G. K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics 2003 (Gk Hall Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics)

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This text focuses on methods for helping teachers develop their students literacy skills to enhance learning of content subject matter across all disciplines.

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Very useful. Reading strategies link info. .......2005-05-20

very useful material when it comes to applying reading strategies to ones unit lessons. from kwl, to clozed activities, this book has it all in helping you bridge that information(content)that you want your students to learn. this book as well as introduction to rubrics by stevens and levi are books that educators and substitute teachers should have.

Content Area Literacy: Teaching for Today and Tomorrow (Teaching Methods)

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Content Area Literacy: Teaching for Today and Tomorrow (Teaching Methods)
Robin Eanes
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This third edition, designed in a user friendly format, substantially revises and extends old favorites including whole chapters on gender and international management issues for the first time. Current debates on surveillance, managing diversity, knowledge work, high performance work systems, and learning in organizations are discussed, and new chapters on change and teamwork have been added.

Organizational Behaviour and Work: A Critical Introduction

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Organizational Behaviour and Work: A Critical Introduction
Fiona M. Wilson
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This book provides a critical approach to the study of work and organizational behaviour, questioning what organizational behaviour is and how it has been researched and discussed. Written as an introductory textbook, the book aims to stimulate readers towards further questions and their own research. The book is unique in that it deals directly with the weakneses of theories on topics such as motivation, leadership and teambuilding whilst also covering topical subjects such as theft, fun, sex, romance, bullying, harassment, resistance, exploitation, unequal power relations and sabotage. This book gives a realist's perspective of what consititutes organizational behaviour, providing a critique of the latest research from the gurus of management whilst also describing the realities of work and behaviour found in organizations. This second edition includes new chapters on scene setting, motivation, teams and teamworking, culture, leadership, change and organizational learning. Established sections such as unemployment, organizational misbehaviour and sexuality have been updated and expanded. The text has retained its unique critical stance whilst also encouraging greater student understanding and accessibility. The background to the major theories is explained and each chapter contains a wealth of student learning features including chapter introductions, topical case studies, examples, stop boxes, group exercises, end of chapter questions, further reading and web links.

Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Organization, Theory and Society series)

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Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Organization, Theory and Society series)
Philip G Hancock , and Melissa J Tyler
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Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business & management and sociology courses.

Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction

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Making Sense of Management: A Critical Introduction
Mats Alvesson , and Hugh Willmott
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ASIN: 0803983891

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Both provocative and thoughtful, Making Sense of Management provides a fresh perspective on management. In this critical analysis, authors Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott present a stimulating text that argues for the importance of subjecting perceived wisdoms about management to scrutiny. Such scrutiny needs to address not only the means but also, as social and ecological problems proliferate in the global economy, the ends and outcomes of management theory and practices. Making Sense of Management will be special interest to professionals and researchers in management and organizational studies who want to look beyond the surface of traditional management studies.

Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction

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Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction
Fiona M. Wilson
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This book is designed to provide a clear, straightforward, critical introduction to Organizational Behaviour, challenging and questioning what constitutes the subject and how it is influenced. Organizational Behaviour is seen here as being mainly about the ways in which individuals' dispositions are expressed in organizations, and the effects of this expression. It discusses rest and play within organizational settings, as well as work. Whilst Organizational Psychology usually informs the content of textbooks in Organizational Behaviour, this book draws mainly on the Sociology of work to focus on issues such as power, control, subordination, manipulation, resistance, theft, sexuality, 'dirty and deviant work, culture and emotion, as well as bureaucracy and unemployment. The book is particularly written for those who wish their students to know that there are few certainties about how to manage, and many uncertain tensions, irrationalities and dilemmas amongst the mundane realities of working life. It shows how workplaces are sites of inequalities divided by class, levels of education, race and gender. Women here are treated as central to the subject as men are, rather than tagged on as an extra chapter or left on the edge of the subject. The chapters serve as an easy introduction to the research issues discussed. The style of writing is deliberately simple. References and review questions direct and encourage students to take their reading, research and analysis further. The book is illustrated with original cartoons by Angela Martin.

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Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction
Fiona M. Wilson
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ASIN: B000OLB2IE

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Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow. With contributions from seasoned manufacturing experts, the book provides a single-source reference to what's currently happening in modern manufacturing facilities. It covers: · Agile Enterprise and Lean Manufacturing · Six Sigma-Introduction and Six Sigma-Design for Manufacturing and Assembly/ Design for Six Sigma (DFMA/DFSS) · ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14000 · Process Analysis and Statistical Quality Control/Statistical Process Control (SQC/SPC) · Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) · Theory of Constraints/Constraints Management (TOC/CM) and Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TIPS/TRIZ) · Supply Chain Management and Manufacturing Controls Integration · Design of Experiments (DOE) and Robust Design · Measurement Systems Analysis and much more Organized so that the content is easy to find and easy to understand, Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus presents an endless supply of the tools and techniques available to the manufacturing professional who wishes to be well-informed. Nowhere else will you find all these modern manufacturing methods covered the way they are in this comprehensive resource.

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Every manufacturing manager should have this book.......2002-12-29

This book solidly meets its stated objective of being a handbook that quality professionals and manufacturing leadership can use no matter where they are in their quest for improving product design, manufacturing operations, or customer satisfaction. It is particularly helpful for those who are involved with quality or other systems such as ISO-9001:2000, ISO-14001, or QS-9000. It would especially be useful as a resource for a Six Sigma Black Belt, Master Black Belt, or anyone leading a process improvement team.

The authors of the various chapters also do a good job of relating the material from a practioner's point of view, rather than just a lot of theory. I found the book to be very understandable for those who may not have any previous knowledge of a topic. Some of the chapters include step-by-step instructions that can be helpful in implementing the technique. A very detailed table of contents allows the reader to see what resources are actually included.

One of the nice things about the book is that it covers many powerful topics often overlooked such as TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), TOC (Theory of Constrants), QFD (Quality Function Deployment), Measurement Systems analysis and Robust Design.

While not designed to be a textbook, I could see using this as a text for a senior level Industrial Engineering course or an executive MBA or MS in engineering management seminar course in quality systems. Submitted by Dr. Phil Rosenkrantz, P.E., Cal Poly University, Pomona.

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The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications.

The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment and accommodation to the power differences between the contesting groups. This is done within a framework outlined by the editors in their analytical overview, which offers contours for comparative examinations of such disputes, past and present.

Providing conceptual and factual analyses of comparative nature and wealth of empirical material (both historical and contemporary), this book will appeal to economic historians, economists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and all scholars interested in issues concerning ethno-nationality and land rights in historical perspective.

Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History

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Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History
Stanley L. (EDT)/ Metzer, Jacob (EDT) Engerman
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A fine blend of fascinating information, presented in simple tables, and informed commentary, written in an informal style. Health, housing, transport, the law, mining and manufacture -- the housekeeping of the second city of the Empire

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How does marketing research affect your daily life? With Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making, readers find out how marketing research processes and results lead to the marketing decisions that impact their daily lives. This book also teaches readers about the important issues and methods involved in conducting marketing research, and then using the findings to manipulate the marketing mix to meet customer needs. Reviews of statistics and key marketing concepts help users brush up on the basics as they learn more about the marketing research tools and uses. A strong Internet focus keeps readers in touch with the latest marketing research technologies. Readers also learn how to effectively use the Internet to gather market research data more quickly and efficiently.

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GREAT BOOK !.......2001-02-20

That's one of the best books on marketing research with a simple approach. Subtitle reads "An aid to decision making". But not only to decision making but also to everybody who wants a quick understanding of marketing research. The only thing to say the writer is "thank you" as it has such a simple but powerful approach to marketing research. I am teaching marketing for 10 years and this is one of the simplest book I have ever seen on this mattter. Some special chapters on reliability and validity and internet are unique features of this book. You can be a marketing research instructer or a marketing research student, if you want to know marketing research, just get this book !

Instructor's Edition Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making

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Instructor's Edition Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making
Alan Shao , and Kevin Zhou
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We are confident that the new edition of Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making will dramatically improve students? knowledge of marketing research because practitioners, academicians, and past users of the text recommended many of the changes and new topics that we incorporated into this edition. The fact is, there have been numerous changes in the research industry and global marketplace that warrant special attention. When you consider how research organizations are consolidating, economies are growing worldwide, and competition is intensifying, there is a resounding plea for improved knowledge by decision-makers.

Decision Aids for Selection Problems (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)

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Decision Aids for Selection Problems (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
David L. Olson
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ASIN: 0387945601

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One of the most important tasks faced by decision-makers in business and government is that of selection. Selection problems are challenging in that they require the balancing of multiple, often conflicting, criteria. In recent years, a number of interesting decision aids have become available to assist in such decisions. The aim of this book is to provide a comparative survey of many of the decision aids currently available. The first chapters present general ideas which underpin the methodologies used to design these aids. Subsequent chapters then focus on specific decision aids and demonstrate some of the software which implement these ideas. A final chapter provides a comparative analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making

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Marketing Research: An Aid to Decision Making
Alan T. Shao
Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub
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Profits and people are often seen as competing needs in business, but in Perry J. Ludy's view, cultivating a loyal, productive workforce is crucial to business success. In Profit Building, Ludy -- who has worked for top companies in every major field from manufacturing to retail -- outlines a new approach called PBP (Profit Building Process), specific techniques for improving profitability by stimulating creative thinking and motivating teams to work together more effectively.

This program gives business leaders a daring yet accessible approach to increasing earnings without the shortsighted solution of layoffs. Using step-by-step examples, Ludy shows how to encourage employee participation in an atmosphere where creative problem solving flourishes. This entails the systematic application of four interdependent concepts: teams, innovation management, brainstorming, and action step planning.

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Cost Cutting with a Conscience.......2006-08-06

It is axiomic that the role of the firm is to maximise profit; some would say to maximise shareholder value. Profit can be increased by selling goods and services at a premium price that the customer is prepared to pay. However, in a highly competitive environment, prices can be depressed and the company may have to focus on cutting costs whilst maintaining an acceptable level of service and quality.

With the various economic shocks that the world is subjected, one typical and favourite target for cost cutting is reducing the workforce. This short-sighted approach to cost cutting not only causes a lot of human suffering but seldom achieves the intended objective of reducing costs in the long-run. Perry Judy proposes a more progressive approach that focuses on profit improvement. The Profit-Building Process that the author proposes appears to be an effective and workable method for building profit without employing the short-sighted and often self-defeating cost-cutting through cutting people.

I work in the airline industry where people cutting is a favourite strategy employed during lean times. Very often, following the drastic reduction in manning levels, service levels are reduced to such an extent that customers are turned away, further worsening the plight of the airlines concerned. The step-by-step approach of building on-going profit through motivated teams appears to be an excellent strategy for companies to employ when cost-cutting is required.

The book is required reading for all managers tasked with the responsibility to cut costs and build profits in any department.

Profit Building - Cutting Cost Without Cutting People.......2001-08-29

If you are looking for a way to increase profits in your organization, I strongly recommend that you start by first reading Profit Building - Cutting Costs Without Cutting People. Mr. Ludy takes you step by step though the process of building an on-going profit build team for your organization. We have used it as a blueprint for our company and it has really turned our employees. The book moves fast and I found it to be an easy read.

Highly Recommended!.......2001-04-24

Perry J. Ludy, a seasoned executive, presents his strategies for building profits and cutting costs in this well conceived book. He provides a team-based, profit-making plan that companies of any size could implement. In this simple, highly effective book, Ludy dispels myths about cutting costs and building profits. He uses examples from his professional experience to show his suggestions in action. We [...] recommend this book to managers and executives who are responsible for cost cutting and profit building.

Build-Up Profit Improving Skill Rather than Having Lay-offs!.......2001-03-05

As one CEO said to me recently, "No one who has a conscience ever wants to lay anyone off." Yet the headlines are filled with announcements that companies are making massive cuts in jobs and employees. Recently, these cuts are even coming in the fastest growing technology industries. If people don't like to fire anyone and people don't like to be fired, why is this happening?

Mr. Ludy argues that faced with missing budgets, the orders come down to spend less. Most people do know how to fire someone, so that option gets plenty of attention. Most people do not know many other ways to cut costs or boost profits in the short term, so the alternatives get little attention.

Our firm did a study more than a decade ago that has been quoted in dozens of books and magazine articles. We found that the stocks of companies which did layoffs usually underperformed the stocks of companies that did not. By the end of four years, the differences were enormous in favor of those who did not do layoffs.

Many people believe that this is because people do layoffs poorly, and many people do. But it also because the effort that goes into the layoffs could be better deployed in activities that increase profits. Usually, the bulk of those who go are the most employable people. They end up working for the competition, or having to be hired back as expensive consultants. How does either alternative help, while you are paying severance benefits as an additional cost?

Mr. Ludy points out, based on his extensive experience, that most executives, managers, and supervisors know little about profit improving.

Much of the recent training in companies has been on how to reduce errors, and that may help cut costs in main processes. That learning is often of little help in secondary processes and in areas where the processes need to be totally replaced, revised, or outsourced. Xerox and Motorola are both famed for their quality processes, and both companies are struggling now to make a profit.

Mr. Ludy has developed a process described in the book that helps to get people focusing on the best opportunities, and following through to implement the opportunites that they select. He also provides lists of items which many companies ignore, to help get the process started.

Although I have not seen this process working in practice, it is similar enough to elements of successful processes I have seen that is has credibility to me.

If you decide to pursue this process, I suggest that you can improve upon it. First, rather than just having one small team working on this, you should try to get as many people working in small teams as possible. The most successful profit-improvement program I ever saw involved over 14,000 people in suggesting ideas. Second, be sure to compare the performance you are achieving in one part of the company with what you are achieving in another part of the company in the same activity. Most large companies get their best ideas from benchmarking to their own best practices. Third, be sure to create an e-intelligence capability to get more information to everyone about how the company is performing. E-Business Intelligence is a book that can help you understand this point better.

The three strengths of Mr. Ludy's process to me are:

1. The emphasis on finding ways to improve profits, without hurting people.

2. Training people about how to improve profits.

3. Eliciting questions to locate opportunities.

In regard to the second point, you may find it helpful to read Dr. Ram Charan's new book as well, What the CEO Wants You to Know. That book focuses on simple business concepts and metaphors to make everyone better able to relate to the issues of the enterprise.

One of the major weaknesses of companies is that leaders are often asked to pursue tasks for which they do not have relevant information, experience, or training. Where else does your company have this issue? In my experience, two areas stand out.

(1) Finding better solutions to repetitive problems.

(2) Choosing directions that will lead to better results, regardless of business conditions.

May you find more intelligent, and more humane, ways to profit!

Affirmation of people power in commerce.......2001-02-24

Perry Ludy's book, Profit Building examines a powerful dichotomy for business in the new millennium. It empowers commerce to make effective choices to achieve profit building by cutting costs without cutting people.

Profit Building is also an imperative to examine conventional business models during periods of economic uncertainity. This book is precise, concise and truly on the cutting edge of contemporary issues in today's economy.

Profit Building is a must read for savvy business management - or those who expect to join the ranks - to "get ahead of the curve" or virtually reinvent the human possibilities.

Reviewed by former Group Publisher CBS.

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Data warehouses store millions of records, allowing managers to ask the big-picture questions about their businesses. The authors of Data Warehouse Design Solutions share their expertise in designing successful data warehouses and concentrate on understanding business processes within a variety of industries.

First, the authors outline the promise--and potential hurdles--of data warehousing. They thoroughly explain the idea of dimensional data, which is used to represent the quantities or attributes that can be queried in a data warehouse. The authors argue that data warehouses need to adapt to changing business conditions and often must be more flexible than planned. They advise building the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) as a series of interlocking data marts (which contain different dimensions). Developers can build part of a solution and add new data marts later. The result is a more adaptable approach to warehousing data.

The heart of Data Warehouse Design Solutions is the descriptions of data warehouses tailored to specific industries--sales, marketing, fulfillment, production, inventory, and capacity--using real-world businesses. The authors offer business models, sample dimensions, database schema, and sample reports for each business area.

Later chapters discuss more advanced areas for data warehousing, including budget tracking, financial reporting (and managerial accounting), and even how to look at profitability and intellectual capital. The authors round out their nuts-and-bolts tour of today's businesses with a summary of the various measures that fit each type of organization. Finally, the authors come back to theory, with some ideas on building effective systems that are fast and that generate easy-to-read reports. The last chapter argues convincingly that their incremental approach to building data warehousing has some distinct advantages. --Richard Dragan

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"Each chapter is... a practice run for the way we all ought to design our data marts and hence our data warehouses."-Ralph Kimball, from the Foreword.

Let the experts show you how to customize data warehouse designs for real business needs in Data Warehouse Design Solutions.

To effectively design a data warehouse, you have to understand its many business uses. This guidebook shows you how business managers in different corporate functions actually use data warehouses to make decisions. You'll get a rich set of data warehouse designs that flow from realistic business cases. Two top experts show you how to customize your data warehouse designs for real-life business needs including:
* Sales and marketing
* Production and inventory management
* Budgeting and financial reporting
* Quality control
* Product delivery and fulfillment
* Strategic business analysis such as determining market share, rates of return on investment, and other key analytic ratios.

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All sample data warehouse designs with accompanying preformatted reports in HTML for specific business uses such as marketing, sales, and financial analysis.

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A very good complement to Ralph Kimball books.......2003-03-31

I highly recommend this book and I think that it's a very good complement to Ralph Kimball books. It's based on the same principles and theory, and expands the number of practical examples based on real industry implementation, so if you are lucky you can find many tips and data models that can be immediately applied in your projects.
You need to read the Kimball books first in order to fully understand this one, and of course some of the example are based on US companies, but most of the material can be immediately applied to other markets and Countries as well (like Italy where I work).
I think that the last chapters (13/14/15) which deal with topics like presenting information and the process to build a DW are a little less interesting, but they still contain some useful tips.

A very good complement to Kimball's books.......2003-03-31

A good handbook on dimensional modeling.......2001-04-04

If you do not have 'The Data Warehouse Toolkit' by Ralph Kimball yet, you may want to buy this book. The techniques and approaches discussed in these two books are almost the same. The way this book is structured is very much alike that of the Kimball's book. But I liked the fact that the chapters are dedicated to particular business areas, not particular industries. In the chapter about marketing you will find examples for three industries. I liked Chapter 13, 'Presenting Infomation' which is full of tips on effective reporting. I liked also the chapter on financial reporting which gives a technical reader basic ideas of what finance is about. You will learn about balance sheets, income statments, cost allocation from the point of view of a data modeler. Of course, the book has all the terms and techniques one has to know to successfully build dimensional models. I did not like though the last two chapters which deal with methodology questions. You will only get a slight idea about how to integrate dimensional modeling into your data warehousing project. You will have to buy one of those books on methodologies to get a better insight into the question. In general, the book is very interesting. I gave it four stars for minor flaws - no one is perfect!

Excellent Real World models...........2000-01-15

This book provides down-to-earth models for star schemas. And with each example, the authors examines different approaches for designing the stars and later gives the pros/cons of each approach. A very good book. A must for anyone who designs data warehouse databases.

No-Nonsense.......1999-07-01

This book from 1st page onwards talks about Data Modeling issues for Datawarehouse in a mature way. Also covers an important issue of integration of datamarts.

Infrastructure Solutions, Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 Tb Sap Netweaver Business Intelligence Data Warehouse

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Infrastructure Solutions, Design, Manage, and Optimize a 20 Tb Sap Netweaver Business Intelligence Data Warehouse

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