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Book SynopsisOriginally published in Spanish in 2017 by Libreria Bosch, Barcelona, the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology is a one-of-kind book made available in English for the first time. This unique work is highly illustrated with full-color images, providing a medico-legal examination of forensic pathology as it relates to cases of forensic psychological interest. The book begins with a historical perspective and includes images of patients to familiarize the reader with symptoms, the hazard-risk criteria, lethality, and suicidal rescueâresearch that Dr. Tiffon has addressed in his previous publications. Chapters present photographic records of cases to deepen forensic, psychologist, and medico-legal professionalsâ insight into thoughts, behaviors, and mechanisms of self- and hetero-aggressiveness. Such cases illustrate the outcomes of various disorders manifested in individuals and victims; as such, they provide an understanding of the psychological-legal conclusions reached in such cases in order to adapt the legal and preventative measures for specific situations. Coverage includes affective, schizophrenic, and personality disorders as contributing elements in diagnostic judgments, noting the great difficulty such examples present to experts performing psychopathological evaluations after criminal, and often violent, events have occurred. Various psychopathological disorders are addressed as well as the technical treatment that should occur in each case from a psychological-forensic perspective.Features:â Presents a provocative look at various syndromes familiar to forensic psychologists, as applied to criminal cases and the pathology of suicide victims and homicide perpetrators â Combines the work of world-renowned expert contributors to examine the criminal, legal, and psychological facets of various diagnoses and case examples â Offers insight into the psychological state of suicide victims, considering their state of mind as a psychological autopsyIn his previous books published in Spanish, Manual of Consulting in Psychology and Clinical, Legal, Legal, Criminal, and Forensic Psychopathology (2008), Manual of Professional Performance in Clinical, Criminal, and Forensic Psychopathology (2009), and the 4-volume Practical Criminological Atlas of Forensic Psychometry (2019-2020), Tiffon approached forensic psychology and psychopathology from a theoretical perspective. In the Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology, his first book translated into English, Tiffon expands on these prior works, serving to provide a visual reference and guide to medical pathologists and consulting psychologists in cases of disorders in which psychopathological mutilation, injury, and self-injury occur. Table of Contents1. An Introduction: The Psychological Perspective – For the English Language Edition Dr. John F. Fielder, M. D. 2. Medicolegal Perspective: A Prelude Dr. Jorge González Fernández 3. The Psychiatric Perspective: A Prelude Dr. Josep Solé Puig 4. Legal Overview: Circumstances That Affect Criminal Liability Dr. Toni Pascual y Cadena 5. Author’s Justification Dr. Bernat-N. Tiffon 6. Mood (Affective) Disorders 7. Schizophrenic disorders 8. Borderline Personality Disorder 9. Case Study without Mitigating Circumstances of Criminal Responsibility Due to Psychological Cause 10. Intentionality vs. Mental disorder 11. Cocaine consumption 12. Final Conclusion Dr. Bernat-N. Tiffon 13. A Forensic Psychology Summary Dr. César San Juan Guillén 14. Overview from a Legal, Criminological and Psychological Perspective Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez González 15. Epilogue Dr. Tomás Gil Márquez Bibliography

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Challenging Cases in Clinical Research Ethics

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Book SynopsisClinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified. To respond to a growing field and need for opportunities to share knowledge and experience, the Clinical Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative, established in 2014, holds monthly webinars for its 90 members to present their most challenging cases to each other and engage in substantive discussion. Every year, the group selects the four most interesting cases with accompanying commentaries for publication in the American Journal of Bioethics. This timely book brings together these cases and commentaries under a range of common themes for the first time, creating a permanent collection in book format that encourages and supports readers to gain a better understanding of the ethical challenges that they may face, and providing them with a conveniTable of ContentsForewordIntroduction A Framework for Research Ethics. Principles of Research Ethics. Topics in Research Ethics . Values of Research Ethics. Section 1. Collaborative PartnershipIntroductionCase 1.1 Supporting Community-Academic Research Partnerships: Reflections from the GroundCommentary 1.1.1: Community Partnered Participatory Research in Southeast Louisiana Communities Threatened by Climate Change: The C-LEARN EXPERIENCE. Commentary 1.1.2: Leveraging Academic Institutional Structures to Support Asian American Community Organizations’ Engagement in Research: The Korean Community Service Center. Commentary 1.1.3: Engaging the Sickle Cell Community in Participatory Research. Commentary 1.1.4: Being in Good Community: Engagement in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty.Case 1.2 Protecting Research Subject Welfare in Preventative Trials for Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's DiseaseCommentary 1.2.1: When There Are Only Two Who Can Tango: Ethical Concerns at the Juncture of Highly Novel Interventions and Precisely Targeted Research Populations. Commentary 1.2.2: Conceptualization and Assessment of Vulnerability in a Complex International Alzheimer’s Research Study. Commentary 1.2.3: Barriers and Facilitators to the Consent Process in a Study of Complex Genetic Factors.Case 1.3 Studying the Role of Financial Incentives to Promote Hepatitis B Vaccination in a Community ClinicCommentary 1.3.1: Treatment Incentives and the Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Commentary 1.3.2: The Ethics of Studying Financial Incentives in Public Health Implementation: Study Design Challenges. Commentary 1.3.3: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But Can You Pay to Make Him Drink? An Ethical Analysis of Research on Using Incentives to Promote Patient Health.Case 1.4 A Cluster Randomized Trial to Screen for Abusive Head Trauma in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit--How to Manage Site-Specific Evidence of Racial/Ethnic DisparityCommentary 1.4.1: Issues of Justice and Risk: Setting Stopping Criteria in Cluster-Randomized Trials. Commentary 1.4.2: Clinical Trials Not Causing Harm with Potential for Realizing Benefit Should Continue. Commentary 1.4.3: Responding to Implicit Bias in Abusive Head Trauma Evaluations and Reporting in the PICU: Ethical Consideration During a Clinical Trial.Case 1.5 When a Clinical Trial Is the Only OptionCommentary 1.5.1: "Respect for Persons," Not "Respect for Citizens". Commentary 1.5.2: The Potentially High Cost of a Free Clinical Trial. Commentary 1.5.3: Contextualizing "Choice" for Undocumented Immigrants in U.S. Clinical Trials Research.Case 1.6 A Randomized Trial of Rapamycin to Increase Longevity and Healthspan in Companion Animals: Navigating the Boundary Between Protections for Animal Research and Human Subjects ResearchCommentary 1.6.1: Rapamycin: Risking Harm for Canine Longevity. Commentary 1.6.2: Companion Animal Studies: Slipping Through a Research Oversight Gap. Commentary 1.6.3: Research to Promote Longevity and Health Span in Companion Dogs: A Paediatric Perspective.Section 2. Respect for ParticipantsIntroduction.Case 2.1 Ethical Considerations for Unblinding a Participant’s Assignment to Interpret a Resolved Adverse EventCommentary 2.1.1: Considerations for Unblinding in Biopharmaceutical IndustrySponsored Trials. Commentary 2.1.2: Blinds and Research Risks. Commentary 2.1.3: The Scientific and Social Implications of Unblinding a Study Subject.Case 2.2 Should Research Participants Be Notified About Results of Currently Unknown by Potential Significance?Commentary 2.2.1: The Need for National Guidance Around Informed Consent About GBCA Safety. Commentary 2.2.2: Returning Individual Research Results Regarding Gadolinium Deposition in the Brain Is the Preferable Choice. Commentary 2.2.3: Research Participants Should Have the Option to Be Notified of Results of Unknown but Potential Significance.Case 2.3 The Ethics of Contacting Family Members of a Subject in a Genetic Research Study to Return Results for an Autosomal Dominant SyndromeCommentary 2.3.1: What Does the Duty to Warn Require? Commentary 2.3.2: Should Researchers Disclose Results to Descendants? Commentary 2.3.3: Relationships Matter: Ethical Considerations for Returning Results to Family Members of Deceased Subjects.Case 2.4 Ethics of Continuing to Provide a Drug on an Open-Label Extension Study for an "Unapproved Indication"Commentary 2.4.1: When Should Open-Label Extension Studies Be Stopped? Commentary 2.4.2: The Role of Clinical Equipoise and Practical Considerations in Deciding Whether to Continue to Provide a Drug on an Open-Label Extension Study for an "Unapproved Indication". Commentary 2.4.3: Open-Label Extension Studies: Are They Really Research?Case 2.5 Supporting Investigators in Challenging Cases: Unease in the Face of an Ethically Appropriate ActionCommentary 2.5.1: Researchers Experience Moral Distress Too! Commentary 2.5.2: Relieving Investigator Angst After an Appropriate but Concerning Ethics Consultation. Commentary 2.5.3: Acknowledging Angst: Research Ethics Consultation in Disclosing Experimental Research Results of Uncertain Benefit.Case 2.6 Recontact and Recruitment of Young Adults Previously Enrolled in Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus ResearchCommentary 2.6.1: Research Recruitment of Adult Survivors of Neonatal Infections: Is There a Role for Parental Consent? Commentary 2.6.2: A Knotty Problem of Intertwined Rights. Commentary 2.6.3: Consent Is the Cornerstone of Ethically Valid Research: Ethical Issues in Recontacting Subjects Who Enrolled in Research as a Minor.Case 2.7 Genotype-Driven Recruitment in Population-Based Biomedical ResearchCommentary 2.7.1: Genotype-Driven Recruitment Without Deception. Commentary 2.7.2: Harms of Deception in FMR1 Premutation Genotype-Driven Recruitment. Commentary 2.7.3: Genotype-Driven Recruitment and the Disclosure of Individual Research Results.Section 3. Fair Participant SelectionIntroduction.Case 3.1 Is It Ethical to Enrol Cognitively Impaired Adults in Research that is More than Minimal Risk with No Prospect of Benefit?Commentary 3.1.1: Inconsistent Approaches to Research Involving Cognitively Impaired Adults: Why the Broad View of Substituted Judgment Is Our Best Guide. Commentary 3.1.2: Ethical and Regulatory Considerations Regarding Enrolment of Incompetent Adults in More Than Minimal Risk Research as Compared with Children. Commentary 3.1.3: Acceptable Approaches to Enrolling Adults Who Cannot Consent in More Than Minimal Risk Research.Case 3.2 Should Patients Be Required to Undergo Standard Chemotherapy Before Being Eligible for Novel Phase I Immunotherapy Clinical Trials?Commentary 3.2.1: A Rationale for Relaxing the Requirement to Undergo a Noncurative Chemotherapy for Advanced Cancer in a Phase I Immunotherapy Trial. Commentary 3.2.2: Participation of Citizen Scientists in Clinical Research and Access to Research Ethics Consultation. Commentary 3.2.3: Forgoing Conventional Therapy in Phase I Oncology Research: Don’t Forget About the Children.Case 3.3 Involving Pregnant Women in Research: What Should We Recommend When the Regulations Seem Ethically Problematic?Commentary 3.3.1: Conflicts Between Regulations and Ethical Principles: Resolving Ambiguity in Favour of the Ethically Preferable Outcome. Commentary 3.3.2: When to Avoid Giving Advice on the Ethical Conduct of Research. Commentary 3.3.3: When Research Regulations and Ethics Conflict.Case 3.4 Regulatory, Legal, Ethical, and Practical Challenges of Enrolling Wards of the State in ResearchCommentary 3.4.1: Fuzzy Logic: How the Practicalities of State Involvement Shape the Most Ethically Supportable Way Forward. Commentary 3.4.2: Enrolling Foster Youth in Clinical Trials: Avoiding the Harm of Exclusion. Commentary 3.4.3: No Justification to Exclude State Ward from Paediatric Transplant Research. Commentary 3.4.4: Life-Saving Experimental Treatment for a Teenage Ward of the State.Case 3.5 Selecting Children for an Autism Spectrum Disorder Study: Justice and GeographyCommentary 3.5.1: Fair Participant Selection: A Negative Obligation Not to Exclude. Commentary 3.5.2: Unequal Individual Risk and Potential Benefit Balanced by Benefits to the Population at Large in Autism Clinical Trials? Commentary 3.5.3: Justice in Selecting Participants for a Study in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome.Section 4. Favourable Risk-Benefit RatioIntroduction.Case 4.1 Obligations to Act on Patient Reported Outcomes in Electronic Health RecordsCommentary 4.1.1: Informed Consent for PROs in EHR Research: Are Additional Requirements Necessary? Commentary 4.1.2: Patient Reported Outcomes at the Crossroads of Clinical Research and Informatics. Commentary 4.1.3: PROs in the Balance: Ethical Implications of Collecting Patient Reported Outcome Measures in the Electronic Health Record.Case 4.2 A Trial to Test a Novel Approach to Diabetes PreventionCommentary 4.2.1: Is It Ethically Acceptable to Screen Patients for Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Not Offer Them Positive Air Pressure Therapy in a Clinical Trial? Commentary 4.2.2: Can We Breathe Easy If PAP Therapy Is Withheld? Commentary 4.2.3: Risks of Clinical Research Must Be Reasonable and Necessary.Case 4.3 Is It Ethically Appropriate to Refuse to Compensate Participants Who Are Believed to Have Intentionally Concealed Medical Conditions?Commentary 4.3.1: Mutual Obligations in Research and Withholding Payment from Deceptive Participants. Commentary 4.3.2: Best to Exclude but Pay. Commentary 4.3.3: To Pay or Not to Pay? Withholding Payment from Research Participants.Case 4.4 Ethical Drug Development for Rare Childhood Diseases: When There are Limited but Promising Data in Adults, How to Choose Between Safety or Efficacy Studies?Commentary 4.4.1: The Use of Paediatric Extrapolation to Avoid Unnecessary Paediatric Clinical Trials. Commentary 4.4.2: Flexibility Required: Balancing the Interests of Children and Risk in Drug Development for Rare Paediatric Conditions. Commentary 4.4.3: When Higher Risk Does Not Equal Greater Harm: Doing the Most Good in a Limited Paediatric Study Population.Case 4.5 Greater than Minimal Risk, No Direct Benefit – Bridging Drug Trials and Novel Therapy in Paediatric PopulationsCommentary 4.5.1: Balancing Risk and Reward: Greater Research Oversight Is Appropriate for Novel Therapies for Children with Life-Limiting Illness. Commentary 4.5.2: Bringing Known Drugs to Paediatric Research: Safety, Efficacy, and the Ambiguous Minor Increase in Minimal Risk. Commentary 4.5.3: Balancing Scientific Progress with Paediatric Protections: No Direct Benefit Now, But Potential Novel Therapy in the Future. Section 5. Informed ConsentIntroduction.Case 5.1 The Ethics of Disclosing to Research Subjects the Availability of Off-Label Marketed DrugsCommentary 5.1.1: Researchers Have an Ethical Obligation to Disclose the Availability of Off-Label Marketed Drugs. Commentary 5.1.2: The Relevance of Research Study Phase to Disclosure of Off-Label Drug Availability. Commentary 5.1.3: Which Alternatives Should Investigators Disclose to Research Subjects?Case 5.2 A Pragmatic Trial of Suicide Risk Assessment and Ambulance Transport Decision Making Among Emergency Medical Services Providers: Implications for Patient ConsentCommentary 5.2.1: Improving Care for Suicidal Patients While Protecting Human Subjects: Addressing Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Research Involving Emergency Medical Services Providers. Commentary 5.2.2: A Stepwise Approach to Ethically Assess Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trials: Implications for Informed Consent for Suicide Prevention Implementation Research. Commentary 5.2.3: Informed Consent in a Pragmatic Emergency Suicide Trial: Rejecting the Research-Practice Distinction. Commentary 5.2.4: A Pragmatic Trial for Emergency Medical Service Providers’ Prehospital Response to Suicidality: Consent Is Not Essential, but Limited Patient Engagement May Be Meaningful.Case 5.3 The Obligations to Report Statutory Sexual Abuse Disclosed in a Research StudyCommentary 5.3.1: The Moral and Legal Need to Disclose Despite a Certificate of Confidentiality. Commentary 5.3.2: Informed Consent and the Implications for Statutory Rape Reporting in Research with Adolescents. Commentary 5.3.3: Community, Context, and the Contrasting Roles of Clinicians and Researchers: Challenges Raised by Statutory Rape.Case 5.4 Conjoined Consent: Informed Consent When Donor and Recipient Are Both Research ParticipantsCommentary 5.4.1: Moving Beyond Standard Informed Consent for Interventional Organ Transplant Research. Commentary 5.4.2: Risks to Relationships in Kidney Transplant Research with Living Donors and Recipients.Case 5.5 Navigating Parental Permission for Neonatal ResearchCommentary 5.5.1: Informed Consent and Parental Permission for Research: Rules, Roles, and Relationships. Commentary 5.5.2: Research Involving Premature Infants: Timing Is Everything. Commentary 5.5.3: Precluding Consent by Clinicians Who Are Both the Attending and the Investigator: An Outdated Shibboleth?Case 5.6 Click Here to Complete This Survey: Online Research, Adolescents, and Parental ConsentCommentary 5.6.1: Digital Negotiations: Navigating Parental Permission and Adolescent Assent for On-Line Survey Participation. Commentary 5.6.2: Constrained Adolescent Autonomy for Healthcare Should Include Participation in Survey Research. Commentary 5.6.3: Respecting Parental Permission and Maintaining Flexibility in Online Research Involving Adolescent Participants.Case 5.7 When Professional Meets Personal: How Should Research Staff Advertise on social media for Research Opportunities?Commentary 5.7.1: Sharing Research Opportunities on Personal Social Media Accounts and Fair Subject Selection. Commentary 5.7.2: How Should Investigators Advertise on social media for Research Opportunities?Case 5.8 The Limitation of "Boilerplate" Language in Informed Consent: Single IRB Review of Multisite Genetic Research in Military PersonnelCommentary 5.8.1: The Bane of "Boilerplate" Language in Research Consent Forms: Ensuring Consent Forms Promote Autonomous Authorization. Commentary 5.8.2: Single IRBs Are Responsible to Ensure Consent Language Effectively Conveys the Local Context. Commentary 5.8.3: Solving the Single IRB/Boilerplate Bind: Establishing Institutional Guidelines.Appendix A. Cases Organized by Principles. Appendix B. Cases Organized by Topics. Appendix C. Cases Organized by Values.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forensic Firearms in Criminal Trials

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Book SynopsisOver the last two-plus decades, the scientific validity of the principles that underpin identifying a firearm from recovered fired ammunition has been a core issue for the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal trials in the United States. The issues that dominated the determinative points, as they related to the scientific and technological analysis, centered around the following: the validity of uniqueness of firearms, subjective methodology, the potential rate of error, unknown statistical certainty and unsatisfactory proficiency tests. These issues have essentially become the legal requirement for admissibility of experts' opinion on the linkage of firearms with fired ammunition, an important forensic opinion that connects the crime with the perpetrator through the weapon of offence.In Forensic Firearms in Criminal Trials: Legal, Investigative, and Scientific Aspects, internationally renowned forensic firearm expert Dr J. K. Sinha provides demonstrativ

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Taylor & Francis Text Cases and Materials on Medical Law and

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Book SynopsisText, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law. Comprising extracts from statutes, cases and scholarly articles alongside expert author commentary and guidance which signposts the key issues and principles, this book is an ideal companion to this increasingly popular subject. Fully revised, this new edition incorporates expanded content, including: updated coverage of consent and decision making, including the the Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (2015) judgment; the impacts of the EC directive for clinical trials and GDPR on the research use of patient data; and discussion of other recent developments in the case law, including the 2017 Charlie Gard litigation, the 2016 Privy Council decision in Williams v Bermuda on negligence causation, and the UK Supreme Court judgment in A & B v SS for Health (2017) on funding for patients from Northern Ireland seeking terminations elsewhere. Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on this topical area of the law, this textbook is an invaluable reference tool for students of medical law as well as those studying medicine.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTable of CasesTable of LegislationTable of Statutory InstrumentsTable of Treaties and EU LegislationAbbreviationsPART 1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES1. Introduction to Ethics2. Healthcare in England and Wales3. Consent to Treatment4. Treating the Incapable Patient5. Confidentiality, Privacy and Access to Medical Records6. Medical MalpracticePART 2 SPECIFIC AREAS IN MEDICAL TREATMENT7. Assisted Reproduction and Embryo Research8. Abortion and Pre-natal Harm9. Mental Health Law10. Medical Research11. Organ Transplantation12. Treatment at the End of LifeIndex

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Taylor & Francis Text Cases and Materials on Medical Law and

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Book SynopsisText, Cases and Materials on Medical Law and Ethics presents a valuable collection of materials relating to often controversial areas of the law. Comprising extracts from statutes, cases and scholarly articles alongside expert author commentary and guidance which signposts the key issues and principles, this book is an ideal companion to this increasingly popular subject. Fully revised, this new edition incorporates expanded content, including: updated coverage of consent and decision making, including the the Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (2015) judgment; the impacts of the EC directive for clinical trials and GDPR on the research use of patient data; and discussion of other recent developments in the case law, including the 2017 Charlie Gard litigation, the 2016 Privy Council decision in Williams v Bermuda on negligence causation, and the UK Supreme Court judgment in A & B v SS for Health (2017) on funding for patients from Northern Ireland seeking terminations elsewhere. Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date resource on this topical area of the law, this textbook is an invaluable reference tool for students of medical law as well as those studying medicine.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsTable of CasesTable of LegislationTable of Statutory InstrumentsTable of Treaties and EU LegislationAbbreviationsPART 1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES1. Introduction to Ethics2. Healthcare in England and Wales3. Consent to Treatment4. Treating the Incapable Patient5. Confidentiality, Privacy and Access to Medical Records6. Medical MalpracticePART 2 SPECIFIC AREAS IN MEDICAL TREATMENT7. Assisted Reproduction and Embryo Research8. Abortion and Pre-natal Harm9. Mental Health Law10. Medical Research11. Organ Transplantation12. Treatment at the End of LifeIndex

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Automatism as a Defence

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Book SynopsisAutomatism is a notoriously difficult subject for law students, lawyers and judges. This book explores the science and medicine of sleep disorders and examines how the criminal process deals with such disorders when presented as a defence. It systematically examines the legal doctrines involved, and their implications for the use of the evidence key to establishing automatism, while also exploring the medical conditions that can cause automatism (particularly epilepsy, sleepwalking and diabetes). This book is a valuable resource for law students, lawyers, judges and expert witnesses.Table of Contents1: Foreword; 2: Chapter 1 Automatism: What is it?; 3: Chapter 2 Legal Aspects of Automatism; 4: Chapter 3 Medical Aspects of Automatism; 5: Chapter 4 Specific causes of automatism; 6: Chapter 5 Criminal Law Theory; 7: Chapter 6 Expert evidence; 8: Chapter 7 Conclusions; 9: Glossary; 10: Bibliography; 11: Appendices A-F; 12: Case Histories; 13: Index

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