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16 Personalities

In our free type descriptions you’ll learn what really drives, inspires, and worries different personality types, helping you build more meaningful relationships.

Course related:: MM517 Human Resource development
Subjects:: Psychology
Keywords:: Typology (Psychology) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Resource Type:: Others

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

The video discusses how fMRI works, what is represented in a typical fMRI image, and some of the methodological problems associated with the use of fMRI. Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Cognitive neuroscience Magnetic resonance imaging Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging
Resource Type:: Video

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuroimaging

This video discusses neuroimaging, covering four of the most common types of neuroimaging: computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Brain -- Imaging
Resource Type:: Video

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Optic Nerve (Cranial Nerve II)

A 2-minute video (with transcript) discusses the anatomy and function of the optic nerve, as well as describe what can happen when the nerve is damaged. Additional notes are available at https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/optic-nerve-deficits .

Subjects:: Optometry
Keywords:: Optic nerve Optic nerve -- Diseases Nerves Cranial
Resource Type:: Video

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ABG Online Learning Activity

An interactive online learning activity (tutorial) for nurses and healthcare personnel. ** Skip registration and click on the 'Start here' link (below the registration section), if you are not interested in the credits.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Nursing -- Study teaching Allied health personnel -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

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Anatomy and Physiology

An openly accessible textbook for a two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. Instructor resources including instructors guide and Powerpoint slides are downloadable from the site. Download options in various formats: Openstax Apps, PDF, Kindle, ibooks, Chegg, and read online are available.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
Resource Type:: e-book

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Anatomy and Physiology I

In this learning object the organizational levels of life are covered. Topics include listing the simplest to most complex levels of the human body and the organ systems. Labeling activities and quiz questions are included as self-assessments.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy Human physiology
Resource Type:: Others

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Anthropology 135A: Religion & Social Order

This course is an anthropological exploration of religions in diverse cultural and historical contexts. Our focus will be on relations of power, social order, social change, gender, and the role that religion plays in modernity, transnationalism, and globalization. We will investigate the performance of rites and rituals, and the cultural expressions of religious beliefs and practices. Through comparative and critical strategies, we will look at how religion interacts with, and is embedded in other aspects of society. In doing so, we will find religious elements in unexpected places. We will study anthropological theories of culture and religion from the classical canon, in addition to contemporary approaches, and apply them to a variety of topics. While respecting the efficacy of all systems of belief, we will think about how religions orient people to their social worlds in ways that are systematically related to historical and cultural change.

Subjects:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Religion sociology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Anxiety

A set of 5 videos (with transcripts) guided by lecture notes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Nursing
Keywords:: Panic disorders Post-traumatic stress disorder Anxiety disorders Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

A series of videos explaining how joints work and what can go wrong. It covers common muscular-skeletal diseases especially symptoms, causes and treatments on topics related to arthritis & gait. Study materials designed to go with the videos are found at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/muscular-skeletal-diseases/arthritis/a/arthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis

Subjects:: Rehabilitation Sciences
Keywords:: Rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done in MATLAB® during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Biomedical engineering Signal processing Image processing
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Bloomsbury Open Access

Open access ebooks from Bloomsbury Collections

Keywords:: Social sciences Management Design Geography Business Linguistics Humanities Economics
Resource Type:: e-book

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BlueLink - University of Michigan Medical School

These pages serve U-M Foundational Anatomy, a component of the Scientific Trunk of the M1 curriculum. Foundational Anatomy provides medical students with the necessary background in anatomy for success in clerkships.

Course related:: RS2040 Functional Anatomy and RS5308 Functional Anatomy
Subjects:: Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences, and Nursing
Keywords:: Human body Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Others

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Brainscape - Renal System

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Nursing
Keywords:: Kidneys -- Physiology Kidneys -- Anatomy
Resource Type:: Others

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Conducting a literature search using PubMed

This video demonstrates the search process, starting with finding keywords and ending with executing the search and accessing the literature. Topics covered include advanced searching techniques, using filters in PubMed, and accessing literature through open access websites like PubMed Central. 1. Steps of the literature search process 2. Gathering Keywords on the Internet 3. Understanding MeSH 4. Review the search terms 5. Database search techniques and Boolean operators 6. Searching PubMed and using Advanced search 7. Using PubMed filters 8. PubMed Central 9. MyNCBI 10. Accessing the literature 11. Additional resources

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information retrieval Subject headings -- Medicine Database searching National Institutes of Health (U.S.). PubMed Central Online bibliographic searching Medical subject headings (National Library of Medicine (U.S.))
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Criminology, Law and Society C219: Hate Crimes

Examines the causes and consequences of hate crimes as well as the larger soical land political context in which they occur. Considers the dynamics and politics of violence stemming from bigotry and discrimination, as well as the social policies designed to control it.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Hate crimes Criminology
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Criminology, Law and Society C238: White-Collar and Corporate Crime

Examines criminal activity within the professions, organizations, and businesses. Theories discussing the etiology of these acts are considered as well as perspectives regarding their control.

Subjects:: Sociology and Business Ethics
Keywords:: Commercial crimes White collar crimes
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Health Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Medical sciences Public health Medicine Dentistry Nursing
Resource Type:: e-book

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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Law and Political Science)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Political science Law
Resource Type:: e-book

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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Social Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Education Anthropology Psychology Library science Social sciences Sociology
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

EPID 757 - Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are useful for evidence-based clinical and public health practice. The widespread and growing application of systematic review methods for the synthesis of evidence on important or pressing research and clinical questions underscore the need for health-care professionals to understand and critique this research design. This course will provide a detailed description of the systematic review process, discuss the strengths and limitations of the method, and provide step-by-step guidance on how to actually perform a systematic review and meta-analysis. Specific topics to be covered include: formulation of the review question, searching of literature, quality assessment of studies, data extraction, meta-analytic methods, assessment of heterogeneity and report writing. The course will also cover statistical issues such as selection of statistical models for meta-analysis, practical examples of fixed and random effects models, best evidence syntheses (qualitative systematic reviews) as well as examples of methods to evaluate heterogeneity and publication bias. STATA statistical software will be used to perform meta-analysis during the computer lab, along with tutorials on how to effectively use tools such as PubMed for conducting reviews.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Meta-analysis Research -- Methodology Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

EndNote X8 on Macintosh: The short course

A 24-minute class covering the basics of using EndNote X8 on the Macintosh.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
Resource Type:: Video

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EndNote X8 on Windows: The short course

This 25-minute class covers the basics for working with EndNote X8 on Windows.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Endocrine system introduction

A set of 6 video lessons to help the understanding of the endocrine system and how hormones work for the human body. Transcripts included.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Endocrinology Endocrine gls
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views

In this course we introduce the concept of environmental ethics, a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts we traditionally apply to human behavior to the natural world. We will study the history of environmental ethics, the concept of environmental justice, and explore how our views about the natural world have changed over time. Philosophers have debated the concept of environmental ethics since the 1800s, although many consider it to be a relatively new discipline. In this course we identify key pioneers and events that have helped shape the global effort to help preserve our planet for future generations and species. We explore the notion of environmental justice and witness how a disregard for the environment can negatively impact entire communities. Finally, we explore political efforts that have promoted environmental sustainability in the United States and Europe. We see how our ethical beliefs and moral worldview can help shape the laws and regulations we create, in terms of our sense of ethical responsibility, social justice, and environmental sustainability.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Environmental ethics
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Ethics in AI

Over the last decade, concerns about the power and danger of Artificial Intelligence have moved from the fantasy of “Terminator” to reality, and anxieties about killer robots have been joined by many others that are more immediate. An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare

Subjects:: Health Technology and Informatics and Medical and Professional Ethics
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence -- Moral ethical aspects Ethics
Resource Type:: Others

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Evidence-based practice for librarians- levels of evidence

This video is the part 3 of the EBP for non-health sciences librarians.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Evidence-based medicine Information retrieval Medicine -- Research -- Evaluation
Resource Type:: Video

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Evidence-based practice step 3- rapid critical appraisal

This video is about the step 3 of the EBP process is about evaluating the information you have found.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Evidence-based medicine Medicine -- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation Public health -- Research -- Methodology Medical care -- Research -- Methodology
Resource Type:: Video

Presentation

Express path to interoperable solutions – Case of the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia

This video was recorded at CeGD eGovernance Academy Seminar Series (SEeHealth): The Roadmap from Concept to Practice, Ljubljana 2010. The key of mutual integration of health care institutions lies in their interoperability, gathering and common utilization of data by different applications. Seemingly, imperceptible and smooth applications' integration enables an efficient mutual linkage of all departments within a single health care institution as well as horizontal and vertical linkage of more health care institutions, all with the aim of improvement of health and quality of patient's life. Health care system quality improvement needs a continuous rationalization of resources funds, which leads towards optimization of business processes and availability of all necessary information in the shortest possible period. All necessary information and data on patients must be available independently on location or time of such a necessity. The greatest obstacles for interoperability represent heterogeneous applications. Such heterogeneity can be presented by the fact that they were written in various program languages, that they are intended for utilization at different types of computers or the fact that they use various communication networks and data transfer methods. IT managers in hospitals must decide how to contribute to cross‐organizational integration and what strategy and means to choose for achieving interoperability. If a system is poor in its interoperability, any increasing functions or little changes could stop its working properly. Interoperability must be ensured at technical, semantic and process levels but also in a legislative level, where all recommendations for legal and lawful solutions are given, which remove the most frequent obstacles – human and bureaucratic factors. The Oncology Institute of Vojvodina as a referent center for oncology and a center for medical informatics signed its own Integrated hospital and business information system. The information system at the IOV consists of the following modules: 1. hospital‐clinical IS 2. laboratory IS 3. pharmaceutical IS 4. radiological IS 5. invoicing (accounting) IS 6. business IS 7. managerial IS All of these modules are mutually optimally integrated, and their interoperability at the level of communicational protocols (HL7, DICOM, internal interface), semantics (the same code‐records, rules) and legislative level (the same accounting calculations) enables the user to see all these complex modules as one system. Thus, we created necessary preconditions for our integration into information society, which is a 21st century strategy at the state level.

Subjects:: Health Sciences, Management, and Computing
Keywords:: Health services administration -- Data processing Management information systems Health services administration -- Computer networks
Resource Type:: Presentation

Video

FCC President Eric Wishart talks to TDM News, Macau

In this video, FCCHK President gives his views on the spread of fake news and how news and social media organisations can combat it

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Media literacy Social media Fake news Information literacy Disinformation
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

For Love and Money: Rethinking the Family

Through investigating cross-cultural case studies, this course introduces students to the anthropological study of the social institutions and symbolic meanings of family, gender, and sexuality. We will explores the myriad forms that families and households take and considers their social, emotional, and economic dynamics.

Subjects:: Anthropology and Sociology
Keywords:: Sex Families Gender identity
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Foundations of Public Health: Pub Hlth 200

This course presents the overarching framework, principles, and core responsibilities of public health research and practice from a multidisciplinary perspective. The course also provides the necessary foundation for further studies toward advanced cross-cutting approaches essential for public health practice.

Subjects:: Public Health
Keywords:: Public health -- Research Public health Public health administration
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Social classes Mass media sex United States Mass media race relations Mass media -- Social aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Gender, Health, and Society

This course draws on different disciplines, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to examine gender in relation to health, including public health practice, epidemiologic research, health policy, and clinical application. It discusses a variety of health-related issues that illustrate global, international, domestic, and historical perspectives, while considering other social determinants of health as well, including social class and race.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Public health Gender identity Equality -- Health aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Getting started with Mendeley

This tutorial will help you get started with Mendeley by showing you an introduction to all the basic features. Check out our YouTube channel for more videos, or go to http://resources.mendeley.com for guides and support.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Globalization: The Good, the Bad and the In-Between

This subject examines the paradoxes of contemporary globalization. Through lectures, discussions and student presentations, we will study the cultural, linguistic, social and political impact of globalization across broad international borders. We will pay attention to the subtle interplay of history, geography, language and cultural norms that gave rise to specific ways of life. The materials for the course include fiction, nonfiction, audio pieces, maps and visual materials.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Globalization
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Good Food: Ethics and Politics of Food

This course explores the values (aesthetic, moral, cultural, religious, prudential, political) expressed in the choices of food people eat. Analyzes the decisions individuals make about what to eat, how society should manage food production and consumption collectively, and how reflection on food choices might help resolve conflicts between different values.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Food habits Food consumption
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators

HMP 607 is the third in a three-course sequence intended to impart to generalist administrators the knowledge of finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health care firm. As such, HMP 607 is most appropriately considered a corporate finance course, as opposed to a course in financial markets. In addition, it will integrate corporate finance and accounting theories, institutional knowledge of health care finance, and applications to specific problems.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Health facilities Finance Corporations -- Finance
Resource Type:: Courseware

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HMP 668/SI 542 - Introduction to Health Informatics

The conceptual structure for the course derives from the statement below that expresses the purpose of health informatics. Health informatics applies to a wide range of health-related application domains a set of methods (drawn from the informational and behavioral sciences) to create and study informational resources that support the health-related activities of people (individuals and groups) in these domains. The methods employed in health informatics derive from both the computational/informational sciences and the behavioral/social sciences. This course, as an initial immersion into the field of health informatics, will examine the domains, methods, and classes of information resources that, together, create the scaffolding of the field.

Subjects:: Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords:: Medical informatics
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Health Issues for Aging Populations

Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons. Presents an overview on aging from different perspectives: demography, biology, epidemiology of diseases, ethical issues in the care of older individuals, and more.

Subjects:: Social Work and Human Services
Keywords:: Older people -- Mental health Older people -- Health hygiene Older people -- Services for Aging Medical policy
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Health Topics A-Z

The CDC A-Z Index is a navigational and informational tool that makes the CDC.gov Website easier to use. It helps you quickly find and retrieve specific information. The A-Z index is structured so that synonyms, acronyms, and cross-referencing provide multiple ways for you to access the topics and features on CDC.gov. The index includes common and scientific terms to meet the needs of consumers as well as health professionals.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Public health Medicine Preventive Centers for Disease Control Prevention (U.S.)
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

Healthy Cities: Assessing Health Impacts of Policies and Plans

This class examines the built, psychosocial, economic, and natural environment factors that affect health behaviors and outcomes. Students will be introduced to tools designed to integrate public health considerations into policy making and planning, and will be given hands-on training on the application of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methodology. This class is designed to prepare graduate students from planning and policy fields to interface with public health organizations, agencies, or advocacy groups in professional contexts.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Public health Medical policy
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Heart Sounds and Cardiac Arrhythmias Tutorial

This website allows visitors to see and hear extensive digital recordings of actual patients, with high-resolution animations, ECGs and explanatory text. The Heart Sounds Tutorial focuses on the four common valvar lesions in the left heart including aortic regurgitation, aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, and mitral stenosis.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Heart -- Diseases Arrhythmia Heart -- Sounds
Resource Type:: Video

Video

How to choose your news - Damon Brown

How do we choose which news to consume? Get the scoop on how opinions and facts affect the news and how to tell them apart. With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Media literacy Social media Fake news
Resource Type:: Video

Video

How to install and set up Zotero

Learn how to create a Zotero account, install it, and set it up. If you need to learn how to use Zotero, click here: https://youtu.be/RMx5S0hbjrg

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
Resource Type:: Video

Video

How to set up a sterile field - Clinical Skills Online

A video showing the proper procedures of setting up a sterile field for clinical activity. This is a teaching resource created by St George's, University of London.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Sterilization Nursing
Resource Type:: Video

Video

How to use Google reverse image search to fact check images

A quick demo of how Google's reverse image search tool can be used to fact check and research images. Have you ever wondered about the source or history behind an image? Google image search can help provide answers. Whether you're doing research or just curious, reverse image search offers a digital paper trail of where an image has appeared on the internet. All you need to do is drag and drop an image into the images.google.com search bar, paste a url into the search bar, or right click on an image when using the Chrome browser.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Google (Firm) Internet searching Information literacy
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

InTechOpen (Health Sciences)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Medical sciences
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

InTechOpen (Social Sciences and Humanities)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Business Humanities Social sciences
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

Incorporating information from sources into your research paper

In this video, you will learn how to incorporate information from your research into your paper by using quotes, paraphrases and summaries, and when and how you need to cite the information.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Dissertations Academic Technical writing Report writing
Resource Type:: Video

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