Collocations withactivity
These are words often used in combination withactivity.
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academic activity
Architecture predates the academic activity.
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activity participation
Therefore, stable parent activity participation is assumed a requisite to any impact on child-related adjustment.
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agricultural activity
There is no grazing, nor any other agricultural activity.
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antimicrobial activity
The second requires a relationship between antimicrobial activity and the physiological state of the microbe, which is the case for a number of antibiotics.
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antioxidant activity
Percentage values for germination and antioxidant activity were arcsinetransformed prior to analysis (untransformed data appear in all tables and figures).
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artistic activity
Musical and artistic activity helps us to make sense of our world and make sense of ourselves as human beings with feelings within the world.
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banking activity
This is true both for measures of banking activity, and for measures of stock market development.
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biological activity
The striving to integrate and cohesively direct action is a basic form of biological activity.
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burst of activity
There are some early prescriptions and musings, but the advent of sound on film occasioned the first burst of activity in the 1930s.
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catalytic activity
It is suggested that the results of the present study show the influence of temperature in promoting catalytic activity.
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challenging activity
The simple fact is that there is a risk attached to any challenging activity.
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charitable activity
The second considers recurrent policy proposals to induce voluntary charitable activity by reducing welfare state expenditure.
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civic activity
That is not dissension; it is the first stage of civic activity in the exercise of democratic rights.
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clandestine activity
Aside from some minor skirmishes, however, it did not as local rebels preferred clandestine activity, and self-preservation, to open confrontation.
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classroom activity
In what ways do learners and teachers participate in language classroom activity?
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collaborative activity
The studies reviewed exemplify the process of mediation and the effects of differing mediation tools on the collaborative activity.
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commercial activity
In 2004, it is hardly a hive of commercial activity.
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conservation activity
In my area we are not seeing the progress in insulation and conservation activity that we hoped to see.
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constructive activity
We attempted to make each one of them a constructive activity that could be motivated by the child's own modulated emotion.
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cooperative activity
They both overlook the fact that legal practice is a cooperative activity.
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covert activity
The key aspect of our definition is that corrupt rent-seeking is an illicit and covert activity.
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craft activity
Together they emancipated the art of experiment from being a mere craft activity and endowed it with the status of a science.
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creative activity
Some things emerge from human creative activity.
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criminal activity
They are not really designed to reduce drug-taking or criminal activity; they seldom do either.
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cultural activity
Art was not a sector of cultural activity.
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daily activity
Five themes emerged that were related to level of daily activity.
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daytime activity
Evidence for improving sleep hygiene by increasing daytime activity and light exposure can be generalized to patients with dementia.
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destructive activity
They might pass on from this beneficent destructive activity to something more atomic.
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diplomatic activity
The diplomatic activity was an attempt to build up support among several non-aligned nations.
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educational activity
Educational activity did play some role in initiating urban activity.
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electrical activity
The development of electrical activity was thereby hindered.
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entrepreneurial activity
Income from private farming remains rare and entrepreneurial activity is not a common income source for those past pension age.
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enzymatic activity
Removal of the cotyledons strongly diminished enzymatic activity in the embryonic axis.
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espionage activity
This can be interpreted as a drastically reduced form of a more articulated microfoundation of the espionage activity.
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everyday activity
Preschoolers' questions and parents' explanations : causal thinking in everyday activity.
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exercise activity
The garrison maintains a constant vigilance and undertakes much realistic training and exercise activity.
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exploration activity
But in recent years a major motivation has been the increased exploration activity for oil and gas in thrust belts.
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extracurricular activity
This includes the tensions felt between its other role, as an extracurricular activity.
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farming activity
Farming activity itself stops at a safe distance from the grove for the same reason.
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fishing activity
Ownership of another consumer good, the refrigerator/freezer, also played a role in fishing activity.
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fitness activities
Practices of body optimisation generally involve fitness activities and body modification techniques.
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flurry of activity
Thus, in a relative flurry of activity, we have four complete editions of the work within a generation, or one every ten years or so.
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fraudulent activity
We hope to provide the same degree of security and prevention of fraudulent activity in the new voting mechanisms.
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fund-raising activity
I pay tribute to all those involved in that fund-raising activity.
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gang activity
One is the development of gang activity and gang violence.
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governmental activity
This development would provide the starting point for a radical reorganization and extension of governmental activity.
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guerrilla activity
Despite the 'wishful thinking' of some observers, reports that had recently crossed his desk noted that guerrilla activity was ineffective and over-valued because of poor training and leadership.
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hive of activity
Since he has taken office, the second pillar has been a hive of activity.
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human activity
Virtually any human activity involves some risk.
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hurricane activity
Results indicate that the tropical montane cloud forest presents a differential treefall regime derived from the great hurricane activity to which this mountain range is exposed.
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illegal activity
Any opium seized as the result of illegal activity was to be confiscated.
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illicit activity
Forecasting levels of illicit activity is by its nature always difficult.
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improper activity
Can he confirm that there is no question of any improper activity by the police?
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increased activity
Filled squares: increased activity related to planning; empty squares: increased activity related to on-line control; filled circles: increased activity related to motor imagery.
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increasing activity
Linear regression lines are shown fitted to the phase of steadily increasing activity during approach.
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indoor activity
Recordings took place in naturalistic situations while the child was engaged in everyday indoor activities with one of his parents, mostly free play and storytelling.
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industrial activity
All this industrial activity created a large employment base.
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intellectual activity
It appears that the possibility of divine intellectual activity depends on the possession of certain properties while the existence of properties in general depends upon divine intellectual activity.
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intense activity
The 1980s were a period of intense activity for feminists.
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interactive activity
Monitoring is mostly a "batch" activity whereas debugging is mostly an interactive activity.
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lawful activity
The potential jaywalker might consult the no-jaywalking rule to determine whether jaywalking is a lawful activity.
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learning activity
Rationale triggers are the reasons that trigger a learning activity.
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legislative activity
It almost certainly explains an oddity of his legislative activity in 1776.
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leisure activity
The ' oldest old ' are not often included in social surveys, and studies of their leisure activity participation are hard to find.
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leisure-time activity
Walking and leisure-time activity and risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women.
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literacy activity
The monolingual children may also have more exposure to informal literacy activities than the bilingual children.
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lobbying activity
Through boycotts and lobbying activity, consumer groups exerted ' pull' and ' push' effects on producers.
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locomotor activity
Time-dose relationships for locomotor activity effects of morphine after acute or repeated treatment.
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magnetic activity
This plot describes the total power profile recorded from the 148 coils that sample magnetic activity over the head of the recorded individual.
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meaningful activity
The two main issues raised about retirement were compulsory retirement and meaningful activity in retirement.
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mental activity
Perhaps, cerebral activation is the physiological basis underlying mental activity.
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merger activity
Yet the structure of the insurance market has changed in recent years as evidenced by the extensive merger activity.
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metabolic activity
The biofilm's physical properties play important roles in controlling its metabolic activity and its ability to adhere to the substratum and itself.
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microbial activity
A microbiological ecosystem occurs whereby crystallized salt, lying in near-saturated salt water, is laden with microbial activity.
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missionary activity
They also cooperated in campaigns against missionary activity and women's emancipation.
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monitoring activity
The monitoring semantic functions actually perform the monitoring activity.
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motor activity
In fact, their motor activity always started too early at 0g, with time shifts in accord with a 1g hypothesis.
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mundane activity
The mundane activity of their inhabitants, however, plays havoc with our established categories of thought.
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muscle activity
Conversely, zygomatic muscle activity increases incrementally with positive valence ratings.
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musical activity
This may relate to pupils' attitudes to musical activity.
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nefarious activities
I do not believe that any such nefarious activities would ever be indulged in by manufacturers of cars in this country.
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neural activity
But this neural activity is not sufficient to produce the dancing.
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neuronal activity
Second, elevated and synchronized neuronal activity facilitates neurogenesis in the dentate.
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normal activity
Variably defined as < 50% or < 70% of normal activity.
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ongoing activity
Recall that this cell had no ongoing activity.
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online activity
To credit all online activity with this impact is foolhardy.
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outdoor activity
We should encourage this outdoor activity.
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paranormal activity
Paranormal activity is regularly reported in this area.
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partisan activity
There were few restrictions on partisan activity and the registering of new candidates, reflecting the domination of small regional parties.
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philanthropic activity
The list of nominees shows that most had extensive experience of voluntary work, in political organizations, local government, or philanthropic activity.
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physical activity
Measuring physical activity among adolescents.
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planned activity
Assessment of carer needs was subsumed within the patient assessment and was generally an opportunistic rather than a planned activity.
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planning activity
The intensification of family planning activity in 1973 and in the years thereafter is quite apparent.
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pleasurable activity
This did not preclude much pleasurable activity, including piano study, many happy trips, and continuation of an extremely enjoyable professional practice.
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productive activity
That is, merchants' intermediation activity crowds out their productive activity.
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professional activity
Symons anticipated the future of cultural criticism as a professional activity, and these essays equate critical perception with a statement of potentially exclusive expertise.
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promotional activity
Much of the pre-release promotional activity thus seems plausibly in sync with the planned withdrawal as a marketing strategy.
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questionable activity
There was insufficient evidence to prosecute, but questionable activities were certainly taking place.
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range of activity
What is the other range of activity?
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recreational activity
Is this healthcare or a recreational activity?
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recruitment activity
It will help to underpin effective national recruitment activity, to promote return to practice and to ensure that there is modern, up-to-date careers advice.
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reduced activity
Reduced activity is the most consistent factor found to be associated with poor outcome following the onset of infectious mononucleosis.
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regular activity
Moreover, there is a natural link between stories and children, especially in contexts where storytelling is a regular activity.
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regulatory activity
There were no associations between days of use and the other two child measures, negative reactivity to separation and initial regulatory activity.
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religious activity
However, religious preference is not the same as religious activity.
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risky activity
The result is that we maintain an uninfected corpus that will require the same excessive care in the future, when similar risky activity is undertaken.
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ritual activity
In fact, ritual activity is one of the primary indicators of status differentiation among domestic groups.
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scholarly activity
Another significant omission is any discussion of geography, climatology and environmental history, all areas where there is considerable scholarly activity.
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scope of activity
Within the ordinary banking sector, banks were further divided according to size and scope of activity into city or large commercial banks, regional banks and second-tier regional banks.
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seismic activity
Discrepancies between measured and predicted values of radon indicate likely seismic activity.
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settlement activity
Possibly too many developments are designated as 'classic' forms of settlement activity.
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solar activity
One reason for the timing was that this would be a period of low solar activity.
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solitary activity
It was used to confirm the division of activity into informal, formal and solitary activity dimensions.
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sphere of activity
During the antebellum decades, just what sphere of activity the national government encompassed was debated amidst growing conflict-class, ethnic, partisan, and sectional.
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spontaneous activity
The origin of spontaneous activity in developing networks of vertebrate nervous system.
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sporting activity
Exercise, and participation in sporting activity, comprise an integral part of the development of a child and the quality of life for young adults.
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stimulating activity
Apart from heparin there are several drugs with capacitation stimulating activity.
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strenuous activity
Added to the evidence for strenuous activity, this suggests that exertion in hot conditions was common.
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student activity
It is far preferable that a large area of student activity is under direct student control.
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subsistence activity
Most of the inhabitants of outlying islands engage in subsistence activity only.
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subversive activity
With the coming of democratic processes and the struggle for a multi-party system, theatre lost its leading role in politically subversive activity.
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sunspot activity
Blackouts caused by sunspot activity made communication difficult and sometimes impossible, resulting in a backlog of delayed traffic when the blackout ended.
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surveillance activities
As to its uses it too would be used for surveillance activities.
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suspicious activity
Police ruled out any suspicious activity.
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trading activity
In between these two extremes, there is a continuum of equilibria with concurrent search, "intermediated" trading activity, and valued money.
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transcriptional activity
In addition, it was observed that the greater the transcriptional activity, the more the meiotic capacity was impaired.
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unlawful activity
These representations have variously complained about this unlawful activity, or suggested that its continuance might argue for the introduction of domestic, major lotteries.
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vigorous activity
In general, the levels of activity were low, with few reporting vigorous activity.
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violent activity
I never supported violent activity.
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volcanic activity
Volcanic activity continued to provide ash layers.
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volunteer activity
A new feature of volunteer activity was the greater use of drills and military discipline.
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youth activity
All those areas of youth activity have been drastically cut during government and local authority cuts in spending.
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