Name: 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings
Start: 2018-07-28T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2018-08-02
Location: Vancouver Convention Centre

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CC = Vancouver Convention Centre F = Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver
* = applied session ! = JSM meeting theme

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12 * !	Sun, 7/29/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-West 224
Novel Statistical Methods for Analyzing Electronic Health Records and Biobank Data — Invited Papers
WNAR, International Chinese Statistical Association, ENAR
Organizer(s): Ran Tao, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chair(s): Ran Tao, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:05 PM	Retrospective Study Designs for Longitudinal Data Obtained from a Biobank-Linked Electronic Medical Record Presentation Jonathan Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:30 PM	Efficiently Controlling for Unbalanced Case-Control Ratios and Sample Relatedness for Binary Traits in PheWAS by Large Cohorts Presentation Seunggeun Lee, University of Michigan
2:55 PM	Scalable Methods for Association Analysis in Biobank Scale Data Sets Presentation Dajiang Liu, Penn State College of Medicine
3:20 PM	Enabling Phenotypic Big Data with PheNorm Presentation Sheng Yu, Tsinghua University; Yumeng Ma, Tsinghua University; Jessica Gronsbell, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Tianrun Cai, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Massachusetts General Hospital; Vivian Gainer, Partners HealthCare; Susanne Churchill, Harvard Medical School; Peter Szolovits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shawn Murphy, Partners HealthCare; Isaac Kohane, Harvard Medical School; Katherine Liao, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Tianxi Cai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

56 * !	Sun, 7/29/2018, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-West 114
Novel Statistical Methods for Variable Selection with Applications — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics, Biometrics Section, International Chinese Statistical Association, SSC
Organizer(s): Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky
Chair(s): Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky
4:05 PM	Weak Signals in High-Dimension Regression: Detection, Estimation and Prediction Presentation Yi Li
4:25 PM	Partial Least Square: Theoretical Results for the Chemometrics Use of PLS Presentation Liliana Forzani, FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA QUIMICA; Dennis Cook, School of Statistics
4:45 PM	Sufficient Dimension Folding for Regressions with Matrix- or Array-Valued Predictors Wenhui Sheng
5:05 PM	Nonlinear Multivariate Functional PCA Presentation Jun Song, UNC Charlotte; Bing Li, The Pennsylvania State University
5:25 PM	Variable Selection in Semiparametric Transformation Cure Models with Right-Censored Data Wenyan Zhong
5:45 PM	Floor Discussion

77	Sun, 7/29/2018, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM	CC-West 223
Hypothesis Testing: Bayesian, Nonparametric and Likelihood Methods — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Yin Xia, Fudan University
4:05 PM	Envelope-Based Sparse Partial Least Squares Guangyu Zhu, University of British Columbia; Zhihua Su, University of Florida
4:20 PM	Q-Value and Its Application in Dynamic Safety Monitoring Presentation Hal Li, Merck Research Laboratories; William Wang, Merck Research Laboratories
4:35 PM	Optimal Designs for Comparison of Response Surfaces Mong-Na Lo Huang, National Sun Yat-Sen University; Tzu-Lung Yuan, National Sun Yat-sen University; Chi-Hsiang Chu, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
4:50 PM	A Comparison of Tests for Inflated Zeros for Poisson Regression Models Yi Tang
5:05 PM	Budget-Constrained Group Testing Designs for Prevalence Estimation Presentation Shih-Hao Huang, Academia Sinica
5:20 PM	A Score Test for Latent Class in Left-Censored Data Due to Detection Limit Presentation Hua He; Wan Tang, School of Public Health and Tropic Medicine, Tulane Univeristy
5:35 PM	A Pooling Strategy to Effectively Use Genotype Data in Quantitative Traits Genome-Wide Association Studies Wei Zhang, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD; Aiyi Liu, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD; Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute; Robert D Ashmead, Center for Statistical Research and Methodology, U.S. Census Bureau; Enrique F Schisterman, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD ; James L Mills, BBB/DIPHR/NICHD

216468	Sun, 7/29/2018, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	F-Waterfront Ballroom A
ICSA Board Meeting — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson

152 * !	Mon, 7/30/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 205
Frontiers of High-Dimensional and Complex Data analysis — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, Biometrics Section, Section on Nonparametric Statistics, SSC
Organizer(s): Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
Chair(s): Yangxin Huang, University of South Florida
10:35 AM	Data Enriched Generalized Linear Methods Sayan Dasgupta, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Cheng Zheng, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee ; Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Asad Haris, University of Washington
10:55 AM	Statistically and Numerically Efficient Independence Tests That Are Based on Distances Presentation Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology, ; Cheng Huang, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:15 AM	Variable Selection in Partially Linear Additive Hazards Model with Grouped Covariates and a Diverging Number of Parameters Presentation Xuewen Lu, University of Calgary; Arfan Afzal, University of Calgary
11:35 AM	A Bernstein-Type Inequality for U-Statistics Under Mixing Conditions Presentation Fang Han, University of Washington; Yandi Shen, University of Washington; Daniela Witten, University of Washington
11:55 AM	Ensemble Estimation and Variable Selection with Semiparametric Regression Models Presentation Sunyoung Shin, University of Texas at Dallas; Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Stephen Cole, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jason P Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

184	Mon, 7/30/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West Hall B
Contributed Poster Presentations: International Chinese Statistical Association — Contributed Poster Presentations
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
14:	A Noval Method to Estimate Human Judgment on Words Similarities Guan I Wu, UCLA; Ker-Chau Li, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
15:	A Likelihood Ratio Test for the Lorenz Order Philip E. Cheng, Academia Sinica; Chen-Da Chang, Academia Sinica; Arthur C. Tsai, Academia Sinica; Michelle Liou, Academia Sinica
16:	Nonparametric Testing for Multiple Survival Functions with Non-Inferiority Margins Hsin-wen Chang, Academia Sinica; Ian W. McKeague, Columbia University
17:	Add a Patient Selected Treatment Arm in a Randomized Trial Xueliang Pan; Lai Wei, The Ohio State University; Jill Heathcock, The Ohio State University

221 * !	Mon, 7/30/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-East 19
Analysis of Big Dynamically Dependent Data — Invited Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, International Chinese Statistical Association, Section on Statistics in Marketing
Organizer(s): Ruey S Tsay, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Chair(s): Daniel R Kowal, Rice University
2:05 PM	A Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive Model Under High-Dimensional Scaling Presentation George Michailidis, University of Florida; Jiahe Lin, University of Michigan
2:30 PM	Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Time Series Ruey S Tsay, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
2:55 PM	Dynamic Shrinkage Processes David Matteson, Cornell University; Daniel R Kowal, Rice University; David Ruppert, Cornell University
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

318 * !	Tue, 7/31/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 211
Advances on the Analysis of Single-Cell Sequencing Data — Invited Papers
WNAR, Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, International Chinese Statistical Association, SSC
Organizer(s): Lingling An, University of Arizona
Chair(s): Lingling An, University of Arizona
10:35 AM	Statistical Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Seq in Studies of Mammalian Development Christina Kendziorski, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Zijian Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Ron Stewart, Morgridge Institute for Research; Chris Barry, Morgridge Institute for Research; Li-Fang Chu, Morgridge Institute for Research
11:00 AM	General and Flexible Methods for Signal Extraction from Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Presentation Davide Risso, Weill Cornell Medicine
11:25 AM	Multi-Sample Differential Expression Analysis of RNA-Seq Single-Cell Data George Tseng, University of Pittsburgh; Li Zhu, University of Pittsburgh; An-Shun Tai, National Tsing Hua University; Wei Chen, University of Pittsburgh
11:50 AM	Modeling Allele-Specific Gene Expression by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Presentation Yuchao Jiang, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

321 *	Tue, 7/31/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 306
Detecting Structural Change in Complex Data — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, WNAR, IMS
Organizer(s): Ning Hao, University of Arizona
Chair(s): Yue S Niu, University of Arizona
10:35 AM	The Screening and Ranking Algorithm for Change-Points Detection in Multiple Samples Presentation Heping Zhang, Yale University School of Public Health
11:00 AM	Penalized Versus Segmentation Methods in Changepoint Problems Presentation Ryan Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University; Sangwon Hyun, Carnegie Mellon University; Kevin Lin, Carnegie Mellon University; Max G'Sell, Carnegie Mellon University
11:25 AM	Nonparametric Independence Testing via Mutual Information Presentation Thomas B. Berrett, University of Cambridge; Richard J Samworth, University of Cambridge
11:50 AM	A New Class of Change Point Test Statistics of Renyi Type Presentation Gregory Rice, University of Waterloo; Lajos Horvath, University of Utah
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

386 * !	Tue, 7/31/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-West 119
Recent Developments in Integrating Multiple-Omics Data in Complex Diseases — Invited Papers
ENAR, International Chinese Statistical Association, WNAR, SSC
Organizer(s): Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA; Yu-Ru Su, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Chair(s): Yu-Ru Su, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:05 PM	Constructing Tumor-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Sample with Tumor Purity Heterogeneity Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Francesca Petralia, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Li Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Jie Peng, UC Davis
2:25 PM	A Multivariate Mixed-Effects Selection Model Framework for Batch-Processed Proteomics Data with Nonignorable Missingness Presentation Jiebiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University; Pei Wang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ; Donald Hedeker, University of Chicago; Lin Chen, University of Chicago
2:45 PM	Variation and Genetic Control of Protein Abundance in Human Tissues Presentation Hua Tang, Stanford Dept. of Genetics
3:05 PM	A General Framework for Integrating GWAS Data with Molecular Endophenotypes Presentation Wei Pan, University of Minnesota
3:25 PM	A Versatile and Adaptive Multiple Functional Annotations-Based Association Test of Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Presentation Peng Wei, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Yiding Ma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

418 *	Tue, 7/31/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-East 17
From Survival Analysis to Survey Research — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, Survey Research Methods Section
Chair(s): Suhwon Lee, Univ of Missouri
2:05 PM	Pseudo-Kernel Method in Accessing Cross-Validated Risk Presentation Qing Wang, Wellesley College
2:20 PM	Boolean Function Networks Presentation Henry Lu, National Chiao Tung University
2:35 PM	Interval Estimation for the Slope Difference in a Normal Mixture Regression Model Presentation Shin-Fu Tsai, National Taiwan University
2:50 PM	A Nonlinear Model for Censored and Mis-Measured Time-Varying Covariates in Survival Models, with Applications in HIV/AIDS Studies Presentation Hongbin Zhang, City University of New York, School of Public Health; Lang Wu, University of British Columbia
3:20 PM	What's Missing? Analysis of NCVS Missed Crimes Results 2012 to 2017 Presentation Alan Peterson, U.S. Census Bureau
3:35 PM	Analysis of Influences Related to Interviewer Non-Compliance with Established Procedures for SIPP Presentation Danquan Prunty, U.S. Census Bureau; Alpha Savage, US Census Bureau

466 * !	Wed, 8/1/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-West 222
First-Hitting-Time Based Threshold Regression and Applications — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Risk Analysis, Lifetime Data Analysis Interest Group, International Chinese Statistical Association, SSC
Organizer(s): Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
Chair(s): Man-Hua Chen, Tamkang University
8:35 AM	Estimating Time-to-Event Characteristics via Longitudinal Threshold Regression Models - an Application to Cervical Dilation Progression Presentation Caroline Mulatya, Emmes; Alexander C McLain , University of South Carolina; Bo Cai, University of South Carolina; James Hardin, University of South Carolina; Paul S Albert, National Cancer Institute
8:55 AM	Bayesian Semiparametric Threshold Regression Presentation Jonathan Race; Michael Pennell, Ohio State University
9:15 AM	Distribution-Free Inference Methods for Threshold Regression Presentation Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland; George A Whitmore, McGill University
9:35 AM	Censored Threshold Regression with Diverging Number of Covariates Takumi Saegusa, University of Maryland; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
9:55 AM	Discussant: George A Whitmore, McGill University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

498	Wed, 8/1/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 122
Statistica Sinica Invited Papers Session — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Hans Mueller, UC Davis
Chair(s): Hans Mueller, UC Davis
10:35 AM	Two-Sample Tests for High-Dimensional Linear Regression with an Application to Detecting Interactions Tianxi Cai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Yin Xia, Fudan University; Tianwen Cai, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 AM	Variable Selection via Partial Correlation Presentation Runze Li, Penn State University; Jingyuan Liu, Xiamen University; Lejie Lou, Ernst & Young
11:35 AM	The GUIDE Approach to Missing Data Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

569 * !	Wed, 8/1/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-West 121
Theory and Practice for Addressing Asymmetric Measures in Statistical Modeling — Topic Contributed Papers
WNAR, Biometrics Section, International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Ying Lu, Stanford University; Milan Stehlik, Johannes Kepler University and University of Valparaiso
Chair(s): Lu Tian, Stanford University School of Medicine
2:05 PM	On Modeling of Asymmetric Dependencies Milan Stehlik, Johannes Kepler University and University of Valparaiso
2:25 PM	Dependencies in Binary Regression Data Generated by Informed Sequential Dose Allocation Presentation Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri; Assaf Oron, Instutue for Disease Modeling
2:45 PM	Model Selection Criteria Based on Symmetrized Variants of Asymmetric Divergence Measures Joseph Cavanaugh, University of Iowa
3:05 PM	Discussant: Ying Lu, Stanford University
3:25 PM	Floor Discussion

592	Wed, 8/1/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-East 9
New Developments in Experiment Design and Statistical Modeling — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Chair(s): Kin Yau Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2:05 PM	T-Optimal Design for Multivariate Polynomial Regression Using Semidefinite Programming Yuguang Yue, The University of Texas At Austin; Weng Kee Wong, UCLA; Lieven Vandenberghe, University of California, Los Angeles
2:20 PM	Direct Estimation of Differential Networks Under High-Dimensional Nonparanormal Graphical Models Presentation Qingyang Zhang, University of Arkansas
2:35 PM	On Mean Corrected Generalized Estimating Equations Presentation Ye Shen, University of Georiga; Chao Li, University of Georgia
2:50 PM	Solar Panel Lamination with Extreme Value Regression Model Presentation Chih-Chun Tsai, Tamkang University
3:05 PM	Optimal Doubling Burn-In Policy Based on Tweedie Processes with Applications to Degradation Data Presentation Chien-Yu Peng, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
3:20 PM	An Additive-Multiplicative Mean Model for Panel Count Data with Dependent Observation and Dropout Processes Presentation Yang Li, UNC-Charlotte; Guanglei Yu, Eli Lilly and Company; Liang Zhu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Hui Zhao, Central China Normal University; (Tony) Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri; Leslie Robison, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
3:35 PM	Methods for Multivariate Recurrent Event Data with Measurement Error and Informative Censoring Presentation Yu-Jen Cheng, National Tsing Hua University; Ching-Yun Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Hsiang Yu, National Tsing Hua University

216469	Wed, 8/1/2018, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	CC-West 109
ICSA Member Meeting — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson

646 !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-East 10
Experimental Design Thinking for Big Data — Invited Papers
Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences, Quality and Productivity Section, International Chinese Statistical Association, SSC
Organizer(s): Xinwei Deng, Virginia Tech; C. Devon Lin, Queen's University
Chair(s): C. Devon Lin, Queen's University
10:35 AM	Information-Based Subdata Selection for LASSO Regression Presentation Min Yang, University of Illinois at Chicago; Xin Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago
11:00 AM	Information-Based Subdata Selection John Stufken, Arizona State University
11:25 AM	Embracing Experimental Design Thinking for Large-Scale Statistical Analysis Presentation Peter Chien, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:50 AM	Discussant: Tirthankar Dasgupta, Rutgers University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

652 * !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 109
Recent Innovation in Generalized Evidence Synthesis — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology, International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jing Zhang, University of Maryland College Park
Chair(s): Qiqi Deng, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
10:35 AM	A Bayesian Hierarchical Summary Receiver Operating Characteristic Model for Network Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Tests Presentation Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Qinshu Lian, University of Minnesota; James S. Hodges, University of Minnesota
10:55 AM	Bayesian Hierarchical Methods for Meta-Analysis Combining Randomized-Controlled and Single-Arm Studies Jing Zhang, University of Maryland College Park; Chia-Wen Ko, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Lei Nie, Division of Biometrics V, office of Biostatistics, CDER/FDA; Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania; Ram Tiwari, Center for Devices and Radiologica Health, FDA
11:15 AM	Bayesian Network Meta-Regression Models Using Heavy-Tailed Multivariate Random Effects with Covariate-Dependent Variances Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Hao Li, University of Connecticut; Joseph G Ibrahim, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Sung Duk Kim, National Cancer Institute; Arvind K. Shah, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.; Jianxin Lin, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.; Andrew M. Tershakovec, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.
11:35 AM	Marginal Meta-Analysis for Combining Multiple Randomized Clinical Trials with Rare Events Presentation Yi Huang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Elande Baro, US FDA; Yun-Ju Cheng, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Guoxing Song, US FDA
11:55 AM	Discussant: Chi Song, Ohio State University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

654 *	Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-East 9
New Methodology Developments in Single Cell RNA-Seq — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association, Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, Caucus for Women in Statistics
Organizer(s): Zhijin Wu, Brown University
Chair(s): Zhijin Wu, Brown University
10:35 AM	Single-Cell ATAC-Seq Signal Extraction and Enhancement Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Zhicheng Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Weiqiang Zhou, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10:55 AM	Missing Data and Technical Variability in Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Experiments Stephanie Hicks, Johns Hopkins SPH
11:15 AM	Effects of Protocol Choices on Technical Artifacts in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Using a Data Generation Simulation Framework Rhonda Bacher, University of Florida
11:35 AM	Noise Modeling and Denoising of UMI-Based Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data Nancy Zhang; Mo Huang, University of Pennsylvania; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania; Jingshu Wang, University of Pennsylvania
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

656 * !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 110
Subgroup Evaluations in Advancing Drug Development — Topic Contributed Papers
Biopharmaceutical Section, International Chinese Statistical Association, Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Parfionovas Andrejus, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Chair(s): Jing Xu, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
10:35 AM	Quantitative Assessment of Risk with Subgroup Pursuit in Clinical Trials Xinzhou Guo, University of Michigan; Xuming He, University of Michigan
10:55 AM	Evaluation of Treatment Effect: Beyond Traditional Subgroups Yeh-Fong Chen, US FDA
11:15 AM	Using Hierarchical Models to Estimate Subgroup Effects in a Clinical Trial Anna McGlothlin, Berry Consultants
11:35 AM	Statistical Arguments for Regulatory Negotiation on Promising Subgroup Results Presentation Ming-Xiu Hu, Nektar Therapeutics
11:55 AM	Understand International Differences in Treatment Effect Presentation Li Chen, Amgen
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

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