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Incorporating geomorphic knowledge in the management of wetlands in Africa’s drylands: a rapid assessment of the Kafue Wetland

- Lidzhegu, Zwidofhelangani, Ellery, William F N, Mantel, Sukhmani

Authors: Lidzhegu, Zwidofhelangani , Ellery, William F N , Mantel, Sukhmani
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157108 , vital:40087 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01172-9
Description: Limited knowledge of wetland geomorphic processes often results in poor wetland management. This study aims to illustrate the importance of incorporating geomorphic knowledge of wetland origin in their management. The geomorphic origin and dynamics of the Kafue wetland were determined from the analysis of remotely sensed and geological data. The wetland is a remnant of a paleo-lake that was captured by the tributary of the middle Zambezi River. At the point of capture, resistant Muva Group metavolcanic rocks dominate narrow valleys characterised by straight channels. The resistant lithology prevents the lower Kafue River to cut into the wetland thus maintaining wetland conditions upstream. Sedimentation regime through overbank and bed deposits shaped the wetland’s structure, ecological diversity, and hydrological functioning. The operation of the Itezhi-tezhi dam has negatively impacted the wetland’s hydrological and sedimentological regime. The dam starves the system of sediment needed for promoting levee and channel bed aggradation. Regulated discharge with reduced sediment load can lead to channel incision and therefore reduce flood frequency, which may ultimately lead to wetland desiccation.
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Synthesis, characterization and biological activity of some Dithiourea Derivatives:

- Odame, Felix, Hosten, Eric C, Krause, Jason, Isaacs, Michelle, Hoppe, Heinrich C, Khanye, Setshaba D, Sayed, Yasien, Frost, Carminita L, Lobb, Kevin A, Tshentu, Zenixole R

Authors: Odame, Felix , Hosten, Eric C , Krause, Jason , Isaacs, Michelle , Hoppe, Heinrich C , Khanye, Setshaba D , Sayed, Yasien , Frost, Carminita L , Lobb, Kevin A , Tshentu, Zenixole R
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/163046 , vital:41007 , DOI: 10.17344/acsi.2019.5689
Description: Novel dithiourea derivatives have been designed as HIV-1 protease inhibitors using Autodock 4.2, synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic methods and microanalysis.
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‘Nothing so practical as good theory’: Legitimation Code Theory in higher education

- Winberg, Christine, McKenna, Sioux, Wilmot, Kirstin

Authors: Winberg, Christine , McKenna, Sioux , Wilmot, Kirstin
Date: 2020
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445850 , vital:74437 , ISBN 9781003028215 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003028215-1/nothing-practical-good-theory-christine-winberg-sioux-mckenna-kirstin-wilmot
Description: Universities are grappling with multiple shifts that have made the processes of supporting student learning and enabling the professional development of academic staff ever more challenging. Common sense approaches abound but do little to address the complexities of the issues being faced in our institutions. This book brings together a rich collection of studies that uses a powerful common framework, Legitimation Code Theory, to attend to these concerns about higher education studies. The chapters provide specific real world examples of how this framework acts as conceptual lenses, analytical tools and as teaching resources to open conversations about how it is we come to know and what it is that is deemed worth knowing. In Part I ‘Student Learning across the Disciplinary Map’, the authors explore ways of understanding and supporting student achievement across different disciplinary contexts – from STEM disciplines and fields to the Arts and Humanities – and at different levels – from introductory higher education courses to doctoral-level studies. Part II, ‘Professional Learning in Higher Education’, takes an in-depth look at academic staff development in higher education. Each chapter in the book focuses on pertinent issues in higher education practice, from how to support an increasingly diverse student body, to how to support university teachers in contexts of rapid change and growth. This chapter provides an introduction to the conversation and offers an entry into the LCT tools used in this collection: Specialization, Semantics and Autonomy.
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Ethics in context essential flexibility in an international photo-elicitation project with children and young people

- Burningham, Kate, Venn, Susan, Hayward, Bronwyn, Nissen, Sylvia, Aoyagi, Midori, Hasan, M Mehedi, Jackson, Tim, Jha, Vimlendu, Mattar, Helio, Schudel, Ingrid J, Yoshida, Aya

Authors: Burningham, Kate , Venn, Susan , Hayward, Bronwyn , Nissen, Sylvia , Aoyagi, Midori , Hasan, M Mehedi , Jackson, Tim , Jha, Vimlendu , Mattar, Helio , Schudel, Ingrid J , Yoshida, Aya
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/482571 , vital:78667 , https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2019.1672282
Description: Existing literatures have discussed both ethical issues in visual research with young people, and the problems associated with applying ‘universal’ ethical guidelines across varied cultural contexts. There has been little consideration, however, of specific issues raised in projects where visual research is being conducted with young people simultaneously in multiple national contexts. This paper contributes to knowledge in this area. We reflect on our experiences of planning and conducting the International CYCLES project involving photo elicitation with young people in Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. While some issues such as varying access to technology for taking and sharing photos and diverse cultural sensitivities around the use of photography were anticipated in advance, others were more unexpected. Balancing the need for methods to be appropriate, ethical and feasible within each setting with the desire for sufficient consistency across the project is challenging. We argue that an ‘ethics in context’ approach and an attitude of ‘methodological immaturity’ is critical in international visual research projects with young people.
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Framing learning needs assessments for sustainability policy practices

- Rosenberg, Eureta

Authors: Rosenberg, Eureta
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436016 , vital:73220 , ISBN 9780429279362 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429279362-13/synthesis-elaboration-critical-realist-methodology-green-skills-research-eureta-rosenberg
Description: A common (green) skills planning objective is to identify the learning needs of workers in particular sectors, programmes or organisations, in order to provide them with appropriate learn-ing opportunities. This chapter describes a design and concep-tual framing for learning needs assessments focused on sus-tainability or green economy policy practitioners. Measures for achieving credible results include design features for building consensus around the findings, but also a sound conceptual framing of learning needs. The chapter provides pointers for working critically with the notion of competencies, exploring both the value and the limitations of the concept, and framing it as relational transformational agency entailing technical, rela-tional and ethical affordances among collectives involved in sustainability policy-practice. The chapter draws on the Green Economy Learning Assessment for South Africa, which exlored the learning needs of sustainability practitioners in pol-icy contexts related to sustainable transport, renewable energy procurement and water resource management, among others. The chapter shares examples of competencies identified in these contexts, and concludes with a few curriculum pointers, in anticipation of the next chapter’s focus on the educational provider’s perspective. A common (green) skills planning objective is to identify the learning needs of workers in particular sectors, programmes or organisations, in order to provide them with appropriate learn-ing opportunities. This chapter describes a design and concep-tual framing for learning needs assessments focused on sus-tainability or green economy policy practitioners. Measures for achieving credible results include design features for building consensus around the findings, but also a sound conceptual framing of learning needs. The chapter provides pointers for working critically with the notion of competencies, exploring both the value and the limitations of the concept, and framing it as relational transformational agency entailing technical, rela-tional and ethical affordances among collectives involved in sustainability policy-practice. The chapter draws on the Green Economy Learning Assessment for South Africa, which exlored the learning needs of sustainability practitioners in pol-icy contexts related to sustainable transport, renewable energy procurement and water resource management, among others. The chapter shares examples of competencies identified in these contexts, and concludes with a few curriculum pointers, in anticipation of the next chapter’s focus on the educational provider’s perspective.
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Indigenous polycentric and nested customary sea-tenure (CST) institutions: a Solomon Islands case study

- Aswani, Shankar

Authors: Aswani, Shankar
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178964 , vital:40100 , ISBN 9780429628283
Description: In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources. Renewable natural resources are under pressure, with over-exploitation and degradation raising concern globally. Understanding governance systems and practice is essential for developing effective and fair solutions. This book introduces readers to key concepts and issues concerned with the governance of renewable natural resources and illustrates the diversity of approaches, theories and frameworks that have been used to analyse governance systems and practice. Each chapter provides an introduction to an area of literature and theory and demonstrates application through a case study. The book covers a range of geographical locations, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, and several types of natural resources. The approaches and theories introduced include common property theory, political ecology, institutional analysis, the social -ecological systems framework and social network analysis. Findings from across the chapters support an analytical focus on institutions and local context and a practical focus on diverse, flexible and inclusive governance solutions. The book serves as an essential introduction to the governance of renewable natural resources for students, researchers and practitioners.
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Multi-directional effects of warming temperatures on the reproductive success of a threatened alpine-endemic bird, and implications for conservation management

- Oswald, Krista N, Lee, Alan T K, Diener, John P, Diener, Elizabeth F, Cunningham, Susan J, Smit, Ben

Authors: Oswald, Krista N , Lee, Alan T K , Diener, John P , Diener, Elizabeth F , Cunningham, Susan J , Smit, Ben
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/441624 , vital:73902 , https://eco.confex.com/eco/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/78223
Description: Mitigating the current biodiversity crisis requires a better understanding of how species will respond to future climate change and human impacts on habi-tat. Decreased reproductive capability, due to changes in phenology, output, and success, is one of the main indicators of species’ vulnerability. For terres-trial ground-nesting birds, overall reproductive success is often related to nest-site selection (e.g. increased nest concealment), and weather changes (e.g. higher air temperatures alter nest success). We investigated the reproductive success of Cape Rockjumpers (Chaetops frenatus; “Rockjumpers”), a ground-nesting alpine bird, endemic to the Fynbos biome of South Africa, whose popu-lation decline correlates to warmer temperatures. We predicted that breeding success would be positively correlated with increased nest concealment, and negatively correlated with increasing temperature. We collected data over three years, including two full breeding seasons, from 2016 to 2018 (n=5, n=20 and n=43 respectively), which included nest-site selection variables (i.e. vege-tative cover, rock cover, time since fire in years), success or failure (whether nest resulted in ≥ fledgling), and cause if nest failed (i.e. predation events, weather). We tested the overall success in relation to nest-site selection varia-bles, and then examined how nest failure (specifically snake predation) was correlated with air temperature.
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Overcoming essentialism in community psychology: The use of a narrative-discursive approach within African feminisms

- Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J, Chiweshe, Malvern T, Macleod, Catriona I

Authors: Mavuso, Jabulile M-J J , Chiweshe, Malvern T , Macleod, Catriona I
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434131 , vital:73033 , ISBN 978-3-030-20000-8 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20001-5_2
Description: A decolonial feminist community psychology approach understands individual experience as being embedded in, enabled and shaped by discursive and social power relations, and that transformative change is only possible through this contextualised understanding of individual experiences. African feminisms have been concerned with the challenging task of exploring and producing accounts of the complexity and multiplicity in womxn’s (and mxn’s) experiences of localised, multiple forms of oppression and the resistances enacted against them. We demonstrate how the utilisation of a narrative-discursive method in research that is guided by poststructural and postcolonial African feminist theorising may be a useful tool in realising the goals and aims of both decolonial feminist community psychology, and African feminist theorising. In this chapter, we draw on research that explored Zimbabwean womxn’s narratives of abortion decision-making and South African womxn’s and healthcare providers’ narratives of their experiences of the pre-abortion counselling healthcare encounter in the Eastern Cape public health sector. We also draw on our own intervention, a policy brief that had been developed into pre-abortion counselling guidelines which were informed by womxn’s narrated experiences. We argue that applying a narrative-discursive approach to African feminist theorising enables understandings of African womxn’s experiences and resistances which are informed by definitions of racial identity and culture, womxnhood, and social reality as dynamic social concepts and practices. These kinds of understandings facilitate community psychology interventions that are relevant and ‘emancipatory’ as they stem from the multiplicity of participants’ narrated experiences and the social and discursive power relations implicit in these narratives.
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Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392924 , vital:68812 , ISBN 9780429279362 , https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279362
Description: The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa is an extensive governmental intervention to provide work opportunities. The EPWP context is a significant site of green skills emergence in South Africa, especially at the elementary occupation level. The training associated with these programmes has, to date, been largely top down, and little nuanced understanding exists on the training and learning pathways potential development for these green skills. There is a paradox between the top down approach to training, and the primarily regional implementation platforms of EPWP job opportunities and their developmental intent. To reconcile this paradox, I draw on social ecosystemic skills research to probe the potential for such a conceptual and theoretical framework for guiding green skills research for the EPWP. I share some methodologies and insights developed in EPWP green skills research projects that offer potential for providing insight into a social ecosystemic model for green skills research in EPWP programmes. Social ecosystemic models in skills research seek to develop skills development approaches that forge stronger connections between working, living and learning, foregrounding regional, place-based models for skills planning that require interfacing with vertical facilitatory mechanisms and horizontal connectivities.
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Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436064 , vital:73224 , ISBN 9780429279362 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429279362-13/synthesis-elaboration-critical-realist-methodology-green-skills-research-eureta-rosenberg
Description: The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Af-rica is an extensive governmental intervention to provide work opportunities. The EPWP context is a significant site of green skills emergence in South Africa, especially at the elementary occupation level. The training associated with these pro-grammes has, to date, been largely top down, and little nu-anced understanding exists on the training and learning path-ways potential development for these green skills. There is a paradox between the top down approach to training, and the primarily regional implementation platforms of EPWP job op-portunities and their developmental intent. To reconcile this paradox, I draw on social ecosystemic skills research to probe the potential for such a conceptual and theoretical framework for guiding green skills research for the EPWP. I share some methodologies and insights developed in EPWP green skills research projects that offer potential for providing insight into a social ecosystemic model for green skills research in EPWP programmes. Social ecosystemic models in skills research seek to develop skills development approaches that forge stronger connections between working, living and learning, foregrounding regional, place-based models for skills planning that require interfacing with vertical facilitatory mechanisms and horizontal connectivities.
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Species succession and the development of a lacustrine fish community in an ephemeral lake

- Peel, Richard A, Hill, Jaclyn M, Taylor, Geraldine C, Tweddle, Denis, Weyl, Olaf L F

Authors: Peel, Richard A , Hill, Jaclyn M , Taylor, Geraldine C , Tweddle, Denis , Weyl, Olaf L F
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444704 , vital:74261 , https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14081
Description: Here, we present a gillnet survey of Lake Liambezi a 370 km2 shallow ephemeral floodplain lake situated in north‐eastern Namibia, which is fed irregularly by the upper Zambezi and Kwando Rivers during years of high flooding. The lake dried up in 1985 and, with the exception of sporadic minor annual inundation events, remained dry until 2007. We describe the temporal succession of fish species over an 8 year period from initial inundation 2007 to maturation in 2014. The succession of the fish community did not follow the typical pattern of opportunistic strategists during colonisation, to periodic strategists that are eventually succeeded by equilibrium strategists. Instead, the evolution of the fish community was characterised by three distinct phases. The first phase involved the inundation and colonisation of the lake in 2007, followed by its decline until the floods that filled the lake in 2009. During this phase the lake was colonised by fishes from the adjacent upper Zambezi and Chobe River floodplains.
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The availability of non-timber forest products under forest succession on abandoned fields along the Wild Coast, South Africa

- Njwaxu, Afrika, Shackleton, Charlie M

Authors: Njwaxu, Afrika , Shackleton, Charlie M
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177565 , vital:42833 , https://doi.org/10.3390/f10121093
Description: Large swathes of arable fields have been abandoned in many areas of the world over the last few decades driven by a multitude of local and broader-scale factors. Many former fields experience a change in vegetation composition and structure post-abandonment, typically through a process of plant succession. The changes in species and abundance mean that the nature and quantity of ecosystem services provided by the former fields also varies. We examined the types of provisioning services obtained from non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with increasing age since field abandonment. We sampled 43 former fields ranging in age since abandonment from approximately 7 to 55 years, and seven plots in intact forests. We held seven focus group discussions with local residents to determine uses of species found in the former fields.
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The thermal physiology of Stenopelmus rufinasus and Neohydronomus affinis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), two biological control agents for the invasive alien aquatic weeds, Azolla filiculoides and Pistia stratiotes in South Africa.

- Mvandaba, Sisanda F, Owen, Candice A, Hill, Martin P, Coetzee, Julie A

Authors: Mvandaba, Sisanda F , Owen, Candice A , Hill, Martin P , Coetzee, Julie A
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444467 , vital:74243 , https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2018.1525484
Description: Water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes, and red water fern, Azolla filiculoides, are floating aquatic macrophytes that have become problematic in South Africa. Two weevils, Neohydronomus affinis and Stenopelmus rufinasus, are successful biological control agents of these two species in South Africa. The aim of this study was to investigate the thermal requirements of these two species to explain their establishment patterns in the field. Laboratory results showed that both weevils are widely tolerant to cold and warm temperatures.
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‘In defence of chick-lit’: refashioning feminine subjectivities in Ugandan and South African contemporary women’s writing

- Spencer, Lynda G

Authors: Spencer, Lynda G
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138736 , vital:37669 , DOI: 10.1177/1464700119831544
Description: Ugandan and South African contemporary women’s narratives reflect on the rapid pace of change in the social lives of women in two countries that are contending with the aftermath of conflict and violence. This article will interrogate how contemporary women writers such as Goretti Kyomuhendo (Whispers from Vera), Zukiswa Wanner (The Madams and Behind Every Successful Man) and Cynthia Jele (Happiness is a Four-Letter Word) are embracing chick-lit as a form of writing, while simultaneously short-circuiting this genre to create an experimental form that allows them to reflect on the realities of women and engage with the contradictions, complexities and ambiguities of contemporary feminine subjectivities.
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An exploratory study of Heads of Departments' responses to student calls for decolonised higher education

- Grant, Carolyn, Quinn, Lynn, Vorster, Jo-Anne E

Authors: Grant, Carolyn , Quinn, Lynn , Vorster, Jo-Anne E
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123420 , vital:35436 , https://doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i72a05
Description: Central to the tumultuous student protests of 2015 and 2016 was an urgent call for the decolonisation of South African universities. Existing curricula, including teaching and assessment practices, as well as institutional cultures and structures were challenged. Against this backdrop, in this article we focus on the academic leadership role of Heads of Departments (HoDs) at Rhodes University. In this small-scale project we interrogate how HoDs conceptualised their roles in this uncertain and complex context. From the data analysis a number of tensions emerged in the ways in which they articulated and enacted their roles. The findings indicate that the protests have contributed to the increasing complexity of the role of an HoD. Issues raised during the protests catalysed HoDs at Rhodes University, some for the first time, into considering the implications of the decolonising call from students and into exercising stronger transformative leadership roles.
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Bearing Witness to ‘Irreparable Harm': Incorporating Affective Activity as Practice into Ethics

- Barker, Kim, Macleod, Catriona I

Authors: Barker, Kim , Macleod, Catriona I
Date: 2018
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434185 , vital:73037 , ISBN 978-3-319-74720-0 , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7_12
Description: Research with individuals who have experienced trauma requires careful consideration. In preparing the ethics protocol for an ethnographic study of an anti-rape protest, we gave careful consideration to the potential ethical challenges in accordance with the University ethics code. However, this process did not prepare the first author for the dynamic and reciprocal positioning she encountered in relationships in the field or the ‘ethically important’ moment-by-moment decision-making which this required of her. Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, a feminist reading of the contemporary ‘turn to affect’, and examples from our research, we show how ethical decision-making in ethnographic research is always relational and dialogical, both in our direct interactions with participants and in the ways in which we approach our ‘data’.
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LRP1 is required for novobiocin-mediated fibronectin turnover:

- Boel, Natasha M-E, Hunter, Morgan C, Edkins, Adrienne L

Authors: Boel, Natasha M-E , Hunter, Morgan C , Edkins, Adrienne L
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164896 , vital:41182 , DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29531-2
Description: Fibronectin (FN) plays a major role in the stability and organization of the extracellular matrix (ECM). We have previously demonstrated that FN interacts directly with Hsp90, as well as showing that the Hsp90 inhibitor novobiocin results in FN turnover via a receptor mediated process. However, the receptor involved has not been previously identified. LRP1 is a ubiquitous receptor responsible for the internalisation of numerous ligands that binds both Hsp90 and FN, and therefore we investigated whether LRP1 was involved in novobiocin-mediated FN turnover.
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