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The Grand Bargain: Revitalizing Labor Through Nlra Reform And Radical Workplace Relations, Michael M. Oswalt Dec 2007

The Grand Bargain: Revitalizing Labor Through Nlra Reform And Radical Workplace Relations, Michael M. Oswalt

Duke Law Journal

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Standing Up To Legislative Bullies: Separation Of Powers, State Courts And Educational Rights, Sonja Ralston Elder Dec 2007

Standing Up To Legislative Bullies: Separation Of Powers, State Courts And Educational Rights, Sonja Ralston Elder

Duke Law Journal

The separation of powers doctrine creates a strong presumption in favor of judicial deference to legislative policy determinations. This doctrine was developed for federal courts, however, and does not apply with identical force to state courts enforcing state constitutional rights. This Note examines rationales for the separation of powers doctrine and their potential application to state courts. After concluding that deference should be more limited in state courts, it then applies this conclusion to educational rights, which are frequently at risk due to political market failures. By examining case studies of constitutionally based education litigation in seven states, this Note …

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Closed-Form Derivations Of Isi And Mui For Time-Reversed Ultra Wideband, K. Popovski, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz Wysocki Dec 2007

Closed-Form Derivations Of Isi And Mui For Time-Reversed Ultra Wideband, K. Popovski, Beata J. Wysocki, Tadeusz Wysocki

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

Through transmitter pre-filtering, a time reversed UWB system is capable if harnessing a multipath channel to achieve temporal and spatial focusing. Unfortunately, large RMS channel delay spread leads to significant intersymbol and multiuser interference. This paper presents closed-form expressions for self and multi-user interference for a UWB system utilizing a time-reversed approach. The influence of user multiplexing codes is taken to account through incorporation of a ‘separation probability’, which characterizes a family of hopping sequences. The standardized IEEE 802.15.3a channel model is applied, and the derived performances are compared with that of a simulated time hopped time-reversed UWB system.

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The Webt Campaign On The Blazar 3c 279 In 2006, Markus Böttcher, Jeff W. Robertson, Stéphane Vennes Dec 2007

The Webt Campaign On The Blazar 3c 279 In 2006, Markus Böttcher, Jeff W. Robertson, Stéphane Vennes

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

The quasar 3C 279 was the target of an extensive multiwavelength monitoring campaign from 2006 January through April. An optical-IR-radio monitoring campaign by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) collaboration was organized around target-of-opportunity X-ray and soft γ-ray observations with Chandra and INTEGRAL in 2006 mid-January, with additional X-ray coverage by RXTE and Swift XRT. In this paper we focus on the results of the WEBT campaign. The source exhibited substantial variability of optical flux and spectral shape, with a characteristic timescale of a few days. The variability patterns throughout the optical BVRI bands were very closely correlated with each …

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Finite Element Modeling Of Soft Tissue Deformation., Hongjian Shi Dec 2007

Finite Element Modeling Of Soft Tissue Deformation., Hongjian Shi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Computer-aided minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has progressed significantly in the last decade and it has great potential in surgical planning and operations. To limit the damage to nearby healthy tissue, accurate modeling is required of the mechanical behavior of a target soft tissue subject to surgical manipulations. Therefore, the study of soft tissue deformations is important for computer-aided (MIS) in surgical planning and operation, or in developing surgical simulation tools or systems. The image acquisition facilities are also important for prediction accuracy. This dissertation addresses partial differential and integral equations (PDIE) based biomechanical modeling of soft tissue deformations incorporating the …

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Design Of An Active Orthotic Device For Joint Management., Steven Clayton Anderson Dec 2007

Design Of An Active Orthotic Device For Joint Management., Steven Clayton Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Existing treatment programs and procedures are incapable of addressing the complications encountered with patients who experience spasticity and hypertonia related joint contractures. Current passive therapy procedures and devices are only capable of managing the extent of joint contractures on patients with chronic and acute onset severe neurological disorders. The project was conceived as a means to develop an active device that is capable of adapting to the state of the joint to mange the extent of contractures and to permit consideration for the prevalence of spastic activity episodes and hypertonia. The project focused on the design of the physical prototype …

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The Learner In The Learning Environment : A Multiple-Case Study Of Nursing Students In The Hospital Clinical Setting., Rhonda Stuart Helm 1951- Dec 2007

The Learner In The Learning Environment : A Multiple-Case Study Of Nursing Students In The Hospital Clinical Setting., Rhonda Stuart Helm 1951-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The clinical experience represents a critical component in nursing education. During the clinical, students apply classroom theory to nursing practice and become socialized into the nursing profession. Because of the current nursing shortage, understanding clinical education is vital and may help in retaining and graduating increased numbers from nursing programs (Vollman, 1989). This multiple-case study is grounded in the literature on the history of clinical education and the perspectives of students, faculty teachers, and clinical staff nurses of nursing clinical education. Narratives of the three students clinical experiences were constructed from data from interviews, observations, and document analysis. Data from …

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Topics In Action Sources Of Definiteness Of Topic Noun Phrases In Thai Interactive Discourse, Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya Dec 2007

Topics In Action Sources Of Definiteness Of Topic Noun Phrases In Thai Interactive Discourse, Prakaiwan Vajrabhaya

English Theses & Dissertations

The notion of topic has been widely discussed in past literature; however, the use of naturally occurring data in these studies, especially in Thai, has been lacking. This study approaches topic from a functionalist standpoint. It uses definiteness, a feature of topics generally agreed upon by scholars, to investigate topic noun phrases (NPs) in the topic with a clausal comment construction in naturally occurring data in Thai. The main objectives are to identify the sources of definiteness of topic NPs and demonstrate their functions. The data for this study was obtained from the Chulalongkorn University Linguistics Department corpus which …

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Methods For Detecting Kernel Rootkits., Douglas Ray Wampler Dec 2007

Methods For Detecting Kernel Rootkits., Douglas Ray Wampler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rootkits are stealthy, malicious software that allow an attacker to gain and maintain control of a system, attack other systems, destroy evidence, and decrease the chance of detection. Existing detection methods typically rely on a priori knowledge and operate by either (a) saving the system state before infection and comparing this information post infection, or (b) installing a detection program before infection. This dissertation focuses on detection using reduced a priori knowledge in the form of general knowledge of the statistical properties of broad classes of operating system/architecture pairs. Four new approaches to rootkit detection were implemented and evaluated. A …

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Optimal Allocation Of Trucking Workload At Ge Consumer And Industrial., Xu Yang 1983- Dec 2007

Optimal Allocation Of Trucking Workload At Ge Consumer And Industrial., Xu Yang 1983-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Consumer and Industrial group of the General Electric Company (GE) allocates its shipping truckload to seventeen different trucking companies over 701 different routes from each of its nine terminals to 48 contiguous states. One of the seventeen trucking companies is its wholly owned subsidiary, which is PDCO. All of the others are contract-based trucking companies. GE Consumer and Industrial managers realized that they were not allocating the entire trucking capacity in an optimal fashion to the seventeen trucking companies, and the spreadsheet-based analytical tool used on a daily basis could not generate an optimal or near optimal solution. They …

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The Effects Of Feedback On The Accuracy Of Completing Flight Checklists, William G. Rantz Dec 2007

The Effects Of Feedback On The Accuracy Of Completing Flight Checklists, William G. Rantz

Masters Theses

This study examined whether pilots completed airplane checklists more accurately when they received post-flight graphic and verbal feedback. Participants were 8 college student pilots with instrument rating. The task consisted of flying flight patterns using a Personal Computer Aviation Training Device. The main dependent variable was the number of checklist items completed correctly per flight. A multiple baseline design across pairs with reversal was used. During baseline, the average number of correctly completed items per flight varied considerably across participants, ranging from 21 to 39 out of 40. It increased to near perfect levels for all participants after they were …

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The Potential Anti-Inflammatory Effect Of Tetrahydrobiopterin Administration In Renal Mass Reduction-Induced Chronic Renal Failure In Rats, Aida A. Korish, Maha M. Arafah Dec 2007

The Potential Anti-Inflammatory Effect Of Tetrahydrobiopterin Administration In Renal Mass Reduction-Induced Chronic Renal Failure In Rats, Aida A. Korish, Maha M. Arafah

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) supplementation on the markers of inflammation, and on the histological picture of the kidney in chronic renal failure C-reactive protein (CRF) induced in rats by subtotal nephrectomy (SNx). METHODS: This study was performed at the Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the period from December 2005 to January 2007. Chronic renal failure was induced by 5/6 SNx in 20 male Wister rats, and another 10 rats were sham operated by flank incision and served as controls. Ten SNx rats received 10mg kg-1 BH4 intraperitoneally daily for 4 weeks. …

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Early Outcome Of Children With Complex Atrial Isomerism Undergoing Uni-Ventricular Cardiac Palliation, Giridhar V. Santhanam, Hani K. Najm, Johannes P. Duplessis, Riyadh M. Abu-Sulaiman, Mohamed S. Kabbani Dec 2007

Early Outcome Of Children With Complex Atrial Isomerism Undergoing Uni-Ventricular Cardiac Palliation, Giridhar V. Santhanam, Hani K. Najm, Johannes P. Duplessis, Riyadh M. Abu-Sulaiman, Mohamed S. Kabbani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To review the postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) course and early outcome of children with complex atrial isomeric hearts undergoing cardiac surgery for uni-ventricular heart repair. METHODS: A retrospective review and analysis of ICU course of pediatric patients with atrial isomerism admitted from January 2000 to December 2004 in King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who underwent uni-ventricular repair. RESULTS: During the study period, 18 (n=18) patients were identified to have complex congenital heart disease (CHD) associated with atrial isomerism. They were in the form of right atrial isomerism (n=12), and left atrial isomerism (n=6). Eight …

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Prevalence Of Dyslipidemia In The Iraqi Adult Population, Waadallah S. Mula-Abed, Saba K. Chilmeran Dec 2007

Prevalence Of Dyslipidemia In The Iraqi Adult Population, Waadallah S. Mula-Abed, Saba K. Chilmeran

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To establish the prevalence of dyslipidemia in the Iraqi adult population in Mosul, Iraq, according to the different recommended criteria. METHODS: The study was carried out from October 2003 to April 2004, with 871 apparently healthy volunteers (413 males, 458 females) aged 20-70 year ([mean ± SD] 41.2 ± 13.8 year). Fasting blood specimens were collected from all subjects for measurement of serum lipid profile including triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), and ratios of cholesterol such as TC:HDL-C, LDL-C:HDL-C, and TG:HDL-C. Classification was carried out according to the different cut-off levels …

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Prescribing Pattern Of General Practitioners For Osteoarthritis In Primary Care Settings In Bolu, Turkey, Mehtap Kartal, Isil Maral, Ozlem Coskun Dec 2007

Prescribing Pattern Of General Practitioners For Osteoarthritis In Primary Care Settings In Bolu, Turkey, Mehtap Kartal, Isil Maral, Ozlem Coskun

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the drug preferences of primary care physicians for osteoarthritis (OA) in comparison with the current guidelines, and their reflections in the cost of prescriptions. METHODS: Data were collected from all primary health care centers in Bolu, Turkey, during November 2002 from patient polyclinic logbooks. Drugs prescribed were classified according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification system for comparison purposes. Gender, age, and health insurance of patients were analyzed for drug preferences and costs. RESULTS: Forty-eight primary care physicians prescribed 1,047 drugs for 507 OA patients with total a cost of $10,254. Anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic products were the …

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Multiple Schwannomas Of Cauda Equina In The Absence Of Von Recklinghausen's Disease, Cetin R. Kayaoglu, Goksin Sengul, Ismail H. Aydin Dec 2007

Multiple Schwannomas Of Cauda Equina In The Absence Of Von Recklinghausen's Disease, Cetin R. Kayaoglu, Goksin Sengul, Ismail H. Aydin

Saudi Medical Journal

Multiple schwannomas in the absence of neurofibromatosis is rarely reported in the literature. We present a 56-year-old female with a history of severe leg and back pain on the left side for one year. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed 4 schwannomas located in the cauda equina in the absence of von Recklinghausen9s disease.

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Constrictive Pericarditis Presenting As Recurrent Ascites For 10 Years, Nazir A. Lone, Hilal A. Rather, S. Jalal, Khurshid A. Khan, Mohammed S. Alai, Viqar M. Jan, Kaiser H. Hakeem, Pawan K. Suri, Dharminder K. Angurana Dec 2007

Constrictive Pericarditis Presenting As Recurrent Ascites For 10 Years, Nazir A. Lone, Hilal A. Rather, S. Jalal, Khurshid A. Khan, Mohammed S. Alai, Viqar M. Jan, Kaiser H. Hakeem, Pawan K. Suri, Dharminder K. Angurana

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Bs News Dec 2007

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

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Unionizing Ncaa Division I Athletics: A Viable Solution?, Rohith A. Parasuraman Dec 2007

Unionizing Ncaa Division I Athletics: A Viable Solution?, Rohith A. Parasuraman

Duke Law Journal

This Note considers whether college athletes-specifically Division I football and men's basketball players-can utilize the protections of the National Labor Relations Act to form unions. The Note examines the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, considers whether National Labor Relations Board jurisprudence allows the application of the NLRA to college athletics, and evaluates the potential consequences of the NLRB certifying a union of college athletes. The Note argues that the NLRB should not allow college athletes to unionize, but should instead let Congress decide whether college athletes are "employees" under the NLRA, and, if so, how they should be …

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The Competing Paradigms Of Securities Regulation, James J. Park Dec 2007

The Competing Paradigms Of Securities Regulation, James J. Park

Duke Law Journal

Although the securities industry is primarily regulated by specific rules, it is also governed by general principles. When conduct violates a rule, the regulatory response is obvious-enforce the rule. The issue is more difficult when conduct does not violate a rule but violates a principle. A regulator can excuse the conduct on the ground that the law is unclear and prohibit the conduct going forward through rulemaking. Or, the regulator can punish the conduct through what I call a "principles-based" enforcement action. Since 2002, there has been a surge of principles-based enforcement actions, provoking criticism that regulators are engaging in …

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Judicial Discretion And The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act, Lauren E. Tribble Dec 2007

Judicial Discretion And The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act, Lauren E. Tribble

Duke Law Journal

Generally, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is available to only the most desperate individual debtors who do not have the means to pay their creditors back over time. Before 2005, the Bankruptcy Code gave judges discretion to decide which debtors were eligible for Chapter 7. The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act, however, curtails this discretion, mandating that judges use a rigid means test to determine when a debtor is allowed to file. This Note argues that it was a poor decision to foreclose judicial discretion with the means test. It then proposes a compromise between the means test approach and the old standard.

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The Legal Ethics Of Pediatric Research, Doriane Lambelet Coleman Dec 2007

The Legal Ethics Of Pediatric Research, Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Duke Law Journal

Since the mid- to late 1990s, the scientific and medical research community has sought to increase its access to healthy children for research protocols that involve harm or a risk of harm. This move reverses longstanding policy within that community generally to exclude healthy children from such protocols on the grounds that the research as to them is non-therapeutic, that they are particularly vulnerable to research-related abuses, and that they are unable themselves to give informed consent to their participation. The research community's new posture has been supported by prominent pediatric bioethicists who have argued that unless healthy children are …

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Hiv/Aids Policies In The United States And The United Kingdom: Emerging At-Risk Groups And The Struggle For Limited Resources, Jennifer Lorren Willis Dec 2007

Hiv/Aids Policies In The United States And The United Kingdom: Emerging At-Risk Groups And The Struggle For Limited Resources, Jennifer Lorren Willis

Masters Theses

This thesis compares the HIV/ AIDS policies in the United States of America and the United Kingdom since the emergence of the virus in 1981. Despite a privatized health care system in the U.S. and the universal system in the UK, which lie on opposite ends of the policy care spectrum, similar populations have recently emerged as those most in need of health care services, preventative programs, and financial assistance. This thesis employs several quantitative and qualitative data to highlight the emergence of women and minorities in both nations as those that are most in need of resources. Data has …

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Effects Of Subchronic Dietary Lead Exposure On Dmtp And Dnmtp Performance In Fisher 344 Rats, Joshua D. Vardigan Dec 2007

Effects Of Subchronic Dietary Lead Exposure On Dmtp And Dnmtp Performance In Fisher 344 Rats, Joshua D. Vardigan

Masters Theses

Recent attention has focused on the possibility that even low-level Pb exposure can produce subtle neurological impairments in the absence of overt signs of toxicity. Previous behavioral assessments of learning and memory using DMTS procedures have documented learning impairments in monkeys exposed to Pb during early postnatal development, and although a variety of operant behavioral assays have documented detrimental effects of dietary Pb treatment in rats, the DMTS procedure has not been examined in rats following short-term low levels of Pb through dietary exposure. Thus, the objective of this study was to measure the degree of cognitive impairment produced by …

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Charles Beem, The Lioness Roared: The Problems Of Female Rule In English History. Plagrave Macmillan, 2006, Kate Kelsey Staples Dec 2007

Charles Beem, The Lioness Roared: The Problems Of Female Rule In English History. Plagrave Macmillan, 2006, Kate Kelsey Staples

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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A Structural Analysis Of Higher Education Government Relations Organizations And Their Relationship To State Funding, Randall Brumfield Dec 2007

A Structural Analysis Of Higher Education Government Relations Organizations And Their Relationship To State Funding, Randall Brumfield

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Competing interests for state government funding have affected the status of public higher education as a budget priority. State legislators and executive officeholders are increasing appropriations to areas such as public K-12 education, health care, infrastructure, and social services programs at the expense of state colleges and universities. As such the higher education community must effectively utilize its government relations organizations to communicate with elected officials the importance of state funding. The purpose of the study was to identify the functional and personnel trends existing within government relations offices, and, to determine the extent a relationship may exist between organizational …

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Location Update Versus Paging Trade-Off In Cellular Networks: An Approach Based On Vector Quantization, Abhishek Roy, Archan Misra, Sajal K. Das Dec 2007

Location Update Versus Paging Trade-Off In Cellular Networks: An Approach Based On Vector Quantization, Abhishek Roy, Archan Misra, Sajal K. Das

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper we propose two information-theoretic techniques for efficiently trading off the location update and paging costs associated with mobility management in wireless cellular networks. Previous approaches attempt to always accurately convey a mobile's movement sequence and hence, cannot reduce the signaling cost below the entropy bound. Our proposed techniques, however, exploit rate-distortion theory to arbitrarily reduce the update cost, at the expense of an increase in the corresponding paging overhead. To this end, we describe two location tracking algorithms, based on spatial quantization and temporal quantization, which first quantize the movement sequence into a smaller set of codewords, …

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Detection Of Polychlorinated Biphenyls In The Rio Grande Basin Above Cochiti Dam: Sources & Significance, Anthony D. Edwards Dec 2007

Detection Of Polychlorinated Biphenyls In The Rio Grande Basin Above Cochiti Dam: Sources & Significance, Anthony D. Edwards

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been detected with increasing frequency in water and fish tissue samples in the Rio Grande Basin above Cochiti Dam (RGBACD), which correlates with the use of improved analytical methods for quantifying PCBs. Levels of PCBs identified in some fish have exceeded levels considered safe for human consumption, resulting in a Fish Consumption Advisory' for Abiquiu and Cochiti Reservoirs and the Rio Grande from Pojoaque Creek to Frijoles Canyon (Bandelier National Monument). In June of 2007, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) listed seven water bodies in the RGBACD as impaired due to elevated concentrations of PCBs …

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National And Regional Identities In Central And East Europe After 1989: A Review Of Books By Donskis, Foster And Wigmore, And Koczanowicz And Singer, Agata Anna Lisiak Dec 2007

National And Regional Identities In Central And East Europe After 1989: A Review Of Books By Donskis, Foster And Wigmore, And Koczanowicz And Singer, Agata Anna Lisiak

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Load Shedding Algorithm Using Voltage And Frequency Data, Poonam Joshi Dec 2007

Load Shedding Algorithm Using Voltage And Frequency Data, Poonam Joshi

All Theses

Under frequency load shedding schemes have been widely used, to restore power system stability post major disturbances. However, the analysis of recent blackouts suggests that voltage collapse and voltage-related problems are also important concerns in maintaining system stability. For this reason, both frequency and voltage need to be taken into account in load shedding schemes. The research undertaken here considers both parameters in designing a load shedding scheme to determine the amount of load to be shed and its appropriate location. An introduction about the need for a load shedding scheme and the purpose of doing research on this particular …

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