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On Harmonic Complex Balancing Numbers

  • Fatih Yılmaz,
  • Aybüke Ertaş and
  • Jiteng Jia

31 December 2022

In the present work, we define harmonic complex balancing numbers by considering well-known balancing numbers and inspiring harmonic numbers. Mainly, we investigate some of their basic characteristic properties such as the Binet formula and Cassini i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics and Its Applications in Science and Engineering II)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,333 Views
18 Pages

Balancing Complex Signals for Robust Predictive Modeling

  • Fazal Aman,
  • Azhar Rauf,
  • Rahman Ali,
  • Jamil Hussain and
  • Ibrar Ahmed

18 December 2021

Robust predictive modeling is the process of creating, validating, and testing models to obtain better prediction outcomes. Datasets usually contain outliers whose trend deviates from the most data points. Conventionally, outliers are removed from th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics in Internet of Things Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,546 Views
39 Pages

Balancing Multi-Source Heterogeneous User Requirement Information in Complex Product Design

  • Cengjuan Wu,
  • Tianlu Zhu,
  • Yajun Li,
  • Zhizheng Zhang and
  • Tianyu Wu

25 July 2025

User requirements are the core driving force behind the iterative development of complex products. Their comprehensive collection, accurate interpretation, and effective integration directly affect design outcomes. However, current practices often de...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,820 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2023

Background: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) plays a key role in the adaptive immune response to pathogens due to its extraordinary polymorphism. However, the spatial patterns of MHC variation in the striped hamster remain unclear, particul...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Genetics and Genomics)
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  • Open Access
516 Views
28 Pages

An Empirical Complexity-Based Approach to Assembly Line Balancing in Manual Assembly Systems

  • Amanda Aljinović Meštrović,
  • Nikola Gjeldum,
  • Boženko Bilić and
  • Marko Mladineo

26 June 2026

Due to the increasing heterogeneity of consumer needs and preferences, manufacturing companies are forced to expand their product range to maintain market share while avoiding cost increases. However, increasing product variety increases the complexi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Manufacturing, Measurement, and Quality Control Technologies for Assembly)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,060 Views
20 Pages

Neuron–Glia Interactions in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Affect the Synaptic Balance in 2D and Organoid Cultures

  • Stephanie Dooves,
  • Arianne J. H. van Velthoven,
  • Linda G. Suciati and
  • Vivi M. Heine

12 January 2021

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disease affecting the brain. Neurological symptoms like epilepsy and neurodevelopmental issues cause a significant burden on patients. Both neurons and glial cells are affected by TSC mutations. Previous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neuron-Glia Interactions)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,022 Views
12 Pages

Balance ability is a necessary exercise factor required for the activities of daily living. This study investigated the effects of short-term complex exercise (CE) and core stability exercise (CSE) on balance ability and trunk and lower-extremity mus...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Assessments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,907 Views
11 Pages

Complex-Geometry 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics with Automatic Load Balancing

  • József Bakosi,
  • Mátyás Constans,
  • Zoltán Horváth,
  • Ákos Kovács,
  • László Környei,
  • Marc Charest,
  • Aditya Pandare,
  • Paula Rutherford and
  • Jacob Waltz

6 May 2023

We present an open-source code, Xyst, intended for the simulation of complex-geometry 3D compressible flows. The software implementation facilitates the effective use of the largest distributed-memory machines, combining data-, and task-parallelism o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Numerical Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics With Open-Source Software)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,422 Views
19 Pages

Complex Principal Component Analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance

  • Jingang Zhan,
  • Hongling Shi,
  • Yong Wang and
  • Yixin Yao

29 January 2021

Ice sheet changes of the Antarctic are the result of interactions among the ocean, atmosphere, and ice sheet. Studying the ice sheet mass variations helps us to understand the possible reasons for these changes. We used 164 months of Gravity Recovery...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,684 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2024

In complex terrain, such as uneven roads or irregular terrain, two-wheeled heavy-duty self-balancing vehicles are easily affected by external interference factors, causing rollover or rendering the vehicle unable to move, which poses a greater challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traffic Emergency: Forecasting, Control and Planning)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,852 Views
25 Pages

21 April 2022

Targeted at the machining production line balancing problem, based on the precedence constraint relation of the present machining task, this article suggests adding practical constraints such as advanced station preparations, post-auxiliary tasks, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
938 Views
22 Pages

14 November 2025

The accurate and timely extraction of water bodies from high-resolution remote sensing imagery is vital for environmental monitoring, yet segmenting small, scattered, and irregularly shaped water bodies in complex rural landscapes remains a persisten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,849 Views
10 Pages

Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task

  • Milos Dordevic,
  • Marco Taubert,
  • Patrick Müller,
  • Jörn Kaufmann,
  • Anita Hökelmann and
  • Notger G. Müller

21 December 2018

To better understand the process of neuroplasticity, this study assesses brain changes observed by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in response to two different learning conditions. Twenty-two young, healthy subjects learned slacklining, a complex balan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Effects of Exercise on Cognitive Function)
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  • Open Access
1,880 Views
22 Pages

19 July 2023

We already know that the noncommutative N-graded Noetherian algebras resemble commutative local Noetherian rings in many respects. We also know that commutative rings have the important property that every minimal acyclic complex of finitely generate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Algebra, Ring Theory and Homological Algebra, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
592 Views
18 Pages

To improve the assembly efficiency and productivity of complex aircraft components, the optimization of an assembly line was investigated in this study. A hierarchical hybrid multi-objective optimization algorithm (HHMOA) was proposed using an improv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization in Engineering: Models and Algorithms)
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  • Open Access
61 Citations
13,357 Views
54 Pages

The Michaelis-Menten-Stueckelberg Theorem

  • Alexander N. Gorban and
  • Muhammad Shahzad

20 May 2011

We study chemical reactions with complex mechanisms under two assumptions: (i) intermediates are present in small amounts (this is the quasi-steady-state hypothesis or QSS) and (ii) they are in equilibrium relations with substrates (this is the quasi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,032 Views
18 Pages

25 April 2020

In this study, porthole die used for extrusion of a solid heatsink profile with wall thickness variation ratio up to 15.3 was designed using finite element (FE) simulations. To improve the flow balance in the die, a design approach was introduced to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation of Metal Processing)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,931 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2015

The goal of this study was to investigate the parameters affecting exergame performance using multi-scale entropy analysis, with the aim of informing the design of exergames for personalized balance training. Test subjects’ center of pressure (COP) d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy and Its Applications in Medicine and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,832 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2020

To compose art, artists rely on a set of sensory evaluations performed fluently by the brain. The outcome of these evaluations, which we call neuroaesthetic variables, helps to compose art with high aesthetic value. In this study, we probed whether t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Image Analysis II)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,317 Views
23 Pages

19 June 2017

In traditional information technology project portfolio management (ITPPM), managers often pay more attention to the optimization of portfolio selection in the initial stage. In fact, during the portfolio implementation process, there are still issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems and Fractional Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,645 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2023

Food is increasingly seen as a vehicle to address complex sustainability challenges, where the quantitative driving role in balancing the complex urban system of socio-economy and environment is still a gap. To fill this gap, taking Shanghai city as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Socio-Economic Values in Land Resource Management)
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  • Open Access
382 Views
73 Pages

2 September 2026

Generalized Lotka–Volterra (GLV) systems, with roots in ecology, constitute one of the most studied classes of positive ODEs. Recently, a reaction-network perspective for a generalization useful in mathematical epidemiology, called block GLV sy...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,177 Views
15 Pages

15 April 2017

Information spreading processes within the complex networks are usually initiated by a selection of highly influential nodes in accordance with the used seeding strategy. The majority of earlier studies assumed the usage of selected seeds at the begi...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,883 Views
16 Pages

10 July 2023

This article addresses the issue of implementing and assessing the readiness of territorial and economic systems for digital innovations in the energy industry. To achieve the goal of this research, qualitative and quantitative methods were used, inc...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,938 Views
11 Pages

29 December 2022

In people with peripheral neuropathy (PN), impaired plantar sensation can cause adaptive changes in the central nervous system (CNS), resulting in changes in the standing postural control, which is reflected in the variability of standing output sign...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Biomechanical Research and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,643 Views
19 Pages

Human-Centered Assessment of Product Complexity and Its Impact on Assembly Line Performances

  • Amanda Aljinović Meštrović,
  • Marina Crnjac Žižić,
  • Nikola Gjeldum and
  • Nikola Banduka

16 September 2025

Modern production systems face the challenges of increasing personalization of products, growing structural complexity, and the need for sustainability. In this context, it is necessary to include the human dimension in the optimization of production...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing and Beyond: Bridging Innovation in Industry 4.0 and 5.0)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,093 Views
27 Pages

12 April 2022

Complex product design, manufacturing, and service are the key elements of a product’s life cycle. However, the traditional manufacturing processes of design, manufacturing, and service are independent of each other, so lack deep integration. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twin Applications in Smart Manufacturing)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,861 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2024

As core algorithms of geographic computing, overlay analysis algorithms typically have computation-intensive and data-intensive characteristics. It is highly important to optimize overlay analysis algorithms by parallelizing the vector polygons after...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging GIS Technologies and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,250 Views
19 Pages

25 February 2025

In complex networks, identifying critical nodes plays an important role in information dissemination. Due to the dual property of nodes to both propagate and receive information, information is propagated repeatedly in a restricted area where critica...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
79 Citations
4,865 Views
19 Pages

Identifying Field Crop Diseases Using Transformer-Embedded Convolutional Neural Network

  • Weidong Zhu,
  • Jun Sun,
  • Simin Wang,
  • Jifeng Shen,
  • Kaifeng Yang and
  • Xin Zhou

The yield and security of grain are seriously infringed on by crop diseases, which are the critical factor hindering the green and high-quality development of agriculture. The existing crop disease identification models make it difficult to focus on...

(This article belongs to the Topic Integrated Pest Management of Crops)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,906 Views
25 Pages

This study proposes an improved YOLO11n-seg instance segmentation model to address the limitations of existing models in accurately identifying mature blueberries in complex greenhouse environments. Current methods often lack sufficient accuracy when...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,884 Views
12 Pages

23 July 2020

This paper describes the development and implementation of a classroom experience involving problem-based and project-based learning with community engagement in an engineering design context. While most User-Centered Design courses ask students to c...

(This article belongs to the Collection Innovative Practices in Engineering Education: Concept and Implementation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,947 Views
18 Pages

High-Fat Diet Impairs Mouse Median Eminence: A Study by Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy Coupled with Raman Spectroscopy

  • Ilenia Severi,
  • Marco Fosca,
  • Georgia Colleluori,
  • Federico Marini,
  • Luca Imperatori,
  • Martina Senzacqua,
  • Angelica Di Vincenzo,
  • Giorgio Barbatelli,
  • Fabrizio Fiori and
  • Antonio Giordano
  • + 1 author

Hypothalamic dysfunction is an initial event following diet-induced obesity, primarily involving areas regulating energy balance such as arcuate nucleus (Arc) and median eminence (ME). To gain insights into the early hypothalamic diet-induced alterat...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Neurobiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,804 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2022

Research of manufacturing cell design problems is still pertinent today, because new manufacturing strategies, such as mass customization, call for further improvement of the fundamental performance of cellular manufacturing systems. The main scope o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms and Methods for Designing and Scheduling Smart Manufacturing Systems)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,850 Views
19 Pages

31 May 2021

The soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) hydrological model has been used extensively by the scientific community to simulate varying hydro-climatic conditions and geo-physical environment. This study used SWAT to characterize the rainfall-runoff be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,086 Views
23 Pages

9 November 2023

This study aims to collect water samples from two tributaries within the Geum River basin in South Korea, where large-scale livestock complexes are located, to quantify the measured environmental concentration (MEC) of pharmaceutical residues using a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transport of Pollutants in Agricultural Watersheds)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
582 Views
30 Pages

A Combined intPLUS and Emission-Linkage Framework for Provincial Carbon-Balance Projection

  • Ge Shi,
  • Yutong Wang,
  • Jiantao Shi,
  • Chuang Chen,
  • Lin Sun and
  • Wei Wang

21 July 2026

Regional carbon balance emerges from the complex interplay between land-use dynamics, spatial economic activities, and ecological processes as a socio-ecological system cannot be captured by any single analytical lens. This study develops an integrat...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geospatial AI: Systems, Model, Methods, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2,359 Views
20 Pages

Balancing the accuracy and the complexity of models is a well established and ongoing challenge. Models can be misleading if they are not accurate, but models may be incomprehensible if their accuracy depends upon their being complex. In this paper,...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,302 Views
12 Pages

Spatial Scale Selection for Urban Systems: A Complexity–Heterogeneity Balancing Method

  • Xiang-Yu Jia,
  • Yitao Yang,
  • Ying-Yue Lv,
  • Erjian Liu and
  • Xiao-Yong Yan

29 October 2025

Cities are complex systems with socioeconomic activities exhibiting diverse spatial distributions, where selecting an appropriate observation scale is vital for understanding urban complexity. However, the traditional methods for this task are often...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,910 Views
24 Pages

Glial Modulation of Energy Balance: The Dorsal Vagal Complex Is No Exception

  • Jean-Denis Troadec,
  • Stéphanie Gaigé,
  • Manon Barbot,
  • Bruno Lebrun,
  • Rym Barbouche and
  • Anne Abysique

The avoidance of being overweight or obese is a daily challenge for a growing number of people. The growing proportion of people suffering from a nutritional imbalance in many parts of the world exemplifies this challenge and emphasizes the need for...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Neurobiology)
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  • Open Access
1,863 Views
19 Pages

UV–Vis Detection of Thioacetamide: Balancing the Performances of a Mn(III)-Porphyrin, Gold Colloid, and Their Complex for Selecting the Most Sensitive Material

  • Camelia Epuran,
  • Ion Fratilescu,
  • Ionela Fringu,
  • Anca Lascu,
  • Liliana Halip,
  • Mihaela Gherban and
  • Eugenia Fagadar-Cosma

The optical detection of thioacetamide was investigated using a metalated porphyrin, Mn(III)-5,10,15,20-tetrakis-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-21H,23H-porphyrin chloride (Mn-3,4-diMeOPP), a gold colloid solution (AuNPs), and a complex formed between them (Mn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoparticle-Based (Bio)Sensors for Biomedical and Environmental Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
987 Views
38 Pages

This study investigates how the government can design optimal incentive mechanisms for Shared Battery Swapping Station (SBSS) construction enterprises under the conditions of dual information asymmetry (effort and operational efficiency) and heteroge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,587 Views
13 Pages

3 March 2022

This paper introduces a new variant of the Shortest Path Problem (SPP) called the Cost-Balanced Path Problem (CBPP). Various real problems can either be modeled as BCPP or include BCPP as a sub-problem. We prove several properties related to the comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Optimization and Evolutionary Algorithms with Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,246 Views
22 Pages

23 October 2024

The collaboration of a multiple unmanned underwater vehicles (multi-UUVs) system has attracted widespread attention in recent years, as it can overcome the limitations of a single UUV and enhance mission completion efficiency. Oriented towards patrol...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,550 Views
21 Pages

Millimeter Wave Vehicular Channel Emulation: A Framework for Balancing Complexity and Accuracy

  • Thomas Blazek,
  • Erich Zöchmann and
  • Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

16 November 2018

We propose a general framework for the specification of a sparse representation of millimeter wave vehicular propagation channels and apply this to both synthetic data and real-world observations from channel sounding experiments. The proposed framew...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhances in V2X Communications for Connected Autonomous Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,807 Views
32 Pages

Bayesian Network Modelling of ATC Complexity Metrics for Future SESAR Demand and Capacity Balance Solutions

  • Victor Fernando Gomez Comendador,
  • Rosa Maria Arnaldo Valdés,
  • Manuel Villegas Diaz,
  • Eva Puntero Parla and
  • Danlin Zheng

8 April 2019

Demand & Capacity Management solutions are key SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) research projects to adapt future airspace to the expected high air traffic growth in a Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) environment. These solutions rely on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bayesian Inference and Information Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
640 Views
35 Pages

1 June 2026

Urban pluvial flood risk in industrial zones is intensifying under climate change, yet the joint influence of digital elevation model (DEM) resolution, surface roughness heterogeneity, and infiltration capacity on simulation accuracy remains insuffic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,975 Views
20 Pages

Balance of Macrophage Activation by a Complex Coacervate-Based Adhesive Drug Carrier Facilitates Diabetic Wound Healing

  • Ching-Shuen Wang,
  • Shen-Dean Luo,
  • Shihai Jia,
  • Wilfred Wu,
  • Shwu-Fen Chang,
  • Sheng-Wei Feng,
  • Chieh-Hsiang Yang,
  • Jiann-Her Lin and
  • Yinshen Wee

28 November 2022

Uncontrolled and sustained inflammation disrupts the wound-healing process and produces excessive reactive oxygen species, resulting in chronic or impaired wound closure. Natural antioxidants such as plant-based extracts and natural polysaccharides h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anthocyanins: Antioxidant Capacity and Health Effects)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,794 Views
13 Pages

24 July 2025

The upcoming deployment of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks promises to significantly outperform 5G in terms of data rates, spectral efficiency, device densities, and, most importantly, latency and security. To cope with the increasingly compl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Cloud Computing, Sensing Technologies, and Digital Twins in IoT Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,565 Views
21 Pages

In order to improve the accuracy and generalization ability of fault diagnosis for rotating machinery bearings under complex working conditions, a new model based on multi-feature fusion and improved weighted balance distribution adaptation is propos...

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