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Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and
meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of
deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different
disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific
questions or societal problems. However, whether the comprehensive
results of interdisciplinary reflection prove to be valid or to be
acceptable in trans-disciplinary terms depends upon certain
preconditions, which have to be fulfilled for securing scientific
quality and social trust in advisory contexts. The present book is
written by experts and practitioners of interdisciplinary research
and policy advice. It analyses topical and methodological
approaches towards interdisciplinarity, starting with the current
role of scientific research in society. The volume continues with
contributions to the issues of knowledge and acting and to
trans-disciplinary deliberation. The final conclusions address the
scientific system as substantial actor itself as well as the
relevant research and education politics.
Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply
system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure
supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the
largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first
implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but
also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering
basic ethic values of the society. The main foci of the book are,
thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of
the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical
current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to
develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the
improvement of such studies. The book provides assistance to the
interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up
and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and
applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved
actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as
well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the
interested public in designing procedures for a successful
transition process. The study elaborates consistent
interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a
continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in
spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities,
multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of
knowledge about future developments.
The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st
century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities
and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of
critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented
re-examination of critique under those conditions of global
entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of
scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions
move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the
Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to
a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move
critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical
stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic,
deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the
volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than
recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or
those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of
democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the
interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.
Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the
behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with
measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter
and meaning. In this sense, therefore, phenomena (including texts,
cultural agents, or life forms) are the results of their
relational, onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual
entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such,
'diffraction' proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer
a dualist understanding, but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction
is about patterns, constellations, relationalities. From this
angle, the book explores 'diffraction', which has begun to impact
critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new)
materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used
without further reflection upon its implications or potentials.
Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the
onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our
experience of the world as relational and radically immanent;
because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement,
our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and
sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary
boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an
in-depth consideration of 'diffraction' as a quantum understanding
of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on
its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the
most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science
studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book
was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st
century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities
and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of
critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented
re-examination of critique under those conditions of global
entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of
scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions
move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the
Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to
a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move
critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical
stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic,
deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the
volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than
recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or
those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of
democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the
interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.
Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and
meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of
deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different
disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific
questions or societal problems. However, whether the comprehensive
results of interdisciplinary reflection prove to be valid or to be
acceptable in trans-disciplinary terms depends upon certain
preconditions, which have to be fulfilled for securing scientific
quality and social trust in advisory contexts. The present book is
written by experts and practitioners of interdisciplinary research
and policy advice. It analyses topical and methodological
approaches towards interdisciplinarity, starting with the current
role of scientific research in society. The volume continues with
contributions to the issues of knowledge and acting and to
trans-disciplinary deliberation. The final conclusions address the
scientific system as substantial actor itself as well as the
relevant research and education politics.
Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply
system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure
supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the
largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first
implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but
also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering
basic ethic values of the society. The main foci of the book are,
thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of
the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical
current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to
develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the
improvement of such studies. The book provides assistance to the
interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up
and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and
applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved
actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as
well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the
interested public in designing procedures for a successful
transition process. The study elaborates consistent
interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a
continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in
spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities,
multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of
knowledge about future developments.
Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the
behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with
measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter
and meaning. In this sense, therefore, phenomena (including texts,
cultural agents, or life forms) are the results of their
relational, onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual
entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such,
'diffraction' proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer
a dualist understanding, but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction
is about patterns, constellations, relationalities. From this
angle, the book explores 'diffraction', which has begun to impact
critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new)
materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used
without further reflection upon its implications or potentials.
Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the
onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our
experience of the world as relational and radically immanent;
because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement,
our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and
sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary
boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an
in-depth consideration of 'diffraction' as a quantum understanding
of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on
its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the
most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science
studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book
was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.
Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices
has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in
agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of
commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and
empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The
new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain
the behavior of agricultural product prices. Topics include price
differences over market levels (marketing margins), price
differences over space (regionally and internationally) and by
quality attributes, and price variability with the passage of time
(seasonal and cyclical variations, trends, and random
behavior).
William G. Tomek and Harry M. Kaiser review and adapt
microeconomic principles to the characteristics of agricultural
commodity markets and then apply these principles to the various
dimensions of price behavior. They also provide an in-depth
discussion of prices established for futures contracts and their
relationship to cash (spot) market prices; cover the influential
roles of price discovery institutions, such as auctions and
negotiated contracts, and government policies regulating trade and
farms; and discuss the specification, use, and evaluation of
empirical models of agricultural prices, placing emphasis on the
challenges of doing high-quality, useful analyses and interpreting
results.
In den Entwicklungslandern leben gegenwartig etwa 3,5 Milliarden
Menschen, das sind fast drei Viertel der Weltbevoelkerung. Bis zum
Jahr 2000 - also in weniger als vierzehn Jahren - wird diese Zahl
auf etwa 4,8 Milliarden angewachsen sein, was dem jetzigen Stand
der Weltbevoelkerung entspricht. Gleichwohl wird den ent-
wicklungspolitischen Fragen noch immer keine angemessene Beachtung
ge- schenkt. Dies mag darin begrundet sein, dass
Entwicklungspolitik auf unterschied- lichen Ebenen, z. B. national
und international, praktiziert wird, dass Entwick- lungspolitik ein
schwieriges Unterfangen ist und haufig nicht zu den gewunschten
Ergebnissen fuhrt, dass die weltweite entwicklungspolitische
Zusammenarbeit ein kaum zu durchschauendes Geflecht aus
unterschiedlichen Sachzusammenhangen, Zielsetzungen und
Realisierungschancen darstellt. Unser Buch versucht, dieses
Geflecht zu entwirren und dem Leser Orientierungshilfen zu geben.
Wegen der Vielschichtigkeit der weltweiten Verflechtungen werden
die einzelnen Sachverhalte aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln
betrachtet. Hohes Bevoelke- rungswachstum zum Beispiel ist ein
typisches Kennzeichen der Entwicklungslan- der und wird folglich
als Problemfeld (Kapitel I) dargestellt. Andererseits kann eine
starke UEberbevoelkerung auch Ursache von Unterentwicklung (Kapitel
II) sein, weshalb Familienpolitik zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil
der Eigenanstren- gungen der Entwicklungslander (KapitelllI) werden
muss. Diese Eigenanstren- gungen koennen von den Industrielandern
(Kapitel IV) in Form von Entwicklungs- projekten unterstutzt
werden. Gemeinsam mit diesen direkten Einflussmoeglichkei- ten der
Lander selbst und ihrer Partnerlander spielen die internationalen
Wirt- schaftsbeziehungen (Kapitel V) eine bedeutsame Rolle.
Entwicklungspolitik kann auch auf dieser Ebene ansetzen.
Aussenhandel und Kapitaltransfer besitzen einen grossen Einfluss
auf den Wohlstand eines Landes.
Die Reihe der Fortbildungsbiinde der Sektion "Innere Medizin -
Inten- sivrnedizin" der Schriftenreihe Fachschwester-Fachpfleger
wird durch den zweiten Band "Dberwachung des zentralen Venendrucks"
fortge- setzt. Die Fortbildungsbiinde befassen sich mit speziellen
Problemen und Ver- fahren der Intensivmedizin, wahrend die
Weiterbildungsbiinde der Schriftenreihe den Grundstoff der
praktischen Unterweisung und des theoretischen Unterrichtes der
einzelnen Weiterbildungslehrgange er- fassen. Die Fortbildungsbande
sollen den Lernenden das Verstandnis flir den theoretischen
Hintergrund, den Sinn und Zweck der von ihnen ausge- ftihrten
praktischen MaBnahmen vertiefen und den Lehrenden die Erar- beitung
des Lehrstoffs und die Durchftihrung des Unterrichts erleich- tern.
Die Bestimmung des zentralen Venendruckes hat in der
Intensivmedizin eine besonders groBe Bedeutung erlangt. Die genaue
Kenntnis der MeB- technik, der Fehierquellen und der
Aussagem6glichkeiten dieser MeB- gr6Ben ist unbedingt zu fordern.
Aus diesen Griinden haben wir dem zentralen Venendruck einen
eigenen Fortbildungsband gewidmet und daftir die Form des
programmierten Lernunterrichtes gewahlt. Dieser Band solI tiber das
unmittelbare Anliegen der Weiterbildung hinaus allen in der
Intensivrnedizin tatigen Schwestern, Pflegern und Arzten, besonders
aber auch den in Sonderdiensten auf Intensivstationen arbei- tenden
Studierenden der Medizin eine Hilfe bei der Austibung ihres
taglichen Dienstes sein. Juni 1978 Die Herausgeber VII
Inhaltsverzeichnis Warum Bestimmung des zentralen Venendrucks? 1
Einfiihrung ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Welche
Voraussetzungen mu8 der Lemende erfiillen? 3 Lernziele
...................... . 4 Teill. Instrumentarium 5 1.1.
Venenkatheter . 7 1.2. Manometer . . . 12 1.3. Infusionssystem 16
1.4. Dreiwegehahn . 21 Teil2. Theoretiscbe Grundlagen ..... 25 2.1.
Definition des zentralen Venendrucks 27 2.2. Beurteilung der
Me8ergebnisse ...
Als Berufsneuling muE die Schwesternhelferin in kurzer Zeit eine
Menge lernen. Obwohl sie gewohnlich ohne pflegerische Kenntnisse
ins Krankenhaus kommt, muE sie darauf vorberei- tet sein, oft nach
nur wenigen Wochen der EinfUhrung pflegeri- sche Aufgaben zu
tibernehmen. Von der Unterrichtsschwester wird jede
Schwesternhelferin in ihre Aufgaben und Pflichten eingefiihrt, ohne
deren Kenntnis sie dem Pflegepersonal keine wirkliche Hllfe sein
kann. Dieses Buch sollte ursprunglich der Unterrichtsschwester
diese Aufgabe einfacher machen und den LernprozeB der
Schwesternhelferin erleichtern. Uberarbeitet und auf den neue- sten
Stand gebracht, beginnt es mit einem Rundgang durch das Krankenhaus
und seine verschiedenen Abtellungen, wo die Schwesternhelferin
tiber den Mitarbeiterstab und seine verschie- denen Arbeitsbereiche
informiert wird. AnschlieBend werden Aufnahme eines Patienten und
seine verschiedenen Bediirfnisse wlihrend des Aufenthalts im
Krankenhaus beschrieben. Der Haupttell dieses Buchs erkliirt, wie
die Schwesternhelferin diese Bediirfnisse erftillen kann. In jedem
Krankenhaus gibt es Richtlinien, die detailliert aus- flihren, wie
die verschiedenen Tlitigkeiten und MaBnahmen im Krankenhaus
durchzuflihren sind. In diesem Buch wird nicht nur auf die korrekte
DurchfUhrung all dieser PflegemaBnahmen Wert gelegt, sondern sie
werden auch immer wieder in Verbin- dung gebracht zu den
menschlichen und personlichen Bediirf- nissen des Patienten. Die
Schwesternhelferin lernt, sein Verhal- ten und seine Beweggrtinde
verstehen, wenn er in seiner Weise auf StreB und Belastung eines
Krankenhausaufenthalts reagiert.
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Fortbildung, 1 (German, Paperback)
S.M. Brooks; Revised by H.P. Schuster, H Lauer; Translated by G. Kaiser, M Kaiser
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R1,770
Discovery Miles 17 700
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Mit den "Grundlagen des Wasser-, Elektrolyt-und Saure/
Basen-Haushaltes" legen wir den ersten Fortbildungsband der Sektion
Innere Medizin - Intensivmedizin der Schrif tenreihe Fachsehwester
- Fachpfleger vor. Wahrend die Weiterbildungsbande dieser
Schriftenreihe den Grundstoff der praktischen Unterweisung und des
theoretischen Un terrichtes der einzelnen Weiterbildungslehrgange
in syste matischer Weise erfassen, sollen die Fortbildungsbande
spezielle Probleme der Intensivmedizin eingehender dar legen. Sie
sollen den Lernenden das Verstandnis flir den theoretischen
Hintergrund, den Sinn und Zweck der von ihnen ausgeflihrten
praktischen MaBnahmen vertiefen und dem Lehrenden die Erarbeitung
des Lehrstoffs und die Durchfiihrung des Unterrichts erleichtem.
Die Fortbildungsbande sollen iiber das unmittelbare An liegen der
Weiterbildung hinaus allen in der Intensivmedi zin tatigen
Schwestem, Pflegem und Arzten eine Hilfe bei der Ausiibung ihres
taglichen Dienstes sein. Oktober 1977 Die Herausgeber VII Vorwort
zur driften amerikanischen AuOage In diesem Buch werden die
physiologischen Grundlagen des Fliissigkeits- und
Elektrolythaushalts kurz und leicht versHindlich dargestellt und
Richtlinien zur Infusionsthe rapie gegeben. Der Leser sollte immer
daran denken, daB auch auf diesem Gebiet die Meinungen der
Fachleute in einzelnen Punkten noch immer auseinandergehen und da
her keine Lehrmeinung ein absolutes Dogma sein kann. Ich hoffe, daB
die vorliegende, iiberarbeitete, dritte Aus gabe den Anklang
findet, der der zweiten zuteil wurde. Waban, Massachusetts, Januar
1973 Stewart M. Brooks IX InhaItsverzeichnis 1. Einleitung . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . 2. Wasser 2 2.1.
Gesamtk6rperwasser 2 2.2. 2 Fliissigkeitsriiume . . 2.3.
Fliissigkeitsverschiebungen zwischen den F1iissigkeitsriiumen und
Osmose. . . . . . 3 2.4. F1iissigkeitsverschiebungen im
Magen-Darm-Trakt ."
Many arts organizations today find themselves in financial
difficulties because of economic constraints inherent in the
industry. While other companies can improve productivity through
the use of new technologies or better systems, these approaches are
not available in the arts. Hamlet requires the same number of
performers today as it did in Shakespeare's time. The New York
Philharmonic requires the same number of musicians now as it did
when Tchaikovsky conducted it over one hundred years ago. Costs go
up, but the size of theaters and the price resistance of patrons
limit what can be earned from ticket sales. Therefore, the
performing arts industry faces a severe gap between earnings and
expenses. Typical approaches to closing the gap--raising ticket
prices or cutting artistic or marketing expenses--don't work.
What, then, does it take to create and maintain a healthy arts
organization?
Michael M. Kaiser has revived four major arts organizations: the
Kansas City Ballet, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,
American Ballet Theatre, and London's Royal Opera House. In The Art
of the Turnaround he shares with readers his ten basic rules for
bringing financially distressed arts organizations back to life and
keeping them strong. These rules cover the requirements for
successful leadership, the pitfalls of cost cutting, the necessity
of extending the programming calendar, the centrality of effective
marketing and fund raising, and the importance of focusing on the
present with a positive public message. In chapters organized
chronologically, Kaiser brings his ten rules vividly to life in
discussions of the four arts organizations he is credited with
saving. The book concludeswith a chapter on his experiences at the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, an arts
organization that needed an artistic turnaround when he became the
president in 2001 and that today exemplifies in practice many of
the ten rules he discusses throughout his book.
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The Cycle (Hardcover)
Michael M Kaiser, Brett E. Egan
bundle available
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R736
Discovery Miles 7 360
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In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining
arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that
powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts
organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing campaigns that
compel people to buy tickets, enroll in classes, and so on--in
short, to participate in the organization's programs. Additionally,
they create exciting activities that draw people to the
organization as a whole. This institutional marketing creates a
sense of enthusiasm that attracts donors, board members, and
volunteers.
Kaiser calls this group of external supporters the family. When
this hidden engine is humming, staff, board, and audience members,
artists, and donors feel confidence in the future. Resources are
reinvested in more and better art, which is marketed aggressively;
as a result, the "family" continues to grow, providing even more
resources. This self-reinforcing cycle underlies the activities of
all healthy arts organizations, and the theory behind it can be
used as a diagnostic tool to reveal--and remedy--the problems of
troubled ones.
This book addresses each element of the cycle in the hope that more
arts organizations around the globe--from orchestras, theaters,
museums, opera companies, and classical and modern dance
organizations to service organizations and other not-for-profit
cultural institutions--will be able to sustain remarkable
creativity, pay the bills, and have fun doing so
The Love She Found in Darness is a girl Roxanne who is raped and
kidnapped and know one will do anything not even the police. It is
up to Andy to find her and keep her safe, before it is all to late.
This story is filled with ups and downs, suspense, love and i
enjoyed writing it.
While I call this a reference for those interested in switching
from conservative to liberal, it's actually a "sarcastic" view of
what we see on television. This will definitely help you look at
the country with a sense of humor instead of a sense of doom...
Planning today is more important than ever. Both acquisition and
allocation of resources are increasingly difficult for arts
organizations as a result of emerging technologies, reduced arts
education, aging donors, and the advent of new forms of
entertainment. It is essential for arts organizations to take a
coherent approach to these issues to remain vibrant over time. In
fact, most arts organizations do periodically attempt some kind of
planning exercise. But a review of hundreds of such plans suggests
that most contain merely a wish list, rather than concrete plans
for the future: "We will increase ticket sales!" is a common
"strategy" expressed in too many arts plans. In the absence of
details about how ticket sales will be increased, it's an empty
promise. In Strategic Planning in the Arts, Michael M. Kaiser, the
former head of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and an arts
management guru, has produced a clear, concise guide for staff or
board members of not-for-profit arts organizations who are
responsible for developing, evaluating, or implementing plans.
Relying on real-world cases and examples, Kaiser shows how to
conceive, assess, and act on every part of the strategic plan, from
the mission statement to the financial statement; from managing the
board to marketing. Praise for Michael Kaiser: "A rich yet tidy
cornucopia of solutions for the challenges facing the American arts
scene." - Washington Post
On July 7, 2004, an old congressional support agency was given a
new name, while keeping the same initials (GAO): at that time, the
General Accounting Office, established in 1921, was re-designated
the Government Accountability Office (P.L. 108-271). The renaming,
which came at the request of its head, the Comptroller General
(CG), is designed to reflect the agency's evolution and additional
duties since its creation more than eight decades before.
Importantly, the act also expands the CG's authority over pay and
personnel matters. The Government Accountability Office is the
largest of three agencies that provide staff support, research,
review, and analysis for Congress. GAO operates under the control
and direction of the Comptroller General of the United States, who
is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, for a 15-year nonrenewable term. A unique arrangement
begins the process with a special bicameral commission of
legislators from both parties making recommendations to the
President. GAO was established in 1921 as an independent auditor of
government agencies and activities by the Budget and Accounting
Act. The office was intended to be "independent of the executive
departments," the entities it would audit and review. Sometimes
called "Congress's watchdog" ...
Allison Hill was the first suburb of Harrisburg City, Pennsylvania,
the Capital of Pennsylvania. The "Hill" once housed Pennsylvania's
Lieutenant Governor as well as other upwardly mobile individuals.
Now, Allison Hill is home to Harrisburg's poor, elderly, disabled
and disenfranchised. It remains one of the most densely populated
areas in the City. With the great recession and continued budget
cuts, Allison Hill residents increasingly rely on churches and the
few remaining long-term residents to assist with food, clothing and
protection from those that take advantage of the poor and
neglected.
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