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Gis Na Xalebi

- Mbaye Ndiaye (lead vocal, riiti), Ibou Tine, Moustapha Dione, Fatou Talla Ndiaye, Arame Camara (chorus), Alioune Gueye (guitar), Elou Fall (keyboard, programming, drums), Pape Ndiaye (percussion), Jololi

Globalising poverty: The gender dimension to Job Losses, Casualisation and Poverty

- NALEDI

  • Authors: NALEDI
  • Date: June 2000
  • Subjects: NALEDI
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167919 , vital:41522
  • Description: Despite the massive contribution women make around the world, they still fall into the category of the poorest and the most oppressed. Women have borne the brunt of the social costs of the changes in the world economy such as globalisation, increased international competition, structural adjustment and the deregulation of labour legislation. Massive technological advances have done little to benefit women around the world. In fact, in many instances it has actually increased their hardships. Multinational companies search the globe for areas that offer cheap labour and poor working conditions. Globally, women make up the bulk of the army of so-called “flexible”, cheap workers sought after by employers anxious to increase their profits. It is women who are mostly to be found in sweatshops and who are least likely to be organised. In South Africa, there is already a significant trend of homeworking in the clothing sector and casuahsation in the retail and other sectors. And when they are organised into unions, women struggle to be recognised as leaders in those movements. With massive retrenchments in the South African economy, more and more women are being pushed out of the labour market. Women’s unemployment rate is higher than men’s world-wide. The spate of retrenchments and job losses in the last few years have been described as a “job loss bloodbath”. According to recent statistics 1 million jobs have been lost since 1994 - what does this say about GEAR’S employment record? The mining and construction industries have suffered the largest job losses in the South African economy. While the workforce in these industries is predominantly male, and mostly migrant labour, the impact on women and families in rural areas is high, given the extreme rates of unemployment and poverty and their reliance on remittances. The clothing, textile, leather and footwear industry, which is female-dominated, has also been hard hit by retrenchments - approximately 76 000 jobs have been lost since 1995.
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  • Date Issued: June 2000

Grahamstown and its environs

- Daniel, J B M (John Benjamin McIntyre)

  • Authors: Daniel, J B M (John Benjamin McIntyre)
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Miscellanea Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Description and travel Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2601 , vital:20308 , ISBN 094998051X
  • Description: The aim of this brochure is to provide a reasonably comprehensive guide to Grahamstown and its environs. The area has much to offer the person who is prepared to explore and to observe the many facets offered by the human and physical landscapes. It is hoped that the sections on the development of the town and selected historical aspects, the geology, the vegetation, the mammals and the birds will provide sufficient information for the region to be seen and appreciated as a whole, while still leaving room for new discoveries. The interrelationships between geology, altitude, vegetation and the use of the land form a valuable starting point in the study of the countryside. In the towns the buildings and the street grids often help to unravel complex aspects of growth and development. These are some of the features which can be observed on the recommended excursion routes. If the brochure contributes to a greater understanding, and therefore appreciation, of Grahamstown and its environs its purpose will have been fulfilled. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Grassroots diplomacy between Lesotho and South Africa: the district liaison committees

- Moeletsi, Motheba Gwendoline

  • Authors: Moeletsi, Motheba Gwendoline
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Lesotho -- Foreign relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Lesotho , Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960- , Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2805 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003015 , Lesotho -- Foreign relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Lesotho , Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960- , Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
  • Description: Cross-border conflicts on the African continent have increased tremendously in the post-colonial years. The widespread border conflicts on the African continent have been attributed to the arbitrariness with which Africa’s national boundaries were drawn during the colonial period. The colonial boundaries have left the doors open for perpetual conflicts among African states. This thesis proposes to investigate the prospects of grassroots diplomacy as an option of dealing with border conflicts with specific reference to the case of Lesotho/South Africa border relations. This is done by critically evaluating the role the District Liaison Committees (DLCs) have played in border relations between Lesotho and South Africa. The Lesotho and South African governments have institutionalised the resolution of border conflicts at grassroots level through the establishment of the DLCs. The DLCs consists of representatives of border communities in Lesotho and South Africa. The paper introduces a not so familiar concept of involving people at grassroots levels in the conducting of diplomacy between the two neighbouring countries. The central issue implicit in this paper is that grassroots diplomacy is succeeding in the case of Lesotho and South Africa. The DLCs have managed to reduce tension between the two countries along the borders which had existed over a long period of time, thereby, relieving the central governments of some of their duties. The thesis contents that high level conventional diplomacy is not always the answer to cross-border conflicts. The example of Lesotho and South Africa could be followed by other African countries in similar situations.
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Handheld infrared CO2 gas detector

- Coetzee, George

  • Authors: Coetzee, George
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Gas-detectors , Infrared detectors , Water quality -- Measurement
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: vital:10807 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/28 , Gas-detectors , Infrared detectors , Water quality -- Measurement
  • Description: A handheld InfraRed (IR) Carbon Dioxide (CO2) gas detector was developed and used to carry out a study of water and urine samples in South Africa. The details of the model and the results of the study are discussed here. The overseas markets are not geared for the current South African conditions. Use is made of components that can be obtained locally. Imported components are very expensive and should an imported model be damaged, it has to be returned overseas to be repaired. As an illustration of this technology it was decided to perform research in water technology and then develope a handheld Infrared CO2 gas detector based prototype which would: highlight the benefits of using handheld IR CO2 gas detectors; be built locally; be powered by a 12 Volt supply; be very easy to maintain; and be cost effective. Experimental results on the accuracy and stability of the instrument formed part of this study. The IR CO2 Gas detector that was developed was used throughout the project as a prototype and testing vehicle for numerous designs. It proved to be superior to the current imported commercial instruments in terms of size, cost effectiveness and user friendliness. A further advantage of the instrument is its robustness.
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Healing at the margins: discourses of culture and illness in psychiatrists', psychologists' and indigenous healers' talk about collaboration

- Yen, Jeffery

  • Authors: Yen, Jeffery
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Traditional medicine -- South Africa , Medical policy -- South Africa , Mental health -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3090 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002600 , Traditional medicine -- South Africa , Medical policy -- South Africa , Mental health -- South Africa , Healers -- South Africa
  • Description: This dissertation explores discourses about culture and illness in the talk of mental health professionals and indigenous healers. It represents an attempt to situate the issue of indigenous healing in South Africa within a particular strand of critical discourse analytic research. In the context of current deliberations on the value, or otherwise, of indigenous healing in a changing health and specifically mental health system, the talk of both mental health practitioners and indigenous healers as they conceptualise “disorder”, and discuss possibilities for collaboration, is chosen as a specific focus for this study. Disputes over what constitutes “disorder” both within mental health, and between mental health and indigenous healing are an important site in which the negotiation of power relations between mental health professionals and indigenous healers is played out. The results of this study suggest that despite the construction of cogent commendations for the inclusion of indigenous healing in mental health, it remains largely marginalised within talk about mental health practice. While this study reproduces to some extent the marginalisation of indigenous healing discourse, it also examines some of the discursive practices and methodological difficulties implicated in its marginalisation. However, in the context of “cultural pride strategies” associated with talk about an African Renaissance, indigenous healing may also function as a site of assertion of African power and resistance in its construction as an essentially African enterprise. At the same time, it may achieve disciplinary effects consonant with cultural pride strategies, in constructing afflictions in terms of neglect of, or disloyalty to cultural tradition. These results are discussed in terms of the methodological difficulties associated with interviewing and discourse analysis of translated texts, which contributes to difficulties with articulating indigenous healing discourse in a way that challenges the dominant psychiatric discourses implicated in its marginalisation within mental health. It concludes with recommendations for future research which addresses indigenous healing discourse in its own terms, and examines its operation as a disciplinary apparatus in South African society.
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Hi Life Asta

- Priscilia Ngando (lead vocal), Mevio-Mayo, Dany Mouanga, Mouasso (rhythm guitars), Aubin Sandjo, Scorpionkabambay, Mouche Bass (bass guitar), Dany Mouanga, Eric Sefu (solo guitar), Aubin Sandjo, Paul Balong (keyboard), Abel Massock, Fabo Claude, Nono (chorus), Moussa Haissam (composer), Aubin Sandjo (drum, percussion, keyboard), Alhadji Mallam Issa (talking drum), Moussa Haissam

Hidden presences in the spirituality of the amaXhosa of the Eastern Cape and the impact of Christianity on them

- Mtuze, P T

  • Authors: Mtuze, P T
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Spirituality -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Religion , Missions -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Missionaries -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Christianity -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- History , Christianity and culture -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTh
  • Identifier: vital:1296 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015612
  • Description: This thesis is an attempt to reopen the debate on the whole question of inculturation in Southern Africa especially in light of the fact that we are now in a multi-lingual and multi-religious state. It is an attempt to rehighlight the plight of the spirituality of the amaXhosa people over the last century when missionary and imperial onslaught relegated it to the doldrums. This plunged the amaXhosa in a crisis that has left them directionless, to put it mildly. This is said because the total onslaught destroyed their self-respect and their identity and begs the question as to whether their acceptability to God was contingent on renouncing their culture especially the hidden presences - Qamata, the living-dead and the notion of evil spirits. It is precisely because of these misconceptions regarding African culture and spirituality that the thesis has a strong expository and apologetic bias primarily aimed to address, and put into proper perspective, the significance of the Supreme Being, the living-dead and the evil spirits in African culture. The issues are discussed within the broader socio-historical context. The thesis is basically comparative in that it uses Celtic spirituality and the approach of the early Celtic church to the question of inculturation as its point of departure and as a foil against which the preposterous actions of the church in Africa should be seen. This comparative element is also reflected in the unmistakable `dichotomy’ of Western religion and African spirituality, or better still, lack of spirituality, that was so fervently maintained by the missionaries and the colonialists alike. It is for this reason that I concur with Chidester (1996:xiv) that `the study of religion must find itself, once again, on the frontier’. The study is informed by this approach right through. It should be stressed, from the outset, that the idea is not comparison in order to satisfy our curiosity, nor is it comparison in order to try to authenticate and vindicate the beleaguered African culture. The central idea of the study is to expose the absurdity of the policies of the past century in this regard. The myth of the pure blooded Christianity is confronted, if not exploded. Several examples of both inculturation and continuities between Christianity and other faiths such as the Jewish founding faith are given. The subtheme of cultural domination subtly spans the whole study culminating in Chapter Four where the blacks begin to appropriate some of the Christian symbols and the whites also begin to assimilate African concepts such as ubuntu.
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Histological validation of gonadal macroscopic staging criteria for Labeo cylindricus (Pisces: Cyprinidae).

- Booth, Anthony J, Weyl, Olaf L F

  • Authors: Booth, Anthony J , Weyl, Olaf L F
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446824 , vital:74563 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC17754
  • Description: Histological examination of gametogenesis revealed that the current staging criteria used to assess gonadal recrudescence of the redeye labeo, Labeo cylindricus, were adequate. Gametogenesis was qualitatively similar to that of freshwater teleosts with a clearly defined seasonal reproductive cycle. L. cylindricus undergoes seasonal gross morphological and cytological gonadal changes with previtellogenesis dominating during the winter, vitellogenic development during spring and summer culminating in large-scale spawning at the end of summer. Post-spawning mass atresia of oocytes was evident in autumn. The histological data presented support macroscopical evidence that L. cylindricus is a synchronous iteroparous spawner, reproducing over a short period each year throughout its life-span.
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HIV/AIDS Manual (project proposal)

- Labour Research Service (LRS)

  • Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
  • Date: 2000
  • Language: English
  • Type: instruction , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60075 , vital:27730
  • Description: HIV/AIDS Manual. This manual thus aims to contribute to ensuring greater awareness amongst trade union members of the AIDS epidemic and that the issue assumes much greater importance and becomes integral to trade union activities and work, such as, collective bargaining and shop stewards' duties.
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Human Touch

- Selle Diop (comoser, performer), Serigne Ndiaga Diop (composer), Souleymane Faye (arranged by), Lay Diagne (keyboards), Robson (accoustic guitar, percussion), Nagirou Dia, Selle Diop (chorus), Studio 2000

Identification of Management skills required by middle Managers to effectively manage a public hospital in the Eastern Cape

- Belemu, Roy Boombe

  • Authors: Belemu, Roy Boombe
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Hospitals -- South Africa -- Management , Health services administration -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: vital:10829 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/19 , Hospitals -- South Africa -- Management , Health services administration -- South Africa
  • Description: The research problem addressed in this study was to identify what management skills do middle managers require to manage the organisational units effectively. To achieve this objective a theoretical model of management skills required by middle managers to effectively manage a public hospital was developed, using relevant literature in which management skills are identified. The theoretical model consisted of the following categories of management skills whose correct application can promote managerial effectiveness in managing organisational units: General management skills; Technical skills; Human skills; Leadership skills; Financial management skills; Computer skills. Each category of the management skills was broken down into elements that were then analysed using literature identified during the literature study. The model was then used to develop a questionnaire to assess the degree to which managers responsible for running the clinical, nursing and paramedical departments of a public hospital in the Eastern Cape rate the elements in terms of importance. The empirical results obtained indicate that a wide variety of skills are regarded by middle managers as important to performance of their managerial roles. This resulted in the theoretical model being confirmed and the identified management skills being accepted as management skills required by middle managers to effectively manage a public hospital in the Eastern Cape.
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Impact of fire frequency on woody community structure and soil nutrients in the Kruger National Park

- Shackleton, Charlie M, Scholes, Robert J

  • Authors: Shackleton, Charlie M , Scholes, Robert J
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181874 , vital:43776 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v43i1.210"
  • Description: Although fire is recognised as an important determinant of the structure and function of South African savannas, there are few studies of long-term impacts. Controlled burning blocks of contrasting fire season and frequency have been maintained throughout the Kruger National Park for almost 50 years. This paper reports on a quantitative study of the Satara plots to determine the long-term impacts of fire frequency on woody community structure and soil nutrients. Increasing fire frequency significantly decreased woody plant basal area, biomass, density, height, and mean stem circumference. The number of stems per plant and the proportion of regenerative stems increased with increasing fire frequency. Effects on species richness of woody plants were inconsistent. There were no significant differences attributable to fire frequency for any of the soil variables except organic matter and magnesium. Organic carbon was highest in the fire exclusion treatment and lowest in soils from plots burnt triennially. Magnesium levels were greatest in the annually burnt soils and least in the triennial plots.
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Implications of current labour legislation for small, medium and micro-enterprises with regard to procuring government contracts

- Long, Hylton Ernest

  • Authors: Long, Hylton Ernest
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Small business -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Small business -- South Africa -- Management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: vital:10836 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/29 , Small business -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Small business -- South Africa -- Management
  • Description: The research problem addressed in this study is to determine what affect current labour legislation has on small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMME’s), in particular with regard to the procuring of Government contracts. To achieve this objective a literature study was undertaken to ascertain what knowledgeable people believed was the affects of labour legislation on SMME’s. The literature study included all relevant labour legislation promulgated by the Government since 1994 The literature study was then used to develop a questionnaire to test the degree to which SMME’s, operating in the Municipal areas of East London and King Williams Town, abided by the relevant labour legislation. The empirical results, in general, indicated a strong adherence to labour legislation. Those organisations that had not strictly adhered to labour legislation were, in most instances, not successful in securing contracts offered by Government or parastatals. The results indicated that all the role-players, namely businesses, trade unions and knowledgeable people have valid arguments both for and against labour legislation. Each group, is however, still concerned and suspicious that in one way or another, they will be placed at a disadvantage with respect to the others positions, and this places a serious strain on the South African economy.
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In time of plague : the Basotho and the rinderpest, 1896-8

- Phoofolo, Pule

  • Authors: Phoofolo, Pule
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Rinderpest -- Lesotho -- History Epidemics -- Africa -- History Livestock -- Diseases -- Africa Sotho (African people) -- Social life and customs Lesotho -- History
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:2553 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002405
  • Description: Rinderpest, the most dreaded bovine plague, struck the cattle of the BaSotho in British Basutoland early in 1897. By December the murrain had spent itself, having reduced the cattle population by half As it did so, the rinderpest claimed the primary historical significance of an epidemic. By sharpening behaviour and illuminating latent or developing tendencies, the rinderpest helped to reveal the nooks and crannies of contemporary historical processes that would have otherwise eluded historical visibility. This thesis brings out the complexities and ambiguities surrounding the epidemic. It uses the crisis occasioned by the panzootic in its multifaceted manifestations as a prism through which we might view the complex aspects of contemporary historical processes. It goes beyond the narrow limits of the crisis itself to discerning the broader and wider historical patterns that the rinderpest helped to highlight.
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Incident

- Ma Sane, Do Sagna, Yade (vocals), Toto (guitar), Race, Magx Thiam (keyboards), Galass, Mbaye Joola (percussion), Beuz (drums), Studio 2000

Incorporating the spatial component of fisheries data into stock assessment models

- Booth, Anthony J

  • Authors: Booth, Anthony J
  • Date: 2000
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/124800 , vital:35698 , https://doi.10.1006/jmsc.2000.0816
  • Description: Fisheries-dependent and independent data have a strong spatial component. These data are also multi-dimensional, making them difficult to visualize and analyze, prompting the use of spatial analysis to facilitate an understanding of their relationships. One aspect of fisheries data that is often ignored is the distribution and abundance of a particular resource and the fishing patterns of its harvesting fisheries. In order to improve management advice, stock assessors need to incorporate the spatial component of these data into an existing assessment framework. This paper presents a three-dimensional visualization of the age-structure and fishery dependent and independent data associated with the sparid fish Pterogymnus laniarius on the Agulhas Bank, South Africa. A spatially-referenced spawner biomass per-recruit model is developed to illustrate the applicability of incorporating spatially referenced information in providing management advice. The model provided evidence that, even on a spatial scale, fishing mortality is significantly correlated to fishing effort. Areas of high levels of spawner biomass are noted, all of which corresponded to those geographic areas with a combination of low fishing effort and high adult biomass.
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Integrating customer requirements in the design of service processes in South African motor dealership

- Hodgkinson, Peter

  • Authors: Hodgkinson, Peter
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Automobile industry and trade -- Customer services , Automobile industry and trade -- South Africa , Customer services -- Quality control
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: vital:10837 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/30 , Automobile industry and trade -- Customer services , Automobile industry and trade -- South Africa , Customer services -- Quality control
  • Description: The Motor Industry is set in a highly competitive and dynamic global arena constantly shaped by both external and internal forces. From an organisations point of view many of the external or macro forces are largely uncontrollable. Against this backdrop, players in the South African Motor Industry need to find new methods of differentiating themselves from competitors – One manner of performing this strategy is for Motor Dealerships to understand, meet or exceed customer requirements. In this research, the literature survey revealed the concepts of Total Quality Management (TQM) and fail-safing, the meaning of superior customer service and the importance of customer loyalty and retention. Customer service excellence levels of three Williams Hunt dealerships in the Port Elizabeth – Uitenhage metropole were measured by utilizing the SERVQUAL instrument for calibrating service quality. Customer expectations and perceptions were determined by means of the empirical study which yielded a service quality “gap.” From analysis of this gap and related findings, suggested improvements were suggested as a guideline for dealerships to utilise with the aim of improving customer service levels.
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Integration Africaine

- Pap Jibi Ba (lead vocal), Ndeye Marie Ndiaye, Zacaria Niang, Ousmane Seck (vocals), Cheikh Tidiane Tall (guitar), Pape Ndiaye (sabar, talmba tamb), Dame Mbaye (xalam), Studio 2000

Interaction between iron (II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine and the neurotransmitters, serotonin and dopamine

- Oni, Joshua, Nyokong, Tebello

  • Authors: Oni, Joshua , Nyokong, Tebello
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293223 , vital:57066 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5387(00)00421-6"
  • Description: This work reports on the kinetics of interaction of iron(II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine, [FeTSPc]4−, with dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT). The interaction results in the coordination of dopamine and serotonin to [FeTSPc]4−, followed by internal electron transfer and the formation of [(DA+)FeITSPc]4− and [(5-HT+) FeITSPc]4− complexes, respectively. The rate constants for the coordination of dopamine or serotonin to [FeTSPc]4− and the formation of the FeITSPc species were found to be kf=6.8 and 9.3 dm3 mol−1 s−1, respectively. The equilibrium constants were 2.2×103 and 1.5×103 dm3 mol−1, respectively, for the interaction of dopamine or serotonin to [FeTSPc]4−.
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