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Techniques Against Language Barriers: A Company Case Study, Bryan W. Cruz Dec 2022

Techniques Against Language Barriers: A Company Case Study, Bryan W. Cruz

Construction Management

The United States construction industry employed approximately 10.8 million people in 2020. Of these 10.8 million, an estimated 3.3 million, or 30%, were Hispanic workers. On construction job sites, workers are exposed to numerous safety risks, including falls, struck-by incidents, and electrocution. Unfortunately, some Hispanics or workers with limited English language skills encounter language barriers which cause additional safety concerns. Language barriers impact their communication and comprehension abilities and, consequently, their safety. For example, workers who do not speak English do not benefit from safety training conducted purely in English; they also cannot read operation manuals for machinery and equipment …

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Distilled Siamese Networks For Visual Tracking, Jianbing Shen, Yuanpei Liu, Xingping Dong, Xiankai Lu, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Steven Hoi Dec 2022

Distilled Siamese Networks For Visual Tracking, Jianbing Shen, Yuanpei Liu, Xingping Dong, Xiankai Lu, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Steven Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In recent years, Siamese network based trackers have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in real-time tracking. Despite their success, Siamese trackers tend to suffer from high memory costs, which restrict their applicability to mobile devices with tight memory budgets. To address this issue, we propose a distilled Siamese tracking framework to learn small, fast and accurate trackers (students), which capture critical knowledge from large Siamese trackers (teachers) by a teacher-students knowledge distillation model. This model is intuitively inspired by the one teacher versus multiple students learning method typically employed in schools. In particular, our model contains a single teacher-student distillation module …

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Interventional Training For Out-Of-Distribution Natural Language Understanding, Sicheng Yu, Jing Jiang, Hao Zhang, Yulei Niu, Qianru Sun, Lidong Bing Dec 2022

Interventional Training For Out-Of-Distribution Natural Language Understanding, Sicheng Yu, Jing Jiang, Hao Zhang, Yulei Niu, Qianru Sun, Lidong Bing

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Out-of-distribution (OOD) settings are used to measure a model’s performance when the distribution of the test data is different from that of the training data. NLU models are known to suffer in OOD settings (Utama et al., 2020b). We study this issue from the perspective of causality, which sees confounding bias as the reason for models to learn spurious correlations. While a common solution is to perform intervention, existing methods handle only known and single confounder, but in many NLU tasks the confounders can be both unknown and multifactorial. In this paper, we propose a novel interventional training method called …

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Innovative And Effective Spreadsheet Tool For Learning Sentiment Analysis And Prediction, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Jean Yun-Chen Chen Dec 2022

Innovative And Effective Spreadsheet Tool For Learning Sentiment Analysis And Prediction, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Jean Yun-Chen Chen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we describe a spreadsheet tool which was developed and implemented to teach sentiment analysis and prediction to university students who are less technically inclined. We adopted the “Use-Modify-Create” cycle to ensure that the students learn the computing concepts and practices in a progressive and active learning manner, and we evaluated the effectiveness of the tool using the Learning Object Evaluation Scale for Students (LOES-S). The evaluation shows that our tool performed well in terms of quality, learn and engagement constructs, and our paired T-test shows strong evidence that, on average, the course module with the tool does …

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Dialogconv: A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Network For Multi-View Response Selection, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang Dec 2022

Dialogconv: A Lightweight Fully Convolutional Network For Multi-View Response Selection, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng, Wei Gao, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Current end-to-end retrieval-based dialogue systems are mainly based on Recurrent Neural Networks or Transformers with attention mechanisms. Although promising results have been achieved, these models often suffer from slow inference or huge number of parameters. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight fully convolutional architecture, called DialogConv, for response selection. DialogConv is exclusively built on top of convolution to extract matching features of context and response. Dialogues are modeled in 3D views, where DialogConv performs convolution operations on embedding view, word view and utterance view to capture richer semantic information from multiple contextual views. On the four benchmark datasets, …

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Soteriafl: A Unified Framework For Private Federated Learning With Communication Compression, Zhize Li, Haoyu Zhao, Boyue Li, Yuejie Chi Dec 2022

Soteriafl: A Unified Framework For Private Federated Learning With Communication Compression, Zhize Li, Haoyu Zhao, Boyue Li, Yuejie Chi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

To enable large-scale machine learning in bandwidth-hungry environments such as wireless networks, significant progress has been made recently in designing communication-efficient federated learning algorithms with the aid of communication compression. On the other end, privacy-preserving, especially at the client level, is another important desideratum that has not been addressed simultaneously in the presence of advanced communication compression techniques yet. In this paper, we propose a unified framework that enhances the communication efficiency of private federated learning with communication compression. Exploiting both general compression operators and local differential privacy, we first examine a simple algorithm that applies compression directly to differentially-private …

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Community Outreach For Spanish-Speakers: Informing The Community About Monterey County, Emilia Gallegos Perez Dec 2022

Community Outreach For Spanish-Speakers: Informing The Community About Monterey County, Emilia Gallegos Perez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Monterey County Rape Crisis Center (MCRCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advocate for and serve the people of Monterey County who are experiencing sexual violence. The main issue was that few Spanish speakers had knowledge about MCRCC services and programs despite Monterey County having a large Hispanic population. The community engagement team is the division in the organization that conducts community outreach within the Monterey County population. The idea for the project is to advertise a commercial and create an advertisement using a local radio station. The new initiative can help promote awareness in the community by …

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Community Improvement Projects For Marginalized Populations In Monterey County, Alizha Barrera Dec 2022

Community Improvement Projects For Marginalized Populations In Monterey County, Alizha Barrera

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

CHISPA is a non profit organization that is located downtown of Salinas, California within Monterey County. Their mission is to improve people’s lives and create healthy neighborhoods by developing, selling, owning and managing affordable homes for low income families and senior citizens. Within the senior citizen housing they have a program that is known as the lunch program that provides meals Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The main property that I focused on was Los Abuelitos Senior Housing. For my capstone project I came up with a questionnaire that helped me figure out what they eat, …

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Evaluating Post-Training Engagement, Caitlyn Dawn Gonzalez, Alyssa Trinity Dec 2022

Evaluating Post-Training Engagement, Caitlyn Dawn Gonzalez, Alyssa Trinity

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Impact Launch (IL) is a collective of social impact professionals dedicated to creating sustainable and equitable change. IL provides strategic planning, project design, collaborative capacity building, individual and team coaching, and leadership intensives for leaders, businesses, and organizations. Similar to those who have undergone other training programs, alumni of IL’s leadership training are prone to becoming disengaged with the tools they have learned and stagnant in their learning. The purpose of this project was to begin efforts to increase alumni engagement with the tools and each other through conducting a series of interviews; 6 alumni were interviewed to collect feedback …

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Improving Self Regulation In Early Adolescents, Nicole Lopez Dec 2022

Improving Self Regulation In Early Adolescents, Nicole Lopez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

My capstone project focuses on the development of self-regulation in early adolescent middle school years. Self-regulation is the ability to understand and manage your behavior and reactions to feelings and things happening around you. Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins with the onset of puberty and ends with successful independence from the parent.

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Volunteer Opportunities For Bilinguals And Monolinguals, Jocelyn Tafolla Dec 2022

Volunteer Opportunities For Bilinguals And Monolinguals, Jocelyn Tafolla

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Community Builders for Monterey County is a non-profit agency that connects volunteers with local volunteer opportunities. These local volunteer opportunities are offered to residents of the 831 area code. However, these opportunities are easily accessible to those fluent in English. This is largely due to the limited advertised and available volunteer opportunities for bilinguals in the area. On the other hand, a micro level issue for this is that not enough agencies take bilingual volunteers into consideration. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to create a brochure so that volunteers who are fluent in English can be informed of …

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Increasing Utilization Of Covid-19 Vaccinations, Riley Labaw Dec 2022

Increasing Utilization Of Covid-19 Vaccinations, Riley Labaw

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

VNA, a non-profit organization, has been providing care for residents of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and South Santa Clara counties since 1951. When the vaccination for COVID-19 came out they began vaccinating those in Monterey County and providing clinics in many different locations where residents could have easier access to a vaccine. Throughout the majority of clinics data was being gathered to compare the attendance rates. Recommendations were made to VNA about how to improve their attendance rates at clinics after going through the data and having different conversations. Based on the data collected, there was evidence that suggested …

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Recognition Of Childrens’ Benefits While Participating In Sports To Parents, Melida Carmona Dec 2022

Recognition Of Childrens’ Benefits While Participating In Sports To Parents, Melida Carmona

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone project focuses on the development of life skills through children’s participation in sports activities. Involving the success and failures involving, technology, social media and its effect on the human mind and body.

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Campos Seguros In Santa Cruz County, Patricia Barajas Villasenor Dec 2022

Campos Seguros In Santa Cruz County, Patricia Barajas Villasenor

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Monarch Services is a non-profit organization within Santa Cruz county. The agency provides services for domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Campos Seguros focuses on providing resources and advocacy to vulnerable populations, specifically Campesinos (farmworkers). Violence and abuse perpetrated against farm workers is an issue that demands more public attention and advocacy. Campesinos are highly vulnerable because of different contributing factors, these include immigration status, work uncertainty, and language barriers. Consequences include trauma, lack of reporting, and vulnerability to labor trafficking. Sexual abuse is highly prevalent within the agricultural realm; many employers can take advantage of Campesino’s vulnerable position. …

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Medical Needs Grant, Tabark Ahmed Dec 2022

Medical Needs Grant, Tabark Ahmed

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Children Miracle Network (CMN) is a nonprofit organization under the Salinas Memorial Hospital that serves Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito. The Medical Needs Grant (MNG) is an application that provides medical assistance for families who have children under 17 years of age and may not be able to afford services. The majority of the MGN applications come from Monterey/Santa Cruz county leaving out San Benito due to a lack of outreach in that area.. This project's purpose is to promote the Medical Needs Grant in all areas that connect with children, pediatric hospitals and schools in San Benito County …

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Important Activities For Infants And Toddlers / To Support A Foster Child, Vanessa Salas Dec 2022

Important Activities For Infants And Toddlers / To Support A Foster Child, Vanessa Salas

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) is a non-profit organization that serves children in the foster care system as mentors and advocates. There was a need for more resources to be available for CASA’s when appointed an infant or toddler and the activities that would be aged appropriate. The purpose of this project was to have a resource tool that is easily accessible during weekly visits with the infant or toddler so that the time spent together is used to its fullest potential. The desired outcome is that CASA’s develop meaningful relationships with their infants and their guardians throughout this difficult …

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Benefits Of Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching In Latino Elementary Classrooms, Lisa Hernandez Dec 2022

Benefits Of Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching In Latino Elementary Classrooms, Lisa Hernandez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The benefits of implementing culturally responsive teaching strategies into the elementary classroom empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural references to impart knowledge and skills. Culturally responsive educators see themselves as part of a community of learners and desire to learn collaboratively. This capstone investigates the relationship between culturally responsive teaching and its effect on predominantly Latino elementary school students’ learning. Teachers who use culturally responsive teaching strategies see culture as an asset which can be used to enhance academic and social achievement. This study not only defines, but also highlights effective teaching strategies that reflect a …

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The Nationwide Teacher Shortage: Factors Influencing Educators To Leave The Profession, Abby Keegan Dec 2022

The Nationwide Teacher Shortage: Factors Influencing Educators To Leave The Profession, Abby Keegan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This senior capstone research examines the nationwide teacher shortage, which has been apparent in America since the early 1960’s. However, this crisis did not begin to reach such levels of severity until recent years. There are currently thousands of vacancies in the teaching profession nationwide; not a single school across the nation is able to fill all the gaps. Research reveals that factors such as low salary, maltreatment from administrators, students, and parents, classroom safety concerns, a lack of teacher autonomy, and an overall societal disrespect for the profession can be to blame for this high resignation period. As these …

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California's Impact Of Attrition Practices On Latinx English Learners, Dulce Ramirez Dec 2022

California's Impact Of Attrition Practices On Latinx English Learners, Dulce Ramirez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone examines the impact of attrition practices on Latinx English learners in California. The project explores three recommendations from Guadalupe Valdes' book, Learning and Not Learning English. The three are age-appropriate academic content, revolving door policies involving classification/ reclassification, and the importance of teacher preparation. The discussion covers how the three impact English learners' attrition rate, causing negative self-efficacy, lack of college preparedness, and employment opportunities. Given this, the school districts allocated funding to create programs to prevent attrition problems among English learners, including the Latinx ELs. The literature review and interviews with educators indicated that Latinx English learners' …

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The Benefits Of Dual Immersion Programs On Elementary School Students, Allison E. Williams Dec 2022

The Benefits Of Dual Immersion Programs On Elementary School Students, Allison E. Williams

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone aims to share the benefits of Dual Immersion Programs at the Elementary school years. Understanding what a Dual Immersion Program is and knowing that there are different models within the program allow for parents to select which program is best suited for their students. A key point in clarification is that a Dual Immersion program does not aim to replace an English, or standard, education program, but add a target language to enhance the learning of the students. This study looks at the short- and long-term academic and social benefits students can gain from kindergarten through fifth grade …

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Informing Educators On The Importance Of Teaching Latino Immigrant Parents About Children's Learning Disabilities, Guadalupe Lobato Vega Dec 2022

Informing Educators On The Importance Of Teaching Latino Immigrant Parents About Children's Learning Disabilities, Guadalupe Lobato Vega

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The project focuses on informing educators and aspiring educators of the importance of teaching immigrant parents about children’s learning disabilities. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), learning disabilities are defined as a type of neurodevelopmental disorder that impedes the ability to learn or use specific academic skills. Examples of main learning disabilities are dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. Parents immigrate to a new country in search of better opportunities for themselves and their children. Once in a new country, they face the unique challenge of being unfamiliar with the English language and American culture (Turney & …

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Increasing English Language Learners Vocabulary And Spelling Through Game Interactions, Lucila Chavez Dec 2022

Increasing English Language Learners Vocabulary And Spelling Through Game Interactions, Lucila Chavez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

My Capstone Project was intended to increase the language development of English Language Learners due to language barriers. Games became the method to address the need to increase the language and to motivate the students while learning. The audience was third-grade students at Chualar Elementary School. Vocabulary Definitions, syllables awareness, and spelling development were the three learning outcomes of the project. Diversity was also thought about while implementing this capstone project which was addressed through the student's ability to take what they learned from the games outside the class and play it with others. Lev Vygotsky's theory of the importance …

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Improving Kindness In A Preschool Classroom, Mayari Chavez Dec 2022

Improving Kindness In A Preschool Classroom, Mayari Chavez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Improving Kindness within a preschool classroom.

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Monterey County Health Department Health Equity Plan, Zahara Ahmed Dec 2022

Monterey County Health Department Health Equity Plan, Zahara Ahmed

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Monterey County Health Department (MCHD) is working to create a health equity strategy that would effectively integrate equity practices and establish a roadmap for the department's long-term sustainability of health equity initiatives. Despite decades of acknowledgement of health inequalities and legislative demands to remove them, racial/ethnic minority, rural, and low-income people in the United States continue to have inadequate access to and quality of health care. Many health-care efforts intended to achieve health equity fall short due to knowledge and translation barriers. This project analyzes these inadequacies and emphasizes novel strategies that can help fill them, and also provide …

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Special Education: Middle School Support Binder, Moncerrat Jamilett Aviles-Bernal Dec 2022

Special Education: Middle School Support Binder, Moncerrat Jamilett Aviles-Bernal

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Monterey Bay Charter school, located in Pacific Grove, CA, serves kindergarten to eighth-grade students (K-8). Working specifically with the Special Education Department to help students with Individual Education Plans (IEP), helping to minimize the fallback and disadvantages they might face in their classrooms because of their learning disabilities. The “support binder” is available for 6th,7th, and 8th-grade students and includes references for samples like key vocabulary words, charts, Cornell notes, and essay structures. To help middle school students with Math and English to support at home or in a classroom setting. We will implement the support binder to help middle …

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Greenfield High School Counseling Department: Behavioral Health Resources, Fatima Galarza Dec 2022

Greenfield High School Counseling Department: Behavioral Health Resources, Fatima Galarza

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Greenfield High School (GRHS) is a public school located in Greenfield California. Within the counseling department, the following services are provided: Four-year planning, college and career counseling, academic counseling, check-ins, transitioning eighth-grade students, and socio-emotional referrals. Greenfield High School offers services to about 1,384 students which are predominantly Hispanic students. The problem being addressed in GRHS is the lack of accessible behavioral health resources and the amount of time given to each student when connecting them to resources. The “Greenfield High School Counseling Department: Behavioral Health Resources” capstone project provides a more efficient way to refer students to mental health …

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Effects Of Increased Use Of Technology On Elementary School Students In The Classroom, Audri Lawrence Dec 2022

Effects Of Increased Use Of Technology On Elementary School Students In The Classroom, Audri Lawrence

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Technology has become a big part of the education system. Students use technology, such as tablets in their classrooms as early as preschool. There is much debate on whether or not the use of technology is needed in the elementary grades. This capstone closely examines how students are affected by the increased use of technology in the classrooms. In addition, the project explores how the intended technology affects students' development, social skills, and learning. Though technology has become an effective tool for students to use in our classrooms, it should be limited for young children, and should only be used …

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Nexuscapes: A Landscape Approach For A Transdisciplinary Water-Energy-Food Nexus Decision-Making Process, Fortino Acosta Dec 2022

Nexuscapes: A Landscape Approach For A Transdisciplinary Water-Energy-Food Nexus Decision-Making Process, Fortino Acosta

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study develops a reliable transdisciplinary framework for complex ecological and social systems by characterizing, mapping, typifying, assessing, and testing enhanced water-energy-food nexus scenarios under critical time constraints, specialized skills, or sensitive data accessibility. Detached management of limited essential resources like fresh water, reliable energy from renewable sources, and nutritious food can jeopardize regional economies and governance. Using a novel landscape approach, this study recommends a decision-making the framework focused on the circular economy that induces collaboration among diverse sectors and brings strategic coordination, specificity, and magnitude to the proposed solutions. The study elaborates on a decision-making tool that integrates …

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Trace Element Behaviors During Igneous Evolution And Hydrothermal Alteration Of An Evolved Rhyolite, The Blawn Formation, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah: Implications For Critical Metal Abundances In Highly Evolved Rhyolites, Drew William Barkoff Dec 2022

Trace Element Behaviors During Igneous Evolution And Hydrothermal Alteration Of An Evolved Rhyolite, The Blawn Formation, Wah Wah Mountains, Utah: Implications For Critical Metal Abundances In Highly Evolved Rhyolites, Drew William Barkoff

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

A-type rhyolites and granites often contain elevated concentrations of the rare earth elements (REE) and many other critical trace elements relative to I- and S-type rhyolites and granites. Their trace element-enriched nature makes them potentially prospective bulk tonnage, low-grade resources of the REE and many other critical trace elements, including Li, Be, Mo, Sn, and W, but little work has been performed to delineate their economic potential. The 22.1 Ma Red Beryl Rhyolite (RBR) and the 18.3 Ma Tetons Rhyolite (TR) units of the Blawn Formation represent two A-type rhyolite domes located in the southern Wah Wah Mountains of Utah. …

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Application Of Experimentally Calibrated Numerical Models For Prediction Of Composite Masonry Prism Strength, James Bristow Dec 2022

Application Of Experimentally Calibrated Numerical Models For Prediction Of Composite Masonry Prism Strength, James Bristow

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The composite masonry prism test is a common laboratory test to determine the compressive strength of a set of masonry prisms (f’mt) to verify that the composite masonry prism assembly, and more importantly, the constituent materials, are providing adequate strength. While constructing masonry structures, the subcontractors, designers, and inspectors rarely provide continuous supervision or inspection of the construction process. Accordingly, verification of grout mix design, mixed proportions, proper installation of blocks, placement of mortar, dimensions of joints, etc. are more traditionally performed on a periodic basis instead. However, through the use and review of the composite masonry prism test results, …

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