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List Of Activities
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Activity ID
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Activity Title
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Year1
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Year2
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Year3
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Year4
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01
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Control of
Cataract blindness:
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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01.1
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1. Institution
based large volume, low cost, high-quality cataract surgery, supplemented
by an active community based case finding and referral programme.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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01.2
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Developing a
cataract surgery outcome monitoring tool.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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01.3
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3. A pilot
project, covering around 330,000 populations will be screened for eye
problems house to house and motivated to seek eye care. Based on the
evaluation of the same, same methodology will be extended further.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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02
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Control of
corneal blindness: 1.Through corneal surgery. 2.Strengthening
of eye bank activities. 3.Primary level management
of corneal abrasions (WHO funded).
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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03
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Control of
refractive errors: Develop models for providing comprehensive refraction
services.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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04
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Control of
Childhood Blindness: Strengthen the childhood eye care services through
community outreach activities for health education, case finding.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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05
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Control of
Diabetic Ratinopathy:
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No
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No
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No
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No
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05.1
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1. Continuing
Diabetic retinopathy awareness, screening and management project in Tirunelveli and Pondicherry
till 2007.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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05.2
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2. Exploit the
emerging reach of Information Technology to reach areas and also to provide
tertiary eye care diagnostic services to secondary and primary level eye
care centres.
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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06
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Low Vision:
Develop further the Low Vision Services.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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07
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Vision Centres: Establish a network of Vision Centres and Community Eye Clinics to improve access
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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08
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Short-term
skills development courses for Ophthalmologists will be offered in the
areas of : 1.IOL Microsurgery, SICS, Phacoemulsification. 2.Lasers
in Diabetic Retinopathy, Diagnosis and Management of Glaucoma. 3.Corneal Diseases. 4.Low
Vision. 5.Paediatric Ophthalmology (on going
activity).
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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09
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Eye Banking:
Training in Retrieval of eyes.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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10
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Paediatric Eye Care: Team training for capacity
building to offer this service.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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11
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Management in
Eye Care: LAICO will offer: 1.Short and long term courses in eye care
management. 2.Strengthen and existing eye care programmes through capacity building.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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12
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Mid-level
Ophthalmic Personnel: Development of training programmes,
curriculum and teaching/learning materials to strengthen this training at Aravind and make it available to other centres.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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13
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Capacity
building for Training: Assist in the development or strengthening of
training centers at other eye care programmes and
participate in their training.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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14
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Population
based studies:
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No
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No
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No
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No
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14.1
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Prevalence of
Cataract & ARMD and study of associated risk factors
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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14.2
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Population
based prevalence study of Diabetic retinopathy in Theni
district
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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14.3
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Evaluation of
different Optical dispensing systems
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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14.4
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Willingness to
Pay studies
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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14.5
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To assess new
diagnostic methods for confirming CRS in children up to 59 months of Age.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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15
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Capacity
building to deliver the following services through multi-disciplinary
approach: 1.Eye care to children 2.Diabetic retinopathy 3.Refraction
4.Overall organizational development
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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16.1
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Popularize and
strengthen Vision 2020 e-Resource website which hosts resources to help in
the implementation of eye care programmes.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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16.2
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Conduct &
participate in Vision 2020 workshops
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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16.3
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Expand the
Resource Centre with current reports on eye care services, epidemiologic
studies on ocular morbidity and blindness
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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16.4
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Dissemination
of research results and operational methodology through publications and
conferences.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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16.5
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Strengthen the
quarterly Newsletters (Illumination) and later convert it into a journal of
community ophthalmology.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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17
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Engage in the
design and development of
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No
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No
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No
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No
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17.1
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New type of
PMMA lenses which will address the issues of PCO and Cell adhesion
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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17.2
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Current
generation acrylic foldable IOLs
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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17.3
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Low cost
Ophthalmoscope Low cost Green Laser
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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