dominant ideologies of colonialism. By contrast, the second section of the dissertation focuses on the oppositional strategies in the work of Djebar and ben Jelloun, two post-colonial writers from North Africa. Here, I analyze the ways in which …

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Social Networks And Linguistic Accommodation Of Mainland Chinese In An Urban American Chinese Community., Hong Chi Jan 1991

Social Networks And Linguistic Accommodation Of Mainland Chinese In An Urban American Chinese Community., Hong Chi

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The growing number of immigrants from both Taiwan and Mainland China have brought speakers of different Mandarin varieties into contact in an American context. In the Chinese community in Los Angeles, Mainland Putonghua speakers are found to accommodate their language to the local Taiwan Mandarin speakers. Social network analysis, a model oriented toward the individual, is adapted here for analyzing this linguistic situation. The conversation of 35 informants was recorded within a naturally occurring context and their social network scores were compared with their scores for nine linguistic variables selected for this study. It was found that the accommodation process …

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The Variable Learning Effects Of Two Types Of Intervention On L2 Communication Skills Using Interactive Tasks., Margaret Ann Powers Jan 1991

The Variable Learning Effects Of Two Types Of Intervention On L2 Communication Skills Using Interactive Tasks., Margaret Ann Powers

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study evaluated the benefits of a task-based procedure used to develop L2 communicative effectiveness in spoken English among a group of advanced proficiency learners. Using two interactive information-exchange map tasks, one diagram task, and two intervening discussion sessions, the study attempted to investigate the actual communicative outcomes of interaction prompted by the tasks and by the interventions. Subjects in three conditions first performed a map task designed with four referential problems which had to be solved to successfully complete the task. Immediately following the map task, the subjects in the first condition participated in a discussion session in which …

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The Form And Function Of Constructed Dialogue In Reported Discourse., Terrie Dawn Mathis Jan 1991

The Form And Function Of Constructed Dialogue In Reported Discourse., Terrie Dawn Mathis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In this study of constructed dialogue in natural conversations involving four American women, attention is drawn to how reporting speakers make use of different quotative forms to introduce utterances represented with direct speech forms. There is an attempt to account for the functions of such quotative forms in terms of discourse structure and the interpersonal relationships of the participants. In one closely-examined narrative, the present tense forms of several quotatives (is, says, goes, and be like) are used to introduce constructed dialogue which seems to be that part of the narrative that the speaker intends to foreground, while the past …

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Atoms And Di-Atoms In Intense Laser Fields., Muhammad Raza Saeed Jan 1991

Atoms And Di-Atoms In Intense Laser Fields., Muhammad Raza Saeed

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A series of experimental studies was carried out on diatomic molecules to understand how they interact with intense laser fields. These studies have mainly consisted of multiple photon excitation, ionization and dissociation of hydrogen, oxygen, and chlorine molecules using time of flight electron and ion spectroscopy. I took advantage of the similarities and differences in the molecular structure of these molecules in order to investigate whether different molecules interact differently with the applied fields. Clear experimental evidence of molecular Bond Softening as an intensity dependent variation in the vibrational distribution of molecular ions is being reported for the first time …

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A Study Of Metacognitive Skill As Influenced By Expressive Writing In College Introductory Algebra Classes., Naomi Barbara R Allen Jan 1991

A Study Of Metacognitive Skill As Influenced By Expressive Writing In College Introductory Algebra Classes., Naomi Barbara R Allen

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The quality of mathematics education has become a major concern to mathematics educators. As a result, increased attention is being given to identifying the abilities that underlie competent performance. An outcome of this effort is an increasing belief that the development of metacognitive skills is an essential component of proficient mathematics performance. Writing, because it promotes reflective thinking, is believed to be the vehicle for this development. Writing in the mathematics classroom has previously received anecdotal support for its benefits to the learner and to the instructor, and limited quantitative benefits in problem-solving ability toward mathematics. This study examined the …

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Input Type And Output Modification In English As A Second Language., Doris M. V Macdonald Jan 1991

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Input Type And Output Modification In English As A Second Language., Doris M. V Macdonald

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Proposals regarding the beneficial effects of elements of modified interaction such as clarification requests and confirmation checks on SLA have been taken up by a number of researchers who have found evidence for their existence in discourse involving NNSs. These investigators have assumed that the presence of such interactional features are beneficial to language learning, yet there is little empirical evidence to support a causal relationship between the presence of these discourse features and change in the performance of the learner toward target-language forms. Furthermore, the potential benefits of modified interactions have not been evaluated against other classroom practices. This …

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Acoustic Topology Of Infant Proto-Syllables., James Robert Piroli Jan 1991

Acoustic Topology Of Infant Proto-Syllables., James Robert Piroli

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A corpus of CV-like proto-syllables was obtained from the archival recordings of three first-born infants, which were made in conjunction with earlier research on the acoustic and interactive aspects of infant language acquisition. Tokens were limited to proto-syllables with perceptual evidence of stop-like or glide-like qualities and an identifiable vowel. Following A/D sampling, measures of developmental change were made including F1/F2 steady states, transition durations, CV durations, maximum F2 velocities, F2 onset, fundamental frequency, shimmer, time-to-peak amplitude velocity, and time-to-peak F2 velocity within the transition. Contrary to expectations, the orderliness of the infant protosyllables was remarkable with few acoustic events …

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Acquiring Vocabulary In A Foreign Language: Some Effects Of The Nature Of Instruction On The Knowledge And Use Of Words., Louise Stowell-Ruzicka Jan 1991

Acquiring Vocabulary In A Foreign Language: Some Effects Of The Nature Of Instruction On The Knowledge And Use Of Words., Louise Stowell-Ruzicka

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect that the nature of instruction of French vocabulary words has on student knowledge and use of the words on five different measures: a definition recognition test, a cloze plus word bank test, a comprehension of a text containing the words, a writing assignment designed to elicit free use of these words and a test of overall reading proficiency. Eighty-one high school students in the second year course of French constituted three treatment groups: (1) traditional instruction where students were required to learn a list of 12 words paired with their …

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Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly Jan 1991

Effects Of A Whole Language Approach Using Authentic French Texts On Student Comprehension And Attitude., Colette Hood Stelly

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Whole Language Approach (WLA), using authentic French stories, on measures of listening and reading comprehension of fourth-year high school students of French, and on their attitudes to learning French, as opposed to students using customary textbook materials in a conventional teacher-centered classroom setting. This investigation comprised two components: (a) a quantitative component which statistically determined results on measures of listening, reading and attitude, and, (b) a qualitative component which reviewed classroom procedures through observation and interview. Analysis of variance on four separate posttests showed statistically significant differences in …

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Toward An Expert System For Terrain Analysis., Ravi Narasimhan Jan 1990

Toward An Expert System For Terrain Analysis., Ravi Narasimhan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Terrain analysis is the systematic study of image patterns relating to the origin, and composition of distinct terrain units called landforms. It takes into account and provides information about physical site factors which are used by civil engineers for evaluating the suitability of a site for a terrain related engineering application. Terrain analysis is a time consuming labor intensive process and requires a significant degree of expertise. In this dissertation, an expert system paradigm has been adopted, for developing a computational approach to terrain analysis problem solving. A methodology was developed for the representation and management of uncertain terrain knowledge. …

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Theoretical And Pedagogical Applications Of Discourse Analysis To Professional Writing., Kim Sydow Campbell Jan 1990

Theoretical And Pedagogical Applications Of Discourse Analysis To Professional Writing., Kim Sydow Campbell

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation attempts to show the utility of discourse analysis for professional writing. The articles collected here fall into three categories: Chapter One provides an overview of the need for a discourse analysis approach in writing research; Chapters Two and Three demonstrate applications of Speech Act Theory to problems in tone; and Chapters Four, Five and Six suggest the role that cohesion and coherence play in professional writing. Chapter One notes that, with the emphasis on process, discourse based research has largely fallen out of favor with writing specialists. Despite this lack of enthusiasm, this chapter demonstrates the importance of …

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Lsu General Catalog 1990-1991, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 1990

Lsu General Catalog 1990-1991, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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The Effect Of Severity Of Closed Head Injury On Memory Functioning., Linda Marie Brown Jan 1990

The Effect Of Severity Of Closed Head Injury On Memory Functioning., Linda Marie Brown

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between neuroanatomy of memory, the structural mechanics of closed head injury and the resulting effects on memory functioning. The experimental groups were composed of 30 closed head injured individuals equally divided by severity of injury based on posttraumatic amnesia (PTA). The first group included 15 mild head injured patients whose PTA was defined as less than 60 minutes. Group two was composed of 15 severely head injured patients whose PTA was greater than 24 hours. The comparison group consisted of 15 non-head injured volunteers matched to the experimental group by age, gender, …

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Panel Analysis: A Critical Method For Analyzing The Rhetoric Of Comic Book Form., Ralph Randolph Duncan Ii Jan 1990

Panel Analysis: A Critical Method For Analyzing The Rhetoric Of Comic Book Form., Ralph Randolph Duncan Ii

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study devises a method of rhetorical criticism, panel analysis, for the comic book medium. Panel analysis focuses on how the unique form of the comic book medium communicates content. Panel analysis consists of three components: historical context, micro analysis, and macro analysis. The historical component makes use of a humanistic historical approach to place a comic book or a body of comic book work in the contexts of the creator's personal history and the evolution of the comic book medium. These contexts provide understanding of the origins of the various formal aspects of the work(s) being studied. The micro …

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"Her Excellence To Marre": The Problem Of Feminine Authority In Spenser's "Faerie Queene"., Mary Antonia Villeponteaux Jan 1990

"Her Excellence To Marre": The Problem Of Feminine Authority In Spenser's "Faerie Queene"., Mary Antonia Villeponteaux

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Spenser has difficulty expressing an acceptable version of his queen's authority in The Faerie Queene. He must valorize her monarchy and its power, but his uneasiness about female political authority emerges throughout the text. Like the Petrarchan poet who fictionalizes his abject devotion to his lady while he also creates and so controls her through the same fiction, Spenser praises the queen's authority while at the same time he attempts to control it and contain it in the poem. This uneasy process is exemplified in the figure of Britomart: Spenser initially presents her as the near-perfect champion of Elizabeth's signature …

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