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EARLY SCREENING [21 records]

Record 1 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Cancers and Oncology
  • The Genitals
DEF

A microscopic examination of cells exfoliated or scraped from a mucosal surface after staining with Papanicolaou's stain [that is used, among other things, for early cervical cancer screening].

CONT

To perform a Papanicolaou (Pap) test, the doctor scrapes cells from the surface of the cervix with a small wooden applicator much like a tongue depressor. Then, a small bristle brush can be used to obtain a sample of cells from the canal of the cervix. [...] The cells removed [...] are placed on a glass slide, sprayed with a preservative, and sent to the laboratory, where they are examined under a microscope for signs of cervical cancer.

OBS

Used especially for detection of cancer of the uterine cervix.

OBS

Papanicolaou smear, Pap smear: Although these terms are sometimes used to refer to the "Pap test," it is preferable to use one of the more precise terms. The "Pap test" includes collecting the cells to produce the "Pap smear," fixing the smear and staining it with the Papanicolaou stain, and examining it under the microscope.

OBS

Pap test, Papanicolaou test, Pap smear test, Papanicolaou smear test, Papanicolaou smear, Pap smear: These terms appear under the entry "test" in the Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Cancers et oncologie
  • Organes génitaux
DEF

Examen au microscope des cellules de desquamation prélevées sur le col de l'utérus et fixées en frottis sur lame [qui permet notamment] le dépistage précoce du cancer du col utérin.

CONT

Le test de Papanicolaou est un test cytologique dont l'objectif est de détecter des cellules cervicales anormales. La procédure consiste à prélever avec précaution des cellules du col de l'utérus, et à étaler et fixer ces cellules sur une lame de verre. Les lames sont ensuite envoyées à un laboratoire de cytologie et lues par un cytologiste ou un cytotechnicien diplômé qui détermine le type et le degré de gravité de l'anomalie [...]

OBS

frottis cervico-vaginal; frottis cervical; frottis de Papanicolaou : Bien que ces termes soient utilisés pour désigner la notion de «test de Papanicolaou», il est préférable d'utiliser un terme plus précis puisque le «test de Papanicolaou» comprend le prélèvement de l'échantillon, la préparation du frottis ainsi que son examen au microscope.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
  • Órganos genitales
DEF

Tinción que se utiliza para el estudio de las células por medio de un frotis. Por ejemplo, el examen microscópico de las células del cervix uterino, que se realiza para detectar cambios que puedan ser precursores de cáncer en la mujer.

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Record 2 2023-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Special Years, Weeks, Days
  • Cancers and Oncology
  • Bowels
OBS

March marks Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a yearly campaign designed to raise awareness around the risk factors for colorectal cancer and the importance of screening as a part of early detection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations d'années, de semaines et de jours spéciaux
  • Cancers et oncologie
  • Intestins
OBS

Le mois de mars est le Mois de la sensibilisation au cancer colorectal, une campagne annuelle conçue pour sensibiliser les gens aux facteurs de risque du cancer colorectal et à l'importance du dépistage dans le cadre de la détection précoce.

Spanish

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Record 3 2021-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • The Eye
OBS

... a non-invasive diagnostic instrument for the rapid screening and early diagnosis of glaucoma.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Oeil
OBS

[...] instrument de diagnostic non invasif qui permet le dépistage rapide et le diagnostic précoce du glaucome.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental médico
  • Ojo
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Record 4 2021-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Hygiene and Health
DEF

A screening done when a person arrives in a country.

CONT

The evidence from the past outbreaks shows that effectiveness of entry screening is uncertain, but it may support risk communication strategy by providing information to travellers from affected countries/areas to reduce the general risk of acute respiratory infections, and to seek medical attention early if they develop symptoms compatible with the infection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Hygiène et santé
DEF

Dépistage effectué au moment où une personne arrive dans un pays.

CONT

Les données relatives aux précédentes flambées montrent que l'efficacité du dépistage à l'entrée est incertaine, mais il peut renforcer la stratégie de communication sur les risques, car il permet de donner aux voyageurs en provenance des pays et régions touchés des informations sur le risque général d'infection respiratoire aiguë et d'inciter ces derniers à consulter rapidement un médecin en cas de symptômes évocateurs de l'infection.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
  • Higiene y Salud
CONT

Durante el brote actual del nuevo coronavirus 2019-nCoV, se ha detectado una serie de casos exportados en los cribados de entrada establecidos por algunos países. Mediante controles de la temperatura en los puntos de entrada es posible detectar casos sintomáticos para los que, posteriormente, se realizarán exámenes médicos y pruebas de laboratorio para confirmar la infección.

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Record 5 2016-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Aids (Psychology)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

If negative affective states lead to school and illicit drug use in the workplace, early screening and treating employees with mental health issues(such as depression and anxiety) may reduce substance-abuse problems in the workplace.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides au diagnostic (Psychologie)
  • Psychologie clinique
CONT

[...] la politique de santé devrait renforcer le dépistage précoce des problèmes de santé sur le lieu de travail en ciblant particulièrement les troubles mentaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales para el diagnóstico (Psicología)
  • Psicología clínica
CONT

Para la psiquiatría infantil la detección precoz es fundamental, ya que en la infancia, detectar las enfermedades mentales es mucho más trascendente y mucho más difícil que en otras edades.

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Record 6 2014-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

Behavior rating scales are often used as screening devices to obtain information on and help to identify individuals who may benefit from a more detailed assessment or who may be at risk for developing more serious problems and who may benefit from early intervention.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
CONT

À partir de cette liste fut construite une échelle d'évaluation du comportement dont les résultats d'une application à 100 sujets furent analysés, aboutissant à 35 traits. Une analyse factorielle de ceux-ci identifia 12 traits que [l'auteur] considéra comme les «traits primaires de la personnalité».

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Cancers and Oncology
OBS

The [Community Cancer Programs Network] CCPN is dedicated to the provision of community cancer care which is therapeutically equivalent to that provided centrally without compromising the patient. It is a community based, comprehensive program which strives to incorporate all facets of the cancer spectrum(prevention, early detection and screening, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation and palliation).

Key term(s)
  • Community Cancer Programmes Network

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Cancers et oncologie
OBS

Parmi les projets à succès les plus importants et les plus durables d’Action cancer Manitoba, le Réseau de programmes communautaires de lutte contre le cancer est un véritable modèle pour la promotion de partenariats et de pratiques exemplaires. L’objectif de ce projet mis en œuvre en 1978 était de limiter au maximum les perturbations causées par le cancer dans la vie des patients, en offrant des soins aux malades plus près de leur domicile.

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Provincial Government Programs (Canadian)
  • The Eye
OBS

The vision screening program is coordinated by the school divisions with support(training, equipment loans, and repairs and data collection) from the Student Services Branch. It is intended to identify, as early as possible, school age students who may have undetected vision difficulties. The program does not take the place of a professional eye examination conducted by an ophthalmologist or optometrist. Its purpose is to screen school age children for possible visual difficulties and to recommend referral to a professional eye care practitioner if vision difficulties are suspected.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes de gouvernements provinciaux canadiens
  • Oeil
OBS

Le Programme de dépistage des troubles de la vue est coordonné par les divisions scolaires et bénéficie du soutien de la Direction des programmes et des services de soutien aux élèves (ateliers de formation, prêt de matériel, réparation de matériel et collecte de données). Le programme vise à repérer, le plus tôt possible, les troubles de la vue qui n'auraient pas encore été détectés chez les enfants d'âge scolaire. Ce programme ne remplace pas les examens de la vue faits par un ophtalmologue ou un optométriste. Son objectif est de faire du dépistage de troubles visuels auprès des enfants d'âge scolaire et de les diriger vers un spécialiste de la vue si on soupçonne des troubles visuels.

Spanish

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Record 9 2007-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics affect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types ... . CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together ... . The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results ... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees.... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees... through open vents in late winter and early spring.... New understandings in insect colour vision(Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents(daylight with UV)... versus the greenhouse roof and walls(attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould(Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Production légumière
CONT

Plastique de serre : contribution des matériaux plastiques à la maîtrise du microclimat.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales plásticos
  • Producción hortícola
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Record 10 - external organization data 2006-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
14.04.13 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

screening test employing the functional operation of a nonrepairable functional unit

OBS

A screening test is intended to detect and remove defective functional units or those likely to exhibit early failures(see IEV 191-14-09).

OBS

The definition in IEV 191-17-03 is essentially the same.

OBS

burn in: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-14:1997].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
14.04.13 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

essai de sélection effectué en faisant fonctionner des unités fonctionnelles non réparables dans des conditions réelles d'emploi

OBS

Un essai de sélection est destiné à détecter et éliminer les unités fonctionnelles défectueuses ou susceptibles de présenter des défaillances précoces (voir VEI 191-14-09).

OBS

Dans VEI 191-17-03, la définition est fondamentalement la même, mais le terme est «rodage».

OBS

rodage fonctionnel : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-14:1997].

Spanish

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Record 11 2005-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
CONT

Periconceptional care consisting of counselling, examinations and medical interventions for voluntary and eligible couples based on three steps : check-up of reproductive health(i. e. preconceptional screening), a 3-month preparation for conception, and best possible protection in early pregnancy for the most sensitive early development of the embryo.

OBS

periconception: the three months prior to conception and the first three months of pregnancy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
DEF

Ensemble des actions diagnostiques et thérapeutiques visant à prévenir et à traiter les anomalies de la conception et à réguler la procréation.

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Immunology
CONT

Abnormalities in numbers of CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell subsets and the helper/suppressor ratio(CD4/CD8) were used very early in the AIDS epidemic to help define persons affected with AIDS before a screening test for HIV-1 was available. A low number of CD4+ lymphocytes alone or in combination with a decreased CD4 : CD8 ratio and total lymphocyte count can be useful as a predictor of HIV-1 seropositivity and progression of disease.

Key term(s)
  • T8/T4 ratio

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immunologie
CONT

Les CD4 ou T4 sont une sorte de globules blancs, des lymphocytes qui jouent un rôle capital dans le déclenchement d'une réaction immunitaire (de défense du corps) face à un "envahisseur". Ils sont aussi la cible privilégiée des VIH. [...] On utilise parfois [...] comme indicateur le rapport CD4/CD8, ces derniers étant les éléments qui assurent la clôture d'une réaction immunitaire.

Key term(s)
  • rapport T4/T8

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inmunología
DEF

Correspondencia cuantitativa que se establece entre las células CD4 cooperadoras y las CD8 supresoras.

OBS

En condiciones normales, [la relación CD4/CD8] debe ser por arriba de uno, aproximadamente 2:1. En la mayoría de los casos de VIH, esta relación se encuentra invertida y es menor de uno.

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Record 13 2003-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Optics
  • Beekeeping
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics effect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types ... . CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together ... . The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results ... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees.... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees... through open vents in late winter and early spring.... New understandings in insect colour vision(Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents(daylight with UV)... versus the greenhouse roof and walls(attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould(Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

Key term(s)
  • colored transparent plastic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Optique
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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Record 14 2002-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Printing Processes - Various
CONT

In the early nineties FM screening(frequency-modulated screening, also called stochastic screening) caused a minor revolution in the trade. Proponents hailed it as the passport to a photographic quality in offset printing. On top of this the new screening technology gave rise to hopes of a more consistent and controllable printing process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'impression divers
CONT

Dès le début des années 90, le tramage par modulation de fréquence, dit tramage FM ou encore stochastique, a suscité un grand intérêt dans les industries graphiques car il annonçait la qualité photographique en impression offset. Cette nouvelle technique de tramage laissait de plus escompter un processus d'impression plus constant, mieux maîtrisable.

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Breadmaking
DEF

The time that is required for a dough ball made from wheat meal, water and yeast. and suspended in water at 30°C to disintegrate. It is a rough measure of the quality of the wheat protein for breadmaking and is used in screening for baking quality in new varieties of wheat during the early generations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Boulangerie
DEF

Le délai nécessaire à une boule de pâte composée d'une farine de blé, d'eau et de levure et suspendue dans de l'eau à 30°C, pour se désagréger.

Spanish

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Record 16 2001-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Breadmaking
CONT

In the early 1930s, the Grain Research Laboratory of the Canadian Grain Commission listed the following quality requirements for durum wheat high test weight, vitreousness, quantity and quality of protein, and high yellow pigment.

CONT

All of the early Canadian durum wheat varieties had low yellow pigment content by the standards of today(Table 1). However, screening procedures were in place to ensure that yellow pigment levels would improve. Nugget, which was developed in North Dakota, USA, was the first North American durum wheat line released with superior color characteristics. According to Irvine(1965) Nugget had two to three times the yellow pigment content of other Canadian and American durum varieties at that time, and low lipoxygenase activity. Nugget proved to have inferior agronomic performance, so was never widely grown, but it provided a source of high yellow pigment to durum wheat breeders in the subsequent development of successful high yellow pigment varieties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Boulangerie
CONT

Au début des années 30, le laboratoire de recherche de la Commission canadienne des grains énumérait les attributs que devaient posséder le blé dur; poids spécifique élevé, vitrosité, quantité et qualité des protéines et [teneur supérieur en pigment] jaune.

Spanish

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Record 17 1996-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Breeding
OBS

e.g. of breeding lines of wheat

French

Domaine(s)
  • Amélioration végétale
OBS

p. ex. de lignées de blé, de pomme de terre, etc.

Spanish

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Record 18 1995-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Staff
  • Urinary Tract
CONT

The pediatric nephrologist has traditionally not been involved in the care of the diabetic child since diabetic nephropathy presents in adulthood. Recent studies suggest that diabetic kidney disease develops silently during childhood. Measurement of urinary albumin excretion(UAE) allows earlier detection of patients at risk of nephropathy, often in adolescence. In addition to diabetic nephropathy, diabetic children are at risk of urinary tract infections, renal papillary necrosis, and various forms of glomerulonephritis. The role of the pediatric nephrologist in the care of the child with diabetes might include advising on the administration and interpretation of screening for UAE and the measurement and interpretation of glomerular filtration rate, and blood pressure. Children with evidence of renal dysfunction should be evaluated and treated by the pediatric nephrologist. Frequently, renal biopsy will be necessary in these patients. Future research may allow the detection of diabetic kidney disease earlier in childhood, further expanding the role of the pediatric nephrologist. In particular, early renal biopsy may eventually be used to select those patients at risk of diabetic nephropathy for specific treatment alterations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel médical
  • Appareil urinaire
CONT

Beaucoup d'enfants avec une insuffisance rénale chronique sont de petite taille lorsqu'ils sont vus par le pédonéphrologue. Une stricte attention au régime, à l'équilibre électrolytique et acido-basique et à la prévention de l'ostéodystrophie peut entraîner une spectaculaire croissance de rattrapage chez certains nourrissons qui sont traités au cours des 2 premières années de la vie. Si le traitement est différé jusqu'après l'âge de 2 ans, une lente amélioration de la croissance a lieu chez la plupart des enfants. Il reste cependant un groupe d'enfants dont la croissance est résistante à un traitement théoriquement optimal. Beaucoup de ces enfants ont un poids de naissance bas et présentent une dysplasie rénale avec ou sans reflux.

Spanish

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Record 19 1991-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decision-Making Process
  • Marketing
DEF

Systematic technique and process of investigating, identifying and determining the product or service being considered; market needs ...; investment or production costs; optimum selling price ...; potential for competitors to obsolete the product....

OBS

Selecting profitable projects. No company begins a project with the expectation that it will be a loser.... Most [projects however] do not meet expectations.... Sometimes the cause is a product that has too high a selling price because its costs are excessive. Sometimes it is timed too late... [or too early].... There usually is no shortage of potential products to be considered for further development and production. The problem is one of preselection or screening of many projects to determine which are most promising.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Processus décisionnel
  • Commercialisation
CONT

Le diagnostic innovation est, entre autres, destiné à vérifier la capacité d'une entreprise à développer le projet de produit nouveau dans lequel elle souhaite s'impliquer, ou est déjà impliquée.

Spanish

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Record 20 1988-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

McCarthy Screening Test. Dorothea McCarthy. Ages : 4-6. 5.... [It] includes six component scales-all drawn from the "McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities-that are predictive of a child's ability to cope with schoolwork in the early grades. Typically, children who would be diagnosed as "learning disabled", or as having other handicaps that would interfere with learning, perform less well on these scales then do children no so diagnosed. Therefore, the... test... identifies children as being "at risk" or "not at risk".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Tant que le questionnaire n'est pas commercialisé (et traduit) en français, l'usage veut que l'on emploie l'expression anglaise, la seule officielle. Pour expliquer la chose, on pourrait parler du "test de dépistage de McCarthy".

Spanish

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Record 21 1988-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
CONT

Early Screening Inventory(ESI). Samuel J. Meisels and Martha Stone Wiske.... Purpose : Assesses the ability of a 4-6 year old child to acquire new skills. Identifies children who may need further evaluation and special educational services.... Examiner required. Individually administered; suitable for screening groups of children.... Publisher : Teachers College Press.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
OBS

Tant que le questionnaire n'est pas commercialisé (et traduit) en français, l'usage veut que l'on emploie l'expression anglaise, la seule officielle. Pour expliquer le test, on pourrait parler de "inventaire de dépistage précoce".

Spanish

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