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Digital Forensic Gateway

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SUMMARY

This project seeks to advance the science of forensics through developing a cloud based platform to support knowledge dissemination and collaboration amongst the scientific community.

The project team will utilise leading edge cloud technology to develop new services for digital forensics, data sharing, knowledge exchange & training. Research is being carried out by a consortium of a academic and industrial partners.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Delivering a cloud based platform where clients to support the dissemination of the latest techniques and foster collaboration between practitioners
  • Creating a new value chain from research to the international forensics community

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LINK: http://www.forensic-connect.co.uk/default.php

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CRAAX

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The CRAAX lab actively participate in research into the area of advanced network architectures, nationally and internationally, in close collaboration with industry partners.

CRAAX’s aim is to conduct not only pure academic research which is often decoupled from industrial realities, but also to design and develop solutions with the potential of being adopted and deployed in real scenarios. The primary areas of research are: multi-domain/layer hybrid IP/Optical networks; routing security and management; platform design and development; and performance evaluation.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Producing novel multi-domain/multi-layer hybrid IP/optical network architectures and protocols.
  • Researching Network management in heterogeneous multi-layer and multi-vendor IP/optical network architectures.
  • Investigating the Security aspects of the Internet routing system including Loc/ID Separation protocols.
  • Managing security in context of routing.
  • Constructing open and programmable environments for experimenting with new applications on top of network elements.
  • Monitoring and designing distributed measurement platforms.
  • Developing robust and intelligent control techniques for critical infrastructures.

 

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LINK: http://www.craax.upc.edu/index.html

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Future Cities

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SUMMARY

This project aims to tackle issues arising from the exponential growth of the urban population. This global trend is leading to the deterioration of urban facilities quality of life, posing an unparalleled set of challenges.

The Future Cities Project is an FP7 funded project which aims at unlocking the full potential of interdisciplinary research in urban technologies, as well as strengthening knowledge transfer activities in close cooperation with local and global industrial partners.

The project’s primary goal is to turn the city of Porto into an urban-scale living lab, where researchers, companies and start-ups can develop and test technologies, products and services, exploring such subjects as sustainable mobility, urban-scale sensing, safety and privacy, as well as quality of life for citizens and their families.
Work will be conducted across a multiplicity of disciplines, engaging not only engineers and computer scientists, but also psychologists, urban studies specialists, and social scientists. The University of Porto will conduct the research through various groups from the Engineering (FEUP), Psychology (FPCEUP) and Sciences (FCUP) faculties, amongst others.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Aggregating a critical mass in key areas of expertise for future cities that also signals a closer and more profitable connection among research groups and Portuguese companies
  • Creating new knowledge in key areas of future city technologies, operations and management
  • Recruiting and training highly qualified individuals for the industry and academia with relevant scientific expertise, as well as international experience and proven leadership qualities
  • Adopting and consolidating the best practice of top research and innovation centres in Europe at the University of Porto
  • Implementing mechanisms and routine practices for brainstorming, exchanging ideas, attaining technical depth, publishing in top scientific periodicals, protecting of intellectual property and developing security products with the industry
  • Increasing the number and quality of scientific publications, which should be targeted towards technical depth with strong impact in the real world
  • Fostering technology transfer of future city solutions to the local and international industry and end users, leading to significant increases of Portugal’s comparative advantages and exports
  • Promoting the stronger participation of the Future Cities’ researchers and collaborating companies in the activities of the European Research Area

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LINK: http://futurecities.up.pt/site/

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SEASTAR

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SUMMARY

The SEASTAR project seeks to address the increasing need for underwater communication systems with higher data rates over considerably longer distances. This project aims to gather experts from traditionally disjoint communities to investigate, define, and develop core technologies for underwater monitoring platforms and to build the first working demonstrator.

The research is expected to have utility in an abundance of industrial, environmental monitoring, oil/gas exploitation, and safety and security applications and consortium partners have concrete plans to use and disseminate obtained results and see direct benefit from applying the results

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SOLUTIONS

  • Advancing wireless sensor network technology driven by the particular needs of underwater monitoring

  • Carrying out case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness and utility of our architecture

  • Furthering the development of low-power acoustic vector sensors for underwater deployment

  • Developing power efficient transducer drivers for underwater wireless communication

  • designing an architecture sensor network, focusing on collaborative beam-forming and hybrid underwater networking protocols

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/stw/seastar.doc/

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COMMIT

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The goal of the COMMIT programme is to find solutions to societal problems and to exploit socio-economic opportunities through the use of ICT technology. The programme also aims to strengthen the Dutch ICT innovation ecosystem by establishing best-practices in public-private collaboration. COMMIT will pursue three specific objectives: producing multi-disciplinary research projects whose impact on society is directed according to given priority themes; providing solutions through conducting leading-edge, needs-oriented fundamental; consolidating and disseminating acquired knowledge.

The COMMIT programme will fund 26 high-quality, publicly and privately funded research projects in six societal themes: well-being, information services, sciences, applied sciences, transport, and public safety. These themes have been selected not only because of their priority status for Dutch society, but also because of their potential for realising major ICT innovations.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing information retrieval methods for information services

  • Promoting interaction for universal access

  • Designing wireless sensor networks to safeguard public safety

  • Implementing e-infrastructure virtualisation for e-science applications

  • Constructing composable embedded systems for healthcare

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LINK: http://www.utwente.nl/ctit/research/projects/national/COMMIT/COMMIT.doc/

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Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The Technologies for Embedded Computing Centre (TEC) Centre works extensively with companies who have requirements for ICT innovation, particularly in embedded systems. The centre has completed prototyping and innovation projects in distributed sensing, hardware systems, automated resource monitoring, indoor and outdoor real-time tracking, multimedia systems, websites and application software.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a one-stop-shop facility for industry R&D in the Southern region
  • Building industry-led programmes to sustain growth in the Irish embedded systems industry
  • Creating new start-ups with international potential

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LINK: http://nimbus.cit.ie/tec/

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Creative World

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SUMMARY

A major challenge facing Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Business to Consumer (B2C) service brands today is increasing consumption and enhancing customer loyalty. The Creative World project aims to provide the most effective one-shop solution for meeting these challenges through the development of a collaborative web/mobile application.

With the Creative World platform, organisations and brands can harness the creative power of human resources in collaborative, online co-branding and innovation processes . To this end, the project team has developed crowd-sourcing and employee to business applications for utilising internal and external human resources.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Implementing, testing and launching the main components of the platform on the Hungarian market
  • Designing a multilevel task-resolution system to manage and actualise generated concepts and ideas
  • Developing a built-in motivation which rewards creative input from employees and the external community
  • Integrating social media components and providing multi-language modules to ensures that clients can reach a critical number of consumers
  • Creating mobile applications which allow android and iOS users to submit their ideas and comments wherever and whenever they desire through textual, photographic and video media.

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LINK: http://www.collaborationline.com/

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Coeur de Filiére Numerique

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SUMMARY

“Coeur de filiére numerique” is an initiative launched in April, 2013 by the French Ministry of Crafts, Commerce and Tourism under the new guidelines of the Future Investment Programme. The initiative, funded to the tune of €150 million by the ministry, sets out to support and develop four key technologies: embedded software and connected objects, the security of information, supercomputing and simulation systems, and cloud computing and Big Data.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Funding research and development in four key areas with many applications:
    • Transport and mobility
    • Health
    • Digital cities
    • Logistics and distribution
    • Robotics
    • Energy
    • Automation and industrial processes
  • Creating a new innovation ecosystem structured around key technological developments and applications

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LINK: http://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/secteurs-professionnels/coeur-filiere-du-numerique

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Ubicom

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Embedded computing operates imperceptibly in people’s and companies’ everyday working environments. Objects and machines communicate wirelessly between themselves and adjust their operations independently in real time.
The embedded computing sector is facing a steep development curve. Even now, 98% of the world’s microprocessors are in embedded systems. Digital homes are becoming more common and new embedded electronic systems are being increasingly employed in transport equipment, public infrastructure and factories. The increasing pervasiveness of embedded computing improves efficiency and safety and at the same time creates enhanced services for consumers.

The Ubicom – Embedded ICT project strengthens research into ubiquitous computing, increases the resources available for the industry’s commercial competitive offerings, enhances the international cooperation environment and spurs on cooperation between different branches of industry by creating new industry networks and industry standards.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Increasing the pool of resources available to the Finnish embedded computing industry through the provision of funding
  • Fostering an international collaborative environment through concluding cooperation agreements and issuing joint calls
  • Establishing an industry ecosystem and network, thereby creating synergies between individual value chains through agreeing joint action plans, holding seminars and workshops and facilitating forums
  • Some of the targeted areas for funding:
    • Bioinformatics
    • Cleantech
    • Healthtech

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LINK: http://www.tekes.fi/ubicom/

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Next Media (Tivit)

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SUMMARY

The production and consumption of media is undergoing radical transformation. The digitalisation of production, distribution and consumption of media as well as the growing penetration of broadband access and mobile Internet has allowed for the distribution of increasingly rich media content to a variety of terminals.

The Next Media research project aims to generate innovative solutions for the media sector through developing new business models, concepts and technology. The main objective of the project is to renew the business environment of the media sector by breaking through the limits of media content and changing the way it is created, configured, serviced and consumed.

This endeavour takes advantage of the current transition towards co-creation, interactivity and independence of time and place. The diversity of terminals and devices in consumers’ everyday life is increasing and the significance of mobility is emphasized.
Next Media has the support of the whole Finnish media industry. The individual component firms have together created a strategy for the media sector and are committed to research and development activities consistent with Next Media objectives

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SOLUTIONS

  • Engaging media services and enabling technologies that support co-creation and participation as well as monetising media experiences in real and virtual environment along six generic themes:
    1. media access,
    2. production tools,
    3. personalisation,
    4. social interaction,
    5. media use
    6. business models & concepts
  • Serving the major needs of the media users:
    • news & information,
    • education & learning,
    • entertainment & games
    • community media

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LINK: http://www.nextmedia.fi/

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Finland-China ICT Alliance

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The China – Finland ICT Alliance is meant to become an open, scalable and sustainable platform for cooperation in ICT and digital services. The alliance aims both to create new business opportunities and to help in addressing the future challenges related to the environment, energy, traffic, well-being, health, and the creation of future urban environments.

The complementary expertise and capabilities in China and Finland facilitate very rapid creation, testing and scaling up of new innovations in areas of mutual interest. The cooperation will involve key international partners from the EU but is meant to be open also to other parties.

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The Alliance sponsors projects in several areas:

  • Future Wireless Access
    • This project aims to develop the core technologies for future wireless connectivity with the aim of superseding the existing systems. The project will aim to find solutions for capacity and coverage improvement which are needed to resolve key challenge such as he increasing data rates and requirements for improved connectivity.
  • Future Wireless Networking and Core Network
    • This programme funds and co-ordinates and number of projects and collaborations within its thematic area. Its aim is to create innovations and new solutions which will lead to increased energy-, spectral – and cost-efficiency in future mobile communication networks. Such activity will involve new architectures of future mobile networks, interference management methods for future wireless networks, future green wireless communications, key technologies for future IPv6-based core network as well as testing and evaluation methodologies for future wireless networks.
  • Future Services (Ubiserve)
    • This project is a joint research effort dedicated to advancing research in the field of ubiquitous services. The project aims to construct service enabling environments, to develop test environments in real-life settings and to coordinate the information on other facilities, tests and demonstrations and expertise within the ICT Alliance.

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LINK: http://www.ictalliance.org/

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EVE

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The EVE – Electric Vehicle Systems Programme is aimed at companies and research institutes that work with electric vehicles and machinery and the components and systems used in them. The long-term goal of the project is to increase the volume of business activity related to electric vehicles and machinery from the 2010 figure of EUR 200 million to approximately EUR 2 billion by 2020.

The aim of the EVE programme is to create a community of electric vehicle and support system developers with close contacts to international research and business networks. The project also focuses on developing test environments and standards for the industry.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Providing funding for projects in the area of Electric Vehicle Systems
  • Holding seminars and workshops to facilitate knowledge and technology transfer
  • Publishing studies from Finland and abroad
  • Arranging excursions and opportunities for networking to strengthen inter-industry synergies
  • Financing test environments

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LINK: http://www.tekes.fi/en/programmes-and-services/tekes-programmes/eve/

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Digital Services

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The virtualisation of services, the emergence of mobile internet access and the reduction of barriers to investment in service infrastructure and access terminals have all brought new opportunities to the ICT services sector. Finland is now in a position where it can define the direction of mobile services development in the future.

The TIVIT Digital Services Program is an ecosystem effort to pool services enablers and platforms so as to rapidly launch, horizontalize and ensure the maintenance of new services. Work is conducted in a true partnership model, where partners gain access to a pool of complementary platform and enabler assets and share executive power.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Developing an ecosystem which will provide support for the development, scaling and visibility of new innovative services and enablers in four, high-potential thematic areas:
    1. SME Services
    2. Financial Services
    3. Educational Services
    4. Wellness Services
  • Giving Finland a leading edge position in the global market for mobile services through:
    • Building a leading service development ecosystem with a common language, a superior palette of common enablers, platforms and mutual trust.
    • Creating an ecosystem which supports several layers of economic activity in its value chain and which has a low barrier to entry for new players.
    • Developing ways of working which enable radically new service launches and scaling at speeds that cannot be matched.
    • Acquiring a first to market advantage, enabling sustainable cash flow streams from a billion new customers.

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LINK: http://www.tivit-services.fi/

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Cloud Software Programme (Tivit)

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The Cloud Software programme aims to significantly improve the global competitive position of the software-intensive, Finnish industry in the areas of operational efficiency, user experience, web software, open systems, security engineering and sustainable development. As software becomes increasingly web-based, cloud software is fasting becoming one a basic infrastructure of the future internet. The Cloud Software Programme especially aims to pioneer in building new cloud business and lean software enterprise models as well as developing innovative open cloud software infrastructure.

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SOLUTIONS

Cloud Technologies:

  • Collecting a compilation of best practices for cloud computing
  • Developing a toolbox for cloud computing application development
  • Building a cloud demonstration environment
  • Defining guidelines for openness in the cloud
  • Developing sample applications that benefit from cloud computing and content mashupping

Lean Software Enterprise

  • Developing a framework for applying the lean principles towards an enterprise transformation.
  • Conducting Lean Enterprise Transformation. Making lean applicable in cloud software organizations.
  • Scaling Agile Software Development. Perfecting & automating the cloud software R&D engine.
  • Developing Integrated Software R&D Approaches. Seeking for competitive edge.

Superior User Experience

  • Creating a common UX framework that supports the overall objectives of the cloud SW research and development:
    • Cloud computing and Web services with excellent UX
    • Better security with improved UX
    • Market success of green SW with good UX
  • Developing, through industrial case studies, efficient and integrated methods and tools for UX design and evaluation, including SW development tools that provide good UX both for end users and developers
  • Providing tools for using UX as a business factor by development of measures and tools to communicate UX to decision makers

Cloud Security

  • Producing a feasible Secure Development Lifecycle methodology supporting agile and lean SW development, and
  • Designing vulnerability, complexity and robustness management and risk-driven security metrics methodologies and tools that help developers to achieve adequate security, trust, dependability and privacy goals cloud computing environment.

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LINK: http://www.cloudsoftwareprogram.org/

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Community-based Innovation

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SUMMARY

This project seeks to coordinate user generated knowledge on the net and on mobile platforms and to direct it towards socially and economically useful ends. The project will attempt to develop methods and conventions by way of which user content is staged, socially, technologically, commercially and organisationally in order to ensure the greatest possible outcome with regards to innovation in private and public organisations alike.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Bringing online the potential for community-based innovation
  • Providing Danish companies with access to new models, tools and concepts for successful mobile and community based innovation together with their users and customers.

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LINK: http://itu.dk/en/Forskning/Forskningsprojekter/Community-based%20Innovation

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OpenSaaS

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SUMMARY

Becoming a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) player requires mastering a wide technological domain and developing new business models and alliances. For smaller companies, to be able to compete in this disruptive SaaS environment, mastering synergies on different levels is a vital component of any successful business strategy.

The OpenSaaS project’s goal is to launch a Flemish Open SaaS Platform. The platform will assist Business to Business (B2B) SaaS Providers to realize their growth strategies by offering know-how, infrastructures and technologies.

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SOLUTIONS

  • OpenSaas intends to assist businesses in:
  • Scaling up SaaS applications (allowing more users and higher data volumes).
  • Finding optimal revenue models, and acquiring technical know-how to implement them.
  • Enhancing customer interactions and services by using customer communities and usage data analysis
  • Transforming non-SaaS software applications which require advanced rendering capabilities and large files into SaaS point solutions

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LINK: http://www.opensaas.be/

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VirCA

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 2, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

VirCA is an Internet-based network and tool-kit which facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing between laboratories and other R&D facilities in the area of Internet of Things research.

The network proposes to combine advanced technologies to create a 3D-enabled platform for the Internet of Things. This will facilitate the development of a “3D Internet” which allows distance operators, both humans and robotic, to comfortably and effectively manipulate and operate virtual representations of internet-connected Things.

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KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS

  • Providing a pilot solution for a future collaborative platform where information, functionality, remote capabilities and 3D representation of things are freely manipulable and integrable.
  • Integrating and implementing the concept of cognitive infocommunications to enhance the manipulation and communication between operators and Things with 3D content.
  • Facilitating fast knowledge transfer between academic laboratories and R&D facilities.

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LINK: http://www.virca.hu

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