| 2D-code
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2-Dimensional barcode
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| 3G
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3rd Generation of mobile communications technology
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| 4G
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4th Generation of mobile communications technology
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| 5G
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5th Generation of mobile communications technology
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| 7z
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A compressed archive file format
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| AFCRI
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Abrams Family Cancer Research Institute
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| AI
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Artificial Intelligence
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| API
|
Application Programming Interface
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| APPU
|
Average Profit Per User
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| ARPU
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Average Revenue Per Unit
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| ASTM
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A materials standards body (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials)
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| AWS
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Amazon Web Services
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| B2B
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Business-to-Business
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| BAM
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Business Activity Monitoring
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| BC
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Business Continuity
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| BLE
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Bluetooth Low Energy
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| BOL
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Beginning Of Life
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| BPM
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Business Process Management
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| BREEAM
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Design and assessment method for sustainable buildings
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| CCDA
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Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
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| CCE
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Coca-Cola Enterprises
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| CDISC
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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
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| CDN
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Content Delivery Network
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| CeBIT
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An IT trade exhibition
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| CEM
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Customer Experience Management
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| CIMI
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Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (DMTF standard)
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| CIO
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Chief Information Officer
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| CMB
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Contact Memory Button
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| CMO
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Chief Marketing Officer and CMO website
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| CMS
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Content Management System
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| CPU
|
Central Processing Unit
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| CRM
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Customer Relationship Management
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| CSR
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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| CSS
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Cascading Style Sheet
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| CX
|
Customer Experience
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| DASH7
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Nickname for the ISO/IEC 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking
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| DIAD
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Delivery Information Acquisition Device
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| DMA
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Direct Market Access
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| DMTF
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Distributed Management Task Force
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| DR
|
Disaster Recovery
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| DRM
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Digital Rights Management
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| EDI
|
Electronic Data Interchange
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| EEA
|
European Economic Area
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| EHIC
|
European Health Insurance Card
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| EOL
|
End Of Life
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| EPC
|
Electronic Product Code
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| EPG
|
Electronic Program Guide
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| ERP
|
Enterprise Resource Planning
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| ESB
|
Enterprise Service Bus
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| eTRIKS
|
European Translation Research and Knowledge Management Services
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| ETSI
|
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
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| EV
|
Electric Vehicle
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| FDA
|
US Food and Drug Administration
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| FeliCa
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Sony's contactless IC card technology
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| FIX
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Financial Information eXchange (protocol)
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| FMCG
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Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
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| GPS
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Global Positioning System
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| HL7
|
Health Level Seven International
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| HPC
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High Performance Computing
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| HTML
|
Hypertext Mark-Up Language
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| HUD
|
Heads-Up Display
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| HVAC
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Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
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| IA-HEV
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International Energy Agency’s Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Implementing Agreement
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| IBOR
|
Investment Book of Records
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| ICD
|
World Health Organization International Classification of Diseases
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| IEC
|
International Electrotechnical Commission
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| IFHIMA
|
International Federation of Health Information Management
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| IoT
|
Internet of Things
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| ISM
|
Industrial Scientific and Medical
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| ISO
|
International Organization for Standardization
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| ISP
|
Internet Service Provider
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| IT
|
Information Technology
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| JSON
|
Javascript Object Notation
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| LAN
|
Local Area Network
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| M&S
|
Marks and Spencer
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| MDM
|
Master Data Management
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| MLA
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Mobile Location Analytics
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| MOL
|
Middle Of Life
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| MTBF
|
Mean Time Between Failures
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| MTBPM
|
Mean Time Between Planned Maintenance
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| NCI
|
US National Cancer Institute
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| NFC
|
Near Field Communications
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| NHS
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UK National Health Service
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| NSA
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US National Security Agency
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| NSH
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Napa State Hospital
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| NSP
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Network Service Provider
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| OASIS
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Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
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| ODCA
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Open Data Center Alliance
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| ONC
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US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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| ONF
|
Open Networking Foundation
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| OpenID
|
Open digital Identity
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| OSCP
|
Open Smart Charging Protocol
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| OVF
|
Open Virtualization Format
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| P2V
|
Physical to Virtual
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| PAM
|
Personal Ambient Management
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| PAN
|
Personal Area Network
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| PDF
|
Portable Document Format
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| PLM
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Product Lifecycle Management
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| QLM
|
Quantum Lifecycle Management
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| QoS
|
Quality of Service
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| RDF
|
Resource Description Framework
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| REST
|
Representational State Transfer
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| RFID
|
Radio Frequency Identification
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| ROI
|
Return On Investment
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| RPO
|
Recovery Point Objective
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| RTLS
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Real-Time Location Systems
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| RTO
|
Recovery Time Objective
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| SaaS
|
Security as a Service
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| SAE
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Automotive industry standards body (formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers)
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| SAML
|
Security Assertions Mark-up Language
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| SDC
|
Software Defined Data Center
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| SDN
|
Software Defined Network
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| SDO
|
Standards Development Organization
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| SDS
|
Software Defined Storage
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| SKU
|
Stock Keeping Unit
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| SLA
|
Service-Level Agreement
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| SMS
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Short Message Service (in mobile communications)
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| SNOMED
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A comprehensive, multi-lingual clinical healthcare terminology
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| SOA
|
Service-Oriented Architecture
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| SPOREs
|
Specialized Programs of Research Excellence
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| SSO
|
Single Sign-On
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| STB
|
Set-Top Box
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| SWIFT
|
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
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| TCO
|
Total Cost of Ownership
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| TOSCA
|
Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
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| TRP
|
Translational Research Program
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| U-BIOPRED
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Unbiased BIOmarkers in PREDiction of respiratory disease outcomes
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| UDEF
|
Universal Data Element Framework
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| USB
|
Universal Serial Bus
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| V2C
|
An elastic Vehicle-to-Cloud infrastructure that integrates Network as a Service into the automotive ecosystem
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| VMI
|
Vendor-Managed Inventory
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| VPC
|
Virtual Private Cloud
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| VPD
|
Vancouver Police Department
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| VPN
|
Virtual Private Network
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| W3C
|
World Wide Web Consortium
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| Wi-Fi
|
A popular technology that allows an electronic device to exchange data or connect to the internet wirelessly using radio waves
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