Vol. 1: Abstracts from the 2005 Syndromic Surveillance Conference

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Empirical/Asymptotic P-Values for Monte Carlo-Based Hypothesis Testing: An Application to Cluster Detection Using the Scan Statistic
Allyson M. Abrams, Martin Kulldorff, Ken Kleinman
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The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) Package
Allyson M. Abrams, Ken Kleinman
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Modeling Clinician Detection Time of a Disease Outbreak Due to Inhalational Anthrax
Christina Adamou, Gregory F. Cooper, Weng-Keen Wong, John N. Dowling, William R. Hogan
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An Emergency Department Based Syndromic Surveillance System for Meningitis and Encephalitis, Maricopa County, AZ 2004
Nelson Arboleda, Aaron T. Fleischauer, Jim Sejvar, Alisa Diggs, Mare Schumacher, Sarah Santana, David Engelthaler, Ken Komatsu, Seyra Hughes, Greg Jones, Lori Hutwagner
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Syndromic Surveillance Signal Investigation in Los Angeles County
Jennifer Belden, Patricia Araki, Curtis Croker, Akbar Sharip, Rita Velikina, Bessie Hwang, Moon Kim, Raymond Aller
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Radiographic Surveillance in Children: A System for Monitoring Epidemics Associated with Prominent Respiratory Symptoms
Bema Bonsu, Namhee Kim, Soledad Fernandez, Marvin Harper
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Visualizing and Monitoring Data in BioSense Using SaTScan
Colleen A. Bradley
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Traveling Epidemic Waves in Biosurveillance Data: Identifying Early Hotspots of Respiratory Illness
John S. Brownstein, Ben Y. Reis, Kenneth D. Mandl
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Novel Surveillance Tool Enables Public Health Use of Poison Control Calls
Marcel J. Casavant
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A Novel, Context-Sensitive Approach to Anonymizing Spatial Surveillance Data: Impact on Outbreak Detection
Christopher A. Cassa, Shaun J. Grannis, J. Marc Overhage, Kenneth D. Mandl
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ICD9 as a Surrogate for Chart Review in the Validation of a Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System
Hwa-Gan Chang, Dennis G. Cochrane, Boldtsetseg Tserenpuntsag, John R. Allegra, Perry F. Smith
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Monitoring Febrile Syndromes from Chief Complaints: Is the Information There?
Wendy W. Chapman, John M. Dowling
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The Application of Enhanced Signal Analyses to Medicaid Data
Jian-Hua Chen, Kathryn J. Schmit, Kathleen K. Thoburn
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The Role of National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM) in Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreak Investigation, Washoe County, Nevada
Lei Chen
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The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises
Jacqueline S. Coberly, Sean P. Murphy, Steven M. Babin, Howard Burkom, Brian Feighner, Jeffrey Lin, Joseph Lombardo
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Georgia's Strategy for Targeting Syndromic Surveillance
Susan T. Cookson, James W. Buehler, Susan E. Lance
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Modelling the Contribution of Infectious Pathogens to the Seasonality of Syndromic Data
Duncan L. Cooper, Gillian E. Smith, W. John Edmunds, C. Joseph, Ewan Gerard
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Syndromic Surveillance to Identify a Neuro-Invasive Disease Outbreak in Los Angeles County
Curtis Croker, Akbar Sharip, Ferlie Villacorte, Mike Tormey, Moon Kim, Bessie Hwang, Rachel Civen, Raymond Aller
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Evaluation of Preprocessing Techniques for Chief Complaint Classification
Jagan Dara, Wendy W. Chapman
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Detection of Walkerton Gastroenteritis Outbreak Using Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Room Records
Richard F. Davies for the ECADS Partners and Collaborators
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Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004
Kristin K. Dunlap, Mark L. Wilson
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Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques
James Dunyak, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Martin Kulldorff
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Temporal-Spatial Surveillance Techniques from Non-Homogenous Random Geometric Graphs
James Dunyak, Mojdeh Mohtashemi, Kenneth Mandl
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Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense
Roseanne English, Paul C. McMurray, Leslie Z. Sokolow, Henry Rolka, David Walker, John F. Quinn III, Kenneth L. Cox
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A Case Manager Tool for Anomaly Investigation in BioSurveillance
Colin Goodall, Guy Jacobson, Arnold Lent, Sam Parker, Simon Tse, John Allegra, Dennis Cochrane, Eileen Koski, Patrick Tellez
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Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS
Christopher Goranson, Kevin Konty, Jingsong Lu, Farzad Mostashari
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Using Open-Source Grid-Computing Technology to Improve Processing Time for Geospatial Syndromic Surveillance Data
Shaun Grannis, Karen Olson, James Egg, J. Marc Overhage
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Do Women Really Complain More than Men? Looking at Gastrointestinal Chief Complaints in Boston
Julia Gunn, Justin Pendarvis, Amy Kirkwood Smith, M. Anita Barry
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Syndromic Surveillance and Zip Code Data: The Role of Zip Codes in Understanding Populations
Julia Gunn, Justin Pendarvis, M. Anita Barry
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The NGram CC Classifier: A Novel Method of Automatically Creating CC Classifiers Based on ICD9 Groupings
Sylvia Halasz, Philip Brown, Colin Goodall, Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra
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BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience: New Jersey, November, 2004
Teresa Hamby, Colleen Bradley, Carol Ann Genese, Christina Tan, Eddy Bresnitz
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Evaluation of Pilot Hospitals Participating in the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS)
Elizabeth Hibler
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Enhancing Community Connectivity for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Child Care Centres in Hong Kong
Fanny Ho, Arnold Fang, Teresa Li, Teresa Choi
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Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance
Amy I. Ising, Debbie A. Travers, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Aaron Kipp, Anna E. Waller
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Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
Mike Jackson, Atar Baer, Ian Painter, Jeff Duchin
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The Cost of Obfuscation When Reporting Locations of Cases in Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Caroline Jeffery, Al Ozonoff, Laura Forsberg, Miriam Nuño, Marcello Pagano
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Syndromic Surveillance, The First French Experience
Loic Josseran, Isabelle Gailhard, B. Eboumbou, Gilles Brucker
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Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo
Bryant T. Karras, David Bliss, Scott Horn, Hilary Metcalf, Steve Wagner, Bill Lober, Scott Lindquist
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Evaluating Outbreak-Detection Methods Using Simulations: Volume Under the Time-ROC Surface
Ken Kleinman, Allyson Abrams
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Using Age as Space: Looking for Citywide Age Clusters of Influenza
Kevin Konty, Don Olson, Farzad Mostashari
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Exploring the Role of Quest Diagnostics Corporate Data Warehouse for Timely Influenza Surveillance
Eileen Koski, Kathryn S. Teates, Patrick Tellez, Jake Geller, Peter Heseltine, Robert W. Pinner
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Components of Inter-Hospital Variability in Chief Complaints Assigned to a Gastrointestinal Syndrome
Robert Levy, Dennis G. Cochrane, Jonathan Rothman, John R. Allegra
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Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
Joseph S. Lombardo, Howard S. Burkom, Kathy Hurt-Mullen, Jacqueline Coberly, Sheryl L. Happel Lewis, Richard Wojcik, Wayne Loschen
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Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?
Jinsong Lu, Kevin Konty, Farzad Mostashari, Kristi Metzger
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Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data
Haobo Ma, Jerome I. Tokars, Roseanne English, Theresa L. Smith, Colleen Bradley, Leslie Sokolow, Henry Rolka
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Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
Jennifer MacFarquhar, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Anna Waller, Debbie Travers, Matthew Scholer, Megan Davies
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An Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Approach for a Syndromic Surveillance System
Uma B. Marques, Tony Barbagallo, Kevin Vigilante
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An Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Approach for a Syndromic Surveillance System
Uma B. Marques, Sue Skidmore, Tony Barbagallo
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Too Many Signals? Frequency and Quantitative Descriptions of Detected Events
Christopher McClean, Jeffrey Johnson, Brit Colanter, Michele Ginsberg
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Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar
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Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar
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Multi-Sectored Approach to Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System
Kieran Moore, Mike Rimmer, Kevin O'Connor, Don McGuinness, Bronwen Edgar
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Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
Sean P. Murphy, Howard S. Burkom, Galit Shmueli
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Infectious Outbreaks and Time-Distributed Effects of Exposure
Elena N. Naumova, Ian B. MacNeill
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A Bayesian Scan Statistic for Spatial Cluster Detection
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Gregory F. Cooper
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An Expectation-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Space-Time Clusters
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Maheshkumar R. Sabhnani, Kenny Daniel
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Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer
Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yukihiko Kawaguchi, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Okabe
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Second Year of the Surveillance on Over-the-Counter Medication Sales Data in Japan
Yasushi Ohkusa, Mika Shigematsu, Kiyosu Taniguchi
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Syndromic Surveillance in Boston: Validating the Detection of Small Events and Integrating Response from a Local Health Department
Justin Pendarvis, Julia Gunn, Amy Kirkwood Smith, M. Anita Barry
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Multiple Data Sources and Reverse Engineering Could Improve Sensitivity of Surveillance Algorithms
Rebecca R. Roberts, Arunachalam Einstein, Robert Gore, Ibrar Ahmad, Linda M. Kampe, Bala Hota, Pamela Diaz, Nicole Cohen, John Mansour, Brandon Zagorski, Robert A. Weinstein
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ROC Curves in Public Health Surveillance: A First Step in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rebecca R. Roberts, Ibrar Ahmad, Arunachalam Einstein, Robert Gore, Linda Kampe, Nicole Cohen, Pamela Diaz, Bala Hota, John Mansour, Robert A. Weinstein
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Monitoring Pharmacy Retail Data for Anomalous Space-Time Clusters
Maheshkumar R. Sabhnani, Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Michael M. Wagner, Jeremy U. Espino
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Medicaid Prescription Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
Kathryn J. Schmit, Jian-Hua Chen, Pam Duncan, C. Waters, G. Johnson, Beth Nivin, Marilyn Kacica
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Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
Matthew J. Scholer, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, Aaron Kipp, Debbie Travers, Anna Waller
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A Generalization of the AMOC Curve
Yanna Shen, Weng-Keen Wong, Gregory F. Cooper
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Syndromic Surveillance Confirmation of Extended Influenza Season
Alan J. Siniscalchi, Matthew L. Carter, James L. Hadler
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Beyond Detection: Attack Characterization with Syndromic and Clinical Data
Adam A. Szpiro, David L. Buckeridge
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The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
Kathleen K. Thoburn, James R. Miller, Jerome I. Tokars, Colleen Bradley, Duane Zomer
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The New York State Department of Health's Syndromic Surveillance System
Kathleen K. Thoburn, James R. Miller, Jian-Hua Chen, Kathryn J. Schmit, Hwa-Gan Chang
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Monitoring Influenza Activity Using the BioSense System, 2003-2005
Jerome I. Tokars, Gary A. Roselle, Lynette Brammer, Julie Pavlin, Roseanne English-Bullard, Stephen M. Kralovic, Philip Gould, Alicia Postema, Nicola Marsden-Haug
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Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor for Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance
Debbie Travers, Aaron Kipp, Jennifer MacFarquhar, Anna Waller
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Integrating Early Event Detection into Local Disease Surveillance and Response
Nigel Turner, Alexandre Klementiev
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Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance
Liselotte van Asten, Kees van den Wijngaard, Hans van Vliet, Wilfrid van Pelt, Marion Koopmans
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Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
W. Katherine Yih, James Daniel, Dawn Heisey-Grove, John Hsu, James Nordin, Debra Ritzwoller, Edward Sherwood, Richard Platt
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A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness
W. Katherine Yih, Allyson Abrams, John Hsu, Ken Kleinman, Martin Kulldorff, Richard Platt
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Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness
W. Katherine Yih, Kathryn S. Teates, Allyson Abrams, Ken Kleinman, Robert Pinner, Robert Harmon, Richard Platt
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The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks
Wei Zheng, David J. Muscatello, Robin Turner, Leonie Neville
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An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms
William B. Lober, Dan Drozd, Thomas Lumley, Krisztian Sebestyen, Ian Painter
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Incorporating Wildlife Data into Syndromic Surveillance
Dennis M. Falls, Bobby Schopler, Amy Ising, Aaron Kipp, Anna E. Waller
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North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System
Meichum Li, Amy Ising, Anna E. Waller, Dennis Falls, Terri Eubanks, Aaron Kipp
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The Value of Patient Reports in Syndrome Assignment
Florence T. Bourgeois, Stephen C. Porter, Kenneth D. Mandl
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Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005
Alvina K. Chu, Marvin L. Sikes, Sheryl L. Happel Lewis, David Blythe, Julie A. Casani
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Preliminary Analysis of SaTScan's Effectiveness to Detect Known Disease Outbreaks Using Emergency Department Syndromic Data in Los Angeles County
Akbar Sharip, Jason Monroe, Curtis Croker, Moon Kim, Bessie Hwang, Raymond Aller, Laurene Mascola
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The New Real Time Surveillance System within the French Forces in French Guiana
Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Herve Chaudet, Gaetan Texier, Liliane Pellegrin, Xavier Deparis, Benjamin Queyriaux, Olivier Tournebize, Rene Migliani, Andre Spiegel, Jean-Paul Boutin
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Advanced Modular Design for Scalable Biosurveillance Systems
Ben Y. Reis, Chaim Kirby, Emmett Sprecher, Christopher A. Cassa, John Brownstein, William Simons, Lucas Jordan, Kenneth D. Mandl
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