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  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,165 Views
23 Pages

Development of High-Fidelity Automotive LiDAR Sensor Model with Standardized Interfaces

  • Arsalan Haider,
  • Marcell Pigniczki,
  • Michael H. Köhler,
  • Maximilian Fink and ,
  • Michael Schardt,
  • Yannik Cichy,
  • Thomas Zeh,
  • Lukas Haas,
  • Tim Poguntke and
  • Alexander W. Koch
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

5 October 2022

This work introduces a process to develop a tool-independent, high-fidelity, ray tracing-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) model. This virtual LiDAR sensor includes accurate modeling of the scan pattern and a complete signal processing toolch...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,476 Views
25 Pages

25 December 2024

Human–Machine Interfaces (HMIs) in autonomous driving technology have recently gained significant research interest in public transportation. However, most of the studies are biased towards qualitative methods, while combining quantitative and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Driving and Smart Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,346 Views
24 Pages

Design and Implementation of a Prototype with a Standardized Interface for Transducers in Ambient Assisted Living

  • Enrique Dorronzoro,
  • Isabel Gómez,
  • Ana Verónica Medina and
  • José Antonio Gómez

29 January 2015

Solutions in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) do not generally use standards to implement a communication interface between sensors and actuators. This makes these applications isolated solutions because it is so difficult to integrate them...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ambient Assisted Living (AAL): Sensors, Architectures and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,953 Views
19 Pages

Standardized Test Procedure for External Human–Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles

  • Christina Kaß,
  • Stefanie Schoch,
  • Frederik Naujoks,
  • Sebastian Hergeth and ,
  • Andreas Keinath and
  • Alexandra Neukum
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2020

Research on external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) has recently become a major area of interest in the field of human factors research on automated driving. The broad variety of methodological approaches renders the current state of research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Test and Evaluation Methods for Human-Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,803 Views
39 Pages

Monitoring Occupant Posture Using a Standardized Sensor Interface with a Vehicle Seat

  • Alberto Vergnano,
  • Alessandro Pelizzari,
  • Claudio Giorgianni,
  • Jan Kovanda and ,
  • Alessandro Zimmer,
  • Joed Lopes da Silva,
  • Hamed Rezvanpour and
  • Francesco Leali
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2025

Car safety can be enhanced by enabling the Airbag Control Unit (ACU) to adaptively deploy different charges based on the occupant’s position once the crash occurs. In this context, monitoring the occupant’s position using a sensorized sea...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Designs of New Generation Vehicles)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
850 Views
8 Pages

3 February 2026

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has facilitated the generation of user interface (UI) code from natural language prompts, thereby supporting low-code development paradigms. Despite these capabilities, ensuring brand consistency remain...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,590 Views
22 Pages

In 2019, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) prescribed guidelines to standardize the user interface (UI) of navigation equipment such as radio detection and ranging (RADAR) and the electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS), w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Maritime Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
12,129 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2011

This paper analyzes how recommender systems can be applied to current e-learning systems to guide learners in personalized inclusive e-learning scenarios. Recommendations can be used to overcome current limitations of learning management systems in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,338 Views
13 Pages

Algorithm for Nanotubes Computer Generation with Different Configurations

  • M. Leonor Contreras,
  • Eliseo Benítez,
  • José Alvarez and
  • Roberto Rozas

2 February 2009

The algorithm here described concerns generation, visualization, and modification of molecular nanostructures of single-walled nanotubes (NTs) of particular configurations (armchair, zipper, multiple zipper, zigzag, or chiral) by means of a Graphical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms and Molecular Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,129 Views
27 Pages

12 February 2026

Current international standards (EN 12004; SI 4004) are testing ceramic tile adhesives under post-cure thermal aging. However, the standards omit UV radiation exposure during the fresh-adhesive phase. This research investigated three commercial polym...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Sustainability of Building Materials: From Laboratory Tests to Real Construction Projects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,499 Views
14 Pages

APIs in the Metaverse—A Systematic Evaluation

  • Marius Traub and
  • Markus Weinberger

One of the most critical challenges for the success of the Metaverse is interoperability amongst its virtual platforms and worlds. In this context, application programming interfaces (APIs) are essential. This study analyzes a sample of 15 Metaverse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,799 Views
25 Pages

Parametric Optimization of an Air–Liquid Interface System for Flow-Through Inhalation Exposure to Nanoparticles: Assessing Dosimetry and Intracellular Uptake of CeO2 Nanoparticles

  • Lars B. Leibrock,
  • Harald Jungnickel,
  • Jutta Tentschert,
  • Aaron Katz and ,
  • Blaza Toman,
  • Elijah J. Petersen,
  • Frank S. Bierkandt,
  • Ajay Vikram Singh,
  • Peter Laux and
  • Andreas Luch
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 November 2020

Air–liquid interface (ALI) systems have been widely used in recent years to investigate the inhalation toxicity of many gaseous compounds, chemicals, and nanomaterials and represent an emerging and promising in vitro method to supplement in vivo stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Development, and Production of Nanocarriers and Nanovehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
16,696 Views
35 Pages

18 September 2018

An eye tracker’s accuracy and system behavior play critical roles in determining the reliability and usability of eye gaze data obtained from them. However, in contemporary eye gaze research, there exists a lot of ambiguity in the definitions o...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,904 Views
16 Pages

8 January 2024

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is the most promising factor in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDL), which allows the users to interact with the system. To ensure user-friendliness, GUI Testing (GT) is required. The traditional testing techni...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,254 Views
32 Pages

The FMI 3.0 Standard Interface for Clocked and Scheduled Simulations

  • Simon Thrane Hansen,
  • Cláudio Ângelo Gonçalves Gomes,
  • Masoud Najafi,
  • Torsten Sommer and ,
  • Matthias Blesken,
  • Irina Zacharias,
  • Oliver Kotte,
  • Pierre R. Mai,
  • Klaus Schuch and
  • Andreas Junghanns
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

7 November 2022

This paper presents an overview and formalization of the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) 3.0. The formalization captures the new FMI 3.0 standard and is intended to be used as an introduction for conceptualizing the use of clocks in the FMI standa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Modelica Conference 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,980 Views
33 Pages

Development of SW Interface between Healthcare Standards—DASTA and HL7

  • Simona Plischke,
  • Jana Machutova,
  • Pavel Stasa and
  • Jakub Unucka

16 September 2020

The prescription and administration of drugs are the most common process that takes place in hospitals. Although a relatively simple process, it is considered the riskiest process in hospitals because mistakes during drug administration are among the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,303 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2023

Software has become more computationally demanding nowadays, turning out high-performance software in many cases, implying higher energy and economic expenditure. Indeed, many studies have arisen within the IT community to mitigate the environmental...

(This article belongs to the Topic Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,203 Views
12 Pages

5 December 2019

The modular-based multi-organ-on-a-chip enables more stable and flexible configuration to better mimic the complex biological phenomena for versatile biomedical applications. However, the existing magnetic-based interconnection modes are mainly reali...

(This article belongs to the Collection Lab-on-a-Chip)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,143 Views
26 Pages

Performance Evaluation of MEMS-Based Automotive LiDAR Sensor and Its Simulation Model as per ASTM E3125-17 Standard

  • Arsalan Haider,
  • Yongjae Cho,
  • Marcell Pigniczki,
  • Michael H. Köhler and ,
  • Lukas Haas,
  • Ludwig Kastner,
  • Maximilian Fink,
  • Michael Schardt,
  • Yannik Cichy and
  • Alexander W. Koch
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

14 March 2023

Measurement performance evaluation of real and virtual automotive light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors is an active area of research. However, no commonly accepted automotive standards, metrics, or criteria exist to evaluate their measurement...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Optical Sensors 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,218 Views
32 Pages

Interface Converters for Residential Battery Energy Storage Systems: Practices, Difficulties and Prospects

  • Ilya A. Galkin,
  • Andrei Blinov,
  • Maxim Vorobyov,
  • Alexander Bubovich and ,
  • Rodions Saltanovs and
  • Dimosthenis Peftitsis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 June 2021

Recent trends in building energy systems such as local renewable energy generation have created a distinct demand for energy storage systems to reduce the influence and dependency on the electric power grid. Under the current market conditions, a ran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Energy Management for Battery Storage Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,958 Views
28 Pages

The current regulatory landscape that applies to maritime service robotics, aptly termed as robotics and autonomous systems (RAS), is quite complex. When it comes to patents, there are multifarious considerations in relation to vessel survey, inspect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Shipping Informatics and Communications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,545 Views
14 Pages

Model-Based Virtual Components in Event-Based Controls: Linking the FMI and IEC 61499

  • Michael H. Spiegel,
  • Edmund Widl,
  • Bernhard Heinzl,
  • Wolfgang Kastner and
  • Nabil Akroud

28 February 2020

Various development and validation methods for cyber-physical systems such as Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) testing strongly benefit from a seamless integration of (hardware) prototypes and simulation models. It has been often demonstrated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation-Based Validation and Design of Smart Grids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,627 Views
22 Pages

Developing a Concept for an OPC UA Standard to Improve Interoperability in Battery Cell Production: A Methodological Approach for Standardization in Heterogeneous Production Environments

  • Julia Sawodny,
  • Simon Otte,
  • Fabian Böttinger,
  • Fabian Haag and ,
  • Andreas Schlereth,
  • Tom-Hendrik Hülsmann,
  • Felix Tidde,
  • David Roth,
  • Arno Schmetz and
  • Jürgen Fleischer
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

The development of interoperable and reusable information models is a key challenge for digitalization in manufacturing domains with heterogeneous and complex process chains. Ensuring seamless data exchange requires the standardization of both data s...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,310 Views
26 Pages

23 February 2024

The share of renewable energy resources in modern electrical power networks is increasing in order to meet environmental and technical targets. Consequently, energy researchers and power providers have been focusing on optimizing the integration of r...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
33 Pages

Agri-Synergy: A Hardware–Software Co-Designed Hybrid IoT System for Sensor Interface Standardization and LLM-Driven Interactive Decision Support

  • Leqi Lai,
  • Langtao Duan,
  • Yuhao Chen,
  • Yuhang Zheng and ,
  • Jinyu Yang and
  • Mingyao Wen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper presents Agri-Synergy, a hybrid Internet of Things (IoT) system featuring a hardware–software co-design to tackle sensor data heterogeneity and the barriers to effective AI-driven decision support in smart agriculture. Unlike softwar...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Applications and Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,756 Views
23 Pages

Image Entropy-Based Interface Evaluation Method for Nuclear Power Plants

  • Wenzhe Tang,
  • Shanguang Chen,
  • Yun Lin and
  • Chengqi Xue

8 December 2023

The digital interface is crucial for nuclear plant operators, influencing their decision-making significantly. However, evaluations of these interfaces often overlook users’ decision-making performance; lack established standards, typically occ...

(This article belongs to the Collection Entropy in Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
13,475 Views
23 Pages

AAL Platform with a “De Facto” Standard Communication Interface (TICO): Training in Home Control in Special Education

  • Miguel A. Guillomía San Bartolomé,
  • Jorge L. Falcó Boudet,
  • José Ignacio Artigas Maestre and
  • Ana Sánchez Agustín

12 October 2017

Framed within a long-term cooperation between university and special education teachers, training in alternative communication skills and home control was realized using the “TICO” interface, a communication panel editor extensively used in special e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Context Aware Environments and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,296 Views
32 Pages

A Universal Intelligent System-on-Chip Based Sensor Interface

  • Virgilio Mattoli,
  • Alessio Mondini,
  • Barbara Mazzolai,
  • Gabriele Ferri and
  • Paolo Dario

17 August 2010

The need for real-time/reliable/low-maintenance distributed monitoring systems, e.g., wireless sensor networks, has been becoming more and more evident in many applications in the environmental, agro-alimentary, medical, and industrial fields. The gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensors - 2010)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,160 Views
11 Pages

6 May 2022

The essential factor that enables medical patient monitoring is the vital signs monitor, whereas the key in communication with the monitor is the user interface. The way the data display on the monitors is standard, and it is often not changed; howev...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,299 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2022

Recently, interface management has been regarded as the key to the success of prefabricated building projects (PBPs) due to its capabilities to manage numerous interfaces caused by PBPs’ inherent geographical and organizational fragmentation. H...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7,056 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2023

Recently, with the development of automobile technologies such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), the performance and number of cameras and displays required for a vehicle have significantly increased. Therefore, the need for in-vehicle h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Control of Embedded Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,955 Views
24 Pages

25 January 2022

To apply UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) into different fields, including research and industry, and expand it quickly, reliable but modular software is required. The existing flight control software (FCS) of the UAV consists of various types of modul...

(This article belongs to the Collection Unmanned Aerial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,094 Views
14 Pages

6 December 2023

Cyber–physical systems (CPS) integrate diverse elements developed by various vendors, often dispersed geographically, posing significant development challenges. This paper presents an improved version of our previously developed co-simulation i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,062 Views
11 Pages

Performance Assessment of a Humidity Measurement System and Its Use to Evaluate Moisture Characteristics of Wheelchair Cushions at the User–Seat Interface

  • Zhuofu Liu,
  • Haifeng Cheng,
  • Zhongming Luo,
  • Vincenzo Cascioli and ,
  • Andrew I. Heusch,
  • Nadia R. Nair and
  • Peter W. McCarthy
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 April 2017

Little is known about the changes in moisture that occur at the body–seat interface during sitting. However, as increased moisture can add to the risk of skin damage, we have developed an array of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) humidity senso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Humidity Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,580 Views
27 Pages

An Overview of Indoor Positioning and Mapping Technology Standards

  • Yuejin Deng,
  • Haojun Ai,
  • Zeyu Deng,
  • Wenxiu Gao and
  • Jianga Shang

6 May 2022

Technologies and systems for indoor positioning, mapping, and navigation (IPMN) have rapidly developed over the latest decade due to advanced radio and light communications, the internet of things, intelligent and smart devices, big data, and so fort...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers to Celebrate the Inaugural Issue of Standards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,248 Views
16 Pages

Packet Optical Transport Network Slicing with Hard and Soft Isolation

  • Samier Barguil,
  • Victor Lopez Alvarez,
  • Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo,
  • Oscar Gonzalez de Dios and ,
  • Alejandro Alcala Alvarez,
  • Carlos Manso,
  • Pol Alemany,
  • Ramon Casellas,
  • Ricardo Martinez and
  • Ricard Vilalta
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

5 July 2021

Network operators have been dealing with the necessity of a dynamic network resources allocation to provide a new generation of customer-tailored applications. In that sense, Telecom providers have to migrate their BSS/OSS systems and network infrast...

(This article belongs to the Collection New Trends in Optical Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,024 Views
9 Pages

Aggregated Conducted Electromagnetic Interference Generated by DC/DC Converters with Deterministic and Random Modulation

  • Hermes Loschi,
  • Robert Smolenski,
  • Piotr Lezynski,
  • Douglas Nascimento and
  • Galina Demidova

21 July 2020

The assessment of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is important for both technical and legal reasons. This manuscript addresses specific issues that should be taken into account for proper EMC assessment of energy systems that use power electronic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial and Technological Applications of Power Electronics Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,627 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2021

Interoperability plays an important role in Industry 4.0. Interoperability in the engineering process allows the automation of the engineering phase, reducing the human effort involved and the associated engineering costs. It improves the quality of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Systems Engineering Interoperability: Engineering Design and Operation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,641 Views
14 Pages

5 April 2025

This article presents the influence of lubricant on selected tribological properties of the rolling–sliding association, i.e., the wheel–rail system. Three solid lubricants were tested: soybean grease, molybdenum disulfide and graphite gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Tribological and Other Functional Properties of Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,280 Views
20 Pages

IOb-Cache: A High-Performance Configurable Open-Source Cache

  • João V. Roque,
  • João D. Lopes,
  • Mário P. Véstias and
  • José T. de Sousa

21 July 2021

Open-source processors are increasingly being adopted by the industry, which requires all sorts of open-source implementations of peripherals and other system-on-chip modules. Despite the recent advent of open-source hardware, the available open-sour...

  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
122 Citations
18,052 Views
18 Pages

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is an essential part of the future fifth generation (5G) system that can be seen as a “network of networks,” consisting of multiple seamlessly-integrated radio access technologies (RATs). Public safety communicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cellular D2D Communications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,837 Views
7 Pages

Crystal Structure of Bovine Alpha-Chymotrypsin in Space Group P65

  • Andrew C. Marshall,
  • Benjamin G. Keiller,
  • Jordan L. Pederick,
  • Andrew D. Abell and
  • John B. Bruning

10 December 2018

Chymotrypsin is a protease that is commonly used as a standard for protein crystallization and as a model system for studying serine proteases. Unliganded bovine α-chymotrypsin was crystallized at neutral pH using ammonium sulphate as the precipitant...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomolecular Crystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,297 Views
16 Pages

The electrochemical behavior when the liquid–liquid interface was modified by commercially available, microporous silicon nitride membrane, was achieved using cyclic voltammetry with tetramethyl ammonium. The transfer characteristics of the ion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,007 Views
18 Pages

27 March 2024

The Atomic and Molecular Data Unit of the International Atomic Energy Agency has developed a new database, CollisionDB, to provide an open, free, robust and long-term repository of data on plasma collisional processes. The database contains data on c...

(This article belongs to the Section Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Spectroscopy and Collisions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,713 Views
14 Pages

This paper proposes a novel text interface using deep learning in a mobile platform environment and presents the English language teaching applications created based on our interface. First, an interface for handwriting texts is designed with a simpl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LifeXR: Concepts, Technology and Design for Everyday XR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,600 Views
18 Pages

Study on Sand-Steel Interface Shear Test Method and Mechanism

  • Xiaofei Hu,
  • Long Yu,
  • Yunrui Han and
  • Qing Yang

22 February 2025

Soil-structure interface properties play an essential role in geotechnical engineering. The interface shear test is widely used to measure the interface properties. However, in the traditional interface shear test (TIST), distribution of shear stress...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,244 Views
4 Pages

26 October 2023

The thermal properties of a two-layered composite conductor are modified in the case that the interface is damaged. The present paper deals with the nondestructive evaluation of the perturbations of interface thermal conductance due to the presence o...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 17th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,926 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, we focus on interdisciplinary collaboration using intuitive virtual reality interfaces and building information models in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. These systems have been a topic of research and devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,697 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2024

Wire bonding is a method of connecting two or more surfaces by the means of a thin wire which is ultrasonically bonded to those surfaces and provides an electrical connection. While this method is well established in the microelectronics industry its...

(This article belongs to the Section Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
32 Pages

A Reliable IPv6 Access and Transmission Method for Spaceborne Platforms Without Physical Ethernet Interfaces

  • Pengfei Zhang,
  • Lianguo Wang,
  • Enshi Li,
  • Jianing Rao and ,
  • Jianzhe Zhang,
  • Miao Ma and
  • Wenjie Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

With the development of space-based cloud computing and on-orbit intelligent processing, higher requirements have been imposed on standardized network interconnection for spaceborne platforms. However, constrained by size, power consumption, thermal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Enabled Space Communications)

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