Human Behavior

Airbnb Has Secret Trustworthy Scores and This Privacy Group Is Demanding to See Them – VICE

Algorithms now determine everything. Facebooks news and advertising algorithm determines your daily reality, bombarding you with skewed ads and sketchy news that only reinforces your worldview. Flawed test score algorithms determine your career prospects. YouTube algorithms consider whether youll be receptive to white supremecist drivel.

Every day across a litany of platforms, secretive algorithms are not only calculating what content youll see and what ads youll respond well to, but your overall trustworthiness as an obedient consumer. Such systems routinely lack any transparency whatsoever, yet can impact everything from your career trajectory to the quality of customer service youll receive.

Airbnb is no exception, and has been under fire recently for a secretive algorithm it uses to determine whether youre trustworthy. Privacy and digital activism groups are now crying foul, demanding the FTC do more to rein in the practice and protect consumers.

In a new complaint filed with the FTC, The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) argues that Airbnbs nontransparent algorithm is unfair and deceptive under the FTC Act and the Fair Credit Act. The group also complains that the companys technique violates the fairness and transparency principles and standards laid out by the international community.

Airbnbs website is notably ambiguous about how this risk assessment is calculated and how much data is stored and collected about its users.

Every Airbnb reservation is scored for risk before its confirmed, the company tells customers. We use predictive analytics and machine learning to instantly evaluate hundreds of signals that help us flag and investigate suspicious activity before it happens.

In its complaint, EPIC notes that Airbnbs secret ranking algorithm is based on an ocean of personal consumer data collected from your behavior all over the internet, ranging from the comments you make to Airbnb hosts on the platform, to any unrelated comments you may have made on social media platforms or even blog posts.

A recent New York Times report explored how these accumulated profiles can be over 400-pages in length, have the potential to impact every aspect of your daily life, yet arent transparent at all to the users or communities impacted by these automated calculations.

The complaint references a patent developed and issued to a company Airbnb acquired, which can track whether a customer created a false or misleading online profile, provided false or misleading information to the service provider, is involved with drugs or alcohol, is involved with hate websites or organizations, is involved in sex work, perpetrated a crime, is involved in civil litigation, is a known fraudster or scammer, is involved in pornography, has authored online content with negative language, or has interests that indicate negative personality or behavior traits.

The patent referenced in this complaint was developed by and issued to a company Airbnb acquired, before we acquired the company, and the methods listed in this patent are not, nor have they ever been, employed by Airbnb," Airbnb spokesperson Charlie Urbancic said. "Airbnb is committed to earning our communitys trust by striving to keep them safe offline and online - that includes protecting users personal information and using it responsibly.

From there, the algorithm attributes generalized categories to each consumer using terms and phrases such as badness, antisocial tendencies, goodness, conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, narcissism, Machiavellianism, or psychopathy.

In its complaint, EPIC argues that not only is there no transparency behind these life impacting determinations, they tend to oversimplify complex human behavior using inherently subjective criteria. The group also argued that such predictive efforts have historically been biased, resulting in harsher penalties for minority and disadvantaged communities.

Algorithms used by judges in sentencing to predict future criminal activity have been found to be unreliable and were twice as likely to mislabel black defendants as future criminals than white defendants, EPIC said. Policing data is the result of choices that undermine the credibility of the data.

EPIC recently filed a similar complaint with the FTC over the facial recognition and AI-driven scoring systems used by the screening firm HireVue to screen young potential athletes. The group has also petitioned the FTC to conduct a rulemaking tackling "the use of artificial intelligence in commerce."

The FTC taking any action here remains unlikely.

Industries like telecom routinely tapdance around the unfair and deceptive language in the FTC Act. Studies have also shown the agency is rife with revolving door conflicts of interest, and is also underfunded and understaffed; the FTC has just 8 percent of the staff dedicated to privacy as the UK, despite the UK having one-fifth as many consumers to protect.

Update: This post has been updated with comment from Airbnb.

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The Impact of the Coronavirus on Business – GC Capital Ideas

Pandemics top national risk-management frameworks in many countries. For example, pandemic influenza tops the natural hazards matrix of the UK National Risk Register, and emerging infectious diseases are tagged as of considerable concern. Seen as a medical problem, each outbreak of a potentially dangerous infection prompts authorities to ask a rational set of questions and dust off the menu of response options that can be implemented as needed in a phased manner, according to Richard Smith-Bingham, Executive Director of Insights at Marsh & McLennan Advantage, and Kavitha Hariharan, Director at Marsh & McLennan Insights.

Reality, however, is generally more disruptive, as national governments and supranational agencies balance health security and economic and social imperatives on the back of imperfect and evolving intelligence. Its a governance challenge that may result in long-term consequences for communities and businesses. On top of this, they also need to accommodate human behavior.

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Physiology

Effects of High Altitude Subject to Genetics – Technology Networks

How high altitudes affect peoples breathing and its coordination with the heartbeat is due to genetic differences say researchers.Clear physiological differences have already been demonstrated between people living in the Himalayas and Andes compared with people living at sea level, revealing an evolutionary adaptation in the control of blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain and the rest of the body.

Now an international team led by Professor Aneta Stefanovska of Lancaster University has identified genes that are related to cardiorespiratory function during so-called acute periodic breathing.

Periodic breathing (PB) occurs in most humans at high altitudes and is characterized by periodic alternations between hyperventilation (too-fast breathing) and apnea (no breathing). The altered respiratory pattern due to PB is accompanied by changes in heart rate and blood flow.

Breathing, ECG of the heart and microvascular blood flow were simultaneously monitored for 30 minutes in 22 healthy male subjects, with the same measurements repeated under normal and low oxygen levels, both at real and simulated altitudes of up to 3800m.

As part of the experiment, the participants were also taken in a cable car to a high altitude laboratory at the top of Aiguille du Midi mountain in Chamonix in France and tested immediately on arrival and after six hours at this altitude of 3842m.

The researchers found that orchestration between the participants hearts and lungs, as measured by phase coherence, responded differently to periodic breathing depending on whether they had one of two specific genetic variants affecting the cardiorespiratory response to insufficient oxygen.

Chronic periodic breathing is generally seen as an unfavorable state, being associated with increased mortality in chronic heart failure, but in healthy people it may be an indication of better alertness to oxygen insufficiency at high altitudes. Hypoxia, as well occurring during rapid ascents to high-altitudes, can also be a significant problem at sea-level, being a contributory factor in many health conditions including cancer, strokes, and heart attacks.

Professor Stefanovska said: The similarities between hypoxia-induced PB at altitude, and the breathing characteristics observed in certain pathological states, provide an opportunity to further our understanding of the physiological processes involved in chronic hypoxic states that occur even when oxygen is abundant.

Considering living systems as collections of interacting oscillators whose dynamics is governed by multiple underlying open systems enables the observation of functional changes over time, and investigation of how they are altered in health and disease.ReferenceLancaster et al. (2020) Relationship between cardiorespiratory phase coherence during hypoxia and genetic polymorphism in humans. The Journal of Physiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1113/JP278829

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Physiology

Fatal Car Crashes Rise With Spring Clock Reset – The New York Times

Losing an hours sleep at the spring change to daylight saving time is at best inconvenient. Now new research suggests that it may be dangerous.

A study in Current Biology reports that the risk of having a fatal traffic accident increases significantly in the week following the spring clock reset.

Researchers used a federal government registry of 732,835 fatal motor vehicle accidents from 1996 to 2017. They found that there were 6 percent more fatal accidents in the week following the Sunday clock change than in the weeks before and after.

The increase averaged 9 percent in the hours before noon, which the investigators suggest may be connected to fatigue combined with the darker morning hours of the first week of daylight saving time. The only time of day that showed no effect was 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The sun rises later as you head west, and the researchers found that in the western third of each time zone, the number of fatal accidents increased by 8 percent, but by only 4 percent in the eastern third.

There is strong evidence for something real going on when we set the clocks ahead, said the senior author, Cline Vetter, an assistant professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado, and there are no real benefits in daylight saving time for economics or energy saving. Lets get rid of the switch to daylight saving time.

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Our Education: SIUE’s Fernandez del Valle committed to optimizing women’s health – The Edwardsville Intelligencer

SIUEs Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behaviors Department of Applied Health.

SIUEs Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behaviors Department of Applied Health.

SIUEs Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behaviors Department of Applied Health.

SIUEs Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behaviors Department of Applied Health.

Our Education: SIUEs Fernandez del Valle committed to optimizing womens health

EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsvilles Maria Fernandez del Valle, PhD, is researching optimizing womens health.

The assistant professor of exercise physiology in the School of Education, Health and Human Behaviors Department of Applied Health is a prime example of a teacher-scholar who has established multi-disciplinary collaborations and consistently involves students to pursue high impact research.

My research focuses on improving exercise prescription through different lines of study to help individuals optimize their health, she said. Currently, were targeting women, and conducting research on cardiac fat and function to determine how different modes of exercise can help us improve both.

I want to improve the way we prescribe exercise, she said. We need a larger sample size to clearly see data trends, but early indications show that we can have a high impact on cardiac fat around the heart with resistance training alone. The implication then would be that obese women should do resistance training to target more internal fat rather than the fat you see on the outside. Because, internal fat is what I linked to the development of metabolic and cardiac diseases.

Two of her primary collaborators are Jon Klingensmith, PhD, assistant professor in the SIUE School of Engineerings Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pamela Woodard, PhD, with the Washington University School of Medicine.

Fernandez del Valle is also a research mentor for students, most of whom have earned competitive research awards and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities accolades.

We can teach in the classroom and explain concepts, but when students are in a lab, I can see their faces and how it just clicks that Oh, now thats what this means and This is connecting with this, she said. Without my collaborators and students assistance, this work would not be possible. It involves human subjects, assessment training and implementation, data reporting and much more.

Before working in this lab, I wasnt sure what I wanted to do post-graduation, said graduate student and research assistant Paige Davis. Now, I know I want to work in a research lab at a college or government agency. I love the mix of human interaction and data entry, and how everything comes together to achieve interesting results.

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Physiology

OPINION: Research before you try a diet – The Daily Evergreen

Don't go for the newest diet people are talking about, just eat healthier foods instead

LAUREN PETTIT | DAILY EVERGREEN ILLUSTRATION

Move over paleo, these diets don't solve the issue of being a healthier person. Instead focus on foods that are healthier and cutting calorie counts to achieve a healthier lifestyle for yourself.

There are so many options when looking for a newdiet plan. There is keto, vegan, intermediate fasting, vegetarian, paleo, detoxor juice cleanse and much more to choose from. These diets are trendy andunhealthy.

Fad diets often lead people to believe that there is a one-size-fits-all diet, and this is the one. The secrets out there isnt one perfect diet for all of us, said Lauren Keeney, a registered dietitian nutritionist and the owner and operator of Integrated Health LLC located in Moscow.

College is a colliding environment of lack of money and energy. When a student is lacking money, it is easier to buy staple items. These items look like ramen, canned veggies or soup and anything else that can be found at a low price. These low-price items are high in cholesterol and fat and they lack many of the key nutrients that are needed in a balanced diet. Low-cost foods also increase weight gain and fatigue.

It can come as no surprise that many college students are hopping on diet trends to lose weight fast, in the high stress and low energy environment. These fad diets are used to change a students look, weight and energy level.

I have done every diet you can do, from keto to fasting, said Hannah Bidon, a WSU junior majoring in nutrition and exercise physiology and minoring in psychology.

The diet is a quick fix that can have little tono effect on a students daily eating habits.

In my experience, I gave up and I couldnt doit. This was because it was unnatural for my body, Bidon said.

Starting a new diet can be exciting at first. Eventually the diet will come to an end, leaving the body feeling unhealthy and overall useless. Cutting out key components to a diet can harm the body.

Eat foods that your body craves and foods that make your body feel good, energized and satisfied. This means, eat what you enjoy and enjoy what you eat physically, mentally and emotionally, Keeney said.

Cutting out just carbsand fat can affect the body. Unless there are dietary restrictions or religiousguidelines, an individual should provide their body with all food groups.

The students that want to change their diets for ethical and environmental reasons are very different from those who want to lose 10 pounds in eight days. They try the new diets of detox, juice cleanse, one large meal a day, keto, paleo and much more. There are fewer extreme ways of dieting and healthy choices.

Diets come to an end and so does that healthy eating. Many times, the diet trend does not change an individuals overall eating habits or relationship with food.

In the end I gained the weight back or felt unhealthy after the diet, Bidon said.

Diets dont last forever, it is easier to makelife changes.

What many young adultslack in their diet is having a healthy relationship with food, Keeney said.

The best advice I was given was to balance the plate. Have all the food groups represented on the plate. Fruit and veggies, grain (bread, potatoes and more), protein (fish, eggs, tofu and nuts) and dairy (milk, yogurt and cheese).

Add more color to your diet, this way you canensure youre getting a variety of nutrients to support your overall health,Keeney said.

Students can add nutritious and need food groupsby adding in diverse veggies and sides to their main dish.

Take top ramen, for example. Overall it is not healthy. But it is cheap, so it is a staple in any students dorm, apartment, or house. It can be made healthier by adding a protein (I like an egg or two) and some green veggies. It not only looks more appetizing it can be more nutritious and filling.

Why even diet when it can end in gaining the weight back? I suggest making little healthy changes that can improve overall attitudes towards food. Little changes can make a big difference.

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Immunology

How a Pennsylvania doctor stopped a virus outbreak in 1934 with blood – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Gallagher was not the first to try this approach against viruses, but his effort was unusually successful, providing important clues about the proper dosage and timing of such infusions, said Arturo Casadevall, chairman of microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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SWC hosts Health for Heritage Week with collaboration from campus clubs – Daily Bruin

When Mihika Sridhar ran for Student Wellness Commissioner last year, she wanted to encourage marginalized communities to engage with their health and wellness.

Sridhar finally realized her idea with the inaugural Health for Heritage Week from Feb. 22 to Feb. 28, which was an 11-event collaboration of the Student Wellness Commission and various clubs.

The week included discussions and presentations about the intersection of culture and health, a hygiene drive, an interactive art gallery, a beach cleanup and a CPR class.

Sridhar, a fourth-year microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics student, planned the event with Sophia McMurry, a fourth-year philosophy student and SWC platforms director, and reached out to almost 100 student organizations. Once they narrowed down their list, they pushed for the SWC subcommittees to reach out to the organizations that sparked their interest.

Sridhar said her goal for the week was to push for collaborations between organizations that might not have come in contact otherwise.

A lot of times people can get sort of pigeonholed, Sridhar said. I think collaboration is a really great way to impact a greater number of people who may not have originally ever been privy to even knowing that an event was happening or that a topic is of interest to them.

Health for Heritage Week kicked off Feb. 22 with a beach cleanup co-hosted by SWC Environmental Awareness, Recycling and Terrestrial Health and the Indian Student Union. Around 200 pieces of trash were collected over a span of two hours from Venice Beach to Santa Monica Beach.

Kiera Dixon, the co-director of SWC EARTH, said that students were handed trash bags and forms to record the types of trash collected. The cleanup allowed students from different backgrounds to bond through environmental beautification efforts, she said.

I feel like its very important to be exposed to different types of cultures and establish friendships with people of different heritages, said Dixon, a fourth-year molecular, cell, and developmental biology student.

Another event that hoped to expose students to new cultural knowledge was organized by SWCs Student Education And Research of Contemporary Health along with Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztln de UCLA. These two organizations collaborated to create conversations about Latinx culture, relationships and intimacy through answering anonymous questions from a box. Other activities included making love potions and meditation.

Tara Shooshani, co-chair of SEARCH, said the event was inspired by Latinx cultural traditions. The two clubs wanted the event to be a celebration of these traditions to share with the UCLA community.

I think the main takeaway is for people to have a renewed respect and interest in other cultures to be interested in learning about other peoples traditions and customs, said Shooshani, a fourth-year human biology and society student.

SEARCH also partnered with the Afrikan Student Union to hold Unpacking Medical Racism, a three-speaker panel regarding the topic of medical racism. Speakers talked about the history of racism in the medical field and why it continues to this day.

Kylie Paramore, a panelist at the event, does research within the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health to uncover the subconscious racial bias on the health outcomes of black patients. She said the more discussion and research on the topic, the more inclined the health care system is to change this problem.

A lot of times, were fed this false narrative that our society is so progressive and colorblind but unfortunately, thats just not true, said Paramore, a fourth-year African American studies student. We have to have these conversations because these conversations are about real life.

To address the intersection of mental wellness and Pilipino culture, Active Minds and Pilipinos for Community Health co-hosted an event called Utakatawan: Physical x Mental Health in the Pilipino Community. The event incorporated Pilipino food, dance and a cappella performances, a panel and a presentation.

Three undergraduates and two graduate students participated in the panel to share how they have overcome struggles that pervade Pilipino culture.

With our culture theres this word called hiya, which translates to shame, as well as to be shy, said Robi Bucayu, who spoke on the panel. Were not good at seeking help or talking about our feelings, so I think this forum really helps to dispel that culture of silence.

Vernadette Laderas, a second-year psychology student, said that it was refreshing to hear raw conversations about taboo topics within Pilipino culture.

Theres definitely trends within the culture, like constantly giving and giving, and waiting until its too late to start to take care of yourself, (which) is something that I have struggled with, specifically with my mom, Laderas said. It surprised me to hear anecdotes that sound almost exactly like mine.

In another effort to promote mental wellness, Total Wellness and Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention hosted an event that consisted of five stations to prompt reflection on the negative effects of social media.

The first of five stations asked participants to rate their happiness and provided tips on how to foster a healthier relationship with social media. Other stations asked students what makes them happy outside of social media and which part of their body is their favorite.

Its important to recognize how (social media) might be affecting you, even though you dont realize it because you think its a necessity, and then take the steps to use it and in a healthier way, said Rebeca Gasper, a second-year political science and communication student.

Sridhar and McMurry said they hoped different cultural communities would gain insight into each others various health needs.

I really hope that committees and the other students who do attend these events just make meaningful and thoughtful connections with other groups on campus and hopefully (that) continues throughout the year, McMurry said.

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Livestock research ‘going to do some of the very best science’ – Rocky Mountain Collegian

In case you forgot, Colorado State University is a land-grant institution, originally formed as an agricultural college.

To further the Universitys initial mission, the College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are teaming up to start the Sustainable Livestock Systems Collaborative.

I think the impetus really is that, you know, CSU is a land-grant university, said Mark Zabel, CVMBS associate dean for research. We still have a commitment to agriculture and to educating Coloradans centered around those issues.

Zabel said that while there will be no physical building or presence, the Sustainable Livestock Systems Collaborative will be a collection of stakeholders researchers, policy makers and producers in the livestock, agriculture and dairy industries coming together around the idea of sustainable farming practices.

The overall goal (is) to specifically engage with livestock production and to help producers at the grassroots (level) address firstly profitability, secondly their environmental footprint, thirdly animal health and lastly human health, particularly via food safety, said Keith Belk, head of the department of animal sciences and co-chair of the steering committee.

Applications for director of the initiative recently closed, Belk said, and research is anticipated to begin by the fall semester of this year. Belk said they will be opening a couple more faculty positions in the coming months as well.

Its actually across our entire campus. Where we have students interested in sustainability, weve got scientists that are interested in it, and were going to be able to do great things by working together. -James Pritchett, College of Agricultural Sciences interim dean

James Pritchett, interim dean of CAS, said professionals in the agriculture industry have been coming to CSU asking for answers to questions grounded in sustainability. The driving force behind much of the research conducted by the collaborative will be issues posed to CSU by those professionals.

For example, as the climate changes and we have disrupted weather patterns and we have periods of drought or flood, how does that affect how we can grow crops? Zabel asked. We can do things like try to develop heartier strains of grain that can survive droughts or that can survive floods. We can develop better feeding and watering practices for our livestock.

Belk added that research could be anything related to the environmental impact of farming, ranching and livestock production. Water use, water contamination, soil erosion, land management and production of greenhouse gases are all topics the collaborative wants to explore and find solutions to.

The collaborative will not only provide faculty with more opportunities to conduct research, but will allow for undergraduate and graduate students to participate as well.

I am very committed to having all of our students at every education level coming together as research teams to solve these problems, Zabel said. In (the department of microbiology, immunology and pathology), we really emphasize undergraduate research. Its our goal to be able to train each of our undergraduates in long-term substantive research experience.

Pritchett said funding for the collaborative comes from repurposing a base budget that funded faculty members who have since retired or moved on, and the Office of the Provost will then match that with funding from student allocations from the general fund.

Were going to do some of the very best science to help create sustainable food systems, Pritchett said. Its reaching across not just the college of agriculture or vet med, its actually across our entire campus. Where we have students interested in sustainability, weve got scientists that are interested in it, and were going to be able to do great things by working together.

Serena Bettis can be reached atnews@collegian.comor on Twitter@serenaroseb.

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Two Wake Forest Baptist scientists receive $1.5 million for cancer research – The Medical News

Two scientists from Wake Forest School of Medicine, part of Wake Forest Baptist Health, have received a total of $1.5 million in research funding from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to study new chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments for cancer.

One of the grants, for $792,000 over four years, was awarded to Yong Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, to study a new approach to immunotherapy for metastatic and treatment-resistant cancers.

Using specialized white blood cells or T cells that he discovered, Lu and his research team will determine if the administration of these blood cells can eradicate advanced tumors and prevent recurrence of resistant tumors in an animal model.

Cancer recurrence may cause cancer treatment failure and death in more than 90% of patients with advanced tumors, especially with metastatic disease, which often develops resistance to the initial treatments, Lu said.

We hope our work will shed light on the mechanisms underlying how T cells, the major type of white blood cells, prevent resistance and hopefully establish a foundation for translating that into more effective immunotherapies in human cancers."

Yong Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology

The second grant, for $782,000 over four years, was awarded to David Soto-Pantoja, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery and cancer biology.

The grant will support his team's efforts to create preclinical models to study cardiotoxicity - damage to the heart muscle - that results from some chemotherapy and immunotherapy drugs.

"In the next 10 to 15 years, there will be 20 million cancer survivors in the U.S. thanks to newer cancer drugs that are very effective," Soto-Pantoja said. "Unfortunately, many of these drugs have other side effects such as heart disease that can occur many years after treatment."

Soto-Pantoja's goal is to better understand how chemotherapy drugs can affect the heart and develop strategies to prevent future development of cardiac diseases, as well as to find new treatments for those patients who have already developed heart disease.

For example, when he was a fellow at the National Institutes of Health prior to coming to Wake Forest Baptist, his team identified a molecule present on cells that when blocked prevents some of the damage caused by chemotherapy drugs.

"The molecule enhanced the immune system to attack the tumor but protected normal tissue from the negative effects of chemotherapy," Soto-Pantoja said.

This grant will support his continued efforts to understand how this molecule works and hopefully lead to a new approach to cancer therapy.

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