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The height of Swiss mercenaries, c. 1725 - c. 1865

Chambru, Cédric; Hediger, Simon; Metzler, Jakob; … - 2025

This paper examines the evolution of the biological standard of living using anthropometric data from approximately 22,000 Swiss mercenaries born between c. 1725 and c. 1865. Analyzing mercenary data presents two key challenges: left-truncation due to height requirements and potential selection...

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Stunted adolescence : the anomalous growth pattern of Americans born after mid-century

Reynolds, Nicholas - 2025

The secular trend of growth in height suddenly slowed for Americans born after the middle of the 20th century, and the health and human capital of these cohorts as adults appears to have declined, or at least stagnated, more broadly. This paper presents evidence that the physical growth of these...

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Discrimination based on employer preferences : the height premium in China

Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili; Yang, Xiaocong; Anwar, Sajid - 2025

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Pandemic-ready data : linking the Socio-Economic Panel with administrative health records

Lepe, Alexander; Kolodziej, Ingo; Zinn, Sabine - 2025

This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s pandemic data infrastructure revealed during COVID-19 and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to monitor infectious diseases and their social distribution....

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Analyse der Begutachtungsdaten privatversicherter Pflegebedürftiger und mögliche Implikationen für die gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung

Arentz, Christine; Winter, Henri; Simon, Jan-Henrik - 2025 - 2. korrigierte Auflage

Hintergrund: Seit Einführung des neuen Pflegebedürftigkeitsbegriffs 2017 ist die Anzahl der Leistungsempfänger in der gesetzlichen Pflegeversicherung deutlich über das demografisch zu erwartende Ausmaß angestiegen. In der Folge sind die Beitragssätze in der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung und...

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Gender inequality in a transition economy : heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640-1850

Ridolfi, Leonardo - 2024

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The urban-rural height gap : evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia

Ramon-Muñoz, Ramon; Ramon-Muñoz, Josep-Maria - 2024

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Why Does Height Pay? Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey

King, Wilson; Miguel, Edward; Walker, Michael W. - 2026

Taller people earn more, especially in low- and middle-income countries. We present among the first evidence of this phenomenon in Africa, using longitudinal microdata on a cohort of middle-aged Kenyan adults. We document a substantial height/earnings premium: controlling for gender, age, and...

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Generative AI : unlocking the next chapter in healthcare

Mahajan, Rohit; Uberoy, Ritu M. - 2026

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Applications of large language models (LLM) in healthcare systems : opportunities, challenges, and ethical considerations

2026 - First edition

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Health, nutrition and inequality in Latin America : an anthropometric history

2026

1. Introduction to an Anthropometric History of Latin America 2. Growing up in turbulent times: Economic growth and biological wellbeing in Argentina, 1966-2000 3. Height inequality in Chile: an empirical analysis for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 4. Biological Standards of Living in...

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The rise and fall of explorys and IBM Watson Health : a personal memoir of a healthcare moonshot that misfired

Meil, Doug - 2026

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Transforming healthcare with big data : a practical guide for big data in healthcare systems

Mohamed, Ahmed; Rabelo, Luis; Zamora-Aguas, Juan Pablo - 2026 - First edition

The promise and challenge of big data in healthcare -- Insights and gaps in bid data analytics in healthcare -- Leveraging big data and analytics for predictive risk assessment and KPIs -- Research framework -- Healthcare big data framework-architecture, deployment, and SME validation --...

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Advances in healthcare using machine learning : Volume 1

2026 - First edition

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Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls

Lee, Susie; Semenchenko, Hanna - 2023

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Explaining trends in adult height in China : 1950 to 1990

Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2023

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Explaining trends in adult height in China : 1950 to 1990

Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2021

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Explaining trends in adult height in China: 1950 to 1990

Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2021

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Explaining Trends in Adult Height in China : 1950 to 1990

Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2023

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Migrant self-selection and random shocks : evidence from the Panic of 1907

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; López-Alonso, Moramay - 2023

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A mother's voice : impacts of spousal communication training on child health investments

Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema; … - 2023

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Améliorer les parcours de diagnostic du cancer du sein au Québec

Corkum, Eleanor; Perrault, Tiffanie; Strumpf, Erin - 2023

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Health, Height, Nutrition, and Mortality : Evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from Union Army Recruits in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Haines, Michael R. - 2022

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the American Civil War (1861-65). It is this period was one of rapid economic growth and development in the United State the debate has centered on whether the American diet, both...

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Health, Height, Nutrition, and Mortality : Evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from Union Army Recruits in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Haines, Michael R. - 1998

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Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920

Fourie, Johan; Inwood, Kris E.; Mariotti, Martine - 2022

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Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865-1920

Fourie, Johan; Inwood, Kris E.; Mariotti, Martine - 2022

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Family planning and children's human capital : experimental evidence from urban Malawi

Maggio, Daniel; Karra, Mahesh; Canning, David - 2022

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Family Planning and Children's Human Capital : Experimental Evidence from Urban Malawi

Maggio, Daniel; Karra, Mahesh; Canning, David - 2022

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Do alpha males deliver alpha? : facial width-to-height ratio and hedge funds

Lu, Yan; Teo, Melvyn - 2022

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Do Alpha Males Deliver Alpha? Facial Width-to-Height Ratio and Hedge Funds

Lu, Yan - 2020

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The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world

Aurino, Elisabetta; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Tarozzi, … - 2023

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The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world

Aurino, Elisabetta; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Tarozzi, … - 2022

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The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world

Aurino, Elisabetta; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Tarozzi, … - 2022

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Late Height Growth from Historical Individual-Level Panel Data1

Gauthier, Stephane - 2022

The combination of height information in two sources from French conscription yields a quasi-exhaustive individual-level panel of men in their 21st year. The tableau de recrutement cantonal applies to men when they are to be selected for military service. The fiches matricules pertain to...

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2022

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2020

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019

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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2022

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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Batinti, Alberto - 2019

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Height Premium in Earnings : Evidence from China

Zheng, Wenting - 2022

The height premium has been studied worldwide for years using evidence from countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK, the USA, Vietnam, etc. This paper links adult height and schooling to salary using evidence from China. We use the data from three waves of the Chinese General Social...

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You are what your parents expect : height and local reference points

Wang, Fan; Puentes, Esteban; Behrman, Jere R.; Cunha, … - 2024

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Height and the disease environment of children : the association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850-1940

Quanjer, Björn - 2024

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The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits : Hot Parents, Rich Kid?

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - 2024

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...

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The Emerald handbook of appearance in the workplace

2024 - First edition

The impact of individual appearance on career success, either positive or negative, often remains unspoken or even unconscious within the world of work. Appearance has been shown to influence decisions regarding renumeration, recruitment and promotion through biases such as size and gender...

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Changes in the disparities in chronic disease during the course of the twentieth century

Fogel, Robert William - 2004

"Longitudinal studies support the proposition that the extent and severity of chronic conditions in middle and late ages are to a large extent the outcome of environmental insults at early ages, including in utero. Data from the Early Indicators program project undertaken at the Center for...

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Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease During the Course of the Twentieth Century

Fogel, Robert William - 2021

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Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease during the Course of the Twentieth Century

Fogel, Robert W. - 2004

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The measure of man and older age mortality : evidence from the Gould sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2004

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The measure of man and older age mortality : evidence from the Gould sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2002

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The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality : Evidence from the Gould Sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2021

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The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality : Evidence from the Gould Sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2002

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Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Formation over the Life-Course : Evidence from an International Cohort Study

Georgiadis, Andreas; Benny, Liza; Dornan, Paul; … - 2021

Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth...

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The Height of Inequality : A Policy Perspective

Rasmussen, David W. - 2021

Income households’ share of national income has grown dramatically since 1970 while the bottom 80 percent has seen their share decline. This paper examines economic, social, and demographic changes that almost assure that the income would be increasingly concentrated at the top. Occupations...

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Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children : the Case of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2021

Underenumeration of vital events is a problem familiar topeople who work with historical demographic records. This paper proposes a method for recovering information about neonatal mortality.The approach utilizes average heights of young children to predict the birth weight of American slaves....

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Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children : The Case of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 1985

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The tall and the short of the returns to height

Baker, Michael; Cornelson, Kirsten - 2019

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The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height

Baker, Michael; Cornelson, Kirsten - 2021

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The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height

Baker, Michael - 2019

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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Nineteenth Century Black and Mulatto Physical Activity, Calories, and Life Expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Black and white Body Mass Index values in developing 19th century Nebraska

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...

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Black and White Body Mass Index Values in Developing 19th Century Nebraska

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Nineteenth century US BMIs by race : socioeconomics and biology

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...

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Nineteenth Century US BMIs by Race : Socioeconomics and Biology

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Obesity in black and white : accounting for 19th century US BMI differences by socioeconomic status and biology

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

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Obesity in Black and White : Accounting for 19th Century US BMI Differences by Socioeconomic Status and Biology

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Nineteenth century US black and white physical activity and nutritional trends among the working class

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

Much has been written about 19th century African American and white statures and body mass index values. However, little is known about their physical activity and calories required to sustain height and weight. This paper considers two alternative measures for biological conditions that address...

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Nineteenth Century US Black and White Physical Activity and Nutritional Trends Among the Working Class

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Nineteenth century biological conditions on the high central plains

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska's output market and...

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Nineteenth Century Biological Conditions on the High Central Plains

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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The anthropometric history of Native Americans, C.1820–1890

Komlos, John; Carlson, Leonard A. - 2014

We analyze heights of Indian scouts in the U.S. army born between ca. 1825 and 1875. Their average height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the rural populations in the New World. The trend in their height describes a...

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The Anthropometric History of Native Americans, c. 1820-1890

Komlos, John; Carlson, Leonard A. - 2021

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century white Body Mass Index values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2011

Little research exists on the body mass index values of 19th century Americans of European descent. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, between 1860 and 1880, BMIs decreased across the distribution; however, after 1880, BMIs in the highest quantiles increased, while those in lower...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century White Body Mass Index Values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American Body Mass Index values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2011

Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that late 19th and early 20th century black BMI variation by age increased in their mid-30s but declined at older...

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Body Mass Index Values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size : Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Why Does Height Matter for Educational Attainment? Evidence from German Pre-Teen Children

Cinnirella, Francesco; Piopiunik, Marc; Winter, Joachim - 2021

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are more likely to enroll in ‘Gymnasium’, the most...

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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Nineteenth century white US statures varied with nutrition, disease exposure, and the physical environment. An additional explanation for stature growth is vitamin D production. Vitamin D is produced internally by the synthesis of cholesterol and sunlight in the epidermis. However, studies that...

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The Relationship between Stature and Insolation : Evidence from Soldiers and Prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination : A Cross-European Analysis

Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - 2021

Taller workers earn on average higher salaries. Recent research has proposed cognitive abilities and social skills as explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the...

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Size Matters! Body Height and Labor Market Discrimination : A Cross-European Analysis

Cinnirella, Francesco; Winter, Joachim - 2011

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