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Effects Of Executive Functioning On False Memory In Children, Pamela Swift Tessier Jan 2016

Effects Of Executive Functioning On False Memory In Children, Pamela Swift Tessier

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Misremembering is a common phenomenon in normal human development that has great potential to become problematic, especially in legal situations. The Deese/Roediger--McDermott (DRM; Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995) model has been commonly used in the literature to uncover mechanisms for why these false memories may occur. Children have only recently begun to be investigated using this paradigm. Some related mechanisms in children for false recollection that have yet to be investigated are child executive functioning and socioeconomic status. In the current study, executive functioning was investigated as a potential mechanism for false recollections using a DRM paradigm. Children completed …

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Oppression, Manifesting From A Government Mission Of Positive Social Change, David P. Ramstad Jan 2016

Oppression, Manifesting From A Government Mission Of Positive Social Change, David P. Ramstad

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Government social interventions hold considerable power over what choices and opportunities impoverished households have available to escape the oppressive socioeconomic trappings of poverty. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is one such program. While there are many positive mission statements of social governance, this study focused on the regressive potential for oppressive institutional policies and practices. Theoretical frameworks guiding the study were Pierce’s 1979 model of oppression and Crenshaw’s 1989 intersectionality theory. The quantitative design’s hypothesis and research question focused on whether significant relationships exist between LIHTC project placement and highest concentrations of six commonly …

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Inflammation In Benign Prostate Tissue And Prostate Cancer In The Finasteride Arm Of The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, Teemu J. Murtola, Bora Gurel, Martin Umbehr, M. Scott Lucia, Ian M. Thompson Jr., Phyllis J. Goodman, Alan R. Kristal, Howard L. Parnes, Scott M. Lippman, Siobhan Sutcliffe, Sarah B. Peskoe, John R. Barber, Charles G. Drake, William G. Nelson, Angelo M. De Marzo, Elizabeth A. Platz Jan 2016

Inflammation In Benign Prostate Tissue And Prostate Cancer In The Finasteride Arm Of The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, Teemu J. Murtola, Bora Gurel, Martin Umbehr, M. Scott Lucia, Ian M. Thompson Jr., Phyllis J. Goodman, Alan R. Kristal, Howard L. Parnes, Scott M. Lippman, Siobhan Sutcliffe, Sarah B. Peskoe, John R. Barber, Charles G. Drake, William G. Nelson, Angelo M. De Marzo, Elizabeth A. Platz

Cancer Prevention Faculty Publications

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Effects Of Pristine And Nitrogen-Doped Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes On Human Lung Epithelial And Fibroblast Cells, Amy Mihalchik Jan 2016

Effects Of Pristine And Nitrogen-Doped Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes On Human Lung Epithelial And Fibroblast Cells, Amy Mihalchik

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) were first described by Iijima in 1991 as "needle-like tubes" made up of concentric sheets of graphene lattice composed of hexagonal carbon units. MWCNT have been reported to be extremely strong, light-weight, and durable, thus making them a highly valued nanomaterial commercially. In order to improve their electrical conductivity and dispersibility for industrial and biomedical uses, materials scientists began functionalizing CNT in the mid-1990s. One type of functionalized MWCNT, nitrogen doped-MWCNT (ND-MWCNT), have nitrogen directly incorporated into the carbon lattice, disrupting sp2 bonding and decreasing the crystallinity of MWCNT. Nitrogen-doping significantly increases the brittleness, chemical reactivity, …

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The Role Of Personality And Gender In Performance In Science And Engineering, Rossina B. Miller Jan 2016

The Role Of Personality And Gender In Performance In Science And Engineering, Rossina B. Miller

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) student success is important to universities across the nation. Existing studies have examined standardized exams and high school GPA as predictors of student success; fewer studies have examined the role of personality. The present study examined whether STEM students have different personalities than the general population, whether population-level gender differences in personality were evident among STEM students, and if personality predicts academic success. The Big Five Inventory (BFI) measuring personality was given to a diverse population of students in introductory physics and calculus classes, as well as developmental mathematics (non-science track) classes, at a …

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A Communion Of Churches: Indian Christians, English Ministers, And Congregations In New England, 1600-1775, Gregory Alan Michna Jan 2016

A Communion Of Churches: Indian Christians, English Ministers, And Congregations In New England, 1600-1775, Gregory Alan Michna

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation advances the study of New England's religious history by exploring the complex and contested religious discourse surrounding puritan ecclesiology and the conceptual place of Native Americans within physical and imagined communities. While relations between puritan missionaries such as John Eliot and Thomas Mayhew and early "Praying Indians," or Indian Christians, have been closely studied, this work draws attention to the importance of theology and religious discourse in realms like hermeneutics, ecclesiology, and eschatology in shaping the nature of these exchanges. Despite communal and cultural differences, religious culture frequently served as a means of bridging these gaps to foster …

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The Association Between Early Dental Visits, Dental Outcomes, And Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life In West Virginia Children, Jennifer Momen Jan 2016

The Association Between Early Dental Visits, Dental Outcomes, And Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life In West Virginia Children, Jennifer Momen

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Background and objectives: Early dental visits provide the opportunity to reduce the prevalence of early childhood caries through risk assessment, counseling, and provision of specific preventive measures. Despite the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's recommendation that the first dental visit should occur by 1 year of age, many children are not receiving care until much later. Evidence that early dental visits improve dental outcomes is vital to educate parents and health care providers. Hence, this study examined the association between a child's age at the first dental visit and dental outcomes, parents' awareness of the recommendation for the first dental …

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Why Do Adolescents Use Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies? The Role Of Perceived Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, And Impulsivity, Karena M. Moran Jan 2016

Why Do Adolescents Use Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies? The Role Of Perceived Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, And Impulsivity, Karena M. Moran

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Much is known about outcomes associated with adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. However, less research has explored predictors of strategy use. The present study examined perceived effectiveness of strategies (i.e., how effective individuals believe a strategy is at decreasing negative affect or increasing positive affect) as a predictor of strategy use. The sample of 139 adolescents (Mage =15.50, 60.4% male) reported their use of regulatory strategies for positive and negative emotions and how effective they believed each strategy was at changing their emotional state in the desired direction (i.e., more positive, less negative). Strategies were aggregated into adaptive and …

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Phenotypic And Genotypic Characterization Of Lumbosacral Stenosis In Labrador Retrievers, Meenakshi Mukherjee Jan 2016

Phenotypic And Genotypic Characterization Of Lumbosacral Stenosis In Labrador Retrievers, Meenakshi Mukherjee

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Lumbosacral stenosis (LS) is a structural narrowing of the spinal canal in the canine lumbosacral spine. Large-sized working and sporting dog breeds such as Labrador retrievers are predisposed for reasons that are incompletely understood. Early diagnosis is essential for maximizing the quality of life, and minimizing the likelihood of early retirement in working dogs. Lumbosacral stenosis is usually considered to be a condition associated with degenerative changes observed with normal aging, however presence of the disease in young and middle aged working dogs has also been reported. This leads to the probable theory that some dogs in large breeds like …

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The Effect Of Physicochemical Properties On The Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Induced Genotoxicity And Carcinogenesis, Katelyn J. Siegrist Jan 2016

The Effect Of Physicochemical Properties On The Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Induced Genotoxicity And Carcinogenesis, Katelyn J. Siegrist

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) are one of the most exciting industrial materials of our time. They are used in life-saving medical therapeutics and many commercial products that could make day-to-day life seem effortless. However, previous toxicological research has demonstrated this material to be significantly genotoxic in both in vitro and in vivo models and potentially carcinogenic in the lung. The unique physiochemical properties of MWCNT make respiratory exposures likely in workers. Combining the genotoxic effects with the potential for lung deposition in the workplace, MWCNT should be considered as a potential health hazard. Altering the physiochemical properties of MWCNT has …

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The Role Of West Virginia University In The Economic Development Of West Virginia: A General Equilibrium Approach, Priyanjali Sinha Jan 2016

The Role Of West Virginia University In The Economic Development Of West Virginia: A General Equilibrium Approach, Priyanjali Sinha

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Universities, industries and government are major institutions and play an important role in local economic growth and development. They often work collectively in achieving these goals. While the role of institutions in economic development is well-founded in the literature, a university's strategic role as an institution to encourage local area development is only now being recognized. The existing literature recognizes the spillover effect of mainly university research on local industrial productivity and innovations at the national level. The impact of various university activities on numerous other local economic development indicators like per capita income, poverty, school enrollments etc., at county …

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Adolescent Involvement In Volunteerism In Relation To Identity And Educational And Occupational Expectations, Katie Snider Jan 2016

Adolescent Involvement In Volunteerism In Relation To Identity And Educational And Occupational Expectations, Katie Snider

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study evaluated volunteerism, identity, and educational and occupational expectations in order to look more closely at their relationships. The purpose was to fill the gap in the existing literature on how adolescent volunteerism relates to identity development and educational and occupational expectations. The study looked specifically at the type of volunteer activity in which adolescents were involved and the amount of time they spent volunteering each week. Data were collected from 500 10th and 11th grade students in non-urban West Virginia schools. Measures included a volunteer questionnaire, the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOMEIS), the Psychosocial Inventory …

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The Trajectory Of Coping With Trauma: Meaning Making As A Factor In Determining The Trauma Outcome For Combat Veterans, Rachel A. Spero Jan 2016

The Trajectory Of Coping With Trauma: Meaning Making As A Factor In Determining The Trauma Outcome For Combat Veterans, Rachel A. Spero

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Specific ways in which an individual makes meaning following a stressful life event have been conceptualized as contributing to the emergence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, little is known about how meaning making impacts the trauma trajectory and how that transition affects the outcomes of PTSD, Posttraumatic Growth (PTG), or resiliency. In this study, 166 combat veterans nationwide completed self-report surveys that were analyzed using a multivariate Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method to create a model of how PTSD, PTG, and resiliency are impacted based upon meaning making. The results suggest that following a stressful life event, individuals who …

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Communicative Solutions Through Technology: An Evaluation Of Esl Textbooks In Brazil, Natalia De Souza Sterci Jan 2016

Communicative Solutions Through Technology: An Evaluation Of Esl Textbooks In Brazil, Natalia De Souza Sterci

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Textbooks are the main tools used by teachers and students in English as a Second Language/ English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) teaching settings; Therefore, it is important to select the most appropriate textbook that meets both teachers' and students' needs. This study examines three textbooks commonly used in Brazilian private schools: New Interchange (Richards, 2000), American Headway 1 (Soars & Soars, 2001), and Top Notch 1 (Saslow & Ascher, 2006), all of which are published by non-Brazilian companies, to see how well they address the urgent need for communication-based EFL textbooks in Brazil. The current study seeks to help …

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Sleep Patterns And Associated Factors In Children And Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Margo M. Szabo Jan 2016

Sleep Patterns And Associated Factors In Children And Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Margo M. Szabo

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Youth with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may be at increased risk for sleep difficulties due to the inflammatory nature of their disease. Moreover, previous research has demonstrated that children and adolescents with IBD experience impairment across a variety of psychosocial domains. However, the current literature has yet to examine the complex interplay between sleep, disease-related symptoms, and psychosocial factors such as mood and health-related quality of life in youth with both types of IBD (i.e., Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine sleep patterns and associated factors, including pain, disease activity, mood, and …

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Temporal And Spatial Distribution Of Imidacloprid And The Arthropod Fauna Associated With Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga Canadensis (L.) Carr, Richard M. Turcotte Jan 2016

Temporal And Spatial Distribution Of Imidacloprid And The Arthropod Fauna Associated With Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga Canadensis (L.) Carr, Richard M. Turcotte

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Eastern hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr (Pinales: Pinaceae), is an important component of both the urban and forest landscape of the eastern United States. Eastern hemlock has been heavily impacted by the introduction of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Annand) (Hemiptera: Adelgidae). Two goals of this research were (1) to determine the effect of treatment timing (spring versus fall) and application method (tree injection versus soil injection) on the spatial and temporal distribution of imidacloprid the primary insecticide used to treat A. tsugae and (2) to assess the impact of application method and timing of imidacloprid treatments on the …

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Ordinary Sailors: The French Navy, Vichy And The Second World War, Alexander John Upward Jan 2016

Ordinary Sailors: The French Navy, Vichy And The Second World War, Alexander John Upward

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

After the debacle of the Fall of France in 1940, the one organization that managed to maintain its discipline and functionality virtually intact was the French Navy. This is the story of how subsequently that navy was able to exert a disproportionate influence on the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain. Such influence achieved its apogee between February 1941 and April 1942 when the navy's Commander-in-Chief Admiral Darlan served simultaneously in several of the regime's highest offices. During this period France continued to flirt with the possibility of actively engaging Great Britain in war on the side of Nazi Germany. It …

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“Apostle Of Ethnology”: Agnes C. L. Donohugh’S Missiological Anthropology Between The World Wars, Benjamin Hartley Jan 2016

“Apostle Of Ethnology”: Agnes C. L. Donohugh’S Missiological Anthropology Between The World Wars, Benjamin Hartley

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Agnes C. L. Donohugh (1876–1966) taught at Hartford Theological Seminary’s Kennedy School of Missions between 1918 and 1944, the leading graduate program in mission studies in North America prior to World War II. The first missionary student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, Donohugh influenced the shape of graduate anthropological education for missionaries in America more than anyone else in the interwar period. Donohugh’s story provides a window into understanding how anthropology was first used in mission education in America.

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Multilingual Pedagogies And Pre-Service Teachers: Implementing “Language As A Resource” Orientations In Teacher Education Programs, Theresa Catalano, Edmund T. Hamann Jan 2016

Multilingual Pedagogies And Pre-Service Teachers: Implementing “Language As A Resource” Orientations In Teacher Education Programs, Theresa Catalano, Edmund T. Hamann

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

While Ruiz’s (1984) influential work on language orientations has substantively influenced how we study and talk about language planning, few teacher education programs today actually embed his framework in the praxis of preparing pre-service and practicing teachers. Hence, the primary purpose of this article is to demonstrate new understandings and expansions of Ruiz’s language-as-resource (LAR) approach and ways in which teacher education programs can model this orientation in their own classes, including those programs, like ours, that prepare mostly monolingual preservice and in-service teachers to work with bi/multilingual students. The authors pursue this by laying out the theoretical framework for …

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The Giant In A Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives Of Gigantism In The Hebrew Bible And Beyond, Brian R. Doak Jan 2016

The Giant In A Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives Of Gigantism In The Hebrew Bible And Beyond, Brian R. Doak

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

"This essay is an attempt to organize the Bible’s giants by category and to continue to elevate these figures as a rightful object of scholarly attention."

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Noyce Science Teacher Master Of Arts With Emphasis In Science Teaching Program: Meeting Challenges Of 21st Century Classrooms. Unl Noyce Track I, Phase I, Final Report., Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lindsay Augustyn, Amanda Garrett, Lyrica L. Lucas, Aaron A. Musson, Ana Rivero, Andy Frederick Jan 2016

Noyce Science Teacher Master Of Arts With Emphasis In Science Teaching Program: Meeting Challenges Of 21st Century Classrooms. Unl Noyce Track I, Phase I, Final Report., Elizabeth B. Lewis, Lindsay Augustyn, Amanda Garrett, Lyrica L. Lucas, Aaron A. Musson, Ana Rivero, Andy Frederick

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

To meet the state’s and the nation’s need for more highly qualified science teachers, the 14-month Master of Arts with emphasis in science teaching (MAst) program was established in the College of Education’s Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, along with a Robert Noyce, Track I, Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation, awarded in 2010. This report presents a summary of the accomplishments of this Noyce grant, in which 60 post-baccalaureate science majors and professionals were provided with Noyce stipends to become science teachers. The MAst program is now in its sixth …

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The Abrahamic Pilgrimage Story In Sermons: An Ontological-Narrative Foundation Of Asian American Life In Faith, Sunggu Yang Jan 2016

The Abrahamic Pilgrimage Story In Sermons: An Ontological-Narrative Foundation Of Asian American Life In Faith, Sunggu Yang

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Sang Hyun Lee and many other Asian American scholars have found that the Abrahamic pilgrimage story has been an ontological-narrative backbone of Asian American faith constructs. This article further explores their previous research by suggesting three distinct theological narrative styles of the given Abrahamic pilgrimage saga: the allegorical- typological narrative style, the illustrative narrative style, and the eschatologicalsymbolic narrative style. However, though distinct, the styles are closely associated with one another. I will show sermon excerpts by Asian American preachers that are good examples of the theological-spiritual embodiment of the three styles.

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An Exploratory Analysis Of The Smoking And Physical Activity Outcomes From A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Of An Exercise Assisted Reduction To Stop Smoking Intervention In Disadvantaged Groups, Tom Paul Thompson, Colin J. Greaves, Richard Ayres, Paul Aveyard, Fiona C. Warren, Richard Byng, Rs Taylor, John L. Campbell, Michael Ussher, Colin Green, Susan Michie, Robert West, A Taylor Jan 2016

An Exploratory Analysis Of The Smoking And Physical Activity Outcomes From A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Of An Exercise Assisted Reduction To Stop Smoking Intervention In Disadvantaged Groups, Tom Paul Thompson, Colin J. Greaves, Richard Ayres, Paul Aveyard, Fiona C. Warren, Richard Byng, Rs Taylor, John L. Campbell, Michael Ussher, Colin Green, Susan Michie, Robert West, A Taylor

Peninsula Medical School

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Student-Edited Law Reviews Should Continue To Flourish, Sudha Setty Jan 2016

Student-Edited Law Reviews Should Continue To Flourish, Sudha Setty

Touro Law Review

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The Future Of Law Review Platforms, Andrea Charlow Jan 2016

The Future Of Law Review Platforms, Andrea Charlow

Touro Law Review

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Virtual Liquid Networks And Other Guiding Principles For Optimizing Future Student-Edited Law Review Platforms, Donald J. Kochan Jan 2016

Virtual Liquid Networks And Other Guiding Principles For Optimizing Future Student-Edited Law Review Platforms, Donald J. Kochan

Touro Law Review

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Three Years Later, Sandy Survivors Remain Homeless, Melissa H. Luckman, Daniel Strafer, Christina Lipski Jan 2016

Three Years Later, Sandy Survivors Remain Homeless, Melissa H. Luckman, Daniel Strafer, Christina Lipski

Touro Law Review

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When May A Litigant Rely In Its Own Complaint On Allegations From Another Complaint? – Lipsky V. Commonwealth United Corp. And Its Progeny – Still An Unresolved Question, Laurence A. Steckman, Joseph T. Johnson Jan 2016

When May A Litigant Rely In Its Own Complaint On Allegations From Another Complaint? – Lipsky V. Commonwealth United Corp. And Its Progeny – Still An Unresolved Question, Laurence A. Steckman, Joseph T. Johnson

Touro Law Review

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Standardized Testing, Learning, And Meritocracy: A Reply To Professor Dan Subotnik, Harvey Gilmore Jan 2016

Standardized Testing, Learning, And Meritocracy: A Reply To Professor Dan Subotnik, Harvey Gilmore

Touro Law Review

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A Law Review Editor And Faculty Author Learn To Speak Honestly, Dan Subotnik Jan 2016

A Law Review Editor And Faculty Author Learn To Speak Honestly, Dan Subotnik

Touro Law Review

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