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A Prediction Method for Calculating Fracturing Initiation Pressure Considering the Modification of Rock Mechanical Parameters After CO2 Treatment

  • Cuilong Kong,
  • Yuxue Sun,
  • Hao Bian,
  • Jianguang Wei and ,
  • Guo Li,
  • Ying Yang,
  • Chao Tang,
  • Xu Wei,
  • Ziyuan Cong and
  • Anqi Shen
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

13 November 2024

The establishment of a more realistic CO2 fracturing model serves to elucidate the intricate mechanisms underlying CO2 fracturing transformation. Additionally, it furnishes a foundational framework for devising comprehensive fracturing construction p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Exploitation and Underground Storage of Oil and Gas)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,347 Views
22 Pages

Correction Method for Initial Conditions of Underwater Explosion

  • Zeyu Jin,
  • Wentao Xu,
  • Caiyu Yin,
  • Zhiyang Lei and
  • Xiangshao Kong

In numerical simulations of underwater explosions, inaccuracies in the parameters of the Jones–Wilkins–Lee (JWL) equation of state often result in significant deviations between predicted shock wave pressure peaks or bubble pulsation peri...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,865 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2023

A common strategy for studying the nonlinear vibrations of beams is to discretize the nonlinear partial differential equation into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation or equations through the Galerkin method. Then, the oscillations of beams ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Vibration Control Research)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,579 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Solving Method for Jiles-Atherton Model and Influence Analysis of the Initial Magnetic Field on Hysteresis

  • Guangming Xue,
  • Hongbai Bai,
  • Tuo Li,
  • Zhiying Ren and ,
  • Xingxing Liu and
  • Chunhong Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 November 2022

The Jiles-Atherton model was widely used in the description of the system with hysteresis, and the solution for the model was important for real-time and high-precision control. The secant method was used for solving anhysteretic magnetization and it...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing)
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  • Open Access
96 Citations
5,385 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2017

To achieve the goals of sustainable economic and environmental protection, more and more firms intend to implement green supply chain (GSC) initiatives in their products. The adoption of GSC initiatives in turn influences the firms’ operations perfor...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,704 Views
12 Pages

6 September 2019

The energy dissipated in hysteretic damping is independent of cyclic frequency, which agrees with the experimental results of energy dispersion of many materials under cyclic loading. Despite these desirable properties, hysteretic damping suffers fro...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,420 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2024

The stochastic modeling of geometrically imperfect steel frame structures requires statistical inputs for imperfection parameters, often with specific mutual correlations. The stochastic input values of geometrical imperfections are derived from Euro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-linear Behavior and Design of Steel Structures)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,336 Views
20 Pages

Calculation Method of New Assembled Corrugated Steel Initial Support Structure of Highway Tunnel

  • Wenqi Ding,
  • Xuanbo Huang,
  • Chengshuo Yu,
  • Qingzhao Zhang and
  • Tianxiang Wu

17 August 2024

The assembled corrugated steel initial support structure is a new prefabricated structure in highway tunnel engineering, achieving a balance between economy and safety. This study proposes a simplified calculation method and elucidates the mechanical...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,341 Views
22 Pages

25 March 2021

One of the well-known schemes for the direct numerical integration of second-order initial-value problems is due to Falkner. This paper focuses on the construction of a family of adapted block Falkner methods which are frequency dependent for the dir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods for Solving Differential Problems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,661 Views
18 Pages

Improved Initial Orbit Determination Based on the Gooding Method of Low Earth Orbit Space Debris Using Space-Based Observations

  • Yewen Yin,
  • Zhenwei Li,
  • Chengzhi Liu,
  • Zhe Kang and ,
  • Jiannan Sun and
  • Long Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 November 2023

Initial orbit determination (IOD), as a basis for initial orbit association and accurate orbit determination (OD), has a crucial role in the process of obtaining space debris orbit information. Among the traditional methods, the Gooding method has be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioural Characterisation of Resident Space Objects for Space Situational Awareness)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,223 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2020

There are dozens of block methods in literature intended for solving second order initial-value problems. This article aimed at the analysis of the efficiency of k-step block methods for directly solving general second-order initial-value problems. E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods for Solving Differential Problems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,382 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2025

We consider a two-step numerical approach for solving parabolic initial boundary value problems in 3D simply connected smooth regions. The method uses the Laplace transform in time, reducing the problem to a set of independent stationary boundary val...

(This article belongs to the Topic Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,832 Views
17 Pages

20 September 2016

This paper explores how to handle multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems in which the criteria values of alternatives take the form of comparative linguistic expressions. Firstly, the new concept of hesitant trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (HTrF...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,711 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, we study an inverse problem to identify the initial value problem of the homogeneous Rayleigh–Stokes equation for a generalized second-grade fluid with the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative model. This problem is ill posed; that...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,400 Views
16 Pages

6 December 2022

The present manuscript examines different forms of Initial-Value Problems (IVPs) featuring various types of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) by proposing a proficient modification to the famous standard Adomian decomposition method (ADM). The p...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,070 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2022

In this paper, we present an accurate numerical approach based on the reproducing kernel method (RKM) for solving second-order fuzzy initial value problems (FIVP) with symmetry coefficients such as symmetric triangles and symmetric trapezoids. Findin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Analysis, Fractional Operators and Symmetry/Asymmetry)
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  • Open Access
2,996 Views
20 Pages

27 April 2023

In this paper, we study the finite element method of the Navier–Stokes equations with the initial data belonging to the L2 space for all time t>0. Due to the poor smoothness of the initial data, the solution of the problem is singular, altho...

(This article belongs to the Collection Foundations of Statistical Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,194 Views
13 Pages

A 5(4) pair of embedded explicit trigonometrically-fitted Runge–Kutta–Nyström (EETFRKN) methods especially designed for the numerical integration of second order initial value problems with oscillatory solutions is presented in this paper. Algebraic...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,612 Views
25 Pages

An Improved Conservative Direct Re-Initialization Method (ICDR) for Two-Phase Flow Simulations

  • Mehdi Mostafaiyan,
  • Sven Wießner,
  • Gert Heinrich and
  • Mahdi Salami Hosseini

20 July 2021

We introduce an improved conservative direct re-initialization (ICDR) method (for two-phase flow problems) as a new and efficient geometrical re-distancing scheme. The ICDR technique takes advantage of two mass-conserving and fast re-distancing schem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Fluids and Flows: Algorithms and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,935 Views
22 Pages

24 December 2022

Despite great advances in X-ray absorption spectroscopy for the investigation of small molecule electronic structure, the application to biosystems of experimental techniques developed within this research field remains a challenge. To partially circ...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,161 Views
17 Pages

Regarding the effect of the initial geometric defect (IGD) on the static stability of single-layer reticulated shells, its distribution pattern and magnitude are the main concerns to researchers. However, the suitable selection of the initial geometr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Resiliency of Building Materials and Structures)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,338 Views
27 Pages

2 March 2023

In this study, we construct new numerical methods for solving the initial value problem (IVP) in ordinary differential equations based on a symmetrical quadrature integration formula using hybrid functions. The proposed methods are designed to provid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear Equations: Mathematical Models, Methods and Applications Ⅱ)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,091 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Intestinal Microbial Metabolites in Preterm Infants with Different Initial Feeding Methods by In Vitro Fermentation Modeling System

  • Yunwei Li,
  • Jingjing Jiang,
  • Liying Zhu,
  • Xin Wang and ,
  • Weilin Wan,
  • Danhua Wang and
  • Zhenghong Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

We aim to explore the intestinal microbial metabolites in preterm infants with noninvasive methods and analyze the effects of initial feeding methods. Preterm infants with gestational weeks lower than 34 were recruited for fecal sample collection eve...

(This article belongs to the Section Gut Microbiota)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,202 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

This study presents a new variant of the hybrid block methods (HBMs) for solving initial value problems (IVPs). The overlapping hybrid block technique is developed by changing each integrating block of the HBM to incorporate the penultimate intra-ste...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Iterative Algorithms for Nonlinear Problems: Convergence and Stability 2021-2022)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,261 Views
13 Pages

Impact of Delivery Method on Initiation and Continuation of Breastfeeding: A Prospective Cohort Study

  • İlke Özer Aslan,
  • Mustafa Törehan Aslan,
  • Nebibe Can,
  • Özlem Sevinç Ergül and
  • Nihal Çallıoğlu

23 July 2025

Background/Objectives: Cesarean delivery often leads to delayed breastfeeding initiation, potentially affecting infant health compared with vaginal delivery. This prospective observational study (conducted between August 2022 and January 2024) compar...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Neonatology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,029 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2024

This study investigates flange fracture formation in unconventional incremental radial extrusion. This manufacturing technique involves using rings with a gradually increasing inside diameter for constraining the free flow of material in the radial d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sheet/Bulk Metal Forming)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,226 Views
26 Pages

A Wave Input-Reduction Method Incorporating Initiation of Sediment Motion

  • Andreas Papadimitriou,
  • Loukianos Panagopoulos,
  • Michalis Chondros and
  • Vasiliki Tsoukala

The long-term prediction of morphological bed evolution has been of interest to engineers and scientists for many decades. Usually, process-based models are employed to simulate bed-level changes in the scale of years to decades. To compensate for th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling of Harbour and Coastal Structures)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,187 Views
13 Pages

23 July 2019

As the world’s top energy consumer and carbon emitter, China’s carbon emissions policies, including the low-carbon pilot initiative (LCPI) implemented in July 2010, have important effects on global climate change. Therefore, accurately as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Energy Architecture and Low Carbon Cities: Exploring Links, Scales, and Environmental Impacts)
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  • Open Access
1,248 Views
21 Pages

20 August 2025

Pumping station structures are widely employed to supply circulating cooling water systems in nuclear power plants (NPPs) throughout China. Investigating their seismic performance under complex heterogeneous site conditions and load scenarios is para...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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  • Open Access
1,532 Views
55 Pages

21 November 2024

The author has just published a theory on first-order differential equations that accounts for the phase-lag and amplification-factor calculations using explicit, implicit, and backward differentiation multistep methods. Eliminating the phase-lag and...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,920 Views
22 Pages

Validation of a FEM-Based Method to Predict Crack Initiation from Arbitrary-Shaped Notches

  • Matthias Rettl,
  • Christoph Waly,
  • Martin Pletz and
  • Clara Schuecker

24 February 2025

In this paper, specimens that contain cavities are tested and the critical force for crack initiation is compared to predictions made by the Coupled Criterion (CC). First, the material parameters Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, fracture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical and Computational Investigation on Composite Materials)
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  • Open Access
1,340 Views
27 Pages

28 October 2025

In strong clutter and maneuvering scenarios, radar track initiation faces the dual challenges of a low initiation rate and high false alarm rate. Although the existing deep learning methods show promise, the commonly adopted “feature flattening...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,969 Views
27 Pages

18 November 2022

We describe a method of partial moments devised for accurate simulation of the time/conversion evolution of polymer composition and molar mass. Expressions were derived that enable rigorous evaluation of the complete molar mass and composition distri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer Reaction Modeling and Kinetics)
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  • Open Access
3,577 Views
15 Pages

Use of a Photocleavable Initiator to Characterize Polymer Chains Grafted onto a Metal Plate with the Grafting-from Method

  • Flavien Mouillard,
  • Tom Ferté,
  • Emilie Voirin,
  • Stéphane Méry and ,
  • Patrick Masson and
  • Adele Carradò
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2023

The thorough characterization of polymer chains grafted through a “grafting-from” process onto substrates based on the determination of number (Mn) and weight (Mw) average molar masses, as well as dispersity (Ɖ), is quite challenging...

(This article belongs to the Collection Polymeric Coatings)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,297 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2019

In the essay, we consider an initial value question for a mixed initial-boundary value of time-fractional diffusion-wave equations. This matter is an ill-posed problem; the solution relies discontinuously on the measured information. The truncation r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis: Inverse Problems – Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,030 Views
15 Pages

9 June 2020

In this work, we introduce an efficient scheme for the numerical solution of some Boundary and Initial Value Problems (BVPs-IVPs). By using an operational matrix, which was obtained from the first kind of Chebyshev polynomials, we construct the algeb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Complexity 2020)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,911 Views
22 Pages

3 October 2024

The paper presents the progressive collapse analysis of structures, focusing on the impact of the initial conditions (particularly initial velocity) and the damage. It proposes a method that calculates the residual axial load capacity and damage of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,560 Views
39 Pages

29 July 2024

Recently, the author developed a theory for the computation of the phase lag and amplification factor for explicit and implicit multistep methods for first-order differential equations. In this paper, we will investigate the role of the derivatives o...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,926 Views
11 Pages

12 January 2020

The third generation of advanced high strength steels shows promising properties for automotive applications. The macroscopic mechanical response of this generation can be further improved by a better understanding of failure mechanisms on the micros...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,318 Views
18 Pages

10 June 2020

The initial axial forces of members—whatever caused by prestress or external loads—may strongly change the mechanical properties of pin-jointed bar assemblies, to enhance, or even establish their structural stiffness. The structural respo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,268 Views
18 Pages

2 October 2024

Time series forecasting plays a critical role in business planning by offering insights for a competitive advantage. This study compared three forecasting methods: the Holt–Winters, Bagging Holt–Winters, and Box–Jenkins methods. Ten...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,500 Views
23 Pages

13 August 2023

Bioreactor cocultures involving Penicillium rubens and Streptomyces rimosus were investigated with regard to secondary metabolite production, morphological development, dissolved oxygen levels, and carbon substrate utilization. The production profile...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Products Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,431 Views
21 Pages

24 August 2021

Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been put in practice by the Chinese government, several High-Speed Railways (HSR) have been built by Chinese Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) firms. However, many delays have created severe d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction Investments - Technical and Organizational Implications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,050 Views
20 Pages

Improving Classification Performance in Dendritic Neuron Models through Practical Initialization Strategies

  • Xiaohao Wen,
  • Mengchu Zhou,
  • Aiiad Albeshri,
  • Lukui Huang and ,
  • Xudong Luo and
  • Dan Ning
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 March 2024

A dendritic neuron model (DNM) is a deep neural network model with a unique dendritic tree structure and activation function. Effective initialization of its model parameters is crucial for its learning performance. This work proposes a novel initial...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,372 Views
24 Pages

13 December 2019

Initial alignment is critical and indispensable for the inertial navigation system (INS), which determines the initial attitude matrix between the reference navigation frame and the body frame. The conventional initial alignment methods based on the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,365 Views
16 Pages

An Intelligent Technique for Initial Distribution of Genetic Algorithms

  • Vasileios Charilogis,
  • Ioannis G. Tsoulos and
  • V. N. Stavrou

17 October 2023

The need to find the global minimum in multivariable functions is a critical problem in many fields of science and technology. Effectively solving this problem requires the creation of initial solution estimates, which are subsequently used by the op...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,166 Views
36 Pages

A New Algorithm for Finding Initial Basic Feasible Solutions of Transportation Problems

  • Douglas Kwasi Boah,
  • Suleman Abudu Fiele and
  • Christian John Etwire

This study introduces a deterministic fractional-penalty refinement of Vogel’s Approximation Method (VAM) for generating high-quality initial basic feasible solutions (IBFS) in classical transportation problems. Unlike the traditional additive...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Optimization Algorithm: Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,565 Views
14 Pages

In-Motion Alignment with MEMS-IMU Using Multilocal Linearization Detection

  • Yulu Zhong,
  • Xiyuan Chen,
  • Ning Gao and
  • Zhiyuan Jiao

22 April 2025

In-motion alignment is a critical step in obtaining the initial state of an integrated navigation system. This article considers the in-motion initial alignment problem using the multilocal linearization detection method. In contrast to the OBA-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue INS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Systems)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,819 Views
15 Pages

Variability of the Initial Abstraction Ratio in an Urban and an Agroforested Catchment

  • Adam Krajewski,
  • Anna E. Sikorska-Senoner,
  • Agnieszka Hejduk and
  • Leszek Hejduk

4 February 2020

The Curve Number method is one of the most commonly applied methods to describe the relationship between the direct runoff and storm rainfall depth. Due to its popularity and simplicity, it has been studied extensively. Less attention has been given...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) Method Current Applications, Remaining Challenges, and Future Perspectives)

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