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I2MTC 2012 Student Competition!!!  Click on the link for more information or go to:

http://imtc.ieee-ims.org/studentcontest

The Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) strives to continually support the needs of our female members and conference attendees.  This year, at the 2012 International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), in Graz, Austria, the IMS will be offering the “Women in Instrumentation and Measurement Panel Discussion”.

The Women in Instrumentation and Measurement Panel Discussion will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to address and discuss issues, concerns and professional topics that are not of a distinctly technical nature.  The Panel will consist of 4 female members who work in the field of instrumentation and measurement, encompassing different geographical, technical/career and age groups. It will take place in the Graz Congress, session room S5, Tuesday, May 15th, 10:45-12:45.

If you would like more information about the Panel, please contact Kristen Donnell.  More information about this exciting event will be available soon on the I2MTC 2012 conference website.

Chair:


  • Dario Petri Headshot Photo
    Dario Petri
    I&M AdCom (2011-2014); VP Conferences; TIM Associate Editor (2013-2014); Faculty Course Development Award Chair


Committee:


  • Georg Brasseur Headshot Photo
    Georg Brasseur
    I&M AdCom (2011-2014); Society Awards Chair; Technical Committee Chair


  • Pasquale Daponte Headshot Photo
    Pasquale Daponte
    I&M AdCom (2012-2015); I2MTC Rep (2011-2013); I2MTC Board Chair

Chair:


  • Dario Petri Headshot Photo
    Dario Petri
    I&M AdCom (2011-2014); VP Conferences; TIM Associate Editor (2013-2014); Faculty Course Development Award Chair


Committee:


  • Kim Fowler Headshot Photo
    Kim Fowler
    Junior Past President; Long Range Planning Chair; Nominations Chair; Organization Chair


  • Pasquale Daponte Headshot Photo
    Pasquale Daponte
    I&M AdCom (2012-2015); I2MTC Rep (2011-2013); I2MTC Board Chair


  • Kristen Donnell Headshot Photo
    Kristen Donnell
    I&M AdCom (2012-2015); VP Membership; Membership Development Committee Chair; I&M Chapter Liaison; Distinguished Lecturer Program Chair; Faculty Course Development Award Chair; Graduate Fellowship Award Chair


  • Georg Brasseur Headshot Photo
    Georg Brasseur
    I&M AdCom (2011-2014); Society Awards Chair; Technical Committee Chair


  • Wendy Van Moer Headshot Photo
    Wendy Van Moer
    I&M AdCom (2012-2015); VP Publications; TIM Associate Editor (2013-2014)

AUTOTESTCON 2012 will be held in Anaheim, September 10-14, 2012. View Call for Papers.     View Preliminary Announcement.

*Corrected Abstract Due Date: 
Due date for abstracts has been corrected from February 15 to March 31, 2012.

The I2MTC Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 30!!!

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The 2011 International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) was held successfully in Hangzhou, China on 9-12 May 2011. The conference was attended by a total of 289 registered participants, including 89 postgraduate students and 5 undergraduate students. The post-conference survey results indicate that 84.3% of the attendees were either very satisfied (46.1%) or satisfied (38.2%) with the I2MTC 2011 and that 13.3% of the attendees ticked the “fair” box. The technical program consisted of a series of thought-provoking scientific and technical sessions, covering all aspects of theory and practice of metrology, measurement technology, instrumentation, and related applications. The technical program included more than 350 papers from all over the world organized in 50 oral presentation sessions and 5 poster sessions. It was encouraging that 137 papers were from postgraduate or undergraduate students. Parallel technical sessions began after the keynote address on Tuesday, 10 May and continued through Thursday, 12 May. There were also 11 tutorial sessions held on Monday, 9 May. In addition, the oral presentation sessions included seven special sessions which were consistent with the conference theme of I2MTC 2011 - “Instrumentation and Measurement for Improving Quality of Life”. In particular, special sessions on Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation for Healthcare and on Advanced Measurement and Instrumentation for NDT&E and Structural Health Monitoring attracted overwhelming response from the community and were well attended at this conference. We were delighted to have Professor Jian Chu, the Vice President of Zhejiang University, as our keynote speaker. Professor Chu’s keynote presentation on recent advances on instrumentation, control systems and security problems was very informative and stimulating.

The organization of I2MTC 2011 was a very demanding and complex task. Many people devoted their time and energy to promote the event, solicit and review the submissions, shape the technical program, organize the exhibits, compile conference proceedings, arrange the logistics, and organize the social functions. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to the conference organization. Our special thanks go to the main sponsors: The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and Zhejiang University.

Hongjian Zhang and Kang Lee
General Conference Co-Chairs

Yong Yan and Ruth Dyer
Technical Program Co-Chairs

Sponsored Conferences Location Date
2011
IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2011) Binjiang, Hangzhou, China May 10
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May 12
2011 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) Penang, Malaysia May 17
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May 18
IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA) Bari, Italy May 30
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May 31
2011 IEEE 4th International Measurement University (IMU) Trento, Italy July 18
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July 23
2011 IEEE AUTOTESTCON Baltimore, MD, USA Sept 12
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Sept15
2011 IEEE International Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control and Communication (ISPCS) Munich, Germany Sept. 12
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Sept. 16
2011 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE) Montreal, Canada Sept. 17
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Sept. 18
2011 IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS) Ottawa, Canada Sept. 19
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Sept. 21
2011 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA) Ottawa, Canada Sept. 19
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Sept. 21
2011 IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS) Aachen, Germany Sept. 28
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Sept. 30
2011 IEEE International Workshop on Measurements & Networking (M&N) Anacapri, Italy Oct. 10
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Oct. 11
2011 IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011) Nanchang, China Oct. 14
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Oct. 17

 

 
Technical Co-Sponsored Conferences Location Date
2011
2011 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM 2011) Denver, CO, USA June 20
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June 23
2011 International Workshop on ADC Modelling, Testing and Data Converter Analysis and Design and IEEE 2011 ADC Forum Orvieto, Italy June 30
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July 1
2011 IEEE 10th International Conference on Electronic Measurement & Instruments (ICEMI) Chengdu, China Aug. 16
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Aug. 19
2011 IEEE 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems:  Technology and Applications (IDAACS) Prague, Czech Republic Sept. 15
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Sept. 17
2011 Fifth International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2011) Palmerston North, New Zealand Nov. 28
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Dec. 1
2011 5th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2011) Wellington, New Zealand Dec. 6
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Dec. 8

 

 
Concluded Conferences Location Date
2011
2011 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA) Shanghai, China Jan 6
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Jan 7
IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS 2011) San Antonio, TX, USA Feb 22
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Feb 24
2011 8th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD) Sousse, Tunisia March 22
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March 25
2010
2010 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS 2010) Limerick, Ireland Feb 23
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Feb 25
2010 International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation (ICMTMA 2010)

Changsha City, China

 March 13
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March 14
IEEE RFID 2010 Orlando, FL, USA April 14
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April 16
2010 IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
 Ottawa, ON, Canada April 30
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May 1
2010 IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2010) Austin, TX, USA May 3
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May 6
2010 International Symposium on Computer, Communication, Control and Automation (3CA) Tainan, Taiwan May 5
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May 7
2010 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2010)
Daejeon, Korea (South) June 13
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June 18
2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST)
Thessaloniki, Greece July 1
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July 2
2010 5th IEEE International Conference Intelligent Systems (IS) London, UK July 7
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July 9
2010 IEEE International Measurement University (IMU) Trento, Italy July 19
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July 24
2010 2nd International Symposium on Information Engineering and Electronic Commerce (IEEC) Ternopil, Ukraine July 23
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July 25
2010 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science (ITCS 2010) Kiev, Ukraine July 24
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July 25
2010 International Conference on Applications of Electromagnetism and Student Innovation Competition Awards (AEM2C) Taipei, Taiwan Aug 11
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Aug 13
IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2010) Taranto, Italy Sept 6
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Sept 8
IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS 2010) Taranto, Italy Sept 6
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Sept 8
2010 IEEE AUTOTESTCON Orlando, FL, USA Sept 13
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Sept 17
IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS 2010) Aachen, Germany Sept 22
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Sept 24
International IEEE Symposium on Precision Clock Synchronization for Measurement, Control, and Communication (ISPCS 2010) Portsmouth, NH, USA Sept 27
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October 1
2010 International Asia Conference on Optical Instrument and Measurement (ACPIM) Shenzhen, China Oct 9
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Oct 10
IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE 2010) Phoenix, AZ, USA Oct 15
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Oct 16
IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2010) Phoenix, AZ, USA Oct 16
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Oct 17
2010 Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Web Mining and Web-Based Application (WMWA) Guilin, China Nov 17
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Nov 18
2010 Third International Conference on Education Technology and Training (ETT) Wuhan, China Nov 27
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Nov 28
2010 International Conference on Future Industrial Engineering and Application (ICFIEA) Shenzhen, China Dec 17
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Dec 18

I2MTC-2010, May 3-6
Austin, Texas

Ruth A. Dyer and John L. Schmalzel, Conference Co-Chairs
Vincenzo Piuri, Technical Program Chair

The Venue

I2MTC-2010 was held in Austin, Texas at the Hilton Austin located in the downtown area close to the Capitol and Lake Lady Bird with the Congress Street bridge, which hosts the largest urban bat population in the U.S.

Pre-Conference Tutorials

Four parallel tutorial tracks were conducted on Monday afternoon. Topics included: DSP in Measurement, Data Acquisition, Environmental Sensing, Nonlinear Distortion Analysis in Circuits and Systems, Frequency Doman Signal Parameter Estimation, ADC Architectures, Sensors, Fundamentals of Power Measurements, Medical Instrumentation Development, Uncertainty in Measurement, and Advanced Topics in ADC Testing.

Keynote Address

The conference kicked off Tuesday morning with Dr. Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist with Google. He spoke on measurement and modeling of Internet behavior. The continued rapid growth of the Internet presents new measurement challenges; Google initiatives involve distributed monitoring nodes and acquisition software. As one example, the collaborative M-Lab [1] is an open distributed platform created to deploy measurement tools that are freely available to researchers.

Serf Keynote Address
Dr. Vinton Cerf delivering the keynote address.

Technical Program

The main theme of the conference was "Innovative and Integrated Applications of Instrumentation and Measurement." Authors and sessions focused their presentations on these specific aspects since integration within the application environment is a critical issue for creating advanced solutions to empower industry to remain on the leading edge of the economy and for citizens to achieve a better life.

The technical program spanned two and one-half days. Oral presentations were given in four parallel tracks; additional poster sessions were set up in the coffee break area, which gave attendees and poster presenters multiple opportunities to meet and discuss their work.

The conference addressed many new developments and results from research and engineering practice in instrumentation and measurement as well as in their related applications. A number of hot topics were discussed, e.g., ranging from sensors to ADC/DAC recent outcomes, from calibration to advanced signal processing, from image processing to quality assurance, from electrical to dielectric/magnetic measurements, from temperature to flow, from physical/mechanic quantities to energy, from chemical to biological measurements, and all related applications.

Awards

A number of Society and I2MTC-2010 awards were given during Wednesday’s lunch as summarized in Table 1.

Table 1. I2MTC-2010 Award Recipients

IEEE Fellows, Class of 2010

James Baker-Jarvis
Georg Brasseur
George Giakos
Nicholas Paulter
George Zentai
2009 Outstanding Young Engineer Award Jenny Wirandi
2009 Technical Award Jacques Willems
2009 Distinguished Service Award Emil Petriu
2009 Career Excellence Award Stephen Dyer
Undergraduate Student Paper Award Guiseppe Montenero
Graduate Student Paper Award (1st) Rigel Woodside
Graduate Student Paper Award (2nd) Jon Daniels

Emil Petriu Distinguished Service Award
Emil Petriu accepting the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from IMS President, Kim Fowler.

Giuseppe Montenero Best Undergraduate Paper
The Undergraduate Best Paper award being presented by Kim Fowler to Giuseppe Montenero.

Jenny Wirandi Outstanding Young Engineer Award
Kim Fowler presenting the 2009 Outstanding Young Engineer Award to Jenny Wirandi.

Rigel Woodside Best Graduate Paper
Kim Fowler presenting the Best Graduate Student Paper Award to Rigel Woodside.

Steve Dyer Career Excellence Award
Kim Fowler presenting the 2009 Career Excellence Award to Steve Dyer.

Social Activities

Tuesday’s reception was held in conjunction with the Austin Chamber of Commerce annual “Brain Party.” The venue included live music and the chance to network with area engineers. Wednesday’s dinner banquet was held at the hotel and featured a Mexican theme in keeping with Cinco de Mayo; live music was also provided as after-dinner entertainment.

Other Conference Highlights

Several special activities included:
•    AdCom Meet & Greet. AdCom members circulated during coffee breaks to meet conference and IMS attendees. This afforded the chance to find out what members are interested in and gave direct input to the AdCom.
•    Industry Track. A new format for the conference was offered. Papers were solicited from industry representatives; one option provided was to do a presentation only without a full-length paper.
•    Technical Committees. Several TCs conducted business meetings in conjunction with the conference including TC-10, Waveform Generation, Measurement, & Analysis. Other TCs organized sessions and supported the tutorials.
•    A Graduate Student Panel Discussion was conducted to give students a chance to network with their peers and discuss issues encountered prior to and after completion of a graduate degree.

Conference Statistics

Table 2 summarizes the submissions, acceptance, presentation, and attendance statistics for I2MTC-2010. I2MTC continues to be a highly international conference as evidenced by the 32 countries represented—very much a World Cup of I&M!

Table 2. I2MTC-2010 Summary

Papers submitted 427
Papers accepted 341
Acceptance rate 79.8%
Papers published 320
Attendees 280
Countries represented 32

Sponsors

I2MTC-2010 was co-sponsored by the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society and the Central Texas Section of the IEEE.

Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs
Ruth Dyer, Kansas State University, USA
John Schmalzel, NASA - Stennis Space Center, USA

Technical Program Chair
Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma, USA
Annamaria Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest Univ., Hungary
Wendy Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Local Conference Assistant Chair
Thuy Dao, IEEE Central Texas Section, USA

Local Arrangements, Industry Exhibits, Patrons Chair
Kenny Rice, IEEE Central Texas Section, USA

Local University Liaison Chair
Robert Flake, IEEE Central Texas Section, USA

Educational Activities Chair
Kim Fowler (IMS Pres.)IEEE I&M Magazine, USA

Conference Management
Conference Catalysts LLC, USA

Arrangements
Sue Kingston, IEEE I&M Society, USA

Exhibitors
I2MTC-2010 gratefully acknowledges the following exhibitors for their support of the conference:
National Instruments [2]
Advanced Test Equipment Rentals [3]
Rowan University [4]

I2MTC-2011: May 10-12, 2011
I2MTC-2011 will be held at the Four Points by Sheraton, Hangzhou, China. More detailed information is available [5] including the call for papers and important deadlines

See you in Hangzhou in 2011!

References
[1]    Measurement Lab, www.measurementlab.net.
[2]    National Instruments, Austin, Texas, www.ni.com.
[3]    Advanced Test Equipment Rentals, San Diego, CA, www.atecorp.com.
[4]    Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, www.rowan.edu.
[5]    The I2MTC-2011 conference website: imtc.ieee-ims.org.

IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium 2010
23-25 February 2010
Limerick, Ireland
www.sensorapps.org

The city of Luimneach, also known as Limerick, was host to the fifth IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS-2010); the first SAS held outside of the United States, in the Republic of Ireland.

SAS continues to be forum for sensor innovators and users to meet and exchange information. The symposium addressed novel approaches and emergent applications in a number of sensor-related areas including—but not limited to—MEMS, nanosensors, wireless sensors, sensor networks, smart sensors, and biosensors/arrays. Sensor applications included multisensory data fusion, homeland security, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, integrated systems health management, and other related areas.

SAS has grown significantly – from 39-published papers in 2007 to 61-papers in 2010, requiring us to organize parallel sessions on the second day of the conference. Perhaps, owing to its European location, SAS-2010 had over 50% of authors from that continent, with the remaining papers from North America (24%), the Asia-Pacific region (20%) and Latin America (5%). The Technical Program committee was enlarged significantly and consisted of members from all over the world.

SAS-2010 highlights included:

•    The plenary address by Professor James McLaughlin entitled, “Nanotechnology can improve our point of care sensing needs.”  Dr. McLaughlin is the Director of the Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials Research Institute and the Director of the Nanotechnology and Integrated BioEngineering Centre (NIBEC), both at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.
•    A “Medieval Banquet” at Bunratty Castle in County Clare.
•    Travel and best-paper awards for student authors, with the support of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society.

SAS will return to the United States in 2011 and is scheduled to be held in San Antonio, Texas, 22-24 February 2011.

SAS-2010 Chairs:
Shreekanth Mandayam, Rowan University, USA
Khalil Arshak, University of Limerick, Ireland

SAS-2010 Technical Program Chair:
Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston, USA

SAS-2010 Technical Program Committee:
Halit Eren, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Ning Lu, ITT Aerospace/Communications, USA
Kim Fowler, CoolStream, USA
Steven Griffin, University of Memphis, USA
Linda Head, Rowan University, USA
Robert Krchnavek, Rowan University, USA
Pradeep Ramuhalli, Michigan State University, USA
Ahmed Abdelgawad, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Ashok Vaseashta, Institute for Advanced Sciences Convergence, USA

SAS-2010 Steering Committee:
Hal Goldberg, Tufts University, USA
John Schmalzel, NASA-Stennis Space Center, USA
Robert Goldberg, ITT Aerospace/Communications, USA
Kang Lee, NIST, USA

Conference Administrator:
Chris Dyer, Conference Catalysts LLC

Conference Arrangements:
Sue Kingston

 

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