The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:

The continued global rise in sales of SUVs pushed their climate-heating emissions to almost 1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency.

The 330 million sport utility vehicles on the roads produced emissions equivalent to the combined national emissions of the UK and Germany last year. If SUVs were a country, they would rank as the sixth most polluting in the world.

Climate campaigners are increasingly concerned about the impact of SUVs. The vehicles are larger and heavier than regular cars and use on average 20% more fuel. The increased number of SUVs in 2022 were responsible for a third of the increase in global oil demand.

Purchases of SUVs have soared in recent years, rising from 20% of new cars in 2012 to 46% of all cars last year, the IEA reports. The rise continued in 2022, includes significant growth in the US, India and Europe, despite the overall number of cars sold falling slightly.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Anderson069:

This fully electric car called Zem has created by 3D-printed from recycled plastics. Zem also has an interior made of pineapple and a dashboard made of cooking oil. “Zem” stands for “Zero Emission Mobility,” this car does not emit carbon. It also has a great exterior design. This Zem car has a pair of carbon filters in the front grille that contributes to cleaning the atmosphere by removing about 4.5lb of Carbon-dioxide per 20,000 miles.

That means ten Zem cars remove the same amount of carbon as a mature tree absorbs annually. Solar panels are also installed on the Zem’s roof, and those provide about 15% of the car’s energy needs. It has a traditional charging point at the rear that completes the rest of the car’s energy needs.

It was created by a team of 35 undergraduates at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Carbon neutrality is built into every aspect of the car. The Monocoque and body panels are created by additive manufacturing. “These parts of Zem are 3D-printed to get the desired shape and almost no waste produced,” TU/ecomotive has stated.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/jwright100:

Yeah texting while flying 😂

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/mafco:

Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, a massive clean energy and electric vehicle bill passed by congress and signed into law last August, is much, much more than just a greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy.

The genius of the bill was incorporation of industrial policy to incentivize the growth of US domestic supply chains for everything from batteries to electric vehicles to solar panels. So far the response from industry has been almost breathtaking with a flurry of new factory announcements, tens of billions of dollars in new manufacturing investments and 100,000 new jobs so far. The ultimate goal is re-industrializion of the US economy and millions of new good paying middle class and whit collar jobs.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:

The world has lurched a step closer to the prospect of nuclear war, say researchers, after Russia declared last month that it would suspend its participation in its last major nuclear-arms treaty with the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement will formally end inspections under an agreement known as the New START treaty (Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms).

The inspection programme had allowed scientists on both sides to verify that the other was complying with the agreement. The move comes amid soaring tensions between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine.

New START limits Russia and the United States to 1,550 strategic warheads each, but has been facing challenges for years. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a pause in weapons inspections, and they have not restarted since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

US US government officials said in January that Russia was in violation of the treaty because it would not allow inspections to resume. However, Russia’s official suspension of the inspections is another blow to international efforts to control nuclear weapons, say experts, who worry that the world’s largest nuclear powers will not be subject to any arms-control obligations once New START expires in three years — or even sooner.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/rherbom2k:

The government wants to use deepfakes offensively despite claiming to develop tools to counter them. This can undermine trust in all content and erode democracy. As technology advances, people will continue to use it maliciously. The impact of deepfakes can be disastrous, causing society to lose trust in institutions and government. The future looks bleak as we must create ethical guidelines and educate the public to counter disinformation and promote transparency.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/thebelsnickle1991:

A breakthrough algorithm conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect that anything has been hidden, researchers said on Tuesday.

The system — which uses steganography instead of cryptology — is so secure it could allow vulnerable groups such as dissidents to communicate more safely with the outside world, they said.

It could also allow investigative journalists and humanitarian aid workers to communicate easier in some countries.

The algorithm may soon be used widely for digital communications, including social media and private messaging, the team led by the University of Oxford said.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/sgfgross:

“Ultimately, we might be able to inject RNA into patients and transform enough cells to activate the immune system against cancer without having to take cells out first,” Ravi Majetim, the lead researcher, said. “That’s science fiction at this point, but that’s the direction we are interested in going.”

This approach has the potential to open up an entirely new therapeutic approach to treating cancer and may provide a way to develop a vaccine for cancer.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/CelebrationDirect209:

More than 190 countries have reached a landmark deal for protecting the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, agreeing for the first time on a common framework for establishing new protected areas in international waters.

The treaty, whose text was finalized Saturday night by diplomats at the U.N. headquarters after years of stalled talks, will help safeguard the high seas, which lie beyond national boundaries and make up two-thirds of Earth’s ocean surface. Member states have been trying to agree on the long-awaited treaty for almost 20 years.

Environmental advocacy groups heralded the finalized text — which still needs to be ratified by the United Nations — as a new chapter for Earth’s high seas. Just 1.2 percent of them are currently environmentally protected, exposing the vast array of marine species that teem beneath the surface — from tiny plankton to giant whales — to threats such as pollution, overfishing, shipping and deep-sea mining.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the article

>The ever-growing wave of artificial intelligence technology is continuing to expand into the field of medicine, as several clinics across the globe begin experimenting with AI to help doctors detect breast cancer.
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>Hungary has been one of the largest and earliest adopters of the technology, as at least five hospitals or clinics that perform thousands of breast cancer scans per year have used AI programs since 2021, according to the New York Times. The success of using AI to detect cancer in the Hungarian clinics has inspired doctors in England, Scotland, and Finland to also experiment with the technology, per the Times.
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>In a study published last year that charted an AI program's ability to identify breast cancer in 250,000 scans, the technology was found to be as effective, if not more so, than a human radiologist, and was also able to read scans more quickly overall.
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>The study concluded that incorporating the technologies into the medical field could reduce the workload of radiologists by having an automated system that can provide a second opinion quickly and accurately.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the Article

>Scientists from the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer have developed a new AI that can accurately predict how long a cancer patient will live, just by reading a doctor’s notes.
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>According to their findings, published this week in peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open, the AI model was able to forecast whether patients would survive another six months, 36 months or 60 months with more than 80 per cent accuracy.
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>After following up on the patients at regular intervals after the initial test, the robot was correct in predicting when people had less than six months to live 86 per cent of the time, when patients would die within 36 months 84 per cent of the time, and when patients had less than 60 months to live 84 per cent of the time.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Portalrules123:

SS: Nouriel Roubini (a fairly mainstream economist known for accurately warning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2006) is interviewed on Al Jazeera's "The Bottom Line". The entire interview is interesting and rather sobering. His thesis is high debt burdens, supply shocks, technologies that exacerbate inequality, domestic political turmoil, geopolitical tensions, and environmental problems are going to severely hurt the global economy, and that some of these problems feed off each other and make them worse. Young people who feel (correctly) that they are worse off than their parents will be a source of discontent.Quote from around the nine minute eleven second mark: "Things are worse than the 70s and worse than the post GFC period. In some dimensions, things are even worse than the 1930s".

It's definitely gonna be harder to maintain the mental health of the youngest generation the more of them come to realize that the actions of their priors have doomed them to worse quality of life, that's for sure...

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/DisasterousGiraffe:

This economic case for solar PV and wind turbines now makes the transition from fossil fuels inevitable, and as manufacturing capacity for solar pv and renewables is built the transition will become increasingly rapid.

"If you look at the total world economy, it’s just under $US100 trillion. So if this was spread out, say over 10 years, it would be 1 per cent of the global economy."

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/berlinparisexpress:

I felt like posting and commenting on this because I work for a company of 300 people that has made the shift to the 4-day workweek (with no loss of pay) almost 4 years ago. As some people comment in the article linked, it was hard!

Not everyone was on the same page or communicating well. Some departments were just super disorganized and stressed. In the first few months people actually reported MORE stress and our sales results tanked. Some people also thought it was super unfair because some of my colleagues fully enjoyed the day off while others felt that they still had to catch up on their work because their results were time-dependent (eg: salespeople having a fixed number of calls to make every week).

However, after 6 months of adjustments it just started to work wonderfully for everyone. For instance, at the beginning anyone could pick any day but Monday but we now restrict it to Wednesday or Friday so that the teams work more easily together.

I haven't worked a single Friday in 4 years and could not go back to a 5DWW easily now and I don't think any of my colleagues would.

I think this is really interesting as a whole lot of people currently entering the job market are starting to doubt they'll ever retire, so if we can find ways of making work more sustainable during our careers we might achieve something even more interesting than "escape the rat race as early as possible" and start enjoying life at 70.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:

Submission Statement

"This system is expected to become economically feasible in the near future, as the demand and market prices for REEs are likely to rise significantly in the coming years"

It will be interesting to see what price this can be commercialized at. One of the themes of the 2020s is supply-chain security, and China being the dominant source for so many critical elements is a vulnerability. The EU has billions of €'s in funding set aside for circular economy initiatives. Bringing this to market seems a strong contender for that support.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/goodfaithtreaty:

The idea of Moon standard time would help with the idea of Moonlight, which is an ESA satellite constellation that could provide positioning, communication, and navigation data to astronauts on the lunar surface. The problem now is that different missions to the Moon have all used a different clock, even if it was standardized to Earth time and corrected for gravitational drifts in time. Now, with more missions than ever planned to work on the Moon—many of which will overlap and need to communicate with each other—a standard Moon time is crucial.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/For_All_Humanity:

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> Brussels pencilled in a 40% renewable energy target by 2030 in the Fit for 55 package it unveiled in summer 2021, but the 27-country bloc is now projected to reach 45%, according to a new report released on Tuesday by Ember.

> This is partly due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine which started in February 2022, and which exacerbated an energy crisis across Europe, as European economies sought to wean themselves off Russian fossil fuels and Moscow stopped delivering gas to many countries.

>In response, European countries "turbocharged" their energy transition, the independent energy think tank said, with investment in clean technologies jumping by nearly a third year-on-year to reach new record highs.

>Such was the case for solar deployment, with more than 40 GW installed across the EU last year, a 47% increase on the previous year. Meanwhile, estimates put new capacity in 2023 at over 50 GW.

> This exponential growth should see the Fit for 55 solar target reached four years early, in 2026, with Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and France seen as the countries that will add the largest amount.

>Significant growth was also observed last year in both heat pumps and electric vehicles.

>A record 3 million heat pumps were sold across the EU in 2022 — equivalent to roughly four billion cubic metres of natural gas. This brought the total stock to about 20 million, attaining an interim objective set for 2026.

>Projections now put the number of heat pumps installed by 2030 at between 60-72 million, significantly higher than the 40 million units modelled in the Fit for 55 package.

>Meanwhile, sales of electric vehicles continued to climb despite a challenging year for car sales in general. The automotive industry is now confident that it can achieve the transport electrification target, which plans for a fivefold increase between now and 2030.

>Unlike wind, solar did not defy expectations last year and new onshore capacity installed actually came in below the Fit-for-55 target, despite a 40% increase on the previous year. The outlook for offshore wind is more positive as projects under development would add 70.5 GW capacity, close to a new interim target set earlier this year of 111 GW by the end of the decade.

>For Ember, the positive trends observed over the past 12 months should prompt the EU to revise its targets upwards.

>"A new energy reality has unfolded across Europe since the Fit-for-55 package was presented eighteen months ago, with record-breaking clean energy investments reflecting the security and economic imperatives for increasing renewables," Elisabeth Cremona, an Ember energy and climate data analyst, said.

>"Clean technologies are forecast to outpace Fit-for-55 expectations, putting the EU on course for at least 45% renewables by 2030. As 40% renewables no longer reflects where we are heading, sticking with the lower target means aiming for failure," she added.

>Both the European Commission and Parliament have indicated they are in favour of boosting targets ahead of final negotiations on the EU’s renewable energy target for 2030 scheduled to take place in March. But some member states would prefer the target to remain unchanged at "at least 40%."

The EU should power ahead at full speed, and help nations which may be struggling to transition. This will help provide self-sufficiency to Europe and starve authoritarian regimes of revenue from their lucrative energy businesses.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:

From the article: It’s one of the most exciting areas of cancer research, but identifying the tumors through blood tests remains difficult, particularly for early-stage detection.

Despite breakthrough blood-test research for many types of cancers and specific sources such as lung and breast cancers, and the flourishing field of development of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests, screening generally still involves invasive biopsies of cells.

Researchers at the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney, Australia, are hoping to change that, with the development of their new biotech, the Static Droplet Microfluidic (SDM) device. It can quickly detect circulating tumor cells (CTC) that have split from the cancer source to enter the bloodstream. It paves the way for very early detection, monitoring and treatment.

“A single tumor cell can exist among billions of blood cells in just one milliliter of blood, making it very difficult to find," said Majid Warkiana, professor from the UTS School of Biomedical Engineering. "The new detection technology has 38,400 chambers capable of isolating and classifying the number of metabolically active tumor cells."

The SDM can pick out tumor cells through a unique metabolic signature involving waste product lactate.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the Article

>Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body.
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>3D bioprinting is a process whereby biomedical parts are fabricated from so-called bioink to construct natural tissue-like structures.
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>Bioprinting is predominantly used for research purposes such as tissue engineering and in the development of new drugs – and normally requires the use of large 3D printing machines to produce cellular structures outside the living body.
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>The new research from UNSW Medical Robotics Lab, led by Dr Thanh Nho Do and his PhD student, Mai Thanh Thai, in collaboration with other researchers from UNSW including Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell, Dr Hoang-Phuong Phan, and Associate Professor Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina is detailed in a paper published in Advanced Science.
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>Their work has resulted in a tiny flexible 3D bioprinter that has the ability to be inserted into the body just like an endoscope and directly deliver multilayered biomaterials onto the surface of internal organs and tissues.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the Article

>Brain organoids are a type of lab-grown cell-culture. Even though brain organoids aren’t ‘mini brains’, they share key aspects of brain function and structure such as neurons and other brain cells that are essential for cognitive functions like learning and memory. Also, whereas most cell cultures are flat, organoids have a three-dimensional structure. This increases the culture's cell density 1,000-fold, meaning that neurons can form many more connections.

Also from the Article

>OI’s promise goes beyond computing and into medicine. Thanks to a groundbreaking technique developed by Noble Laureates John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, brain organoids can be produced from adult tissues. This means that scientists can develop personalized brain organoids from skin samples of patients suffering from neural disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. They can then run multiple tests to investigate how genetic factors, medicines, and toxins influence these conditions.
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>“With OI, we could study the cognitive aspects of neurological conditions as well,” Hartung said. “For example, we could compare memory formation in organoids derived from healthy people and from Alzheimer’s patients, and try to repair relative deficits. We could also use OI to test whether certain substances, such as pesticides, cause memory or learning problems.”

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/universityofga:

Racial stereotypes were upended during a recent study that involved artificial intelligence. New research from the University of Georgia found that Black bots were considered more competent and more human than white or Asian bots used in the same study. This contrasts with past research on human-to-human interactions.
The full study, which was published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, can be read here.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:

From the Article

>NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy, speaking at the livestreamed meeting(opens in new tab), urged the users' advisory group to consider recommending a fast refresh of space regulations to avoid "future barriers" to space exploration.
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>"We are not a regulator; that is not our role," Melroy said of NASA. Pointing to planned International Space Station commercial successors in the 2030s, she added: "We cannot be responsible for all activities on a commercial space station."

Also from the article

>As NASA aims to put people and commercial payloads on the moon in 2025 with the Artemis program, and to open up the ISS to commercial astronauts and activities, more people and businesses have access to space than ever before. SpaceX and Axiom Space are among the beneficiaries, having flown ISS missions for astronauts themselves with NASA oversight. (SpaceX even flew a billionaire-funded independent excursion called Inspiration4.)
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>That said, space law is an immensely complex business. Most spacefaring countries have signed on to the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty(opens in new tab) that governs international space activities. The treaty, however, was negotiated in the 1960s when government activities dominated the scene. More recently, several dozen members of the NASA-led Artemis Accords(opens in new tab) have also agreed to peaceful work in the 2020s and beyond, and to eventually establish new norms for lunar exploration.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/CelebrationDirect209:

Europe is taking the lead in adapting Elon Musk’s innovative idea for freight transport with the Swiss Cargo Sous Terrain (CST) project.

The idea behind this solution is to create a faster, more efficient, and safer means of transport rather than the conventional one which produce carbon emissions. It has been described as a combination between an airplane and a train and is mainly intended for the transport of passengers.

The technology is under development and has not been commercially implemented. Several projects are in different stages of implementation and testing around the world but it will take several years before the system is fully functional and operational.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/landlord2213:

Scientists have performed the quantum version of creating energy out of thin air for their most recent magic performance. It's an accomplishment that seems to defy both logic and physical law.

The usual line of reasoning, according to William Unruh, a theoretical physicist at the University of British Columbia, is that "you can't take energy straight from the vacuum because there's nothing there to offer."
However, Masahiro Hotta, a theoretical scientist at Japan's Tohoku University, suggested 15 years ago that perhaps the void could be persuaded to give up something.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/QuickOliveSpring:

Most of us have at some point stopped to gaze up at the moon - but have you ever wondered what time it is up there?

For those who have, their question may soon have an answer, as space organisations are considering giving the moon its very own time zone.

Dozens of lunar missions, including ones to build bases and other habitats on the moon, are planned for the decade ahead, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said.

Space organisations began discussions about lunar time-keeping at the ESA's ESTEC technology centre in the Netherlands in November 2022.

ESA navigation system engineer Pietro Giordano said: "We agreed on the importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time, which is internationally accepted and towards which all lunar systems and users may refer to.

"A joint international effort is now being launched towards achieving this."

Up until now, each new mission to the moon has been operated on its own timescale, with deep space antennas used to keep onboard chronometers synchronised with the time on Earth.

Beyond astronauts and ground controllers being able to tell the time on the moon, the need for standard time-keeping in space is also essential for guidance and navigation.

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Women at centre of NASA moon race

Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson of NASA says 'there are no boundaries' as she ushers in a new age of space exploration.

Just as GPS systems on Earth require precise coordination and timing, so too will any infrastructure that is built and operated on the moon.

NASA's Gateway station will serve as a multi-purpose outpost orbiting the moon when it begins operating sometime after November 2024.

It will be open to astronaut stays and provide support for humans to return to the moon's surface.

Meanwhile, the ESA will be putting down its own Argonaut lander on the moon.

These missions will not only be operating on or around the moon at the same time - they will also be interacting and potentially relaying communications for one another and performing joint observations.

The ESA has said that among the current topics under debate is whether a single organisation should be responsible for setting and maintaining lunar time, and whether it should be set on an independent basis or be kept synchronised with Earth.

The international team working on the subject will face "considerable technical issues", the ESA has said.

Why do clocks work differently on the moon?

One challenge is that clocks on the moon run faster than their equivalents on Earth, as clocks tick slower in stronger gravitational fields, therefore gaining around 56 microseconds or millionths of a second per day.

Their exact rate depends on their position on the moon, ticking at a different speed on the lunar surface than when they are in orbit.

Bernhard Hufenbach, a member of the Moonlight Management Team from ESA's Directorate of Human and Robotic Exploration, said: "Of course, the agreed time system will also have to be practical for astronauts.

"This will be quite a challenge on a planetary surface where in the equatorial region each day is 29.5 days long, including freezing fortnight-long lunar nights, with the whole of Earth just a small blue circle in the dark sky.

"But having established a working time system for the moon, we can go on to do the same for other planetary destinations."

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