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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, PROGRAMS AND DATA |
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1 Faircloth, Jeremy
Enterprise applications administration : the definitive
guide to implementation and operations / Jeremy Faircloth
-- Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013.
xii, 388p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780124077737.
005.3068 FAI 141586
This book provides essential information on tasks such as
operating systems administration, network design, system
architecture, project planning, working within a team,
protecting the network, and how to keep applications up
and running. The book effectively bridges the gap between
what is taught in the technology-specific literature and
the real world of enterprise application administrators.
** Application software -- Management , Computer systems
- Management , Business enterprises -- Data processing
2 McKnight, William
Information management : strategies for gaining a
competitive advantage with data / William McKnight.--
Waltham: Elsevier, 2014.
xviii, 195p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780124080560.
005.74068 MAC 141587
This book develops the value proposition for information
in the enterprise and succinctly outlines the numerous
forms of data storage. It balances business and
technology, with non-product-specific technical detail.
It shows how to leverage data to deliver ROI for a
business.
** Data Mining , Database management , Big data
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LIBRARY OPERATIONS |
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3 Titangos, Hui-Lan H
Local community in the era of social media technologies :
a global approach / Hui-Lan H Titangos.-- Oxford: Chandos
Publishing, 2013.
xxii, 281p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781843346968.
025.04 TIT 141591
Social media technologies can help connect local
communities to the wider world. This book introduces the
experience of bringing a local community to the world.
This book, with the model of Santa Cruz County,
California, develops a truly global approach to the
subject. The first section of the book covers the early
efforts of recording the local Santa Cruz area, before
moving on to deal with Library 1.0. The next section
looks at the present situation with Library 2.0 and its
benefits. The book ends with a discussion of future
directions and the implications of Library 3.0 and
beyond.
** Social media , Libraries and community , Online social
networks -- Library applications
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NEWS MEDIA,JOURNALISM and PUBLISHING |
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4 Kumar, Madhavi Ravi
Social problems and the Indian press / Madhavi Ravi Kumar
and D V R Murthy.-- New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2014.
vii, 190p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9788184576061.
070.44936110954 KUM 141602
** Social problems -- Press coverage -- India
5 Cordon-Garcia, Jose-Antonio
Social reading : platforms, applications, clouds and tags
/ Jose-Antonio Cordon-Garcia and others.-- Oxford:
Chandos Publishing, 2013.
x, 289p. , 3cm.
ISBN : 9781843347262.
070.573 COR 141593
This book discusses social reading as an emerging
tendency involving authors, readers, librarians,
publishers, and other industry professionals. It also
describes how the way we read is changing.
** Electronic book readers , Reading -- Technological
innovations , Books and reading -- Social aspects
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ETHICS |
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6 Marstine, Janet (ed)
The Routledge companion to museum ethics : redefining
ethics for the twenty-first century museum / Janet
Marstine.-- London: Routledge, 2011.
xxv, 477p. , 25cm.
ISBN : 9780415566124.
174.9069 MAR 141571
The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics examines
contemporary museum ethics through the prism of those
disciplines and methods that have shaped it most. It
argues for a museum ethics discourse defined by social
responsibility, radical transparency and shared
guardianship of heritage, and demonstrates the moral
agency of museums.
** Museums -- Management -- Moral and ethical aspects ,
Museums -- Social aspects , Social change
7 Fennell, David A
Aspects of tourism : tourism ethics / David A Fennell.--
New Delhi: Viva Books, 2010.
xvii, 404p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9788130912325.
174.991 FEN 141579
Tourism Ethics applies moral concepts and issues to some
of the most vexing tourism dilemmas of the day, through
foundational research from many disciplines including
biology, psychology, anthropology, geography and
philosophy. Areas of emphasis include sex tourism, all-
inclusives, ecotourism, justice, rights, deontology and
teleology.
** Tourism -- Social aspects , Tourism -- Moral and
ethical aspects , BUSINESS and ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics
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SOCIAL GROUPS |
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8 Brito, Olivier (ed)
Understanding urban poverty in India : experiences from
Mumbai / Olivier Brito and Aditya Singh.-- Jaipur: Rawat
Publications, 2014.
xiii, 218p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9788131606223.
305.560954792 BRI 141606
This book focuses on poverty have acknowledged the need
for more comprehensive approaches to poverty combining
the rigour of quantitative methods and reflexivity of
qualitative approaches. It offers a portrait of poverty
in the city of Mumbai through a wide spectrum of social
sciences-from economics to population studies and
feminist epistemology-is aimed at getting a better grasp
on some of the actions that could be taken to tackle
urban poverty.
** Poor -- India -- Mumbai
9 Gunaratnam, Yasmin
Researching race and ethnicity : methods, knowledge and
power / Yasmin Gunaratnam.-- London: Sage Publications,
2003.
ix, 218p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 0761972862.
305.80072 GUN 141465
The author uses detailed case study examples to show how
race and ethnicity is produced negotiated and resisted in
qualitative research encounters.
** Race -- Research , Ethnicity -- Research , Qualitative
research
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS |
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10 Narlikar, Amrita (ed)
Small states in multilateral economic negotiations /
Amrita Narlikar.-- New York: Routledge, 2014.
vii, 82p. 25cm.
ISBN : 9780415835374.
337 NAR 141601
The book offers new insights into the vulnerabilities
that small states face in multilateral economic
negotiations, and also mechanisms whereby these
weaknesses might be overcome and even used as an
advantage. The attention that this volume pays to
questions of smallness and negotiation allow it to
address a long-standing problem of international
politics. The case studies, which cover monetary,
financial, trade, and climate change negotiations, ensure
a unique and valuable topicality to the book.
** States, Small -- Economic conditions
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PRODUCTION |
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11 Elsner, Wolfram
The Microeconomics of complex economies : evolutionary,
institutional, neoclassical, and complexity perspectives
/ Wolfram Elsner, Torsten Heinrich and Henning Schwardt.-
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015.
xxxi, 566p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9780124115859.
338.5 ELS 141566
This book uses game theory, modeling approaches, formal
techniques, and computer simulations to teach useful,
accessible approaches to real modern economies. It covers
topics of information and innovation, including national
and regional systems of innovation, clustered and
networked firms, and open-source/open-innovation
production and use. Its final chapter on policy
perspectives and decisions confirms the value of the
toolset. The book includes an introduction to computer
simulation and pedagogical supplements. Its formal,
accessible treatment of complexity goes beyond the scopes
of neoclassical and mainstream economics.
** Microeconomics
12 Varian, Hal R
Intermediate microeconomics : a modern approach / Hal R
Varian.--9th ed-- New York: W W Norton, 2014.
xxv, 758p., 24cm.
ISBN : 9780393123968.
338.5 VAR 141599
This book provides fresh insights into information
technology, expanded coverage of strategic behaviour and
a new chapter on auctions featuring fresh research. .
** Microeconomics
13 Thai, Mai Thi Thanh (ed)
Internationalization of firms from economies in
transition : the effects of a politico-economic paradigm
shift / Mai Thi Thanh Thai and Ekaterina Turkina.--
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014.
xiv, 341p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781783474691.
338.88 THA 141562
This book provides a detailed analysis of how and why
firms from economies in transition internationalize and
examines the effects of domestic politico-economic
factors on this process.
** International business enterprises , Economic
development , Globalization -- Economic aspects
14 Kourtit, Karima (ed)
Applied regional growth and innovation models / Karima
Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Robert Stimson.-- Heidelberg:
Springer, 2014.
viii, 360p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9783642378188.
338.9 KOU 141569
This book contains a unique collection of operational
models of a strong applied nature that may be seen as
original landmarks in the rich tradition of spatial-
economic growth modelling. The contributors are
recognized experts from different parts of the world.
** Regional economics , Economic development ,
Economics/Management Science
15 Mehta, Rani
Sociology and environmental sustainability : a study of
fragile ecology, health risks and population pangs / Rani
Mehta.-- Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2014.
ix, 222p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9788131606308.
338.95407 MEH 141603
** Sustainable development -- India , Sustainable
development , Environmental degradation -- India
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SPECIFIC FIELDS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION |
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16 Kolsky, Elizabeth
Colonial justice in British India / Elizabeth Kolsky.--
New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
xi, 252p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780521190787.
353.409540903 KOL 141607
This book describes the lesser-known history of the
violence and criminal conduct of one group of Europeans
in British India.
** Justice, Administration of -- India -- History ,
Violence -- India -- History , India -- Race relations --
History
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SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEMS and SERVICES |
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17 Akram, Mahammad
Sociology of health / Mahammad Akram.-- Jaipur: Rawat
Publications, 2014.
xi, 244p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9788131605585.
362.1042 AKR 141604
This book presents the ground realities of -health-,
-illness- and -disease- in India. It extensively uses the
conflict, functional, interactionist and post-
structuralist perspectives to explore the nuances and
subtleties surrounding -disease- and -health care- in
India at different levels. It covers issues like
development of sociology of health, social medicine and
community health, social epidemiology, types and agents
of disease, medicalization and demedicalization, medical
pluralism, determinants and indicators of health,
occupational health, nutrition, food and water,
sanitation and environment, health policies and
programmes and inequality, inequity and dehealthism in
health.
** Health -- Social aspects , Public health -- India ,
Social medicine -- India
18 Ball, Martin J (ed)
Handbook of qualitative research in communication
disorders / Martin J Ball, Nicole Muller and Ryan L
Nelson.-- New York: Psychology Press, 2014.
xxi, 370p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781848726437.
362.196855 BAL 141564
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth handbook
of qualitative research in the field of communication
disorders. It introduces and illustrates the wide range
of qualitative paradigms that have been used in recent
years to investigate various aspects of communication
disorders.
** Communicative disorders -- Research -- Methodology ,
Language disorders -- Research -- Methodology ,
Communication -- Research -- Methodology
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COSTUME and PERSONAL APPEARANCE |
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19 Corrigan, Peter
The Dressed society : clothing, the body and some
meanings of the world / Peter Corrigan.-- Los Angeles:
Sage Publications, 2008.
196p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780761952077.
391.00905 COR 141460
The author demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by
social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the
body the gift exchange, class, gender and religion.
** Clothing and dress -- Social aspects , Clothing and
dress -- History -- 21st century , HEALTH and FITNESS --
Beauty and Grooming
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LINGUISTICS |
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20 Wallace, Michael J
Training foreign language teachers : a reflective
approach / Michael J Wallace.-- New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
ix,180p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 9780521356541.
418.007 WAL 141467
Training Foreign Language Teachers is aimed at anyone in
the area of foreign language teaching who is engaged in
designing, running or taking part in teacher education
programmes. It begins by examining some current models of
teacher education. This book contains many suggestions
for practical work and discussion, and includes an
extended case-study.
** Language teachers -- Training of
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ENGLISH and OLD ENGLISH LANGUAGES |
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21 Radford, Andrew
Minimalist syntax : exploring the structure of English /
Andrew Radford.-- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2004.
xiii, 512p. , 25cm.
ISBN : 052183497X.
425 RAD 141462
This book provides a concise, clear, and accessible
introduction to current syntactic theory. Assuming very
little prior grammatical knowledge, it takes students
through a range of phenomena in English syntax.
** English language -- Syntax , Grammar, Comparative and
general -- Syntax
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MATHEMATICS |
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22 Reimer, David
Count like an Egyptian : a hands-on introduction to
ancient mathematics / David Reimer.-- New Jersey:
Princeton University Press, 2014.
xiii, 237p. , 25cm.
ISBN : 9780691160122.
513.211 REI 141483
The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally
different from our math today. Contrary to what people
might think, it wasn-t a primitive forerunner of modern
mathematics. This book provides an introduction to the
intuitive and often-surprising art of ancient Egyptian
math.
** Mathematics, Babylonian , Mathematics -- Egypt ,
Mathematics
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GENERAL MANAGEMENT |
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23 Verbeke, Alain (ed)
Handbook of research on international strategic
management / Alain Verbeke and Hemant Merchant.--
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.
x, 495p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9781847201935.
658.18 VER 141561
The handbook provides an impressive state-of-the-art
overview of the international strategic management field
as an area of scholarly inquiry.
** International business enterprises -- Management ,
Strategic planning
24 Ferragina, Anna Maria (ed)
Innovation, globalization and firm dynamics : lessons for
enterprise policy / Anna Maria Ferragina, Erol Taymaz and
Kamil Yilmaz.-- London: Routledge, 2014.
xxvi, 376p. , 24cm.
(Routledge studies in the modern world economy, 128).
ISBN : 9780415836777.
658.401 FER 141588
This book is about the relationship between firm
dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes
that are essential for long term economic growth and
welfare creation. This volume deals with these three
issues in three sections titled respectively:
entrepreneurship, new firm formation and growth,
productivity-innovation-growth nexus, globalization,
multinational firms and producers- dynamics. The book
presents new studies written by distinguished researchers
in the field, who use state-of-the-art methodologies and
extensive sources of firm- and plant-level longitudinal
data to analyze and understand these major economic
issues facing modern economies.
** Entrepreneurship , New business enterprises --
Technological innovations , International business
enterprises -- Management
25 Gleissner, Herald
Logistics : basics -- exercises -- case studies / Harald
Gleissner and J Christian Femerling.-- Heidelberg:
Springer, 2013.
xxi, 311p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 9783319017686.
658.5 GLE 141600
This book explains key concepts, principles, and
practices of logistics.
** Business logistics , Economics/Management Science ,
Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management
26 Gattiker, Urs E
Social media audits : achieving deep impact without
sacrificing the bottom line / Urs E Gattiker.-- Oxford:
Chandos Publishing, 2014.
xvi, 293p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781843347453.
658.872 GAT 141592
This book gives people dealing with social business in
their working life a guide to social media marketing,
measurement, and how to evaluate and improve the use of
social media in an organizational context. It consists of
three parts, the first of which introduces the reader to
concepts and ideas emerging in social media. The second
part considers the need to shift from traditional -shout
marketing- to a more conversational, social approach to
customers. The third part moves the discussion towards a
systematic approach to evaluating social media
activities.
** Social media -- Auditing , Internet marketing --
Auditing , Benchmarking (Management)
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SPORTS,GAMES and ENTERTAINMENT |
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27 McCormick, John
Popular theatres of nineteenth-century France / John
McCormick.-- London: Routledge, 1993.
x, 255p. , 22cm.
ISBN : 0415088542.
792.094409034 MAC 141464
This book provides an account of how popular theatre
developed in France from the fairground booths of the
18th century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in
the following century. It focuses on the social and
economic context in which vaudevilles, pantomimes and
melodramas were performed.
** Theater -- France -- History -- 19th century , Theater
and society -- France , PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater --
History and Criticism
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LITERATURE, RHETORIC and CRITICISM |
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28 Brewer, Robert Lee (ed)
2014 Writer-s market / Robert Lee Brewer.-- Ohio:
Writer-s Digest Books, 2013.
921p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781599637327.
808.02 BRE 141481
This book features up-to-date listings of publications,
editors, magazines, contests, awards, and literary
agents, along with articles that describe how to find,
manage, and promote an author-s work.
** Authorship -- Marketing , Periodicals -- Directories ,
Publishers and publishing -- Directories
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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH |
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29 Butcher, Jim
Furies of Calderon / Jim, Butcher.-- New York: Ace Books,
2010.
673p. , 19cm.
ISBN : 9780441012688.
813.6 BUT 141472
In the land of Alera, where people bond with the furies--
elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal--young
Tavi struggles to cope with his lack of magical talent,
until his homeland erupts into conflct between rebels and
loyalists and Tavi discovers that he holds the key to his
realm-s survival.
** Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Fiction , Boys --
Fiction , Boys
30 Butcher, Jim
Princeps- fury / Jim Butcher.-- New York: Ace Books, 2009
627p. , 19cm.
ISBN : 9780441017966.
813.6 BUT 141474
Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius
Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile
alliance with Alera-s oldest foes, the savage Canim. But
when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their
lands, his worst fears are realized.
** Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction , Imaginary wars
and battles
31 Mclaughlin, Emma
The Nanny diaries / Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus.--
New York: St Martin-s Paperbacks, 2007.
368p. , 17cm.
ISBN : 9780312948047.
813.6 MAC 141473
A graduate from New York University takes a position
caring for the only son of a wealthy Manhattan family.
She rapidly learns the work and time involved to ensure
that the Park Avenue wife doesn-t work, cook, clean or
raise her own child. A satirical and comical look at the
upper class of Manhattan.
** Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction , Park Avenue
(New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction , Rich people -- Fiction
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ENGLISH and OLD ENGLISH LITERATURES |
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32 Hawkes, David
John Milton : a hero of our time / David Hawkes.--
Berkeley: CounterPoint, 2009.
354p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9781582437132.
821.4 MIL 141461
This book examines Milton-s participation in the English
civil war and his startlingly modern ideas about
capitalism, love, and marriage, reminding us that human
liberty and autonomy should never be taken for granted.
** Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Political and social
views , Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Influence , Human
rights in literature
33 Chernaik, Warren
The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare-s history plays
/ Warren Chernaik.-- Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
ix, 210p. , 23cm.
ISBN : 9780521855075.
822.33 SHA 141459
This book examines the continuing tradition of
Shakespeare-s history plays in stage and film productions
as well as giving an account of the critical debate on
these plays.
** Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Histories ,
Historical drama, English -- History and criticism ,
Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687 -- Historiography
34 Kinsella, Sophie
Shopaholic and baby / Sophie Kinsella.-- New York: Dial
Press, 2008.
358p. , 21cm.
ISBN : 9780385338714.
823.92 KIN 141475
Becky is pregnant! She couldn-t be more overjoyed,
especially since discovering that shopping cures morning
sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby.
But when her must-have celebrity obstetrician turns out
to be her husband Luke-s glamorous, intellectual ex-
girlfriend, Becky-s perfect world starts to crumble.
** Bloomwood, Becky (Fictitious character) -- Fiction ,
Pregnant women -- Fiction , Triangles (Interpersonal
relations) -- Fiction
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GEOGRAPHY OF and TRAVEL IN ASIA |
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35 Stein, Aurel
On Alexander-s track to the Indus : personal narrative of
explorations on the north-west frontier of India / Aurel
Stein.-- London: Castle Books, 2004.
xiii, 182p. , 24cm.
ISBN : 0785818316.
915.4 STE 141463
** Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Antiquities , Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Description and travel ,
Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
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HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA |
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36 Sale, Kirkpatrick
Christopher Columbus and the conquest of paradise /
Kirkpatrick Sale.-- New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks,
2006.
xvi, 453p. , 20cm.
ISBN : 9781845111540.
970.015 COL 141580
This book analyses of Columbus and his discovery of the
New World and how it changed the distribution and mixture
of life-forms and cultures.
** Columbus, Christopher -- Influence , America --
Discovery and exploration -- Spanish , America --
Discovery and exploration -- British
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