Conference Presentations, Posters, Abstracts, and Tutorials

Total: 105

2011

  1. Olaf Post and Godfried T. Toussaint, “Effects of Single Onset Insertions and Deletions on Perceived Rhythmic Similarity,” Fourth Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, (NEMCOG), New York University, New York, April 2, 2011.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Characterizing "Good" Musical Rhythms with Mathematical Descriptors of Cognitive Temporal Universals," Symposium on Crossing the Corpus Callosum II: Neuroscience, Healing & Music, Harvard University, January 29, 2011.

2010

  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, Malcolm Campbell, and Naor Brown, "Comparing Mathematical Measures of Rhythm Similarity with Human Perception," Third Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, (NEMCOG), Berklee College of Music, New Haven, CT, October 23, 2010.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Searching the Origins of Rhythm: Phylogenetic Analysis for Evolutionary (Ethno-)Musicology," Poster at: Empirics, Computation, Mathematics, Science and Technology in Music and Acoustical Signal Analysis (ECMST-II ~ MASA). Organized by the Institute for Music Research in Berlin. August 9-28, 2010.
  3. Godfried T. Toussaint, Malcolm Campbell, and Naor Brown, "Modeling Rhythm Similarity: Experiments with Afro-Cuban Timelines," Second Meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group, (NEMCOG), Department of Music, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 1st, 2010.
  4. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Phylogenetic Techniques for Musical Rhythm Analysis," First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, February 19-21, 2010.
  5. Godfried T. Toussaint, "A Memetic-Characterization Approach to Temporal Organization in World Music," First International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, February 19-21, 2010.
  6. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Mathematical Features of Musical Rhythms for Phylogenetic Analysis," Second Bellairs Workshop on Mathematics and Music, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University, Holetown, St. James, Barbados, February 5-12, 2010.

2009

  1. Yang Liu and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Sona Drawings: A Tool for Art Education," The Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venetian Institute of Science, Letters, and Art, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy, July 28-31, 2009.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "The Complexity of Musical Rhythm: Theory versus Practice," The Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Venetian Institute of Science, Letters, and  Art, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy, July 28-31, 2009.
  3. Godfried Toussaint, Abstracts of the Conference on the Applications of Computer Algebra, ACA-2009, University of Quebec at Montreal, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, June 25-28, 2009. "Analysis and Generation of Symbolically Represented Musical Rhythm," p. 68.
  4. Godfried Toussaint, "Measuring the Complexity of Musical Rhythm: Mathematical and Psychological Measures," in Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, John Clough Memorial Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, June 21, 2009.
  5. Godfried T. Toussaint, "The Complexity of Musical Rhythm," Abstracts of the 8th International Workshop on Operations Research (Operations Research for the Welfare of Human Beings), March 2-6, 2009, Havana, Cuba, p. 34.
  6. Yang Liu and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Geometric Techniques for Pattern Design," Design Conference 2009: Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, February 15-17, 2009.
  7. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Mathematical Visualization of Musical Rhythms: Listening with the Mind's Eye," Design Conference 2009: Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, February 15-17, 2009.

2008

  1. Yang Liu and Godfried T. Toussaint, "A Tessellation-Transformation Method for Categorizing and Generating Geometric Textile Design Patterns," Design Conference 2008: Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of Miami Conference Center, Miami, Florida, January 9-11, 2008.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Computational Tools for Generating Salient Musical Rhythms: What makes a "Good Rhythm" good?," Design Conference 2008: Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, University of Miami Conference Center, Miami, Florida, January 9-11, 2008.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "New measures for comparing musical sequences," 4th International Workshop on Computational Music Theory: Computational Models for Music Similarity applied to Flamenco Music, Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, July 16-20, 2007.
  2. Imad Khoury, Antonio Ciampi, Godfried Toussaint, Sadora Antoniano, Carl Murie, and Robert Nadon, "Proximity-Graphs-based Clustering of Micro-Array Probes," Session 07E, The National Institute of Complex Data Structures: Our Community in Scientific Collaborations, 35th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, June 10-13, 2007, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Newfoundland (poster).
  3. Godfried T. Toussaint,  "Elementary Proofs of the Hexachordal Theorem," Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Music Analysis - I, 113th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, New Orleans, U.S.A., January 6, 2007.
  4. Godfried T. Toussaint,  "Rhythm Similarity Measures for Phylogenetic Analysis," Informal Session on Mathematical and Computational Studies of Rhythm, 113th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, New Orleans, U.S.A., January 5, 2007.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Interlocking rhythms, duration interval content, cyclotomic sets, and the hexachordal theorem," Fourth International Workshop on Computational Music Theory, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de Informatica, July 24-28, 2006.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Geometric graphs for instance-based learning," 3rd International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, August 22-25, 2005.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Proximity graphs for instance-based learning," Graduate Summer School: Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, July 11-239, 2005.
  3. Jakob Teitelbaum and Godfried Toussaint, "RHYTHMOS: An interactive system for exploring musical notated rhythm," General Assembly Meeting of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Faculty Club, McGill University, June 17, 2005.
  4. Justin Colannino and Godfried Toussaint, "Similarity measures between musical rhythms and their computation," General Assembly Meeting of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Faculty Club, McGill University, June 17, 2005.
  5. Jakob Teitelbaum and Godfried T. Toussaint, "RHYTHMOS: An interactive system for exploring notated musical rhythm," Third International Workshop on Computational Music Theory, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de Informatica, June 13-17, 2005.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Mathematical measures of syncopation," Second International Workshop on Computational Music Theory, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de Informatica, May 31 to June 4, 2004.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Rhythm and mathematics: problems at the interface," Third International Conference on FUN with Algorithms, Isola d'Elba, Italy, May 26-28, 2004. Abstract in Proceedings edited by Paolo Ferragina and Roberto Grossi, Edizioni Plus, Universita di Pisa, pp. 3-4.
  3. Greg Aloupis, Thomas Fevens, Stefan Langerman, Tomomi Matsui, Antonio Mesa, Yurai Nunez, David Rappaport, and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Computing a measure of polygonal chain similarity," Presented at the Third Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, April 26-30, 2004.
  4. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Intervallic analysis of rhythm timelines," Presented at the Third Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, April 26-30, 2004.
  5. Yaroldi Abreu, Francisco Gomez, Enrique Pla, and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Nuevas formas de ensenar las claves binarias y ternarias afrocubanas por medio de matematica y geometria," Presented at PERCUBA-2004: 15th International Percussion Festival, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba, April 20-24, 2004.
  6. Godfried T. Toussaint, "A mathematical measure of preference in African rhythm," in Abstracts of Papers Presented to the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, Vol. 25, No. 1, Issue 135, Phoenix, Arizona, January 7-10, 2004, p. 248.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Measuring and computing rhythmic similarity," 6th International Conference on Operations Research, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, September 15-19, 2003.
  2. Jose-Miguel Diaz-Banez, Francisco Gomez, and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Computing shortest paths for transportation of hazardous materials in continuous spaces," 6th International Conference on Operations Research, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, September 15-19, 2003.
  3. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Geometric graphs for instance-based learning," Tutorial, Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 10-13, 2003.
  4. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Computational music theory," First International Workshop on Computational Music Theory, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de Informatica, June 30 to July 4, 2003.
  5. Ferran Hurtado, Godfried T. Toussaint and Joan Trias, "On polyhedra induced by point sets in space," First Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Real Sociedad Matematica Espanola, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, June 18-21, 2003.
  6. Godfried T. Toussaint, "A computational view of rhythm and melody," Second Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, University of Havana, La Habana, Cuba, April 13-19, 2003.
  7. Greg Aloupis, Gunter Ewald and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Recent results on stuck unknotted polygons," Second Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, University of Havana, La Habana, Cuba, April 13-19, 2003.
  8. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Open problems in geometric methods for instance-based learning," JCDCG'2002, Abstracts of Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-9, 2002, pp. 12-13.
  9. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Proximity graphs for instance-based learning," CASCON'2002, Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Prediction, Hilton Suites Toronto-Markham, Toronto-Markham, Canada, October 2, 2002.
  10. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Optimal location of prototypes for nearest neighbor classification," Facility Location Optimization Workshop, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, June 16-18,2002.
  11. Godfried T. Toussaint, "The four-bar linkage: theory and applications through the centuries," 5th International Conference on Operations Research, Havana, Cuba, March 4-8, 2002.
  12. H. Bronnimann, J. Iacono, J. Katajainen, P. Morin, J. Morrison and G. T. Toussaint, "Optimal in-place planar convex hull algorithms,"  Presented at 11th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, November 2-3,2001.
  13. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Open problems in reconfiguration of polygons in space," IX Encuentros de Geometria Computacional, University of Girona, Girona, Spain, July 2-4, 2001, Invited Address.
  14. Michael Soss and Godfried Toussaint, "Intractable geometric problems on off-lattice polymer models," Eighth International Conference on Composites Engineering, Tenerife, Spain, August 5-11, 2001.
  15. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Open problems in reconfiguration of polygons in space," First Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, University of Havana, La Habana, Cuba, April 30 to May 4, 2001.
  16. Michael Soss and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Convexifying polygons in 3D: A survey," 965th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, April 21-22, 2001, Abstract # 965-51-108, p. 36.
  17. Jean-Marie Bourjolly, Thomas Fevens, Antonio Hernandez, Antonio Mesa, David Rappaport, Michael Soss and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Finding non-degenerate points in space," Abstracts of VII Congreso Nacional de Matematica y Computacion (COMPUMAT-2000), November 13-17, 2000, Manzanillo, Cuba.
  18. Ferran Hurtado, Godfried T. Toussaint and Joan Trias, " On polyhedra induced by point sets in space," Abstracts of VII Congreso Nacional de Matematica y Computacion (COMPUMAT-2000), November 13-17, 2000, Manzanillo, Cuba.
  19. Francisco Gomez, Ferran Hurtado, Toni Sellares and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Prespective projections and removal of degeneracies," Abstracts of VII Congreso Nacional de Matematica y Computacion (COMPUMAT-2000), November 13-17, 2000, Manzanillo, Cuba.
  20. Fancisco Gomez, Suneeta Ramaswami and Godfried T. Toussaint, "On removing non-degeneracy assumptions in computational geometry," Abstracts of VII Congreso Nacional de Matematica y Computacion(COMPUMAT-2000), November 13-17, 2000, Manzanillo, Cuba.
  21. Michael Soss and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Recent results on reconfiguring polygonal chains in space," 957th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Invited Paper, Special Session on Discrete and Applied Geometry, University of Toronto, Sept. 23-24, 2000.
  22. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Convexifying polygonal linkages in space and its applications to knot theory, polymer physics and molecular biology," SIAM Discrete Mathematics Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 12-15, 2000,
  23. Michael Soss and Godfried T. Toussaint, "A hierarchy of polygons: A study of polygon properties," 1st Canada-Cuba Workshop on Algorithms, Montreal, Canada, May 28 to June 2, 2000.
  24. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Recent results on untangling polygons in space," 1st Canada-Cuba Workshop on Algorithms, Montreal, Canada, May 28 to June 2, 2000.
  25. Michael Soss and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Basic geometric problems on reconfiguring polymers," Symposium on Novel Approaches in RNA Informatics, (NARI'2K), Montreal, Canada, May 18-19, 2000.
  26. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Recent results on untangling unknots in space," Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, in Lowell, Massachussetts, April 1-2, 2000.
  27. M. Soss and G. T. Toussaint, "Dihedral reconfigurations of three-dimensional polygonal chains," IVth Conference on Operations Research, Havana, Cuba, March 6-10, 2000.
  28. G. T. Toussaint, "Convexifying polygonal linkages in space and its applications to knot theory, polymer physics, and molecular biology," IVth Conference on Operations Research, Havana, Cuba, March 6-10, 2000.
  29. F. Gomez, F. Hurtado, S. Ramaswami, V. Sacristan and G. T. Toussaint, "Implicit convex polygons," 14th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Barcelona, Spain, March 25-27, 1998.
  30. F. Hurtado, V. Sacristan and G. T. Toussaint, "Constrained facility location," 924th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 26-28, 1997.
  31. G. T. Toussaint, "Eliminacion de degeneraciones en geometria computacional," VII Encuentros de Geometria Computacional, Madrid, Spain, July 7-9, 1997.
  32. F. Gomez, S. Ramaswami and G. T. Toussaint, "On removing degeneracies in computational geometry," 914th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA, October 5-6, 1996.
  33. G. T. Toussaint, "On removing degeneracies in computational geometry," Carleton Algorithmic Theory Symposium (CATS'96), Ottawa, Canada, September 28, 1996.
  34. G. T. Toussaint, "Computational geometry and facility location," Conference on Facility Location and Computational Geometry, University of Sevilla, Spain, April 22-24, 1996.
  35. P. Bose, S. Ramaswami, G. T. Toussaint and A. Turki, "Experimental comparison of quadrangulation algorithms for sets of points," Abstracts of 12th European Workshop on Comp. Geometry, Univ. of Münster, Germany, March 28-29, 1996, pp. 39-40.
  36. P. Bose and G. T. Toussaint, "On computing quadrangulations of planar point sets," 10th Colloquium on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Applications, Feb. 27 - March 3, 1995, Xalapa, Mexico.
  37. C. Pateras and G. T. Toussaint, "Bamboo fields: A new proximity graph and its application to text-line orientation estimation in document analysis," Third Workshop on Proximity Graphs, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, December 1-3, 1994.
  38. P. Bose and G. T. Toussaint, "Proximity graphs on line segments," Third Workshop on Proximity Graphs, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, December 1-3, 1994.
  39. P. Bose, F. Hurtado-Diaz, E. Omana-Pulido and G. T. Toussaint, "Some aperture-angle optimization problems," Abstracts of 892nd Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, April 8-10, 1994, p. 395.
  40. G. T. Toussaint, "Geometric and computational aspects of manufacturing processes," Twenty Third Computational Geometry Day, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, March 11, 1994.
  41. G. T. Toussaint, "Geometric and computational aspects of manufacturing processes," IX Coloquio de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones," Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico, February 21-25, 1994.
  42. J. Bose and G. T. Toussaint, "Geometric and computational aspects of injection molding," Second Annual Workshop on Computational Geometry, Stony Brook, New York, October 23-24, 1992.
  43. G. T. Toussaint, "Un nuevo vistazo a la segunda propocision de Euclides," III Coloquio Internacional de Filisofia e Historia de las Matematicas, Mexico City, June 22-26, 1992.
  44. G. T. Toussaint, "Movable separability of objects in two and three dimensions," 37thColloque des Sciences Mathématiques du Québec, Université du Québec a Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, April 4, 1992.
  45. G. T. Toussaint "Aplicación de la teoría de gráficas a la aproximación poligonal de curvas," Séptimo Coloquio de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, México, February 24-28, 1992.
  46. J. Czyzowics, P. Egyed, H. Everett, B. Gamble, B. Lenhart, K. Lyons, D. Rappaport, T. Shermer, D. Souvaine, G. T. Toussaint, J. Urrutia and S. Whitesides, "Weak visibility of convex sets," V Coloquio de Teoría de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Casa de la Cultura, Morelia, México, March, 1990.

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  47. Godfried Toussaint, "Proximity graphs in computer vision," First Workshop on Proximity Graphs, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, December 2, 1989.
    Hossam ElGindy and Godfried Toussaint, "Link Voronoi diagrams inside a simple polygon with applications," Abstracts of 13th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chuo University, Kasuga Campus, Tokyo, Japan, August 29 - September 2, 1988, p. 177.
  1. G. T. Toussaint, "Relative convex hulls of sets and their applications," 13th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987.
  2. M. Mansouri and G. T. Toussaint, "On the reachability region of a ladder in two convex polygons," 13th IFIP Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987.

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  3. G.T. Toussaint, "On translating a set of polyhedra," Conference on Polyhedra, Smith College, Northampton, MA., April 6-8, 1984.
  4. G. T. Toussaint, "Computational geometric thinking as kinesthetic thinking," Conference on Thinking, Harvard University, Cambridge, August 20-23, 1984.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "The complexity of movement," International Symposium on Information Theory, St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada, September 26-30, 1983, pp. 69-70.
  2. Jorg-R. Sack and Godfried T. Toussaint, "Movability of Objects," International Symposium on Information Theory, St. Jovite, Quebec, Canada, September 26-30, 1983, pp. 71-72.
  1. Godfried T. Toussaint, "Solving geometric problems with the rotating calipers," Workshop on Computational Geometry, University of Illinois, Urbana, October 1982.
  2. Godfried T. Toussaint and Binay K. Bhattacharya, "Some counter-examples to diameter algorithms," Resent Results Session, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, June 1982.
  3. Godfried T. Toussaint and Binay K. Bhattacharya, "The complexity of computing distances between sets," Abstracts of Papers of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, June 21-25, 1982, p. 117.
  4. Godfried T. Toussaint and Binay K. Bhattacharya, "Efficient algorithms for computing distances between sets of points," Meeting of the Classification Society, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada, May 30 to June 2, 1982.

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  5. G. T. Toussaint, B.K. Bhattacharya and R. S. Poulsen, "Graph theoretic methods for edited nearest neighbor decision rules," Abstracts of Papers of International Symposium on Information Theory, Santa Monica, California, February 9-12, 1981, pp. 66-67.

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  6. G.T. Toussaint, "The relative neighborhood graph of a finite planar set," Conference on Pattern Recognition, Oxford University, June 1979.
  7. D. C. Bouchard and G. T. Toussaint, "Confusion-matrix-directed algorithms for using context in text recognition," Abstracts of Papers of the International Symposium on Information Theory, Grignano, Italy, June 25-29, 1979.
  8. R.S. Poulsen, L.H. Oliver, G.T. Toussaint, and C. Louis, "Recent progress in pattern recognition of cervical cell images at McGill University," International Conference on Pattern Recognition of Cell Images, Chicago, May 1979.
  9. R. Shinghal and G.T. Toussaint, "Experiments in text recognition with the modified Viterbi algorithm," Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, April 1978, Princeton University, N.J.
  10. G.T. Toussaint, "Recent results on generalized information measures and their relation to probability of misclassification," Annual Meeting of the Classification Society, May 23-25, 1976, University of Rochester, N.Y.
  11. G.T. Toussaint, "Probability of error and equivocation of order alpha," International Symposium on Information Theory, June 21-24, 1976, Ronneby, Sweden.
  12. M. Cohen and G. T. Toussaint, "On the detection of structures in noisy pictures," CSCSI Workshop on Computational Studies of Intelligence, University of Ottawa, May 28-29, 1975.
  1. .T. Toussaint and S. Chung, "On some algorithms for using context in machine recognition of hand printed text," Computer Science Conference, Detroit, February 12-14, 1974.
  2. G.T. Toussaint, "The efficient use of context in machine recognition of hand printed text," Computer Science Conference, Detroit, February 12-14, 1974.
  3. G.T. Toussaint, "Discrimination and the affinity of several distributions," Conference of the Statistical Science Association of Canada, May 30 - June 1st, 1974, Toronto, Canada.
  4. G.T. Toussaint, "Probability of error and the expected divergence," Second International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1974, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  1. G.T. Toussaint, "Distance measures as measures of certainty and their application to statistical pattern recognition," Confrence on Theoretical and Applied Statistics and Data Analysis, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, June 4-6, 1973.

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