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Photochemical Generation Of 2-Methoxy-2methylpropylidene And Its Rearrangement Pathways, Stanislav Presolski Jan 2005

Photochemical Generation Of 2-Methoxy-2methylpropylidene And Its Rearrangement Pathways, Stanislav Presolski

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2-methoxy-2-methylpropylidene was photochemically generated from a non-nitrogenous precursor, 1a,9b-Dihydro-IH-cyclopropa[1]phenanthrene-l-etbane 2-methoxy-2-methyl, available in two steps from phenanthrene. Two competing rearrangement pathways were observed for the p-methoxy carbene, 1,2-methyl shift and C-H insertion, which had varying weights depending on the solvent used. Nevertheless, the C-H insertion was always predominant, contrary to the current understanding of B-substituted carbenes, which apparently needs revision. An attempt was also made to measure by LFP the rate constant of rearrangement and lifetime of the stabilized l-chloro-2-methoxy-2-metbylpropylidene.

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Spectacle Of Self In Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, And Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo Jan 2005

Spectacle Of Self In Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, And Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo

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My thesis focuses on young knights finding their identity. I concentrate on six works, The Story of the Grail, Havelok the Dane, Sir Gareth of Orkeney, Guigemar, Sir Launfal, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and how the various romancers define identity thematically. This occurs in three dififerent ways: with Perceval it is through education, Havelok and Gareth start out as kitchen boys, prove their inherent identity, and are thus self-inventing knights, and for Guigemar, Launfal, and Perceval it is about having their sexuality challenged. I also try in each chapter to give some historical background on the reason …

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Sines, Cosines, And Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer Jan 2005

Sines, Cosines, And Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer

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This thesis is an investigation of angles whose sine and cosine are algebraic conjugates over the field of rational numbers. That is to say, sin(0) and cos(0) are roots of the same irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients. These interesting families are explored. First, it is shown that for n>2, the angles have this property. Second, all angles which are conjugate in this sense and which have a quadratic minimum polynomial are identified. The relationship between these two families is explored, and a family of conjugate angles with 4^^ degree minimum polynomials is explored as well. Questions for further investigation …

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Baseball In The Big Easy: An Analysis Of Professional Baseball In New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer Jan 2005

Baseball In The Big Easy: An Analysis Of Professional Baseball In New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer

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This paper is an analysis of the relationship between a community and a cultural activity. In this particular case it is about the relationship between New Orleans, Louisiana and its professional baseball teams, the minor league New Orleans Pelicans and New Orleans Zephyrs. The work examines how one can see the changes in the city during the twentieth century by examining the changes that surrounded its baseball teams. It shows that through the lens of baseball, one can examine the evolution of a community. The heart of the thesis is 17 first-hand interview accounts with several former players, fans and …

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The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker Jan 2005

The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker

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The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of physiological arousal on the ability to perceive upper extremity position in healthy young adults. Heart rate measurements and blood pressure measurements were taken at pre-established intervals during data collection. Pre-stressor and post-stressor upper extremity trials were also recorded. Twenty participants, 12 females and 8 males, with a mean age of 22.3 (20 33) years comprised the experimental sample. Participants in the experimental sample underwent a combination of the Stroop color-word task and simple math problems to produce a state of arousal and were pre and post tested for upper …

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The Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality And Healing As Demonstrated By Falun Gong And Christian Science, Maribeth Porter Jan 2005

The Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality And Healing As Demonstrated By Falun Gong And Christian Science, Maribeth Porter

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This paper provides an objective overview of the tradition and religion of Falun Gong and Christian Science in order to better evaluate their respective methods of healing. Each religion, as well as its primary texts, was thoroughly researched to provide the reader with information regarding the basic doctrines practitioners, foundation, healing methods, and opponents. Based on the research, it appears that religion can be beneficial to a practitioner s health as ion i-iu.i as conventional health care is not ignored on the premise that toe rei i alone can heal it seems as though current health care couia benefit rrom …

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The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 On The Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn Jan 2005

The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 On The Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed in order to restore investor confidence to the market after a series of accounting fiascos. Congress included in this act legislation creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to monitor audits conducted on publicly traded companies and made many provisions concerning auditor independence. However, the most controversial part of the legislation was Section 404 which requires an audit of internal controls. The intent of this study was to determine how Sarbanes-Oxley will impact the auditing profession. This was determined through an intense review of the most current articles available on the subject. It …

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H-1b Worker Visas: Past, Present, And Future, Keith Gaines Drago Jan 2005

H-1b Worker Visas: Past, Present, And Future, Keith Gaines Drago

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The purpose of this thesis is to overview the past, present, and future of the H-IB temporary non-immigrant specialty workers visa and to identify what events have caused and continue to cause significant changes in its policies. These significant changes entail the implications the H-IB visa has for employers and managers when deciding a long term recruiting policy. The information used in this study was gathered from multiple statistical government internet sites, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service. The data was also made available through immigration web sites and testimony at …

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Synthesis And Characterization Of Nickel(Ii) Coordination Complexes With Hydrotrispyrazolylborato And Dithiobenzoato Ligands, Brian Matthew Enggano Jan 2005

Synthesis And Characterization Of Nickel(Ii) Coordination Complexes With Hydrotrispyrazolylborato And Dithiobenzoato Ligands, Brian Matthew Enggano

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The objective of this project is to prepare Ni(II) coordinate complexes that represent hydrogenase model active sites. The synthetic analog approach provides an effective means to study redox behavior of nickel. Six Ni(II) complexes with the hydrotris(3,5- dimethylpyrazolyl)borate ligand and varying forms of the dithiobenzoate ligand were synthesized through ligand substitution using a novel procedure in the laboratory. Infrared spectrophotometry and elemental analysis show that the synthesis of the complexes was successful. Each Ni(II) complex had the characteristic B-H (boronhydrogen) stretch representative of the hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazolyl)borate ligand at approximately 2500 cm’’ as well as the Ar-H and C=C stretches at 3100-3000 …

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Engineering Genetic Networks To Measure Real Time Repression By Λ Cro In Vivo, Zachary Louis Leblanc Jan 2005

Engineering Genetic Networks To Measure Real Time Repression By Λ Cro In Vivo, Zachary Louis Leblanc

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The field of systems biology seeks to engineer systems in order to explore specific dynamic properties as they act in vivo. Cellular activities have been proven to be regulated by a range of DNA binding proteins that bind to specific sequences that activate or repress transcription. Certain phage and bacterial repressor proteins were among the first of these DNA binding proteins to be characterized structurally and functionally. The demand for study of key steps in regulation of protein expression, folding, and repression has created multiple studies into systems of varying complexity. The data in this report explores the lambda system, …

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Spectroscopic Studies Of Site 3 Mutants Of Calmodulin, Shakirat Omolara Oyetunji Jan 2005

Spectroscopic Studies Of Site 3 Mutants Of Calmodulin, Shakirat Omolara Oyetunji

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Calmodulin is the quintessential member of the EF-hand family of calcium binding proteins. Two mutants of the C-domain of Calmodulin were created as a series of proteins that can be used as model 1-site calcium binding systems, terminal glutamate in Site 3 was mutated to either glutamine or aspartate, mutations were expected to abrogate binding in the mutated site such that only Site 4 is functional. There was minimal overall perturbation to the folding and stability of the apo-state. Calcium binding properties of these mutant proteins were investigated by 1) direct titrations with calcium were performed under equilibrium conditions monitored …

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Perfect Order: A Collection Of Short Stories, Virginia Lyons Shields Jan 2005

Perfect Order: A Collection Of Short Stories, Virginia Lyons Shields

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The stories in this collection have been written over the course of the past school year. I participated in a writing workshop in the fall semester that was instructed by Tom Franklin, and in which I was able to learn the importance of peer revision in the writing process. Over the spring semester, I have worked on several new stories, which are included here, as well as the stories from the writing workshop. My purpose in writing this thesis is to explore the creative process of writing and to produce original works of fiction.

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Divination: A Collection Of Poetry, Elizabeth Davenport Stephenson Jan 2005

Divination: A Collection Of Poetry, Elizabeth Davenport Stephenson

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This collection contains poetry that I have written during the course of my time at the University of Mississippi. Some of these poems in their first stages were part of my beginning and advanced poetry workshop portfolios. Other poems came from ideas scribbled in my poetry journal that I kept while studying abroad in New Zealand. My advisor and I set a goal of four poems a month for the fall 2005 semester, for a total of sixteen poems. The goal was to have perfected twelve poems for the final collection. I considered trying to conform my poems to a …

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Mixing The Old With The New: Magazines In The 21st Century, Brandie D. Thomas Jan 2005

Mixing The Old With The New: Magazines In The 21st Century, Brandie D. Thomas

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This thesis examines the steps involved in completing a prototype for a 68 page magazine. It also examines the role of the World Wide Web in tlie survival and success of magazines in the coming years. Research concerning the potential audience for the lab-produced magazine, competitors, advertising, and magazine websites was compiled during the preliminary stages of the project and during production of the prototype. This project resulted in the actual production of the magazine prototype for Engage magazine, a science-fiction entertainment publication. The findings of the research conducted were vital in determining the design and content of the magazine. …

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Size Exclusion Chromatography: Estimation Of Protein Shape, Gregg Oyemachi Anazia Jan 2005

Size Exclusion Chromatography: Estimation Of Protein Shape, Gregg Oyemachi Anazia

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Cadherin is a cell adhesion protein that is significant in tissue formation. The protein is comprised of an extracellular region, a transmembrane segment and a cytoplasmic domain. The extracellular region contains five independently folded Pbarrel domains. They communicate with one another through calcium ions that bind at the interface between each domain. Our laboratory is interested in characterizing the interactions that the extracellular domains participate in. As a part of this overall goal, analytical techniques must be developed to assess the size of the constmcts. This is important for basic characterization of the recombinant proteins. Determining the change in size …

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An Examination Of Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, And Information Retrieval Systems And Their Applications, Jeffrey Allen Holloway Jan 2005

An Examination Of Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, And Information Retrieval Systems And Their Applications, Jeffrey Allen Holloway

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Natural language processing, information extraction, information retrieval, and artificial Intelligence are all relatively new areas of study. Research as of late has begun making greater advances In these technological areas, yet much of the potential of these types of systems is still untapped. Though there are a few good examples of these systems put to use in the business world, due to technological limitations and pitfalls, these systems have yet to see widespread use. This thesis explores the technology behind the systems and looks into some of the current ways they are implemented. Finally, a system design referred to as …

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Colored Red: A Memoir And Memoriam, Jordan Charles Hooper Jan 2005

Colored Red: A Memoir And Memoriam, Jordan Charles Hooper

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My paternal grandfather, Larry Jean Hooper Sr. (Paw), died suddenly of a heart attack on a warm morning in early November while preparing to meet my father, Dana Hooper, at their small farm a short road trip from home. They had been best friends - together in work and in play - since before I was bom and through all I can remember. Blood flowed from one to the other and the roads flowed beneath both of them, through the marshes and prairies and the hills and mountains, to the top and back again more times than they could remember, …

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Ginger: The Making Of A Redhead Magazine, Carlie Jean Kollath Jan 2005

Ginger: The Making Of A Redhead Magazine, Carlie Jean Kollath

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Corticosterone Response In A Learned Helplessness Model Of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright Jan 2005

Corticosterone Response In A Learned Helplessness Model Of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright

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This purpose of this study was to quantify both behavioral and biological markers of stress (i.e. distress vocalizations, plasma corticosterone) in the chick stress-separation paradigm. In this study, chicks were isolated from companions for either 5,10,15,20,40, or 60 minutes and distress vocalizations were recorded. In addition, one group was tested in the presence of social companions for 60 minutes. Blood was collected from half of the subjects immediately following the testing period and was also collected in a no-test group to establish plasma corticosterone basal levels. Isolation produced a significant elevation in distress vocalizations and corticosterone. The pattern of distress …

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A Study Of The Effects Of The 2004 Tsunami On Coral Reefs And Fisheries Of The Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell Jan 2005

A Study Of The Effects Of The 2004 Tsunami On Coral Reefs And Fisheries Of The Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell

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This thesis serves as a broad-scale review of the effects of the tsunami on the coral reefs and the fisheries of the affected Indian Ocean region. The main goals were to 1) use my research from a recolonization project completed May 2004 as a basis for predictiverecovery models for the coral reefs, 2) review and summarize the newly available literature of the tsunami effects on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and 3) predict the future of the Indian Ocean fisheries based on the review of the tsunami effects on human and fishery communities, using selected species as models. It …

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Civil War Medicine: Crisis And Heroism In The Medical Profession, 1861 - 1865, Diana Frances Semmes Jan 2005

Civil War Medicine: Crisis And Heroism In The Medical Profession, 1861 - 1865, Diana Frances Semmes

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This thesis uses a variety of sources to look at the medical profession during the Civil War era. Both primary sources and secondary sources provide information on the perspectives of the key players during the period as well as an understanding of the knowledge present at that time and the methods and practices employed. Most of the research has been done using the J. D. Williams Library on the University of Mississippi main campus though it has been supplemented by books in my own personal collection, items loaned from Dr. Neff’s collection, online resources such as the Library of Congress …

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Self-Discovery By Self-Destruction, Raney-Mills Turner Jan 2005

Self-Discovery By Self-Destruction, Raney-Mills Turner

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The following body of thesis is a collection of short stories, poems, and personal essays compiled with visuals of my personal artwork. The prevalent theme throughout the work is self-discovery by self-destruction. It is in itself an ongoing research of reality among college students and must be seen as an artistic exploration. The artwork is that of multimedia in that it consists widely of photography, printmaking, sculpture, charcoal drawing, and ceramics inspired mostly by real emotion and dreams. In piecing the entire thesis as a whole, the following programs were used: Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign.

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Ecotourism In Costa Rica: A Study Of The Viabilities And Impacts Of Three Ecotourism Models, Corey Harmon Rogers Jan 2005

Ecotourism In Costa Rica: A Study Of The Viabilities And Impacts Of Three Ecotourism Models, Corey Harmon Rogers

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This paper examines three ecotourism endeavors in Costa Rica in order to answer the following question: can an enterprise fulfill all the definitional requirements for ecotourism and at the same time be both economically and environmentally viable? I first provide a discussion of the origins and conceptual views of ecotourism, then chart the evolution of ecotourism in Costa Rica. Next, three case studies are presented, each representing a different ecotourism model found in the country. Data presented in the case studies were compiled from site-specific primary data sets and interviews, Costa Rican government primary sources, and academic publications. For each …

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Religion And Support Of Democracy: Protestantism, Catholicism, And The Support For Democracy In Mexico, Sara Jolly Jan 2005

Religion And Support Of Democracy: Protestantism, Catholicism, And The Support For Democracy In Mexico, Sara Jolly

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The findings are consistent with other recent studies in Latin America. Eric Patterson found a similar pattern in Argentina and Chile in his study in 2003 (Patterson 2003). The data shows that despite Mexico’s history ofstrained Church/ State relations and a 70-year authoritarian rule, the Protestants in Mexico tend to hold similar beliefs on the support for democracy as the Protestants of other Latin American countries.

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The Value Of An Arts Rich Education: Why Every School Should Teach The Arts, Holly Louise Buntin Jan 2005

The Value Of An Arts Rich Education: Why Every School Should Teach The Arts, Holly Louise Buntin

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This thesis aims to prove that the arts should be a major component in every student’s education. Statistics, research findings, and case studies from throughout the years were compared and compiled together in order to make a strong argument in favor of the arts. The National Art Education Association website provided many statistics as did the National Center for Education Statistics. Two of the specific studies presented in this thesis came from Champions of Change, a collection of seven major studies done by professional academics. It was produced by the Arts Education Partnership, the President’s Committee on the Arts and …

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A Curriculum Plan Based On A Sung Dynasty Landscape Artist's Work And Techniques, Lindsey R. Terbrack Dec 2004

A Curriculum Plan Based On A Sung Dynasty Landscape Artist's Work And Techniques, Lindsey R. Terbrack

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This paper explores Sung Dynasty landscape paintings with focused attention on the works of Yen Wen-kuei. Comparison to Western art is apparent throughout the paper as an aide in using this information to create a unit of study suitable for high school art. The paper focuses around the context of the time period, materials used, style, presentation, viewer involvement, technique and thought process. The exemplar of Yen Wen-kuei is then dissected to give tangible evidence to the study.

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Common Injuries Of Musicians, Lynette Lukomski Dec 2004

Common Injuries Of Musicians, Lynette Lukomski

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Musicians face many challenges throughout their careers; dealing with an injury should not be one of them. Unfortunately, studies show that up to seventy-five percent of musicians suffer playing-related injuries. These injuries can retard musical growth, can take time out of practices and performances, and may cost a musician his/her job. Fortunately, many non-invasive treatments can be used if injuries are diagnosed quickly, and prevention techniques are available to prevent an injury from ever occurring. Factors such as age and genetics (physical and mental characteristics inherited from parents) should be considered as well when a musician decides his/her practice schedule. …

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The Potential Effects Of The Trans-Atlantic Common Aviation Area On Shannon Airport, Ireland, Daniel James Centilli Dec 2004

The Potential Effects Of The Trans-Atlantic Common Aviation Area On Shannon Airport, Ireland, Daniel James Centilli

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The Trans-Atlantic Aviation Area is a proposed liberalization of the air services agreements known as bilateral agreements between the United States of America and the member states of the European Union. The new agreement would replace the restrictive bilateral and Open Skies bilateral agreements between the United States and the EU with a single comprehensive agreement. The emergence of true open skies between the US and EU creates many economic opportunities and some economic threats. One such threat is the situation faced by the Shannon Airport, Ireland. Under the current US/Ireland bilateral, Shannon's existence is protected by requiring US carriers …

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Court Reporting: Can It Keep Up With Technology Or Will It Be Replaced By Voice Recognition Or Electronic Recording?, Shara D. Sohn Dec 2004

Court Reporting: Can It Keep Up With Technology Or Will It Be Replaced By Voice Recognition Or Electronic Recording?, Shara D. Sohn

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"Science" Of Eugenics?, Madonna Spann Dec 2004

"Science" Of Eugenics?, Madonna Spann

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