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This study investigated the validity of the family incongruence score, a statistic which quantifies the discrepancies between family members' perceptions of their family system using answers given on the ...
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2. [Article] Family Connections Research Capsules
Family Connections Oregon (FCO) was a three-year demonstration project funded by the Children’s Bureau in which a co-located coordinator provided a package of services - intensive family finding and engagement, ...Citation -
All persons are born into some form of family unit. The traditional family is a unit of people who live together over periods of time and have ties of marriage and kinship. Even if that unit is separated, ...
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This study investigated the host family experience, specifically examining the goals of host families and intercultural training of host families. It compares the the importance and accomplishment of goals ...
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5. [Article] The effects of maternal support and non-support on the family concepts of sexually abused girls
Incest, and the problems arising from it, have increasingly come under the scrutiny of therapists and researchers. All family members are affected by incest and all have been studied. Victims are particularly ...Citation -
6. [Article] Family Group Conferencing Practice
Oregon has long been known as a site for innovative family engagement practice. Multiple forms of family meetings have been implemented in Oregon over the years and many child welfare offices use some ...Citation -
7. [Article] Family Connections Research
Family Connections Oregon (FCO) was a three-year demonstration project funded by the Children’s Bureau in which a co-located coordinator provided a package of services - intensive family finding and engagement, ...Citation -
8. [Article] Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects
Few studies to date have investigated associations among work, family, and sleep outcomes. The following dissertation includes three studies that attempt to further understanding of such relationships ...Citation -
9. [Article] Gender, Polychronicity, and the Work-Family Interface: is a Preference for Multitasking Beneficial?
This study examined how polychronicity, or the preference to do several things concurrently, was related to work and family overload, work–family conflict, and outcomes in the work, family, and life domains ...Citation -
10. [Article] Gender Difference in Working Parents' Perceptions of Work/Family Conflict and the Role of Occupational Prestige
As many Americans move away from the traditional homemaker-breadwinner family model, research on gender and work/family conflict has become increasingly important and the question of gender difference ...Citation -
11. [Article] Bringing Functional Family Probation Services to the Community: A Qualitative Case Study
In March 2011, Multnomah County's Juvenile Services Division (JSD) in Portland, Oregon implemented a new program model called Functional Family Probation Services, a case management model based on the ...Citation -
The purpose of this study was to assess the special needs of the families of hospitalized mental patients. The study focused upon the time prior to and including the decision to hospitalize a mentally ...
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13. [Article] A study of the crisis nature of the preparenthood period and implications for preventative social work practice
This study addresses the preparenthood period of family life, that period from conception to six weeks after the infant is born. This period was of great interest because in nine years of social work practice ...Citation -
This was an exploratory-descriptive study of fifty children afflicted with myelomeningocele, ages one through six, who were known to the Myelomeningocele Clinic of the Crippled Children’s Division. The ...
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15. [Article] Work-Family Conflict, Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), and Sleep Outcomes
Although critical to health and well-being, relatively little research has been conducted in the organizational literature on linkages between the work-family interface and sleep. Drawing on Conservation ...Citation -
16. [Article] Balancing the Demands of Employment and Family Life: Results of the Family Caregiving Survey
This article describes patterns of work and family balance that were examined for employed parents who give family care to children with serious emotional disorders. A secondary analysis of data from the ...Citation -
17. [Article] Factor structure and reliability of the revised Family adaptability and cohesion scales
The present study assessed scores from 627 mothers, fathers and children throughout the metropolitan Portland area on the revised Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales (FACES). Of interest was the revised ...Citation -
18. [Article] Desertion of elderly by adult children
This study examines the widely prevalent belief that adult children desert their elders. Data which suggested considerable family support of elderly family members were collected over a period of one year ...Citation -
There is a growing awareness that informal supports such as family-supportive supervision are critical in assuring the success of work-life policies and benefits. Furthermore, it is believed that family-supportive ...
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20. [Article] Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism in Latino and Non-Latino White Families
Objectives: To compare barriers to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and current ASD-related service use among non-Latino white (NLW) families and Latino families with English proficiency (L-EP) ...Citation -
The Support for Working Caregivers Project is designed to study the ways in which employed parents whose children have emotional or behavioral disorders fit their work and family responsibilities together. ...
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22. [Article] Family Connections Oregon
The State of Oregon was an early implementer of family-centered practices to improve child welfare outcomes by effectively engaging families so that children avoid placement or spend less time in care. ...Citation -
23. [Article] Eating disorders : the correlation of family relationships with an eating disorder continuum
For the purposes of this study, eating disturbances were placed on a continuum ranging from disordered to normal, and family factors were examined via this framework. Research on anorectics and bulimics ...Citation -
Occupational stress has become a world-wide epidemic exacting severe tolls on both businesses and employees alike. Of all the workplace stressors, the perceived dangerousness of one's job is ever present ...
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Although 5-10% of employed parents care for a child with emotional or behavioral challenges (EBCs) (Emlen, 1997), family support resources are notably lacking. A recent focus group study of 41 working ...
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26. [Article] Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Supervisor Job Stress and Work-Family Climate
Research indicates that supportive supervision, particularly work-family specific supervision, is key to reducing employees' work-family conflict (Allen, 2001; Eby et al., 2005; Thomas & Ganster, 1995). ...Citation -
27. [Article] Finding Time Over Time: Longitudinal Links Between Employed Mothers' Work-Family Conflict and Time Profiles
Drawing upon the Work–Home Resources model (ten Brummelhuis & Bakker, 2012), this study examined the links between work–family conflict and employed mothers’ profiles of time resources for work and parenting ...Citation -
The majority of literature on the work-family interface has focused on, and provided evidence of, the conflict associated with engagement in both work and family roles (Eby, Casper, Lockwood, Bordeaux, ...
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29. [Article] Intervention Effects on Safety Compliance and Citizenship Behaviors: Evidence From the Work, Family, and Health Study
We tested the effects of a work-family intervention on employee reports of safety compliance and organizational citizenship behaviors in 30 health care facilities using a group-randomized trial. Based ...Citation -
30. [Article] Factors Predicting Difficulty Combining Work and Family Responsibilities for Mothers Raising Children with ADHD
PDF version of presentation given at the Work and Family Researchers Network Conference in New York, NY, June 16, 2012.Citation -
Abstract of presentation presented at SLEEP 2012 held June 9-13, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts
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32. [Article] Families in context: Work-life Integration Experiences of Parents of Children with Mental Health Disabilities
PDF version of a presentation given at the Community, Work and Family Conference, Manchester, UK, March 2005.Citation -
33. [Article] Improving Work-Life Integration for Families of Children and Youth with Mental Health Disorders
PDF version of a presentation given at the Work and Family Researchers Network Conference in New York, NY, June 16, 2012.Citation -
34. [Article] Horizontal Workplace Aggression and Coworker Social Support Related to Work-Family Conflict and Turnover Intentions
Horizontal workplace aggression is a workplace stressor that can have serious negative outcomes for employees and organizations. In the current study, hierarchical regression analyses were used to investigate ...Citation -
35. [Article] Stepfamily adjustment: a balance theory analysis including the noncustodial parent as a member of the family system
This study developed a balance theory analysis of stepfamily relationships in order to understand family adjustment and empirically tested hypotheses derived from that analysis. Sentiment and unit relations ...Citation -
36. [Article] Finding Fit Between Work and Family Responsibilities When Caring for Children with ADHD Diagnoses
Finding fit between work and family responsibilities is challenging for parents, especially when raising a child with mental health difficulties. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship ...Citation -
The study begins with a look at the sociological foundations underlying the Department of Family Services and the social institutions of law and marriage and the family. In order to present the working ...
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38. [Article] IV-E Waiver Evaluation – Leveraging Intensive Family Engagement (LIFE) Program Evaluation
In partnership with Oregon’s Department of Human Services, we are conducting qualitative and quantitative research to document the implementation and outcomes of the LIFE program. LIFE is an innovative ...Citation -
39. [Article] Nine Months
This is a collection of short stories that traces a chronological movement through one family's experience of the mother's illness. Each piece in the collection is meant to be an independent, free-standing ...Citation -
40. [Article] Supervisor-Specific Outcomes of a Work-Family Intervention: Evidence from the Work, Family, & Health Study
Workplace interventions provide a practical and important means of providing support for employees' work-family needs. However, work-family interventions are rare and are generally not thoroughly evaluated. ...Citation -
Beginning in February 2016, the North Douglas County (NDC) communities of Drain, Elkton, and Yoncalla, Oregon engaged in a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) planning process, focusing on children ...
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The theoretical underpinnings of Washington County Children's Services Division (CSD) Immediate Conflict-Resolution Family Treatment Program include the systems theory of family therapy with a focus on ...
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The pattern of frequent discharges and readmissions which characterizes most psychiatric hospitalization in this country today was described, and it was argued that the costs of this “revolving door” outweigh ...
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American society traditionally has held the family responsible for the socialization and social control of children, and when youngsters get into trouble the causal finger of blame is pointed at the family. ...
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An increasing number of adults, both men and women, are simultaneously managing work and family caregiving roles. Guided by the stress process model, we investigate whether 823 employees occupying diverse ...
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46. [Article] A Study of the Legal Aid Family Law Center and its Clients, by Cynthia Ann Thomas [and] Susan Marie Vail
The family is the basic unit in our society. When there is a breakdown in this unit, specifically in the marital relationship, the effect upon the husband, wife, and children can be devastating in terms ...Citation -
A narrative inheritance is comprised of the stories told by family members that are received by a younger generation and used to help construct identity. According to the communication theory of identity, ...
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48. [Article] Supervisor Self-Other Agreement, Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Job Attitudes
This paper joins the literature on family-supportive supervisor behavior research and the self-other agreement (SOA) paradigm to ask the question, how does a congruent perspective in the supervisor-employee ...Citation -
This article examines the ways in which families with employed caregivers and children with emotional and behavioral disorders manage to meet the demands of employment and family responsibilities. Finding ...
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50. [Article] The Role of Interagency Collaboration for Substance- Abusing Families Involved with Child Welfare
Meeting the needs of families involved with the child welfare system because of a substance abuse issue remains a challenge for child welfare practitioners. In order to improve services to these families, ...Citation -
Employed parents of children with serious emotional disorders must manage the competing demands of home and job. Although every situation is unique, all parents cope daily with the interface between employment ...
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52. [Article] Parental assessment of family life education content: analysis of one elementary school
In this study the trends of social work were examined and the importance of the family in social work practice was identified. The changing role of the school and its relevance to the total welfare of ...Citation -
53. [Article] Effects of Work-family Interface Conflicts on Salesperson Behaviors: A Double-edged Sword
Work–family interface conflicts have typically been cast in a negative light due to their detrimental consequences. This study offers new insights by uncovering conditions under which such conflicts may ...Citation -
54. [Article] Countywide Evaluation of the Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency Plan: Countywide Evaluation Report
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted the Long-Term Family Self-Sufficiency (LTFSS) Plan in November, 1999. The LTFSS Plan consists of 46 projects whose goal is to promote self-sufficiency ...Citation -
55. [Article] Who is Making Ends Meet in the Portland Region? A Profile of Poverty and Self-Sufficiency among Greater Portland Families
The Portland metro region economy is near a complete recovery from the damage of the Great Recession that began seven years ago. Unemployment in April of 2015 was 5.2 percent, cut in half from the 2011 ...Citation -
Prior research has demonstrated the benefits of family-supportive organization perceptions (FSOP) for reducing stress, increasing satisfaction, and increasing worker commitment; however, less research ...
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57. [Article] Work-Family Conflict and Employee Sleep: Evidence from IT Workers in the Work, Family and Health Study
Work-family conflict is a threat to healthy sleep behaviors among employees. This study aimed to examine how Work-to-Family Conflict (demands from work that interfere with one's family/personal life; WTFC) ...Citation -
58. [Article] Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka
As Sri Lanka’s population ages, its migrant women face a difficult choice: should they work abroad to remit money to provision their families, or should they stay at home to look after elderly kin? Although ...Citation -
While many studies focus on the links between multiple risk factors and negative outcomes such as child maltreatment, less is known about the influence of protective factors in the face of risks. The theoretical ...
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60. [Article] Work-Life Integration Issues for Parents Raising Children with ADHD. Community, Work and Family
PDF version of a presentation given at Community, Work and Family: IV International Conference Actors, Structures, and Theories. Tampere, Finland, May 2011.Citation -
61. [Article] Environmental and psychological factors surrounding children of cancer patients : an exploratory study
This exploratory study examines five families in which one parent was ill with cancer and in which there was a 5-to 8-year-old child. To understand the adaptation to the illness (and, in the case of three ...Citation -
Parental alcoholism and its effects on children has been a problem widely researched for years. This thesis seeks to find the patterns and roles that are established for children living with parental alcoholism ...
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In this paper, we describe the development of the most comprehensive work-family organizational change initiative to date in the United States. Our goal is to share an in-depth case study with examples ...
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64. [Article] A Professional's Guide to Supporting Families of Children with Mental Health Disorders
PDF version of a presentation given at Building on Family Strengths: Research and Services in Support of Children and their Families, Portland, OR, June 2009.Citation -
65. [Article] Some interrelationships between a community work and training program and selected indices of family functioning
This was an exploratory study of some of the relationships between a Community Work and Training Program and the family functioning of certain participants in that program. The CWT projects studied were ...Citation -
The overall purpose of this preliminary study is to generate more information in the area of intercultural marriage. The specific objectives of the study are to explore the extent to which families of ...
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67. [Article] Supporting Families of Children with Serious Emotional or Behavioral Disorders in a 24/7 World
PDF version of a presentation given at the Training Institutes on Developing Local Systems of Care for Children and Adolescents with Emotional Disturbances and their Families, San Francisco, CA, June 2...Citation -
68. [Article] A Macroergonomics Approach Examining the Relationship between Work-family Conflict and Employee Safety
In 2008, there were more than 5,200 workplace fatalities in the United States (BLS, 2010b). During the same time period, U.S. employees missed almost 1.1 million days from work (BLS, 2010c). Accidents ...Citation -
69. [Article] Workplace Cognitive Failure as a Mediator between Work-Family Conflict and Safety Performance
The main goal of this thesis was to examine the effects of family-to-work conflict on safety performance. Data were collected from a sample of 134 employees, consisting primarily of construction workers. ...Citation -
70. [Article] Foreign Language Students' Beliefs about Homestays
Language students studying abroad are presented with multiple housing options. Living with a host family in a homestay is widely believed to be the most beneficial option. However, little research has ...Citation -
71. [Article] Social exchange in private family day care arrangements
A study of social exchange between working mothers and their sitters was based on a sample of terminated family day care arrangements in Portland, Oregon (1966-67). The sample, provided by the Multnomah ...Citation -
Training supervisors to increase their family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB) has demonstrated significant benefits for employee physical health, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions among ...
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This thesis presents the findings of a descriptive study of goals of international exchange and how they are perceived in terms of relevance by host family participants in homestay exchange programs. The ...
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Reversible circuits are currently on of top approaches to power minimization and the one whose importance will be only growing with time. In this paper, the well known Feynman gate is generalized to k*k ...
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75. [Article] Family Aided Community Treatment as an intervention for the Treatment of Early Psychosis: A Proof of concept Study
Major psychotic disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, having severe impacts on the people who suffer from the conditions, their families and society. There is evidence that if ...Citation -
76. [Article] Participation in the Paid Labor Force by Caregivers of Children with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
We explored the relationship between school-age children's emotional and behavioral symptoms and workforce participation of their family caregivers using structural equation modeling. Secondary analysis ...Citation -
The aim of this study is to explore strengths assessments and the participation of parents in assessment of strengths and functioning of their children challenged by serious emotional disorders. The children ...
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Seventy percent of those who will have an episode of psychosis will have done so by age 25. Data from clinical trials of intervention during the clinical high risk period of psychosis have determined that ...
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The present study used state administrative databases to examine the 2-year outcomes of a large-scale randomized study of the impact of the Healthy Families Oregon (HFO) home visiting program. 2727 eligible ...
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80. [Article] In the Wake of the Gulf War: Assessing Family Spending of Compensation Money in Sri Lanka
Between 1997 and 2000, the United Nations Compensation Commission delivered US$ 4000 apiece to roughly 87,000 Sri Lankan citizens who suffered displacement and loss of employment due to Iraq’s military ...Citation -
81. [Article] Functional Promiscuity of the COG0720 Family
The biosynthesis of GTP derived metabolites such as tetrahydrofolate (THF), biopterin (BH4), and the modified tRNA nucleosides queuosine (Q) and archaeosine (G+) relies on several enzymes of the Tunnel-fold ...Citation -
82. [Article] Setting the pace: Model inclusive Child Care Centers Serving Families of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Challenges
Approximately 10% of American children experience an emotional or behavioral disorder that causes some level of impairment in their development, learning, or functioning in daily life, and the numbers ...Citation -
83. [Article] Testing the Effectiveness of Healthy Start-Healthy Families Oregon: Outcomes and Cost-Benefits
Objectives. This study was designed to achieve several specific objectives: (1) to conduct a large-scale randomized study of the impact of the Healthy Families Oregon (HFO) program, a home visitation program ...Citation -
84. [Article] Fathers Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Experiences of Work-Life Fit
Research about employed fathers of children with special health care needs (SHCN) is still limited, leaving fathers without the necessary workplace and community supports to better integrate work and life. ...Citation -
Community learning garden programs help families grow and prepare their own food. The skills and knowledge gained from these programs can help families access more fresh locally-grown foods. However, locally-grown ...
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86. [Article] An Integrative, Multilevel, and Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Challenges of Work, Family, and Health
Recognizing a need for rigorous, experimental research to support the efforts of workplaces and policymakers in improving the health and wellbeing of employees and their families, the National Institutes ...Citation -
Background: Limited data are available on physicians’ accuracy in coding for their services. The purpose of this study was to determine the current procedural terminology (CPT) evaluation and management ...
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88. [Article] Network Indicators of the Social Ecology of Adolescents in Relative and Non-Relative Foster Households
Though the presence, composition, and quality of social relationships—particularly as found in family networks—has an important influence on adolescent well-being, little is known about the social ecology ...Citation -
89. [Article] Tribal constructs and kinship realities : individual and family organization on the Grand Ronde Reservation from 1856
This project examines marriage and residence patterns on the Grand Ronde Reservation between 1856 and the early 1900s. It demonstrates that indigenous cultural patterns continued despite a colonial imagination ...Citation -
90. [Article] A Librarian in the Land of the Pharaohs
The article presents the author's insights on the transition in her family after moving from Carrboro, North Carolina to Cairo, Egypt, where she will spend her two years working as Reference and Instruction ...Citation -
This thesis is an attempt to begin an examination of the social history of immigrant families in the cities of the West Coast. I chose to study Irish families in particular because they were the first ...
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92. [Article] When Again Comes Back to You
This is a creative work in the genre of non-fiction writing, in the sub-genre of memoir. When Again Comes Back to You is a memoir that traces the effects of abuse as it works upon the life of a young girl ...Citation -
93. [Article] Short Stories
In these six intertwining fictional short stories, one fateful decision ripples through the lives of multiple generations. Annie is an unmarried young mother during World War II when she leaves her young ...Citation -
94. [Article] The Let Going: Death, Buddhism and Connection
After turning forty and the unexpected death of her father, the narrator seeks to make sense of the story of her father's life and her own. Reflections on Buddhism, death, family history and community ...Citation -
This report describes a consumer evaluation study of the Clackamas County Family Court Service, a court-connected marriage and divorce counseling agency near Portland, Oregon. A questionnaire was mailed ...
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This research study was focused on two broad areas of exploration. The first area deals with the identification of various factors affecting a family when a family member has the anemia or symptomatic ...
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PDF version of a presentation given at Building on Family Strengths: Research and Services in Support of Children and their Families. Portland, OR, June 2009.
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The report results demonstrate the dependence low-income Oregon families have on the six federal programs and the challenges families face when attempting to access federal resources. The barriers to access ...
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This monograph tells of an era when an increasing numbers of working mothers found day care down the street with a mother who had a child or two of her own and was glad to add one or two more during the ...
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This report presents the final analysis of Phase I of the Family Treatment Drug Court Evaluation. Family Treatment Drug Courts (FTDC's) are programs designed to work with parents who are involved with ...
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