Example 1 - LIFE SCIENCES/SCIENCES DE LA VIE Biology A – Gene, Cell, Molecular

LS1 Immunology (Immunology Host-cell interactions, Immune response, antigens, antibodies)

LS9 Microbiology (Microbial ecology Bacteriology, Virology, Protozoology Bioremediation, Environmental microbiology, Food microbiology Parasitology, Mycology) Link with ENG2 and ES6 for bioremediation

LS7a Cellular and molecular Neuroscience (Neurophysiology, Neuro-electrophysiology (excitable cells, ion channels, calcium regulation) Link with LS4, LS5 and LS14 and MSCS32

LS10 Cell Physiology (Apoptosis, cell cycle, cell differentiation, stress response, tissue engineering and stem cell) Link with ENG18 for tissue engineering

LS11 General Genetics (Gene and chromosome structure, Gene regulation and expression, Molecular genetics)

LS12 Developmental Biology (Developmental Genetics, Cell Development)

LS13 Organelle Function (Cell secretion, intracellular trafficking, exocytosis, endocytosis, secretion)

LS14 Signal Transduction (Signal transduction, Cytoskeleton, Inter-cellular communication, Cell movement, extra and intra cellular matrix, membrane receptor, signaling pathways, protein-protein interactions, cell shape, biomaterials) Link with CB7, PHYS3, ENG19 and 20, LS7

LS16 Systems Biology (Cellular Systems, Genomics, Proteomics, Lipidomics, Bioinformatics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, metabonomics) Link with CB9, MSCS11 & 18

LS17 Quantitative Biology (Genome Analysis, Statistical Genomics Math. Biology & Physiology, Biomath., Biostats, Bioinformatics) Link with MSCS11&18

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Example 1 - LIFE SCIENCES/SCIENCES DE LA VIE Biology B – Physiology and Whole Systems

LS2 Plant Biology (Plant pathology Water and minerals in plants, Plant morphology, Nutrition and metabolism, Photosynthesis, Stress physiology, ecophysiology) Link with ES6

LS3 Plant Reproduction (Plant growth and development, Plant reproduction, Silviculture, Crop and pasture production, breeding) Link to ENG5 Link to LS20 for silviculture

LS4 Kinesiology/Exercise (Kinesiology Biomechanics, Motor systems and performance Muscle Physiology, Hypoxia) Link with ENG18 for biomechanics and LS7, LS5 and LS16

LS5 Animal Physiology (Endocrinology Animal physiology and metabolism, Animal circulation, Animal respiration, Toxicology, environmental stress, ecophysiology molecular physiology) Link with LS18

LS6 Animal nutrition and reproduction (Animal reproduction Animal production and breeding, Animal nutrition and husbandry, Nutrition)

LS7b Systems/behavioural and cognitive neuroscience (Behavioural neuroscience – learning, reward, mot., Sensory systems and perception – visual and auditory) Link with LS4, LS5 and LS14 and MSCS32

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LS8 Cognitive Science Cognitive science (fundamental, development, language, etc.) Human-Computer Interface Link with ENG11, MSCS29 and MSCS32

LSxxx Animal sciences Animal modelling, animal behaviour, animal welfare, veterinary pathology, veterinary infectious diseases, molecular physiology)

LS15 Technique Development (Molecular Biology, Biochemical Techniques, Bioimaging, crystallography) Link with CB17, PHYS5, ENG18, MSCS30& 31

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Example 1 - LIFE SCIENCES/SCIENCES DE LA VIE Biology C - Ecology

LS18 General Ecology (Physiological ecology, Community Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, behavioural ecology, microbial ecology) Link with ES7 and LS5 for behavioural ecology

LS19 Evolutionary Ecology (Evolutionary ecology, molecular evolution, evolutionary genetics, Taxonomy, ecological Theory, Phylogeny, phylogenomics, molecular systematics) Link with ES1 and ES5

LS20 Applied Ecology (Landscape Ecology, Environmental biology, Conservation biology, Resource management, Silviculture, human impact on environment, Ecotoxicology) Link with CB 21, ENG5, LS3 for silviculture

LS21 Aquatic Ecology (Biological/chemical / oceanography, limnology, aquatic ecology) Link with CB21

LS22 Population Biology (Population biology, population dynamics, population genetics, Population ecology Biodiversity)

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Example 1 - CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY/CHIMIE ET BIOCHIMIE

- CB1-4-5 Organic synthesis and catalysis (synthesis, methodology, Metal and organometallic chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, Natural products synthesis, green synthetic methods)

CB2-3-4 Inorganic synthesis and catalysis (synthesis, methodology, Metal and organometallic chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, green synthetic methods)

CB6, 8, 9, 10, Chemistry of biological systems (Bioorganic and Bioinorganic chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry and Structural Biology, enzyme kinetics and mechanisms, enzyme engineering and biocatalysis, medicinal chemistry and bioassays, nucleic acid chemistry, peptide chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry, lipid chemistry and membranes, receptors and channels, biomimetic chemistry, food chemistry and nutraceuticals, functional foods, Spectroscopy, microscopy, molecular imaging, macromolecular structure and function) Link with ENG19, LS9, LS15, PHYS5 and ENG21

CB7, 14 Materials and biomaterials Chemistry (design, properties, solid state, composites, Polymer synthesis and characterization, ) Link with ENG17, PHYS3 and ENG25

CB12 Theoretical physical chemistry (Quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, chemical physics, reaction dynamics, polymer theory, non-linear behavior, complex networks) Link with PHYS4 and ENG8

CB13, 21 Atmospheric and environmental chemistry (biocompatible chemistry, green chemistry, chemical analysis) Link with ES4

CB16 and 15 Electrochemistry , Surface and interfacial chemistry Link with PHYS3 and ENG24

CB17, 18 and 11 Structure and spectroscopy (NMR, Raman, IR, Auger, Mass spec, optical, laser, diffraction methods, magnetic resonance, crystallography , photochemistry and photonics, Femtosecond chemistry, lasers) Links with LS21, ENG21 LS15, PHYS5 and ENG24

CB19 Nanochemistry (Lab on a chip, nanocarbon tubes, colloids, molecular frameworks) Link with ENG21

CB20 Energy storage and fuel cells Link with ENG15

CB22 Supramolecular chemistry (liquid crystals, amphiphilic molecules, supramolecular assemblies)

CB23 Nuclear chemistry Link with PHYS2 and ENG14

CB24 Analytical chemistry (separation methods and technologies)

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Example 1 - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH/INFORMATIQUE ET RECHERCHE OPÉRATIONNELLE

CS1 Web-enabled Applications and Services (E-*) e-Science e-government e-health e-business e-learning e-commerce e-culture e-education Links CS27, CS22a

CS2 User Adaptive Systems User modeling Mechanism design User adaptive interaction AI and education Persuasive computing E-learning Adaptive Learning system Links CS28, CS29-31, CS27

MSCS14 Optimization and Optimal Control Theory (Calculus of variations, Variational methods, Maximum principles, Discrete & stochastic control, Differential inclusions, Mathematical programming & operations research)

CS16b Mathematical Computing Symbolic computing Numerical software Computer algebra Computer Modelling and Simulation

CS17a Theory of Computing Theoretical foundations of computation Complexity theory Structural complexity Logic and proof complexity Descriptive complexity

CS17b-10 Algorithms and Data Structures Analysis of algorithms Data structures Parallel and distributed algorithms Cryptographic algorithms Graph algorithms Computational combinatorics Computational geometry Randomized algorithms Links ENG26 (coding), MS7

CS17c-23 Computer Networks Network protocols, protocol performance, Data Communications, simulation and emulation of networks, Multimedia Systems and Networks, Network management, Wireless and mobile networks / ad hoc networks, Sensor networks, Optical networks, overlay networks / peer to peer networks, Information and communication theory, Intrusion detection Links ENG26 , CS29-31, CS22b

CS17d Emerging Computing Paradigms Quantum complexity Quantum cryptography Quantum algorithms Quantum devices DNA Computing Molecular and atomic computing Links Physics CS17a, ENG21 (antennas, photonics and nanotechnology)

CS22a Information Systems models and principles, database management, database systems information storage and retrieval information systems, applications, geographic information systems, spatial, temporal, scientific databases information interfaces and presentations, information integration, business intelligence (information collection, data mining and analysis, business activity monitoring, business process management) digital libraries, information retrieval, stream data management, community information management Links CS27, CS22c

CS22b Security and Privacy authentication, authorization and access control, anonymity and privacy, information & application-level security, biometrics, cryptographic protocols, database security, denial of service, intrusion detection and prevention, formal methods for security, formal models and provable security, network security, operating system security, language based security, malicious code detection and emerging threats, design and verification of cryptographic protocols Links CS27 , CS22a

CS22c Data Management Database Management Data mining Data security and privacy Data warehouses Information organization and retrieval Semi- and unstructured data Links CS29-31, CS22a DRAFT

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Example 1 - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH/INFORMATIQUE ET RECHERCHE OPÉRATIONNELLE

CS24a Programming Languages compilers semantics type systems semantic analysis concurrency static analysis Links CS24c

CS24b Software Engineering requirements, specification, software design, software architecture, software implementation, quality management - testing, validation, verification, software development environments, software analysis, evaluation, reliability, maintenance, U.I. development, reengineering and migration, user interfaces, software evolution, process life-cycle models, agile methods, model-driven architecture and development Links CS28, CS27, CS24c

CS24c Formal Methods verification model checking theorem proving automata theory logic refinement testing semantics Formal Languages Logic Links CS24a, CS17a, CS17b

CS25 Computing Systems middleware, architecture, real-time systems, embedded systems, security systems, operating systems, performance, file and storage systems / I/O architectures, high-performance computing systems, system reliability / fault tolerance, virtualization, peer to peer systems, virtual machines Links CS24b, CS26

CS26 - Parallel and Distributed Computing distributed algorithms, distributed architectures, distributed and parallel programming and languages, design, validation and verification, performance models, distributed storage management; file systems, grids, management , security, fault tolerance, performance analysis, parallelism and concurrency, parallel processing, parallel models and algorithms, high performance computing, clusters; symmetric multi-processors, applications, peer-to-peer Links CS25, CS17c-23

CS27 Web based systems Social computing, social media, social networks Web services standards REST services, Web security, Portals and portal frameworks, Internet theory, Wikis, Blogs Links CS29-31, CS22a, CS24b

ENG27d Systems engineering (Operations research and management science, Management information systems, decision support systems (e.g. energy, health care, natural resources, infrastructures…)) Link with MSCS14

CS28 Human Computer Interaction Usability engineering User interface design and evaluation Multi-modal user interaction Computer-supported coooperative work Haptics Interaction design Information visualization Virtual reality Links CS2, CS24b, CS27, LS8, ENG28

CS29-31 Artificial Intelligence Knowledge representation and reasoning, Natural language understanding, Speech understanding, Image understanding, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Modelling, Computer Vision, Robotics, Intelligent Agents, Expert Systems, Semantic web, Ontologies Links CS22a, CS27, LS8, ENG12, ENG23 and LS15

CS30-10 Computer Graphics and Visualization Animation Geometric modelling Rendering Scientific visualization Data visualization Information visualization Links CS22a, CS29-31, CS27, LS15 and CS17b-10 DRAFT

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Example 1 - ENGINEERING / GÉNIE Civil

ENG1a Water Resources (Coastal Eng. Hydraulics Eng. Hydrologic Eng. Environmental systems, Water supply) Link with ENG2, ES5

ENG4b Infrastructure (Buildings, Construction Eng. Project Management Structural materials Structural Eng. Earthquake Eng.) Link with ENG3, 5, 6 and 7

ENG5 Mining engineering (Mining eng., mineral processing, rock mechanics, Rock mechanics,) Link with ENG3, 4, 6 and 7, LS3,LS20, ENG2-8-11-16, include with ENG3 and ENG4

ENG2a Environnemental Eng. (Air and noise pollution, Drinking water, Groundwater Water quality, Waste water treatment, Solid waste mngt, bioremediation, agricultural waste, recycling, life cycle analysis) Link with ENG1, ES6 and LS9 for bioremediation

ENG3b Geotechnical Eng. (Cold regions Foundations Geoenvironmental Soil-structure interaction, Pavement Slope & excavations) Link with ENG4, 5, 6 and 7

ENG6b Transportation (Transport systems Traffic engineering Highway, railway, airport, Public transport, Road safety Risk analysis, Demand modeling) Link with ENG4, 5, 6 and 7, Industrial Eng.

ENG7 Geomatics (Photogrammetry and mapping, Geodesy, Cadastral systems GPS, GIS, Remote sensing) Link with ENG26, ES7, MSCS24, MSCS22 and MSCS27

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Example 1 - ENGINEERING / GÉNIE Material and Chemical

ENG15 Renewable and alternative energy (Batteries, Hydrogen Clean energy, Membrane separation processes, solar, wind, biomass, fuel cells, tidal) Link with CB20 and ENG23

ENG16 Process Engineering (Rheology, Process control, Process development, organic and inorganic chemicals, industrial gases, pharmaceuticals, polymers) Link with CB1,CB2, CB24

ENG17 Polymers (Polymers and additives, plastics and synthetic resins, manmade fibers, synthetic elastomers, plasticizers, paint, sealants, natural fiber, hybride polymers structures) Link with CB14

ENG18-2 Biomaterial Eng. (Biochemical eng., tissue eng., drug delivery, biomaterials) Link with LS15, PHYS5 and CB7

ENG19 Food processing (Food and beverage processing, packaging Food additives, analysis and preservation) Link with CB10 and LS5

ENG 20 Fossil fuel energy (Conventional oil and gas, production and exploration, utilization technology, natural gas hydrates, Oil sands and heavy oil – technology for exploitation, processing, separation and refining, Microbial enhanced oil recovery, Coal and processing, heavy oil, gasification, carbon capture and storage, catalysis) Link with ES6

ENG22 Metallurgy (Iron, steel, other metals, alloys, corrosion, ore extraction, forming, welding)

ENG24 Surface Science (Microscopy, spectroscopy techniques, properties of surfaces and interfaces, material characterization (excluding bulk)) Link with PHYS3, PHYS5, CB16 and CB17

ENG25 Materials Engineering (Ceramics, plastics, rubbers, textiles, composites, Non-metallic mineral products (glass, clay etc…), surface treatments, coatings, ceramic and polymer processing) Link with PHYS3, CB7 and CB14

ENG29 Forestry engineering (Forest operations and mngt, wood science & eng.) Link with ENG3, 4, 6 and 7 LS3,LS20, ENG2-8-11-16, include with ENG3 and ENG4

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Example 1 - ENGINEERING / GÉNIE Electrical / Computer

ENG26 Computer hardware and Communications (Chip architecture, computer architecture and embedded systems, system components, production yields and optimization, mobile and personal communication, wireless communication systems, signal processing) Link with MSCS23

ENG21-1 Electromagnetics, photonics and micro/nanotechnology (thin films, lab-on-chip, optoelectronics, optics, semiconductors, millimeter /microwave components, etc., Radar and Navigation, Antennas and Propagation, microelectronics) Link with PHYS3, PHYS5 and CB19, ENG18, ENG23

ENG23 Electrical Energy Systems (Power systems, control systems, circuit theory, eletromagnetics, power transmission and distribution, Robotics) Link with ENG18, 15, 21 Link with MSCS31

ENG18-1 Bioelectrical Eng. (sensors and imaging, biomedical signal analysis, medical devices, Brain-computer interfaces) Link with LS4, LS15, PHYS5 ENG21 and ENG23

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Example 1 - ENGINEERING / GÉNIE Mechanical and Industrial

ENG8

Fluid Mechanics and interfacial phenomena (Aerodynamics Turbines, Turbulence Viscous flows, Boundary layers Multi-phase systems CFD (computational fluid dynamics), Wind Eng., interfacial tension, electrokinetic phenomena) Group with ENG9 and 10 under Thermal Fluids, Link with MSCS8

ENG4b-2 Building Systems (HVAC, Acoustics, Day lighting, Window technology, control theory, Building integrated solar systems, ventilation system) Link with ENG3, 5, 6 and 7

ENG9 Thermodynamics (Air conditioning Heat pumps, Refrigeration, Heat transfer, Combustion, microfluidics) Group with ENG8 and 10 under Thermal Fluids, Link with ENG15 and CB20 for energy related topics

ENG10 Fluid-Structure Interaction (Hydrodynamics Flow-induced vibration Fluid Power control systems, Underwater vehicles, Naval architecture) Group with ENG8 and ENG9 under Thermal Fluids

ENG11c/d Manufacturing and service systems (product design, scheduling and control, logistics planning, supply chain management, Manufacturing systems, human factors, CAD,CAM, CIM, Production Mngt, Facilities design and planning, material handling and storage systems) Link with MSCS29, LS8

ENG12c Industrial Automation (Dynamics Control Intelligent systems, Robotics, Vibration Smart structures, Agricultural power and machinery, MEMS) Link with MSCS32 – Link ENG18

ENG13c Mechanical Testing and monitoring (Creep, Fatigue Fracture mechanics Plasticity, Stress analysis, Non-Destructive techniques (NDT), Solid mechanics, durability, sensing and machinery monitoring, condition based monitoring) Link with MSCS8 and ENG18

ENG14 Nuclear Engineering (Thermal hydraulics Reactor design and operation, Radioactive materials, Reactor physics, Nuclear safety and reliability) Link with PHYS2 and CB23

MSCS15 Wave Propagation (Non-linear wave phenomena, Inverse problems and scattering, Conservation laws, Reaction-diffusion Applied differential equations: ordinary and partial,)

ENG18-3 Biomechanical Eng. (biomechanics, Hemodynamics, orthopedics, medical devices) Link with LS4 and ENG12, 13

ENG28 Human factors (rehabilitation eng. Brain-computer interfaces, physical /cognitive ergonomics, occupational health and safety, assistive technologies, human -computers systems and interfaces, human error, anthropometry, psychophysics) MSCS28

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Example 1 – GEOSCIENCES/SCIENCES DE LA TERRE

ES1 Paleontology/ biogeosciences (Paleontology, Paleobiology, Paleoclimatology Paleo DNA research, evolution, biostratigraphy, geomicrobiology) Link with LS19

ES2 and ES9 Petrology/Economic geology (Geology, geochemistry - trace element and isotope, mineralogy, petrology – igneous and metamorphic, stable isotope geology, aqueous geochemistry)

ES3 Tectonic and structural geology (Structure and tectonics, geochronology, neotectonics, applied geophysics, planetary geology)

ES4 Atmospheric Science (atmospheric chemistry, meterology, boundary layer, climatology, climate change, numerical modeling/simulations) Link with CB13

ES5 Hydrology (groundwater resources, surface water, hydrology, hydrogeology, water supplies, water resources, ground water geochemistry, water shed science) Link with ENG1 and ENG2 and LS9

ES6-1 Geophysics (Structure and dynamics, seismology, paleomagnetism, geodesy, rock and mineral physics, environmental geophysics, engineering geophysics, rock mechanics, marine geophysics) Links with ENG2, ENG5, ENG20, ENG24 and LS3 and LS2

ES7 Instrumentation/ Cartography (Cartography, remote sensing, detection, optical, laser, radar, spectroscopy) Link with ENG7 and Links with LS18 for general ecology, LS20, ENG24, MSCS24 and 30

ES8 Oceanography (physical and chemical processes) Link with ES4

ES10 Sedimentary and environmental geology (Stratigraphy, sedimentology, coal geology, oil and gas geology, volcanology, recent geology, environmental geology)

ES11 Surfaces processes (geomorphology , glaciology, geochronology , quaternary geology, physical geology, Environmental earth science, paleoecology, periglacial, permafrost) Link with ENG3 for geotechnology

ES6-2 Soil science (bioremediation, biogeochemistry, plants soil interactions) Link with ENG2 and LS9 for bioremediation. Links with ENG2, ENG5, ENG20, ENG24 and LS3 and LS2

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Example 1 - PHYSICS/PHYSIQUE

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PHYS1a Astronomy, General Relativity, Cosmology (Relativity and gravitation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary and solar system, Stellar, Galactic, Extra galactic and cosmology, Instrumentation) Links:

PHYS2 - Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology, Gravitation PHYS4 - Mathematical Physics, Space Plasmas, Classical and Quantum Physics MSCS9 - Mathematical Physics CB6 - Astrobiology ES2 - Earth Science

PHYS2 Subatomic Physics (Nuclear physics, Nuclear reactions and scattering, Particle physics, Nuclear and particle Astrophysics, Intermediate energy reactions, Electroweak and strong interactions, Theory of elementary particles and fields) Recommendation: use PACS as a replacement to NSERC’s Subject Codes. Links:

PHYS 1 - Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology, Gravitation PHYS 4 - Quantum Physics, Mathematical Physics

PHYS3 Materials Physics (Materials structure, properties and testing, Materials processing/fabrication, Thin films/interface, Electronic materials and components, Condensed matter physics, Superconductivity, Electronic properties of solids, Surfaces, interfaces and thin films, Semiconductors, Magnetic properties and magnetic materials, Optical properties of materials, Transport properties, Superfluids, Low temperature physics, Statistical mechanics and phase transition, Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, Soft condensed matter, Mesoscopic physics) Recommendation: use PACS as a replacement to NSERC’s Subject Codes. Links:

PHYS 5 - Biophysics, Photonics ENG25 - Materials Engineering ENG24 - Surface Science ENG21 - Photonics and Micro-Nanotechnology CB7- Materials and Biomaterials Chemistry CB12 - Theoretical physical chemistry CB16 - Surface science

PHYS4 General Physics – 1 (Theoretical Physics, Classical and quantum physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic and molecular studies, Lasers, Optics, Plasma physics, Stochastic processes) Recommendation: use PACS as a replacement to NSERC’s Subject Codes. Links:

PHYS1 - Space Plasmas, Classical and Quantum Physics PHYS2 - Subatomic Physics for Relativity and Gravitation, Quantum Physics, Mathematical Physics PHYS5 - Experimental Methods and Instrumentation, Photonics CB12 - Theoretical Physical Chemistry ES4 - Atmospheric Science

PHYS5 General Physics – 2 (Experimental methods and instrumentation, Acoustics, Photonics [including Biophotonics], Biophysics, Bio-imaging, Biological and Medical Physics) Recommendation: use PACS as a replacement to NSERC’s Subject Codes. Links:

PHYS3 - Soft Condensed Matter PHYS4 – Atomic and Molecular Studies, Lasers, Optics, Plasma Physics CB11 - Photochemistry and Photonics CB17 - Spectroscopy ENG21 - Photonics and Micro-Nanotechnology ENG24 - Surface Science ENG18 - Biomedical Engineering LS15 -Technique Development ES7 - Environmental Instrumentation and Monitoring

PHYS1b Space Physics (Space Science, Planetary, Upper atmosphere, Space plasmas) Links: PHYS4 - Mathematical Physics, Space Plasmas, Classical and Quantum Physics CB13 - Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry ES4 - Atmospheric Science ES2 - Earth Science

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