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      "content": "You have received a document titled Workflow Library: Titles and Summaries. This document contains natural-language summaries of 53 visual analytics workflows drawn from the published research literature. Each summary describes the analytical goal, the workflow structure, and the methodological approach of a specific published workflow. The summaries were extracted from a public workflow library curated by our research group.\n\nPlease read the summaries carefully before we proceed. In the next message I will describe a specific visual analytics design task. Your job will be to design an analytical workflow that addresses the task, drawing on the workflows in the library where relevant. The library is a resource — you may consult it to identify workflow structures, analytical strategies, or methodological approaches that could inform your recommendation for the target task. You are not obliged to use the library workflows, and you may combine elements from multiple workflows, adapt them, or design new steps as the task requires.\n\nPlease describe your recommended workflow in natural language, in sufficient detail that a research analyst could use it as a design template. Where you draw on specific library workflows, please cite them by name so the analyst can trace the sources of your recommendation.\n\nBefore we proceed, could you briefly confirm that you have absorbed the library, and let me know if you have any questions before the task is described?",
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      "content": "<think>I'm recognizing that the user wrote in German, so I should respond in German as well before proceeding with the task description.</think>\n\nIch habe das Dokument mit den 53 Workflow-Zusammenfassungen sorgfältig gelesen und die zentralen Konzepte, Methoden und Strukturen jedes Workflows erfasst — von zeitreihenbasierten Clustering-Ansätzen (z. B. Calendar-Based Visualization, SOMFlow, Cluster/Calendar-Workflows) über netzwerk- und bewegungsbezogene Analysen (z. B. Reducing Snapshots to Points, MobilityGraphs, Movement-to-Places) bis hin zu Modell-Diagnose- und Erklärbarkeits-Workflows (z. B. explAIner, What-If Tool, RuleSense, VBridge) sowie kohorten- und ereignisbasierten Analysen (z. B. COQUITO, Coral, EventFlow/Temporal Event Sequence Simplification, EventThread, EventAction).\n\nIch bin bereit, diese Bibliothek als Referenz zu nutzen, um für die konkrete Design-Aufgabe passende Workflow-Strukturen, Analysestrategien oder methodische Bausteine zu identifizieren und daraus einen maßgeschneiderten Workflow-Vorschlag zu entwickeln.\n\nIch habe derzeit keine offenen Fragen zur Bibliothek selbst. Bitte beschreiben Sie die konkrete Design-Aufgabe — ich werde dann gegebenenfalls gezielt nachfragen, falls Ziel, Datenlage oder Nutzerkontext unklar bleiben, bevor ich den Workflow-Vorschlag ausarbeite.",
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      "content": "<think>I should confirm that I'm ready to proceed with the task in English.</think>\n\nConfirmed — I have carefully read and absorbed all 53 workflow summaries in the Workflow Library. I now have a working grasp of the analytical goals, structures, and methodological approaches across the collection, including (non-exhaustively):\n\n- **Temporal/calendar pattern discovery**: Cluster and Calendar Based Visualization, SOMFlow, Spatio-temporal Analysis and Modelling\n- **Dynamic network/mobility analysis**: Reducing Snapshots to Points, MobilityGraphs, Movement Tracks through Events to Places, Progressive Clustering of Movement Data\n- **Event sequence analytics**: Temporal Event Sequence Simplification, EventThread, EventAction, COQUITO, IVESA\n- **Cohort construction/comparison**: Coral, Kokiri, Visual Cohort Comparison (Spatial Single-Cell Omics), StratomeX\n- **Model diagnosis/explainability**: explAIner, What-If Tool, Diagnosing Binary Classifiers, RfX, VBridge, RuleSense, Understanding Compound Potency Models, TensorFlow Dataflow Graphs\n- **Exploratory modelling**: Exploratory Model Analysis, Partition-based Regression Modelling, Hybrid Visual Steering, ParaGlide, Tuner, Progressive High-Dimensional Analysis\n- **Human-in-the-loop labeling/embedding**: Active Gaze Labeling, DaedalusData, Knowledge-Incorporated Embedding Exploration, EnsembleLens\n- **Eye-tracking/gaze analytics**: ISeeCube, Space-Time Eye-Tracking, Image-Based Projection Labeling\n- **Text/investigative/provenance analysis**: Jigsaw, SensePath, Visual Movie Analytics, Multimodal Collaborative Design Analysis\n- **Graph/state/network structure**: NodeTrix, RelEx, Multivariate State Transition Graphs, MotionExplorer\n- **Advanced pattern/topic discovery**: Progressive Abstraction Analysis (Episodes and Topics), QVis, Cross-Impact Pattern Detection, DPVis\n\nI have no outstanding questions at this stage. Please go ahead and describe the specific visual analytics design task — I'll consult the library as needed, cite relevant workflows by name, and may ask clarifying questions about the task's data, goals, or user context before finalizing my recommended workflow.",
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      "content": "The IEEE VIS conferences (Vis, InfoVis, VAST, SciVis) have accumulated 3596 papers between 1990 and 2024. Each paper record contains the list of authors, publication year, title, abstract, keywords, and citations. Author names have been disambiguated against DBLP (unique author identifiers are provided alongside the raw name strings).\n\nA research analyst studying the intellectual structure of the visualization community wants to identify the major communities of collaborating researchers and characterise how they have evolved. The analyst expects that a community typically has a relatively stable core of leading researchers who continue collaborating across many years, while other members may move between communities over time or contribute to several communities simultaneously. Each community should also be associated with its major research foci — the topics or problem areas that characterise its work.\n\nThe analyst wants to answer questions such as: how many distinct communities can be identified? How stable is each community's core, and who are its leaders? What are its main research foci, and how have they evolved? How does membership overlap between communities, and how does it change over time? Do communities merge, split, or dissolve, and if so, when and why?\n\nThe analyst will need to inspect intermediate results visually and use domain knowledge to interpret patterns and make judgements at each stage.\n\nDesign an analytical workflow for this problem.",
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      "content": "<think>I'm thinking through how to design a workflow for analyzing bibliometric networks and tracking how research communities evolve over time. I want to leverage visualization techniques like NodeTrix for showing the dense local structure within co-authorship communities, and combine that with methods for tracking network changes across different time periods to see how these communities form and shift. I'm now framing this as a dynamic community detection problem in co-authorship networks, which requires building sliding-window networks per time period, applying community detection algorithms like Louvain to identify core-periphery structures, then tracking how individual communities evolve across time slices—similar to treating each community-at-time-slice as a distinct entity to match and trace through the temporal sequence. I could also build a global supergraph first across all years to identify stable core communities using density-based clustering, then track how those canonical communities evolve through each time window — this anchors the analysis to robust collaboration groups rather than letting communities drift arbitrarily across snapshots. For each time slice, I'd then measure which authors are active and how they map onto these established communities.\n\nTo track evolution, I'd construct a community-flow graph by computing Jaccard similarity between community memberships across adjacent time windows — high overlap signals persistence, splits and merges become visible as divergence patterns, and I can visualize this as a streamgraph or Sankey diagram showing how communities flow and transform over time.\n\nThen for each community across its lifespan, I'd extract per-author metrics like tenure across time-windows, centrality within the community, publication volume, and betweenness to identify core members versus peripheral contributors and surface leadership patterns.\n\nFor characterizing research foci, I'm extracting text features from papers and building a term-document matrix to apply topic modeling techniques.  This lets me discover latent topics within each community and track how their research focus evolves across time windows — treating each community-period as an episode where papers reveal the dominant themes, similar to how the COVID-19 case study tracked topic distributions across regions and time.\n\nFor the visual interface, I'm designing a multi-view system: an alluvial diagram showing community dynamics over time, a NodeTrix-style view for inspecting internal structure at specific snapshots, a topic panel displaying each community's top keywords per period with interactive steering capabilities, and an author-level timeline showing which communities individuals belonged to and whether they were core members.\n\nI'm also including an overlap matrix to visualize shared authors between communities at each time slice, and a provenance graph tracking all clustering decisions and manual corrections so the analyst can review and validate the entire refinement process. The key is letting the analyst adjust the community detection resolution parameter iteratively while inspecting results and applying domain expertise. Topic modeling to characterize research foci within each community across different time periods, then a visual interface combining timeline/alluvial diagrams, community matrices, author trajectories, and topic panels to support interactive exploration. I'm also considering how to incorporate provenance tracking throughout the refinement loop, and drawing on approaches like Reducing Snapshots to Points for projecting network evolution and MobilityGraphs for identifying representative community states across time.\n\nNodeTrix visualization would be particularly useful for examining the internal structure of communities and spotting key actors, while interactive topic modeling tools like UTOPIAN could help extract and refine research themes directly from paper text. I'm also thinking about Progressive Abstraction Analysis as a framework for converting temporal episodes into meaningful patterns.\n\nSOMFlow's approach to tracking iterative refinement with explicit provenance appeals to me for managing the community-detection workflow, and EventThread's tensor-based method for discovering evolving stages across time could directly inform how I track community evolution and link those patterns back to individual authors and their collaborations. StratomeX offers a useful template for comparing different community groupings side by side. Coral could help track how author cohorts are defined within each community, and DPVis's approach to visualizing state progressions might work well for mapping how communities evolve through merge, split, or dissolution stages using something like a Sankey diagram. Now I'm ready to structure this into a concrete workflow that a researcher can follow step-by-step, organized into clear phases starting with data preparation, then temporal network construction with snapshot windows.</think>\n\n# Recommended Analytical Workflow: Intellectual Structure and Evolution of the VIS Co‑Authorship Community\n\nThis task combines three distinct analytical problems that none of the individual library workflows solves alone: (1) dynamic community detection in a co-authorship network, (2) tracking core stability, membership drift, and merge/split/dissolution events over 35 years, and (3) characterising each community's research foci from text. I therefore propose a composite workflow that adapts pieces from several library workflows — principally **Reducing Snapshots to Points**, **MobilityGraphs**, **NodeTrix**, **SOMFlow**, **EventThread**, **Human-Steered Topic Modelling (UTOPIAN)**, **StratomeX**, and **RelEx** — into a single pipeline with a human-in-the-loop visual interface at every stage.\n\n---\n\n## Phase 0 — Data Preparation\n\nConstruct one record per paper with disambiguated author IDs, year, title, abstract, keywords, and citation links. Build a full-period co-authorship graph (nodes = disambiguated authors, edges = weighted by number of joint papers) as a reference structure, analogous to the \"supergraph across all time steps\" used in **MobilityGraphs** to obtain a consistent spatial aggregation before temporal analysis. This full-period graph is *not* the final community structure — it only anchors later comparisons.\n\n## Phase 1 — Temporal Network Construction\n\nFollowing the snapshotting logic of **Reducing Snapshots to Points**, divide 1990–2024 into overlapping time windows (e.g., 5-year windows advancing by 1–2 years) to keep adjacent snapshots smoothly related rather than abruptly different. For each window, build a weighted co-authorship subgraph containing only authors/edges active in that period. This yields a sequence of comparable network states, exactly the input structure that workflow uses for detecting stable, recurring, and outlier states.\n\n## Phase 2 — Community Detection: Anchor + Per-Window\n\n1. **Anchor communities**: Apply a density-aware community-detection algorithm (e.g., Louvain, Leiden, or an OPTICS/DBSCAN-style approach as used for spatial aggregation in MobilityGraphs) to the full-period graph. This produces a stable set of \"reference\" macro-communities that persist across the whole dataset — the analogue of MobilityGraphs' spatial simplification step, which prevents weakly-connected authors from being merged just because they occasionally co-publish.\n2. **Per-window communities**: Independently run the same detection algorithm on each windowed snapshot from Phase 1. This captures short-lived alliances, splinters, and newly emerging groups that the anchor step, by construction, would smooth over.\n\nBoth partitions are kept — the anchor communities give a long-term skeleton; the per-window communities give the fine-grained temporal signal needed for merge/split/dissolution detection.\n\n## Phase 3 — Cross-Time Community Matching and Evolution Events\n\nFor each pair of adjacent (overlapping) time windows, compute member-set overlap between every pair of communities (Jaccard or a weighted variant using publication counts). Represent this as a **community-flow graph**: nodes are (community, time-window) pairs; edge weight is overlap. High mutual overlap → persistence; one community splitting its members across two next-period communities → **split**; two communities converging into one → **merge**; a community with no strong successor → **dissolution**; a new community with no strong predecessor → **emergence**.\n\nThis tracking logic is a simplified, set-based analogue of the tensor-decomposition \"threads\" in **EventThread**, where entities (here: authors), stages (here: time windows), and latent groupings are jointly modeled to reveal branching, merging, and persisting patterns. If community identities look ambiguous under simple overlap, consider EventThread's tensor approach directly: build an *author × community-membership × time-window* tensor and decompose it into latent \"threads\" that represent long-run community trajectories even when exact membership varies.\n\n**Visualization**: Render the community-flow graph as an alluvial/stream diagram (community size over time, ribbons showing flow between periods), paired with a **Reducing Snapshots to Points**–style 2D projection in which each (community, window) node is embedded by its member/topic vector — clusters of nearby points across consecutive times indicate stable regimes, isolated points indicate anomalous/transient communities, and trails indicate transitions. This gives the analyst the \"map of community states\" needed to answer *how many distinct communities* exist and *when* they merge, split, or dissolve.\n\n## Phase 4 — Core Stability and Leadership Analysis\n\nFor each tracked community trajectory (a chain of matched per-window communities), compute per-author metrics across its life span:\n- **Tenure**: fraction of time-windows in which the author is assigned to this community.\n- **Centrality**: degree/betweenness within the community subgraph at each window.\n- **Cross-membership**: number of distinct communities an author belongs to over the full period (identifies boundary-spanners vs. movers vs. loyal members).\n\nClassify authors into **core** (high tenure + high centrality, present across many years — the \"stable leadership\"), **peripheral/transient** (short tenure, low centrality), and **boundary-spanning** (member of multiple communities, possibly simultaneously). \n\nFor detailed inspection of any single community/period, use **NodeTrix** (developed and validated on exactly this kind of co-authorship data): render the community as a hybrid node-link/matrix view, converting the locally dense collaboration core into a readable adjacency matrix while keeping bridging ties to other communities visible as node-link edges. This is the natural tool for testing hypotheses like \"is this a cross pattern with one central PI and many loosely connected collaborators, or a dense block of mutually collaborating leaders?\" — the two collaboration-pattern archetypes NodeTrix's own case study identifies in InfoVis co-authorship data.\n\nFor an author-centric view of movement between communities over time (a per-author \"community timeline\"), adapt the scarf-plot/event-sequence idiom from **Temporal Event Sequence Simplification** or **IVESA**: each author is a horizontal track, colored segments indicate community membership per period, gaps indicate inactivity. This directly visualizes membership overlap and drift, letting the analyst answer \"how stable is the core, who moves, and when.\"\n\n## Phase 5 — Research Foci Extraction and Evolution\n\nBuild a term-document matrix from titles, abstracts, and keywords. Apply **Human-Steered Topic Modelling (UTOPIAN)**'s NMF-based approach rather than LDA, because its deterministic, steerable behavior is well suited to iterative refinement: the analyst can merge redundant topics, split overly broad ones, or seed new topics from representative documents/keywords, and immediately see the recomputed decomposition.\n\nTo connect topics to communities and track their evolution, follow the **Progressive Abstraction Analysis (Episodes and Topics)** pattern directly: treat each *(community, time-window)* pair as an \"episode,\" aggregate its papers' topic-mixtures into a single topic profile, and visualize topic-profile distributions across communities and time using matrix/small-multiples displays (exactly as that workflow shows COVID mobility topics across countries and time). This answers \"what are a community's major research foci, and how have they evolved\" and additionally supports comparing foci across communities.\n\n## Phase 6 — Overlap and Cross-Community Comparison\n\nTo make cross-community membership overlap and its temporal change explicit (beyond the flow diagram in Phase 3), build a **pairwise overlap matrix** per time window — communities on both axes, cell values = number/fraction of shared authors — following the matrix-comparison logic of **RelEx** (which uses a sender/receiver matrix to expose significant relational patterns in a large relational structure) and **StratomeX** (which compares multiple stratifications of the same population via overlap bands and supports ranking/querying for \"stratifications similar to X\" or \"sets with high overlap\"). This lets the analyst treat each period's set of communities as a \"stratification\" and directly query for high-overlap community pairs, candidates for eventual merging, or communities that quietly lost their distinctiveness.\n\n## Phase 7 — Integrated Interface and Iterative Refinement Loop\n\nAssemble the above into a linked-view system, with the following interaction loop, modeled on the iterative \"propose → inspect → refine → recompute\" logic common to **SOMFlow**, **UTOPIAN**, and **explAIner**:\n\n1. **Overview**: alluvial community-flow diagram + 2D snapshot-embedding (Phase 3) — pick a community trajectory of interest.\n2. **Structure drill-down**: NodeTrix view of the selected community at a chosen period (Phase 4) — inspect core/leader structure, bridging authors.\n3. **Author timeline**: scarf-plot view of individual authors to verify stability/drift claims (Phase 4).\n4. **Topic panel**: NMF topic profile for the selected community-period, editable via merge/split/seed operations (Phase 5); recompute and observe topic drift across adjacent periods.\n5. **Overlap matrix / StratomeX-style query**: check whether the selected community is converging with, diverging from, or embedded inside another (Phase 6).\n6. **Provenance log**: as in SOMFlow's flow graph, record every parameter choice (resolution, window size, overlap threshold, manual merges/splits of communities or topics) so the analyst's judgment calls are traceable and revisions can be compared against earlier ones.\n\nThe analyst iterates: adjusting the community-detection resolution or window size if communities look too fragmented or too coarse, correcting community-flow matches that seem implausible given known VIS-community history (e.g., a known research group), merging/splitting topics that don't align with domain knowledge, and re-running downstream steps. This mirrors the corrective, domain-knowledge-driven iteration explicit in UTOPIAN and SOMFlow, and is essential given the explicit requirement that \"the analyst will need to inspect intermediate results visually and use domain knowledge to interpret patterns and make judgements at each stage.\"\n\n---\n\n### Summary of Library Sources Used\n- **Reducing Snapshots to Points** — windowed snapshot construction; projecting states to visualize evolution/stability/transitions.\n- **MobilityGraphs** — full-period \"supergraph\" simplification prior to temporal clustering; calendar/temporal-cluster visualization pattern.\n- **NodeTrix** — hybrid node-link/matrix visualization of dense co-authorship communities; validated on this exact data domain.\n- **EventThread** — tensor-based latent \"thread\" tracking for entities across stages; inspiration for robust community-trajectory tracking beyond simple overlap.\n- **SOMFlow** — iterative guided clustering with explicit provenance/flow-graph tracking.\n- **Human-Steered Topic Modelling (UTOPIAN)** — interactive NMF topic modeling with merge/split/seed operations for research-foci extraction.\n- **Progressive Abstraction Analysis of Multivariate Temporal Data** — episode-to-topic abstraction and matrix/small-multiples visualization of topic evolution across entities and time.\n- **StratomeX** — overlap/band visualization and query-based comparison of multiple groupings (\"stratifications\").\n- **RelEx** — matrix-based visualization for exposing significant relational patterns in a large relational structure, adapted here for community overlap.\n- **Temporal Event Sequence Simplification / IVESA** — scarf-plot/timeline idiom adapted for author-level community-membership tracks.",
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      "content": "# Workflow Library Sources for the Co-Authorship Community Analysis Task\n\nBelow is the list of papers/workflows from the library that I drew on for the recommended workflow, organized by the analytical function they informed.\n\n## Network Snapshotting and State-Space Projection\n1. **\"Reducing Snapshots to Points: A Visual Analytics Approach to Dynamic Network Exploration\"** — van den Elzen, Holten, Blaas, and van Wijk (2016). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468078\n   — Source of the windowed-snapshot construction and the projection-based approach for visualizing network states as points/trajectories to detect stability, recurrence, and transitions.\n\n2. **\"MobilityGraphs: Visual Analysis of Mass Mobility Dynamics via Spatio-Temporal Graphs and Clustering\"** — von Landesberger, Brodkorb, Roskosch, Andrienko, Andrienko, and Kerren (2016). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2468111\n   — Source of the \"full-period supergraph as anchor, then per-window analysis\" pattern used to keep temporal simplification consistent.\n\n## Community/Entity Trajectory Tracking Over Time\n3. **\"EventThread: Visual Summarization and Stage Analysis of Event Sequence Data\"** — Guo, Xu, Zhao, Gotz, Zha, and Cao (2018). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2745320\n   — Source of the tensor-decomposition \"latent thread\" concept adapted for robust community-trajectory tracking (merges, splits, persistence) beyond simple set-overlap matching.\n\n## Detailed Community Structure Visualization\n4. **\"NodeTrix: A Hybrid Visualization of Social Networks\"** — Henry, Fekete, and McGuffin (2007). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70582\n   — Directly informs the hybrid node-link/matrix inspection of individual communities' internal structure (core-periphery, bridging authors); notably validated on InfoVis co-authorship data itself.\n\n## Iterative, Provenance-Tracked Clustering\n5. **\"SOMFlow: Guided Exploratory Cluster Analysis with Self-Organizing Maps and Analytic Provenance\"** — Sacha, Kraus, Bernard, Behrisch, Schreck, Asano, and Keim (2018). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2017.2744805\n   — Source of the iterative \"propose → inspect → adapt → partition → track provenance\" loop applied to the overall interface design and refinement cycle.\n\n## Topic Modeling and Research-Foci Extraction\n6. **\"Human-Steered Topic Modelling\" (UTOPIAN)** — Choo, Lee, Reddy, and Park (2013). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.212\n   — Source of the interactive NMF-based topic modeling approach (merge/split/seed topics) used for extracting and refining research foci from titles/abstracts/keywords.\n\n7. **\"Progressive Abstraction Analysis of Multivariate Temporal Data\" (Episodes and Topics)** — Andrienko, Andrienko, and Shirato (2023). *Computer Graphics Forum*. doi: 10.1111/cgf.14926\n   — Source of the episode-to-topic abstraction pattern and matrix/small-multiples visualization for tracking topic evolution across entities (here: communities) and time.\n\n## Overlap and Cross-Group Comparison\n8. **\"Guided Visual Exploration of Genomic Stratifications in Cancer\" (StratomeX)** — Streit, Lex, Gratzl, Partl, Schmalstieg, Pfister, Park, and Gehlenborg (2014). *Nature Methods*. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3088\n   — Source of the overlap-band/query-based comparison logic adapted for comparing community memberships across time periods.\n\n9. **\"RelEx: Visualization for Actively Changing Overlay Network Specifications\"** — Sedlmair, Frank, Munzner, and Butz (2012). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.255\n   — Source of the matrix-based relational-pattern visualization adapted for the community-overlap matrix.\n\n## Timeline/Scarf-Plot Idiom for Individual Trajectories\n10. **\"Temporal Event Sequence Simplification\"** — Monroe, Lan, Lee, Plaisant, and Shneiderman (2013). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.200\n    — Source of the aggregated event-sequence/scarf-plot idiom adapted for per-author community-membership timelines.\n\n11. **\"IVESA – Visual Analysis of Time-Stamped Event Sequences\"** — Bernard et al. (2025). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3382760\n    — Additional source for the overview-then-detail sequence timeline pattern used for author-level membership tracks.\n\n## Model Diagnosis/Explainability (Iterative Interpretation Loop)\n12. **\"explAIner: A Visual Analytics Framework for Interactive and Explainable Machine Learning\"** — Spinner et al. (2020). *IEEE TVCG*. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934629\n    — Source of the general \"understand → diagnose → refine\" iterative loop used to structure the overall analyst interaction cycle in Phase 7.",
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